Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang still had such lofty ambitions, Zhu Qi felt relieved. At least Zhu Yuanzhang's ambitions now include Goryeo.

Zhu Qi smiled and continued to explain the reasons why he could not marry the princess and marry her.

During the Yuan Dynasty, every Goryeo king married Princess Dayuan. As a result, in the battle of the Bohai Sea, the Goryeo navy turned around and ran away when we saw our army's advantage.

Now he is coming to ask for Enfeng and ask for marriage, which shows that this marriage cannot be exchanged for Goryeo's absolute loyalty.

To put it bluntly, the best choice is to set up a palace in Goryeo, a household registration in Qing Dynasty, and a resignation of officials, just like the Central Plains, establish an effective rule.

Therefore, there will be a war between the Ming Dynasty and Goryeo sooner or later, so naturally, it is to take advantage of the beginning of the founding of the country and the prosperous times of the martial arts, and to seek benefits for future generations.

At this time, marrying the princess is just for free. Even if Zhu Yuanzhang is cruel and ignores his daughter's safety, then it would not be a glorious thing to kill the Princess of the Ming Dynasty to sacrifice the flag of the sacrificial flag in history books.

After Zhu Qi finished speaking like this, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, obviously agreeing quite.

The Ming Dynasty was a very tough dynasty. Its toughness mainly came from Hongwu and Yongle, the two emperors, were full of martial ethics and did what they did if they were not determined.

Among them, Emperor Yongle Zhu Di was the representative of it. He fought against the northern desert for five times and begged for surrender to the grassland tribes and requested marriages for more than ten times in history. The number of times he requested marriage was clearly recorded as many as three times.

Did Emperor Yongle pay attention?

There are no birds, and you should fight or fight. You will be in the process of conquering the grasslands all your life.

Of course, just like the situation encountered by many Central Plains dynasties, the rebellious grassland tribes were not so easy to conquer. Even when Emperor Yongle set the tribe leaders on the grasslands as the princes of the Ming Dynasty during his lifetime.

However, in the 22nd year of Hongwu, the three guards of Duoyan, Taining and Fuyu, which were set up, were the three guards of Duoyan who helped Zhu Di ascend the throne, who were legendary, were still unruly and often rebel.

Although Emperor Yongle once wiped out the three guards of Duoyan once, he still could not effectively control the grassland. Although the three guards of Duoyan were snobbish and weak in the later period, the Ola embezzled the territory of the three guards of Duoyan and began to rise.

To put it bluntly, if you want to completely conquer the grassland, there are only two ways to go hand in hand.

First, move the edges!

Second, invent Maxim!

Both of these are extremely complex and very difficult. I won’t say much about the invention of Maxim. There are too many pre-tech technologies, so it is difficult to see in my lifetime.

There are also many prerequisites for moving edges.

First of all, it is necessary to establish an effective high-speed transportation line, build cities on the grasslands, reclaim land, and establish an effective administrative system, economic system, cultural system, etc.

If you talk about it, it cannot be explained clearly in a few words.

At least you have to invent something like Jenny machine that can weave wool, right?

This will open the opening song of the great development of the grassland economy. Wool is a hot commodity in the Age of Discovery. The famous trade black hole between the British and the Lowlands of the English Channel, and its core commodity is wool!

Even the famous Hundred Years of War in Britain and France fought for three things, the throne, land, and wool!

In order to obtain British wool, the Flanders region in northern France even publicly announced its support for the UK. It is conceivable that the importance of wool in world trade.

As for cotton, it is really not suitable for planting on grasslands, but it is still very good to plant on the Tubo Plateau.

Of course this is a story later.

The reason why he did not directly reject the requests of foreign envoys such as Goryeo and Japan was also a decision made by Zhu Qi for the sake of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, although Goryeo has the heart of a tiger and a wolf, it still has to do something on the surface. It has never said that it is grim at you because I don’t like you.

The core of diplomacy is interest relations. Only interests are the most real, and others are false.

Therefore, in order not to let Goryeo fall to the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the surface work still needs to be done, so Zhu Qi contacted the envoys and asked them to write a letter on their own initiative, requesting to obtain the qualification to marry the Princess of the Ming Dynasty through competition.

If no one can pass the level at that time, then there is no wonder that Daming will not kiss each other.

Of course, the enthronement still needs to be enthronement. At that time, sign the contract directly and sign a tribute relationship, and you will succeed in what you should do.

The next step is to seize the time to eliminate the Northern Yuan Dynasty and then plot against Goryeo!

The most important thing is that those ministers will not say much.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard Zhu Qi's words, he immediately clapped his hands and felt that this idea was very good.

The reason why Zhu Qi did not discuss with Zhu Yuanzhang at the beginning and acted directly was that he had the intention of being rejected, wouldn’t he beggar?

This is the safest way to do it directly and then report it.

Of course, this sentence cannot be said to Zhu Yuanzhang.

When Zhu Qi saw Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude, he felt relieved and thought happily that as long as the marriage was not reached, Princess Lin'an would probably continue to marry Li Shanchang's son Li Qi.

