In the afternoon, Li Hao entered the Taiji Palace again, facing the saint in the Ganlu Palace, after Li Hao saw the ceremony, Li Shimin directly spread his hands and asked: "Poetry madness, what treasure do you want to offer this time?" ”

Li Hao took out a small bag from his arms, held it in his hand and said, "Your Majesty, this is the treasure offered by Weichen." ”

Li Shimin saw that it was just a small bag, and immediately frowned, and said suspiciously: "The things in this little bag are better than the treasures you have offered in the past?" ”

Li Hao nodded: "Back to Your Majesty, yes." ”

"Better than Yantian?"

"Yes."

"Better than a plague cure?"

"Yes."

……

The more Li Shimin asked, the more curious he became, and finally he couldn't help it, and said, "Present it and let me take a look." ”

Xu Lian walked down and took the bag in Li Hao's hand and handed it to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin untied the bag and took a look, he was stunned for a moment, then reached into the bag and touched it for a while, pulled out dozens of grains of rice, he turned the bag down, and poured out all the things inside, only to see a small pile of rice on the case, and nothing else.

Li Shimin was unwilling, stretched out his hand and searched in the rice pile again, looked for a long time, confirmed that there was nothing else, Li Shimin twisted his eyebrows, and asked angrily: "Li Hao!" What about the treasures? ”

Li Hao arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, these are treasures." ”

"What?" Li Shimin grabbed the rice and glared at him and asked, "The treasure you are talking about is these rice?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, yes."

Li Shimin was furious, threw the rice at Li Hao, and shouted angrily: "What kind of treasure is rice!" Don't you know that rice is not grown in Guanzhong! ”

In the face of Li Shimin's anger, Li Hao's face did not change, and he said very calmly: "Your Majesty, this rice is not ordinary rice, it can also be grown in Guanzhong." ”

"Huh?" Li Shimin was slightly startled, and then said viciously, "So what, this is the treasure you are talking about?" Do you know you're a deception! ”

"Your Majesty." Li Hao said slowly, "This rice yield is very high. ”

"Oh?" As soon as Li Shimin heard that the yield of this rice was high, he asked with a cold face, "How many catties of this rice yield per mu?" ”

Li Hao said: "This rice is called high-yield rice, with a yield of 700 catties per mu. He gave the hybrid rice another name and deliberately understated the yield.

"What?" Li Shimin was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then glared again and shouted angrily, "Li Hao, do you think that I can't understand farming!" How dare you deceive me with such nonsense! ”

Li Hao's expression has always been very calm, because he has already made a bamboo in his chest, and slowly arched his hand: "Weichen doesn't dare to bully the king." ”

"Don't dare to bully the king?" Li Shimin sneered, "Hmph, then you are still talking nonsense, you dare to say that the yield of this rice per mu is 700 catties, do you know what the yield of rice per mu in our Datang Ling Dao is, it will not exceed 300 catties at most!" You dare to say that your rice yield is 700 catties per mu, and you are not afraid of the wind flashing your tongue! ”

Li Hao said: "Your Majesty, Weichen is willing to guarantee with a head that this rice does yield 700 catties per mu, and it is harvested twice a year." ”

"What!" Li Shimin was shocked now, the yield of 700 catties per mu is still two crops a year? What is this concept, if the current peasant is a family of four, the family must have at least three to four acres of land, and can barely eat enough every year, and if the rice is really 700 catties per mu, two crops a year, the family of four only needs one acre of land, not only full of food every year, but also a lot of surplus grain.

Li Shimin didn't believe Li Hao's words very much, but Li Hao swore and vouched for it, which made him a little confused, he recalled the shock that Li Hao brought to him every time he offered treasure in the past, and suddenly felt that what Li Hao said might be true, and hurriedly said: "Xu Lian, quickly pick up these rice seeds!" ”

Xu Lian was stunned when he heard this, and then responded with a bitter face, bending down to pick up rice seeds around the hall.

Li Shimin stared at Li Hao sharply, Li Hao lowered his head slightly, motionless, and even his expression did not change much.

"Is it really 700 catties per mu? Twice a year? Li Shimin asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, yes." Li Hao nodded and said, "This rice Weichen has been planted for two seasons this year, otherwise he will never dare to say big things to His Majesty, the climate and water and soil in our Guanzhong are not suitable for planting rice, so we can only grow twice a year, Weichen guesses, if this kind of rice is planted in Lingnan Road, it may be able to grow three times a year." ”

"Three crops a year!" Li Shimin was shocked again, stunned for a long time, and finally said slowly, "If all this is true, then this is a work that pours the sky, and the people of the world no longer have to worry about food." ”

Li Hao said: "As Your Majesty said, this is also the original intention of Weichen to offer this rice seed, Weichen called it high-yield rice, Your Majesty may wish to name this rice seed to commemorate this rice seed." ”

"This ...... Let's wait until I send someone to plant it myself. ”

Li Hao said: "What Your Majesty said is very true, Weichen has actually thought of a name for this rice at home, which can be called Zhenguan rice, from now on, even if it is thousands of years, the people will be grateful for the holy grace of our emperor when they eat the rice of this rice." ”

Li Shimin's eyes are like light bulbs when he hears this, and he shines brightly, Li Hao's suggestion is so special, if this rice is really high-yielding, and it is harvested twice a year, and it is named Zhenguan Rice, then the common people will think of him as soon as they eat, Li Shimin, this is going to be immortal, even if their Tang Dynasty is defeated by their descendants, so what, their names will be praised from generation to generation, tigers die and leave their skins, and people die to leave their names, which is more effective than letting historians continue to beautify history.

