Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 102 There is good news, there is bad news, which one do you want to hear first?
Yingtianfu, the second day of the first lunar month.

The Minister of Honglu Temple has really had a bit of a headache these two days, not to say that it is so difficult to receive these foreign envoys who came to participate in the Great Court Assembly.

It's because these envoys from foreign countries are all looking for the Ming princess, and the envoys from the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Wa country have come, my good guy, the excitement is really doubled.

With that gunpowder-like appearance, the Minister of Honglu Temple was really afraid that they would fight.

Because of this reason, I couldn't even enjoy the Chinese New Year. This early in the morning, Honglu Temple Minister came to the office of Honglu Temple's official office early to sit on duty.

But nothing happened to those envoys, but Prince Liao came to find them early in the morning.

Following His Royal Highness Liao Wang, His Highness Yan Wang came down.

Good guy, the two princes came all of a sudden, the minister of Honghe Temple was flattered, and greeted him respectfully at the official office, making tea for those who should make tea, and desserts for those who should serve them, anyway, these things are in Honghe Temple There are also many.

Zhu Qi came so early, of course he wasn't there for tea, so he took the minister of Honglu Temple and started to take a walk in Honglu Temple. Condition.

The minister of Honglu Temple quickly talked about it one by one, still thinking in his heart how could His Royal Highness the King of Liao inquire about these things?

Over there, Zhu Qi smiled and said:

"Oh, isn't it true that envoys from all over the world want to marry Princess Lin'an? Princess Lin'an is the sister of the king and the king of Yan, so the king came here to find out the situation."

The Minister of Honglu Temple was a little confused, and felt very strange, how could the prince come to understand the matter of marrying the princess? Aren't the court officials discussing this matter?
Besides, what is the situation that is easy to understand, if you really want to marry the princess, it must be a matter of weighing the pros and cons of the situation between countries, and it has nothing to do with the performance of these envoys.

Over there, Zhu Di frowned when he heard that the Minister of Honghe Temple had a lot of questions, and said:

"Of course there is a purpose. Why do you ask so many questions?"

Have a purpose?
Whose will?Emperor's?Prince's?Empress's?

But no matter who it was, the Minister of Honglu Temple didn't dare to ask any more questions.

Zhu Qi also waved his hand, telling Zhu Di not to say more, and then the three of them continued to walk around the Honglu Temple and chatted.

While the three of them were strolling and chatting, two petty officials in the official clothes of Honglu Temple spoke up in front of a house, saying that the emperor had given His Royal Highness the will of the Liao King. Let His Royal Highness Liao choose the husband-in-law of Princess Lin'an.

Balabala said it all, but it seems to have forgotten that the house next to him is the place where the Korean envoys live!
The Korean envoys really didn't want to eavesdrop. They were all eating in the room at this time. They all held their breath listening to the two people talking outside. When he finished speaking and walked away, those Where do the envoys of Korea still have the mind to eat!

One by one hurriedly started to get active, to find out the authenticity of this matter, if it is true, then just work hard on His Royal Highness Liao, wouldn't it be appropriate?
What the Koryo envoys didn't know was that after they had finished listening to the words of the two men, the two men quickly ran to the Japanese envoys again and began to say the same thing...

When Zhu Qi came out of Honglu Temple, Zhu Di beside him asked in a low voice:
"Third brother, is this really useful? Those envoys will really come to us?"

Zhu Qi smiled and said:

"Don't worry, these people are all the same. Marrying a princess is such a difficult matter, but if there is a little connection, they will not let it go."

What Zhu Qi said is indeed reasonable. Why are these envoys still inactive?That is no way out!

The ministers in the Hongwu period were all people with their tails between their legs, especially the officials in the capital. Who would dare to act arbitrarily and fill their own pockets?
In history, most of the officials and heroes of Yingtianfu who were later beheaded by Zhu Yuanzhang were charged with conspiracy, but if you want to talk about corruption and bribery, there are really very few.

Besides, like Hu Weiyong and Li Shanchang, the prime ministers in power, it is even more impossible to get in touch with these foreign envoys, isn't that self-deprecation?

Zhu Qi actually didn't want to get in touch with them either, but for the sake of his sister's happiness, there was nothing he could do.

As for Zhu Qi being too selfish, disregarding the overall situation of the country for the sake of his own sister, then quickly pull him down.

What is the overall situation of the country that can be said to be married? Take the Han and Tang Dynasties as an example, there are no less married princesses, and the result?

