Chapter 589 – The Lord of Zhongxing

There is a plethora of facts to be dealt with in order to implement the New Deal.

Sonnets from all over the world flew in as if they were snowflakes.

Prince Zhu Gaoqi, at this time is exactly the busiest time, Wen Yuange public officials, since also feet do not touch the ground.

It is good that the Crown Prince is assisted by the Grand Maester, who in turn is assisted by a large number of wardens, and is well organized.

At this time, this Wen Yuan Pavilion, but ushered in a group of newcomers, these people, most of them are the excellent graduates of the University Hall, and thereafter assigned to the various prefectures and counties to serve as a civil servant, after sharpening some of them, into the Wen Yuan Pavilion.

They are the identity of the Sheriff, its nature is still civil officials, responsible for both contact with the ministries, conveying the will, or to assist the university scholar vote, of course, more often, or to put forward suggestions, and to prepare for the inquiry.

This is also what Zhu Gaoqi meant.

The new policy to implement the world, now the world around the zhangshi, most and the new policy related, some are about the railroad, some are the situation of the commercial tax, but also involved in the workshop, postal service and so on.

These reports, in fact, not only the original those who do not understand the house people, is very blind, that is, the university professors are also a black eye.

Therefore, after careful selection, a full one hundred and twelve civil officials from the prefectures and counties of Zhili, as well as the Department of Railways, the Department of Postal Services, or the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, the Ministry of Railways, entered the central government and became the Sheriff.

And one of them, whom Zhang Anshi found familiar, beckoned him to him and said, “What is your name?”

“Your Highness, student Xia Xuan.”

Hearing this name, Zhang Anshi fiercely remembered, could not help but say: “You see this king’s memory, is the son of Xia Gong, last time also made a war achievement. Rather, I did not expect, you actually came to Wen Yuan Pavilion, how is it, accustomed to it?”

Xia Xuan said, “Your Highness, it’s quite customary.”

Zhang Anshi then added: “Your father is old, and now that he has risen again and become the Minister of Education, you should not teach him to be disappointed.”

Xia Xuan said, “Yes.”

Zhang Anshi said, “By the way, draft a report for this king.”

Xia Xuan nodded his head and immediately took out his motherboard and started recording.

Zhang Anshi back his hand, after some deep thought, said, “I Zhang Anshi said …… that the King of Japan and the King of North Korea are my Daming clan screen, named as a foreign country, but actually a father and son of the country. Now that my Daming is at peace, it is reasonable to call the two kings to the capital for an audience, and all the expenses along the way will be paid …… by the court.”

Xia Xuan made a note of it, and then said, “Then the student has gone to formulate it.”

Zhang Anshi nodded and said, “Go on, and after you’ve written it, give this king another glance or two.”

Xia Xuan hurried away.

This zhangzhi, soon sent to the hands of the Prince.

It was only the crown prince Zhu Gaoqi who saw it and frowned up with a thoughtful face.

The last conversation was still fresh in my mind, but in the blink of an eye, I did not think that this Zhang Anshi had changed his former appearance, and was actually very friendly to the Joseon and Japanese countries, and fiercely bragged about the Japanese and Joseon countries.

On the contrary, the Joseon country is obsequious, but the Japanese country well …… is not quite the same.

If the two kings are called into the capital again, these two kings really come to play to see, the attitude is very respectful, then …… the court will be more no way to put forward harsh conditions.

After all, Daming is a state of etiquette, the so-called stretching hand does not hit the smiling face of the people, can not be so ferocious as to follow the example of the King of Qin, the King of Chu cheated the king of Xianyang directly after the house arrest, and then cut Chu it.

If we continue to be so friendly, and the relationship is even more intimate, then …… previously intended that the fiefdom of the Japanese and Joseon ……

After careful consideration, Prince Zhu Gaoqi but still did not hesitate to lift the pen, approved this proposal.

So the Ministry of Rites and the Honglu Temple began to be busy, on the one hand sending envoys with all haste to read out the decrees of the Ming court, and on the other making preparations to welcome the two kings who might enter the capital.

Zhang Anshi, on the other hand, seemed to have quickly forgotten all about it, and did not mention it again.

These days, there are too many sangha to dispose of.

Every now and then, there is a new sangsai to come, today is a certain Langguan pleaded for the treatment of the river silt in the west of the city, that it is an eyesore.

In a few days, someone else reported that tree poaching was too serious in the western part of the city and needed to be severely punished.

As if the west of the city’s Feilinwei, all of a sudden became a hot place, even always can labor these courtiers and princes attention.

Such an approach, even if not back to the people, in fact, roughly also know, this west of the city is a feng shui treasure.

As a result, a number of merchants began to improvise and started to want to do some ‘trading’ in the west side of the city.

But the sale has not been done, and soon they returned in defeat, because …… at this time they realized that this sale …… has long been out of their turn.

