Chapter 929: Dongying Messenger.

Today's Jinling is lively, and it is unprecedentedly lively, because today is Zhu Di's birthday.

Since the beginning of the Chen period, the streets of Jinling have begun to be cleaned up, because today Zhu Di not only has to hold a birthday banquet in the palace to gather the civil and military officials and envoys of other countries, but he also has to inspect the entire Jinling, so that the people of Jinling can see the majesty of the dragon.

Jinling is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, so it is usually very good, so it didn't take much time to clean up, about half an hour later, Zhu Di was accompanied by a group of generals and ministers, and came to the street of Jinling on a dragon chariot, and the street was full of people, they cheered for the emperor loudly, and blessed the emperor.

Although they are just ordinary people, but whether an emperor is a good emperor or a bad emperor, they know best, now Zhu Di has been the emperor for almost ten years, in these ten years, how many things Zhu Di has done for the people of the world, the hearts of the people of the world are very clear, not to mention rest and recuperate, so that the people can have food, that is, the border crisis, the enemy visits, Zhu Di has also been many times to protect the family and defend the country.

Like this, the emperor who can fight the world immediately and stabilize the country, looking at the entire history, I am afraid there will not be a few.

The cheers were endless, which made Zhu Di, who was sitting on the dragon chariot, feel relieved, such as the people have accepted him today, which is a good thing, which has somewhat freed him from the shadow of his usurpation.

Although to the outside world, Zhu Di launched the Battle of Jingjing for King Qin and for the sake of Qingjun, but everyone in the world knows that this is a coup d'état launched by Zhu Di himself who wanted to be the emperor. Now Zhu Di has been recognized by the people of the world, which shows that his decision at that time was correct.

The street patrol did not take much time, there are many streets in Jinling, even if you ride a fast horse, it may take a day to walk back and forth, but Zhu Di is now the emperor, the emperor's safety is very important, out of the palace, there may be danger everywhere, this is clear to everyone, so half an hour later, a group of ministers persuaded the emperor to enter the palace.

The emperor naturally understood what the ministers meant, so he nodded in agreement.

After Zhu Di returned to the palace, he let people light firecrackers at the entrance of the palace, and as soon as the firecrackers sounded, the whole Jinling was even more lively, Zhu Di was in the palace, and issued orders from time to time, one will be to reduce the taxes of the people of the world for one year, and the other will be to reward a certain meritorious minister, after these news were promulgated in the palace, they immediately spread out, and became the talk of the people of Jinling after tea and dinner.

The emperor celebrates his birthday, and the people of the world enjoy happiness, so why not?

Although the imperial garden has been ruined, but there are still some flowers in full bloom, today's weather is very good, Zhu Di asked the eunuchs in the palace to set up a banquet in the imperial garden to entertain the Manchu civil and military.

At about the end of the day, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military had already sat down in the imperial garden, and from time to time there were dancers who came to dance, and the sound of silk and bamboo came, which was very pleasant.

Everyone's mood is happy, because being able to enjoy with the emperor is a blessing they cultivated in their previous lives, of course, for Ye Xinghua and Zhimeng, I am afraid it is a blessing from the later generations.

Everyone is also very particular about what they do, the three rank members and the princes and nobles are sitting on the upper position, the closest to the emperor, and the other officials sit below, but how to do it is more casual, the three rank members and the princes and nobles are one or two people A long small table, the table is full of all kinds of food and fruits, while other officials are not so particular, they may sit at a round table, more than a dozen people sit together.

But no matter how everyone sits, they are all happy, and from time to time they clink glasses and drink with acquaintances, and they are not happy.

Just when everyone was drinking, a eunuch hurriedly came to report that the envoy of Dongying asked to see him.

When everyone heard this, they immediately quieted down, this Dongying people had been to Dongtu in the Tang Dynasty, but at that time they were all monks who advocated Buddhism, so everyone communicated with each other, and the relationship was still very good.

But after a few hundred years, things have changed a lot, the land of the East has changed hands several times, chaos for hundreds of years, and calm for hundreds of years, now the Ming Dynasty is a calm moment, but at this time the Dongying is very chaotic, the shogunate family is constantly fighting and grabbing territory, some ambitious people, has reached out to the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty, and there are often many Dongying Lang people come to disturb trouble.

The imperial court sent people to resist, but these Dongying Lang people were supported by the local shogunate of Dongying, and their troops were not weak, and their actions were flexible, making it difficult for the soldiers and horses of the Ming court to find their traces.

Although the relationship between Daming and Dongying is not very bad now, it is not good enough to send someone to give Zhu Di a birthday gift, so when everyone heard that the Dongying envoy came, they were very surprised, and some officials who hated these Dongying people were already a little angry and wanted to draw their swords and kill people.

And among these officials who hate the Dongying people, including Ye Xing and Hua Zhimeng, they are all people of later generations, and they know what happened in Chinese history hundreds of years later, so they don't have the slightest good impression of the Dongying people, and the Dongying people suddenly came to visit at this time, I'm afraid they didn't have any good intentions.

Zhu Di wanted to drink a glass of wine, and after putting the wine glass down, he asked, "How many people have come from the Dongying envoy?" ”

The eunuch pondered for a moment, and then replied, "There are only five people who have come to meet them, but there are about a hundred of them outside. ”

After listening to the eunuch's words, Zhu Di nodded slightly and said, "Let them in!" ”

After a while, the five envoys swaggered in, among these five people, one of the envoys was a woman, the woman was dressed in black, and her face never seemed to smile, giving people a cold feeling, but the woman's appearance was extremely cold.

After these five Dongying envoys came to the front of Zhu Di in the Imperial Garden, they did not bow down, but just arched their hands and said: "I am waiting for the order of the shogun to come to celebrate the birthday of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, a small gift, and hope to accept it with a smile." ”

The man who spoke was a little short, and a little fat, but his eyes were sharp, he took out a long box, and a eunuch hurriedly took it and stood aside, and when the Dongying envoy saw that Zhu Di didn't open the box to see what the gift meant, he spoke again: "The emperor of the Ming Dynasty doesn't want to see what kind of gift our shogun gave you?" ”

Zhu Di looked at the five Dongying envoys below, smiled with some disdain, and then said: "It doesn't matter what gift is, we pay attention to the courtesy, as long as the person comes, we don't care about the gift." ”