I was the heir in ancient times

However, in just ten years, Shu Kingdom seemed to be recovering quickly, and at the end of the strangely cold spring, it ushered in an unprecedented closure of the city.

Since the beginning of the capital, every person in every family who has not planted vaccinia vaccines and has not obtained a planting list signed by an official doctor is not allowed to step out of the house. Once they step out, they will be fined a tael of silver No one can afford such a heavy punishment!

The surrounding nine cities, large and small, that emanate from the capital are strictly guarded against death. Supervisors dispatched by the capital sit on the top, supervising all people who have forgotten about the border cities to be vaccinated. I kept following the doctor from the Imperial Hospital from the capital to learn the cultivation of vaccinia scabs and the production of acne powder. The old, weak, sick and disabled were vaccinated first in the whole city, and then young and strong men.

At the same time, all the river workers except Jiangnan were involved in the construction of a cement road. Those who were busy stood at the top of the city and saw that it was paved for several kilometers in a day, and the gray-black ground was mixed. The red bricks are divided into two roads, and strange slender tracks are specially made on the road. I don’t know what the purpose is, but what is surprising is that only one or two sunny days, the mud-like gray-black cement road is completely restored. It doesn't have to be hard!There are even strange well-shaped cement grids made beside the cement roads in many places, trapping the hillside behind, and ordinary grass is planted in the middle of the well-shaped grids, which is inexplicably powerful!

The cement road was laid, and the progress was extremely fast, and the popularization of the vaccinia vaccine was declared complete in every city!

However, with the popularity of vaccinia, the farther away from the power control center of Shu Kingdom, the more voices of opposition emerged.

I don’t know where these voices came from, and they spread in the market, because occasionally people who are allergic to cowpox will plant cowpox. Suppression, maybe it's really weird!

So a small number of people hid in deep mountains and old forests, for fear of being killed.

However, some river workers who do hard labor hope to get a chance to plant vaccines even though the environment is harsh. They don’t know where they heard the story of the hard labor in the capital being given cowpox vaccine by the prince, and they think that being given cowpox by the prince is almost equal to success. Those who have lost the prince will definitely be able to go home alive, even if they have no country, they can still go home and reunite with their families.

In this way, strange and extreme phenomena appeared in some areas. The people of Shu State were forced to plant vaccinia vaccines, but they tried their best to avoid it. They would rather hide in the mountains than vaccinate, as if his country had harmed him. Qualified for vaccination, but working desperately, trying to get one or two chances, wanting to have vaccination like the people of Shu Kingdom, it seems that they have a belonging after being vaccinated, and they don’t have to live in fear and hopeless coolie work every day middle.

Another half month later, smallpox broke out in a small area, led by the river!But once discovered, they were taken to the hospital for isolation by people who had already been immunized.

On the other hand, many high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen in the wealthy land suddenly had large-scale smallpox outbreaks, and the spreading speed was terrifying!The people who had no strength to avoid planting vaccinia were safe and sound, and all the self-righteous local emperors who thought they had privileges collapsed. However, it was too late to plant vaccinia vaccine at this time.

With the strange ravages and selective attacks of smallpox, everyone realized that cowpox could really prevent that deadly disease!In the previous dynasty, every time this broke out, the emperor would sacrifice to the heavens, issue his own edict, and the dignitaries would hide in remote places, no one could save them, and the disaster of gods and gods being unhealed was so easily resolved!

It can even be said that except for one or two cases of smallpox patients who died in some places, the outbreak in some places was brought under control, and smallpox basically disappeared in the land of Shu Kingdom in half a month.

At the same time, except for the more remote villages in the deep mountains, the cement road failed to reach all the 320 state capitals of Shu Kingdom, all of which were successfully covered!And a large number of prisoners of war and all the soldiers of the Shu Kingdom killed each other on the battlefield, but they built the same road. In the end, the hard labor continued to invest in the maintenance and construction of the river. The soldiers took them for two months. I received a large amount of daily salary and returned to my hometown in honor.

They can take the long-board ox carts from the state to the towns and counties, walk on the flat concrete road they paved little by little with their hands, feel the stability that will not bump even in rainy days, open the door curtain of the long-board ox cart, and behind it is There are countless carriages and horses, and they can feel that something called prosperity is quietly connected between their backward villages and counties and the state capital. The sound of the hooves of the horses and the rolling of the wheels is evidence !

At the same time, a blue-clothed businessman with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks took the latest team of darts to a county that was very close to the border town.

The dart team was organized by the Jin family, a wealthy businessman in the capital, and went around the disaster area to transport melons, fruits and fashionable women's accessories to southern Fujian, and planned to transport the locally abundant lychees from southern Fujian to the capital.

The blue-clothed businessman and a dozen other business friends equipped their goods and passed the cement road from city to city, like going from the center of a spider's web to the edge. With such a mighty team, they are not afraid of bandits at all. The gangsters, all the way unimpeded, except for the need to change horses every time they pass through a city, the speed is actually comparable to the waterway, and there is no risk of sinking the ship. Along the way, they can also do small business in every city they pass. Many businessmen have new ideas and want to open stores all over the country.

