my days with tyrants

"This is the prosperous age!"

On the Chengtian Gate, the Empress Dowager embraced Her Majesty the Empress with emotion.

The latter is already in the shape of a crown.

Although the empress is actually not yet one year old, since she can be hugged out, as the emperor of Ming Dynasty, she still has to wear a dress.

Miniature version!

A miniature version of the twelve-port crown.

Miniature version of the twelve chapters of the gown robe.

But it looks cute this way.

At this moment, the theoretical lord of the Ming Dynasty is looking outside ignorantly. The Imperial Street outside has already been remodeled, and the Thousand Steps Corridor was simply demolished. Although Zhu Yuanzhang later used it as a commercial street to show the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty to the tribute envoys, who would actually shop in such a place on weekdays?The imperial city was originally on one side, and there were no residential areas around it. They were all government offices. Who would run several miles through a bunch of government offices and then go to the Thousand Steps Corridor for shopping?
In the series of commercial streets in Jubaomen, what products can't be bought?
There is no need to go to the Thousand Steps Corridor.

If so, then there is no use here.

Show the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty to the tribute?
No need!
It is enough for them to kneel down to Tianen.

Besides, they don't need to go to Yujie, they can see the prosperous times in the capital.

In the end, by celebrating the Queen Mother’s birthday, the little princess ordered the thousand-step corridor to be completely demolished. The entire distance between Chengtianmen and Hongwumen was completely turned into a huge square surrounded by city walls.

But at this moment in this huge square, there are teams congratulating the Queen Mother on her birthday.

Gongshi!
This is the birthday of Empress Dowager Ming.

The whole country wants to pay tribute to celebrate their birthdays, even those vassals.

In fact, it is mainly those vassals.

The kings of all vassal states and those who are in custody are all commanding envoys, commanding envoys, and consoling envoys, all of whom must pay tribute. Even if the distance is far and the country is indeed too late to come, those tribute envoys in the capital must also prepare congratulatory gifts.

This is the time to show their filial piety to the Empress Dowager of the Ming Dynasty.

"King Qianren, wish the queen mother a long life, and present a golden Buddha!"

Immediately below the official of the Ministry of Rites shouted.

Then, in the square surrounded by hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians, the former Emperor Komatsu, who was dressed in the clothes of a county king with a foreign surname in Ming Dynasty, and now the Japanese King Qianren of the Ming Dynasty, and also the abbot of Xiangrui Temple bestowed by the capital, proficiently bowed five times and kowtowed three times to the Chengtian Gate.He has often done this kind of work these years. After all, he has moved to the capital for four full years. Lao Zhu can't keep him in vain. When there are Fanbang tribute envoys to Beijing, most of them want him to show his loyalty.

As for his clothes of the county king...

It's actually a boa robe.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were no living kings with foreign surnames.

The rank of the vassal kings is the same as that of the county kings, but after all, they cannot be given the real county kings. The dress is nothing. After all, the seven crowns are even the county kings, and they rarely wear them.But in daily clothes, the king of the county is also a dragon robe, so the king of a foreign surname can only fool them with the python robe, which looks similar anyway.

And behind Qianren, a carriage carried a golden Buddha statue.

Not big.

But very heavy.

Because four horses are needed to pull it.

Moreover, the spring plates of the entire carriage were almost flattened.

Of course, this was not done by Qian Ren himself.

He represents the country of Wa.

In fact, it was Ashikaga Yoshimitsu who searched the territory for gold to cast this one-ton golden Buddha, and then Qianren was responsible for donating it, in order to thank the Ming Dynasty for sending troops to help them suppress some unruly people's rebellion.In fact, it was part of the remnants of the original Southern Dynasty of the Wa Kingdom, which was created by the dissatisfaction of the people because of Ashikaga's full use of the material resources of the Wa Kingdom and the favor of the Ming Dynasty.

And on a large scale.

After all, it has been really hard for the bottom of the Japanese country these years.

Especially the low-level warriors.

Because the Ming Dynasty is in charge, the Ashikaga family and those daimyos no longer fight. In fact, they have all begun to become kings of India. The internal government affairs of several daimyos in the southwest have even begun to be controlled by the Ming businessmen who used to do business.The latter relies on business to suck the bones of the bottom, and then guarantees that the daimyo will live and die, but it is getting more and more difficult for the bottom samurai, and it is even common for the bottom samurai to not have enough to eat.Under such circumstances, instigated by the remnants of the Southern Dynasties, a wave of rebellion soon formed, and once surrounded Kyoto. Of course, at this time, it had been renamed Ping'an City.Under the banner of respecting Emperor Kameyama of the Southern Dynasty, they quickly gained the support of low-level samurai everywhere who could not afford to eat, and then shouted the slogan of respecting the emperor and fighting against barbarians, trying to overthrow Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, expel the Ming bandits, and strive for the independence of Japan.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's men were defeated.

