 The Great King of Tartary (the Manchus) sends Prince Bairoku (梅勒 王) as his emissary to the court.The emissary's demand is that the emperor's wife be sent to him, to become his consort.The minister and General of the Right, Ri Tōten (李蹈天) reveals that the reason that the Great King believes he can make this demand is because, in 1641, Ri Tōten had sought ten million bushels of grain to relieve the famine gripping the land.