The representative of the envoy of Dali Kingdom was Gao Zhenming. He is said to be a child of a powerful family in Dali. He has a very strong status in Dali.

The Gao family can be said to be the Cao family in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the Sima family in the late Cao Wei Dynasty, which holds real power in China, while the Duan emperor is more like a mascot.

Therefore, it is very normal for those who come to the Ming Dynasty to "pay tribute" by the Gao family, and Su Yonglin didn't think there was anything wrong.

In other words, they have only sent people here now, but they seem a little slow. They want to send people here, and they should send people here after the Ming Dynasty eliminated the Shu and Song regime.

However, since they have come, it means that they did not simply regard the Ming Dynasty as their enemy, and they also wanted to solve the problem through diplomatic means, or they realized the Ming Dynasty's strong military strength and lost the idea of ​​confronting the Ming army.

Su Yonglin felt that the reason why they sent people here at this time was probably because they learned that he had won a big victory in South Vietnam and turned the South Vietnamese country into the Annan Special Administrative Region.

The Dali Kingdom dared to take a non-violent and non-cooperating attitude in front of the Central Plains dynasty, which was not without support.

Although they were effective, during their predecessor, the powerful Tang army was defeated twice during the period of their predecessor, Nanzhao Kingdom. The Tang army suffered two defeats here, with heavy losses and a very shameful face.

However, Nanzhao is a small country after all, and its national strength is insufficient, so it is impossible to confront a large country for a long time. Therefore, it is generally seeking peace through war, and this attitude continued until the Dali Kingdom period.

During the southern expedition, Zhao Kuangyin learned the lesson of the two complete annihilations of the Tang army. He gave up the capture of Dali with the Dadu River as the boundary, allowing the Dali Kingdom to be preserved. After that, the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty always had a vigilant attitude towards Dali Kingdom, and was always lukewarm to them, and the exchanges between the two sides were very limited.

This also led to the end of Dali's lifetime, and Buddhism was always regarded as the official doctrine rather than Confucianism, and Chinese culture did not take root in Dali.

Therefore, when the Mongolian Yuan ruled the Yunnan region and built the Confucius Temple locally, people in Dali called Confucius "Han Buddha" and were quite unfamiliar with it and did not understand it.

Compared with the vigilant exchanges between the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, the Dali Kingdom always maintained a certain attitude of friendly exchanges towards the Song Dynasty. It sent envoys to pay tribute many times and requested a title, and obtained the title of Yunnan Jiedushi and the King of Dali, which was also regarded as a vassal state of the Southern Song Dynasty.

After the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, the Dali Kingdom now also lost its legal superiority. It was the best choice to continue to establish a vassal relationship with the Ming Dynasty.

Su Yonglin didn't know whether Dali Kingdom also held the same vigilant attitude towards the Ming Dynasty as the Li Dynasty in Nanyue, but what he knew more was that these small countries were actually not allowed to be chosen. No matter what kind of country the Ming Dynasty was or how much the Ming Dynasty cared about the revolution, they were not allowed to be chosen.

The Ming Dynasty was here, establishing regimes and armed forces in this traditional core area of ​​East Asia, and its powerful forces radiated to the surroundings, unstoppable.

Gao Zhenming, tall, majestic, gorgeously dressed, Shu brocade products, were clearly from head to toe, and were born with a golden spoon in his mouth.

It has to be said that before and after the war began, Dali Kingdom was a big buyer of Shu brocade. Even during the war in Sichuan and Shu, Dali Kingdom secretly created a large number of Shu brocades.

For this reason, Su Yonglin also sent someone to scold Dali.

They had no reaction at that time, but this time they came to pay tribute, the Dali Kingdom sent 10,000 Shu brocades as tributes, as well as 500 Dali horses, as well as a large number of luxury goods such as musk and beef, which were obviously full of sincerity.

Since they are so sincere, Su Yonglin also wants to meet them for the sake of these gifts.

