The Korean envoy came to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute. This matter is big and small.

If it were in the Ming or Qing court, the emperors who were keen on the dynasty of all countries would be very excited, and as ministers would not give up this good opportunity to flatter the boss. If they did not praise me, they would give up the rest.

But in the Ming Dynasty, the people coming from North Korea did not take it seriously at all. The Ming Dynasty is now strong and has become more powerful after occupying Beijing. Moreover, North Korea has always been on the side of the Qing court. Since the Ming Dynasty restored its country, North Korea has not sent people to congratulate the first time, but instead helped the Qing court to mobilize food and supplies. How can it be favored by the Ming Dynasty?

Just like before, the Ming army's surprise troops highlighted the Tianjin Wei, but in fact they were in the name of punishing North Korea at the beginning. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, no matter from officials to the common people, they did not have a good impression of North Korea. Cui Xiheng was entrusted by the King of Korea to come on an envoy, and it was natural to be left to stay for a few days.

But then again, as a great country, there is still a necessary demeanor. Not to mention North Korea, even if the Qing court sends people to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty, it will treat each other with courtesy on the surface. The two countries will not kill the envoys when they are at war, and not to mention that the Ming and North Korea have not yet started a war. This is also the reason why Cui Xiheng finally agreed to come to Nanjing after being left in Shanghai for a few days.

For Zhu Yicheng, his sense of North Korea has always been very good. Although there was a wave of Korean wave in later generations, countless boys and girls worshipped Korean waves very much, and even went crazy for those young Korean waves that were covered with powder. But Zhu Yicheng was not like this at that time. First, the prosperous Korean waves at that time gradually faded, and second, Zhu Yifeng was not interested in these things.

Furthermore, there are too many dark history about South Korea, which makes Zhu Yicheng feel disgusted with North Korea from the beginning.

But as the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, when facing the Kingdom of Korea coming to pay tribute, Zhu Yicheng still had to meet him no matter what, not to mention that Cui Xiheng also brought the letter of the King of Korea.

If North Korea could be obedient and abandon the Qing court directly, and respect the Ming Dynasty as its sect leader again, it would still have many benefits for the Ming Dynasty from a political perspective. You should know that when the north is still far away to pacify, the Qing court's power in the north is still strong. Once North Korea officially leaves the Qing court and becomes a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, it will be an important event for both the world and the Qing court.

In this way, when Cui Xiheng arrived in Nanjing, Zhu Yisung asked the Ministry of Rites to arrange some arrangements and met the envoy of the Kingdom of Korea at a court meeting.

Faced with the noble Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Cui Xiheng met with the courtesy of foreign ministers. He not only presented the tribute gifts he brought, but also formally handed over the letter of the King of Korea to express the willingness of the Kingdom of Korea to respect the Ming Dynasty as the main purpose.

At the beginning, Zhu Yicheng was relatively relaxed. After all, this was a good thing, but after carefully reading the so-called letter of the Chinese Book, his face suddenly sank.

"Cui Xiheng!"

"The foreign minister is here..."

"How can you not see the king of your country submitting the prince in the letter to you?" Zhu Yicheng asked coldly.

Hearing this question, Cui Xiheng immediately broke out in cold sweat and felt even more trembling.

You should know that the Kingdom of Joseon, whether it is the king or the prince, or the prince whom North Korea calls itself closed, all need to be enthroned by the sect leader. The current King of Korea is Lee Yoon, who has been king for nearly 40 years, so I won’t say this for the time being, but his son, Li Yun, was nominally represented by the Qing court more than ten years ago, and was then consented by Kangxi to be the crown prince of the Joseon.

Now, North Korea abandoned the Qing Dynasty and turned to the Ming Dynasty and relied on the Ming Dynasty as its sect leader. This means that North Korea and the Qing Dynasty have broken up. Since this is the case, according to convention, the position of prince must be re-enthroned by the Ming Dynasty, but this is not mentioned in the letter of the country.

Cui Xiheng's mouth was bitter and he thought it was not good. In fact, this was not a negligence of North Korea, but a deliberate act.

To put it bluntly, although in order to respect the Ming Dynasty as the sect leader, North Korea eventually gained the upper hand with the opinions of Li Yan and Lao Lun Sect, in fact, the Shao Lun Sect did not gain anything. This deliberately confuses the concept and does not require the re-cannon of the prince in the letter of the country, the suggestion that the Shao Lun Sect should be re-enthroned. The purpose is very simple, and it is to leave a way out for North Korea in this regard.

After all, the two major Chinese forces, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty are still fighting. Without the real failure of the Qing Dynasty, North Korea intends to do some work. Once the Ming Dynasty does not take over the world, or if the Qing Dynasty eventually retreats to Liaodong and remains in a stalemate with the Ming Dynasty, the Kingdom of Korea can still use this reason to make excuses, indicating that the reason why North Korea respects the Ming Dynasty as its sect leader is just because of helplessness.

Cui Xiheng originally did not agree with these small plots, but Li Yan finally made this decision in order to balance the two factions, which was something Cui Xiheng had no choice. He only hoped that the Ming Dynasty would not notice this, but whoever thought that the more worried the more he would be, the more he would be. When Zhu Yicheng asked about the prince's affairs in the first sentence after reading the letter of the country, Cui Xiheng knew that it could not escape the matter.

"By your Majesty, this is not because my king does not submit a statement, but because he has other difficulties."

"Tell me the hardship? Let me tell you." Zhu Yicheng asked.