But at the most critical moment of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Da Mingbing ended.

Qi Bin, the commander of the Fusang capital, landed in Osaka with [-] heavenly soldiers at the fastest speed after hearing the news.

Then they used rapid-fire artillery and platoon guns to smash the rebels who were trying to fight to the death.

The latter has no firearms.

It is nothing more than a cold weapon.

It's brave.

But in the face of bullets and shells, these are of no use after all.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu almost cried and knelt down to welcome the Daitomorrow Soldiers into Ping An City, and then relied on the Celestial Soldiers to suppress them. He quickly defeated the remaining rebels and carried out a brutal purge of the latter. I don’t know how many were killed. Anyway, during this period of time, the price of Japanese slaves plummeted.

This battle against the rebellion almost completely broke the last remaining backbone of the Wa country.

They are all Daming's dogs now.

This golden Buddha is made of gold from Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and daimyo from all over the world.

"The King of Japan has a heart, so keep it, it's hard to give them a heart."

The Queen Mother said with a smile.

"Queen, do you want to reward them with something?"

said the princess.

"What does Auntie mean?"

said the Queen Mother.

"The Japanese character is not good after all. It is better to give them a new country name. They also call Japan, but the origin of this name is too crazy and inappropriate. Instead, it can also be called Dongying. It is in the east, and Ying is an island. They simply named Dongying as their country name."

The little princess said hurriedly.

"Then according to my aunt, pass on the decree, give the country name Dongying to the country of Japan, and change the king of Japan to the king of Dongying. Yingzhou is a fairy mountain on the sea. May the people of Dongying enjoy the grace of Daming and live in peace for generations like living in a fairy mountain."

said the Queen Mother.

Immediately afterwards, the Queen Mother issued an order.

Dongying Wang Ganren hurriedly prayed five times and kowtowed three times to the mountain again, long live.

In this way, Japan, Japan, and so on were all kicked to the garbage dump of history, and the Dongying Kingdom, a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, was officially born, and it has been used as a permanent country name since then, just like North Korea.However, the name of this country is still very good. After all, Yingzhou is a fairy mountain on the sea, and the people of Dongying are all living in the fairy mountain on the sea, so why are they dissatisfied?

During the prostration of King Dongying, the one-ton golden Buddha was transported to the palace.

As for the next one, of course Gaochang.

North Korea has already paid homage.

North Korea has always been the number one in the ranking of the Daming feudal vassals, and North Korea has always been the number one in this kind of etiquette occasion for group prostration.

Old glory.

At this time, Li Chenggui was still very happy to be the king of Joseon...

Of course, the burden is heavier.

But no matter how heavy the burden is, it will be borne by the people at the bottom, and he will not delay the singing and dancing. As long as his loyalty to the Ming Emperor remains unchanged, the dissatisfaction of the people at the bottom will not be worth mentioning. How can they still dare to rebel?Even if you dare to rebel, can you still hold back the soldiers of tomorrow?
I have heavenly soldiers to help me, who am I afraid of?

His current mentality is similar to that of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, which is to measure North Korea's material resources and win the favor of Ming Dynasty.

Pretty embarrassing.

But it works!
King Gaochang ranked third.

"Messenger, I heard that Gaochang is a Buddhist country, and it has been a place of Buddha's light since ancient times. I don't know if it is true or not?"

the queen mother asked.

She really doesn't have ulterior motives.

She didn't know what was going on in Gaochang, but she had read history books, Gaochang was indeed a Buddhist kingdom since ancient times, she had read about this, and now she suddenly saw a Gaochang envoy, of course she asked out of curiosity.

The messenger was lying there in embarrassment...

"messenger?"

The queen mother said in a good temper.

"Messenger, what did the Empress Dowager ask you? It would be disrespectful not to answer!"

The official of the Ministry of Rites shouted.

Gao Changgong immediately sobered up.

"Back to the Queen Mother, we are indeed all worshiping the Buddha."

He said.

"In this way, we will build a temple for them, and invite some masters from our interior to study Buddhism with their eminent monks. If there are any eminent monks there, we can also invite them."

said the Queen Mother to her aunt.

"That's the best."

said the little princess.

So the Empress Dowager immediately issued a decree to build a temple in Gaochang Kingdom, and selected [-] eminent monks from the mainland to go there, and gave some scriptures along the way. Then Zhu Yongzhong, the king of Gaochang, or the original envoy of Nahei Shizhihan of East Chagatai Khan, thanked him and held Buddhist scriptures with embarrassment.

