Early the next morning, when he left the Xue residence, 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, Xue Yuan pulled a frozen smile, a layer of dew on his shoulders, "Sir, this minister wants to enter the palace."
"..." Gu Yuanbai, "What are you doing in the palace?"
Xue Yuan: "Protect you."
Gu Yuanbai couldn't help turning the jade wrench on his hand, his eyes swirled on his face, and then moved away from his stubble and dark eyes, "Do you want a salary?"
"It's enough for the saint to eat and live." Xue Yuan said.
Gu Yuanbai nodded and said neatly, "Follow."
There was another one in the team leaving the palace. Xue Yuan wrapped his boots tightly, adjusted the sword around his waist, and rejoined the team of personal guards.
He looked at Gu Yuanbai's back, lowered his eyebrows, and clenched the handle of the knife.
After returning to the palace, Gu Yuanbai called Dong Lingwei, but before he ordered them to conduct a comprehensive search of the palace and Xuanzheng Hall, someone from the Supervision Department came to visit the sage.
This group of people returned from the coast. They were sent by Gu Yuanbai to investigate the matter of Haiyan and Chiyan. When Qingyan was secretly prevalent in Xixia, Gu Yuanbai was always looking for ways to open source.
In addition, they also have a special task, which is to go to the coastal areas to look for unseen crops, to see if there are seeds from other continents that have reached the border of Daheng with the waves, or are picked up by seagulls, and then Something that takes root along the coast. If you can really find the seeds of potatoes or corn on the coast, it will be a great joy.
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 and let the officials from the Supervision Department come forward.
After the officials of the supervision department finished their salute, they didn't talk nonsense. They first informed about the coastal salt drying, and then handed 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 valley in the mountains of Zhejiang and Zhejiang. After countless years of exposure to the scorching sun, the water in the lake has long since dried up, leaving only salt particles as bright as snow flakes. There are many salt lakes in the lake, and I have tried it, and it is the salt that can be eaten."
"Natural sun-dried salt," Gu Yuanbai's eyes lit up, "Is there a lot?"
"There is a continuous mountain top, big and small," the supervisor said cautiously. "The place has been surrounded by the garrison. After careful inspection, I found that the animals in the mountains like to lick a mountain wall before noon. After a few scratches with the dagger, salt grains of dirty color appeared, and after a few more scratches, white salt was inside. Those hills were vaguely covered with snow, and then the minister realized that it was not snow that covered the hills. , but stone salt. But the ministers and others are not enough, so they just come back to report to the sage first, and have not yet checked the number."
Gu Yuanbai's breathing became heavier, "Then those hills with salt lakes?"
"Yes," the officials of the Supervision Office couldn't help but smile, "These hills, ministers and others boldly speculate, they are all big salt mines."
This surprise came too suddenly, and Gu Yuanbai was overjoyed after being caught off guard. The people from the Supervision Office were delighted and satisfied when they saw Sheng Shang's appearance, and took out a wooden box, "Sacred Lord, when I came back from a coastal area, I found that the rich and noble families near the sea like to order a kind of spice. These spices are pleasantly fragrant and have a refreshing effect, so the ministers and others specially brought them to the Holy One."
Gu Yuanbai readily agreed, let Tian Fusheng take it, extinguished the incense in the hall, and after ventilated, ignited the spices brought by the officials of the supervision department, and placed them on the desk for tasting.
The dense smoke rose from the incense burner, and the light and elegant fragrance slowly filled the air, but the smile on Gu Yuanbai's face was a pause, and finally slowly converged, condensing into an expressionless appearance.
As his expression cooled, the atmosphere in the hall seemed to be suddenly frozen. In the huge palace, only this misty mist is moving with the wind.
Gu Yuanbai slowly leaned back, leaning on the back of the chair, and he said with joy and anger, "Is this the incense from the coast?"
The officials of the Supervision Department looked solemn, "I dare not speak nonsense, this incense is the incense that entered my Daheng from the coast."
Gu Yuanbai's breathing was a little more urgent. His hand had already pinched the armrest of the seat, his fingertips were white, and his anger was faint, "I understand. You have worked hard all the way, go ahead first."
The officials of the Supervision Department looked worried and withdrew very obediently.
As soon as the people left, Gu Yuanbai looked at Dong Lingwei, his eyes as if quenched ice, "Invite the Seventh Prince of Xixia! I said that I invited 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 to the point of dripping ink. He suddenly stretched out his hand and smashed the incense burner into the hall.
"The fragrance of the coast, the spice of the coast!" Gu Yuanbai's forehead blue veins appeared, "It turned out to be the national fragrance of Xixia!"
Xixia is inland, and it is the location of Ningxia and Shaanxi in the future. It is separated from the sea by Daheng. How can such an inland country have a spice that comes from the coast to become a national fragrance!
The incense burner rolled a few times on the ground, and was stepped on by Xue Yuan under his feet.
Gu Yuanbai was supported by him and sat down again, his eyes were heavy, looking at the soot that had been knocked over, and a word suddenly flashed in his mind.
Addiction.
*
The wind blew in from the gate of the temple, and the hair and robes flew forward. The noon 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 pinched a trail of fingerprints on the back of Xue Yuan's hand.
