Liaoning Chengcheng announced that the political envoy Si Jianzhou Mansion was the same as Bai Siwen, who rode on a horse and led a long tributary procession through Chaoyang Gate and into Beijing.

Chaoyang Gate, Yuan called Qihua Gate, the grain of the nine warehouses in the door are transported from this gate, so there is a bunch of grain ears engraved in the urn city gate hole, every festival of filling the warehouse in Kyoto, the grain carts come and go in an endless stream. In ancient times, it was the main transportation route into Beijing, and officials and merchants who left Beijing to the south, or officials and merchants who entered Beijing from the south to make pilgrimages and do business, had to stop at Chaoyangmen. Liaoning's tributary procession, according to the rules, also entered Beijing from Chaoyangmen.

The same is a tribute, the reception treatment is very different, the reception of the Liaoning delegation is from the five products of the Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple, and the left and right are coming, the reception of the Chao * Xian delegation is from the six products of the temple. Why? The benefits brought by Liaoning to the imperial court every year are great: the court * Xian indemnity of 330,000 taels, the customs revenue of more than 1 million taels, and the silver of white flowers alleviates the embarrassment of the imperial court (part of the imperial court); Liaoning's production has greatly enriched the consumer market of Jingshi, and anyone who does not order "Liao goods" is embarrassed to meet people; Liaoning received a large number of displaced people, which alleviated the public security situation in various parts of the Ming Kingdom. Moreover, the reception of the Liaoning mission, the gift in return is great! If Honglu Siqing didn't look good if he didn't come out in person, he would definitely greet him in person.

But who knows the trick of the imperial court: Liaoning's products and profits are ten times higher; The acceptance of displaced people has increased the population of Liaoning; The craftsmen who poached improved the scientific and technological level of Liaoning; The food and materials transported away also increased Liaoning's strength, and the Liaoning bandit group was drinking blood from Daming's body in an upright and justifiable manner. And the territory controlled by Liaoning has been greatly expanded, and the imperial court knows nothing.

Although Bai Siwen's character is not very good, he is a filial person. His parents died early, and his sister and brother-in-law raised him by farming, so he provided for his sister and brother-in-law, and sent his nephew to Hetuara Public School, all of whom were nine-rank officials. Sometimes he also sighed that his parents would be very happy if they could see him so promising, not to mention that he was going to enter the Beijing Saint now.

As they were walking, someone in the crowd shouted: "Compatriots! Students! The Jurchen barbarians, outsiders, vulgar and barbaric, ferocious! …… Today, the Jurchens are deceiving the monarch, deceiving the court, taking advantage of the tricks, and growing stronger, and China is in danger! …… We, the people who are reading, should raise our arms and shout, wake up the people, and remind the court! Down with the Mantars! Down with the Manchu reactionary faction! ……”

When this person started to call, Bai Siwen didn't care about it, anyway, every year when the tribute, there were many scholars representing various forces who went around preaching against Liaoning. Bai Siwen and the two young masters of Honglu Temple looked at each other and smiled. It was not until the back that the man shouted "Down with the Mantars!" Down with the Manchu reactionaries! Bai Siwen "chuckled" in his heart, and reacted, "Isn't this the person who Lord Li Sicheng and Lord Kim Jung-ho strictly ordered to arrest?!" ”

In the case of Liaoning searching for the fifth traverser everywhere to no avail, Li Sicheng and Jin Zhenghao came up with a solution that was not a way: let Xi Ai send an order, all the people and caravans who entered the Ming Kingdom, pay attention to whether the people around them call the Jurchens "full of what", once they find out, they will do everything possible to take it, and if they can't take it, they must report it as soon as possible. The title of "Manchu * Nationality" has not been proposed yet, and the person who uses this title must be a traverser!

There is a way in heaven that you don't take, and there is no door to hell for you to break into! Don't blame anyone else for your own death! Bai Siwen lowered his face and said to the two young ministers: "Two adults, I am a foreigner in Liaoning, and we will not defend and refute it. But it would be wrong to say that Liaoning deceived the monarch and deceived the imperial court. I think I, Liaoning, am loyal to the emperor and the court, and it doesn't matter if I am wronged. But this guy is so proclaiming, it is really slandering the saint and slandering the court! ……”

When the two of them heard it, it was really like this! If this person slanders the saint and slanders the court, and if he doesn't deal with it himself, the political enemy will take the opportunity to attack! Immediately summoned the accompanying Jinyi pro-army, and immediately arrested this person.

