Chapter 684
"Wan Birthday" is the birthday of the Ming Emperor.
When the emperor celebrated his thirtyth birthday, he naturally congratulated all officials. The emperor gave him hundreds of thousands of treasures for the Ming Dynasty.
Today's Daming Baochao is a hard currency with strong credit. With the four-character magic weapon of "redeem by ticket", merchants are increasingly fond of using the "Daming Baochao" issued by the Daming Bank.
Nothing else, convenient.
Even maritime merchants fell in love with Daming Baochao. Such a thin piece of paper can be exchanged for hundreds of taels of silver, which is so convenient.
The treasure notes that were only sent to vassal kings, ministers and officials have now become popular in the world and even replaced gold and silver.
Of course, the credit must be strong. But now, the Daming Baochao is definitely full of real gold. For civil and military officials, this reward is simply an extra bonus, and it is the emperor who makes excuses to pay the bonus.
Good thing!
Now, before the birthday festival has arrived, preparations are already being prepared here.
While they were preparing, envoys from various countries also arrived in Nanjing one after another.
When you arrive in Nanjing first, you must be the son of the Ming Dynasty, North Korea. Unlike other countries, North Korea regards the Celestial Empire as its parents' country and is content with the filial son of the Ming Dynasty.
On the birthday of the filial son, you can miss it.
Moreover, King Li is now the King of Li personally rescued the Shenyang Proton Hall, and later his Majesty personally rescued the North Korean leader. According to the Korean officials and civilians, it is tantamount to another "recreation of grace" by the Emperor of God. Every time he sends an envoy to the sky, he is excited.
In fact, the North Korean envoys have many troubles to come to Beijing, and all kinds of festivals such as New Year's Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are coming. Anyway, in a word, the North Korean envoys are on the road to heaven all year round.
Look, half a month ago, Chao Angel came to Nanjing.
The North Korean mission had a total of five sea boats. After arriving in Nanjing, he moved into the Ying Guesthouse in the outer city of Nanjing and brought North Korea's unique goods to trade with various Nanjing merchants.
There are not many types of specialty products in Korea. In addition to traditional commodities such as ginseng, medicinal materials, fur, pearls, etc., there is also Korean paper. This thing is easy to use by the literati and officials of the Ming Dynasty. After all, rare things are expensive. North Korea's favorite Chinese goods are satin, which is to meet the needs of dignitaries. Even if the Ming Dynasty is now in North Korea and merchants are doing business in various parts of North Korea, the North Korean mission will still bring a large amount of goods for sale in Nanjing every time.
Specialties that do not make a difference in the middlemen are still very popular. The same is true for the retired official to bring local specialties to Beijing to sell.
Although he was the chief envoy of the mission, Song Shilie was extremely leisurely. In addition to contacting officials from the Celestial Dynasty, he was also wandering around the city.
Unlike in history, after Bingzi's chaos, when facing the humiliation of the king, Prince Zhaoxian and Master Fenglin were taken hostages and resigned from office, they all devoted themselves to academic research. Now he has become the Minister of Li Cao. After all, the king is the former Master Fenglin Master Li Jing, and he is also his former student.
However, it was precisely because of the importance of being used that until this year, Song Shilie's wish to go to heaven was realized. The reason why he was sent to serve as an envoy was because Prince Li Fen was already ten years old and it was time to receive education in the Heavenly Kingdom.
Unlike the prince who was plundered to Shenyang as a proton, ten years ago, in Seoul, His Majesty, who was still a general, said that in the future, the prince, the prince and the son of the nobles of Korea could be educated with the prince and nobles together in the Ming Dynasty, all the people in North Korea were grateful.
Go to China for education!
This is definitely treated as a person of North Korea.
In the past six years, two classes of nobles from North Korea have successively visited the Ming Dynasty and received education in the Imperial College. Now it is finally the prince's turn, and it is natural that Song Shilie will accompany him.
The prosperity of Nanjing is unparalleled. In the past six years, the new buildings with four or five floors built inside and outside the city have looked extremely spectacular. There are shops on both sides of the street, and traffic is crowded on the street. The scene of crowds and shoulder-to-shoulder scenes is really lively, and it is full of prosperity and wealth.
As for the boats on the Qinhuai River,
As if Liu Laolao entered the Grand View Garden, Song Shilie stood by the Qinhuai River and looked foolishly for a long time, saying to himself:
"I'm afraid it's heaven at this time! There is such a prosperous and prosperous place in the world! It's really worthy of being the Heavenly Kingdom!"
What surprised Song Shilie even more was that there was no beggar in such a large city of Nanjing!
It’s not without beggars!
Instead, all the beggars were taken away by the government, and the young were sent directly overseas, where they supported themselves, and the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, and children were directly brought to official charity organizations for raising them. Not only in Nanjing, but also in the Ming Dynasty, there was no way. There was no way overseas, and those with hands and feet could not let them wander here and beg for a living.
Of course, Song Shilie didn't know all this. As a great scholar in Korea, he witnessed the prosperity of Nanjing and saw that even beggars disappeared in the Celestial Empire, how could he not be moved?
Originally, when other officials returned to North Korea, when they mentioned these, Song Shilie had questioned, after all, how could there be no beggars in the world?
Originally, in the eyes of the Koreans, the Ming Dynasty was a nearly perfect country. The economy, politics, culture, and system were all templates for the ideal Chinese culture formed by them after being influenced by Confucianism. What they have witnessed now further proves this understanding, how can this not make them excited?
Even if Yao and Shun are reborn, this will happen!
For a moment, Song Shilie, who was excited, even shed tears and murmured:
"The Kingdom of Heaven and Heaven, the Kingdom of Heaven, is worthy of being the Kingdom of Heaven!"
Passersby said strangely when he looked at his excited look.
"What's wrong with this person?"
"Maybe it was because I heard that my parents died that they were so disobedient."
"Maybe!"
"Maybe..."
Seeing him wearing a Confucian robe, the passing scholar took the initiative to ask:
"What difficulties did my friend encounter?"
Song Shilie then returned to his spirit:
"Let my friends laugh. I am the envoy from the lower country who first came to China and witnessed the prosperity of the Celestial Empire. The world's great rule is so great that everyone lives and works in peace and contentment. I can't help but feel excited. The admiration for the emperor is really hard to express, and I will lose my composure and laugh at you!"
The scholar said proudly:
"So that's it. Now, everyone is living and working in peace and contentment. It is the time of prosperity. Not to mention you, even if you are in the lower world, you will feel excited whenever you think about the past and the future."
The scholar wearing a sword spoke a northern accent. How could he have no feelings for him who has experienced great chaos and is in the current era of great governance?
"The Holy Emperor is in power, and the world should be governed in this way!"
“It’s exactly.”
While nodding and praising, Song Shilie bowed.
"I am Song Shilie, North Korea, haven't asked for advice on friends?"
"My younger brother, Yu Chenglong, Shanxi, have met Brother Song!"
Chapter completed!