Leader Lan Palace

Chapter 1249 Three volumes 362 (9 more)
The entourage of the harem was finally scheduled. Before the emperor left Beijing, he gave the King of Siam a four-character plaque: Yanfu Pingfan.

In addition to the plaque, silk and satin materials such as python satin, gold satin, and rice satin were given; six jade wares, two agate wares, a pair of falang furnace vases, two pine flower stone inkstones, five glass wares, a total of ten pieces, and porcelain 23 kinds...a total of [-] pieces.

That night Sun Yuqing quietly came to Yongshou Palace, Mao Tuaner led her to meet Wanxi, and told Wanxi with a smile that the emperor had rewarded the Siamese envoys generously, obviously the emperor was happy.

Wanxi understood the reason, but she didn't say anything, just nodded and said: "Among all the vassal states, Siam is rare to be loyal, and the emperor should reward it."

Sun Yuqing stared at Wanxi and smiled: "Master Hui Ling, it was Siam who paid tribute to these square objects. The emperor felt that it was not enough, and even proposed some things to the Siamese envoy. Siam has already followed the Western ship and paid them quickly. The emperor was overjoyed, and because of the tribute, he additionally rewarded the Siamese king Kuduan with twelve pieces."

This is a bit new, even Wanxi heard for the first time that the emperor even took the initiative to ask for things from the envoys of the family.

The Qing Dynasty was a kingdom of the heavens, and only the heavens rewarded the vassal states more. I have never heard of a time when the emperor felt that others were not enough.

Wanxi couldn't help being curious: "What does the emperor want?"

Sun Yuqing was very happy to sell Guanzi: "Master Huiling, what the emperor wants is--living things!"

Wanxi couldn't think of it for a while: "Living animals? I heard the emperor said that Siam paid the emperor two elephants as a tribute. Could it be that the emperor likes elephants and feels that two are not enough, so he wants a few more?"

Sun Yuqing laughed quickly: "It's not an elephant. It's a rare thing—an ape with white hair and golden threads!"

Wanxi thought for a while, then nodded: "It's an auspicious beast. I vaguely remember such a similar line in "Shan Hai Jing", which seems to be called '狌狌', and it seems to be like this."

Sun Yuqing blinked again: "...there is also a black bear!"

Wanxi was stunned at this moment, her heart moved, and her face was already slightly hot.

Fortunately, Sun Yuqing entered the palace too late, so she probably didn't know the old things, so Wanxi tried her best to tense up, and deliberately said: "Why does the emperor want people to pay tribute to black bears from Siam? This is strange~ It's not that there are no black bears in the Qing Dynasty, there are many outside the customs. Now, even Mulan haunts her from time to time."

Only then did Sun Yuqing reveal the answer: "Master Huiling, the black bears produced in Siam are different from those produced outside the Qing Dynasty and in Mulan Paddock. The black bears produced locally in the Qing Dynasty are all tall and strong, even afraid of tigers; The black bears from Siam are small in size, and even looked naive when they were young, and they can be kept in the yard to play like dogs.”

Wanxi couldn't help clapping her hands: "It's so interesting?"

Only then did Sun Yuqing lift up his robe and knelt down again: "...The slave said something that went around for a long time, but it was actually because of the last sentence: The emperor was so rare that the black bear and white ape were kept in the courtyard of the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Master slave and All the ministers thought it was inappropriate, and persuaded the emperor to go to the Imperial Garden or Xiyuan. The emperor said that it was too far away, and it was not convenient to take a look at it, so he insisted on seeing it every day."

"The slave master dared to sell the master—"

Wanxi raised her eyebrows: "What did Li Wenda say about me?"

Sun Yuqing giggled: "I ask the master to forgive me, but the slave master is really out of luck. That means that the master's palace also raises a lot of living things anyway. There are many cats, dogs, fish and birds, and there are not many of them. son..."

　Also~~ Siamese tribute and these things are also recorded in the files. The black bear and white ape are all true.fun~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)