The blue-clothed businessman left the team halfway, and made a detour to Stone City. The further he walked towards Stone City, the more desolate he could feel. Before entering Stone City, the blue-clothed businessman handed in his vaccine certificate at the gate of the city, and reported I was able to enter with my own signboard. I stayed in Stone City for one night, and found the old inn where I used to stay. At night, I lay down with the proprietress of the inn, and I intentionally or unintentionally asked about the news of the border town.

The proprietress of the inn is a widow. Her husband has been dead for ten years, and she finally had a second spring. As a result, the man is a businessman who runs around all day long, but he always comes to Stone City twice a year, and he gets back together with her. After that, they went to border towns to do business with the Xiongnu, buying cheap woolen blankets and various croissant products and natural medicinal materials in batches, and then transported them to the capital to sell them at high prices.

Today, the proprietress heard the blue-clothed businessman talk about going to the border town to buy goods again, she frowned and said, "The border town has been closed for two months, so don't go, the old county magistrate has issued a notice a long time ago, saying that no one is allowed to go to the border town." In the past, if you wanted to do business with the Xiongnu, you couldn’t go this way, you had to go over the snow-capped mountains.”

The blue-clothed businessman rolled his eyes and said, "Why? I heard that the Huns are half dead now. The great Shanyu Yeluus has taken his wives and wives to hide far away, and has no time to care about other Huns. Life and death, now that they are in a mess, it is my kindness to give them a bite to eat, I can exchange their goods at a price ten times lower than before, you say it is such a good thing, how can you not go?!"

The proprietress still didn’t quite agree, and she showed some dissatisfaction on her charming face: “Everyone is saying that this smallpox was passed down by the Huns, and none of the soldiers in the border town came out, and all of them died. The cowpox was sent to us in Shishi. In the county town, and when the old county magistrate sent people to the border town, no one in the border town opened the gates. If you ask me, it would be good if the Huns starved to death. I have never seen such vicious beasts as them Oh, you still want to give them food!"

The blue-clothed businessman sighed, and said nonchalantly: "I also want to eat, besides, I pay so much tax every year, it's not for nothing, and our prince is not wise and powerful, he can pinch and count." Well, smallpox can't do anything to us long ago, even if I pass by, I won't get smallpox, don't worry."

The proprietress is not worried about this, she thinks that the lives of all the people in their stone city are exchanged by the soldiers of the frontier city, but they are not grateful at all, and the words seem to be taken for granted, which really makes her sick.

The two of them didn't talk for a whole night. The next day, the blue-clothed merchant took only one of his servants and carried twenty catties of steamed stuffed buns to the border town. It has long been occupied by the smallpox patients of the Huns, and it is dilapidated and messy, with vomit, feces and rotting corpses everywhere.

The blue-clothed businessman disliked these disgusting things, but he was a little proud of his health, walked into it confidently, and then said to the surviving and abandoned Huns in the grassland language: "I brought magic medicine and food. If you want to get These, just exchange your blankets and croissants for me. I advise you not to offend me. I am good friends with the old county magistrate of Stone City. If something happens to me, you will not be taken away by smallpox, but They will be cut off by blades and die slowly."

The businessman in blue came as soon as he opened his mouth to tell lies. He was so bold, but he expected that these stupid prairie people would not dare to touch themselves, and would obediently sacrifice their precious flocks for their lives.

As soon as the words fell, the blue-clothed merchant got the reaction he wanted. All the sick and weak Huns lost their fighting blood and were tortured by smallpox. , and some animal furs, but the merchant in blue didn’t give much food. He dropped five or six buns in disgust and let the goods be temporarily stored under a secret hillside, and then randomly found a Hun to start gathering news.

The Huns were as thin as bones, their eyes huge in their dirty faces, and they looked like monstrous four-limbed animals, dying.

The blue-clothed merchant had no sympathy for this, and only wanted news from himself. He asked the other party: "Don't you have a Hun who specializes in collecting tribal wool and selling it in large quantities? Just that Hun named Ula, where did he go? ?”

In the past, there was a gray area between the border town and the Xiongnu, which was used for trade. Among them, the fat Hun called 'Ula' was probably a relative of Shanyu. He first collected all the supplies of the small tribes in this area, and then unified Use it to sell, and earn some huge service fees from the middle.

The dying Xiongnu replied: "I don't know...they stopped coming here suddenly, we were abandoned..."

It turned out that it was the Huns who brought smallpox over. Some of them got smallpox, but because the tribes were far apart, even if all the people in one tribe died, the other tribes would be fine.

Their Shan Yu probably also discovered the value that could be used from it, and threw the smallpox virus directly to the border, and then introduced it to Shu Kingdom through the gray zone.

In other words, the Xiongnu did not become defeated because of smallpox, only these people were abandoned, and when these people died, the smallpox would be gone, so why did the Huns still fall apart?for what?

