Daming Military Empire

Chapter 438 Expanding the Alliance
The news that the emperor was happy with the prince spread throughout the capital the next morning, because Zhu Cijiong couldn't help being excited the next morning and announced the news.

Of course, even if he didn't make it public, the people in the capital would still be able to guess that the day-like spectacle of the palace last night had long been rumored to be miraculous.

Moreover, the civilians near the imperial city could faintly hear a loud and clear cry. It wasn't the birth of the prince, so how could there be such a big movement.

Of course, Zhu Heyu is not the real prince yet, because he has not been formally canonized, but he is the first son of the empress and the first son of the emperor, that is, the authentic eldest son. As for the prestige of the Qin family in the army, as long as he does not die young, he must be the crown prince.

So, although everyone can't say that in their mouths, they already regard him as a prince in their hearts.

As for when the prince can be canonized, the Ming Dynasty followed the old system of the Tang Dynasty. At the earliest, the crown prince can only be canonized when the prince is three years old. In short, it will take at least three years to confer Zhu Heji as the prince. This is a later story, so I will skip it for the time being.

It is said that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire was pleased with such a big happy event for the crown prince. As a rule, all the vassal states must come to pay tribute. This is called Chaohe in the tributary system. It seems to be slowly dying off!

Since Zhu Cijiong took the throne, he really didn't have the heart to take care of this matter, because the tribute is to lose money and make money, and it is not worth it at all, so he has been implementing the "Daming Fan vassal state order system" to directly control the military and economy of the vassal state , As for the tribute, he never took the initiative to mention it.

However, this time, he took the initiative to ask the Ministry of Rites to notify all the vassal states that everyone is welcome to come to congratulate, and if you lose money, you will lose money. The main reason is that he is happy and wants to be lively!
What Zhu Cijiong didn't expect was that not only the vassal states rushed to respond and send missions to congratulate, even the Ottoman Empire invited Qin Gongming, who was stationed at the Eurasian Canal, to send back news, and they would also send missions to the Eurasian Canal. Come to Daming.

Of course, they didn't come to congratulate, but to form an alliance!

After Suyman went back, he mediated for a few months and finally settled all the cronies around His Majesty the Emperor of the Ottoman Empire. I don’t know if he used gold and silver coins or his own money. In short, he finally got it.” Authorized by His Majesty the Emperor, he has full authority to deal with matters of alliance with other countries.

This power seems to be a bit strong, as if he can form an alliance with whomever he wants, isn't it a bit exaggerated?

If it was changed to before Ibrahim I succeeded to the throne, this power would naturally be a bit exaggerated, because at that time the Ottoman Empire was extremely powerful, the Holy Roman Empire, Tsarist Russia, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, etc. Who, others will not agree to form an alliance!
However, it is different now. Since Ibrahim I took the throne, his cronies have made a mess of the entire Ottoman Empire.

Therefore, this full authority to deal with the matter of forming alliances with various countries is not only not a good job, but also a thankless job. Your Ottoman Empire has such a vast territory, and the country is in chaos. , at least, so the other cronies thought, and they were all waiting to see Suyman's joke.

If you say that Suyman's luck is against the sky, he will be miserable if he wants to catch up with any other country, whether it is the Holy Roman Empire, Tsarist Russia, Spain, Portugal or the Netherlands, who is allied with you? A big piece of fat meat, if you don’t bite twice, and you will guard it for free, it’s just a dream.

But what he hooked up with was the Daming Empire, the only powerful country in the world that would not pounce on the Ottoman Empire, and that was the Daming Empire. It's too far, I can't reach it!
The so-called long distance and close attack means that if the Ottoman Empire is on the border with Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cijiong probably can't help but take two bites, but the Ottoman Empire is too far away from Ming Dynasty, so far that he can't even arouse his interest in opening his mouth. More importantly, he There is no need to open your mouth to bite at all, as long as you support Suyman, this piece of fat will belong to Daming.

Therefore, not only does he not open his mouth, but he also prevents others from opening their mouths. Daming must save this piece of fat and squeeze the oil slowly, so don't any of you try to bite it!

How to prevent others from touching this piece of fat?
Naturally, Zhu Cijiong had already thought about this, that is, to expand the Triple Alliance and bring in both the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire. At that time, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain and Portugal would at least not want to attack the Ottoman Empire.

As for other countries, in the face of such a powerful alliance, no matter who wants to use their mouth, they have to consider whether their teeth are hard enough. If they are not hard enough, not only will they not be able to bite the meat, but all their teeth will be broken!

Therefore, after receiving the request from the Ottoman Empire, he not only responded immediately, agreeing that they send missions to discuss the alliance, but also sent a notice to Spain, Portugal and the Holy Roman Empire, asking them to send missions to Daming to discuss the expansion of the alliance. matters.

King Philip IV of Spain and King Joao IV of Portugal had already tasted the sweetness of the alliance, and immediately sent a mission without hesitation after receiving the notice, not to mention the Holy Roman Empire, which did not catch up The first alliance had already made Ferdinand III sigh, and this time he finally had a chance, and he naturally couldn't wait for it.

Now the capital of the Ming Empire is really lively, there is an endless stream of envoys from various vassal states, even the soil kings and national teachers of Duogan and Wu Sizang, all of them have come, and for a while, the capital is full of people. It's the court congratulations team. It seems that the Ming Dynasty has returned to the Yongle period, when all nations came to court. Of course, the current Daming is stronger than ever before. It's not that the vassal states were unwilling to pay tribute before, but Zhu Cijiong didn't let them come. That's all.

This time it was Zhu Cijiong himself who asked them to come, so he personally received the envoys who came to congratulate him one by one, and gave them generous rewards. They go back after attending the grand ceremony.

What kind of ceremony is it?It's so grand, is it possible that Zhu Cijiong is going to be canonized as the prince now!

Of course not, the grand ceremony he was talking about was the grand ceremony of the five-nation alliance. The last time the alliance with Spain and Portugal was short, there was no celebration. He always felt that something was missing.

Of course, we were in Spain at that time, and we didn't have the conditions to do it.

This time it was different, he purposely called the envoys from the other four countries to the capital of Daming, just to celebrate.

These five countries are all big countries in the world today. Regardless of their territory and population, they account for more than half of the world. How powerful they are when they are united.

How can we not celebrate this kind of change in the world pattern!

(End of this chapter)