Are there fewer Huns committing crimes?The one who retreated from the enemy was the married princess?The ones who retreated from the enemy were all bloody and bloody soldiers in the frontier!

The princess who was married in the Tang Dynasty was used by the party members to set off to sacrifice the flag.

History has long proved that it is of little use to use a woman as a political bargaining chip to marry an enemy country.

As for what you said about Songtsan Gampo and Princess Wenchen, please note that before Princess Wenchen married to the plateau, Songtsan Gampo had just captured Songzhou, Sichuan with 20 troops from Tubo, and asked the Tang Dynasty to send a princess to him. he.

In fact, this is simply the reason why Songtsen Gampo wanted to expand the territory.

He also killed the Tang general who came to aid Songzhou. Li Shimin was furious and sent 20 troops to attack. In the battle of Songzhou, Songtsan Gampo's [-] troops lost their helmets and armor, and were beaten up by the Tang army. .

Then there was the matter of begging and begging for marriage. This is the reason why Gao Yuan was honest for a while later.

Peace is not won by a woman's marriage, but by the bloody fight of the [-] soldiers of Songzhou!
Be it the Han Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty, other countries were polite to us, not because we were polite, gentle and cultured at that time.

Other countries are afraid of the sharp sword in the hands of Han and Tang!

Whenever you have the slightest flaw, has the foreign race ever given the slightest favor?
The same is true in modern times. There is a famous saying: Weak countries have no diplomacy.

Because of this, Zhu Qi has never dismissed the matter of making peace in exchange for alliance peace, as long as you are strong enough, you will have allies everywhere.

But if you are weak, you will never have a single friend, even if you have hundreds of daughters to marry, and anyone will come to bite you.

In fact, as Zhu Qi said, those envoys soon began to inquire about His Royal Highness Liao Wang through various channels.

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Imperial Palace Gate.

Goryeo envoy Li Chengxu stood outside the palace gate with his sleeves in his hands, waiting for the palace gate to open.

It is said that His Royal Highness King Liao will leave the palace at this time today.

Of course, it is said that he also heard it from Honglu Temple.

Regardless of whether it is true or not, in short Li Chengxu has to try it out. In fact, he also directly asked the Minister of Honglu Temple, is His Royal Highness Liao Wang really responsible for Princess Lin'an's marriage?

But Honglu Temple Secretary said one sentence from beginning to end: Hehe, is food and clothing enough?
These days, if you are the Minister of Honglu Temple, you should just eat, drink and deliver news, and don't talk nonsense about other things, so that you can live for a long time.

Li Chengxu soon saw some officials and guards coming out of the imperial city, and one of them was sitting in the carriage, wasn't it His Royal Highness Liao Wang!
After Li Chengxu waited for the team of His Highness King Liao to leave the sight of the guards of the imperial city, he hurried over with his sleeves wrapped.

Seeing that someone seemed to be blocking the way, some guards frowned all of a sudden. With a smile on his face, Li Chengxu quickly revealed his identity. Those guards looked better, but they were still very vigilant and asked:

"The envoy is not staying at Honglu Temple, so why come here to find His Royal Highness King Liao?"

Li Chengxu didn't dare to play charades, so he hurriedly said:
"The foreign ministers admired His Royal Highness Liao after hearing about His Highness's deeds. The king also urged him to pay a visit to His Royal Highness if he had the opportunity..."

This Li Chengxu talked a lot, and he said that he waited outside the imperial city from morning to night, and from night to morning, which can be regarded as waiting for His Royal Highness King Liao.

Zhu Qi wanted to laugh when he heard this, but he still frowned and said:

"I just remember, in the battle of Bohai Sea that day, your Koryo Navy and Bei Yuan were allied forces, right?"

Li Chengxu had known for a long time that he would ask this question, so he immediately pulled himself up again with a bitter face.

It is said that the Battle of Bohai was purely an order from the previous king. As soon as our current king succeeds to the throne, he immediately sent envoys to Daming to ask for favor and the princess.

Good guy, Zhu Qi almost didn't want to laugh when he heard it. The Korean underpants have been inquired clearly. When the First World War happened in Bohai, the current Koryo passed by. Under control.

But he must be responsible for this blame.

But Zhu Qi didn't point it out, and said with a smile: "So that's the case, the envoy saw it, and he had something to do, so he took his leave first."

Zhu Qi made a gesture to leave, but the envoy rushed to meet him, Gao Jin frowned, stretched out his scabbard to stop him.

Li Chengxu hurriedly said loudly:
"The foreign minister brought some gifts from his hometown!"

