Zhu Houzhao walked out of the academy door, and when he got on the carriage, he suddenly saw more than 20 to 30 big men dressed as Tatars among the crowd on the street.
They came in groups and swaggered through the city, making some people feel a little jealous of them.
Zhu Houzhao felt strange. In his opinion, the border troubles during the Hongzhi period were serious. What was this situation?
So I kept thinking while sitting in the carriage.
When he arrived at the East Palace, he called Liu Jin over and asked, "What's going on with those Tatars on the street?"
"Did your Highness see it too? I thought the Tatars who were supposed to be paying tribute arrived in the capital."
"Pay tribute?"
Zhu Houzhao is a somewhat shameful person after all.
He was bullied at the border and dared not go out, so he still paid tribute?
If this was Zhu Di's time, paying tribute was called paying tribute. What kind of tribute should be paid now?
With a flash of his mind, he roughly guessed, isn't this a tribute trade that benefits others but harms me?
"Which gentleman is there in Mr. Zhan's house? Call him over."
Zhu Houzhao still didn't understand many things of this era as well as people of this era, so he would study it first if he encountered anything. What is recorded in history books may not necessarily be the facts at that time.
In modern times, this is called holding a special meeting to study and find someone to make a report.
It just so happens that Wang Hua, the king of virtue, is here today.
Seeing him, Zhu Houzhao thought of his son, "Mr. Wang, has your son written to you? How is he?"
"Thank you for your concern, Your Highness." Wang Hua cupped his hands in salute. "In May, Quanzi wrote a letter saying that he was learning how to maneuver battle formations with General Wang Yue. He also said that the northwest... border troops were depleted..."
"Oh." Zhu Houzhao's expression changed and he was not so happy immediately. He was not angry, but it was not a happy event after all. "I just want to ask you. Why do so many Tatars suddenly appear in the capital?"
"Tatars?" Wang Hua reacted before he could think about it carefully, "It should be the tribute envoy sent by the little prince who has arrived."
"Talk about it."
"Yes." Since he knew that His Highness the Crown Prince wanted to know, Wang Hua simply started from the source.
Speaking of which, the Ming Dynasty has always been in a rather paradoxical state with its evil neighbor in the north, the Tatars.
On the one hand, the two sides took action against each other. For example, in the 16th year of Chenghua, Wang Yue attacked the Mongolian camps around Weining Haizi outside Datong, and achieved a great victory at Weining Hai. Three years later, in the 19th year of Chenghua, Dayan Khan led more than 30,000 people to invade the border area, which made the Ming court still feel guilty every time he thought about it.
Later, from the first year of Hongzhi, Dayan Khan submitted a letter to the Ming Dynasty, requesting tribute. This happened once a year until the fifth year of Hongzhi. During the period from the fifth to the ninth year of Hongzhi, the two parties actually had little contact and could be considered peaceful. thing.
In fact, because Dayan Khan was cleaning up the internal affairs, this so-called master of the resurgence of Mongolia successively conquered the Oirat tribe, Yismayin, Huoshai and other tribes, and unified Monan Mongolia.
After cleaning up the interior, he once again sent envoys to pay tribute,
This happened exactly in the eleventh year of Hongzhi.
In the spring of this year, he asked 6,000 people to enter the customs and pay tribute. The two sides bargained with each other for a long time. Finally, the court allowed 2,000 people to enter the customs and 500 people to come to Beijing.
This is not the first time that this exaggerated number of people has occurred. The previous times there were thousands of people.
….
"Pay tribute, why are there so many people?" Zhu Houzhao didn't quite understand this number at first.
Wang Hua replied: "Maybe it's because the supplies are very heavy. Thousands of cattle and sheep will need people to drive them."
"It's a joke, one person drives one of thousands of cattle and sheep?" Zhu Houzhao rubbed his fingers and paced a little, with a question in his mind, "In the end, 2,000 people entered the customs and 500 people entered Beijing. What about the remaining 1,500 people? Will anyone go? After checking, what did these people do?"
In his opinion, since Dayan Khan is known as the master of ZTE, he will not make such a decision arbitrarily. After all, he is the most memorable Mongolian leader after Genghis Khan Temujin and Xue Chan Khan Kublai Khan. .
"This matter, sir
I don’t know. "
This is not to blame on his head,
After all, no one would tell him the details of the Tatar tribute, whether it was You Yude of Zhan Shifu or the Japanese lecturer of the Hanlin Academy.
"Liu Jin!"
"The slave is here!"
"Find someone who knows."
"yes!"
As soon as the prince looked for someone, it was the minister of Honglu Temple who was in charge of foreign guests.
Speaking of this position, Zhu Houzhao's grandfather Zhang Luan also held the position, but this happened before.
Now he is Zhou Zhou, who is only in his thirties, with a fairly upright face and a bit of handsomeness. Coupled with the red official robe, he looks very elegant at first glance, that is, in front of the prince and other people. What a condescending old man.
"Zhou Du, let me ask you, why are there so many people in the little prince's mission every time?"
