Emperor Qin

The next day, Yan Jiang bid farewell to Teng, the governor of Nanjun County, and was about to leave for Wei Guolang.

But the governor of the county, Teng, didn't want this Qin Guoshangqing to leave, so he repeatedly asked him to stay, saying that he hoped to discuss the details of the epidemic elimination in the evening, and invited him to have an evening meal.

Yan Jiang couldn't delay and agreed.

Qin Shi still had two meals a day, and the evening meal was in the afternoon. The county guard personally went to find an old and dead yellow ox, took the fattest part, cooked it with the chef, and served it to Yan Jiang himself.

Being polite to others, one must ask for something, Yan Jiang couldn't help raising his vigilance.

Nanjun liked to eat rice, and the sheriff served it with delicious mutton. Yan Jiang ate very calmly, but what really surprised him was that the wine served by the sheriff was wine.

When I asked the county guard, I learned that besides peppers, grapes were rapidly promoted in the southern county of Qin State.

"The wine tax in the country is ten times that of other countries. It is a crime to gather in groups. Now grapes are used to make wine. The world calls Yan Zi good deeds." The county guard Teng said, and explained the reason.

The wine tax in the Qin State is taxed according to luxury goods. The wine with a cost of 110 Wen costs more than [-] Wen, of which [-] Wen is paid to the court, which is almost the price of selling Erguotou as Wuliangye. I can't afford a pot in my life.

Ordinary people in the state of Qin want to drink, but they can only buy some inferior sacrificial wine by gritting their teeth when they worship the gods of the land every year in small villages. They can't afford wine at all on weekdays, and they use their own grain to brew privately. If there is less, they can't make it. .

Some people may wonder, if there is too much brewing, can’t we change the food quietly in private?

Of course you can, just be careful of being reported. Once you are reported, it is a serious crime of tax evasion. If you are at least going to the county town to repair the city wall, if you are serious, you will go directly to the Great Wall to repair the city wall.

So when it was known that grapes can make their own wine, this thing spread like a plague - as long as the food is not wasted, anything is easy to talk about, plus there is a lot of rain in South County, the grapes only need to be pressed on a branch. Being able to play live, of course it is very popular.

Unexpectedly, he brought such a big change to the people of Qin, Yan Jiang couldn't hold back for a while, and his face showed joy.

Then I heard the county guard Teng said: "Secretary Mingjian, this is the epidemic prevention policy book written by the old man overnight, please see if it is inappropriate."

Yan Jiang was surprised: "So fast?"

He took the scroll and opened it.

Aside from the simple classical Chinese, the book of policy states that there are vicious insects in the snails, and they are infected with the epidemic. Now the county magistrate is willing to collect them with a lot of money, and the villagers can exchange the snails for gold, and they also use chopsticks (chopsticks) to catch the snails to avoid infection. epidemic, and in Nanjun, it was proposed which township had the most snails, and the evaluation of the local Qin officials was excellent.

It also mentioned that after finding the snails, they were collected and boiled to kill the vicious insects.

Moreover, he proposed to distribute the document "Good Officials and Evil Officials" first to tell Nanjun officials what a good official is under the Qin law, and to include the case of killing snails in it as an element of evaluation.Then there is another set of "criminal order" to tell them how to punish them if they don't do well.Next, you can send a large number of people to dress up in micro-clothes to see if they are doing well.

The most important thing is that Nanjun is still Chu style and Chu customs, and Chu State has spared no effort to instigate rebellion. It is completely possible to use two prongs to make the people of Nanjun obsessed with killing snails, and no one will respond to Chu's forces.

In this way, for the purpose of "eliminating the power of the Chu State", the Nanjun tyrants can accept the killing of snails-whether you do it well or not represents whether you are a spy of the Chu State.

Yan Jiang gasped, this county guard is really vicious, he obviously wanted to use the snail killing to clear Chu's power in Nanjun, but he said the opposite.

But he also understands in his heart that with the scheming strength of the county guard Teng, this can be done well. To the lower level, it can be a righteous pretense of curing the epidemic for the people. To the upper level, it is political correctness to stabilize the rule. No wonder King Qin put him here up.

