"You North Korea has always called itself Little China, as the country with the deepest popularization of Confucianism except for my Ming Dynasty, how can you not have the courage to defend the royal road of the world!"
Yuan Chonghuan said a word, and said: "His Mughal Empire does not respect Confucianism, does not respect etiquette, and invades the Indian Peninsula without authorization, which is not in line with the royal way and is not conducive to the peace of the world. ”"Nonsense!
Now it is the Celestial Empire that does not conform to the royal way, and the Celestial Empire has killed our Korean ministers without permission, and even forcibly leased our Korean minerals, ruined our royal vein, and has no former courtesy to our North Korea, and is not worthy of being the suzerain!
Even if I want to conquer North Korea, I should also conquer the Celestial Empire!
”At this time, North Korean Minister Shen Qijun said a word."
What a conquest of the Celestial Empire."
Yuan Chonghuan laughed, and shouted to the king of Joseon, Li Kui: "Your Royal Highness, does the Joseon really want to oppose our Celestial Empire and betray Confucianism?"
”Li Qi hurriedly denied: "There is no such intention!
No such thing!
I, North Korea, have always been proud of being a subject of the Ming Dynasty!
Don't dare to be disobedient. ”"Then what are you still doing in the court with this traitor who instigated you to betray the Celestial Empire, if you don't take it quickly, the official will extradite the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will be punished!"
Yuan Chonghuan threatened.Li Qi couldn't help but look at Shen Qijun: "This, this ......"
Shen Qijun was also afraid of being dealt with by the Ming Dynasty when he saw this, so he had to change his words: "I, I just made a slip of the tongue, I mean that we should follow the call of the Heavenly Empire and jointly carry forward my Confucian civilization, so that the way of Confucius and Mencius, the learning of Cheng Zhu, spread in the wilderness of India." ”"Toast and don't eat and drink!"
Yuan Chonghuan said a word in his heart, smiled coldly, and continued to ask Li Liang: "I don't know what His Highness wants?"
”"Troops!
Naturally, he had to send troops to form an alliance with the Celestial Empire to conquer the Mughals. ”Li Qi smiled and said.Then, Li Ju instructed the Korean ministers: "With Li Gui as the marshal of the capital and Jiang Anzong as the supervisor of the army, we will go to India with the army of the Celestial Empire!"
”......
"Our country is fortunate to form an alliance with the Celestial Empire to conquer the Mughals, which is the blessing of my Yamato nation!"
It's a blessing to my shogunate!
Please rest assured that His Majesty the Emperor of the Celestial Empire will send the most elite army to conquer the Mughals, promote our Confucian civilization, and make the religion of the saints take root in India!
”On the side of the Wa Kingdom, Tokugawa Iemitsu was extremely excited after learning from Shang Zhouzuo that the Ming Dynasty had invited him to send troops to form an alliance army to conquer the Mughals together, so he agreed, because Tokugawa Iemitsu felt that this was an opportunity to dominate the world and gain benefits.Of course, the narrow and densely populated and disaster-prone Wa State was indeed more aggressive than North Korea, so unlike North Korea's reaction, he wished that he would bully other regimes and take advantage of the power of the Ming Dynasty to invade.What's more, Tokugawa Iemitsu, the shogun, was not the nominal lord of the Wa Kingdom, he knew that if he wanted to continue to control the emperor, he had to rely on the Ming Dynasty, so he was now proud to be the dog of the Ming Dynasty, and he was much more active than North Korea.…… In June of the eighteenth year of the Apocalypse, both Korea and the Wa Kingdom sent representatives to the Ming Dynasty to establish an alliance with Sun Chuanting, the privy envoy of the Ming Dynasty, in the Ming Privy Council to form an alliance army and conquer the Mughals.However, at this time, there was a dispute between the Korean and Japanese states over the position of each other to sign the "alliance agreement" drawn up by the Ming Privy Council.The North Korean side believes that they are the first lackeys of the Ming Dynasty, the Confucian civilization has the highest popularity, and is closest to the Chinese civilization of the Ming Dynasty, while the Wa State is relatively barbaric, otherwise it would not have sat down so many sins in his North Korea, so it asked the Wa State to rank behind itself when signing.The Japanese side thought that their Japanese strength was stronger than that of North Korea, and even once invaded the capital of North Korea, so that North Korea had no power to fight back, and was forced to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty before recovering the country, and they felt that in terms of strength, in the country that advocates Confucian civilization, he should be the first lackey of the Ming Dynasty!