Of course, you can't give it a good face casually.

So Su Yonglin came up and attacked.

"Before, the Ming Dynasty issued a blockade order to the fake Chengdu court, not allowing them to take out a little food. As a result, your country ignored the Ming Dynasty's ban and still purchased a large amount of Shu brocade. Is this a matter?"

Gao Zhenming seemed to have expected Su Yonglin to ask this question, his expression remained unchanged, and after bowing deeply, he gave an explanation in fluent Chinese language.

"When the Emperor said, this matter was not a decision made by His Highness, but an agreement reached by some people who were obsessed with the pseudo-dynasty of Chengdu in private. They were greedy for profit and the low price given by the Chengdu court, so they did something that violated the emperor's order.

Later, the incident was learned by His Highness the King. His Highness was very angry and ordered the execution of twelve officials who had done business with the pseudo-gong in Chengdu. Their heads had been dealt with and are now officially dedicated to His Majesty the Emperor as an apology for the Dali Kingdom.”

Gao Zhenming waved his hand, and several followers carried the wooden plate forward, uncovered the black cloth on the plate, and twelve heads that were dying without any recession were cleared.

"This group of thieves are greedy and do things that violate the orders of the Ming Emperor. They are not only disrespectful to the Ming Emperor, but also deviate from the national policy of Dali. It is a rebellious act. Dali will definitely not tolerate them! Now behead them to serve as a warning to others!"

"In order to apologize to His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, His Highness of our country offered 10,000 pieces of Shu brocade as a plea. He hoped that His Majesty would accept it with a smile, so that he would not blame the remote small country for its greed."

Looking at the heads of the twelve unlucky guys and Gao Zhenming who knelt down to salute further, Su Yonglin narrowed his eyes.

This Gao Zhenming is not simple, and it is also interesting to the decision-making level of the entire Dali Kingdom.

If the benefits are taken, it is difficult to criticize the compensation measures, so that he cannot get angry at will and cannot use some excuses to attack Dali.

Originally, the Dali Kingdom's private purchase of Shu brocade from the Chengdu court was an excellent reason for the Ming Dynasty to declare war on Dali Kingdom, but now they have blocked this excuse first.

After killing someone, although I don’t know if these twelve unlucky guys dominate the Shujin trade, of course, there is a high probability that they may not even be an official, but just a poor unlucky guy.

But this doesn't matter, because it is indeed twelve heads, or twelve heads sent from thousands of miles away.

Not only that, they also gave 10,000 pieces of Shu brocade to apologize.

This is a very sincere apology, because everyone knows how much a Shu brocade is worth.

Now they have sent 10,000 Shu brocades for free. The transportation along the way has not been spent on Daming, and they have all spent money on their own. This means that the transportation logistics cost has also been borne, which is equivalent to a double or more price spent on transportation.

Su Yonglin is like having 10,000 pieces of Shu brocade for free, so don’t be too happy.

"Ten thousand Shu brocades are not a small number, and it is not a simple matter to transport them from Dali. Your country is also very expensive."

"It all depends on the heroic and powerful soldiers of the Damingtian army to wipe out the bandits in Lingnan and to stabilize the local area, so that the Dali convoy will be unobstructed. From Guangzhou Port to the sea, sailing all the way north, saving a lot of money. This is the kindness of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the whole country of Dali can only be grateful."

Gao Zhenming said, and then bowed to the ground again, with a full posture.

Now let alone Su Yonglin, senior officials and other officials who participated in this event with him also felt that Dali was really good and had done quite well in all aspects, and did not give Ming Dynasty any place to attack.

In this case, if they insist on catching them secretly engaged in the Shujin trade with the Chengdu court, they would feel a little deliberate, which would seem unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty itself.

So Su Yonglin had no choice but to ask Gao Zhenming to sit down and talk to him about some things about Dali Kingdom, their purpose of coming here, etc.
Chapter completed!