Women's clothing in the Ming Dynasty

Thanks to the blessing of cement, there are also many people who come to serve in the service. Engineering has always been like this. As long as there are people with money and materials, they can be done quickly.In just a few months, the outer city has a simple prototype.

For this reason, Jiajing went out in person, communicated with the craftsmen in charge of the entire city construction, and planned the outer city together, even to the point of being picky.Li Chengfeng, who was watching from the side, couldn't help laughing. He could only say that he really deserved to be the ancestor of the carpenter emperor.

Just as the city of Beijing was taking shape a little bit, our little emperor Zhu Houcong ushered in his birthday.

The birthday of the Holy One this year coincides with the day of paying tribute, so the Ministry of Rites simply combined the two events together, which can be regarded as celebrating the emperor's birthday.

There are currently more than 100 tributary countries in Ming Dynasty, and it is naturally impossible for this tribute to come at the same time, and even each country has regulations for paying tribute every few years.There are several internal wars, and there has been no tribute for a long time, so the court just turned a blind eye.But generally speaking, it is still a huge momentum.

According to the tribute system of the Ming Dynasty, fundamentally speaking, the surrounding small countries took advantage of it, so everyone rushed to the capital, and the Ministry of Rites was very busy.Unexpectedly, Li Chengfeng, who has always ignored state affairs, proposed to join the welcoming team.Everyone was quite dissatisfied with this. Isn't it enough to poach the corner of the Ministry of Industry, and even participate in the affairs of the Ministry of Rites?But according to how much the emperor loves him, he naturally agrees. Fortunately, this is not a good job, and no one dares to make trouble.

Naturally, Li Chengfeng didn't want to meddle in such nosy affairs for no reason, but he had a lot of things he needed overseas, and he couldn't explain it clearly, so he could only choose to do it himself.

When he arrived at the Ministry of Rites, he realized that things were not as simple as he thought.First of all, the official designated guest houses of the Ming Dynasty to receive foreign envoys or overseas students were Sifang Pavilion and Honglu Temple, and the Ministry of Rites actually only managed them in name.

After the embassy of the old court tribute left the ship and landed, they were guided by the officials of the lifting department to rest in the Guest House.Then the officials of the promotion department inspected all the tributes, goods, weapons, etc. one by one, and put them away.Finally, report to the government step by step, and wait for the approval of the personnel and time to enter Beijing.The number of people who entered Beijing was about 50 in the early days. During the Hongzhi period, due to the incident of killing people with knives by members of the Japanese mission, most of them were limited to 300 people.This Jiajing birthday, with the mentality of all nations coming to the DPRK, deliberately relaxed the requirements and returned to the previous [-] people.

Honglu Temple has not been so busy for a long time. Even if Li Chengfeng came to assist, he still felt that it was a bit difficult. For this reason, Zhu Houcong transferred Wu Jinghe, the son-in-law who was recently bored and eager to go to the university. .The two of them have high official positions and have won the Sacred Heart, so that the officials of Honglu Temple often overtly and secretly send two envoys who are difficult to deal with.

No, someone will find fault immediately. When he heard the news that the Japanese envoy was furious because there was no fish in the food for the reception, Li Chengfeng almost laughed angrily: "It's really embarrassing for them. What I know is There is no fish, those who don’t know think that they have not been given food! Tell this group of people, if you like to eat, if you don’t eat, go away!”

The little official smiled, wondering why: "Not only the Japanese envoys, but also the people of Siam are dissatisfied because the mutton is too thin, thinking that we despise them and deliberately provide such food."

Li Chengfeng: "..." It's not over, he rolled up his sleeves and said to Wu Jing beside him: "Let's go, let's go and see how bad the food for the envoys can be!"

As soon as they got there, the two were dumbfounded.

"They... just eat this?" Li Chengfeng asked in surprise.In fact, he is not to blame. Anyone who sees foreign envoys eating soup and rice will be surprised.

The little official nodded. It turned out that as early as the Yuan Dynasty, China had a very close relationship with the Korean Peninsula, and the empress of Emperor Shun came from there.In the Ming Dynasty, the relationship was still very good. Among the many envoys, only the North Korean envoy did not need to be inspected by the Ministry of Rites, because he was also the number one horse boy of the Ming Dynasty.

Due to the close exchanges between the two countries, many foods on the Korean peninsula, including soup and rice, were introduced to the court in this way.When it comes to the table for receiving tribute envoys, soup and rice is also a very important dish.Of course, its importance may not be because it is so delicate and delicious, but because it is so simple and convenient.Usually, the envoys have to go for inspection immediately after disembarking from the ship, so that they can eat soup and rice quickly and save time.

But it's different now, the little emperor celebrated his birthday, invited the National People's Congress into the post house graciously, and gave them soup and rice, it was really unreasonable.

Even Wu Jinghe sighed: "I often hear people say that our Jinshi Banquet is the best. I didn't believe it back then, but now I see that it is indeed the case."

Daming's Grace Banquet is usually divided into the upper table and the middle table, and there are twenty or thirty dishes for the table alone, which is indeed very good.Li Chengfeng said in his heart, the Enrong Banquet is only held once every three years, and the old Zhu's family pointed at you young calves to plow the land, so naturally they want to feed enough fodder and put on a posture.These envoys are different, they are all here to gather wool!

However, feeding people soup and rice every now and then is really not very authentic. Li Chengfeng said: "You go directly to report an account, and buy more chickens, fish, etc., which are not worth a lot of money. It's just a matter of staying with them for a while." gone."