Zhou Du said: "In the past, Mongolia sent envoys to pay tribute, and it was true that there were only a dozen people. But since the early years of Hongzhi, the envoys sent by the little prince were large in size. I thought... it was because the little prince was very happy with his achievements and was self-proclaimed. He was a powerful man of his generation, so he sent a large number of envoys to show his prestige as the "Great Khan of Zhongxing". "
"Is there a more reasonable reason?"
Zhu Houzhao still likes to think about things from the perspective of interests. Of course he is very happy with his achievements and saves face, but if there are no actual benefits, it is difficult to imagine doing such a strange thing just for the sake of face.
But what surprised him was that this question actually stopped Zhou Zhou.
He replied: "I wonder what the more reasonable reason Your Highness is talking about...is this?"
When he was stunned, Zhu Houzhao froze. He thought of a question that made him think deeply, "Have you...never thought about this reason?"
"Maybe..." Zhou Dou thought about it and pieced together an answer, "Maybe the Tatars want to see the beauty of our Central Plains, or maybe they just want to take advantage of it."
"What's a small advantage?" Zhu Houzhao grasped this key point.
Zhou Du was also a little confused.
He didn't expect that the prince of that generation of British masters as the outside world would ask such a detailed question.
He didn't even know whether to say yes or not.
But in the end, he couldn't stand Dong Gong's eyes and said, "...Wei Chen privately thought that maybe he just wanted to come and have some fun."
Zhu Houzhao:? ? ?
On the one hand, he was surprised that there was such a thing as entertainment fees, and on the other hand, he was surprised that they could only think of entertainment fees?
….
"You mean, the food, drink and accommodation for these five hundred people in the capital are all paid for by the imperial court?"
Zhou Du nodded, "Not bad."
boom!
Zhu Houzhao didn't know what he was holding, it seemed to be a teacup, and he dropped it directly to the ground, making Liu Jin and Zhou Zhou jump.
The two of them knelt down and prostrated themselves on the ground.
"Zhou Du, stop it right now! People in Ming Dynasty are starving to death, but we still spend money to entertain them?"
Zhou Du felt that he had been wronged and immediately replied quickly: "Your Highness, foreign envoys have always been received by the imperial court. This is something that the emperor and the cabinet have agreed to. Furthermore, this matter is a matter of past practice and has always been handled this way. Now that there has been a sudden change, how can you explain this...?"
"Who are you going to explain to?" Zhu Houzhao asked him.
"Of course...of course it's with the Tatar envoy."
"You are an official of our Ming Dynasty. The person you want to explain is this prince, not a Tatar envoy! Furthermore, has his little prince changed the past? Isn't it because of him that such a large-scale mission started? ?Did he change this? How come he can change it, but I, the great Ming prince, can’t?"
Zhu Houzhao was so angry that this kind of tributary trade suffered losses in ancient times. He pointed at Zhoudu and said: "You are just a minister of Honglu Temple. I should not blame you for spending money. But you just said that, little prince It's such a great success, so many people
Many people come to the capital to show off their power. What's wrong? He comes to show off to us and wants us to pay him? ! "
This is the truth, but in the minds of the ancients, it would be stingy for a prince to say such things, and there is no way to have the magnanimity of the Celestial Dynasty.
Liu Jin was cautious and reminded: "Your Highness's concerns are not unreasonable. However, foreign-related matters are not trivial. Do we still need to discuss it with the emperor and the cabinet? If the relationship between the two countries is stalemate, it will be bad."
This is the truth. Diplomacy is no small matter, as the ancients thought. It is indeed not good to make such a hasty decision without the cabinet or Emperor Hongzhi knowing about it.
But Zhu Houzhao was also a little disdainful. What was rigid or not?
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di both wanted to wipe out other people's seeds. Ye Xian and the little prince had no idea how much Ming people's blood they had on their hands.
The border war is still going on now. Is this kind of feud and this kind of relationship afraid of becoming rigid? Is it possible that we hope to establish friendship with them?
After some thought, he said to Zhou Du: "You should go back and stop this old practice now. As for the father and the cabinet, I will leave it to you."
The so-called great power of the country and the pride of the people, now the Tatars have a relatively strong momentum, so the Tatars who come to the capital also feel like the upper class. This is intolerable. Now I have to pay for eating, drinking and having sex. Zhu Houzhao is going to be stingy with him no matter what.
"Don't forget those 1,500 people." He thought about it and felt something was wrong. "Liu Jin, go check and find out what these people have done."
He concluded that there was a reason behind it, and no matter what it was for, he would just make a random move to make them uncomfortable first.
It is said that after Zhou Du left the East Palace, he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. He had not heard of the orders of the East Palace. How could he dare to accept it like this? If anything happens to these five hundred people in Beijing and the emperor and the court lose face, then he will really die without a burial place.
But the prince was so angry that he didn't dare to ignore it directly. After thinking about it, he went directly to the cabinet to report it.
The eldest son of the Ming Dynasty.
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