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Chapter 1218 Horrible
In the fifth year of Yonghui, Emperor Li Zhi renamed Jiucheng Palace as Wannian Palace. In the second year of Qianfeng, after Li Zhi returned from Mount Tai after offering sacrifices to the gods, he fell seriously ill and was in much worse health than before. He felt that no one in the world could truly live forever, so he changed Wannian Palace back to its original name Jiucheng Palace.

Jiucheng also means nine layers or nine levels, symbolizing its height and magnificence.

Li Zhi, however, believed that heaven was not complete, and that nine percent had nine levels of achievement, so it was not possible to achieve complete success, and one point should be left to fate. It can be seen that in the face of life and death, it is useless to be stubborn.

Under the waterfall, water flows like beads. Li Zhi holds up a magnifying glass and finishes reading the memorial in his hand. Then he says to Ruichun who is beside him: "Yunchu said in the letter that the Qinling Mountains are extremely dry and we need to prevent fire attacks. What do you think?"

Ruichun smiled and said, "Your Majesty, Xue Rengui is the commander of your Majesty's Dragon and Tiger Guards. Your Majesty should ask him."

Li Zhi smiled and said, "Seeing that you are so calm, it seems that you have a ready-made plan on how to prevent fire attacks?"

Ruichun said: "The general said, go ahead and attack with fire!"

Li Zhi said: "It seems that fire attack is not a concern. Then, what is the purpose of Yun Chu suddenly writing to tell me to beware of fire attack?"

Ruichun put away his smile and said, "It may be related to his recent busy house raiding."

Li Zhi laughed and said, "The confiscation of property in Fufeng and Taibai is indeed quite far away, which is enough to keep him busy. Does he think he is powerful and wants to protect more people?"

Ruichun said with a fake smile: "All big shots have this problem."

Li Zhi sighed and said, "Yes, the idiot from before has now grown into a big shot, and has more things to think about."

"How about a reprimand?"

Li Zhi waved his hand and said, "Be quiet. He is waiting for me to reprimand him. Once I reprimand him, it means that the matter is over. Since he thinks he has become a big shot, I should treat him as a big shot."

Ruichun whispered: "Big shots are arrogant..."

"Yun Chu is also very ambitious, but he values ​​Chang'an more than his life. After we deal with the personnel issues this time, you will see that Chang'an will undergo a new change."

Ruichun sighed and said, "Changan, Changan...what can Changan become?"

Li Zhi murmured, "I am also curious... Yun Chu took such a risk, my brothers should be useful to him."

Li Zhi's expression was listless for a moment, and when he raised his head again, his face was tense and he looked cold and ruthless.

"Tell Yun Chu that I will not forgive him if he dares to set foot in the Sixteen Guards of Chang'an."

Ruichun waved her hands repeatedly and said, "He probably wouldn't dare to do that."

Li Zhi said with a gloomy face: "I am afraid that he really thinks of himself as a big shot who dares to meddle in everything."

The Tang Dynasty had three great figures, Li Zhi, and that was too many, let alone adding one more.

Fortunately, after Yun Chu confiscated those manors, he sent all the things that were not seized from Fufeng and Taibai to Jiucheng Palace. He also expressed his concern for the emperor's safety in the memorial, which prevented the emperor from exploding. However, this was already very risky.

Li Zhi seriously suspected that this was Yun Chu's attempt to test his bottom line.

First, while the emotions are strong, do something that might cause his dissatisfaction and see what the result will be. If the emperor is not angry, then continue to test him with more serious things until the emperor can no longer bear it and then stop.

Finally, this last thing becomes his behavioral standard. As long as he doesn't cross the line, he is basically safe.

Li Zhi decided not to indulge Yun Chu's bad habits, and he must strictly stop the first attempt, so as to prevent Yun Chu from getting carried away in the final attempt and forcing him to take severe measures to deal with Yun Chu.

Therefore, Ruichun, who had been promoted to the chief commander of the Hundred Cavalry Division, hurried to Chang'an with a group of soldiers.

The emperor did not doubt Zhou Xing's ability, but he suspected that Yun Chu could check and balance Zhou Xing. He sent the chief steward Ruichun to prevent Yun Chu from checking and balancing Zhou Xing.

Yun Chu invited Ji Wangshen to take a bath together.

