My father Yong Le Emperor, you let me keep a low profile

Chapter 99 Conquering the First Station, Champa Kingdom!
"Please envoy, Your Highness is already waiting inside."

Outside the living room of Qiongzhou Palace, Zuo Jun led an envoy into the living room.

The envoy of Champa Kingdom was nervous, wondering why His Highness had summoned him suddenly.

As the first country to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, Champa still respects the Ming Dynasty very much, and every time it pays tribute, it is very active.

This time Zheng He invited them, and their king sent envoys to follow without hesitation.

Originally thought that it would be the same as before, Da Ming would return a lot of their tribute items, which would make their king earn a lot of money.

But this time, Daming did not pay back the tribute.

The small country of Fanbang didn’t know any rules, so the Champa envoys went directly to the Ministry of Rites to inquire, and the reply they received was that His Highness the King of Yue was in charge of the tribute this time, and the Ministry of Rites didn’t know why they didn’t return the gift.

For Zhu Gaoyu, the Zhancheng envoy was both afraid and fearful.

The reason was not that Zhu Gaoyu had punished him, but that he had learned from other envoys along the way that His Highness had a bad temper towards foreigners.

Once this highness is angered, the light ones will usher in war, and the serious ones will destroy the country.

Even many envoys, in order to prove that their words are true, even uttered some unfounded news.

With the support of various rumors, Zhu Gaoyu, His Royal Highness the King of Yue, was like a devil in the eyes of the envoys.

The Ministry of Rites asked him to ask Zhu Gaoyu, how could the Zhancheng envoy have the guts? In order not to offend His Highness, it is no longer important to return the gift, national security is the most important thing.

With this in mind, the envoy thought about explaining the matter to the king when he went back.

The excuses for the explanation had already been thought out, but in the end, Daming didn't even mention sending them back for more than a year.

If food and accommodation were not provided every day, they all suspected that the Ming court had forgotten them.

Fortunately, after waiting for more than a year, almost two years later, Daming finally remembered them and told them that they could go home.

The envoys all cried.

Although life in Daming is very comfortable, it is not home after all.

Moreover, the rules here are strict, and their customs are different from theirs. After the freshness passes, life will not be so comfortable.

Apart from being able to go home, what made them happiest was that Daming actually had the idea of ​​opening a mutual market to communicate with their country.

Daming's silk tea and porcelain are high-end items for them, and many envoys are thinking about how to get some money from them when they go back.

The same is true for the Champa envoy. He has already planned in his mind, and all kinds of ways to make money are waiting to go back and implement them.

However, seeing that he was about to arrive home, His Royal Highness Yue Wang, who existed like a demon in the envoy's heart, unexpectedly summoned him, which made him panic.

On the way here, he had already recalled everything he had done during the year he went to Daming and when he came back, thinking about what he did wrong and whether he might offend His Highness.

As a result, he suddenly discovered this thought in horror.

They Zhancheng Kingdom only wanted to pay tribute to Ming Dynasty, but they didn't prepare a gift for His Highness.

Thinking of this mistake, the Champa envoy cursed viciously in his heart, the official who prepared the gift.

Such a big mistake can occur, how did the other party become an official?

If this offends His Royal Highness, the Champa Kingdom will suffer an unwarranted disaster.

However, the envoy forgot that when he set off with Zheng He's fleet, he had never heard of Zhu Gaoyu's reputation at all.

It is estimated that even if I knew it at that time, I would not have thought of giving a gift to a feudal king.

"My servant, the envoy of Zhancheng Kingdom, pays homage to His Royal Highness the King of Yue."

As soon as the envoys enter the house, they pay respects.

Logically speaking, as an envoy of a country, he didn't need to perform such a big ceremony when he saw the vassal king.

In fact, he didn't want to, but the person in front of him was a well-known devil. If he offended the other party because of such a trivial matter, and the other party turned his anger on Champa, the loss would not be worth the gain.

Regarding the embassy's understanding, Zhu Gaoyu secretly nodded in satisfaction.

This is what a good dog should have.

"Envoys are exempt!"

