I'm really not the carpenter emperor

After leaving the Kunning Palace, Zhu Youxiao saw that Jin Yiwei and Yumajian had already lined up their support and were waiting for him at the gate of the palace.

Along the way, Xu Xianchun arranged for Jinyiwei and the standard-bearer guards to line up holding dragon flags. Everywhere Zhu Youxiao went, there was an inspiring drum sound, which was very grand.

When Zhu Youxiao came to Maoqin Hall, all the civil and military officials also dressed up and stood in line according to their ranks, shouting long live:

"The ministers see the emperor, long live, long live!"

The voices of the ministers fell to the ground, and the chief assistant of the cabinet, Han Yu, led the way out, bowed and said:

"Your Majesty, please come to the main hall to rectify the ceremony!"

After he finished speaking, the officials followed the mountain and shouted: "Your Majesty, please come to the main hall to rectify the court ceremony!"

Zhu Youxiao, who was wearing a crown, entered the Maoqin Hall. After sitting on the throne, a drum sounded outside the hall, marking the official start of the ceremony.

This grand court ceremony is a major event of the dynasty, and it is held every three years. The red tape is even more complicated than the enthronement ceremony.

After Zhu Youxiao and Maoqin sat down in the hall, amidst the singing of the praise officials, the sound of "crackling" firecrackers sounded outside the hall.

The envoys of Ayutthaya, North Korea, Khmer, Yarkand and other countries who had been waiting for a long time at the Chengtian Gate walked forward on the middle road, bowed first, then knelt down and kowtowed, and shouted in unproficient Chinese:

"I have seen His Majesty the Great Emperor of China!"

Although the etiquette of these vassal envoys is a bit ridiculous compared with the courtiers, it is a symbol that Ming Dynasty is still in the center of the East.

Zhu Youxiao squinted his eyes slightly, but didn't let them flatten directly.

All the envoys knelt down for a long while, hearing the silence in the hall, they raised their heads one after another with blank faces, only to see the Great Ming Emperor Tianqi staring at one of them with a playful face.

This man, with a mustache, was short in stature, and was wearing a pair of clogs profligately on his feet, but his face was naked, and he bowed his head and saluted, always trying to mix among the envoys of various countries, so it was difficult to attract attention.

At this moment, seeing that the Emperor Ming was looking at him, this envoy from the famous clan of the Tsushima Kingdom was not afraid, but instead looked directly at him and confronted him back.

This move caused the shock and denunciation of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty in the palace.

Chapter 176 I Only Give You One Choice

"How dare a small foreign country be so rude to the emperor!" Liu Zongzhou, the left deputy capital censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, stood up and pointed at the Japanese's nose and cursed angrily.

Cui Chengxiu, Minister of the Ministry of War, also sneered and shook his sleeves:

"This person is not yet a retainer of the Tokugawa shogunate, he is just a daimyo clan of the Tsushima country. The Tokugawa shogunate ordered the daimyo clan of the Tsushima country to submit to our court, but he is sitting on his hands..."

"The Tokugawa family has received the title and many benefits of the Japanese king, but he does not admit that he has paid tribute to my Ming Dynasty."

"Tokugawa Hidejou played such a scheming game, I'm afraid he still has ambitions."

After experiencing the Warring States Period for more than 100 years from the Onin Rebellion, Japan was unified by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the 18th year of Wanli and took office as Guanbai, reaching the so-called strongest period of Kobu.

After Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan by force, his ambitions suddenly swelled and he began to plan external expansion.

At that time, the Lee Dynasty of North Korea was indulged in party disputes and internal strife, and the government was in chaos, almost a replica of the Ming Dynasty.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi then decided to invade and occupy North Korea by force first, and then conquer Daming to complete his hegemony.

Only one year after the start of the war, almost all the eight provinces of Korea fell, and the Korean army had little power to resist the Japanese army.

King Li Yan fled to the border Yizhou in a hurry and asked for help from the suzerain state Daming.

Japan's act of usurping completely angered Emperor Wanli, and in the 20th year of Wanli, he issued an imperial edict, officially declaring war on Japan.

With the edict, the Ming army immediately mobilized elite troops from various provinces and Liaodong, and entered North Korea in batches.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi also mobilized the daimyos of the feudal vassals, and with all the so-called victorious divisions who unified the country, they came out in full force, advancing both land and water, with great momentum.

After six years of war, Japan was defeated twice in succession, Toyotomi Hideyoshi died of illness, and the Tokugawa family took advantage of the trend to rise.

Tokugawa Ieyasu established the shogunate system, and in order to ensure the hereditary system, he was determined to give way to his third son, Tokugawa Hidenaka.

After several battles, Tokugawa Hidechu completely wiped out the Toyotomi clan five years ago and once again completed the unification of the whole of Japan.

In order to resume trade, the Tokugawa shogunate authorized the Tsushima daimyo Zongshi to resume diplomatic relations with Ming Dynasty in an "appropriate name".

The point is here, the "Tsushima country" daimyo Zongshi paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty as a representative of Japan, in order to obtain the conferment of the "King of Japan" from the Tokugawa shogunate by the Ming emperor.

