Man Bao said word by word: "We obviously had a very happy conversation with each other!"
While they were talking, the emperor and the empress arrived. Everyone in the palace stood up and waited for the emperor and empress to come out and salute and say hello.
The emperor smiled and waved his hands and said: "My lords, please be free. On this festive occasion, I rejoice with all your lords and also with all the people."
The Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet was not held every year. It was the Queen Mother's filial piety period, and the emperor did not even host a Palace Banquet on New Year's Eve, so naturally he would not hold a Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet.
Later, he was busy with various things, and after the filial piety period, the emperor rarely held palace banquets. This year, various vassals came to send gifts, and this palace banquet was considered the biggest one.
The emperor smiled and asked everyone to stand up and sit down. After giving a festive blessing, he said: "Please come up with the envoys from each vassal state."
Envoys from various vassals had already been waiting in various side halls. Through the high walls, they vaguely heard the voices coming from the Wude Hall, but what they heard was not true.
Many of the envoys who came here were not here for the first time, so they were quite familiar with the process. They knew that the emperor had not yet come out at this time, and the sounds they heard were mostly the laughter of the ministers and official family members who came in early.
When they heard the three cheers of long live over there, they knew that the palace banquet had officially begun, and then they got up and sorted out their clothes and the gifts they had brought.
Sure enough, after a while, a chamberlain came over and asked them to come over. The emperor wanted to summon them.
This time the emperor valued the envoys from Tibet most.
In the past two years, the relationship between the Jin Dynasty and Tubo has been pretty good. There has been no major conflict. As for the small ones, those small fights can basically be regarded as conflicts between local people and are not worthy of discussion in court.
After all, the king of Tubo is still the emperor's cheap son-in-law.
The princess who was married to Tubo was a young girl selected by the emperor from the royal family and given the title of princess. They had the title of father-in-law and son-in-law.
The emperor hoped that the relationship between the two countries could continue to be harmonious, especially now that he was going to use troops against Goguryeo. He didn't like it if Tubo attacked him from a flank after the expedition. That would be too bad.
As for other vassal states, the emperor just kept his attitude unchanged. If you are honest, I will be friendly; if you are naughty, I can't help but raise the stick in my hand.
Fortunately, except for Goguryeo, Silla and Baekje, which are unable to come due to various reasons, the other vassal states are quite honest.
The emperor skipped Goguryeo at the palace banquet and rewarded all the vassal states, especially Tubo. The emperor specifically mentioned his cheap daughter and asked the Tubo king to treat his princess well, and rewarded him with a large number of silks, satin and porcelain.
The Tubo envoy immediately said: "The princess hopes that the Khan of Heaven will reward her with some fine seeds and plant them near the palace. Maybe she can eat food from her hometown."
The princess brought a lot of good seeds with her when she got married, but this was a good thing. If Tubo could get more things from the Central Plains, Tubo's attachment and affection for the Central Plains would only be deeper in the future, so the emperor generously agreed.
Directly ask the Shaoqing of Sinong Temple to prepare some fine seeds for the Tibetan mission, such as grain seeds, wheat seeds, and bean seeds. Pack some of them for them to use as seeds. You don’t need too much, just a small bag.
It's enough, the main thing is that there are more types.
When Manbao heard that she wanted seeds, she immediately thought of the rice seeds she was still experimenting with. For several years, the more than ten acres of experimental fields planted by her eldest brother and Datou could never be stabilized. Even if there was a particularly good harvest in one season, the seeds were left to
After the second year it was still in disarray.
She had discussed it with Dr. D more than once. Dr. D thought that the environment between the two places was too different, and the original cereals she had on hand were still too few.
She glanced at Bai Shan first, and he happened to be looking at her, obviously thinking of the experimental field in Pucun that was always full of conditions.
Manbao then sat up straight and said: "Your Majesty, I heard that the Tibetan people are very cold, and there are many fine seeds that are different from ours. I wonder if the Tibetan envoy can give us some?"
When the Tibetan envoy heard this, he thought that the woman was unwilling to give. Seeing the official robe she was wearing, he was a little unhappy and said, "Tian Khan didn't even say that he wouldn't give it. Who are you to alienate the princess and Tian Khan's father?"
Feminine love?”
Upon hearing this, Man Bao knew that he had misunderstood and quickly wanted to explain. Bai Shan stretched out his hand to hold her hand, raised his head and smiled at the Tubo envoy: "The envoy has misunderstood. Mr. Zhou really feels that Tubo has rich resources and good seeds are rare.
It’s a beautiful thing, so I just want to find one or two good seeds, and I don’t have any other meaning.”
The Tubo envoy said angrily: "Then what good seeds do you think we have in Tubo?"
It's just because they have few things that they ask for good seeds. Before coming, the king and princess both told them that they don't need to ask for other rewards, such as luxury goods such as gold, silver, jewelry, porcelain, etc., but they must ask for more good seeds.
I heard that the Jin Dynasty had obtained a wheat seed in recent years, and the yield per acre was good, much better than what the princess had brought to Tubo before. They wanted that thing.
Bai Shandao: "Both cereal seeds and wheat seeds can be used."
When the Tubo envoy heard what he said, he became even more unhappy and complained directly to the emperor: "Tian Khan, do you think your officials are deliberately making things difficult for us? Who doesn't know that it's hard to grow crops in Tubo due to the bitter cold? We have three acres of land."
The ground can't produce as much grain as you can produce per acre of land, so how can it be considered a good seed?"
He said: "It's because we don't have it, so we asked Tian Khan for it. If Tian Khan doesn't want it, then just tell us directly that we don't want it."
The emperor frowned slightly. Although what Bai Shan and Zhou Man said was a bit inappropriate, they were his ministers after all. The Tubo envoy was not giving him and the Jin Dynasty face by being so messy.
Bai Shan smiled and said: "The envoy is too self-effacing. The yield per acre of Tubo's fine seeds may not be as high as ours, but as long as it is a seed, it must have advantages. For example, Tubo's high cold and drought, then your seeds are cold-resistant and more important than ours."
, drought-tolerant, this is its advantage. As long as it has advantages, how can it not be a good variety?"
Man Bao nodded repeatedly, and when Bai Shan no longer stopped her, he gave her a wink and gently tapped the back of her hand with his finger. She suddenly felt blessed, and then she said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, I am my eldest brother.
I and my eldest nephew set aside more than ten acres of land as a test field in Chen's farm, Zhuangzi, and tried to plant rice seeds from various places, trying to find the best seeds. For several years, there were various conditions, and I kept looking for them.
Since no better seeds could be found, I thought that maybe there were too few types of seeds, so maybe I could try the seeds from the plateau."
She glanced at the Tibetan envoy and said with a smile: "It was only when the envoy asked for better seeds that I remembered that maybe planting grain seeds from the plateau together with seeds from other areas would have unexpected results."