In the big bathhouse in Jinchangfang, the two of them lay naked in the hot water pool, glaring at each other through the steam.

After staring at each other for a while, Yun Chu leaned against the pool, scooped up some water to wash his face and said, "The drought is severe, I need food and fodder."

Ji Wangshen said: "I have food and grass at home. Just tell me how much you need and I will give it to you."

Yun Chu smiled and said, "Are you familiar with Yue Wang Li Zhen?"

Ji Wang Shen said: "That's my starling."

Yun Chu said: "I heard that this person is smart and studious, and is called 'Ji Yue' together with you?"

Ji Wang said carefully: "We are brothers, it's not taboo to exchange family letters, right?"

Yun Chu said: "In my opinion, this is very normal, but I don't know what others think."

Ji Wangshen fell into the water, sinking his whole body to the bottom. Just when Yun Chu thought he was about to drown, this guy suddenly stood up from the bottom of the water, walked to Yun Chu in two or three steps and said, "Can't I protect myself?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "From your majesty's perspective, he has deep feelings for you, and the Tang Dynasty is a country of peace and prosperity. Why would you want to protect yourself? If you have the thought of protecting yourself, it is a disrespectful act."

Ji Wang Shen said: "We have been brothers for many years. If you want to attack me, at least tell me first, right?"

Yun Chu said: "I didn't tell you because we have been brothers for many years. Otherwise, we would have been conspiring, and when the emperor wants to chop off heads, he will chop off my head as well.

Don't talk about other things, let's talk about Li Zhen first."

Ji Wangshen sat quietly by the pool, rubbing his hairy calves with his hands, trying to get some dirt out. Unfortunately, his body was very clean, and apart from pulling out a few leg hairs, nothing came off.

"Hold on, huh?
King Yue Li Zhen, King Cao Li Ming, King Han Li Yuanjia, King Lu Li Lingkui who was crushed to death by the Tongtian Pillar, King Huo Li Yuangui, and Yuanjia's son Huang Guogong Li Zhuan, Lingkui's son Fanyang King Li Ai, Yuangui's son Jiangdu King Li Xu... Do you want me to continue?"

Ji Wangshen did not seem to be afraid at all at this moment. He smiled and asked, "How much time do we have left?"

Yun Chu said: "From the beginning to the end, you have never had time. You always think that it is easy for me to deal with the Hundred Cavalry Division, and sometimes I can even make fun of them. Do you take it for granted that the people of the Hundred Cavalry Division are all a bunch of good-for-nothings?
Among the people I mentioned, at least two are the emperor's or the empress's men. You have no secrets in front of the emperor and the empress.

Besides, which of the seventeen Taoist children who studied medicine with the old immortal is your son?"

Li Shen's teeth were clenched, but he didn't utter a single word.

Yun Chu said unhappily: "It must be the stupidest one."

Li Shen roared, "Yun Chu, you have insulted me too much. I will fight you..."

Yun Luan had a photographic memory, and he felt that he should be able to master pharmacological knowledge more easily than the seventeen Taoist children.

That wasn't the case.

Having a photographic memory is helpful in identifying herbs, but not very helpful. The forms of medicines vary greatly, and some are very similar. Even the places of origin are divided into east, south, west and north. If you want to truly understand herbs, you must taste them with your mouth.

Good doctors have tried all kinds of herbs.

The old immortal has tasted no less than ten thousand kinds of medicines.

Yun Luan had bad luck today. When tasting the medicine, he took the Mirabilis jalapa as Gastrodia elata and took a bite. Then, his lips began to feel numb, and after a while, even his skin felt numb.

Yun Luan did not shout, because it was useless to shout. The Taoist brothers who were responsible for teaching them to identify medicinal herbs had no humanity, and they were the ones who sneaked in to find Mirabilis jalapa on purpose.

The roots of Mirabilis jalapa are enlarged and very similar to Gastrodia elata. Some unscrupulous businessmen once made fake Gastrodia elata from the roots of Mirabilis jalapa to make profits. He did not recognize it today, and it was his fault.

Besides, the toxicity of Mirabilis jalapa is not high. At most, it will cause a feeling of numbness. It is much better than the guy who accidentally drank the Pinellia ternata soup that was not boiled for enough time yesterday. That guy started drinking ginger water to detoxify yesterday and is still drinking it today. The juice of ginger water is very irritating. After conflicting with the medicinal properties of Pinellia ternata, that guy's face was covered with blisters overnight.

