Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 607 Water transportation was shut down, and the people complained a lot

Li Xuan, the great lord of Linping of North Korea, treated the wound a little bit, but he was still dishonest. He found a flower boat and started spending money like water. He called several girls and played for four or five days. He returned only when he was exhausted. The Nanjing Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in the same hall.

It is worth mentioning that Li Xuan, the great lord of Linping in North Korea, did not scour for a cent of silver dollars, but all the silver coins scoured by the Nanjing Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Not only Li Xuan, but other North Korean officials who accompanied Li Xuan to Daming saw the generosity of the Nanjing Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ming Dynasty, and while saying that Ming Dynasty was good, they also started to spend crazily in Nanjing.

That is to say, the silver dollars handed over by Ming taxpayers and people were spent on the North Korean mission through the Nanjing Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ming Dynasty.

The point is that these silver dollars are spent on sleeping women and eating delicious food.

In other words, Daming gave women to sleep with these North Korean envoys for free, and even gave them free food.

Li Xuan, the great monarch of Linping in North Korea, was so satisfied that he even wrote poems praising Daming with satisfaction.

But on this day, the real cabinet order of the Ming Empire Cabinet regarding the reception of the North Korean mission arrived.

"Xiang Guotai, the right servant of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nanjing, is responsible for receiving the Korean mission and sending it to Beijing. North Korea is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and it enters Beijing as a courtier. You can only eat in the post station, and if you go out, you will be severely punished for disturbing the people and plotting to commit crimes!"

After the official in charge of conveying the Jun Order finished speaking, Li Xuan, the North Korean Linping army, was dumbfounded: "What's the matter, why is it not a cabinet scholar? Even the right servant! Is the Celestial Dynasty treating the vassals like this? If they are not replaced by cabinet ministers to pick them up, I will not leave Nanjing City!"

The Korean envoy Linping Dajun felt that he had been slighted, so he continued to spend in Nanjing and refused to go to the capital for pilgrimage.

Ma Shiying found Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian:

"Your Majesty, the North Korean envoys are unwilling to come to Beijing, and they think we are quite dissatisfied that we only let a servant from Nanjing send him to Beijing."

"What is he dissatisfied with? I asked the servant to send him off. I was flattering him, but I am not satisfied! What does this mean? Do you intend to challenge my Ming Dynasty's prestige? Believe it or not, I will kill him directly!"

Zhu Youjian stomped his foot in front of Ma Shiying, pointed to an internal officer, and ordered:

"I told Li Yan of the Grand Marshal's Mansion, what I mean is that from now on, foreign envoys are not allowed to stay in Daming for more than one month without the special approval of the cabinet. They will be deported from the country! Otherwise, the commander of the capital will be charged with dereliction of duty! And if they refuse to leave the country for more than one month, it will be regarded as aggression, and they will all be killed!"

"Your Majesty, is this too much? After all, we are a country of etiquette, and North Korea is considered goodwill," Ma Shiying asked.

"Etiquette is etiquette for the people of the country, and etiquette for the country that respects my Ming Dynasty. His North Korean envoy refused to obey the cabinet's order to go to Beijing, which is to provoke the dignity of my Ming Dynasty. Talking about etiquette with this barbarian is equivalent to talking about enlightenment with wild animals. Execution! In addition, show me the silver dollars spent by the North Korean mission!"

After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, Ma Shiying withdrew.

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Nearly a month later, Li Xuan, the great lord of North Korea Linping, also learned of this order issued by the Generalissimo's Mansion, and couldn't help being quite annoyed: "That is to say, if I don't come to Beijing now, I will be arrested in two days. Deported?"

"According to what they mean, Majesty, we can't go on with this stalemate. Although we spent a lot of money in Nanjing from the Nanjing Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it is still very little compared to the gifts we want to get through paying tribute. We can't just leave in vain, otherwise we won't be able to offer the tribute we brought, we won't be able to get several times the gift, and we won't be able to earn more silver dollars. We will return empty-handed and make people in the country laugh at us us."

