Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 323 Ending, All Nations Come to Korea

As the governor of Batavia slowly lowered the flag of the Kingdom of Spain and sent envoys to follow Xu Hongji and others to the capital, there were no enemies around China that could threaten Zhu Cihong's Ming Dynasty.

After meeting the envoy from the Governor of Batavia, Zhu Cixiang announced his conditions. The Spanish power could only be limited to the city of Batavia, and Mindanao and its surrounding land all belonged to the Ming Dynasty. However, the Ming Dynasty allowed the Spaniards to directly negotiate with the Ming Dynasty. Trade was carried out in Mindanao and its surrounding areas. Even in Guangfu, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Da Nang and other places, Zhu Cixiang allowed the Spaniards to conduct commercial activities under the supervision of the Municipal Shipping Department.

In order to get the Spaniards to accept his conditions sincerely, Zhu Cihong threatened them with a million-strong army from the Ming Dynasty.

The result was naturally not what Zhu Cihong expected. In order to avoid Zhu Cihong's anger, the Governor of Batavia in Spain decided to agree to Zhu Cihong before even asking the king for instructions.

Anyway, the Spaniards didn't have a deep rule over this place. If they can trade with Ming Dynasty, it will definitely be much better than managing a place like Mindanao.

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A few more months passed in the blink of an eye, and Zhu Cixi ushered in the spring of 1645. This spring was destined to go down in history, and was more important than Chongzhen's suicide and martyrdom, because on this day, countries and regions surrounding the Ming Dynasty sent envoys one after another. They brought special products and treasures from their respective countries to pay tribute. While showing their loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, they also came here to trade in exchange for Ming Dynasty's political and economic recognition of them.

Starting from North Korea, going clockwise, there are Lee's Korea, Neon King and the Tokugawa Shogunate, Shang's Ryukyu Kingdom, the Governor of Batavia in Spain, Java and a number of small Southeast Asian countries, the Kingdom of Siam, the Kingdom of Burma, and Bhutan The kingdom of Nepal, the four tribes of Chahar and Oirat on the Mongolian plateau, the wild Jurchens and the Hercynian Jurchen tribes in the far north of Liaodong.

Dozens of countries and regions, large and small, transported countless treasures from all over the world into the capital of Ming Dynasty, such as ginseng, silk, porcelain, jade, gold, lacquer, pearls, coral, gems, red sandalwood, ambergris, Spices, ivory, rare birds and animals... All of these, as long as they were found in the world, were almost all sent to Zhu Cihong's Forbidden City.

There are so many things that the warehouses prepared by the Ministry of Rites are not enough, so they had to temporarily build a batch of warehouses in the open space in Beijing to store these tributes.

In addition, as many as [-] to [-] members of the mission revived the capital, a city that has experienced countless wars, and let the people of Daming see the prosperity of Ming, and even countries thousands of miles away admire it. The heavenly dynasty, not afraid of the hardships and dangers of the journey, will come to worship the emperor.

After the arrival of the tribute missions from dozens of countries and regions, the Ministry of Rites first educated them on the etiquette of meeting the emperor and the arrangement of the tribute ceremony.

Unexpectedly, the Spaniards sent by the Governor of Batavia, and even the Dutch East India Company who came to see Zhu Cihong on their own initiative, were not as stubborn as Macartney when later generations visited China. Ken kneels.

On the contrary, they kneeled very neatly, but their movements were a little stiff.

After a period of study and preparation, the tribute ceremony finally began. Zhu Cihong sat in the main hall, surrounded by civil and military officials and elite guards and warriors, and one by one the missions in the Chinese civilization circle filed in, according to their status. Slowly move your body forward, offering the tribute of your country.

But what dissatisfied these missions was the order of tribute. As the most loyal younger brother of the Ming Dynasty, Li's North Korea was naturally the first to pay tribute. Although Japan's national power is far stronger than North Korea and even the Mongolian tribes such as Chahar and Oirat However, because it is too far away from the core of Chinese civilization, the order of tribute has to be ranked behind a small country like the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Sitting on the chair, looking at the envoys wearing exotic costumes and speaking unintelligible bird language, Zhu Cihong sighed, "I don't know how long this prosperous situation can last."

At that time, Zhu Cihong changed the yuan to the first year of Weizhi. History has changed forever from this moment. Because of the continuation of the Han people's rule and the growth of Chinese civilization, the situation of Western colonists conquering an ancient empire with a few warships and cannons will never again Appeared.

(End of this chapter)