Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

I re-opened the form and read it.

Zhu Yuanzhang had to admit that he was a little curious about this general named Minamoto Yoshimitsu.

Although I don't know why, this Minamoto Yoshimitsu is most likely what later generations will call Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and his name and shogun number both match.

This Yuan Yiman has been paying tribute every year since the seventh year of Hongwu, but has been rejected every year.

But even so, he continued to send envoys year after year, which can be said to be tireless.

However, it was also because he was pointed out by later generations that Zhu Yuanzhang felt differently now that he had broken out of the stereotype of Yuan Yoshiman and was not the leader of the country.

According to later generations, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu can be regarded as a hero of the Japanese country. To be able to make him so persistent shows the great benefits of sea trade.

Moreover, after obtaining the information about the Japanese country from later generations, Zhu Yuanzhang now looked back at all the events with the Japanese country since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and gradually recalled many strange things.

In the second year of Hongwu, he sent Yang Zai as an envoy to the Japanese country, announcing to the Japanese country that the Yuan Dynasty had died and China had been restored. He also asked the Japanese country to regard the Ming Dynasty as its suzerain as it did in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and to suppress Japanese pirates to ensure the stability of the Ming Dynasty's maritime areas.

As a result, five of the seven members of the envoy group died at the hands of the Japanese. Yang Zai and Wu Wenhua were imprisoned, and the Japanese pirates continued to cause chaos.

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, and subsequently left the Japanese country with his colleagues in Laizhou Prefecture. This time, it seemed to go smoothly. The two sides had a very happy conversation, and the imprisoned envoy was released. Later, Prince Lianghuai also sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty. , and returned many people plundered by the Japanese pirates.

But, even though we had a very happy conversation, we had a very happy conversation, but the issue of Japanese pirates' continued chaos is still unresolved.

Moreover, during this period, the energy of the entire Ming Dynasty was also in the north. On the one hand, it had to recuperate and recuperate the Han people, and on the other hand, it had to use these only resources to mobilize troops and generals to ensure that the Meng Yuan was unable to march south to Hebei.

In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang had no good way to deal with the scabies disease of Japanese pirates. He could only hope that Prince Lianghuai would know some etiquette and fulfill his responsibilities as a vassal state.

As for what happened next... Judging from the news in Laizhou, many Japanese envoys came to the Ming Dynasty under the banner of Prince Lianghuai, but most of them did not come to Yingtianfu for pilgrimage.

Among them, the kind ones will send back some people of the Ming Dynasty, and then they will say that they still hope to go to the country despite the long sea journey...

However, there are also quite a few shameless people who returned five or six Chinese people and openly asked for the reward of seven or eight ships.

It was under this circumstance that the envoys holding Minamoto Yoshimitsu's petition began to come to Hajj every year starting from the seventh year of Hongwu, year after year.

At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang was angry that the envoy of Prince Lianghuai was becoming more and more greedy. On the other hand, he was entangled in the fact that the Laizhou Prefecture Tongzhi who had sent the envoy for the second time had indeed brought back Prince Lianghuai's letter of envoy to Ming Dynasty as the suzerain.

In this case, Zhu Yuanzhang would not give any good looks to the conquest general Yuan Yoshimitsu.

The etiquette officials all knew the twists and turns of the situation, so they couldn't help but be a little surprised when they saw that His Majesty didn't just throw it back and scold him like he did in previous years, but had an attitude of talking about it.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty were just surprised, but the Japanese emissary was completely ecstatic.

"Your Majesty, the Prince of China!"

The Japanese envoy spoke a slightly lame Xia Yan, cautiously took a step forward and said:

"Your Excellency, the General, also hates bandits. Whenever the Emperor of China gives orders, the General will definitely show his loyalty to the Sect Master."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the Japanese envoy, adjusted his breathing rhythm, and his voice slowed down but he spoke clearly:

"Liang Huai... No, according to the name of the Japanese, you should be Huai Liang. I already know about his retirement. Now why do we summon him from the real situation in Japan?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's voice echoed in the hall, and the content of his words was simple, even the Japanese envoys could hear clearly.

There were no threatening words in his words, but for a moment the Japanese man was in a quarrel with his two sides, and his expression changed so much that he almost couldn't stand.

The words of Emperor Da Ming made the envoys from other vassal countries who were watching look full of curiosity.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites also looked at each other with thoughtful expressions on their faces. They had already vaguely guessed something.

The Japanese envoy who was deliberately questioned by Zhu Yuanzhang did not have a strong will. After a few breaths, he began to tell everything he knew in a trembling voice. After all, judging from the questioning style of the Ming Emperor, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty now knows everything about the Japanese. Definitely a lot.

From Ashikaga Takauji's defection and forcing the Japanese king to abdicate, to the new Japanese king making him a shogun and then retreating south, to the Ashikaga clan opening a shogunate in Kyoto, and the third generation general Ashikaga Yoshimitsu having defeated the Southern Dynasty army and redefining the unification of the Japanese kingdom. Although the Japanese envoy was in a panic and spoke confusingly, the emperors and ministers of the Ming Dynasty had already roughly understood what he was saying.

"How brave!"

Li Shuzheng, the Minister of Rites, came out and shouted angrily:

"This is an act of deceiving the king! You know that I, the great emperor, have a lot of favors for the king, but I concealed the change of the king, ignored the holy will, and carried out deception. Do you know what the crime is?"

Li Shuzheng is the new Minister of Rites. After the previous acting Minister of Rites, Li Mian, held the Tianshou Festival for the Emperor of Heaven, he thought over and over again and asked for a foreign minister. This successfully made the position of Minister of Rites change four times a year. It is no wonder that All officials feel that this year is a bit difficult.

Zhu Yuanzhang breathed a sigh of relief at Li Shuzheng's words, and then glanced at Li Shuzheng with a look of commendation:

Talent!

There is so much Chinese history, even if it is just copied mechanically, the officials of the Ministry of Rites basically understand what happened in the Japanese country.

Isn't what Minamoto Yoshimitsu did the same old things as Cao Cao, Sima Yi, Zhao Kuangyin, etc.? Oh, no, he didn't usurp the throne, and he didn't do anything about Zhao Kuangyin.

So if we look into it carefully now, it can be said to be a mess. If your majesty has already accepted Huailiang's memorial, Minamoto Yoshimitsu is now a real traitor. As the suzerain, he should punish the traitor and support the orphan.

But now that he heard that Minamoto Yoshimitsu did not usurp the throne, Li Shuzheng, the new Minister of Rites, accurately grasped the most appropriate scale.

He turned the page on the replaced ruler of Japan and blurred the matter, and only punished him for deceiving the emperor.

"Minister...Minister..."

The Japanese envoy was dumbfounded, and for a moment he didn't know what was going on.

Before today, he thought that today would be like every year, and the Chinese emperor would throw the memorial on his head, but it was good this way. After all, this way, he would save himself from the trouble later. The free time was just enough to go to the Yingtianfu market to buy goods for the nobles in the country. The list of goods that was stuffed when he came to the Ming Dynasty had only been bought less than 20%, which was far from enough.

And a moment ago, he thought that he had finally repaired the relationship between Japan and Ming, and would become famous in front of the general and gain a noble reputation.

But now, seeing the superior of the upper country looking angry and wanting to punish him, and seeing the other officials glaring at him, the Japanese envoy's little heart suddenly felt a little bit unbearable.

But fortunately, the beloved Ming emperor stood up:

"I think that there are some things that Ashikaga Yoshimitsu may not have made clear."