New Ming Empire mixed in America

Just when Li Mingqi was busy accelerating the destruction of the Brooke Dynasty, a group of dwarfs unexpectedly arrived.

The flag flying on the merchant ship that looked like it had just experienced a battle turned out to be that of the Japanese shogunate.

Just when the Satsuma Domain received Oiying's support, they began to prepare for the collapse of the organization.

This made the Japanese shogunate a little worried. The last time the Satsuma clan provoked the British, the shogunate suddenly learned about the Xinming Empire, so it immediately sent envoys to communicate.

Li Mingqi looked at the dozen shogunate envoys who were brought to him with a very strange expression.

Because Takasugi Shinsaku and others on the Chitose Maru had been beheaded last time, and now the Japanese country has sent envoys here again. No matter how you look at it, you feel it is against the law.

But now the Japanese shogunate is somewhat unable to withstand the overthrow of the shogunate by the daimyo of the Satsuma, Tosa, and Choshu vassals in the southwest of the Japanese island.

After the last conflict between Satsuma Domain and Oiying, the shogunate helped to deal with the aftermath and paid a large sum of money to allow Oiying's fleet to leave Japan.

But then these ungrateful Satsuma traitors hugged Dai Ying's lap and shouted for the curtain to fall every day.

Li Mingqi also had some understanding of the structure of the Japanese country at this stage, because the slogans of respecting the king and rejecting the foreigners were shouted loudly, but the four southern vassals secretly knelt and licked the foreigners.

On the contrary, the samurai who had been fooled and were stunned were howling and starting a war with the shogunate.

In addition, the false emperor of Japan was unwilling to be ignored all the time, so he secretly performed some small tricks to disgust the shogunate.

There are probably not a hundred but eighty copies of the Blood-stained Clothes Edict, and I don’t know if the Japanese puppet emperor’s blood is enough.

The shogunate also knew that there was no news about the Chitose Maru's mission to the Shinmei Empire last time.

But they thought that Takasugi Shinsaku and the others encountered misfortune at sea and sank at sea before reaching the Xinming Empire.

After all, the Chitose Maru is just an old merchant ship, an antique purchased from foreigners at a high price.

Being able to go to sea smoothly was already blessed by Amaterasu, the great god of Japan, so the shogunate did not link the disappearance of the Chitose Maru to the Shinmei Empire.

The Japanese country still has the pseudo-emperor Hyomiji on the throne. This person may not be famous, but his son, the pseudo-emperor Meiji, is very famous.

He was an important figure in promoting the Meiji Restoration, and single-handedly put Japan on the fast track of development.

But Li Mingqi was very disgusted with this guy. The Japanese country was more pleasing to the eye when it was closed to the outside world.

A Japanese country that does not close its borders is not a good Japanese country!

Therefore, Meiji, the next puppet emperor of Japan, was very annoying in Li Mingqi's eyes.

"The shogunate wants to ask the Xinming Empire to help you suppress the rebellious four southern feudal lords?"

Li Mingqi almost couldn't hold back his laughter. Looking at the Tsukiyo-headed men kneeling on the ground, he said strangely:

"I'm not interested in the friction between your shogunate and the local indigenous people. Besides, what does the affairs of your shogunate have to do with my Xinming Empire?"

After hearing Li Mingqi's words, a Japanese envoy who was kneeling on the ground banged his head hard on the carpet of the ship's deck.

Even though there was a layer of carpet, there was still a sound of head hitting the ground.

"Your Majesty, the Emperor of the New Ming Dynasty, our Japanese country has always been a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, but the contact was severed after the Puppet Qing Dynasty entered the customs..."

"Now that your New Ming Empire has emerged and inherited the mantle of the Ming Dynasty, it is the Chinese Orthodoxy. When the shogunate learned that there was still Chinese Orthodoxy alive in the world, he immediately sent envoys to pay tribute, but there was no news about the envoys and ships that went out to sea.

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"Here, on behalf of the shogun and His Majesty the Emperor, I sincerely request that tribute be restored. This is the expectation of everyone in our country..."

As they talked, the other Japanese envoys also knocked their heads heavily on the ground, repeating the words of resuming tribute.

But Li Mingqi sneered a few times when these people didn't dare to raise their heads.

The suzerain-vassal relationship in China is rather peculiar. It is a "restriction" method to ensure the peace of the border. It is a suzerain-vassal system with China as the suzerainty.

On the surface, it seems to be an unequal relationship based on small matters. Neighboring countries must "claim vassal status and pay tribute" to China, be canonized by China, and be given seals by China.

In fact, this suzerain-vassal relationship is just a form of maintaining friendly relations between China and neighboring countries, and does not have the substantive content of ruling and being ruled.

The relationship between Japan and the Ming Dynasty was actually very subtle and complicated.

In the early Ming Dynasty, due to the harassment of Japanese pirates, the Ming court placed its hope in suppressing the Japanese pirates' intrusion through diplomatic channels, implemented a restraint policy against the Japanese, and granted Kanhe (tribute trade license) to allow them to enter the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute.

Tribute trade, to a certain extent, is the main means of maintaining relations between the suzerain and vassal states. If there is tributary trade between them tomorrow, it can also be understood that the two parties have a superficial "suzerain-vassal relationship".

However, the two sides had different understandings of tribute. The Ming Dynasty attempted to use it as a means of "restraining ties" to eliminate "quarrels"; while the Japanese regarded it as an opportunity to make profits, and even wars were considered among the Japanese princes at that time.

All funds depended on tribute.

Therefore, the major names and temples of the Japanese country often competed fiercely for tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and finally led to a fighting incident in Ningbo during the Jiajing period, that is, the "battle for tribute."

After that, the Ming Dynasty changed its trade policy towards Japan, banned all ships, and interrupted trade with the Japanese country. As a result, large-scale Japanese pirate harassment occurred, which is the so-called "Jiajing Japanese Rebellion".

After the Japanese invasion was pacified, although the Ming Dynasty announced the opening of sea trade at Zhouyue Port, it still implemented a strict ban on the Japanese. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the two countries never restored normal trade relations.

Later, Toyotomi Hideyoshi came out of the Japanese country. He dreamed of invading the mainland every day and couldn't help but send troops to attack North Korea.

Unexpectedly, the beaten North Korea went to the Ming Dynasty to complain. Later, the Ming Dynasty sent troops and gave Toyotomi Hideyoshi a big blow, which greatly damaged the strength of the Japanese country.

This was also the main reason why Tokugawa Ieyasu became so arrogant later on.

It can be said that the Japanese country was indeed a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty at the beginning and accepted the canonization of the Ming Dynasty.

But now these Japanese envoys are using this reason as a bit of a shame.

Moreover, these envoys only talked about vassal states, but did not mention any benefits.

It seems that Li Mingqi was regarded as the emperor of previous dynasties, and he thought that he could get benefits by shouting tribute.

But they never imagined that Li Mingqi was the kind of person who would plucking his hair, so how could he be interested in such a useless thing.

Besides, they are a Japanese country!

If I were to say that the country that Li Mingqi hated the most, it would definitely be Japan.

Even India, Luzon and other shitty countries combined cannot catch up to a Japanese country.

The second step is to bring Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, Peru... these countries.

The United States must be taken out separately and put into the same category.

Because the United States is located between the Japanese country and other countries, it can be said that the status of the Japanese country in Li Mingqi's heart is equal to that of the Japanese country, but slightly lower.