Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Zhang Yan leaned on the back of the chair, pointed at her shoulder, and motioned for Xia He to give her a squeeze.

She squinted her eyes:

"Those people are gone."

"what?

left already? "

Chuntao looked puzzled:

"Mother, do you know who it is?"

"Chuntao, do you still remember that a few years ago, before His Majesty returned from the battlefield, he held a banquet in the palace to entertain a group of people?"

"Your Majesty, are you talking about the envoy from Ryukyu?"

Last winter, the Ryukyu envoy arrived and came to see him repeatedly.

The two empresses only came forward to host a banquet to entertain them...

Chuntao's eyes widened:

"How dare they!"

Xia He squeezed Zhang Yan's shoulders and interjected:

"Your Majesty, I seem to remember that the envoy from Ryukyu is called Jin Yingyuan?"

Zhang Yan narrowed her eyes and sneered:

"Of course the Ryukyu envoy doesn't have the guts!"

"My dear, why are you confusing me?"

Chuntao pouted:

"Your Majesty, one moment you say it's Jin Yingyuan, and the next moment you say it's not Jin Yingyuan, my maid is confused!"

"Ha ha!"

Zhang Yan reached out and rubbed Chuntao's head, messing up her maid's mane.

Then he laughed and said:

"Have you ever read the map His Majesty gave me?"

The two nodded hastily.

My wife likes to see this, and as a personal maid, even if I don’t like it, I still have to remember what she likes in my heart!

Zhang Yan said calmly:

"From Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there are only two water replenishment points in Taiwan and Ryukyu."

“These two places are the focus of overseas trade!

Your Majesty said, this is called the first island chain. "

"Ever since Emperor Shenzong, Ryukyu has been asking me, Ming Dynasty, for one thing - to allow Ryukyu to purchase more Ming Dynasty goods.

Do you know why? "

Chuntao said happily:

"My dear, what do you care about him? As long as he comes to buy it with real money or silver, or exchange it for something, I should give it to him.

This is a good thing!

Now that the goods have been sold, isn’t it still good?

The more we sell, the more we will naturally earn. "

……

The capital of later generations uses overwhelming propaganda to confuse the vision.

When people mention the tribute system of the Ming Dynasty, people's first impression is that it is thin in and thick out.

Some people even say, "The robber pretends to be a country and can get back a pile of silver by taking two dried fishes."

Just let him get the evidence, and he will immediately call you a fool.

He is full of nonsense and never gives a single line of official history.

He also told you that you were nonsense and asked you to get evidence!

I am Nima!

Are you shameless these days? Don’t you want to get to this point?

Since we are dealing with culture, isn't the most basic ethics - whatever you promote, you should provide your own evidence?

According to their logic, can everyone say that it is a combination of human and dog?

If it wants to refute, it must first produce DNA evidence!

If it can't be taken out, it's the child of a dog.

If it is taken out, according to their words——

Besides, is it the product of a human-pig combination?

If he wants to refute, he must first produce DNA evidence!

After it has finished checking, they will continue their routine!

They are all beasts anyway.

……

Explanation powder——

I downloaded Douyin in the second half of last year and watched a lot of popular science from so-called popular broadcasters.

On the contrary, this group of people, known as Mingfen, pay attention to evidence in everything.

Regardless of whether it can hold its own, at least it was taken out!

Right?

I've been watching Douyin for a year now, and I've never seen a so-called "famous" podcaster who talks all the talk without any evidence!

This Nima...

Who is talking nonsense and shit?

……

Before and after the Ming Dynasty, there were a total of 184 vassal states whose names could be found. (Some big guys at Station B have popularized the list. It’s too long to list.)

Among them, Ryukyu has the best treatment.

This is the consensus of everyone in the industry.

If anyone still doubts this, please go to CNKI to check the papers. Although CNKI has a monopoly, there is no charge for reading.

Since Ryukyu has the best treatment, let’s take Ryukyu’s tribute as an example.

The Ming Dynasty stipulated that tribute goods from each vassal state must be subject to central orders.

Ryukyu’s tribute mainly includes:

Horse, knife, sea of ​​gold and silver wine, gold and silver powder box, agate, ivory, conch shell, sea bark, cypress fan, lacquered gold fan, raw red copper, tin, raw and cooked grass cloth, cowhide, incense, woody incense, quick. Incense, clove, sandalwood, yellow incense, sappanwood, ebony, pepper, sulfur, whetstone.

In 1612, Ryukyu's tribute goods were still mainly based on the above.

This year is the 40th year of Wanli. The year before, Ryukyu was occupied by Japan.

Under such circumstances, in addition to other tributes from Ryukyu, sulfur alone was a huge amount.

Tens of thousands of kilograms of sulfur, how much gunpowder does it take to make?

It's just sulfur!

Let’s talk about the conclusion first:

After it was over, did Wanli give me a reward?

Did not give!

Original words: "The situation in Ryukyu is unpredictable, so it is best to avoid it. But his name is tribute, and I suddenly blocked my return, so Peter's words are probably not gentle and distant."

Wanli asked him to pay tribute again in ten years!

This incident comes from Wanli's "Records of the Ming Shenzong".

Why it was not given is explained in detail below.

How strict was the Ming Dynasty in verifying tribute goods from vassal states——

The minister saw the clues on the spot.

At that time, the Ryukyu envoy was named Ma Liangbi.

According to the route prescribed by the Ming court, tribute from Ryukyu must be disembarked in Fujian.

Ding Jisi, the governor of Fujian, immediately detained Ma Liangbi after inspecting the goods.

Then he wrote a memorial to Wanli.

Excerpts are as follows:

"Why did Japan suddenly increase its supply of sulfur and horse cloth as a tribute?

If there is a constant amount of money, how come there are more than a hundred companions?

This attitude is no longer the usual submissive one. Please wait for the question to be punished... in order to strengthen the body of the celestial dynasty. "

After Ding Jisi carefully inspected it, what was there?

——"A waist knife, a gun, armor, and a screen made of real gold."

What he meant by his original words was – this is something from Japan, not Ryukyu, and I’m afraid Ryukyu will change!

I just wanted to ask - "Take two smelly dried fish and a few bundles of weeds that no one wants" and pay tribute, and you can get real money in exchange...

Who can you fool?

Ryukyu, the biological son of the Ming Dynasty, had some extra Japanese goods and was sanctioned, not to mention others?

What about the evidence?

Take it out and let me, a narrow-minded person like me, broaden my horizons...

……

"Good thing?"

Zhang Yan laughed dumbly.

On the surface, it looks like a good thing!

But you have to look at politics!

These goods will not be handed over to the imperial court for a single copper!

Moreover……

Daming quickly investigated the incident that year:

The one who controls Ryukyu is no one else!

The Wonu Kingdom, which is just around the corner, is plotting against Ryukyu.

In the 37th year of Wanli (1609), the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate instructed the Satsuma Shimazu clan to send troops to invade Ryukyu.

Shimazu family retainers Kaguyama Hisaka and Hirata Masumune led an army of 3000 men and captured the Ryukyu Kingdom in 40 days.

In the leap month of the following year, the Tokugawa clan incited the Satsuma clan to send troops, pretending to be Japanese pirates, and preparing to invade Fujian.

This matter was reported to Emperor Wanli by a secret agent.