Daming Military Empire

Chapter 429
In the golden autumn and September, it is another harvest season. At this time, the Ming Dynasty's foreign wars have achieved fruitful results, but the construction of various places is in the ascendant.

The expansion of the capital has lasted more than two months. The city walls, roads, water supply and drainage and other infrastructure in the north and south urban areas have already been constructed; the land in the southern urban area has also been auctioned off, and various shops, workshops and even factories are under construction; It's almost the end, the construction corps' [-] soldiers have already built all the main buildings, and the rest is the interior decoration and fine carving.

The construction of the Eurasian Canal has also started for nearly a decade. With the close cooperation of the Ottoman Empire, Spain and Portugal, the progress is very smooth. Qin Gongming even plans to rush to work with all his strength, open to navigation before the year, and go home for the New Year!
In addition, the construction of railways and roads in the fifteen provinces of South Asia is also in full swing. The heads of the provinces also want to complete the construction before the end of the year. In the big plan, add points for yourself, maybe you can use this to get promoted.

In addition, the Liaodong Legion is also under the leadership of Sun Chengzong, advancing while building the railway. It seems that there is no resistance in the former Nuergandusi territory. It seems that it is only a matter of time before the entire northern territory is recovered.

The situation everywhere is very good, coupled with the fact that the pregnancy image of Empress Qin Mingyue is becoming more and more obvious, Zhu Cijiong's mood can be described as extremely happy.

At this time, the Jiangnan Reserve Army stationed in the northeast of South Asia and the Yunnan Reserve stationed in the northwest of South Asia sent reports one after another. Nibaci and Pazhu in the mountains of northern South Asia requested to send envoys to the capital of Daming to pay tribute!

Zhu Cijiong knew about these two small countries, because they had a record of paying tribute to the Ming Dynasty before, but because of the long distance, the number of times they paid tribute was relatively small.

Immediately afterwards, another report came from the Nanyang Governor's Mansion in Xingcheng Port, and Bo Ni and Su Lu also sent envoys to find the Nanyang Governor's Mansion and request to go to the capital of Daming to pay tribute.

It turned out that none of them were destroyed by the Dutch, but they just hid in remote islands for refuge.

To be honest, Zhu Cijiong has never been very cold about such meaningless things as paying tribute, because paying tribute is only in name. Most of them are waiting for military protection and economic support from Daming.

He still felt that only countries that accepted the "Daming vassal state order system" and accepted the military control and economic regulation of the Ming Dynasty could be regarded as true vassal states.

Zhu Cijiong really has no idea about the small countries of Nibaci, Pazhu, Boni and Sulu. In other words, it doesn't matter whether they are willing to be the vassal states of Ming Dynasty, because they pose no threat to Ming Dynasty at all.

Of course, now that people take the initiative to ask for tribute, they can't ignore it. After all, this is also a kind of respect for Daming.

So how to receive it?Zhu Cijiong really didn't know about this, so he invited the two yamen officials in charge of foreign relations in Daming, Xu Guangqi, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, and Jijiu Huangdaozhou of the Guozijian, and planned to discuss with them the issue of receiving tribute envoys.

When Huang Daozhou heard that the emperor had a call, he rushed over immediately, because every time the emperor came to him, there were good things he was interested in, so he was naturally very excited.

Xu Guangqi came a bit late. After all, he was already old, and it would be good if he could walk without crutches. It was obviously impossible for him to run as fast as Zodiac Zhou.

After Zhu Cijiong personally welcomed Xu Guangqi into the first place on the left and sat down, he took out the South Asia and Nanyang report and handed it to Xu Guangqi, and then said directly: "Master, Youxuan, I came to you this time mainly to discuss the reception of the tributary envoys. Now, there are a few small countries that want to send tribute envoys to the capital to pay tribute. I really don’t know how to receive them. Do you have any custom orders for this?”

Xu Guangqi read the report carefully, then handed the report to Huang Daozhou, and then slowly explained: "The Ministry of Rites has detailed records about the tribute system, but the tribute system was not originally aimed at It is not for the vassal state, but for the two local forces of Duogan and Wusizang."

There is also such a saying, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help asking curiously: "Oh, is the tribute system formulated for them?"

Xu Guangqi nodded and said: "That's right, because those two places are located on a high plateau and sparsely populated, it is extremely inconvenient to station troops and officials, so Da Ming simply let the local forces over there take care of themselves, but stipulated that they must come to Daming every year Pay tribute to the capital once."

It turned out that this was the case, and Zhu Cijiong asked curiously again: "Then what are the regulations for them to pay tribute?"

Xu Guangqi shook his head and said: "There are no specific regulations on this. They usually pay tribute to some local products, but there are still regulations on the personnel who pay tribute. Generally, only kings or national teachers are eligible to lead a delegation to the capital to pay tribute."

Zhu Cijiong asked again: "Then why did many small countries come to pay tribute to the capital of the Ming Dynasty?"

Xu Guangqi said proudly: "It's not because the Ming Dynasty paid the tribute very generously. The tribute is actually divided into three steps. The first step is to distribute the enfeoffment, the second step is to pay tribute, and the third step is to give tribute. The system is still very strict, because Duogan and Wusizang are the territory of Ming Dynasty after all, so the kings and state teachers there must pass through the enfeoffment of Daming before they can succeed. However, with the increase of tributary countries, the enfeoffment gradually fade Because of the form, how could countries like Persia and Dashi accept the canonization of the Ming Dynasty? What the Ming Dynasty bestowed was silk, cloth, tea, porcelain and other daily necessities, and each time the reward was ten times or even a hundred times, so they all rushed to send envoys to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute."

Fainted, it turns out that paying tribute can still benefit, Zhu Cijiong guessed: "Then they are desperately paying tribute to the Ming Dynasty!"

Xu Guangqi said in embarrassment: "Yes, during the Xuande and Zhengtong years, they only sent dozens of people to pay tribute with a few things; in the Jingtai period, the scale has reached two to three hundred people, and the tribute things are all carts. In the Tianshun period, they all sent two to three thousand people with huge motorcades to pay tribute, and Daming couldn't even afford it!"

Zhu Cijiong was taken aback when he heard the words, Nima, how many tribute items can be transported with two to 3000 people, wouldn't Daming vomit blood for compensation!

He asked with lingering fear: "Then what should we do?"

Seeing that Xu Guangqi seemed to be hesitating, Huang Daozhou seized the opportunity and said: "I want my officials to say, directly send someone to announce the "Da Ming Fan vassal state order system", if they are willing to accept it, they will be included in the Daming vassal state; Went out!"

Hearing this, Zhu Cijiong shook his head and said: "After all, they came here by themselves, which proves that they still have a little respect for Daming. There are many countries in the world, and it is impossible for Ming to take care of them all. We should welcome those who can send envoys to pay tribute to Daming." Attitude, teacher, what do you think?"

Xu Guangqi nodded and said: "Your majesty is wise, it is a good thing to compete to come to court after all, it proves that our Ming Dynasty has restored the status of the celestial kingdom, we just need to stipulate the number of envoys they send, there is no need to accept one by one."

(End of this chapter)