I Rely on Beauty to Stabilize the Country

Early the next morning, when he left Xue's mansion, Gu Yuanbai thought that Xue Yuan would not appear in front of him.

But as soon as the door opened, Gu Yuanbai still met the unshaven Xue Yuan's eyes, Xue Yuan smiled frozen, his shoulders were soaked with dew, "Your Majesty, I want to enter the palace."

"..." Gu Yuanbai, "What are you doing in the palace?"

Xue Yuan: "I will protect you."

Gu Yuanbai couldn't help turning the jade finger in his hand, his gaze swiveled on his face, and then moved away from his stubble and black eyes, "Do you want a salary?"

"Your Majesty can take care of food and housing," Xue Yuan said.

Gu Yuanbai nodded, and said simply and neatly, "Follow."

Another one appeared in the team leaving the palace, Xue Yuan wrapped his boots tightly, adjusted his waist with a sword, and rejoined the team of personal guards.

He looked at Gu Yuanbai's back, lowered his brows, and clenched the handle of the knife tightly.

After returning to the palace, Gu Yuanbai called Dong Lingwei, but before he gave them the order to search the palace and the Xuanzheng Hall, someone from the Supervision Office came to visit the Holy Majesty.

This group of people came back from the coast, and they were sent by Gu Yuanbai to investigate the matter of Haiyan and Chiyan. When Xixia Qingyan was secretly prevailing, Gu Yuanbai had been looking for ways to increase the source of income.

In addition, they also have a special task, which is to search for crops that have never been seen around the coast, to see if there are seeds from other continents that have been photographed by the waves to the border of Daheng, or have been picked up by seagulls, and then Something that takes root along the coast.It would be a real joy to find potato or corn seeds along the coast.

This group of people has been to the coast for two years, and this is the first time they have returned.Gu Yuanbai ordered Dong Lingwei to wait at the side, and let the officials of the Supervision Office come forward.

After the officials of the Supervision Office finished their salutes, without any nonsense, they first reported the salt drying along the coast, and then handed over the map to Gu Yuanbai. Gu Yuanbai looked at the red dots on the map, "These are the newly found rock salt and lake salt?"

"Yes," said the official of the Supervision Office, "I found a salt lake in a mountain depression in Liangzhe. There are many salt lakes in China, and I have tried it, and it is edible salt."

"Natural sun-dried table salt," Gu Yuanbai's eyes lit up, "Is there a lot?"

"There is a stretch of mountains, large and small," the official of the Supervision Office said cautiously, "The garrison has entrusted the garrison to surround that place. After careful inspection, it is found that the animals in the mountain like to lick a mountain wall before noon. I will go and have a look. After just a few scrapes with the dagger, the dirt-colored salt grains appeared, and after a few more scrapes, there was snow-white salt inside. The mountains were faintly covered with snow, and it was only then that Chen realized that the mountains were not covered by snow. , but rock salt. But the servants and others are short of manpower, so I just came back to report to the Holy Majesty first, and have not checked the quantity yet."

Gu Yuanbai breathed heavily, "Then these hills with salt lakes?"

"Yes," the official of the Supervision Office couldn't help but smile, "These hills, I boldly speculate, are all big salt mines."

This surprise came too suddenly, and Gu Yuanbai was overjoyed when he was caught off guard.Seeing His Majesty's appearance, the people from the Supervision Office were very happy and satisfied, and took out another wooden box, "My Majesty, when I came back from a place along the coast, I found that the rich and noble people near the sea like to light a kind of spice. The fragrance of these spices is pleasant, and it also has the effect of refreshing the mind, so the ministers specially brought them to the Holy Majesty."

Gu Yuanbai readily agreed, asked Tian Fusheng to take it, extinguished the incense in the hall, ventilated, lit the spices brought by the officials of the Supervision Office, and placed them on the desk for tasting.