In fact, the Japanese emperor and the shogun Tokugawa Hidenaka did not openly admit the fact that they had paid tribute, but they acquiesced and enjoyed the benefits of trade and prestige brought by it.

I really want to ask, but it's just a vassal of Ma Guozhong who paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty. What does Japan have to do with me?

This time, in the second year of the Apocalypse, Tokugawa Hidechu clearly still wanted to use the tribute to the Ma Kingdom in exchange for Ming's continued canonization of the Tokugawa shogunate.

On such occasions, the British public Zhang Weixian often cherishes words like gold and does not want to cause trouble, but after learning the whole story, he is really shocked by Japan's brazenness and expresses his attitude for the first time.

He said:

"What Cui Butang said is true!"

"After the second Korean War, the people who sent envoys to my Ming Dynasty to pay tribute were only to the famous clan of the Ma Kingdom. As for the Tokugawa Shogunate, they have no heart of submission!"

"Although the Korean War was won, at that time I, Ming Dynasty, did not have anyone who was proficient in Japanese culture. The Tokugawa shogunate took advantage of this and deceived me for so long."

"To dare to come again now, I really think that all the courtiers in my Weiwei Dynasty are fools!"

The voice fell to the ground, and there was a lot of discussion in the hall.

At this moment, the courtiers all abandoned their prejudices of party struggle and unanimously spoke out. It was the first time for a famous envoy of the Ma Kingdom to face such verbal criticism, and they suddenly seemed a little panicked.

Zhu Youxiao played with the jade seal of Chuanguo, passed his finger between the blood-red seal carvings on the jade seal, and said lightly:

"I really want to know, are you representing Tsushima Daimyo, or the Tokugawa Shogunate, and proclaiming your vassalship to me?"

"A Tsushima country doesn't even have the qualifications to be my vassal country..."

After saying that, he looked at Tang Ruowang, a scholar of Qin Tianjian, and said:

"Aren't you proficient in multiple languages? Translate my words to him."

Zhu Youxiao's words naturally attracted the attention of envoys from various countries, and they were translated into many languages ​​and reached their ears.

The expressions of the Yarkand envoys kept changing and they began to whisper.

At this moment, a ray of spring breeze entered Maoqin Hall ghostly, and the Japanese envoy of Tsushima suddenly shuddered.

Listening to Tang Ruowang's words, his expression gradually became turbulent.

"Emperor Ming, I am the retainer of Tsushima Kunimune Yoshishi, representing the whole of Japan, and I am here to pay tribute to the emperor and accept the canonization."

"How can the retainers of Xiaofan's clan represent Japan!?" Liu Zong and Zhou Zheng ran out, spitting and saying:

"Since you want the Ming Dynasty to be the king of Japan, you should let the Tokugawa family send envoys and ask a small feudal clan to come and see them. What kind of country will it be?"

Zhu Youxiao took a look at Liu Zongzhou, and found that the gang of Donglin Party were quite good at this kind of thing, and they were merciless when they sprayed people.

The emperor didn't speak, obviously meaning the same thing.

After listening to Tang Ruowang's original translation, the envoy of Tsushima also twitched his eyelids, clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and said in unfluent Chinese:

"Since Daming has no intention of canonization, please forgive me to resign!"

At the end of the speech, as soon as he turned around, two big Han generals stepped forward and looked at him condescendingly, with a little disdain in their eyes.

Zhu Youxiao narrowed his eyes slightly, stabilized his voice, and said lightly:

"Where do you think this Ming Dynasty's court hall is, you can come and leave whenever you want?"

Now that things have happened, Zhu Youxiao also knows that Japan has always planned to let itself be canonized, so that it can continue to develop trade and make a fortune silently.

In fact, Tokugawa Hidechu had no intention of surrendering to Daming at all!

Today, Ming Dynasty may not be able to eliminate the annexation of Japan, but it is still very easy to make them feel uncomfortable and cannot continue to develop.

The vast majority of Japan's economic sources come from overseas trade. Now that the control of the sea is still in Daming's hands, it seems that the navy must also be developed!

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao said expressionlessly:

"I will let you go back today and tell Tokugawa Hidezhong that if he wants to continue to receive the canonization of Daming, he must personally send envoys to pay tribute. I only give him this choice!"

"It's not rare for me to be a vassal of the Ma Kingdom. If Tokugawa Hidenaka wants to have diplomatic relations with Daming, he must show sincerity!"

"Otherwise, the consequences are at your own risk!"

Tang Ruowang somewhat felt that this was too serious.

Presumably, in his view as a missionary from the Holy Roman Empire, there was nothing wrong with Tsushima, as the central vassal of the Edo Shogunate, representing Japan as a vassal.

Although he thought so in his heart, out of respect, he still translated Zhu Youxiao's words to the Japanese envoy.

After hearing this, the Japanese envoy's eyes widened, his brows were full of disgust, he didn't say much, he saluted hastily, and left angrily.

Regardless of how the Japanese envoy reported the matter to Tokugawa Hidenaka after returning home, anyway, once the "Beijing News" published the incident of the Great Chaoyi, the people of Ming Dynasty would not be unhappy.

