Grandpa Huang, don’t be angry, sit down and listen to your grandson!
No one is perfect. Although Zhu Yuanzhang can be called the emperor of the ages and the hero of a generation, after all, there is a slight difference in vision between Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che, Li Shimin, and even the eternal tyrant Yang Guang, these monarchs who like to fight foreign wars have all received a complete aristocratic education. The so-called aristocrats are aggressive, and the emphasis is that everyone in the world belongs to me.
Zhu Yuanzhang came from a humble background and fought for nearly twenty years to conquer the world. It was not that he was unwilling to fight, but he knew the harm of war to the people and the damage to national strength.
Moreover, in his opinion, it would be a good deal if some wild lands could be exchanged for the support of a vassal state and the stability of the border areas.
This idea is correct for the time being, but in the long run, it will definitely cause damage to the country. And because Zhu Yuanzhang can be considered a southerner, he has no special impression or concept of the land of Liaodong in the north.
Goryeo had just changed its dynasty. The Li family had replaced the original Goryeo royal family, and Li Chenggui had proclaimed himself king in Goryeo. After becoming king, Goryeo changed its support for the Yuan Dynasty and became friendly with the Ming Dynasty.
In order to release the goodwill of the great powers, Zhu Yuanzhang also turned a blind eye to Goryeo's actions in Liaodong.
Helping Zhu Yuanzhang to sit down, Zhu Yunxi squeezed his neck and said softly, Liaodong is not a barbaric land. People have been farming there as early as the Warring States Period! My grandson knows that it is winter there for most of the year.
And there are tough barbarians all around, but it is indeed an old Han land!
My grandson has spoken about the dangers of annexation before, and you always applaud him. Think about it, everyone in the Ming Dynasty has land farming, but what will happen a few hundred years from now? You are a generous emperor, and those who are scholars are exempt from taxes, and those who are officials are exempt from taxes.
, no commercial tax is levied, and even land under the names of monks, Taoists and nuns is tax-free.
Tax exemption is a good thing, but in the future, rich people will have more and more land, while poor people will have less and less land. When land annexation occurs in the Ming Dynasty and people have no land to farm, where will they get land?
The Liaodong side is a bit colder and a bit more wild, but it is still land that can grow crops. Immigrants are not feasible now, but it does not mean that it will not be possible in a hundred years. Let Goryeo occupy it, and we people will have no land to grow in the future. He is willing to vomit
come out?
The Ming Dynasty has a huge territory, and there is no useless land. No matter how bad the land is, no matter how wild it is, it was passed down from our ancestors to our Ming Dynasty. How can we take advantage of outsiders!
Grandson knows that you are worried about Bei Yuan, and you are wooing Goryeo to guard against Bei Yuan. But think about it, Goryeo is just a grassroots, and he will not know how powerful he is unless he is hoeed a few times. If the Ming Dynasty soldiers are sharp, will he dare to fall to Bei Yuan?
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Besides, in the past, when Da Yuan took Korea, they treated it as a country of slaves. Now that Ming Dynasty treats it as a diplomatic ally, how can he look for Da Yuan again? The King of Korea is not stupid, and is willing to find a father for himself?
Ha! Zhu Yuanzhang laughed out loud, laughed and scolded, you are always right!
It’s not that the grandson is right, but that we can’t let them take over. People are so incompetent that if he takes over a piece today, he will still want to do it tomorrow. If one day we don’t let him take over, we will become enemies. If we let him keep taking over, he will
The descendants of Korea are endless, but our land in Liaodong is endless.
Since Zhu Yunxi wants to lead this ancient country on a completely different path, then he must fundamentally change the shape of this country.
I don’t know since when, the Han Dynasty lost its aggressiveness of favoring others. Instead, it pays attention to the vague broad-mindedness and tolerance. This is a virtue when you are strong, but when you are weak, others will not remember it.
Instead, they will laugh at you.
Thinking about future generations, during the thousands of years of East Asian civilization, we have always been far ahead. It's just that we have been stagnant for a hundred years, a drop in the ocean, but we are ridiculed by those small countries that have turned around and fallen behind.
And when we became strong again, they were inexplicably surprised, as if they had seen something extraordinary. People and countries are the same, they all care about fighting but not eating.
To change this country, we need to become more dynamic and more exploratory. We cannot rest on the merits of our ancestors and wait to die, otherwise we will only become complacent and repeat the same mistakes again.
The Hanlin bachelor of the university said that reading history is for the sake of the present. Today's people should not repeat the mistakes of the past. But the history in Zhu Yunxu's heart includes not only the past dynasties, but also the great era of changes hundreds of years later.
A Ming that makes people fear is better than a Ming that makes people look like a fool.
A true Ming Dynasty is one who dares to throw off his arms and slap anyone he doesn’t like.
Do you think we don't know this? Zhu Yuanzhang closed his eyes, enjoying Zhu Yunxi's massage, and said, last year, the Ministry of War discussed whether to send troops to Korea. At that time, the border in Peking was unstable, so we should wait!
War is all about money and food. One Bei Yuan has already overwhelmed the country's finances. How much food will it cost to fight against Goryeo? Zhu Yuanzhang sighed, when you become the head of the family, you will know how difficult it will be!
Gao Li thought so too! Zhu Yunxi said with a smile.
We are not saying that what you think is wrong, we are saying that what you did today is wrong! Zhu Yuanzhang continued, I asked you to receive foreign ministers, and then the prince can receive the envoys of the vassal state. Who do you represent? What you represent is our Ming Dynasty!
It's better for you to just scare people! Is this what a ruler should do? Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly. Besides, people are here to pay their birthdays. As the old saying goes, don't hit someone with a smiling face. If he is really determined to occupy the land in Liaodong, what do you think?
Just say it works?
I'm afraid not only will it not work, but once you say this, when he comes back and thinks about it, damn it, he has a second thought. Knowing that you don't like him, he will be wary of you!
State affairs are the same as fighting between two people. If you really want to beat someone down, don't say it! Zhu Yuanzhang paused and continued, go directly to him! Don't let him know in advance, just lie down and lie down.
I don’t even know how you fight, this is a fight!
Oh, it turns out that what you meant is that if you want to defeat Goryeo one day, send troops directly to beat him for not knowing why, and he will not be able to take care of himself! Zhu Yunxi said with a smile.
Then there is no need to ask! Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, even though your grandfather has not read books, he also knows the tricks of soldiers!
As he said that, he pouted in the direction of the imperial court. There was a second memorial in the third pile on the left. It was the memorial of the new king of Goryeo, Li Chenggui. Take it and take a look!
Zhu Yunxi stepped over, found the memorial, opened it and was happy to see it.
The memorial is written in beautiful small regular script, and the handwriting is neat and uninterrupted. It is much neater than the memorial on the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty.
Your Majesty, Li Chenggui, who has the power to know the state affairs of Goryeo, pays homage to His Majesty Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty!
Seeing this, Zhu Yunxi smiled and said, Grandpa Huang, this Li Chenggui is quite knowledgeable. He knows that his name as the King of Goryeo is unfair, and he dare not talk about the king in front of you, saying that he has the right to know state affairs.
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, if you read on, he asked us to give him a new country name, but we haven’t decided yet!