Jinling, Forbidden City, Wenhua Palace.

When a new emperor ascends the throne, the first thing to do is to make a statement to all directions, otherwise there will be diplomatic chaos.

Among the countries, North Korea ranked first among all the countries, because it had a post house in the capital and a large number of foreign students, so there was no need to send envoys, and North Korea immediately congratulated them, and sent an envoy to ask Emperor Hongxi to recognize them and re-canonize the Korean lord.

There is no doubt that Ryukyu is the most sincere in the Ming Dynasty, when a total of three kings stood side by side, every year there were envoys competing for tribute, and the imperial court has always been the most generous to Ryukyu, because Ryukyu occupies a unique trade advantage and monopolizes the local maritime trade. In order to celebrate the worship of Emperor Hongxi, the three kings were ready to set off to pay tribute together.

As early as the fourth year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty set up the two guards of Wusi-Tibet in the west-Tibet region, and later set up the Marshal's Mansion, the Recruitment Division, the Wanhu Mansion, and the Qianhu Office, and appointed the living Buddha monks to carry out the autonomy of the integration of politics and religion.

Because Lamaism and Buddhism have the same origin, the Ming Dynasty recognized it as a religion, for some ulterior purposes, Zhu Gaochi was very interested in the most famous monk in Wusizang today, Halima, so he sent the eunuch Hou Xian, who was not a eunuch, as an official of the Ministry of Rites, to recruit monks such as Shangshi Halima.

Xu Hao could guess what Zhu Gaochi wanted to do with his toes, and he was faintly worried, without Zhu Di's suppression for more than 20 years, how long would Zhu Gaochi, who was not in good health, live once he indulged?

Xu Hao didn't interfere in this, and even took care of the emperor's private life, didn't he have nothing to do? Besides, some officials are staring at Zhu Gaochi, and an enlightened atmosphere must be cultivated. It is completely possible to hide on the side and sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, of course, it is also the need to win the hearts of the people as soon as possible.

In order to sweep away the strict autocratic atmosphere of the Hongwu Dynasty and eliminate the influence of Emperor Jianwen. Indulging the ministers to fire the emperor's cannons should be very effective, and cultivate the sense of honor of the officials to regard the country as their home! This is very necessary for the early realization of long-term peace and stability.

The imperial court sent envoys to Tatar to canonize the Tatar Khan of Guilichi, and continued to divide the Northern Yuan. Then he sent a large envoy delegation to the Western Regions, adopted the policy of Huairou and appeased, won the attachment of local officials, leaders, and former officials, and issued an edict to open several commercial markets in the northwest. Attract merchants from the Western Regions.

In the envoy group, mainly officials of the Ministry of Rites, there were several eunuchs and Jinyi guards who were in charge of ceremonies, as well as Liu Timur, the Mongolian monk of Honglu Temple. There are Fu An and Guo Ji in the military department, Chen Dewen, the envoy of Beiping, and the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Li Da.

Xu Hao instructed them to perform their own responsibilities and must find out the actual situation in the Western Regions, and now the greatest power of the Ming Dynasty in the local area is the Liangzhou Metropolitan Division and the subjugated Hami tribes. Twenty-four years of Hongwu. Song Sheng, the chief military officer, and Liu Zhen, the governor of the capital, led troops to conquer Hami. Be'er Timur, the king of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and Asang'er of Guogong Province only waited for 1,400 people, and captured 3,730 of his prince's subordinates. "Fanrong is intimidated, and the military power is extremely high in the Western Regions."

Now his prince Tokhtar grew up in the Central Plains, and the court treated him very well, just like the compradors who admired foreign countries in later generations, Tokhtar was a very firm Hami traitor, and now it is his grandmother who rules the Hami tribes, and she is an old nationalist stubborn. It was to prepare to send Tokhtar back to Hami.

In this regard, Xu Hao's belly is far from being comparable to the Wenchen who have a bad stomach, but it is a pity that these guys can use their bad intentions to deal with foreign countries. How good it would be if there was no internal friction.

Chen Cheng, who was in charge of recording everything in the Western Regions in detail, had 17 destinations in the Western Regions, including Harieh, Samarkand, Beshibali, Alduhuai, Bataheshang, Dielimi, Shalu, Hague, Sailan, Thirstystone, Yangyi, Huozhou, Liucheng, Tulupan, Yanze, Hami, Dashigan, and Buhuaerfan.