The dense smoke curled up from the censer, and the light and elegant fragrance slowly permeated, but the smile on Gu Yuanbai's face was paused, and finally he calmed down slowly, congealed into an expressionless expression.

As his expression turned cold, the atmosphere in the hall seemed to be frozen suddenly.In the huge palace, only this misty mist is moving with the wind.

Gu Yuanbai leaned back slowly, leaning on the back of the chair, he said emotionally: "Is this incense from the coast?"

The official of the Supervision Office looked serious, "I don't dare to talk nonsense, this incense is exactly the incense that entered my Daheng from the coast."

Gu Yuanbai's breathing became a little quicker, his hands had already pinched the armrest of the seat, his fingertips turned white, and he was faintly furious, "I understand. You have worked hard all the way, let's go on first."

The officials of the Supervision Office looked worried and retreated very obediently.

As soon as the people left, Gu Yuanbai looked at Dong Lingwei, his eyes seemed to be frozen, "Invite the Seventh Prince of Xixia here! Just say that I invite him to come and accompany me to enjoy the Imperial Garden."

Dong Lingwei immediately took the order and left. Gu Yuanbai's face was gloomy, black as ink, he stretched out his hand and slammed the incense burner into the hall, with a bang, the servant in the hall fell to his knees and made a dull sound.

"Coastal incense, coastal spices!" Gu Yuanbai's forehead showed blue veins, "It turned out to be the national fragrance of Western Xia!"

Xixia is inland, which is the location of Ningxia and Shaanxi in the future. It is far away from the sea across Daheng. In such an inland country, how can there be a spice that comes in from the coast to become the national fragrance!

The censer rolled several times on the ground and was trampled under by Xue Yuan. Xue Yuan's brows were gloomy, and he stepped forward to support the shivering Holy Majesty.

Gu Yuanbai was supported by him and sat down again. His eyes were heavy, looking at the soot that had been knocked down on the ground, a word suddenly flashed in his mind.

Addiction.

The wind blew in from the gate of the palace, and the silk robe flew forward.The afternoon sun shone on the palace gate and stretched to the front of the desk, but Gu Yuanbai felt chills in his limbs.

He grabbed Xue Yuan's hand, and his fingers made fingerprints on the back of Xue Yuan's hand.

Addiction, what is an addiction?

The most famous should be opium.The well-known addictive substance that the Chinese hate and fear is opium, which is made from the fruit of the poppy.

There are also five stone powder.

Wushi powder was popular in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but few people use it now.But opium has been paid tribute since the Tang Dynasty, and it has always been regarded as a good medicine for medicine. By the way, opium is not called opium today, but poppy. ①

The cold air rushed straight into his mind, and the internal organs seemed to be covered with a layer of black air. Gu Yuanbai felt his hands and feet were cold, and he didn't have the strength to hold Xue Yuan's hand. When he was about to fall off, Xue Yuan held his backhand.

Xue Yuan suppressed and said, "Your Majesty."

Gu Yuanbai looked up at him blankly, and said, "Xue Jiuyao, I seem to be poisoned."

Taking a small amount of addictive substances can even be used as a good medicine. Gu Yuanbai believes that in the Taiyuan Hospital under his control, if someone really secretly lets him take addictive substances, it is likely to be only a small amount. In the eyes of the imperial physician, such dosage may only be beneficial to Gu Yuanbai's body.

However, he was flustered, had trouble breathing, and after leaving the palace for a long time, his hands and feet became weak, and he retched and nauseated his stomach. This was clearly an addiction.

Xue Yuan's hands tightened suddenly, he clenched his teeth, and the corners of his jaw twitched, as if he was going to explode, "Scent?"

Gu Yuanbai looked at him looking like he was going to find someone desperately at any time, but calmed down, "It's not necessarily true."

If it is said that he has become an addiction, then yesterday's reaction is too easy to survive.Even though Gu Yuanbai had never taken drugs, he knew how a real addict would react when he quit.