As soon as Zhu Qi heard "a gift from home", he frowned and waved Gao Jin to retreat. Then he saw Li Chengxu coming forward, tucking his body into his sleeves, and approaching Zhu Qi. It was a delicate small box.

Li Chengxu opened the box, only to see small golden bars inside...

"Korea's specialty products really have their own characteristics."

Zhu Qi nodded, and took the box away without a trace.

Li Chengxu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and then he started to talk about the serious business, nothing more than how much the King of Korea admired Daming, hoped to marry Princess Daming, and so on.

Zhu Qi frowned upon hearing this:
"For this matter, hiss, it's a bit difficult."

Li Chengxu was taken aback:
"Your Highness, where is the difficulty?"

Zhu Qi shook his head and said:

"My father, I am quite dissatisfied with your Goryeo following Bei Yuan..."

Li Chengxu's forehead was sweating, he quickly took out a small box from his sleeve, and handed it over:

"Please His Royal Highness King Liao, if you have the opportunity to say something nice..."

Zhu Qi stretched out his hand to put the small box into his sleeve, then he frowned slightly and said:

"Actually, I see that you are quite hit-and-miss. Li Chengxu, Li Chengxu, you have a good name. I feel that there is a chance that Gao Li will become Daming's son-in-law. Let's work hard."

Li Sung-wook was overjoyed, thank you so much, needless to say.

Zhu Qi didn't say much, and left with two small boxes.

Just as Li Chengxu left, Zhu Qi was in the Royal Entertainment Center again, and met the envoy of the Northern Dynasty of the Wa Kingdom who "inquired" about his whereabouts...

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During the two days of the second and third day of the Lunar New Year, Zhu Qi was very busy, busy "encountering" with various envoys from morning till night.

There are more and more small boxes on hand, and I don't know how these envoys are so consistent in giving gifts.

As for what he said, it was nothing more than copying the conversation with Li Chengxu without changing the skin.

The reason why Zhu Qi did this was of course not to covet the small gifts of gold, silver and jewelry that Li Chengxu and other envoys had.

When it comes to money, Zhu Qi, a feudal lord, has a country to support him, and the Royal Entertainment Center is getting more and more money every day. Money is really just a number to Zhu Qi.

What's more, Zhu Qike put all the gold, silver and jewelry that he received in the House of Internal Affairs intact, saying that he picked them up from the beginning.

All the internal officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs saw that His Highness Liao Wang picked up a lot of good things these days, good guy, gold bars, pearls and the like, let alone mention them.

Can this be picked up?The internal officials did not dare to speak, let alone ask.

The reason why Zhu Qi was sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs was because he knew that during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the most famous thing was the spy politics. Most of the things that he met with these envoys and received gifts could not be hidden from Zhu Yuanzhang.

He received the gift on his front foot, and sent it to the Ministry of Internal Affairs on his back foot. Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely wonder what he was doing, and most of the time he would wait and see what happened. As long as he could give two days, this matter would be over.

All of this was in Zhu Qi's calculations. He wanted to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang and his ministers not to marry the princess. To be honest, Zhu Qi didn't have any good reasons.

What's more, Zhu Yuanzhang's temperament is not actually a slave to his daughter, and he doesn't take his daughter too seriously.

Historically, in order to curb foreign relatives, Zhu Yuanzhang married most of his daughters to ordinary people. We know that what Zhu Yuanzhang said about abandoning his small family for the sake of everyone in the world is not just talking.

And those ministers needless to say, the value of princesses from ancient times to the present lies in marriage.

Marriage of heroes is a union, isn't marriage with a foreign country also a union?

Weighing the pros and cons, instead of persuading Zhu Yuanzhang and his ministers, it is better to leave them alone and deal with these foreign envoys directly.

Don't be too rigid in what you do, if you want to debate the pros and cons of making peace with these Hongwu famous officials, then forget it, you have to be soft on the persimmons!

After Zhu Qi waited for a day, he started his next move.

On the morning of the fourth day of the first lunar month, Li Chengxu, a Korean envoy who was still waiting for news at Honghe Temple, received an invitation from His Royal Highness King Liao.

Invite him to discuss matters at the Royal Entertainment Center!
When Li Chengxu heard it, good guy, this must be the result of the matter!
Those two boxes of hometown specialties really worked!

But when Li Chengxu came to the exclusive box of the Royal Entertainment Center, after waiting for a while, he saw His Royal Highness Liao Wang came in with a frown.

Li Chengxu's heart skipped a beat, and he heard His Royal Highness King Liao say leisurely:
"I have good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

(End of this chapter)