A title cannot be awarded without great merit!
Before the prosperous Tang Dynasty, although the title was high, it was still a human society, and the emperor's will controlled everything, so there was inevitably some water content.
There is really little water nowadays, because this knighthood is not only an internal communication, but also an external communication.
If one person is awarded a title, but his merits are not enough to convince the world, then whoever gets the title will be embarrassed.
Besides, the throne is about to change. The person who controls the Nine Provinces has many faces, and those who are lucky enough to get the title. Once the old emperor leaves, even if the new emperor doesn't take it seriously, all the officials in the court must correct their mistakes to avoid making people laugh.
In such a general environment, the threshold for titles in various countries is getting higher and higher. Smart ones like the Wu Dynasty used military merit as a model and formulated the rule of killing three generations at a time. The Song Dynasty's original habit of arbitrarily granting titles to civil servants is now also heavily regulated.
In the more than two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, there were only two great empires.
But whether it is the founding hero of the Hongwu period or the Jingnan hero of the Yongle period, the threshold for awarding rewards is not strict, especially the Jingnan hero of Yongle. Emperor Yongle wanted to give rewards to his brothers, and to be able to explain to the world. , the Meritorious Service Hall was delayed until the 18th year of Yongle. It took 18 years to conquer Xuzhou in the north, conquer Jiaozhou in the south, and launch the East Ship into the sea. Each battle was recorded clearly, and only then was the order made long ago The title was sealed, but even this... the hereditary and permanent title did not exceed two slaps.
Perhaps it is precisely because of the rareness of the title that after receiving the title, Wu Xun of the Ming Dynasty did not sink like in Chinese history and was eventually stepped on by civil servants. Instead, after a short period of domineering, he quickly adjusted himself and cultivated a large number of Scholars with military status filled the Ming Dynasty court halls, and since then they have preserved the hard-nosed style of the Ming Dynasty.
The more this happens, the more shameless the nobles of the Ming Dynasty will be!
During the Lianghuai riots, hundreds of thousands of victims were organized to capture county towns, open warehouses to release grain, destroy fields and cut off roads, and behead marquises... The Ming Dynasty emperors and nobles only saw ghosts if they could endure it.
If it were anyone else, they would have to endure it if they couldn't bear it. After all, no matter what, to fight against foreign aggression, one must first settle the domestic situation. If there is internal injustice, no country can bear the risk of a war on the third front.
But if the person in charge of the family is upright, it's really hard to say.
Huang Yi filtered the matter through his mind, clasped his fists and bent his waist again, "This is natural, but I don't know what your majesty needs?"
Among the six countries, the Ming Dynasty and the Wu Dynasty were hostile to each other, but in terms of credibility, both dynasties were equal to each other. There was no precedent of breaking the alliance on their own initiative until the founding of the country.
On this basis, the Wu Dynasty originated from the founding covenant. Every day the four major clans in Jizhou lasted, the credibility of the Wu Dynasty increased.
The Ming Dynasty simply did not establish an alliance and established an independent alliance with Kyushu Dongfang with its tyrannical power and resolute attitude.
"I still know the credibility of your country. If it were someone from Song Dynasty, he wouldn't be able to enter Yingtian Mansion this time!"
After taking out the Song Dynasty and whipping the corpse again, Emperor Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty stepped down from the couch and said, "I want grain. Grain can be transported to the Huaihe River. For every stone the Wu Dynasty transports, I will transport you two stones from the sea. It needs to be fast, but I don't know how expensive it is." Can the country do it?”
There is a saying in the art of war: if you are ten, you are surrounded, if you are five, you are attacking, if you are doubled, you are fighting. If the enemy is divided, you can divide it. If you are small, you can defend it. If you are small, you can avoid it.
The same is true when faced with famines and wars.
Famine and military chaos arose due to famine and hunger. The Ming Dynasty wanted to control the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River, so forceful mobilization of troops was the last resort. The best way was to use grain to attack the victims, and to use the amount of grain to wake up the victims and bring the refugees out of chaos. Party body peeling.