Even if it is true that there is something wrong with Xixia Guoxiang, the Tai Hospital did not detect the harm in it. It can only be said that the dosage is so small that it will not harm the health of normal people, and it can only "refresh the mind".

His sensitive and decaying body may have overreacted to this addiction.

Thinking of this, Gu Yuanbai felt relieved, "Wait for the Seventh Prince of Xixia to come first." For the first time, he thanked himself for his poor health, "I don't believe they dare to frame me so blatantly about the Guoxiang of Xixia."

Xue Yuan's breath stagnated, "Don't you ask the imperial doctor first?!"

Gu Yuanbai was taken aback for a moment, then glanced at him, "Wait a minute."

Xue Yuan stopped talking, took a deep look at him, flicked his sword, and stood aside to wait with him.

Gu Yuanbai thought about what Xue Yuan said last night that he was going to block Huangquan Road, his expression changed slightly, "Tian Fusheng, call the imperial doctor to wait in the side hall."

Farewell.

Two people squeezed into Huangquan Road, which was quite crowded.

Dong Lingwei went to invite the seventh prince of Xixia, but brought the second prince of Xixia along with him.

The second prince of Xixia looked worried, and smiled submissively, "The foreign minister followed me without authorization, please forgive the foreign minister."

"That's too polite," Gu Yuanbai looked at the two Xixia princes with a smile, "Come here, give me a seat."

The two Xixia princes sat down, Gu Yuanbai chatted with them slowly about the customs of Xixia, and asked abruptly: "Seventh prince, do you know the smell in my palace?"

Li Angshun narrowed his eyes slightly, smelled the smell in the palace carefully, and smiled, "It must be familiar, this is the national fragrance of my Western Xia Dynasty. In my Western Xia Dynasty, everyone from my father to the rich and powerful people like this fragrance very much. "

Gu Yuanbai repeated: "Up to the emperor, down to the rich and powerful..."

His heart sank.

"That's right," Li Ang said along the way, "the smell of incense in the royal father's palace is stronger than that of the holy one here. He really loves this incense. Even after falling asleep, the palace staff should continue to add incense. No, my royal father will even wake up from the dream in a panic."

Gu Yuanbai closed his eyes, "I also think it tastes good."

It is already a chronic poison.

A look of complacency appeared in Li Angshun's eyes, "Using this fragrance can make people suddenly sober, and all the famous ministers of the Western Xia Dynasty have praised it."

Gu Yuanbai was no longer interested in chatting, so he asked the palace attendant to take the two princes to the Imperial Garden on the pretext of being unwell.

The second prince got up obediently, but Li Angshun showed disappointment. At this moment, he suddenly felt a bad look. He looked up and saw a handsome and extraordinary guard standing behind Emperor Daheng, staring at Li Angshun's fingers. .

Li Angshun frowned, and before his anger arose, he saw two big black-skinned wolves standing up as tall as humans standing in the corner of the wall. The two wolves were also staring at Li Angshun's eyes. finger look.

Li Angshun felt chilly, turned around and followed the palace attendant to leave the palace.

After a while, the imperial doctor of the side hall stepped forward and took the pulse of the Holy Majesty. The Majesty closed his eyes and was still terrified by Li Angshun's statement that "all peoples drink the fragrance of the country".

The emperor of Xixia has been deeply addicted to it. Haven't Xixia people discovered the disadvantages of this incense?Who traded so many addictive substances with Xixia, and let Xixia send these addictive substances to Gu Yuanbai.

Is it because of this that Xixia paid so much compensation?

"Check," Gu Yuanbai said in a hoarse voice, bearing thousands of burdens, "Go and find out where these incenses are transported to Xixia, and then go and find out where the incense from the coast entered Daheng."

This kind of addictive substance is almost the highest symbol of power, a sharp weapon to rule others and control others.

It is absolutely unbearable, and it is absolutely necessary to find out who is coveting Daheng, who has such an appetite that he wants to swallow Xixia in one bite.