The little official smiled bitterly: "We are humble and light-hearted, how can we be qualified to be the master." His eyes kept sneaking at Li and Wu.

Li Chengfeng also knew that he was unwilling to stand out, afraid of taking responsibility.But the emperor asked them to come over, that is to deal with these, so he said directly: "Just say what the poor said, I will take care of things, go."

Only then did the little official turn around happily.

Wu Jinghe sighed: "I didn't expect such a small Honglu Temple to have so many sayings."

Li Chengfeng said with a smile: "But it should be fine after this matter is over, and they will stay with them for a few days, and everything that needs to be discussed should be discussed."

As a result, before the words were finished, the minister of Honglu Temple came back with a bitter face.

"...What's the matter?" Li Chengfeng was a little confused.

Si Qing saluted helplessly: "Your Majesty knows that you are busy with business. If it is not urgent, you will not bother me. Please forgive me."

Li Chengfeng and Wu Jinghe looked at each other in blank dismay, motioning him to talk first and see what's going on.

Si Qing took out something from his bosom and handed it over, "My lords, this is from the Japanese envoy."

It's Japan again. Li Chengfeng is really bored with this country, not to mention the grievances and grievances hundreds of years later.Just explaining the sea ban, Japan has to pay at least half of the responsibility.

After the "Onin Rebellion" in Japan, the power of the shogun declined and was controlled by two big families.Because of the huge economic benefits and the confirmation of orthodox status of the Ming Ship, the two families fought for the dominance of the Ming Ship.

Knowing that there was a conflict between the two groups of Japanese envoys, the servant of Daming who took the bribe wanted to be a peacemaker and treat them to a welcome banquet. After all, our country has a tradition of drinking away all grievances since ancient times.Unexpectedly, there was a problem with the seating arrangement of the two members of the mission at the banquet, and no one was reconciled to being inferior to others, and became even more angry.After the banquet was over, the gang stabbed the other side to death while it was dark.One of the translators of the Ming Dynasty escaped by chance, was rescued by the Ming army, and fled to Shaoxing. They chased him to the city of Shaoxing, but they still failed to catch anyone.On the way back, they vented their hatred on the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty, burning, killing and looting all the way.

Although the group of people were all executed by Daming in the end, the emperor and all civil and military officials were also very angry, and the coast had been harassed by Japanese pirates all the time, so there was the scene of wanting to ban the sea.

Impatiently, Li Chengfeng took it, and was stunned at the first glance, "Isn't this iron ore? What did he do for you?" Could it be that he wanted to buy ironware from me again?

Si Qing said with an extremely ugly face: "The Japanese envoy Sato Isao just came to show off that they discovered a large iron mine in their own country, and they will be able to produce ironware in the future."

It's no wonder he was worried. At this time, the Ming Dynasty had a ban on iron, and all ironware and iron ore were sold to the outside world through extremely strict checks.If Japan can also make iron now, then the ban on iron will have little effect, and the Ming Dynasty will have one less foreign means.

"Do you want to report it to the Ministry of Rites?" Si Qing asked anxiously. In fact, he wanted to report the matter to Zhu Houcong directly, so he came to find them.

"My lord, don't worry, let me think about it." Li Chengfeng wondered.He had traveled to Japan in his previous life, and since it was the first time he traveled independently, he checked a lot of useful and useless information.From this, he remembered it very clearly. It was clearly recorded in the data that Japan's domestic resources were scarce, and there was no iron ore. Why did it appear again now?Could it be that he remembered wrongly?

Li Chengfeng began to look carefully at the ore in his hand. The color of the ore was obviously the kind of composite ore, and the iron content should not be high.I don't know if this kind of ore is found in other places, but China has the most... After thinking and thinking, he told the minister of Honglu Temple to ask the Japanese envoy to meet him.

The minister of the temple followed the order, and after a while, he brought the man to him.The Japanese envoy Sato Xun was really shocked when he saw him, not only because of Li Chengfeng's appearance, but mainly because there were too few women of 1.7 meters five among them.

But long before he came, he had sent someone to inquire that this female Taoist priest was indeed the current emperor's confidant, and some assured her that she would definitely be the next queen.There have been examples of women in power in Japan, and Sato Isao didn't think too much about it, and still respected her.

"I heard that iron ore was discovered in your country, congratulations." Li Chengfeng smiled and bowed his head.

Sato Xun smiled honestly: "Where is it, it is really a fluke, and it will take some time to mine it."

Hearing what he said, Li Chengfeng was more sure of what he thought before, so he said: "Since your country can already mine iron ore, then the iron wares in our trade can be set aside, and there is no need to waste money. "

Ga?Why is it different from what you said?Xun Sato was stunned. As expected, Daming discovered that their country had iron mines, and then lowered the price of ironware in order to compete with their country.They will take advantage of the chaos to collect a lot, and then they will no longer have to be controlled by others.What's going on if you don't trade iron tools now!They left Daming's iron utensils, but they didn't even have a pot for cooking.Returning to the country like this will not let the lord be torn apart, it is impossible, so he quickly refuted.

But their stupid mouths were Li Chengfeng's opponents, and they refuted them all.

In the end, Sato Xun also had to admit his mistake, hoping to recover from the past.Wu Jinghe was still relentless, but he was still held back by Li Chengfeng. If he continued to embarrass them, if he pressed hard, he would lead to a counterattack. This would be a bit of a loss, so don't say anything, just treat it as a thing of the past.

In the chaos, it finally ushered in Jiajing's birthday.

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