Cui Xiheng lies on the ground and bowed, "The prince was my eldest son, but he was not a legitimate son, but a concubine. His biological mother was Zhang Xi's concubine rather than a queen. A few years ago, Zhang Xi's concubine was powerful and went to court and used villains to cause trouble to Chaogang. The country hated him so much that he was finally sentenced to death by my king. The prince was the son of Zhang Xi's concubine. In theory, the position of prince should be abolished and Yanrongjun or Yanlingjun served as the prince. However, my king considered that although Zhang Xi's death, he had the remaining power to rely on, and the prince himself was not at fault. In addition, Yanrongjun and Yanlingjun were young, so he temporarily slowed down the matter to stabilize the court..."

Cui Xiheng's words were true and false, but they could be justified. After he finished speaking, he couldn't help but give a thumbs up for his wit, and at the same time quietly raised his eyes and looked at Zhu Yicheng, waiting for Zhu Yicheng's reply in his heart.

Zhu Yichenghan opened his face, neither saying yes nor saying no, and then asked the second question.

The second question is to ask the story of the Kingdom of Korea in its letter about respecting the Ming Dynasty as the sect leader and assisting the Ming Dynasty to send troops from the north to attack the Qing Dynasty’s Liaodong area.

"This is the way for our North Korea to be a minister!" Cui Xiheng kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty doesn't know that although our North Korea was forced to respect the Qing court before, it was because of the helpless act of the small and weak people in our North Korea. In fact, our country has always regarded the Ming Dynasty as its parents. As early as the beginning of our country's founding, we had the ancestral teaching of "willing to cultivate our duties and respect the emperor and Ming for all generations." After the death of the First Emperor Chongzhen, our dynasty has been using the title of the First Emperor Chongzhen to this day. At that time, our country's king once said: Our country's righteousness to the Ming Dynasty, the monarch and ministers, and the kindness of father and son are over 200 years. Therefore, righteousness is the monarch and ministers, and kindness is the father and son. Ministers must worship the king, and sons must respect their parents. Therefore, Korea must be cautious and respectful to Zhou. Although the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, it still exists as the incarnation of orthodoxy, so it must be respected!"

"This is enough to show our North Korea's admiration for the country of the Ming Dynasty's parents. Even my king built a newspaper in the world many years ago to worship the ancestor Chongzhen. In addition, our great scholar Song Shilie of Korea advocated worshipping the ancestor during his lifetime. Before his death, he even asked his disciples to build Huayang Cave and built Wandong Temple inside..."

Cui Xiheng is a good-mouthed person, and he talks one after another, and what he is talking about is not nonsense, it is indeed true that this is the case.

With Cui Xiheng's sincere and sincere remarks, coupled with his generous donation and his tone of sob, many civil and military officials present had a great impression of each other. After all, it had been more than 60 years since the fall of the former Ming Dynasty and Zhu Yicheng's revival of the Ming Dynasty. For such a long time, the North Korean Kingdom still respected the Ming Dynasty so much, especially the continued use of the reign title and sacrifice of the Chongzhen Emperor.

From this point of view, it seems that it is indeed a helpless move for North Korea on the surface to surrender to the Qing court. After all, it is not easy to do this. Moreover, wasn’t there any saying that they were in Cao’s camp and were in the Han Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period? From this point of view, North Korea is still good. Maybe everyone had really blamed him wrongly before.

Cui Xiheng then talked about Zhu Yicheng's restoration of the country. He directly blamed the Qing court for the fact that North Korea had not come to the court to congratulate him immediately after the restoration of the Ming Dynasty.

According to his explanation, it was entirely because the Qing court had a very strict control over North Korea. Although the kingdom of Korea was eager to take the Ming Dynasty, he wanted to come to congratulate him with wings to return to the embrace of the Ming Dynasty. However, the Qing court sent officials in North Korea to control the whole country with every move, making the king and ministers of the North dared to be angry but not speak out. Until the Ming Dynasty took over Beijing a few days ago, the Qing court was panicked and could no longer control North Korea. The King of Korea directly expelled Qing officials and sent him to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute.

Cui Xiheng is really a rare talent in North Korea. He can get full marks in both lyrics and performances. If it is placed in later generations, an Academy Award is stable.

However, I have long known how North Korea is, and I know more about what the North Korean monarch and ministers are doing, so how could Zhu Yicheng believe these things?

Regarding North Korea, Zhu Yicheng must be pacified and beaten. During the days when Cui Xiheng was in Shanghai, the information about North Korea from the Public Affairs Office has been continuously sent, and this information has long explained everything.

"Cui Qing is flat." The frost on Zhu Yicheng's face gradually faded away and he spoke.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Cui Xiheng kowtowed three times before getting up. He finally breathed a sigh of relief when he stood up. It seemed that this matter had finally been fooled.

"The country of Korea has always been a vassal state of my Ming Dynasty. When I was covered in dust in the Ming Dynasty, although Korea had no choice but to act as a minister, it was still able to uphold the righteousness of the king and the ministers and the kindness of father and son. It is rare. Now that Korea returns to the Ming Dynasty, this is a happy event, and I should agree to it. The Military Affairs Office, the Ministry of Rites, the Lifan Court, and the Honglu Temple re-listed Korea as a vassal state as a vassal state according to the regular rules of the Qing court. Now that the Qing court has not been destroyed and the north has not yet been pacified, the North Korean country is weak, and the people are weak, so I risk my life to surrender. My Ming Dynasty naturally must not ignore it, and I cannot sit idly by. The Military Affairs Office can choose a general to station my Ming Dynasty to help it resist the Qing court and safeguard the political situation of North Korea..."
Chapter completed!