Chapter 286: The Three Jewels
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"The immortals are clever!" The emperor sighed and said, "There is a great drought in the world, and the people are not able to make a living, since I have been in power, although I have tried my best to govern the country, I am unable to return to the sky, I am ashamed of my ancestors and ancestors, and I am ashamed of the people of the world!" "If I am guilty, I am willing to bear it with all my might, and I only ask for nectar from heaven to relieve the people from hanging upside down!" β
Jiang Xiaobaishi was shocked and said: "Your Majesty, it is a man-made disaster, not a natural disaster!" β
"Whatβ" said the Emperor as he sat up, shocked, "Is it true that I have offended the heavens, and this is the calamity?" β
"Definitely!" Jiang Xiaobai said, "It's a man-made disaster, but it's not Your Majesty's fault!" β
The emperor said eagerly: "What is the meaning of this? β
Jiang Xiaobai said: "Your Majesty has been on a hunger strike for many days, and it is close to running out of oil, if Your Majesty wants to listen to the truth, you must eat before you can do it, otherwise, you will not be able to return to the sky!" β
"This ......," the emperor hesitated, "the heavens will not rain nectar, and I swear not to eat or drink!" β
Jiang Xiaobai said: "Then does Your Majesty want to save the people of Limin?" β
"Of course!" The emperor hoped, "Could it be that the immortals have a way?" β
"Absolutely!" Jiang Xiaobai said, "However, this method must be implemented by Your Majesty, and Your Majesty must have sufficient physical strength!" β
"You're not cheating on me to eat, are you?" The emperor was not confused and questioned Jiang Xiaobai's intentions.
Jiang Xiaobai smiled and said: "I am really a Penglai monk in the next place, because I am grateful for the virtue of Your Majesty, I came across the ocean, this is fate, if Your Majesty can't believe it, then I will say goodbye!" β
"No, no, no......" The emperor seemed to grasp the last straw, and said busily, "The immortals stay, and I eat!" β
Jiang Xiaobai immediately asked Yingquan to serve the emperor for dinner, and after the meal, the emperor couldn't wait to say: "Please also ask the immortals to give the method of rainfall!" β
Jiang Xiaobai said: "Your Majesty, why is the desert hot?" β
The emperor was puzzled: "The desert is full of sand, and it is naturally hot!" β
Jiang Xiaobai said: "Then Your Majesty has heard of the tropical rainforest?" β
"Rainforest ......," the emperor thought for a moment, "I heard from the ocean-going Hu merchants, what does this have to do with drought?" β
"Of course, the arid desert is the big desert, and the rainforest is abundant, because the desert is hot and the forest is cold." Then, Jiang Xiaobai explained the principle of the heat island reaction in detail, and finally asked, "Does Your Majesty understand this?" β
The emperor was shocked: "You are saying that the reason why Great Qin is drought is because there are few trees?" β
"Exactly!" Jiang Xiaobai said, "Then Your Majesty knows why there are so few trees in Daqin?" β
"This ......" the emperor thought for a while, asked Yingquan to take a map of Daqin, and said, "Daqin is a country surrounded by the sea on three sides, with many rocks and thin soil, and there is a shortage of trees......
Jiang Xiaobai listened and looked at the map, and found that this Great Qin State is completely different from the Qin Dynasty in history, not only the geographical location is different, but even the territory is half-moon shaped, to make it clear, the Central Plains is inside the moon arc, and the East China Sea and the South China Sea are outside the moon arc, and now the Central Plains is occupied by the Xiongnu, the name of the country is 'Hun Jili', the Great Qin Dynasty, which unified the six countries in history, is actually just a coastal country, what is this!
Yingquan sighed: "If there is no food, what can the people eat if they don't eat the bark?" β
Jiang Xiaobai frowned and said, "In this way, Daqin doesn't have much grain reserves?" β
The emperor hesitated and said, "Great Qin...... There is less land and more stones, and there are droughts year after year, and it is already very good to be able to solve the problem of food and clothing when the year is good, how can there be excess reserves! β
Jiang Xiaobai was puzzled: "How did Daqin support it until now?" β
The emperor's eyes dodged, and it seemed that it was difficult to speak, so Ying Quan had to reply on his behalf: "Rely on looting." β
"What?" Jiang Xiaobai was dumbfounded and said, "Looting, where to loot?" β
Ying Quan said in a muffled voice: "Hun Jili." β
Jiang Xiaobai was speechless for a long time, and said in his heart, okay, the Xiongnu became a civilized person in the Central Plains, but the dignified Qin became a Tartar, completely upside down?
The emperor said hatefully: "After the Great Qin unified the six countries, because of the rebellion of the Second Emperor, the Xiongnu had a chance, and although the ancestor Fusu finally seized power, the Central Plains was occupied by the Xiongnu!" β
"Understand, understand......" Jiang Xiaobai smiled bitterly, "Then apart from looting, Daqin has no other source of food?" β
The Emperor sighed and shook his head.
