"North Korea has always called itself Little China. As a country with the most popular Confucianism after the Ming Dynasty, how can you not have the courage to defend the king of the world!"
Yuan Chonghuan said something, and then said: "The Mughal Empire does not respect Confucianism and etiquette, and invades the Indian Peninsula without authorization. This is against the king's rules and is not conducive to the peace of the world. You, North Korea, have an obligation to join the Celestial Empire in conquering this country and carrying forward our Confucianism." It’s civilized!”
"Nonsense! It is the Celestial Dynasty that is not in line with the royal laws. The Celestial Dynasty kills our North Korean ministers, even forcibly rents our North Korean minerals, destroys our royal lineage, and has no courtesy to our North Korea in the past. It is unworthy of being a suzerainty! Even if our North Korea wants to conquer, The Celestial Empire should be conquered!"
At this time, North Korean Minister Shen Qijun said something.
"What a great conqueror of the Celestial Empire."
Yuan Chonghuan laughed and shouted to the North Korean King Li Zhu: "Your Royal Highness, do you really want to rebel against our country and betray Confucianism?"
Li Jie hurriedly denied it and said: "There is absolutely no such intention! Absolutely no such intention! We, North Korea, have always been proud of being a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty! We dare not have any rebellious intentions."
"Then why are you leaving this treacherous minister who instigated you to betray the emperor in the court? If you don't capture him immediately, I will extradite him to the Ming Dynasty and punish him!"
Yuan Chonghuan threatened.
Li Zhu couldn't help but look at Shen Qijun: "This, this..."
Seeing this, Shen Qijun was also afraid of being punished by the Ming Dynasty, so he had to change his words: "I, I just made a slip of the tongue. What I meant was that we should obey the call of the Celestial Empire and jointly carry forward our Confucian civilization and make the teachings of Confucius and Mencius and the learning of Cheng and Zhu , spread in the wild lands of India.”
"If you don't eat the toast, you will be punished with alcohol!"
Yuan Chonghuan said something in his heart, smiled coldly, and continued to ask Li Zhu: "What do you think, Your Highness?"
"Send troops! Naturally, we have to send troops to form an alliance with the Celestial Empire to conquer the Mughals."
Li Zhu smiled and said.
Then, Li Zhu ordered the North Korean ministers: "Take Li Gui as the marshal of the capital, and Jiang Anzong as the supervisor, and let's go to India with the Chinese army!"
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"Our country is fortunate to form an alliance with the Celestial Empire to conquer the Mughals. It is the great fortune of our Yamato nation! It is the great fortune of our shogunate! Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Celestial Empire, our shogunate will send the most elite troops to conquer the Mughals and praise us. Confucian civilization rooted the teachings of saints in India!”
On the Japanese side, Tokugawa Iemitsu was extremely excited when he learned from Shang Zhou Zuo that the Ming Dynasty invited him to send troops to form an alliance army to conquer the Mughals, and he immediately agreed, because Tokugawa Iemitsu felt that this was An opportunity to conquer the world and gain benefits.
Of course, the Japanese country, which was small and densely populated and prone to disasters, was indeed more aggressive than North Korea. Therefore, it was different from North Korea's reaction. It was eager to bully other regimes and use the power of the Ming Dynasty to invade.
What's more, Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu is not the nominal leader of the Japanese country. He knows that if he wants to continue to control the emperor, he has to rely on the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, he is now proud to be the Ming Dynasty's dog, which is even more proud than North Korea. Much more positive.
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By June of the eighteenth year of the Apocalypse, both Korea and Japan sent representatives to the capital of the Ming Dynasty. In the Privy Council of the Ming Dynasty, they established an alliance with Sun Chuanting, the Privy Council envoy of the Ming Dynasty, to form an alliance to conquer the Mughals.
But at this time, North Korea and Japan had a dispute over the order of signatures on the "Alliance Agreement" drafted by the Privy Council of the Ming Dynasty.
North Korea believed that they were the first lackeys of the Ming Dynasty. Confucian civilization was the most popular and closest to the Chinese civilization of the Ming Dynasty. The Japanese country was relatively more barbaric, otherwise they would not have committed so many crimes in Korea, so they asked the Japanese country to Stand behind yourself when signing.
The Japanese side believed that their strength was stronger than that of North Korea, and even once invaded the capital of North Korea, leaving North Korea unable to fight back. It was forced to seek rescue from the Ming Dynasty before it could recover. They also felt that in terms of strength, in a country that advocates Confucian civilization, He should be Ming Dynasty's number one lackey!