In the end, this matter went directly to the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao.In order to show that he attached great importance to the construction of Confucian civilization, Zhu Youxiao specially ordered that the officials belonging to the Qingliu Dynasty, such as the Hanlin Academy, the Guozijian, the Chongwen Temple, and the Ministry of Rites, gather in the Wenhua Hall, and the envoys of the Joseon and the Wa Kingdom to discuss the ranking of the Joseon and the Wa State."
Your Majesty, the official language of Korea has used Chinese characters, and the costumes are close to Hanfu, and the Wa State still does not use Chinese characters as the official language, and its costumes are larger than those of the Central Plains costume errand service compared to the Korean errand service today, so the minister believes that the Korean civilization level is higher than that of the Wa State!
The Wa Kingdom should be ranked second to North Korea!
”"Your Majesty, Korean Confucianism is more developed than Confucianism in the Japanese Kingdom, and according to the minister's reading of the poems and articles of the scholars and doctors of the two countries, it is found that it is North Korea that has obtained the essence of Confucian morality.""
Yes, it is natural that North Korea is more expensive than the Wa State, no matter what else, the Korean people have used Han names, and the Wa State is still a four-character name, such as the name of the barbarians!"
In accordance with Zhu Youxiao's instructions, these Confucian ministers carefully compared the degree of civilization of the two countries according to the degree of acceptance of Confucianism.In the end, it was concluded that according to the degree of civilization set by the Confucian civilization as the standard, after the Wa State ranked after Joseon, and the envoy of the Wa State, Sakai Tadasa, saw that the Ming Emperor had such a big battle, and sent so many Confucian ministers to argue and compare with the classics, he had to be convinced, and he couldn't help but secretly make up his mind for a while, and said to his entourage Matsudaira Yasunobu: "Sinicization is not thorough enough, and I can't get greater respect from the Ming Dynasty, this is really a shame for my Wa State!"
You go back to the shogunate to inform the shogun of this, and say that my suggestion is that our Wa Kingdom must carry out a more thorough Sinicization reform in the future, flourish Confucianism, and be closer to the Confucian civilization embodied in the Zhou rites than in Korea!
Otherwise, we will remain behind North Korea in the international arena!
”Matsudaira Yasunobu said, "Yes!
In particular, the Ming officials said that our names were similar to the names of barbarians, which was simply irrefutable to us, and the North Korean envoys were proud of it!
Gotta change the name first!
”And for the North Korean officials are indeed very happy about this, Jiang Anzong said to Li Gui: "I have to send someone back to China as soon as possible with a letter, telling His Highness that we have not failed in our mission and defeated the Japanese State at the negotiation table, and the Ming Dynasty admits that our North Korea is more civilized and advanced than the Japanese State, and is more worthy of respect, which is a great victory, because it means that our North Korea will next be in front of the Japanese State in the international sequence formulated by the Celestial Empire!"
”After the Ming Dynasty signed the "Alliance Army" agreement with Korea and the Japanese State, the three countries officially raised troops to the West.This is something that has never happened in history.The political power representing the Confucian civilization would form a coalition to move westward, and for the first time, it would also embark on the same pace of expansion as the Western civilization.However, unlike the Western civilizations that are now fighting their own wars, in the Confucian civilization, the Ming Dynasty played a leading role.Because the Confucian civilization of the Ming Dynasty is the only country that has undergone a major change in the idea of governing the country, it tends to humanism, from the previous rule of etiquette to the rule of sincerity, advocating practical learning, and attaching importance to scientific practice.Therefore, this made the Ming Dynasty develop rapidly in science and technology and industry, and had the internal driving force of foreign plundering land to develop industry and dumping commodities, and therefore had a new policy in military, diplomacy and culture, and deliberately under the banner that Confucian civilization is universal civilization, and those who believe in Confucianism have the obligation to save the world, and bewitch the two Confucian countries of Korea and the Japanese to become the thugs of their own capital empire to save and conquer the backward barbarians.And because these two countries saw the strength of the Ming Dynasty and were proud of their Confucian civilization, they naturally believed it, after all, it was also beneficial to their ruling class.In particular, North Korea, because of the high degree of Confucian civilization was recognized by the Ming Emperor as above the status of the Wa State, so he felt that his civil administration of respecting Confucianism and respecting Han for many years was very correct, and after landing on the Indian Peninsula, he chose to build a Confucian temple, plastic Kong, and a statue of Zhu Ersheng.