Raising his hand slightly, Zhu Gaoyu invited with a smile: "There is nothing left and right, and now I am about to arrive in Champa, so I invite the envoys to come over and discuss the arrangements for that time."

The envoy who got up from the ground was not relieved when he heard that he was just discussing the arrangements for the time, but his vigilance increased a little.

Qiongzhou is not far from Champa. It stands to reason that the fleet does not need to stop for supplies. If you want to sell goods, just stop a few cargo ships.

Therefore, His Highness in front of him must have other purposes in going to Champa.

The envoy said with a smile on his face: "It is an honor for the whole country of Champa for His Royal Highness to visit Champa. Presumably His Majesty the King knows about it and will warmly welcome him."

Sipping his drink, Zhu Gaoyu looked at the envoy opposite him indifferently.

Following Zhu Gaoyu's gaze, the smile on the envoy's face slowly disappeared, and was finally replaced by panic.

Zhu Gaoyu didn't really call this guy over to chat.

He has been eyeing Champa for a long time, but Lao Zhu listed it as a country that will not be conquered, so it is a bit difficult to start with.

Not to mention that this is the most important supply for going to the west, Zhu Gaoyu wants to transport coal from Southeast Asian countries, he needs a transportation channel.

Cochin is blocked by a large mountain range, which is not his ideal goal.

As for the Zhancheng control area, it happens that there is a connecting channel between the east and the west, and it is very convenient whether it is by land or by sea.

So this time, Zhu Gaoyu was the first to focus on Champa as the goal of conquest of the Western Seas.

"I received news that the war in the north is coming to an end, and the Jiaozhi rebellion will be suppressed soon."

"The master of the Ming Dynasty is mighty, and the rebels are like a mayfly shaking a tree. How can they be against the power of the heaven and the kingdom."

The envoy quickly flattered him.

Zhu Gaoyu nodded slightly and poured a glass of wine for the other party.

The envoy was flattered, and quickly stood up to thank him.

"I think you are a good person, and you Zhancheng Kingdom also respect me, Daming, so I will tell you some truths today."

The envoy knew in his heart that His Highness was going to get straight to the point, and quickly knelt on the ground.

"Respectfully, Your Highness, please give me your words."

After drinking the wine from the glass in his hand, Zhu Gaoyu said seriously to the envoy: "Jiaozhi is too far away from the center of the Ming Dynasty. If I move the capital to the Ming Dynasty in the future, the influence will be even weaker."

"I think you all know the character of those Cochin people."

"Once my Ming's influence lands, they will mess up again."

"Not all emperors have the courage of my grandfather."

"Once the emperor in the future feels that Cochin is difficult to control and wastes money, I'm afraid he will completely abandon it and let it grow bigger."

The envoy's body trembled slightly, and he vaguely understood the meaning of what Zhu Gaoyu was about to say.

"You are a smart person. I don't need to tell you. You must understand what the consequences are."

"To the north of Jiaozhi is Daming. Although they dared to rebel, they did not dare to invade Daming. To the east is the sea and to the west are mountains."

"They want to open up rivers and land, and the only way is to go south and attack your Champa."

"Without Daming's help at that time, I dare to ask if your country can withstand their attack."

"If you can't resist, with their hatred for you, what will happen to you?"

Every word Zhu Gaoyu uttered was like a huge boulder hitting the envoy hard.

When the last question was asked, the envoy lay on the ground, panting heavily.

After Zhu Gaoyu finished speaking, he poured another glass of fine wine and tasted it carefully.

After an unknown amount of time, the envoy raised his head with difficulty, looked at Zhu Gaoyu expectantly and said, "Your Highness is fief in Qiongzhou. Presumably, His Highness will not allow the villains of the Cochin to bully me, Zhancheng Kingdom."

Zhu Gaoyu looked at the envoy in silence for a while, and under the expectant eyes of the other party, he put down his wine glass and sighed slightly.

"I am the lord of Daming. When my father is around, I can still let me play around."

"But one day when my father is gone, I have to be more honest. You Zhancheng is not my territory. If I send troops to help you, what do you think the emperor sitting on the dragon chair will think?"

Hearing such an answer, the envoy's body was paralyzed to the ground again.

