Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Japanese Envoy Asks for an Audience

"Thirty ...... of the finest Japanese knives"

"Three hundred and sixty-six gold ingots......"

"500 silver ingots......"

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Looking at the names one by one, Yue Qingru slowly said: "I can't accept this gift." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”

The value of the gifts on this gift list almost exceeds the silver that Yue Qingru has had in his life, and such a heavy gift is obviously not something that can be obtained by winning a game of chess.

Abe Tadaaki was stunned for a long time, he looked at the official in front of him in a daze, who had not heard of any clearing of his name before, and was completely surprised. He looked at Chen Jianhong, and Chen Jianhong was also numb. He is familiar with Yue Qingru, but Yue Qingru is not the kind of character who does not know how to change.

What's more, the Ministry of Rites has been a noble Qingshui Yamen for a long time. At present, there is such an opportunity to make a fortune that will be given up, which is really unexpected by Chen Yanhong.

"Unless ......" Yue Qingru added another sentence, which made Abe Zhongqiu and Chen Weihong breathe a sigh of relief.

Chen Jianhong said: "Please also show me, what is this?"

"Unless I tell you who you are and what you mean, I will not consider accepting this gift under any circumstances. If I don't plan to say it, I won't be more curious, old man. Take the list back, take the things back, and it's business as usual. Yue Qingru squinted his eyes, lying on the chair with his eyes half closed and half open, and did not look at the two of them looking at each other in a daze.

Chen Jianhong understood what Yue Qingru meant, and couldn't help but explain, "Master Le." In this matter, Xiaosheng can guarantee that there is nothing harmful to Daming. It is precisely because this matter is beneficial to Daming that Xiaosheng will take on this errand. Master Le should understand Xiaosheng's ethics and never do anything wrong to be sorry for Daming! ”

"The old man understands the nature of Zhengfu. What the old man didn't understand was the identity and meaning of this gentleman. After speaking, Yue Qingru no longer opened his mouth.

Tadaaki Abe was at an impasse.

He never expected that there would be Ming officials who would not be bribed.

In these years, of course, there are a few Qing officials. There are only a few tens of thousands of officials in the Ming Dynasty, so it can obviously be seen that this is a 1 in 10,000 chance.

After all, if according to the standards of later generations, unless it is Hai Rui, he can be regarded as a clean official.

In the past few years, Zhu Cihong reformed the Ming Dynasty officials, greatly improved the treatment of officials, and cut off the privilege of tax exemption for officials, which reversed the trend of accepting and soliciting bribes in officialdom.

It's just that Yue Qingru really didn't accept gifts, which really made Abe Zhongqiu numb all of a sudden. He didn't know whether he should be depressed that his luck was enough to choke on this extremely low chance, or if the other party really cared about his identity and intentions.

"Under ...... It's Japan's national abundance Houshou, the shogun's old man, Abe Tadaaki! I beg Lord Le to introduce him to His Majesty the Emperor! Abe Tadaaki exhaled deeply and decided to fight.

Yue Qingru smiled.

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Further north of the Kyoto University Hall, there is a horse farm, which was prepared by His Majesty the Emperor for hunting. The emperor of the Qing Dynasty loved hunting, and used it to investigate the new recruits in the Eight Banners.

Zhu Cihong's thoughts were much simpler, he really didn't want to stay in the deep palace. Therefore, this time, I took the queen, who also took time to relax, to the Beiyuan Horse Farm to ride horses and shoot arrows, and of course, there was a picnic.

The picnic was a little messy, Zhu Cihong tossed it, and then threw it to the imperial kitchen.

Instead, Zhu Cihong rode a horse with the queen, looking at the shadows of the mountains in the north, Zhu Cihong rarely relaxed: "Queen, do you really want to go on this national visit?" ”

"The concubines don't want to disturb the good things of those Koreans." The queen greeted the spring breeze, wrapped in fur, shrunk her white and tender neck, and said softly, which made Zhu Cihong laugh.

"The tabloids in Beijing love these gossips, do you care, but they are quite smart, but they are just chasing the wind and saying something unrealistic, it is not a crime, no matter what, it is really annoying." Of course, Zhu Cihong understood where the rumors that Koreans wanted to send concubines to His Majesty the Emperor came from. It's all the waves from those gossip tabloids.

However, entertainment tabloids are sometimes more popular with ordinary people than orthodox newspapers like the Beijing Times. Nowadays, there are more and more people in Beijing, and many of these lace tabloids do not run newspapers directly, but build an underground publication and sell it for money. The copyright agency cracked down several times, but many people discovered this road to fortune, and the result became more and more intense.

For this reason, Zhu Cihong had to secretly spend a sum of money to raise a family, and bought a lot of money to buy a piece of news, saying that a famous actor in a theater was cuckolded and caught raping him on the spot. Such a hot spot with real knives and real materials came out, which suppressed this trend.

Zhu Cihong muttered that no one peeked left and right, and turned over and jumped, but he rode onto the queen's jujube marre.

The horse was ridden by Zhu Cihong and sped up, the queen suddenly became nervous and didn't dare to move, so Zhu Cihong easily wrapped around the queen's waist, and after a while of coaxing words, the queen showed a smile again, and chattered with Zhu Cihong about the interesting things around her.

The two of them rode together, and the emperor's mount behind them blinked his huge eyes at the moment, trotted up with a cigarette, shook his head and snorted, as if telling what kind of unpleasantness.

After a long period of days of not envying mandarin ducks and immortals, when Zhu Cihong returned to the main building of the racecourse, the long-awaited chamberlain came to Zhu Cihong's side and said: "Your Majesty, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Yue Qingru, asked to see him, and he brought a Japanese. ”

Zhu Cihong threw an apologetic expression to the queen, moved to the living room, and saw Abe Tadaaki.

After a grand ceremony, the gift list appeared in Zhu Cihong's hand.

Zhu Cihong glanced at it, smiled, threw the gift list aside, and looked at the person who came carefully. In the face of Beiyuan's strict guard, the elite soldiers and strong generals can be regarded as making Abe Tadaaki see it seriously.

The more this is the case, the more Abe Tadaaki understands the strength of the Ming Dynasty.

At this moment, taken by the majesty of His Majesty the Emperor, Abe Tadaaki is like a tiger cub who has put away all his minions, like an ordinary domestic cat, without any momentum.

Zhu Cihong was observing Abe Tadaaki, and Abe Tadaaki was also judging this legendary emperor with the corner of his eye.

Like almost all those who met Zhu Cihong for the first time, Abe Tadaaki was surprised by the young age of His Majesty the Emperor, but even more at the luck of the Ming Dynasty.

Having such a young and powerful monarch is obviously the luck of the Ming Dynasty. This means that Daming will remain strong for decades to come.

A stable regime, as long as it does not cause chaos, with the size of the Ming Dynasty, no matter how ordinary it develops, it can also breed a prosperous world.

But again, for the Japanese, the strength of the Ming Dynasty was the misfortune of his neighbors.

Thinking of this, Abe Zhongqiu was vigilant, bowed down, and said in a low voice: "This is just a little etiquette for my country to admire China, and the state envoy will not be second to today's list above the ceremony." His Majesty the Emperor, please! ”