After all, Empress Ma planned to marry Princess Lin'an to Li Qi, the son of Li Shanchang.

He was just thinking about saying that, and said goodbye, leaving the rest to Zhu Yuanzhang, and asked two random problems to stump the Gentile envoys, and then took the normal process to accept them as tribute countries and expand diplomatic relations. He would do whatever he should do.

But unexpectedly, Zhu Yuanzhang slapped the table and said:

"Third brother, your method is so good. It can not only make the Gentile envoys live up to their faces, but also make the ministers not quarrel, let alone let your sister marry you. This is a great thing!

Since you came up with it, I will leave it to you in the end. You can solve this problem together!

Now, I will entrust you as a marriage envoy. You go to your eldest brother and prince. If you have any questions, discuss with him. You two will get this done, that's it!"

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, Zhu Qiren was stunned. He never expected that this incident would eventually fall on him.

But Zhu Qi couldn't refuse what Zhu Yuanzhang decided, not to mention that he was the one who took the lead. If he refused and something went wrong, Zhu Yuanzhang would be causing trouble for himself by then.

There was nothing I could do, so Zhu Qi could only take the matter down and take it off.

However, Zhu Qigang was about to leave, but Zhu Yuanzhang said again:

"By the way, there have been many wars recently, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs cannot provide extra money.

Just as the envoys gave you these gold, silver and jewelry, you took them all to hold this wedding competition."

What a good guy, this belongs to the world.

But to be honest, this money is not enough to hold a wedding competition.

If you let others go, you will have to pay for it yourself, but who is Zhu Qi? He is already thinking about how to fill this gap.

Maybe there is no need to spend a few gold, silver and jewelry.

What is really difficult is how to arrange these Gentile envoys.

After leaving the study, Zhu Qi began to worry, and several of his hair had been scratched.

When the Eastern Palace arrived, the Crown Prince Zhu Biao was discussing something with a group of ministers. The key is that these ministers are not the prince’s officials, but are all officials from the three provinces and six ministries.

If it were another dynasty, seeing the prince getting so close to the officials of the three provinces and six ministries, the emperor was afraid that he would not be nervous and even doubting the prince.

But during the Hongwu period, this problem did not exist.

If Zhu Yuanzhang knew that the minister had not gone to the prince to report his work for several days, then Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely call the minister to talk to him: "Does there be something wrong with your thoughts?"

When the ministers saw His Highness of the Liao King coming, they hurriedly bowed and heard the crown prince Zhu Biao wave his hand and said:

"I have already learned about this matter. You can step down first. If you have any questions, you have to discuss with the emperor."

When the ministers heard the prince say this, they saluted and left.

Then Zhu Biao began to talk to Zhu Qi about what the officials and workers had just reported, that is, the Gentile envoys requested fair competition and marry the princess, and not one or two people came to ask for, but almost all Gentile envoys did this.

After saying that, Zhu Biao said to Zhu Qi:

"Later, I remember you said before that you don't seem to support the marriage of marriage? You have been very close to those Gentile envoys these days. I thought you were trying to persuade them not to think about marriage of marriage, but I didn't expect that in the end they asked them to write a letter to talk about this.

In this way, isn’t Princess Lin’an definitely going to choose a Gentile king as her husband?”

Zhu Qi smiled bitterly, and then finished talking about the things that had happened in Zhu Yuanzhang's study. After listening in a daze, Zhu Biao laughed gloatingly and said:

"You are clearly decisive and then report. My father didn't punish you, but just asked you to clean up this mess. I think my father is already very kind."

When Zhu Qi heard this, his face turned panicked. When he said this, did Zhu Yuanzhang see his little thoughts?

But thinking about it, even Zhu Biao could see this little thought clearly. As the founding emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang, could not see it?

But things are all like this. Even if I know it is difficult, I can only bite the bullet and go to it at this time.

Fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang did not ignore him, but also brought the crown prince Zhu Biao to Zhu Qi for his command.

With Prince Zhu Biao in hand, it would be much more convenient and the operation space would be very large.

When he came on the way, Zhu Qi had already thought about it. At this time, he had already made a general plan with Zhu Biao.

Marriage allows Zhu Qi to be the one, but this arrangement allows the ambassadors to compete fairly and marry the princess to dominate. On the surface, it must not be Zhu Qi, on the surface, but on the surface, the crown prince Zhu Biao.

This marriage envoy is just the deputy of Prince Zhu Biao.

In this way, you can hide the behind-the-scenes and do anything more convenient.

Zhu Qi quickly explained his thoughts, and then began to discuss with Zhu Biao in detail how to hold this fair competition. The details of the details...

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Yingtian Prefecture, Honglu Temple.

Goryeo envoy Li Chengxu was waiting patiently for the good news from His Royal Highness Liao in the guest hall.

Soon, I heard someone coming from outside, claiming that he was sent by His Highness the King of Liao, and without bringing anything, he whispered to Li Chengxu:

"Your Highness asked me to ask me to say something, and the matter of competing with relatives has been completed!"

Li Chengxu, the envoy of Goryeo, was extremely ecstatic, but he quickly reacted and asked: Where is His Highness the King of Liao?
To be continued...