It is worth mentioning that the tribute rules in the Song Dynasty were generally to draw one tenth of the items tributed to the emperor by the vassal states. As a pure gift given to the emperor by the vassal states, this part of the Song Dynasty was not spent on money.

Another nine out of ten are purchased by the Maritime Bureau at the market price, and it is not for nothing.

This fully experiences the prosperity and grandeur of the Supreme Kingdom of the Celestial Empire.

The royal family of the Northern and Southern Song dynasties was indeed rich, or the royal family of all dynasties was very rich, so it was not surprising that they did such a thing.

However, Su Yonglin is a stingy person and stingy person. His royal family is also very poor, so he couldn't open up the situation from the beginning of this kind of thing, which is very low.

After becoming emperor, Su Yonglin revised the tribute rules and said that what he gave me was mine, and he didn't need one tenth or nine out of ten to break the rules, saving those boring intermediate links.

Take it all for you!

As the earliest and only first vassal state of the Ming Dynasty that survived to this day, the Goryeo Kingdom was also the biggest "beneficiary" of this system.

When their envoy learned that the Ming Dynasty had revised the tribute rules and the return gift to the vassal state was just a letter of condolence from the emperor, the expression on his face was quite beautiful.

Later, the King of Goryeo also wrote a letter to Su Yonglin, asking why Su Yonglin changed the rules, and also vaguely asked whether the people in Goryeo could slightly reduce some tribute gifts.

Su Yonglin's reply is very simple.

The tributes I paid for did not look at the quantity, but mainly depended on my intention. When I got my intention, the quantity actually didn’t matter, but if I didn’t feel the right one…

Do you, the vassal state, really respect the Ming Dynasty as the sect leader?

Why can't I feel your sincerity?

Of course, I definitely don’t want you to provide more tributes, absolutely not, I mainly depend on my intentions.

Yes, my heart.

Since then, the number of tributes in Goryeo has increased and the quality is also good, fully reflecting the "heart".

After establishing the relationship between the suzerain state and the vassal state, Chameng State knew the new rules of the Ming Dynasty, but this time he still sent such a generous gift, which was enough to see Zou Yana's "filial piety". So Su Yonglin also felt that Zou Yana was a good king of a small country that could be supported.

In the future, in the new Southeast Asian order dominated by the Ming Dynasty, Zou Yana and his Champaign will have a good future.

Su Yonglin thought so at that time.

As a few days later, Su Yonglin learned from the Maritime Bureau that two black-clothed merchants were dripping from the sea and complained to the Maritime Bureau of the Ming Dynasty.

They said that their goods were stolen by the people of Chameng and sent to Guangzhou, and they wanted to recover the goods that belonged to them and sued Chameng by the way.

Su Yonglin hurriedly summoned the two merchants and learned from them that they came to Guangzhou to trade with spices and ivory, but when they were staying through Champaign, they were caught by the soldiers of Champaign and placed under house arrest. The cargo of the entire fleet was taken away by the Champaign king.

The King of Chameng took advantage of their rest and sent people to attack without being virtuous. They were caught off guard and were taken down by the people of Chameng. Now most of them are under house arrest in Chameng. The two merchants are lucky and fled.

Their mother country was weak and could not provide any help to them. They could only hope for the Ming Dynasty, which had always been fair. They came to Guangzhou to complain to the Ming government, hoping that the Ming Dynasty would make the decision for them.

Otherwise, they would really lose all their money, so they might as well just go to sea and commit suicide.

After hearing this, Su Yonglin was surprised and asked about the types and quantity of goods brought by the two merchants. The results were one by one, and there were a few hundred kilograms or more than one thousand kilograms in the specific quantity, but it was not harmful.

He also found a secret spy from Tianwang Army to ask if Chameng's country's products are abundant and if there is a large amount of spices and ivory production.

The spy said that there are quite a lot of ivory, but the spices are produced relatively small, and most of them are enjoyed by domestic powerful people, and there are relatively few that can be used for business.

Su Yonglin asked the spies to identify the spices and concluded that these spices were indeed not produced in Chameng.