This is what a North Korean official said to the North Korean king, Li Xun.

Linping Maharaja Li Xuan had no choice but to go to the Nanjing Ministry of Foreign Affairs to meet Xiang Guotai, the right servant of the Nanjing Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"Our master has been feeling unwell recently, and I'm afraid we can't send the majesty to Beijing. Please wait five days before we speak."

The right servant, Xiang Guotai, was also very smart. Knowing that the North Korean mission was eager to go to Beijing, he excused his illness to delay the time, intending to extort a sum of silver dollars from the North Korean mission.

Linping Maharaja Li Xuan is not an idiot either. After buying two ginseng worth thousands of silver dollars and giving them to Xiang Guotai, Xiang Guotai's illness was healed, so he set off with Li Xuan one day before the arrival of a month. Wait for the North Korean mission to go to the capital.

Nowadays, the main transportation between Nanjing and Beijing is still by water, especially after the water transport has been dredged again. Although the sea route has matured, for the lower class businessmen and ordinary people who are unwilling to pay the high cost of sea transport, they still choose water transport.

Coupled with the abolition of the road guide system, the increase in population and the development of commercial trade, water transport is busier than before.

However, the Linping Maharaja of North Korea, Li Xuan, suddenly said that he had lost his majesty's seal as soon as he passed Yangzhou. It was deduced that it was stolen by someone, because one day when he was resting at the post station, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty bumped into him.

Since then, Xiang Guotai, the right servant of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nanjing, insisted on finding Xie Shu, the prefect of Yangzhou, and Yin Fumingyuan, the governor of Yingtian.

He even found Xue Suoyun, Minister of Nanjing Police Headquarters and Governor of Water Transport.

As soon as Xue Suoyun heard that the North Korean envoy Lord Linping had lost his seal, he immediately closed the waterway from Nanjing to Yangzhou, and ordered people to strictly check the passing merchant ships and people!

"Butang, I'm afraid it's not very good to do this. How many goods will not be transported in the water transport from Nanjing to Yangzhou, and the loss of no less than [-] silver dollars a day, and it's just to find the seal of a North Korean envoy. This is too far-fetched," Wu Si, the left servant of the Nanjing Military Department, could not help persuading.

"You don't understand. Just because the North Korean envoys lost their seals, I can shut down the water transport from Nanjing to Yangzhou for a period of time, and don't allow civilian ships to pass through the border. These civilian ships are forced to come to send money. At that time, we There will be no small gains;
And even if the higher authorities blamed it, we still have a reason to prevaricate, saying that it was to help the North Korean mission detect the stolen seal, and we had to do this in order to solve the case. If we spend some money to deal with it at that time, it will be fine?Besides, if we can successfully help the North Korean envoy find the seal, maybe we can even get an award from the court. "

When Xue Suoyun said this, Wu Si had no choice but to shake his head helplessly.

However, it is indeed because of this that many private merchant ships from Nanjing to Yangzhou are congested in the Nanjing to Yangzhou section.

For a while, the common people complained, saying that one day's delay would cost countless silver dollars, especially the traders who transported fruits and cooked meat with short shelf life and sold them over long distances.

"This official, I beg you, you have searched my whole body, please let me out, otherwise all my fresh fish will die!"

At this time, a Ming trader who was anxious to go north to sell fish had to beg bitterly to the officials at a checkpoint.

"It's none of your business if all the fish die. If you don't find the seal of the North Korean envoy, you won't be able to open the gate. If you're afraid that the fish will die, they will dump them into the canal!" said the official.

"What qualifications does this North Korean envoy have to shut down the entire water transport? We paid the tax and refused to let us pass. Is there any reason for this!" a trader couldn't help but said.

At this time, a soldier from Dongchang took off his bamboo hat and walked into Yangzhou City: "Report to the commander as soon as possible, the water transportation has been shut down, and there is great public grievance!"

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