my days with tyrants

Chapter 22 As you can see, he slandered me, he slandered me!

Ambassador Yang...

Ambassador Yang and Zhu Yuanzhang are actually giving each other a step down. After all, everyone needs to be more mature and rational now.

It is certain that Zhu Yuanzhang was reluctant to kill him.

His Majesty the Emperor had planned to take him for himself from the very beginning.

Treasures like his are an irresistible temptation for any talented and generous monarch. He is much better than a beauty with a country and a city. For Zhu Yuanzhang, a beauty with a country and a city is easy to get, but he The treasure type man is purely a miracle of pie in the sky.

So, conquer!
Let him fall willingly at his feet.

But Yang Feng refused to give in and was always resisting him, which eventually made His Majesty the Emperor want to stop.

Now we are giving each other a step up. It is considered a tie in the first round. No one hurt face, so we take a break for the time being.

Waiting for the next game.

next round...

"Ambassador Yang, this is the Great Ming Dynasty. You should follow the rituals of the Great Ming Dynasty. When you meet His Majesty, you should obey the Great Ming Dynasty and bow five times and knock three times."

Cao Yangzhi, an official from the Etiquette Department of the palace, said.

"Yang is an envoy of our country. He has equal diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty and is not a vassal who comes to pay tribute. If you wear the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty, it is treason. Does your country encourage treason? As for the ceremony of five prostrations and three kowtows, our country has long since abolished it, and I have no legs. Well, those knees just won't bend."

Yang Feng said.

So Zhu Yuanzhang is waiting for him here!

As an envoy, he is going to formally meet with the emperor and hand in the letter of credentials. The letter of credentials is very easy to handle. Even if he doesn't know how to write calligraphy, he can let Xiaoyu do it for him. This little girl knows how to play piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting. She is probably in the palace. Li also harbored the ideal of Gongdou, but he was thrown to take care of a little brat, and now he was thrown over by that brat to take care of him. In the end, he could only put away his ambition and feed the pigs honestly...

Also feed the chickens.

But for Yang Feng, there is still the hurdle of an audience, which is necessary for an official envoy.

This is to kneel, and to perform a big salute, five prostrations and three kowtows, the highest level of audience ceremony for the emperor in the Ming Dynasty.

"Ambassador Yang, since your country is here for friendly relations, you should understand and respect Daming. Even if you are a guest at someone else's house, you can do whatever you want. Regardless of the etiquette in your country, you must follow the etiquette in Daming.

My Ming Dynasty is a country of etiquette, and this etiquette must not be sloppy.

Besides, etiquette is mutual etiquette. I, Da Ming, treat you with courtesy, and you want to be rude to Daming. Is this the case in all your countries? "

Cao Yangzhi said.

"Etiquette is mutual. Could it be that if I give five bows and three bows to the emperor of your country, he will also give me five bows and three bows?"

Yang Feng said with a pure face.

"Boldness, it's simply rebellious and rude. Your Excellency is just using heresy to confuse people with evil words. Your Majesty is just wanting to see what you want, so you bear it, but your Excellency thinks you are successful. If you are so rampant, you are not afraid of your majesty's crimes. Let you go to that practice field and suffer the [-] knives?"

Cao Yangzhi shouted in unbearable anger.

"You see, he slandered me, he slandered me, I am the envoy of Daxia, I came here 600 years later, and came to reconcile with Daming, this was confirmed by your emperor, but you say I am heresy To confuse people with evil words, do you mean that your emperor's edict is nonsense, he is deceiving the people of the world? Cao Xuban, you are so brave. As a minister of Ming Dynasty, you criticize your emperor. I want to ask, you guys? Is the official in Ming Dynasty really this rampant?"

Yang Feng shouted.

Cao Yangzhi took a deep breath...

"A certain is loyal to His Majesty, so I don't want you, an outsider, to worry about it."

After speaking, he quickly turned around, flicked his sleeves and went back.

Because I was walking in a hurry, I stepped on a hole on the mountain road and almost fell on the chicken shit next to me.

"Guilty, he's guilty!"

Yang Feng said.

"An unintentional remark by Ambassador Yang may destroy the families of innocent people."

Zhang Xianzong, who had been watching from the side, said quietly.

Zhang Hanlin's current identity is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Ming Dynasty to Daxia...

Since it is an equal diplomatic relationship, of course Daming also has an ambassador, but Daming does not have a time travel machine, it is impossible to send Ambassador Zhang 600 years later, that is, he can only work in Yang Feng's embassy, ​​so there is another one on Mount Wutai Tent, poor Zhang Hanlin can only come to blow the air together.However, the Ministry of Industry has arranged for people to measure and plan here, and even some civilians are already clearing the top of the mountain. Next, an embassy will be built for Yang Feng, and Zhang Hanlin will of course work in this embassy.

"What does that have to do with me? Your emperor takes life and death. Whoever he chooses to kill his family will be considered unlucky. What does it have to do with me, an outsider.

But can you tell me, do all of you civil servants have the same thoughts as him? "

Yang Feng said.

"I don't talk about strange powers, let alone what you say is even more absurd. It's not only the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, but I don't believe it. As for your things, they are nothing more than heresy techniques. Since ancient times, there have been many people who have tried to use the heresy , Your Excellency is just not taking the usual path, but Zhang is very curious, when is your Excellency going to play this scene?"

Zhang Xianzong sat down on the rattan chair and said.