After returning to China, Chen Cheng wrote "The Records of the Western Regions", which described its mountains and rivers customs and products, so that the Ming Dynasty monarchs and ministers had a new understanding of the Western Regions.

It can be said that the first emperor has almost beaten the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the Western Regions, and the ghost power of the Chi Dynasty has publicly abolished the name of the Yuan Dynasty, and the entire Western Regions has become a plate of scattered sand, only the Ming Dynasty is outstanding, and it can expand the territory thousands of kilometers without swords, and it is useless to send troops even if it is under the existing conditions, so Xu Hao has high hopes for this trip.

At the same time, Song Sheng, the most prestigious general in the Western Regions, was transferred by the Ministry of War to serve as the governor of the military capital in Beijing, and temporarily transferred 20,000 elite soldiers to start a one-year training to familiarize the soldiers with musket warfare, and then Song Sheng will return to Liangzhou.

Zhu Gaochi's political skills are also very powerful, no need for Xu Hao to say anything, in order to envelop Song Sheng, who can be called the first general in the Western Regions, he married his sister Princess An Cheng to Song Sheng's fourth son Song Hu, and the eldest son Song Xuan died in the battle of Lingbi that day.

Xu Hao admired Song Sheng very much, and in history, the Song family, like the Mu family in Yunnan, eventually had a Ming Dynasty and guarded the northwest for generations. Of course, now Xu Hao will not let the Song family always control the military and political power in Liangzhou, unless Song Sheng's children and grandchildren have the ability to prove it.

At this time, Guizhou and Yunnan were all unstable southwestern border areas, and the local areas were mainly autonomous by ethnic minorities. Zhu Gaochi attached great importance to this during the civil strife, because the Hongwu Dynasty continued to change the land and return to the stream, relocated the Han people, and replaced the local local officials with officials, so the rebellions in the two places were numerous.

Zhu Yuanzhang left a good foundation, Zhu Gaochi and Xu Hao did not want to live up to the painstaking efforts of the first emperor, and now the conditions are about to mature, just waiting for an incident to break out, so Zhu Gaochi and Xu Hao discussed, and secretly ordered local officials to continue to instigate the grievances and grievances between the leaders of the hereditary Xuanhui Division, and sent Gu Cheng, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, to the southwest to train troops and prepare to send troops to quell the rebellion.

If the greatest local power of local officials can be swept away in one fell swoop, and the other tribal leaders can be subdued by means of grace and power, then the establishment of a provincial-level political department in Guizhou and Yunnan will have a stable foundation, and the two provinces that have separated from the Central Plains since the Song Dynasty can be restored again.

In addition to the north, another country with the highest status of the vassal states is Annan, but at this time, Mu Sheng reported that there was chaos in Annan, and the specific reason is unknown, and then Annan Li Cang sent a tribute, claiming that the lord of the country was the heir of the Chen family, and asked for his own right to manage the state affairs of Annan and beg for a knighthood.

Xu Hao remained silent, because of the grievances of later generations, he really wanted to take the opportunity to use troops externally. Annan is the best choice, and Zhu Gaochi also wants to fight a battle, so as to establish a higher prestige. In short, once again, the brothers' thoughts coincided.

Xu Hao found that the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the Honglu Temple were by no means a group of pedantic literati, and after collective discussion, they believed that there was fraud in it, because the Chen family of Annan had always been obedient to the imperial court, and when they did not get the exact news, they could not listen to the words of the family and change the lord of the country, and asked the emperor to send Lang Zhong Xia Zhishan and others of the Ministry of Rites to Annan to investigate, and Zhu Gaochi quickly played it.

The imperial court also sent an envoy to Liaodong. Preparations were made for the establishment of the Nuer Gandu Division, and officials from the Ministry of Rites were sent to Nanyang, Siam, Manchurian, Ho Zhi, Java, Sumatra, and Western Zori.

Xu Hao was very happy. The disappearance of Emperor Jianwen undoubtedly gave him a wonderful excuse to order Fujian Dusi, Zhejiang, Huguang, Jiangxi, Suzhou, and Jinling to build large sea vessels, and the civil and military officials unexpectedly agreed.

Xu Hao took the opportunity to ask Zhu Gaochi to relax the sea ban. In order to receive tribute from various countries. Restore the three cities of Guangzhou, Quanzhou and Ningbo.