But the question now is, where does the food come from?
After two years of drought, the Lianghuai River has stopped producing food, but it is not short of food.
Disaster relief in other places is slower, but the drought in the Huaihe River area, even if the emperor does not think about it, the nobles still think about it, but now all these grain reserves have been burned.
Nowadays, if we want to adjust grain from other places, the Yangtze River is dry and the roads are difficult to travel. It is difficult to barely maintain it, let alone supply the consumption of the army.
Emperor Zhengde, what I can think of now is the canal. The canal flows from north to south, and the same is true for the water flow. If the Wu Dynasty opened warehouses to release grain in the upper reaches, within a long time and half a month, a large amount of grain would be able to pass through Xuzhou directly into the Huaihe River, thus greatly reducing the burden on the people. Ming Dynasty logistical pressure.
"Your country treats the military with sincerity, and the military must treat the Ming with the city. The envoys can only respond to the first batch of 100,000 stones of rice, and the envoys will be sent to the military in the future. discuss!"
Only when there are comings and goings can good interpersonal relationships be maintained, and the same goes for countries.
If you just use Jeju Island to make a covenant, the covenant can be established, but just having a covenant is too emotionally dry.
One hundred thousand stones for a favor is worth it in Huang Yi's opinion.
The Ming Dynasty had character, and this small favor may not affect the overall situation, let alone the Ming Dynasty's preference for the Wu Dynasty, but the benefits are still considerable.
"One hundred thousand stones is not enough, at least 150,000 stones are needed!" Emperor Ming Zhengde bargained with his arms crossed and a smile in his eyes.
One hundred thousand stones sounds like a lot, but it's really not enough.
Two meals a day were thin, which was enough to feed 170,000 to 80,000 people for two to three months.
There are three to four hundred thousand people in Lianghuai, but the number is dozens of times higher. One hundred thousand liang is just a drop in the bucket.
"Can!"
One hundred thousand stones have been given, and the last fifty thousand stones will be left. "When I go back, I will write a handwritten note. It can be as soon as twenty days or as late as one month. The first batch of rice will definitely arrive in Lianghuai!"
"Not urgent!"
"This matter can be rushed eight hundred miles from Ming Dynasty!"
After receiving Wu Chao's sincerity, he put down the stone in his heart, and Emperor Zhengde's originally gloomy face relaxed and said, "Take this opportunity to state your country's requirements!"
Huang Yi met with Zhengde once before, but it was just a courtesy envoy. At the meeting, he didn't say a few words. Later, the Ming Dynasty Ministry of Rites and Huang Yi met. Now it is the second meeting and it is time to talk about some key things. .
Hearing this, Huang Yi smiled, took out the list he had already prepared from his sleeve, and handed it to Zhengde.
"Isn't that a lot to ask for?"
He opened it and looked at the conditions above. Emperor Zhengde's heart bulged, thinking that the Wu Dynasty would really wake up.
He changed his foreign strategy with a positive attitude, and turned his attention from land to sea. He let go of Jeju Island, but wanted to acquire sea-ship technology. There are really experts behind it!
"The ship can be provided, you can just send someone to drive it away, but as for the technology, you need to learn it yourself. Longquan Shipyard will be open to you within three years. In these three years, it is up to you, what you can learn, I won’t stop you regardless!”
The Ming Dynasty, no, it should be said that the Han people in Kyushu had already tasted the bitter consequences of technological outflow from Japanese pirates and Tibetan areas.
"The envoy would like to thank Your Majesty!" Huang Yi paid his respects again.
Longquan Shipyard was one of the six major shipyards in the Ming Dynasty and the only shipyard controlled by the royal family. It had the strongest technology and the least troubles.
Emperor Zhengde directly returned the favor to Mi Liang, but just now Huang Yi didn't think about what Mi Liang asked for?
This result can only show that Emperor Zhengde is an honest man and can handle it!