The merchant in blue couldn't figure it out, but he felt that it had nothing to do with him. He continued to march towards the border of the grassland, and exchanged [-] catties of steamed buns for [-] catties of high-grade woolen blankets and Countless croissant products, and he was even content to call out some. Although he was sick, he looked clean and had no chickenpox. The strong Huns helped him carry the goods on the backs of the flocks and horses, leading forty sheep and horses. Twenty horses are ready to return with a full load, and I can even imagine how I will make a lot of money when I go back this time!

His servants are adoringly flattering him and saying, "Young master is amazing! But the vaccinia scab powder we gave them is useless for those already sick? You lied to them that we just used it Not afraid of smallpox."

The blue-clothed businessman smiled and said, "What does it matter? We are not afraid after using that."

One master and one servant were talking and laughing as they stored the goods outside the stone city. The blue-clothed merchant even planned to sleep with his goods for one night, and called all the servants to work the next day. When the goods were brought up, they were empty. Then I bought some wooden carts from Stone City, tied them to the back of the carts, and slowly pulled them to the capital.

But who would have thought that such a one-night effort would lead to sudden changes!

I could only hear the whistling wind on the open grassland accompanied by the hunting of withered yellow weeds, but the sound was getting closer and closer. When a servant suddenly yelled, the blue-clothed businessman quickly rolled down from the carriage, but his eyes hadn't even looked. Clearly, there is a big knife on his neck!

The stone city not far away was still sleeping in the middle of the night, and the guards guarding the city didn't notice anything wrong here.

The businessman in blue cried, "Strong man! Keep people under the sword!"

Figures like a pack of prairie wolves slowly and mightily appeared under the moonlight of the night. The blue-clothed businessman had no idea where so many healthy and strong Huns appeared, but his thoughts turned quickly, and he quickly He begged for mercy again in the language of the Huns.

Soon, torches were ignited on the ground one by one like stars, and a Hun in a wolf velvet cloak held the torch in his hand, and with the other hand, he took the big knife on the neck of the merchant in blue and walked forward.

This is a very young man, still childish, but there is a scar on his face from the left eye to the left corner of the mouth.

He said directly in Chinese: "It's you, today you exchanged a large amount of our goods with a little bun, right?"

The blue-clothed businessman trembled and didn't know where this person came from, so he could only bite the bullet and say euphemistically: "It's a transaction agreed by everyone..."

"Then the fairy powder you gave can really cure smallpox? You people in the Central Plains used that so you're not afraid of smallpox?"

The businessman in blue nodded sharply.

"I also heard that the people of the Central Plains were blessed by gods. I wanted to see it for a long time, but I didn't expect it to be such a small package." The boy with the scar said in a calm voice.

The merchant in blue couldn't help but said: "Do you want more of this powder? I can get it! I can!"

"But how did I hear that every person in Shu Kingdom has only one copy of this medicine invented by your prince? And the color is not white like yours..."

The blue-clothed businessman paused, and quibbled: "This...maybe your information is wrong, my lord?"

"Oh? I know that you Central Plains people have innumerable grains to eat and inexhaustible treasures. Your honorable Crown Prince is a world-renowned beauty. He is the one who saved all Shu Kingdom people from a catastrophe. Get up, my queen mother is somewhat blood related to the mother of your eldest son in Shu Guoyi Prince's Mansion, according to the rules, he will call me uncle, you said, with our relationship, there is a mistake in this king's news?"

After the scarred boy said, a cold light flashed in his dark blue eyes. He raised the knife and dropped it. The blue-clothed businessman’s head spurted blood three feet and rolled down, “It’s not that simple to lie to my people in the next life. It's over."

After the incident here, the guards of Stone City seemed to have just discovered the large-scale fire here, and the whole city was frightened. Take the lead and bow down to them as a sign of friendship.

The old county magistrate had already stationed [-] soldiers and horses transferred from other places. He only waited for all the living dead in the border city to die, then went to clean up the corpses and re-camped.

Who would have expected so many young and strong Huns to come suddenly at night, and they were so friendly!

The old county magistrate asked loudly in an old voice, "What do you want to do?!"

The young new Hun King Yelu Ban said to the old county magistrate: "The former Hun King Yelu Us made a wrong decision and forged a grudge with the Shu Kingdom who has been friendly for ten years. This is something I, Yelu Ban, cannot tolerate. Well, today, I, Yeluban, brought the head of Yeluus, as well as the enemies of the Shu Kingdom, the former empress dowager and the old head of the country, which I plan to give to the current majesty and the omnipotent crown prince."

"I, Yelvban, am willing to bow down to the Kingdom of Shu from now on. I only want to be sympathized with by the Kingdom of Shu, so that my people can fly freely in the grasslands, without being tortured by hunger, cold, or disease! I also ask the old county magistrate to act on my behalf." As soon as the announcement is made, as long as His Majesty agrees, I will immediately bring my gift to Beijing, presenting my sister and Shu Kingdom to be good friends of Qin and Jin forever!"