There will definitely be a long detour to go about the sea ban, but if Zheng He has repeatedly led a huge fleet just to promote the prestige of the country, the scale should be from large to small, not bigger and bigger, and the courtiers will not have such fierce strong opposition, in addition, the migration of the people to Nanyang is indeed a major concern of the emperor and the imperial court.

Xu Hao once remembered that during the Yongle period, there was a large-scale return wave of Han people in Nanyang, which shows that China only needs to be politically clear. The country is stable, except for the common people who can't survive such as merchants, speculators and pirates. Who would be willing to leave their homeland in the majority of Han Chinese?

Therefore, in the name of the country, there must be a degree of dispatch of ships, and tens of thousands of ships of all kinds going to the Western Ocean are purely to save face and suffer crimes.

The first time Zheng He went to the West in history was in the first year of Yongle, and Zhu Di was too eager to get tribute and recognition from small countries, and wanted to demonstrate his legitimate status.

All of Xu Hao's proposals did not encounter any resistance, after all, with the trust and support of the emperor, the cabinet had not yet taken shape, and the ministers of the Hongwu Dynasty were also unstable, as long as Xu Hao did not put forward too brainless suggestions, most of them would be unanimously approved.

Xu Hao never interfered in internal affairs as always, and gradually Yang Rong, Jin Youzi, Hu Guang, Xia Yuanji, Hu Yan and other upstarts who stood out saw that Xu Hao actually had no desire for power at all, not to mention never interfering in the appointment of officials, and even ignored the promotion of military attachés, even if it was his former subordinates.

And Yang Shiqi Xie Jin and others know Xu Hao too well, and they know that Xu Hao's greatest interest is not only invention and creation, but also likes to focus on the foreign countries around him, and never likes intrigue and power between his own people.

Moreover, Xu Hao is not the kind of warrior who has a strong ideal of expanding the territory and has never mobilized troops and horses to raise grain and grass to prepare for the expedition since Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne, which undoubtedly made the ministers very appreciative.

Xu Hao, who was already a very popular minister at such a young age, gradually won the trust and respect of the ministers, and Xu Hao also knew that as long as he did not participate in the endless party struggle and did not try to get involved in the political power and military power, there would be no irreconcilable contradictions with Zhu Gaochi.

For the time being, Xu Hao did not touch the imperial examination system, which was the core interest of the literati, but set up the Navy Academy and the Army Academy under the dual jurisdiction of the Governor's Office and the Ministry of War.

In the evening, Xu Hao, Xie Jin and other scholars of the Wenhua Palace enjoyed tea and snacks, and Zhu Gaochi returned to the inner palace after a tired day.

Xu Hao took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "This time I ordered to build 300 new sea ships, and 1,000 ships will be built in the second phase, why don't you all object?" ”

Xia Yuanji, who was the oldest, said slowly: "The governor is not planning to go to show off his might, so it's too late for me to agree, how can I stop it?" ”

Xu Hao asked, "Dare to ask for details?" ”

Xia Yuanji said with a smile: "Since the Hongwu Dynasty, there have been two overseas trade taxes that have been steadily valued at 20% of the total taxes paid in a year, porcelain and silk!" This is also one of the major benefits to the outside world since ancient times. To this day, our dynasty is in urgent need of a large number of stone mines and materials produced in Persia and Dashi every year, and in the past, overseas merchants came from thousands of miles to sell them, and bought porcelain and silk to bring back, and some Han merchants went by boat, which can be regarded as taking what they need.

The number of Han merchants has always been small, it was Emperor Gao's decree to ban the sea originally had little impact, but in the past ten years, overseas merchants have been blocked by Ceylon, and its monarch Yalie Kuner has wantonly made a big obstacle from it, and the high levy of customs duties has made the price of stone ore and material soar, whether it is a merchant or an official kiln, it has been forced to keep the cost of porcelain in various parts of the world high, not to mention the people's livelihood, and even the northern and western regions have been greatly affected, so the court can not be indifferent. ”

"Taught." Xu Hao smiled and nodded, and said in his heart that only when the people in various places were dissatisfied, and the northern aliens couldn't stand it, would the ministers start to find a way to solve this matter, you say they don't understand the economy and people's livelihood? I have a strong ability to run my own business.

It seems that in history, Zheng He's voyage to the West took into account the interests of all parties, and after the trade route to Ligu was opened, the huge fleet was naturally useless.

In fact, there is another important reason at a deeper level, that is, the porcelain that represents the highest skill has begun to be sold, which will undoubtedly involve too many interest groups. (To be continued......)