Yun Luan indifferently put the piece of Mirabilis back into the pile of herbs. He believed that if he wanted to select the medicines needed for the whole recipe of "Gastrodia Uncaria Drink" from this pile of herbs, there should be someone who would take a bite of Mirabilis... After all, this thing really looked too much like Gastrodia.

Then, Yun Luan found auxiliary medicines such as Uncaria rhynchophylla, raw Cassia seed, Gardenia jasminoides, Scutellaria baicalensis, Eucommia ulmoides, Leonurus japonicus, Viscum album, Polygonum multiflorum, and Poria cocos from the pile of herbs. Finally, she found a piece of Gastrodia elata that looked more like Mirabilis jalapa, and prepared to prepare these raw herbs and finally synthesize a complete prescription.

It’s a full day’s work…

It was not until the evening that Yun Luan finished preparing the medicine. She put it in a medicine jar and started to prepare the finished medicine.

When the herbs began to smell strong, a strong boy with a bun on his head, only about 1.4 meters tall, took a deep sniff at Yun Luan's medicine jar, and then looked at Yun Luan with his eyes, which had turned yellow from testing too many medicines, and said, "Do you know what's wrong?"

Yun Luan barely managed to control the saliva that was drooling because of her numb lips and said, "Too perfect?"

The medicine boy laughed and said, "You used the wrong firewood. You can't use pine wood for Tianma Gou Teng Yin. You should use elm wood..."

Yun Luan nodded, then picked up the medicine jar and smashed it on the head of the short and strong medicine boy. The scalding hot medicine burned the medicine boy so much that he let out miserably screams, and large blisters appeared on his head, face, and arms that were visible to the naked eye.

The eighteen Taoist children present ignored the medicine boy who fell to the ground and screamed. A slightly older Taoist child opened his mouth and drooled all over the ground. When the saliva had almost flowed away, he said to Yun Luan, "Brother Yun, why bother with the Japanese? You smashed a jar of medicine, and all our results today are invalid. You must be punished."

Yun Luan also drooled as he said, "I will take full responsibility for it."

Another Taoist boy said sullenly, "What bullshit are you talking about? The rule that if one person makes a mistake, everyone will be punished was set by the old immortal. I think you did it on purpose."

Yun Luan sighed and said, "I have never understood. All of you Taoist brothers gathered together to make a good soup. If you throw someone like me into the soup, the good soup will become smelly. Tell me, why did the old immortal come here?"

Hearing the screams of the medicine boy, two equally strong Japanese medicine boys came and quickly dragged away the medicine boy whose head and face were covered with blisters.

The next person to come to the pharmacy was Lao He, the judge of the Imperial Medical Bureau.

"Don't let the old immortal see it."

Seeing the man being dragged out, Lao He gave a faint order.

"Uncle He, why did the Imperial Medical Service start employing Japanese people?" Yun Luan said, covering her mouth with a handkerchief.

Old He glanced at Yun Luan and said, "Did you taste the purple jasmine when you tried the medicine today?"

Yun Luan nodded and said, "Too similar."

Old He smiled and said, "There are not only Japanese in the Imperial Hospital, but also Koreans, Baekje people, Silla people, Arabs, Indians, and even some Romans. They are like the difference between Mirabilis jalapa and Gastrodia elata to the Tang Dynasty."

Yun Luan frowned and asked, "Are they all apprentices?"

Lao He smiled and said, "Tang people don't like to test medicine, they just want to be compatible."

Hearing Old He's heartless words, Yun Luan immediately said, "Uncle He, save your nephew."

Old He shook his head and said, "You are the one that the old immortal wanted personally. Not to mention that I can't do anything, even His Majesty may not be able to save you from the water and fire."

Yun Luan's saliva was gurgling and pulling out threads.

"My mouth is numb."

"Licorice decoction can detoxify all kinds of poisons. Also, don't consume poison intentionally. Eating too much will not be good for your body."

"I really don't know the difference."

"Don't eat it by mistake next time. Even if you kill a hundred Japanese slaves, it won't change your fate of having to study medicine."

(End of this chapter)