Liu Dahei rushed to marry Jinhua before the New Year, and the Miao stockade's New Year's gifts for the Emperor also arrived in the capital before the New Year's Eve.
When Qi Xiuyuan received the gift list, he finally understood why the officials of the Ministry of Rites looked constipated. It was because the Miao stockade had given him all the local specialties of Qiannan.
However, the local specialties that were presented to the Emperor were not ordinary local specialties. For example, the yams that the Yong Prefecture offered as tribute every year, which was certainly a different type of yam from the ones normal farming families ate.