He didn't think that Zhu Gaoyu was scaremongering. As the vassal of Daming, the other party had such a huge fleet in his hands, so how could he have so much free time to scare a small man like him.

The envoy lay silently on the ground.

The meaning of Zhu Gaoyu's words has already been said clearly. The only way to be safe in the future of Zhancheng Kingdom is to join Daming and become a part of Daming.

In this way, no matter what happens to Zhancheng in the future, His Highness has a reason to take action if he is attacked.

I can figure out what's the use.

He is just an envoy and cannot be the Lord of His Majesty the King.

In fact, he really wants to join Daming. He has seen the colorful world of Daming and the poor place in Champa. If he didn't have relatives there, he really wanted to live in Daming for a long time.

"I heard that your king has a little daughter who is called the most beautiful flower in Champa."

"And your king's two sons, one is often sick, and the other brutally kills many enemies, right?"

Just when the envoy was silent, Zhu Gaoyu spoke again.

The envoy suddenly raised his head and understood the sentence.

Half an hour later, the envoy walked out of the living room tremblingly.

Looking down at the small bottle in his hand, thinking about the promise His Royal Highness Yue Wang made just now, the envoy gritted his teeth and clasped his hands to the left army beside him.

"Please, general, arrange a ship and take me home first."

Zuo Jun nodded, smiled and stretched out his hand to invite the other party to follow him.

Sitting in the living room, Zhu Gaoyu, who was quietly sipping fine wine, looked at the place where the envoy's back disappeared, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"The land of no conquest, grandpa, I didn't send troops to conscript them, it was the dowry brought by your granddaughter-in-law. This should not violate your regulations."

Ten days passed in a blink of an eye.

Zhu Gaoyu, who felt that he had almost harvested the gang of ship owners, gave the order to set sail again, heading for the first stop of this ocean trade, Champa.

When Zhu Gaoyu continued to set off with the fleet, the envoys who took the fast boat and traveled lightly had already returned to Champa.

The envoy didn't go home either, but went straight to the palace.

When Jaya Sanghavarman V Champa Lai heard the servant's report, he was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses.

Good guy, after so long, he forgot about sending envoys to Daming.

If the envoy hadn't returned today, he wouldn't have remembered that he had this person under his command.

Thinking about it now, his heart was a little excited.

Daming was very proud, and every time he sent someone to pay tribute, he would get a large reward.

Now that the envoy has been away for so long, it must be that Daming gave him a lot of rewards, otherwise this guy would not have come back so late.

"Meet Your Majesty the King!"

Under the call of the king, the envoy strode into the palace.

I have to say that these monkeys were really willing to spend money when they built the palace.

Although the palace is not big, the decorations everywhere are very gorgeous, and even some decorations are still shining with gold, and some places are even inlaid with gems, which shows how rich Lai Zhanba is.

"Hahaha... hurry up, how much reward did Da Ming give this time?"

Lai Xin of the old king occupied the bar was very anxious, he didn't even bother to care about his subordinates running out for so long, and asked Daming directly how much the reward was.

"Forehead!"

The envoy was silent for a while, watching the old king's Lai hesitant to speak.

"What's wrong? Is it too much, can't remember so many things?"

Lai, who was occupied by the old king, thought that the emissary did not speak because there were too many things and some of them could not remember clearly.

The envoy shook his head in embarrassment, thinking that if he said it sooner or later, he would say it later, so he gritted his teeth and said:
"Reporting to His Majesty the King, Daming did not return any rewards this time."

"What!" The old king stood up in shock.

No reward?This is not in line with Daming's style, the emperor named Zhu Di is not dead yet, why is he so picky all of a sudden?
Seeing the change in the old king's face, the envoy was afraid that he might have some misunderstandings, so he quickly explained: "Although there is no reward, it has brought great glory to our Champa Kingdom."

Lai, who was in the old king's position, nodded after hearing this.

He just said, Zhu Di, the emperor, couldn't suddenly become picky. It turned out that there were other rewards.

"What reward?"

The old king rubbed his hands a little excitedly, thinking about some precious treasure, or planning to give them the Champa Kingdom of Cochin in the north.

The envoy naturally couldn't guess what the old king was thinking.