But the envoy is already very sensible, besides, there is indeed a temple in Gaochang now.

Made by Zhu Di.

He had long said that he would build a temple in Gaochang.

In addition, the Ming army also repaired it, and there was the Gaochang Guard of the Ming Dynasty there, but the guard city was not in Gaochang City, but the temples built by the Buddhist believers in the Ming army were also very reasonable.

In short, the current Gaochang is no longer the past...

Uh, in the past they were the ones with temples all over the place.

The current King Gaochang has been completely locked in the middle by the military power of Daming. To the west is King Yan, to the north is Wala who surrendered to Daming, to the east is King Hami who surrendered to Ming, and to the south is the garrison of Daming.The latter has changed his name to Yanqi, and although he belongs to King Gaochang, because the East Chahetai faction suffered heavy casualties in the last Western Expedition, and was taken away by his uncle Mahama in Shule, it is only due to the grace of Emperor Ming that he can still be King Gaochang with the remaining strength.With his strength, he can't control Yanqi and Huozhou Shanshan, which are re-Buddhistized cities. What he can do now is to try his best to please Daming and keep him from being destroyed by these cities.

And then there is Ryukyu, but Ryukyu has been having a hard time recently.

Because Nanyang trade is over.

Guangdong maritime merchants will not allow others to go to Nanyang to divide their business.

Ryukyu can only be made in the north.

That is to pick up goods from Guangdong merchants and sell them to the north, such as the coastal cities of Daming, Japan and North Korea, but the former has Fujian maritime merchants, and the latter has its own maritime merchants. In the end, Ryukyu, which originally made a fortune by being a second-hand merchant, suddenly declined.

In this case, they can only fantasize that the Ming emperor will regain Guangzhou one day.

Then they can regain their old happiness.

however……

"A bunch of idiots!"

The little princess looked at the Ryukyu tribute envoy with contempt.

"You can't say that, they are still useful, and you can still use them as a supply port in the future. Didn't Zheng He go to them first last time? After all, they are on the Kuroshio route."

Yang Feng said.

Ryukyu is still valuable.

They are still useful now, and it is best to go back to America in the future, because the Kuroshio is always there, and the seasonal strength is the most, but no matter how strong or weak it is, it is enough to be a high-speed sea, free from the constraints of the wind direction to the greatest extent.After all, the season with the most favorable wind direction for sailing from Luzon to the mainland is also the season when typhoons are rampant. If you want to be safe, you have to avoid typhoons, but that is also the season when northerly winds are prevalent.From the Kuroshio route, you can go directly to Ryukyu, Wa, and North Korea, and then go directly to any city on the eastern coast with the help of the north wind. This is a very good trading station.

In such a small country, it is enough to gnaw at the bones casually.

After Ryukyu is Timur.

King Kangju of the Ming Dynasty, Jizhi Hezhong, Congling, Persian Sandu Si Tiemuer...

This is the official name.

Anyway, sooner or later he was going to betray Daming, so there was no need to give him the surname Zhu. His name was Timur, but this was not official, so he simply changed the name to Tiemuer, and his surname was Tie.As for his tribute, he was still very filial. Horses, jewelry, and even a lion were probably captured from India. During this time, he was mainly beating up the Sultan of Delhi.

"King Kang Ju has a heart, this thing is a bit mighty."

The Empress Dowager said obviously not very interested.

"Empress Dowager, before the Sultan of Delhi gave a report, King Kang Ju led his army to invade his country, and asked Daming to make the decision."

said the little princess.

"Who is this Delhi Sultan?"

The Queen Mother said doubtfully.

"Uh, I don't know, but Emperor Taizu Gao paid nearly a thousand horses as a tribute, which was regarded as obedience. As for King Kangju's invasion of other countries, if he wanted to come to neighbors, he probably had some enmity. Most of these foreign countries are like this, and they have always fought and killed.

Barbarians!
Savage by nature! "

said the little princess.

"Since this is the case, let King Kang Ju be more generous. He is one of our vassals of Daming. The Sultan of Delhi is just a small chief if he thinks about it. He bullies the small with the big, which is not good-looking. Since they are all vassals of our Ming Dynasty, we still have to live in harmony after all."

The Queen Mother said lightly.

Although she doesn't like lions, it's not that she doesn't like Timur's gems. On the one hand, he just sent her a bunch of gems, and on the other hand, Fan Bang, who didn't give her any gifts at all, even heard the name for the first time, and doesn't even know where it is, it's quite clear which one to prefer.But it’s not good not to make a statement about this kind of thing. After all, the Sultan of Delhi has paid tribute, so a few words on the scene are enough. As for the matter of Timur beating the Sultan of Delhi, as the little princess said, they are all barbarians.