After Zhu Yuanzhang pacified the world, the surrounding countries such as Goryeo, Champa and Annam all paid tribute to their subjects. Only Japan refused to submit to the country, so zhao rank was used as an emissary to send an envoy to Japan, taking Zhu Yuanzhang's holy oracle to Xuanda and persuading him to be a vassal.
Zhao Rank and the others crossed the sea to japan and wanted to enter from here, but the guards here would not allow Zhao Rank and others to enter. Zhao Rank first asked the Japanese to send Zhu Yuanzhang's edict to the Japanese king Lianghuai, and after Lianghuai received the edict, he ordered Zhao Rank and others to enter.
Zhao Rank met with the Japanese king Lianghuai and proclaimed Zhu Yuanzhang's edict, which included the accusation that the Japanese king did not want to submit to China.
King Lianghuai of the Japanese said to Zhao Zhi: "Although the mainland is a Yi tribe and lives in the remote Fusang, since ancient times, it has admired the Chinese ceremonial state, and often communicates with envoys and pays tribute. Only the Mongols, after occupying China with strong troops, regarded us as a small country.
My ancestors said, 'We are the Yi people, and they are also the Yi people.' But they vainly want the mainland to submit to him. They sent an emissary surnamed Zhao to cajole me with good words. At first, I didn't know that he was coveting my country, but later, I found that dozens of warships from the emissaries surnamed Zhao had been listed on the coast. But we relied on the spirits of heaven and earth, and for a time the thunder and thunder, the wind and waves, their warships were destroyed, almost no one survived, and since then, they have not been envoys with China, and now there are decades.
Now, China has a new emperor, sent you as an emissary, you are also surnamed Zhao, can you still be the same as the original Mongolian emissary? Do you also want to cajole me with good words and then attack the mainland? ”
Liang Huai gave the order, let his hand draw out the knife, grab Zhao Rank and cut it.
Zhao Zhi was calm and calm, stood there motionless, and said to Liang Huai in a slow voice:
"My current emperor, the Holy Heavenly Divine Wenwu, was born in Huaxia, unified Huaxia, and ascended the throne as an emperor, comparable to non-Mongols. I am a Chinese emissary, not a descendant of the Mongol emissaries, and if you disobey or disbelieve and kill me, then you will not face disasters far away.
My ming dynasty's soldiers are heavenly soldiers, all of them are a hundred, my Ming Dynasty warships, even if they are Mongol warships, are not enough to be one of them, and the mandate of heaven is in man, who can disobey it? How can you bring my Ming Dynasty to you with etiquette compared to the Mongols attacking you? ”
Liang Huai saw that Zhao Rank's face did not change color, his speech was calm, and he said these words in a dignified manner, and suddenly he lost his temper. Step off the throne and entertain Zhao Rank and others with courtesy.
A few days later, he wrote a letter of courtesy and sent Zu lai as an emissary to follow Zhao Zhi to Nanjing to pay tribute. Zu Lai brought nine monks to Nanjing, paid tribute to horses and specialties, and sent more than seventy men and women from Mingzhou and Taizhou who were robbed to Japan by the Wokou.
Zhu Yuanzhang received Zu Lai and others and rewarded them with some silk cloth and monk's robes. When they returned to China, they sent eight other monks, including Zu Xian and KeQin, to escort them, and gave them Lianghuai's "Great Calendar" and satin cloth and other items.
Since then, Japan has once again made tribute to the Ming Dynasty.