Under the management of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty became more and more powerful to more than 100 countries. This number even surpassed the Tang Dynasty. This is the most proud thing about Zhu Yuanzhang. Because of this, he attaches great importance to the tribute once every three years.

"How many countries paid tribute this time?"

"Your Majesty, a total of 100 countries have come to pay tribute..."

"One hundred?"

"Your Majesty, the coup in Siam cannot come. There is also the arrogant island country, which is probably afraid to come because of fear."

"It would be better if these Japanese pirates didn't come, so as not to be disgusting..."

Zhu Yuanzhang's disgust of the island country was not that simple. If he could, he even wanted to destroy the country. All this started from the beginning of Hongwu year. When the Ming Dynasty had just established a regime and was unstable, the island country actually took advantage of this opportunity to continue to burn, kill and loot the southeast coastal areas. However, because the coastline was too long and the Japanese pirates had changed their place with one shot, Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to crack them down. Zhu Yuanzhang finally forced him to send a special envoy to the island country, but he didn't expect that the island emperor would actually refuse Zhu Yuanzhang's request. He even sneered at each other and sarcastically mocked Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious at the time and almost wanted to raise an army to attack the island country, but the national treasury was empty and had no money to fight. He had no choice but to give up this plan in his helplessness.

The Ming Dynasty became stronger and stronger, and Zhu Yuanzhang also thought about attacking the island country, but this **** was too poor and could not arouse Zhu Yuanzhang's interest at all. In his words, it would be a waste of manpower, material resources and time. This idea was even accepted by his descendants, otherwise the island country would have become a part of the Ming Dynasty.

"His Majesty the Island Emperor, we really want to go on a mission to the Ming Dynasty..."

"General Tokugawa, don't you know that the Ming Dynasty is our biggest enemy?"

"His Majesty the Island Emperor, then I don't understand even more..."

"General Tokugawa, I'm asking you to try the bottom line of the Emperor Ming..."

The King of Shiro Toyota is an extremely sinister and cunning guy. He knew very well that the Ming Dynasty was a big obstacle to annexing the small surrounding countries such as Ryukyu. In order to test Zhu Yuanzhang's bottom line, he really used any means to come up with a way to die. Toyota's way was to anger Zhu Yuanzhang as much as possible. It can be said that this was simply to let these envoys die, but this method could really try Zhu Yuanzhang's bottom line.

"Your Highness, why are these dark skins..."

"These are people from the Western Rong, and they belong to the black race..."

“What is black people?”

Zhu Yunwen explained unhappily: "People with very dark skin are black people..."

Zhao Fei looked at a beautiful Persian girl without blinking. Zhu Yunwen slapped him twice before coming back to his senses.

"Your Highness, what is that?"

Zhu Yunwen said angrily: "Then it's just a Persian cat, or a Ocean Horse."

"Ocean Horse? Can Your Highness the Prince give me a horse like this?"

"I'm just giving you a fart, don't you know this is a tribute?"

Zhu Yunwen kicked the lustful guy hard, causing him to completely cut off his idea.

"Do you still want to think of the ocean horse?"

"I don't want to do it anymore."

"It's best if you don't want to. Go and greet the guests quickly. Remember that the female guests don't want you to greet them."

Zhao Fei dared not listen to Zhu Yunwen's words, and finally he could greet the guests obediently. The palace was equipped with a special translator, but for Zhu Yunwen, who was skilled in the sixteen languages, talking to those foreigners was a piece of cake. Soon he became the focus of the audience and covered the limelight of the King of Yan. The King of Yan's face became increasingly ugly. If it weren't for so many vassal kings as supporting roles to protect the King of Yan, they would not even have the face to continue.

"Open the palace gate and Xuan's envoys meet..."

Foreign envoys who came to see the emperor with their tributes must have three palace gates. In addition to checking whether they were carrying weapons, they also slowed down their visits in disguise. This is a kind of etiquette and an attitude. After all, the emperor is not so easy to see.

"The Emperor of Ming Dynasty, the envoys from various countries entered the palace..."

Foreign envoys finally met the Emperor of Ming Dynasty through many checkpoints. Zhu Yuanzhang, wearing a dragon robe, was sitting in the middle of the temple. Two beautiful concubines were sitting beside him. Behind them were all vassal kings and princesses. Zhu Yunwen and Yan King stood in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, and below them were all civil and military officials. They stood there in full spirit and welcomed these foreign envoys. Soon, foreign envoys in strange costumes appeared in front of everyone, and each of them was carrying heavy gifts.

The first person to meet was the envoy of Gao State. Emperor Gao State actually sent two prince Guoxiong and Princess Wenya to come. This shows that Emperor Gao State attaches great importance to diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty. Their gift was wild mountain ginseng, more than 100 ginseng, and one of them lasted for a hundred years. This was indeed a generous gift.

"I wish my emperor a long life..." The envoys of Gao State performed a bow to Zhu Yuanzhang together and presented documents in person to show Gao State to bow to him.

"No gifts and calmness!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The Prince of Gao Guoxiong and the envoys gave Zhu Yuanzhang a bow and presented a document to bow to the emperor in person. Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied with this and even gave him some rewards to the Prince of Gao Guozhang. Zhu Yuanzhang followed him to meet him as the special envoy of Annan. This special envoy of Annan brought a lot of gems, and it seemed that he had done everything he could to please Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang also gave him some gifts as a reward. For these more than 100 envoys of more than one hundred countries, if each one had to be met alone for one day, Zhu Yuanzhang could only order to meet several envoys at one time. Although it had saved a lot of time, he was busy until noon that Zhu Yuanzhang had met all the foreign envoys.

Zhu Yunwen saw Zhu Yuanzhang who was already sweating profusely, of course he couldn't stand it anymore. Under his persuasion, Zhu Yuanzhang really ran to rest, which was something that had never happened before.

"Grandpa Emperor, please take a break. I will prepare the state banquet here."

"Oh well!"

Zhu Yuanzhang went to take a shower and change clothes and took a nap. Of course, he was so relieved because of Zhu Yunwen's relationship. As expected, everything was as he expected. The envoys from various countries were very satisfied with the food prepared by Zhu Yunwen. Coupled with Zhu Yunwen's humor, the whole state banquet went very smoothly.

"The Emperor is here..."

Zhu Yuanzhang appeared in front of everyone after resting in high spirits. He was very satisfied with Zhu Yunwen's performance. Whether it was the arrangement of the state banquet or the greeting of guests, Zhu Yunwen's performance was perfect. Even the King of Yan was hard to match. Finally, he even hid aside and drank with a drink. Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy and toasted the ambassadors of various countries. Of course, the ambassadors of various countries responded politely with a harmonious atmosphere.

"His Majesty the King, you have a good drinker!"

"Prince Guoxiong's alcohol is not bad..."

The prince of Gao Guoxiong took the initiative to show his kindness to Zhu Yuanzhang. It seemed that he must have something to ask for, but at this moment, he didn't know how to speak. Suddenly, a noisy sound came from outside the door. Zhu Yuanzhang's eyelids twitched and knew that something had happened, but no one expected that the island country would come to cause trouble.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!