I admire you!

"The county guard is a great talent, and there is nothing that cannot be changed." Yan Jiang admired him.

"It's just," the sheriff sighed, "there is no holiday, and I don't know if it is possible for the old man to work for Qin."

Yan Jiang smiled without saying a word.

Seeing that he didn't answer, the county guard Teng could only open his arm regretfully, and saw red dots on the top, which were the precursors of Gu worm disease: "I heard that Ciqing is a pedantic man, so I don't know if you can save me." ?”

Even the sheriff was infected with this schistosomiasis?

Yan Jiang finally understands why officials of later generations are afraid of being officials in the south like a tiger. It is so easy to die.

After thinking about it, he looked at the wine on the table and said in a low voice: "I have a plan, I can open a furnace for you to make alchemy to help the county guard eliminate the epidemic, but the medicinal materials are hard to find, and I am afraid it will take a little time."

"Even if the minister mentioned it, Teng will do his best." Seeing that the other party was so easy to talk to, the county guard Teng was overjoyed, and sincerely bowed to Yan Jiang.

Yan Jiang pretended to be a master, and said calmly: "It's so good, the sheriff can prepare wine feet for me, and send some local people to follow me into the mountain to look for medicine stones."

His Majesty was very confused, why didn't he know that A Jiang could make alchemy?

……

Because chemistry is alchemy!

This county guard should not die.

Yan Jiang didn't even think that it's only been a few years, and there is already wine here in Hubei!

What does this mean? It means that there is tartar. Tartar is the crystallization of wine in cold weather, which can be filtered directly from the wine!

Originally, he was thinking of sending a letter to the Mo family to collect tartrates, so that he could go back and pick them up when he had time.

Now it seems that it is completely unnecessary, and there are ready-made ones here.

What's more convenient is that the county town of Nanjun is the Jiangling of the later generations, only a few hundred miles away from the Lengshui River.

What does Lengshuijiang have? It has the largest antimony mine in the world.

And adding antimony to tartar is to spit tartar.

Basically, with this thing, Gu worm disease can be regarded as a special medicine.

Although this stuff has a bit of negative side effects, overdose will kill people, but it is really the simplest and most effective medicine in the world today.

After telling the other party that refining the elixir can cure Gu disease, the county guard Teng can be said to be grateful, and immediately agreed to send a guide who is familiar with the southern mountains and forests to help him find the mine.

After the two thanked each other and dared not delay, Yan Jiang took dozens of local mountain people on the road south to search for mines. Tigers, leopards, snakes and insects were very dangerous all the way, but fortunately he was with flowers.

Chu real estate tin, Nanjun used to be the capital of Chu State, and the smelting technology of Chu State is the most developed. Mo Xie, the general, and Gou Jian, the king of Yue, made their own swords, which are all treasures that will amaze future generations.

More importantly, Yan Jiang knew the location of the antimony mine, because it was not far from Yuebo Cave!

Moon Wave Cave was the shooting location of the old version of Journey to the West, and the Meishan Dragon Palace not far away is one of the most famous karst cave scenic spots in China.

After he came to the approximate location of the Lengshui River, he found the Baiyue mountain people in the surrounding deep mountains, and asked the guide who followed him to inform the surrounding tribes. After ten days, he was willing to exchange salt with them for a black one that looked like Pillars of ore.

This kind of ore is not difficult to find. The tribesmen searched for dozens of different black rocks, and finally let Yan Jiang find the stibnite, and wrote down the round-trip route, and then quickly returned to Nanjun.

The sheriff had already filtered out a large amount of tartar according to his opinion, and watched Yan Jiang simply boil the ground ore and tartar, and then boil it into white particles, which did not look like pills at all.