Li Shimin was secretly excited for a long time, nodded and said, "Well, Zhenguan rice? Good name, if this rice is really as magical as you say, then why not call it Zhenguan rice, haha. ”

Li Shimin is so happy now, so happy.

Seeing that Li Shimin was finally happy, Li Shimin also smiled proudly, and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, the matter of Weichen asking to marry Princess Wencheng ......"

When Li Shimin heard this, he immediately smiled, and suddenly said: "It's okay if you don't mention it, since you have mentioned it, I ask you, what is the marriage letter you and Li Daozong are engaged to?" ”

Li Hao said unhurriedly: "Your Majesty, King Jiangxia actually doesn't want his daughter to marry into a foreign country, but Your Majesty has a life, and he has to follow, but some time ago, Tubo repented of his marriage, and King Jiangxia hurriedly found Weichen and said that he was willing to marry his daughter to Weichen, for fear that His Majesty would marry Princess Wencheng to other states." ”

"Hmm." Li Shimin nodded, frowned and asked, "Then why is he looking for you and not anyone else?" ”

Li Shimin suspected that the relationship between Li Hao and Li Daozong was not simple, Li Hao had already thought of this, grinned, and asked rhetorically: "Your Majesty, dare to ask Looking at the Tang Dynasty, which junior can compare to Weichen?" ”

Li Hao's words were very pretended, very pretended, and he actually pretended to be forced in front of Li Shimin, too arrogant, Li Shimin was stunned when he heard this, and then laughed, and pointed at Li Hao with his hand: "You, you...... Sure enough, it's still such a bastard! This Li Daozong is really good at picking a son-in-law. ”

Li Hao patted his ass by the way: "It's not that King Jiangxia has vision, but His Majesty has vision, and it is His Majesty who favors Weichen, saying that Weichen is a Tang Yingjie, and King Jiangxia feels that His Majesty will not look at the wrong person, so he chose Weichen." ”

"Good, good." Li Shimin said, "Poetry madness, although you offered rice, but your marriage with Princess Wencheng must wait for me to send someone to plant this high-yield rice before I can agree to you. ”

Li Hao twitched the corner of his mouth, this old fox, he really doesn't see a rabbit and doesn't scatter an eagle, Lao Tzu has vouched for it with a human head, and he still doesn't believe in Lao Tzu.

Since Li Shimin said so, Li Hao was helpless, and was just about to answer, when suddenly someone outside the hall shouted: "Your Majesty, Tianzhu, Gesa, Dashi, Hall, Zhenla, the envoys of the five countries ask to see outside the Taiji Palace!" ”

"Huh?" Li Shimin raised his eyebrows when he heard this, revealing a look of doubt on his face, "What are they doing here?" ”

Doubts are doubts, but he still announced that he had met with the envoys of the five countries.

After a long time, the envoys of the five countries lined up in a neat row and entered the hall, and after the salute, Li Shimin spread his hands and asked: "The five envoys suddenly asked to see me, what happened?" ”

The Tianzhu envoy bowed and saluted: "Your Majesty Tianzhu, Tianzhu envoy Amor was entrusted by the king to ask His Majesty Tianke to marry Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty. ”

Li Hao and Li Shimin stared in surprise when they heard this, and at this time, the Gesa envoy also bowed down and said: "Your Majesty Tian Khan, the Gesa envoy is entrusted by the Khan to ask His Majesty the Tian Khan to marry Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty." ”

Li Hao and Li Shimin glanced at each other, and they could see that the wind direction didn't seem to be quite right.

Then the envoys of the other three countries also spoke, and each of them asked to marry Princess Wencheng, okay, Li Shimin and Li Hao saw it, yes, they were here to do something.

Li Shimin was very angry, if it weren't for the fact that Li Hao had just brought him a great piece of good news, he would probably be angry at these bastards now, five people came together to ask for marriage, and they also asked to marry the same princess, is there such a thing!

Li Shimin's face was full of gloom, and he didn't say anything for a long time, he was thinking about how to reject these guys, Li Hao also moved his mind, he could see that this thing was obviously done by Lu Dongzan, the purpose was to block himself, I have to say, Lu Dongzan's trick is really good, use diplomacy to exert pressure, Li Shimin wants to refuse, there must be a very good excuse, otherwise these five countries are all rejected, plus a Tubo, a total of six countries, when the time comes, on the border, the six countries will add blockage to the Tang Dynasty, and the people will suffer again.

It's like a farmer who has six sons in his family, but only makes a new dress for the Chinese New Year, and it's not suitable for anyone to wear, don't give it all, it's not suitable, Li Shimin has a headache.

Li Hao pondered for a long time, then suddenly walked to the center of the palace and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen also asks to marry Princess Wencheng." ”

Li Shimin was stunned when he saw this, and immediately realized that Li Hao should have an idea, so he said very cooperatively: "Poetry madness, you don't want to stir up." ”

Li Hao said: "Your Majesty, Wechen really loves Her Royal Highness Princess Wencheng, and asks for Your Majesty's permission, if Your Majesty is unwilling, Wechen is willing to try with the envoys of the five countries, oh, yes, there are also Tubo envoys, Wechen is willing to have a fair competition with the envoys of these six countries, and each competes for the princess according to his ability." ”

When the envoys of the other five countries heard this, they all agreed, thinking that it was a good idea, but they didn't believe it, and six people couldn't compare to one Lu Dongzan?

Li Shimin was secretly happy when he saw this, Li Hao's method is good, let's have a competition, brush everyone else off, I am willing to gamble and lose, I have no temper, no excuse, so I nodded and said: "Okay, just do it, you go back first, I will discuss with the ministers, how to conduct this competition, after the discussion, I will send a will to inform you." ”