The land in the west of the city, around the mansions created, has long been in the hands of the vast majority of the Qixia Trading House.

Toward the end of the year, yet another person came to play.

The King of Joseon and the King of Japan departed, and a fleet of ships from the Ming Dynasty went to meet them in person, and after crossing the ocean, they were about to set foot in the Middle Kingdom in a few days.

It’s not really a surprise that this news has come out.

The King of Korea has always been more obedient, and since the court of the Great Ming Dynasty called, he did not dare not come.

The Japanese king, who was enthroned by the court, was a different story.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Japanese invaders had begun to make their presence felt in the southeast, plundering and killing indiscriminately.

Emperor Taizu Gao was furious, so he planned to join forces with the Japanese king and take a back-and-forth attack on the Japanese.

So in the second year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu Gao sent an envoy as far as Japan.

The reigning Japanese king at the time was called Huai Liang. When the Ming envoys arrived in Japan, Huai Liang went so far as to not recognize the status of the Ming Dynasty and imprisoned seven of the envoys and subsequently executed five of them, leaving only two envoys, Yang Zai and Wu Wenhua.

Later, when he learned that the Ming Dynasty had completely swept away the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty and shook the world, the Japanese king immediately sent his envoys to send back the imprisoned Ming envoys and, as a token of his apology, returned some of the people of the Ming Dynasty who had been plundered by the Japanese invaders.

However, he was uncooperative in the extermination of the Japanese.

When Zhu Yuanzhang learned that the small vassal state dared to disobey his superior, he sent another envoy to rebuke Huailiang and threatened that the Ming army was ready to cross the sea to invade at any time.

Unmoved, the Japanese king wrote a submission for the envoy to take back to Nanjing.

Its original words are: I live in the far weak Japanese …… still know enough heart …… Your Majesty as the Lord of China …… often up to the intention of extermination. Even though the Ming Dynasty has excellent soldiers and good generals, but the ministers have Confucius and Mencius in their theories, and Sun Wu in their martial arts theories, your majesty will raise the elite forces to invade the ministers’ territory, to the Japanese country, the obedient may not be its life, and the disobedient may not be its death…….

This correspondence was actually a bit confusing even for the Daming monarchs and ministers to read.

This Japanese weapon against Daming was actually the literature of Confucius and Mencius, and the martial arts of Sun Tzu and Wu Qi such as the Art of War.

Only by this time, when the state letter was sent back to Nanjing, Zhu Yuanzhang’s anger, too, had long since subsided, and he had no great interest in conquering the faraway Japan, and finally chose to be conciliatory, re-appointed the king of Japan, and listed Japan as a non-conquering country again.

This is not because it is too much trouble to cross the sea to fight, and make Taizu Gao Huang have doubts. But from the emperor’s words and deeds during his lifetime, in his view, the heart of the Ming Dynasty, always in the north, the rest of whether the Japanese, or the southwest frontier of the Tusi, will always be the scabby trouble, even if the death of the dying in the last edict, but also reiterated this point, teach the children and grandchildren to keep in mind, can not be easily wasted on the national strength, and should focus on the northern foreigners of the surveillance and differentiation.

The current king of Japan is in fact Ashikaga Yoshinori.

Of course, this kind of king’s statement, in fact, is not accurate, this Ashikaga Yoshinobu, really counting up the identity, should be the sixth generation of Japanese Muromachi Shogunate generals only.

But it was this general who held almost all the power in the Japanese nation.

After the Shogun took control of Japan, he monopolized diplomacy with the Ming Dynasty and claimed to be the Lord of Japan.

And for the Ming, in fact, also lazy to pay attention to what is here, anyway, is not their own family, there is a doer on the line, as usual, issued by the King of Japan’s gold seal that is.

This Ashikaga Yoshinobu is considered to be the middle-aged lord of the Shogunate, and after he succeeded his brother and became the Shogun of the conquest of the barbarians, he immediately began to strictly order the other daimyo not to have private dealings with the Great Ming Dynasty and to monopolize the power of trade.

At the same time, the power of the Shogunate was constantly being strengthened and the monks were being cracked down on!

In just ten years, this Muromachi Shogunate had reached unprecedented power.

As an insightful leader, Ashikaga Yoshinobu was by no means unaware of the changes taking place outside. In fact, he is more aware than anyone else of the great changes that have taken place overseas, that the Ming merchant ships in and out of Kyoto waters, the scale is getting bigger and bigger, more and more innovative styles, has long caused Ashikaga Yoshinobu’s vigilance.

This time he came across the sea, the purpose is not only to test the depth of the Ming Dynasty, at the same time, is to want to personally explore the situation of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the court of the Ming Dynasty called, at this time also had to come. In addition, this Ashikaga Yoshitomo of course also convinced that the Ming Dynasty will not kill the envoys, to take any measures against him, the general of the barbarians.