Su Yonglin sighed a long time, and was even more speechless even more annoyed.

Chameng Country is indeed not big, but it is also a country. It is also a well-known existence in Southeast Asia. Why did the king actually do the business of robbers? He also used the stolen things as gifts and tributes to him?

Sales of stolen goods?

Borrow flowers to offer Buddha?

Because there is no huge kickback to get, I just use other people’s things to offer him. Can I gain a good reputation without spending a penny?

Su Yonglin suddenly felt that some rules set by the Celestial Kingdoms in the past had spoiled these small countries around.

Both of them think that the benefits of the elder brother are that they can be taken at will. As long as they pay a little tribute, they can get huge kickbacks. Even when the country encounters financial problems, they will think of the elder brother and then come to "pay tribute".

It is said that because some countries pay tribute too frequently, the Celestial Kingdom itself could not bear it, so it had to limit the number of tributes paid by some countries.

It is really hard to see the act of forcing oneself to win over one's respect after doing a great injustice.

Therefore, after he founded his country, he had to make changes and make changes to his tribute policy, which eliminated the idea of ​​some shameless small countries making a lot of money by tribute.

For this reason, those who did not come to pay tribute or cut tribute tributes gave Su Yonglin a legitimate excuse to start a war and teach them a lesson, and could serve the world revolutionary plan.

It’s not their turn to take the excuse first.

It's their turn, and it's not updating them.

Regardless of these things, Su Yonglin was really angry, so he brought the Chameng envoy who had not left and made him confront the merchants of the Dashiguo on the spot.

As a result, the envoy of Chameng Kingdom was speechless. Facing the angry accusations and crying of the merchants of the Great Food Kingdom, and Su Yonglin's gaze, he could not even raise his head.

Su Yonglin was furious.

"It's embarrassing! It's so embarrassing! The king of a country actually does such a robber! Is it shameless? Do you want to be more handsome? Is this thing really that expensive? It's even more expensive than the dignity of a king?

I really want to buy it, spend some money! It can’t cost much! Such a big country, can’t even get this little money? It actually robs it! It also uses this kind of stolen goods to pay tribute to me? What do you think of the Ming Dynasty? What do you think of me?!"

Su Yonglin was furious and pointed at the head of the envoy of Chameng and scolded him, making his legs weak and knelt on the ground and kowtowed and begged for mercy, begging Su Yonglin not to kill him.

Killing people is not enough, but Su Yonglin is really very angry, so he asked the messenger to go back to Chameng City immediately and let Zou Yana come to Guangzhou in person to apologize to him and release all the captured Dashiguo merchants.

Otherwise, Su Yonglin would take the Ming army to Chameng Kingdom to personally ask Zou Yana to apologize!

The messenger of Chameng ran away in a mess.

Su Yonglin ordered all these "gifts" to be returned to the merchants of Dashiguo.

And comfort them and tell them that the Ming Dynasty will definitely uphold justice for them, and they just need to believe in the Ming Dynasty.

Two merchants from the Great Food Kingdom cried and bowed to Su Yonglin's grand ceremony.

Things later became very simple. Before Su Yonglin's anger disappeared, he began to seriously think about the previous strategies for Southeast Asia, and began to rethink whether Zou Yana was an existence that could be regarded as a pawn.

This guy's pattern is really unopenable.

The king of a country cannot do what he promised, but he actually has to be a robber to do something. This pattern, vision and courage do not even have the qualifications to be a chess piece, and at best it is a chessboard.

But after all, this is not a big deal. With Chameng Country, the military strength that was slightly difficult to deal with the Li Dynasty, and with their military strength using elephant soldiers as the main combat troops, if we really want to fight, Chameng Country is just a side dish on the Ming army's table.

Su Yonglin completely didn't think Zou Yana had the courage and confidence to resist him.

External problems are ultimately small problems, while internal problems are big problems. In such a big Ming country, any small problems in any place, if you look up carefully, it is unlikely that it is just a small problem.

So Su Yonglin decided to solve the problem in Guangzhou before launching the third major purge during his departure.
Chapter completed!