In the end, the matter came directly to Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty.
In order to show that he attached great importance to the construction of Confucian civilization, Zhu Youxiao specially ordered officials from the Hanlin Academy, Imperial College, Chongwen Temple, and the Ministry of Rites to gather in the Wenhua Hall, and envoys from Korea and Japan were present to discuss it. The ranking problem between Korea and Japan.
"Your Majesty, the Korean official text has used Chinese characters, and the costumes are close to Hanfu. However, the Japanese country still does not use Chinese characters as the official script, and its costumes are larger than those of the Central Plains costumes. Compared with the Korean ones today, I believe that the level of civilization in Korea is higher than The Japanese state! The Japanese state should be ranked second to North Korea!"
"Your Majesty, Confucianism in Korea is more developed than Confucianism in Japan. According to my review of the poems and articles of scholar-bureaucrats in Korea and Japan, I found that it was Korea that gained the essence of Confucian morality."
"It has to be. Of course, Korea is more valuable than Japan. Regardless of anything else, Korean citizens already use Chinese names, while Japan still has a four-character name, just like the name of a barbarian!"
Following Zhu Youxiao's instructions, these Confucian ministers carefully compared the civilization levels of the two countries based on their acceptance of Confucianism.
Finally, it was concluded that according to the level of civilization set based on Confucian civilization, the Japanese country ranked behind Korea.
When the Japanese envoy Sakai Tadashi saw that the Ming Emperor was so large-scale and sent so many Confucian ministers to argue and compare with quotations from scriptures, he had to be convinced. For a moment, he could not help but secretly make up his mind and said to his follower Matsudaira Yasunobu: "The Sinicization is not thorough enough. , and cannot get greater respect from the Ming Dynasty, this is really a shame for our Japanese country! You go back to the shogunate to inform the general about this, and say my suggestion, our Japanese country must carry out more thorough sinicization reforms next, and prosper Confucianism, which must be better than that of North Korea. Get closer to the Confucian civilization embodied in Zhou Rites! Otherwise, our international status will always lag behind North Korea!"
Matsudaira Yasunobu said: "Yes! Especially when officials from the Ming Dynasty said that our names are similar to the names of barbarians, we can't refute it, but the North Korean envoys are very proud of it! We need to change our names first!"
As for the North Korean officials were indeed very happy about this, Jiang Anzong said to Li Gui: "We must send someone back as soon as possible with a letter to tell His Highness that we have fulfilled our mission and defeated Japan at the negotiating table. The Ming Dynasty recognized that Korea is more civilized and advanced than Japan. It is more worthy of being respected, and this is a great victory, because it means that North Korea will be in front of Japan in the international order established by the Celestial Empire!"
After the Ming Dynasty signed the "Alliance Army" agreement with North Korea and Japan, the three countries officially sent their troops to the West.
This is something that has never happened in history.
Regimes representing Confucian civilization will form an alliance and move westward, and for the first time they will follow the same pace of expansion as Western civilization.
However, unlike the Western civilization countries that are fighting each other now, in Confucian civilization, the Ming Dynasty plays a leading role.
This is because the Ming Dynasty was the only country in the Confucian civilization that experienced a major change in its thinking on governing the country. It tended to be humanistic, from governing the country by etiquette to governing the country with sincerity, advocating practical learning, and attaching importance to scientific practice.
Therefore, this allowed the Ming Dynasty to develop rapidly in science and technology and industry, and it had the internal driving force to plunder external land to develop industry and dump goods. As a result, it had new policies in military, diplomacy, and culture, and deliberately used Confucian civilization to It is the banner of universal civilization, and those who believe in Confucianism have the obligation to save the world, and it has seduced the two Confucian countries, Korea and Japan, into becoming thugs of their capital empire to save and conquer backward barbarians.
Because these two countries saw the power of the Ming Dynasty and were proud of their Confucian civilization, they naturally believed in it. After all, this was also beneficial to their ruling classes.
Especially in North Korea, because of its high level of Confucian civilization, it was recognized by the Ming Emperor as superior to the Japanese state. Therefore, it felt that its civil and political policies of advocating Confucianism and respecting the Han Dynasty for many years were correct. After landing on the Indian Peninsula, it selected sites to build Confucian temples, plastic holes, and Statue of Zhu Ersheng.
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