September is another season of harvest. At this time, the Ming Dynasty's foreign wars have been fruitful, but construction in various places is in full swing.

The expansion of the capital city has lasted more than two months. The city walls, roads, water supply and drainage infrastructure in the north and south urban areas have been completed; the land in the south urban area has also been auctioned off, and various shops and workshops and even factories are under construction; the construction of the north urban area is coming to an end, and the 100,000 soldiers of the construction army have already completed the main building, and the rest is the interior decoration and meticulous carving.

The Eurasian Canal has also started construction for nearly a decade. With the close cooperation of the Ottoman Empire, Spain and Portugal, the progress is very smooth. Qin Gongming even planned to work hard, open air before the New Year and go home for the New Year!

The railway and highway construction in fifteen provinces in South Asia is also in full swing. The heads of the provinces also want to try their best to complete the construction before the New Year. It is not that they want to go home for the New Year, but that they want to add points to themselves in the Beijing inspection plan for the coming year. Maybe they can get a high promotion.

The Liaodong Legion was also under the leadership of Sun Chengzong, and was promoting while building the railway. It seemed that there was no resistance in the territory of the original Nuergandusi, and it seemed that it was only a matter of time to regain the entire northern border.

The situation everywhere is very good, and the pregnancy of the queen Qin Mingyue is becoming more and more obvious, so Zhu Cijiu's mood is extremely happy.

At this moment, the Jiangnan Preparatory Corps stationed in northeastern South Asia and Yunnan Preparatory Corps stationed in northwestern South Asia reported one after another, and the Nibasaka and Pazhu in the mountainous areas of northern South Asia requested to send envoys to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute!

Zhu Cijiong knew about these two small countries because they had records of tribute to the Ming Dynasty before, but because the journey was long, they only paid fewer tributes.

Immediately afterwards, the Nanyang Governor's Office in Xingchenggang reported another report, and Boni and Sulu also sent envoys to find the Nanyang Governor's Office and requested to go to the capital of Daming to pay tribute.

It turned out that none of them were destroyed by the Dutch, but they just hid in remote islands to take refuge.

To be honest, Zhu Cijing has never caught a cold for things that have no practical significance, because the tribute is just a nominal sanction. In fact, they have no real affiliation with the Ming Dynasty. There are not many countries that really regard the Ming Dynasty as the sect leader. Most of them are waiting from the Ming Dynasty to military protection and economic support.

He still felt that only countries that accept the "Ming Dynasty's Vocational State Order System" and accept the Ming Dynasty's military control and economic regulation can be considered true vassal states.

Zhu Cijing really had no idea about the small countries such as Nibazhai, Pazhu, Boni and Sulu. In other words, it doesn’t matter whether they are willing to be vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, because they pose no threat to the Ming Dynasty at all.

Of course, now people take the initiative to ask for tribute, and they cannot ignore it. After all, this is also a kind of respect for the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty should show the style of the Celestial Kingdom and receive them well.

So how to receive it? Zhu Cijing was really not clear about this, so he invited two officials in charge of foreign relations in the Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi, Minister of Rites and Huang Daozhou, the Imperial College Priest, to discuss with them the issue of receiving the tribute envoys.

When Huang Daozhou heard that the emperor had summoned him, he rushed over, because every time the emperor asked him for something good that he was interested in, he was naturally extremely excited.

Xu Guangqi came a little slow. After all, he was old and it would be nice to walk without a cane. It was obviously impossible for him to run fast like Huang Daozhou.

After Zhu Cijiu personally welcomed Xu Guangqi into the left-handed position and sat down, he took out the Nanya and Nanyang report and handed it to Xu Guangqi, and then said directly: "Teacher, Youxuan, this time I came to you to discuss the issue of receiving tribute envoys. Now several small countries want to send tribute envoys to the capital to pay tribute. I really don't know how to receive them. Do you have any customizations about this?"

Xu Guangqi looked carefully at the memorial, then handed the memorial to Huang Daozhou, and then slowly explained: "The Ministry of Rites has detailed records of the tribute system. However, at the beginning, this tribute system was not aimed at the vassal states, but at the two local forces, Duogan and Wusizang."

There is another saying, Zhu Cijing couldn't help but ask curiously: "Oh, was the tribute system formulated for them?"

Xu Guangqi nodded and said, "Yes, because those two places are located on the plateau and are sparsely populated, it is extremely inconvenient to send troops and officials. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty simply asked the local forces there to manage themselves, but only stipulated that they would come to the capital of Daming to pay tribute once a year."

So that's the case, Zhu Cijing asked curiously again: "Why are they tribute?"

Xu Guangqi shook his head and said, "There is no specific regulation for this. They usually pay tribute to local specialties, but there are still regulations on the tribute personnel. Generally, only the kings or national teachers are qualified to lead the delegation to the capital to pay tribute."

Zhu Cijing asked again: "Then why did many small countries come to the capital of Daming to pay tribute?"

Xu Guangqi said proudly: "It is not because the Ming Dynasty gave tributes very generously. In fact, the tribute was divided into three steps. The first step was to divide the tribute, the second step was to pay tribute, and the third step was to give tribute. The tribute system was still very strict at the beginning, because Duogan and Wusizang were both the territory of the Ming Dynasty, so the kings and national teachers there had to pass the throne through the Ming Dynasty's feudal division before they could succeed. However, with the increase of tribute countries, the vocation gradually became a formality. How could countries such as Persia and Dashi accept the tribute? Most of them sent envoys to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty for the final tribute, because the things they paid tribute were worthless local specialties, while the Ming Dynasty gave silk, cloth, tea, porcelain and other daily necessities, and each time they were given ten or even a hundred times, so they all rushed to send envoys to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty."

He fainted, it turned out that tribute could still make profits. Zhu Cijiong guessed: "Will they try their best to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty!"

Xu Guangqi said awkwardly: "Yes, during the Xuande and Zhengtong periods, they only sent dozens of people to come to pay tribute with something; by the Jingtai period, the scale had reached two or three hundred people, and the tribute items were pushed by trucks; by the Tianshun period, they sent two or three thousand people to come to pay tribute with a huge convoy, and the Ming Dynasty could not afford it!"

Zhu Cijiu was shocked when he heard this. Damn, two or three thousand people, how many tribute items could be transported? Will the Ming Dynasty vomit blood if he vomited?

He asked with lingering fear: "What should I do?"

Seeing that Xu Guangqi seemed to be hesitating, Huang Daozhou seized the opportunity and said, "I want the minister to say that he will send someone to promulgate the "Ming Dynasty Vocational State Order System" and if he is willing to accept it, he will be included in the Ming Dynasty Vocational State. If he is unwilling to accept it, he will directly destroy them!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Cijing shook his head and said, "After all, they came up with them themselves, which proves that they are still a little respectful of the Ming Dynasty. There are many countries in the world, and the Ming Dynasty cannot handle them all. We who can send envoys to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty should be welcomed. Mentor, what do you think?"

Xu Guangqi nodded and said, "The emperor is wise and rushing to come to the court is a good thing after all, and it proves that our Ming Dynasty has restored its status as a superior country. Just specify the number of envoys they sent, and there is no need to accept one."
Chapter completed!