Addiction, what is an addiction
The most famous is probably the opium. A well-known addiction that Chinese people hate and fear is opium, which is made from the fruit of the poppy.
There are also five stone scattered.
Wushi San was popular in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and few people use it now. But opium has been paid tribute to the outside world 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, it is called poppy. 1
The cold air rushed into his mind, and his internal organs seemed to be covered with a layer of black air. Gu Yuanbai felt that his hands and feet were cold, and he didn't have the strength to hold Xue Yuan's hand. When it was about to fall off, Xue Yuan held his backhand.
Xue Yuan suppressed and said, "Your Highness."
Gu Yuanbai looked up at him blankly, and then said, "Xue Jiuyao, I seem to be poisoned."
Taking a small amount of addictive substances can even be a good medicine. Gu Yuanbai believes that in the Taiyuan Hospital under his control, if someone secretly makes him take addictive substances, it is very likely that it is only a small amount. In the eyes of the imperial doctor, such a dosage may only be beneficial to Gu Yuanbai's body.
But he was flustered and had difficulty breathing. After leaving the palace for a long time, he felt weak in his hands and feet, retching and nausea. This was obviously an addiction.
Xue Yuan's hands suddenly tightened, he gritted his teeth, his jaw twitched, as if he was about to burst, "Scent?"
Gu Yuanbai looked at him desperately looking for someone at any time, but calmed down, "Not necessarily."
If he was addicted, then yesterday's reaction was too easy to survive. Even though Gu Yuanbai had never taken drugs, he knew what kind of reaction a truly addicted person would have when he quit.
Even if there is really a problem with Xixia Guoxiang, the Taiyuan Hospital has not detected the harm, and can only say that the amount of it is too small to harm the health of normal people, and it only has the effect of "refreshing the mind".
His sensitive and decaying body is likely to be overreacting to this addictive substance.
Gu Yuanbai felt relieved when he thought of this, "Wait for the Seventh Prince of Xixia to come." For the first time, he thanked himself for his poor health, "I don't believe that they dare to frame me so blatantly about Xixia Guoxiang."
Xue Yuan's breathing stagnated, "Don't you ask the imperial doctor first?!"
Gu Yuanbai was stunned for a moment, then glanced at him, "Wait a minute."
Xue Yuan didn't talk anymore, gave him a deep look, flicked his sword, and stood by and waited with him.
Gu Yuanbai thought of what Xue Yuan said last night to block Huangquan Road for him, and his expression changed slightly, "Tian Fusheng, call the imperial doctor to wait in the side hall."
Stop it.
Two people squeezed a Huangquan Road, quite crowded.
*
Donglingwei went to invite the seventh prince of Xixia, but brought the second prince of Xixia with him.
The second prince of Xixia looked worried, and the smile was only promising, "The foreign minister came here without authorization, and please forgive the foreign minister."
"Thank you," Gu Yuanbai looked at the two princes of Xixia with a smile, "come here, give me a seat."
The two Xixia princes sat down, and Gu Yuanbai chatted with them slowly about the customs of Xixia, and suddenly asked: "Seventh prince, are you familiar with the smell in the palace?"
Li Angshun squinted his eyes slightly, smelled the smell in the hall, and smiled, "It must be familiar, this is the national fragrance of my Xixia. I like the fragrance of Xixia, from the father to the emperor, and down to the rich and powerful. "
Gu Yuanbai repeated: "Up to the emperor, down to the rich and powerful..."
His heart sank.
"That's right," Li Ang said, "The scent of incense in the royal father's palace is more intense than that of the sage. He really loves this incense, and even after falling asleep, the palace servants should continue to add the spices. If the spices are broken at night Now, my royal father will even wake up from the dream in a panic."
Gu Yuanbai closed his eyes, "I also think this tastes good."
It is already a chronic poison.
A complacent look appeared in Li Angshun's eyes, "This fragrance can make people sober all of a sudden, and my famous officials in Xixia have praised it."
Gu Yuanbai was no longer interested in chatting, and on the pretext of being unwell, he asked the palace attendant to take the two princes to the Imperial Garden.
The second prince got up obediently, but Li Angshun showed disappointment. At this moment, he suddenly felt a bad look, and when he looked head-on, he saw a handsome and extraordinary guard standing behind Emperor Daheng, staring at Li Angshun's fingers. .
Li Angshun frowned, and before his anger rose, he saw two big black-skinned wolves standing in the hidden corner of the wall. The two wolves had dark eyes and were also staring at Li Angshun. finger look.
Li Angshun's chill rose, and he turned around and followed the palace attendant to leave the palace.
For a moment, the imperial doctor in the side hall stepped forward to check the pulse of the sage. The sage closed his eyes and was still terrified by Li Angshun's saying that "all the people drink the fragrance of the country".
The emperor of Xixia has been deeply addicted, haven't the people of Xixia discovered the harm of this incense? Who was it that traded so many addictives with Xixia, and let Xixia send these addictives to Gu Yuanbai.
Is it because of this that Xixia took out so many indemnities
"Check," Gu Yuanbai's voice was hoarse, bearing down a thousand burdens, "Go and find out where these incense are shipped to Xixia, and then go and find out where the incense along the coast entered Daheng from."
This kind of addiction is almost the highest symbol of power, a 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 a big appetite that even Xixia is swallowed.