This time, the Japanese mission, probably because of this great general’s personal trip, was particularly large.

What they boarded was the fleet of ships from Daming that had met them.

As soon as he saw the ship, Ashikaga Yoshinobu was already shocked, and a ship of such a large scale made a huge impact on him.

Immediately afterward, all the way across the sea, safe and sound, only his mood could not be calmed for a long time.

He was almost dazzled as he was about to enter the Pine River Crossing, and opened his eyes to another round of shock.

To know, in this route, every now and then, you can see the flag of the Great Ming ships in and out, that full of goods, countless, the huge Huating harbor, crowded as weaving, connecting into the river ships, and then began to take them up against the river.

Over the past tens of days, this entire Japanese mission has almost had no time to see the scenery and customs.

Because what they have seen and heard is beyond their perception.

More frighteningly, when they arrived in Zhili and saw with their own eyes the steel monsters whirring and running on the railroad tracks, the shock was, well, imaginable.

The accompanying nobles and warriors, who had always considered themselves to be of noble status, were silenced by these things that they had never seen before.

At this time, Zhang Anshi, the King of Song of the Great Ming Dynasty, was ordered to personally welcome Ashikaga Yoshinobu and others into the city.

Ashikaga Yoshitaka met Zhang Anshi.

Seeing each other, Zhang Anshi was extraordinarily enthusiastic and shushed him a bit.

Although Ashikaga is not a Han Chinese, but the Chinese language is very pure, accurately speaking, everyone’s educational background is almost the same, whether it is Ming, or Ashikaga or Japanese nobles and warriors, everyone is from the beginning of the teeth, began to learn the Chinese language, read the Four Books and the Five Classics, learning Confucius and Mencius. Only Ashikaga Yoshinobu was better, Zhang Anshi was a famous dilettante, belonging to the half-baked.

After exchanging polite pleasantries, Zhang Anshi laughed, “His Highness the Crown Prince has been looking forward to your arrival ……”

Just before these words were said, the Foot Rite Righteousness Teaching said, “Your Highness the King of Song, I don t know if His Majesty the Emperor …… is physically ill?”

Ashikaga Yoshinobu was all smiles, but he directly threw out an extremely sensitive question.

He had originally thought that the summoning of him here was the meaning of the Da Ming Emperor, but now he had a vague feeling that it seemed like this might be related to the Da Ming Crown Prince.

Of course, the current Crown Prince, who is already the Supervising Crown Prince, also wields enormous power and is not much different from the Emperor of Daming.

Just …… at this juncture, on the contrary, let the sensitive Ashikaga Yoshitomo think that this Nanjing City, may have to become a place of right and wrong, so his heart, can not help but be cautious for a few points.

Zhang Anshi smiled and said, “Your Majesty’s dragon body is in good health, only that he has rarely asked about mundane matters lately.”

Ashikaga Yoshinobu saw that Zhang Anshi’s demeanor did not look like a fake, but it was clear that he would not easily believe this statement, however, did not question it further.

Ashikaga Yoshinobu smiled and said, “This time I came to the Middle Kingdom, and it was an eye-opening experience to realize that the abundance of products in the Middle Kingdom is by no means comparable to my country.”

Zhang Anshi politely said, “Your Highness Ashikaga is overstating the case, in fact, ah …… what does it have to do with the abundance of material goods? In the end …… it is just the result of the new policy.”

Ashikaga Yoshinori was not surprised by these words; he had heard a lot about the New Deal along the way.

Now that Zhang Anshi took the initiative to mention it, he instead grew interested.

He was the Lord of the Middle Ages, not a mediocre man, and since ascending to the position of Shogun, it had taken almost ten years of sleight of hand to barely strengthen the Shogunate’s authority in the Japanese state.

But now, he suddenly realized that compared to this Great Ming, it was really small.

At this time, when I think about it, I dug out my heart and soul to do things, but also quite a few ridiculous.

This is like, you follow others to learn to drive, hard work, smash pots and pans to buy a seven-handed Charade, thinking that they only need to practice hard, can become a generation of car god, ten years of hard work, it is not easy to rely on each other’s learning, and practiced all the skills.

So quite want to try the depth of the teacher, just as you are excited to drive a seven-handed Charade into the track, consciously the other side, although the performance may be better than you, but I learn Daming’s “Confucius and Mencius”, “Sun-Wu” than you more hard work, it may not be able to lose you much.

As a result, just when you are complacent and feel that you are about to fix it, the other party …… directly a button down, his car …… flew up.

Yes, it flew because …… people’s version of …… has been updated again.

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Recently because of too busy and too tired, the tiger toothache recurred, the face is also swollen, this kind of pain is probably only experienced people feel, so the recent update is occasionally unsatisfactory, I hope you can understand, thank you.