I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 122 Deportation
After taking a glance at the tribute list presented by the eunuch, Li Tian snorted noncommittally, and said lightly:

"Come here, reward the King of Champa with one hundred taels of gold, 300 taels of silver, and twenty bolts of Su Jinling."

As soon as Li Tian said a word, the faces of the officials who came to accompany him all changed. One hundred taels of gold and 300 taels of silver, the emperor didn't want to give more.

Deng Changfu's face also turned pale when he heard the words, and the smile waiting for the reward disappeared without a trace in an instant. The tribute he brought was converted into the price of Daming, no more, no less, exactly 300 taels.

What does the Ming Emperor mean by this, is he treating the tribute as a business?
"Your Majesty, the list of tributes is the most honorable gift from our Champa Kingdom. Please don't dislike it, Your Majesty the Emperor."

Li Tian pursed his lips, ignored the Champa envoy, and casually threw the tribute list to Jiang Bao:

"Read it to me."

Jiang Bao swallowed nervously, held up the tribute list with both hands and said word by word:

"Two hundred dans of peanuts in coconut milk, five hundred pieces of air-dried donkey meat, three hundred boxes of preserved pineapples, thirty pieces of Zhancheng embroidery, five stalks of Ganoderma lucidum, and some Gastrodia ulmoides."

Although the list of tributes was not a shady secret, reading it out in front of everyone in the hall still made Deng Changfu a little ashamed.

The accompanying officials also sneered a little, with more or less contemptuous smiles on their faces, except for the five Ganoderma lucidum, the others were nothing.

After reading the tribute list, Jiang Bao carefully glanced at Li Tian's expression, seeing that the emperor didn't intend to speak, he cleared his throat and said:
"My Majesty Ming has already rewarded you, so why don't the envoys of the Champa Kingdom thank you?"

Deng Changfu's face turned red, and he looked at Li Tiandao:

"Your Majesty, I have something to say."

"Speak, I'm listening."

"This envoy wants to expose an evil official of Honglu Temple to His Majesty the Emperor." After speaking, Deng Changfu raised his arm and pointed at Shu Benqian and said:
"That fifth-rank official named Shu Benqian insulted me and other court officials in the embassy."

When Deng Changfu finished speaking, everyone in the hall looked at Shu Benqian. Li Tian glanced at the envoy of the Champa Kingdom, turned to look to the left and said:
"Shu Shaoqing, is there such a thing?"

Shu Benqian knew about this from the moment he entered the hall, so he immediately stood up with his sleeves waved and said loudly:

"Report to His Majesty, but there is such a thing."

Seeing Shu Benqian's magnanimous expression, Li Tian immediately became interested, and asked the question without asking, turned to look at the Champa envoy with a smile and said:
"Ambassador Deng, how Shu Shaoqing insulted you, you can tell them all now, and I will make the decision for you."

"My envoy would like to thank His Majesty the Emperor." I don't know if Li Tian's smiling face gave Deng Changfu great confidence, Deng Changfu immediately said loudly:
"He once said in front of this envoy that he would send this envoy to your prison, His Majesty the Emperor."

As soon as Deng Changfu said this, there was an uproar in the hall.

Deng Changfu said that he was also a foreign envoy who came to pay tribute. How could Honglu Temple say such a thing? Isn't this embarrassing the emperor and Daming?
Shu Benqian was still calm when he heard the words, bowed to Li Tian, ​​walked to the center of the hall, glared at Deng Changfu in the middle and said:
"I just want to ask you one sentence, 'Even though your Emperor Ming is dead, you shouldn't treat me so cruelly', did this come from your mouth!"

"So what?"

Deng Changfuzhong didn't know that his head was about to disappear, so he replied angrily and looked at Li Tiandao:

"Your Majesty, the envoy has come here on behalf of the Champa Kingdom. They have arranged for the envoy to stay in a small embassy for five days. May I ask your Majesty, isn't this an insult?"

Before Li Tian could speak, Wang Jinghong, the deputy envoy of the Western General Soldier who had been making soy sauce, got up and shouted angrily:

"Your Majesty, I would like to ask you to kill this official!"

"The minister waits for a second opinion."

A group of courtiers stood up one after another, followed closely behind.

Thanks to Deng Changfuzhong's Chinese is pretty good, when the envoys from several other countries were still asking what happened to the interpreter beside him, Deng Changfuzhong had already realized that he had stabbed a hornet's nest, and immediately waved his hands repeatedly:
"The envoy was so angry that he lost his head just now, Your Majesty, the envoy did not say that."

Quietly looking at the panic-stricken appearance of the Champa envoys, Li Tian waved his hands to signal everyone to sit down, and turned his face to give Zheng He a wink.

Zheng He understood, got up and chatted with the envoys of several other countries, then turned to look at Li Tiangong and said:
"Your Majesty, our family has asked the envoys of Luzon and Sumatra, and they can testify that Deng Changfu's words are really treasonous."

Nodding his head, Li Tian slapped the table suddenly:
"Deng Changfuzhong, I'm only asking you once, have you said it?"

There was a crisp sound, and the hall was immediately silent, only the sound of breathing continued.

Deng Changfu's face was pale with fright, he leaned against the table beside him tremblingly, and said in a panic:
"The two countries. The two countries are at war. If you don't kill the envoy, you can't kill me, Your Majesty the Emperor."

"You dare to declare war on me, Daming?" Shu Benqian said sharply.

"No, no." Deng Changfu tremblingly said with his hands shaking, "I mean I am the envoy of the Champa Kingdom. According to the rules of the Central Plains, you can't kill me."

Deng Changfuzhong's nonsense made Li Tian very suspicious of Deng Changfuzhong's IQ at the moment.

This is like when a family is having a funeral, the neighbor comes to the door carrying two catties of worthless fruit, and opens his mouth: Although your family is dead, you must treat me well.

Li Tian doesn't know what's going on in Champa, but in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Ming Dynasty, such neighbors shouldn't survive for half a day.

Taking a sympathetic look at Deng Changfu, Li Tian turned to look at the angry officials, knowing that this matter must be dealt with tonight, otherwise there will be chaos tomorrow morning.

"Jiang Bao, according to my will, the envoys of the Zhancheng Kingdom have mischievous minds, despise the country's court, and speak disrespectfully. The crime deserves death. But my Ming Dynasty is the land of sages and sages, the country of gentlemen, so I will spare him the death penalty. out of the country."

The accompanying officials were quite satisfied with the result, and they all got up and went out to bow down. Shan shouted:
"Your Majesty Shengming."

The imperial decree was issued, and the Jinwu guards lined up at the gate of the palace immediately carried Deng Changfu out of the main hall, and after a while, there were screams of crying and shouting.

A country's envoys were expelled from the country after being punished with a stick, and the atmosphere in the hall, which was not very lively, dropped to freezing point at this time.

The envoys of the other eight countries did not dare to trust them, they stood up one after another to pay respects, and presented the list of tributes from their own countries with shame on their faces.

Seeing that the brothers are so honest, Li Tian no longer harshly rewards them in line with the demeanor of being a big brother, and repays all the gifts with three times.

Although the envoys of the eight countries missed Emperor Yongle's return of gifts tenfold, they had learned from the past by the envoys of the Champa Kingdom, and they all smiled and thanked each other contentedly.

(End of this chapter)