If he wanted to know that the old king imagined that Daming would reward him with the land in the north, he would definitely spit without hesitation.

Bah, I really treat myself as a toy, and I still want Daming's land, do you want Big Mouth?
"It's an in-law!"

The envoy, who didn't know what the old king was thinking, directly spoke about the marriage.

The old king was stunned for a moment, with obvious disappointment in his eyes.

He thought that Daming generously gave him the land of Jiaozhi, and the relationship was just a marriage.

Although I was a little disappointed, it was not a bad thing to be able to gain kinship with a powerful country like Daming.

At least there is this kind of relationship. When I ask Da Ming for help in the future, Da Ming is too embarrassed to refuse, right?

"I don't know which princess Daming intends to marry to our Zhancheng Kingdom. Which of my sons does His Majesty the Emperor have chosen?"

The old king took the blame, but he never thought that this in-law would be on him. After all, he is so old, and Daming will not blindly marry the princess to him.

"Forehead!"

A row of black lines emerged from the envoy's forehead.

Is the king of my own family confused, why is he only thinking about these impossible good things?

And the princess of Ming Dynasty got married. Daming has been established for so many years, which princess have you seen married to a foreign country?

People's slogan is that you don't get along with your relatives and don't pay tribute. If you still want to get married, I think you want to get off the shelf.

"Your Majesty, it's not what you think. This in-law is the fourth son of His Majesty the Ming Emperor, His Royal Highness King Yue, who is going to marry Princess Dona!"

"What, marry my daughter!"

I heard that it was not what I thought, but that I wanted to marry my daughter.

The old king was a little reluctant.

Dona is the treasure in his palm, he is afraid of being frightened if he holds it in his mouth, and he might melt if he holds it in his hand.

How many men wanted to marry his daughter, but were rejected by the reluctant old king.

And he also promised his precious girl that he would let the other party choose his wishful husband.

In the end, a few years before I promised, Daming was going to marry her daughter.

This made the old king a little embarrassed.

He promised his daughter, but he didn't dare to refuse on Daming's side.

If he rejects this marriage and offends that unpredictable emperor of Ming Dynasty, and directly asks the army of Ming Dynasty who has finished intercourse to march towards him, then it will be the end of the calf.

After worrying for a long time, the old king finally gritted his teeth and decided to agree to this in-law.

No matter what the other party said, he was still the Prince of Ming Dynasty. In terms of status, he was on the same level as him. If his daughter married and became a princess, she would be on an equal footing with him, and it would not be considered a bad treatment to her precious daughter.

Besides, with Daming's boldness, if he married his daughter, Daming would not treat him badly.

I heard that Daming has such a thing as a betrothal gift, do you want to take down the land of Jiaozhi in the name of a betrothal gift?

After thinking about it, the old king wanted to fly again, and he had already started to wonder in his heart, if he asked Daming for intercourse in the name of bride price, would the other party agree to give it to him.

"Okay, I agree to this matter. I think if I can become Daming's princess, the child Dona will not refuse."

"But you have to make it clear to them that Dona is my treasure. If you want to marry her, you must give a corresponding gift."

"Gold and silver are too vulgar and don't fit the status of the Great Ming Dynasty. I think with the status of the Great Ming Dynasty, the land of Jiaozhi is quite suitable as a betrothal gift."

The envoy standing below stared blankly at the old king who was talking to himself.

Why didn't he realize that the king of this family was so stupid.

Daming asked for a bride price when he married a daughter-in-law, but the problem was that there was still a gift in return.

Even if they give you intercourse, let alone whether you can hold it, even if you can hold it, then what do you give in return, are you planning to take the entire Champa Kingdom back?

Looking at the old king talking to himself, he has already begun to plan who will manage Jiaozhi after he takes over.

The envoy opened his mouth, but still didn't say the rest of the words.

Well, he just needs to be happy, anyway, he won't be king for long, so what's the point of letting people be happy before they die.

After thinking about this, the envoy stood silently, looking at the old king who had already talked about controlling Jiaozhi, how to make the country strong, continue to attack other countries, and make Champa a stronger country, showing sympathetic eyes.

(End of this chapter)