Yan Jiang couldn't find pumpkin seeds to use together, so he could only give these raw medicines to the county guard, let the doctor take a small amount of the medicine for the patients, and explore the dosage and combination by himself. After half a month of tossing, many patients were found to try it. , found that decocting rose petals can relieve discomfort.Severe patients are prone to accidents after taking this medicine, but moderate and mild patients have no problem taking this medicine, but they vomit badly after taking this medicine, and it is very difficult to forcibly hold back.

But life-saving medicine, so what if you spit it out, you have to take it again.

In the face of survival, everything is empty.

Moreover, the production of tartar is extremely limited. With the ability of the county guard, the materials found can cure hundreds of people, which can be said to be a drop in the bucket.

But the county guard Teng laughed out loud when he heard it, and sincerely bowed to Yan Jiang, saying that some fairy medicine was enough to calm down Nanjun.

His Majesty actually nodded at the same side.

Later, the county guard issued an order to exchange snails for gold, and added a small one, exchanging snails for medicine.

The county guard can get the immortal medicine given by Shangxian Yanjiang, which can heal the Gu disease, but if you want to cure the water gu insect plague, you need to exchange it with a hundred catties of snails. The quantity is limited and the opportunity is rare, so hurry up.

As soon as this order came out, not to mention the shock in Nanjun, even the Chu Kingdom in the distance would be shaken.

Gu pestilence is a serious disease that plagued the south for thousands of years. Even the owner of Mawangdui, which was unearthed a thousand years later, was also suffering from schistosomiasis.

The county guards exchanged snails for gold. Of course, these powerful people in Chu didn't like it, but what if they could exchange their lives?

Of course it is priceless!

Where there is interest, there is demand. For a while, many powerful people are looking for snails. Even if no one in the family is infected with the disease for the time being, who knows what will happen in the future?There is always nothing wrong with having this kind of magic medicine ready, and it can even be used as a bargaining chip in exchange for benefits for any important person who is sick in the future. This kind of value cannot be exchanged with any amount of money.

For a while, the price of snails soared to an unimaginable level. Humans are the most terrifying invasive species. After the first few days of collection and brewing, Nanjun County City was full of snail delivery teams, and even some of them were shoddy. , the behavior of taking snails to drive snails.

But here in Yan Jiang, this kind of problem is not a problem at all.

The snails are very small, with the largest diameter being only 0.4 centimeters. For this purpose, he had someone weave a bamboo sieve with a hole diameter of only half a centimeter. Only the snails collected from various places are considered qualified, and all the snails that cannot pass are returned to prevent water addition. To gain weight, all snails need to be dried and sent over, and any snails that produce spoilage and vermin will be rejected!

The county guard is even holding the magic medicine like a fish in water, and has carried out various interest exchanges in Nanjun, and almost wiped out all the nails that Chu has placed in Nanjun these years. What is there to embarrass when people are handed over as bargaining chips?

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"Shangqing passed down the alchemy method in this way?" The county guard Teng looked at Yan Jiang with surprise.

"That's right, the south has been plagued by the Gu epidemic for a long time, since this method is beneficial to the people, I will pass it on to you." Yan Jiang said with a smile.

It is impossible for him to bring too much property with him when he wanders around, and this thing can only be promoted by the Qin State, and it is useless to keep it in his hands.

The county guard sighed and bowed: "I know today that the great public is not selfish, the great benefits are not hidden, and the great virtues are not held. From ancient times to the present, you are the only one. God is also a man. You make paper and benefit the world. It is said that wheat is widely beneficial to the people, and now it is said that this elixir does not take a single grain. How lucky is the king to have the help of the Qing; the kings of the six countries have no Qing, and it hurts!"

"The sheriff is too famous. Jiang is leaving." Yan Jiang didn't tangle with him, and after a few polite words, he took His Majesty away.

He's been lingering here for a long time.

If you don't go to Wei country soon, I'm afraid you won't be able to play.

but……

"Your Majesty, they are praising me, why are you cocking your tail?" Yan Jiang poked his love bird with his hand.

His Majesty didn't take it seriously, and continued to raise his head proudly and moved.

Ah Jiang disdains the Six Kingdoms, but does his best to Qin. This must be how much he loves him to be able to achieve such a situation...