The emperor's attitude towards Japan is so tough, which is more or less an insult to the coastal residents who have suffered from the Japanese plague!

The Great Chaoyi has just ended, and the Renxu Imperial Examination in the second year of Tianqi is about to begin amidst all the attention.

Tributes full of knowledge arrived in Beijing from all over the country, intending to show off their talents in front of the emperor.

However, at this time, a bad news came, but it was a major earthquake that had never happened in a century in Yuncheng and Juye, Shandong!

Chapter 177 The Great Earthquake in Three Provinces

"Shandong Governor Zhao Yanzou:

Day and night on the sixth day, the ground in Yuncheng cracked and springs gushed out like thunder, chickens and dogs barked, and walls and houses collapsed.

The officials and the governor of Denglai, Yuan Keli, etc. have inspectors, Caozhou, Chengwu, Caoxian, Puzhou, Chaocheng, Jinxiang, and Yutai, all of which are loud and loud.

The places affected by the ground fissure include Dong'e, Pingyin, Dongpingzhou, Wenshang, and Dingtao in Yanzhou prefectures; Licheng, Jiyang, Qidong, Zouping, Yangxin, Zichuan, and Xintai in Jinan prefectures.

Liaocheng, Shenxian, and Guantao in Dongchang Prefecture; Qinghe, Jize, Feixiang, and Cheng'an in Guangping Prefecture; Luoyang, Yanshi in Henan Province, Henan Province; Qixian, Weishi in Kaifeng Prefecture.

More than [-] prefectures, prefectures, and counties in the three provinces of Guide Prefecture, Shangqiu, Suizhou, Luyi, Yangwu, Xuzhou, Xiaoxian, Peixian, and Fengxian.

In the six prefectures in Shandong alone, the city walls collapsed by more than [-] feet, more than [-] houses collapsed, more than [-] animals were crushed to death, and more than [-] men and women were crushed to death.

In the rest of the provinces, houses were destroyed, cities were broken, and civilian casualties were uncountable.

After this shock, the six prefectures in Shandong were greatly reduced in urban preparations, and hundreds of thousands of refugees were added, waiting to be fed.However, all warehouses have been exhausted early, and I dare to ask His Majesty to distribute food and silver immediately to relieve the disaster and calm the people! "

Zhu Youxiao closed the notebook with a serious expression on his face.

Judging from the memorabilia, the epicenter of the earthquake was Yuncheng, Shandong, but the aftershocks also affected Henan, Huguang and other provinces.

Judging from the experience of later generations, the magnitude of the earthquake will not be less than six.

Such a severe earthquake occurred in the late Ming Dynasty, which would obviously make the financial constraints worse, and the already abolished armaments in various places would also become weaker.

Once a rebellion arises, the whole province of Shandong has almost no resistance except Denglai!

If I remember correctly, Xu Hongru will rebel in Shandong in a few months, so we must make preparations in advance to prevent problems before they happen.

The impact of such a catastrophe at this time is almost no less than that of the Wenchuan Earthquake in later generations.

As the emperor and the supreme ruler of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao must lead the court to respond immediately and do everything possible to save more people from suffering.

First of all, the people affected by the disaster must be well settled, and the real disaster situation in various places must be determined as quickly as possible.

Secondly, it is to wipe out the historical "Xu Hongru Uprising" in the bud!

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao sorted out his thoughts in his mind, threw down Shandong governor Zhao Yan's memorabilia, and said:

"Here's an order to command Yang Zhaoji to lead his troops from Suzhou to move to Yuncheng, and set up a list to calm the people. If anyone takes the opportunity to make trouble, they will be killed without mercy!"

After saying that, seeing the little eunuch running to the Supervisor of Rites to announce the decree, Zhu Youxiao turned his attention to the two officials on duty in Xinuang Pavilion, and asked calmly:

"Wang Zaijin, what do you have to say?"

In fact, after Wang Zaijin heard the news of the earthquake in Shandong, Henan, and Huguang, he was thinking about how to minimize the loss.

At this moment, if the emperor asked this question, he responded calmly, stood up and said:

"Your Majesty Qi Zou, I believe that it is impossible to determine the disaster situation in Shandong, Henan, and Huguang provinces just based on Zhao Yan's memorandum."

"The imperial court needs to immediately send a large number of officials to various places to find out the real situation, and order them to go to the Xinuang Pavilion at any time when they arrive at the place."

"After finding out the disaster situation in various places, we can discuss in the cabinet and discuss how to allocate materials and manpower to the various places for effective disaster relief."

"You are right, I also think so." Zhu Youxiao nodded and said:

"It's just that after finding out the situation in various places, we will hold a ministerial meeting to discuss it. It can take as little as a month or as long as half a year. Can the court afford to wait, and the people affected by the disaster can afford to wait?"

Wang Zaijin also said: "Your Majesty's heart of benevolence, sage and love for the people is beyond the reach of my ministers."

Now Zhu Youxiao really doesn't have the heart to listen to any flattery. When he thinks of the TV series about the Wenchuan Earthquake in later generations, he can't wait to send the army to rescue the disaster immediately.