It is estimated that he has completely despaired of his future, and he has broken his pot, but it is understandable that the original editor of the Imperial Academy has an infinitely bright future...

"Do you know the ending of your original history?"

"Please enlighten me."

"You did very well in the Hongwu Dynasty. You will be promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Industry in a few years. Then the emperor died and because of some accidents that I can't say, you were exiled to Xingzhou, where you ate sand for many years. Later, When the emperor conquered Jiaozhi, you went with the army and was appointed as the first chief envoy of Jiaozhi, because you couldn’t bear the hot climate there, you got sick and died in office, and you were only 46 when you died.”

Yang Feng said.

This has been checked by the monitor for him.

After all, he only knew so few people in the past few days in the Ming Dynasty.

He also checked the little princess. She lived a long life until the Baozong period, but she was a young widow until she was 83.

But her mother paid tribute from the stick.

"It's not worth living like this."

Zhang Xianzong said calmly.

Obviously don't believe this kind of nonsense.

"46 is dead."

Yang Feng emphasized it.

"If you can reach the age of [-], you will have no regrets in this life. What's more, there are six more years. A man is determined to serve the country and can expand the territory for the country. Even if he dies in a foreign land, so what?"

Zhang Xianzong said.

"Aspirational, your home is Ninghua, and Wuyi Mountain is a tea-producing area. I have a new method of making tea, which can keep tea for a longer period of time. Even if you travel across the ocean, it will be more popular overseas."

"The tea is in the official business, and you can't leave the customs. You want to lure us to commit crimes? Besides, Wuyi Mountain tea is a tribute. There are regulations for what kind of tea you make. Who do you want to sell your new tea to?"

"Uh, tea is still so troublesome?"

"Tea? Your Majesty trades tea from Xifan for more than 1 war horses every year. Do you want to spoil the court's horse administration? The last person who tried to get involved in tea was His Majesty's son-in-law, who was beheaded by His Majesty, something that even a son-in-law can't touch, you Let me, a seventh-rank official, get involved?"

"But my new tea can last longer."

"Tea is unique to Daming. When you go out of the customs, you will be in the tea-horse market. Those herdsmen in Xifan have tea to drink. As for the good and the bad, it's the same. Even if you mix them with leaves, they have to drink the same. It's not that Ming begged them. Tea drinkers get sick if they don’t drink tea, so why should I, Ming Dynasty, care about the quality of tea? The tea leaves that the government trades with them are often soaked and rotten, so don’t they have to drink them?”

"This is not good. They are customers, and they have the right to ask us to make something more palatable."

"Oh, they have the right not to drink!"

Zhang Xianzong said.

Well, the seller's market is so arrogant.

"Instead of worrying about Daming Tea, your Excellency, let's think about how you will end up. This is not because you were summoned by His Majesty before. At that time, you were just a foreigner and did not understand the etiquette. Your Majesty's summoning is like summoning a savage. Etiquette The omissions above are insignificant, but this is a formal audience, diplomatic envoys, even if your Majesty still needs to follow the etiquette, do you still want to avoid the five prostrations and three prostrations?"

Zhang Xianzong said.

"It was he who summoned me, and it wasn't that I wanted to see him. If I insisted on prostrating five times and kowtowing three times, I would be gone!"

Yang Feng said.

As soon as he finished speaking, Cao Xuban came back with a gloomy face...

"Your Majesty has a decree that if the Great Xia's envoy has bad legs and feet, he will be exempted from seeing him. The diplomatic relations between Da Ming and Da Xia have been completed, and there is no need for more red tape."

He said.

"Cao Xuban, you can fly. In just a few minutes, you have already traveled from the palace to here."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

"Humph!"

Cao Yangzhi left in a huff.

"This time I really left."

Yang Feng looked at his back and said.

Zhu Yuanzhang had known for a long time that he would definitely not go to worship five times and kowtow three times. He even foresaw that his legs and feet were not good. It was just that these civil servants were not angry. After all, as Zhang Xianzong said, the civil servants just regarded him as a heretic In other words, demons, his modern things are nothing more than sorcery in their eyes, and he just wants to confuse Zhu Yuanzhang with sorcery.Letting a monster like him run rampant is undoubtedly a humiliation to these so-called sage disciples, so I want to teach him a lesson and use this ceremony of audience to give him a blow.

But he is not afraid of being scalded by boiling water...

Stick to principles.

So it can only be pulled down.

Zhang Xianzong looked at him with interest, obviously he was also surprised by this result.

"Let's continue our chat. What else can you do freely in Ming Dynasty? Salt is definitely not acceptable. What about iron? Is iron also government-run?"

Yang Feng asked.

"Iron, at present there are government-run and private-run. The government-run loses the government, and the private-run pays taxes. It's just that there are too many irons. Some government-owned factories have been closed a few years ago. This year, the inventory has decreased, and His Majesty has decreed to reopen."

"Too much iron? There's still too much of this stuff? How much iron do you produce a year?"

"In the past few years, I'm not very clear. There is a fixed amount for the official industry, more than 800 million catties per year, and [-] taxes for the civil industry. One year, the tax for the government and the private industry is about [-] million catties."

"Wait a minute, I need to use a calculator. Subtract 800 million yuan from our calculation of 850 million yuan, and there are 950 million yuan left. Multiply by 850, and add [-] million yuan. In the Ming Dynasty, a catty is [-] grams, so all of you With an annual output of [-] tons of iron?"

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