Jiang Xiaobai said: "Great Qin is blessed with unique resources and abundant products, why does Your Majesty turn a blind eye?" β
"What do you mean?" The emperor was surprised, "How can Great Qin be blessed with unique resources, and how can it be rich in products?" β
"Great Qin has three treasures." Jiang Xiaobai stretched out three fingers and said unhurriedly, "One is seafood, the second is sea salt, and the third is stone!" Isn't this an abundance? β
"Seafood, sea salt, stones?" The emperor was puzzled, "I know that seafood is indeed one of the economic sources of Great Qin, and it is reasonable to count it as a treasure, but how can sea salt and stones be treasures?" β
Ying Quan added: "The immortals are far away in Penglai to cultivate, maybe they don't know that there are many sundries in the sea salt, which are as cheap as mud and sand, and in addition to the disasters that the stones bring to Daqin, the slaves and maids can't see any good use, and they also ask the immortals to guide the maze!" β
"Let's start with sea salt." Jiang Xiaobai said, "There are indeed a lot of sundries in the sea salt, which is really not a treasure, but if you can extract snow-white and pure refined salt from the seawater, is it a treasure?" β
"Of course!" The emperor exclaimed, "If refined salt can be extracted from the seawater, then the people of Great Qin will have a chance of survival!" Saying that, he lifted his clothes and bowed down, "If the immortals are willing to teach the people of Great Qin the art of refining refined salt, I am willing to give up this river!" β
"Your Majesty must not ......" The king of a country knelt down to a person of unknown origin, which frightened a group of eunuchs and palace maids.
Jiang Xiaobai hurriedly grabbed the emperor's body, and said: "In the next heart, what you want is immortality, how can you covet the glory and wealth of the world?" If Your Majesty says this again, I will have to brush up my sleeves and leave! β
"I am a true Zen in your ......," the emperor said sincerely, "As long as the immortals can save the people of Great Qin, I will never break my word!" "In fact, the king of a country is really not so easy to be, I am already physically and mentally exhausted, besides, I have no heirs, who will inherit this great unification after a hundred years?" β
Lure. Confusion, the temptation of the red fruit. Confused! Ruojiang Xiaobai didn't know that this was a game, but he was afraid that he was really tempted!
So, Jiang Xiaobai said solemnly: "Your Majesty, repeat it again in the next, what you are pursuing in the next is immortality!" β
"Uh......" Seeing that Jiang Xiaobai didn't seem to be cheating, the emperor had to say, "Can the immortal teach the immortal method of refining refined salt?" β
Jiang Xiaobai said: "Since I said it below, I am naturally going to teach you this 'immortal method', in fact, the method is very simple, both men and women can learn and do!" β
"Really!" The Emperor shouted, "Come, come, go and get some buckets of seawater!" β
It takes three or five hours to go to the beach to get water, and while waiting, the emperor has a banquet to entertain Jiang Xiaobai, and all the ministers have also participated, Yingquan then remembered that there are still two people with Jiang Xiaobai, and immediately returned to the emperor, and the emperor also ordered someone to invite them to the banquet.
It is said that it is a big feast, at the time of drought and when the people are not happy, in fact, it is some simple seafood, just looking at its specifications, you can know that the current emperor is a thrifty person.
At this time, the old man was wearing a wide-sleeved brocade robe, and the water girl was wearing an assorted gown, which was like a hibiscus out of the water, but her expression was twisted, and she was uncomfortable.
"It's really pure and beautiful, little jasper!" The emperor saw the water girl with a twisted expression, and asked kindly, "I don't know who the girl is an immortal?" β
"Uh......" Jiang Xiaobai wanted to tell the truth, but he felt that it was not suitable to appear on such an occasion with their identity, so he said vaguely, "They are destined people below, surnamed Shui!" β
The ancestors and grandchildren of the Shui family had never seen such a big scene, their minds were blank, they just sat tightly on Jiang Xiaobai, with their blank eyes open, looking at the decorations and food that they had never dreamed of, and they didn't dare to move their chopsticks.
Jiang Xiaobai knew that they were hungry, so he smiled and added wine and food to them, and repeatedly encouraged them to be casual. At the same time, the emperor and a group of ministers also frequently toasted Jiang Xiaobai, but Jiang Xiaobai saw that the emperor didn't know how to eat and had something to say.
Finally, the emperor coughed and suppressed the noise, and asked politely, "Immortal, can you point out what the third treasure of Great Qin is?" β
"No hurry, no hurry!" Jiang Xiaobai sandwiched a lobster for the water girl (the water girl was flattered, but her face was red with shame), and said with a smile, "After the sea water is fetched, Your Majesty will know what it is!" β
The emperor was itching, but he didn't want to ask again, so he raised his glass and said, "In this way, I will give another cup to the immortals......
After three rounds of wine and five flavors, the time passed, and suddenly, as soon as the red dust flew in, he said loudly from afar: "Please Qi Your Majesty, the first batch of seawater will be delivered!" β
"Bring it in!" The emperor could no longer sit still, and ordered the banquet to be withdrawn.
"Whoa!" In the middle of the match, two wooden barrels were removed from the saddle and carefully and quickly carried into the main hall.
Jiang Xiaobai got up and said, "Your Majesty, please prepare a cauldron, a steamer, and a stove!" Earlier, he had already explained the style of the steamer and the stove.
"It's been ready for a long time!" The emperor hurriedly ordered Yingquan to handle it, but after a while, the time came to Shen Shi in the afternoon.
At this time, the stove was set up on the main hall, Jiang Xiaobai smiled calmly, and glanced at everyone: "Today, let me let you see what the treasure of Daqin is!" As he spoke, he picked up the stone that had been placed in the corner.
"Stones?" Everyone lost their voices, "How is it a stone?" β
"That's right, this stone Daqin is everywhere, what kind of treasure is it!"
"You liar, aren't you afraid that Your Majesty will punish you for the crime of deceitful king!"
Hearing the condemnation of the ministers, the ancestors and grandsons of the Shui family changed their faces on the spot, and the water girl said nervously: "You...... How do you treat stones as treasures, this ...... This is a ...... to kill the head."
"Don't worry." Jiang Xiaobai patted her little hand, held the stone in her hand and smiled, "This is a stone, but it is not an ordinary stone!" β