However, this guy's character is obviously not very good, no one responds, no one helps, and even stops the onlookers. And his body bones are not necessarily strong, and he was quickly grabbed by Jinyi Wei like a chicken and sent to Youji for processing.

A small change will not affect everyone's interest. And Bai Siwen thought about the rewards of Li and Jin, and he smiled even more in his heart.

Lord Bai communicated with the two young secretaries, there were five large vats in the team, and Lord Jin strictly ordered that the things inside must be submitted to the emperor as soon as possible, and there must be no mistakes.

Every time Liaoning pays tribute, the emperor and the court have surprises, anyway, there is nothing important today, and Wanli is also very generous to meet Bai Siwen. The location is in Fengtianmen (now Taihemen), not the Huangji Hall (now Taihe Palace), after all, in Wanli's heart, Liaoning is no different from the political envoys in the mainland.

The big vat was placed outside the hall, and Bai Siwen went to the hall to see it.

"Liaoning Jian Cheng announced that the political envoy Si Jianzhou Mansion will know Bai Siwen and meet the emperor! Long live my emperor, long live, long live! "Excuse me. Bai Qing, why are you in a hurry to meet you, what is the matter? "Wanli is in a good mood.

"Long live Qiyu, it is the political envoy Lord Jin who strictly ordered his subordinates, there are five cylinders of things, and as soon as he arrives in Beijing, he will present the emperor!" "Oh, what's that?"

"It was the emperor's potato last year, and the planting has been successful, so I come to report the good news!" "Oh good! Present. ”

"Wait, Your Majesty, place soil in this big vat, dig it for fear of polluting the hall, please ask the emperor to move outside the hall." "That's right."

The vat is an ordinary tile vat, the stems and leaves in the vat have completely withered yellow, there is nothing to look at, and Wanli's interest has been greatly reduced. "Lord Bai, you are most familiar with potatoes, so please do your own harvesting." "Yes."

Bai Siwen reached out and grabbed the stems and leaves on the top of the potato, and pulled it out with a force. Looking at the potatoes in Bai Siwen's hands, the onlookers took a breath of cool air, and saw that there were three fist-sized potatoes on the root of the potato, each more than a catty, which was worth it. The minister who had learned arithmetic began to calculate: one plant will produce three catties, and one acre of land will produce three thousand catties, even if this one tree is carefully cared for, it is impossible to have this yield in the field, and there are 1,500 catties in a half, and one load is about 120 catties, which is enough for 123 stones!

Bai Siwen asked the guards guarding the vat to pick up the prepared big wooden hammer, and smashed the vat open with a "bang", scattering the soil in the vat on the ground. The guards dug through the soil with their hands, and it wasn't until three potatoes were dug out that Bai Siwen nodded with satisfaction.

Bai Siwen turned his head to present the six potatoes he had harvested, only to find that the onlookers were all looking at him in a daze, only Wanli had no heart or lungs. Half a day, Shoufu Shen screamed miserably: "Oh my God, fifty dans!" At this time, Wanli was stunned.

Shen Xingshi went crazy, regardless of his thin body, snatched the big wooden hammer in the guard's hand, and smashed it heavily on the cylinder, and the clay cylinder shattered in response. Regardless of the stain, he slashed in the mud and sand, and his fingertips seemed to touch something, his movements immediately slowed down, and his hands picked up the soil, and a potato was exposed, and he was overjoyed, and began to pick up the rest of the soil, and when the soil was cleared, the yellow potato stems and leaves appeared in front of everyone with the roots, and the roots were full of potatoes, and there were more than ten large and small feet, some were as big as a fist, and some were the size of eggs, and a large bunch of potatoes were strung on the roots, like grapes. (I'm sorry.) ）

At this time, the others began to react, knelt down towards the emperor, and shouted: "God bless the Ming, God bless my emperor, give auspiciousness, Ze is born." Long live my emperor, long live, long live! ”

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In the fifteenth year of Wanli (1587), in the year of Dinghai, God blessed the Ming Dynasty and bestowed auspiciousness, and the imperial court celebrated and granted amnesty to the world......