The Chu Palace, which had been deserted for a few days, finally resumed its liveliness at the moment when Li Kuan returned.

"Aye, you're finally back!"

When Li Kuan entered the courtyard of the Chu Palace, Xiao Ma was the first to rush up.

It's great that I can finally end my life of lockdown!

"Little corn, you've grown a lot taller."

Li Kuan picked up the little girl and spun around twice on the ground.

Perhaps because of the good nutrition, the height and weight of the little corn are taller and heavier than the average Chinese child.

"I've seen the princess!"

At this time, Cheng Jingwen also heard the sound and walked over, and Wu Meiniang saluted a little weakly.

"Jingwen!"

Li Kuan put down the little corn, stepped forward and took Cheng Jingwen's little hand, his eyes looked at each other, and he wanted to say a thousand words for a while, but he couldn't say anything.

"Ouch!" Cheng Jingwen touched her belly with her right hand, "This little guy, knowing that he Aya is back, kicked in the stomach." ”

Li Kuan hurriedly squatted down curiously, put his ear on Cheng Jingwen's belly, and sure enough, he felt that the little guy was making trouble inside.

Conceived in October, in fact, most babies come into the world when they are more than nine months old.

Calculating the time, it's almost time for production.

"Let's go inside and talk."

……

Five-in-one.

Pan Wang is in a very good mood today.

Due to his re-choice of Wuheju's new cuisine development route, the popularity has always been inferior to Ajinomoto and Diandude's Wuheju, and recently there is a great tendency to catch up and surpass.

In Chang'an City, everyone slowly has the impression that Wuheju is a place to eat delicacies from the mountains and seas.

At this time, Changsun Chong, Du He and others sat in a private room in Wuheju, tasting the latest red stewed pig Po dragon meat produced by Wuheju.

After the pig dragon skin of Hongzhou arrived in Chang'an, there were already special craftsmen in the Chu Wangfu who were studying how to tann this skin beautifully and easily, and this pig Po dragon jerky, although not as popular as whale jerky, was made into a new dish by Pan Wang's ingenuity.

Even the pig polong banquet in Wuheju has also driven many restaurants in Chang'an City to follow the trend and develop dishes that use Zhu Polong jerky.

"Brother Du, this Li Kuan has returned to Chang'an City yesterday, in my opinion, during this time, Qujiang Academy and Weishui Academy will not provoke Guanshishan Academy for the time being."

Originally, Du He was discussing with Changsun Chong recently, asking the two academies to jointly go to Guanshishan Academy to step on the field and show off the students' advantages in scripture.

However, the assassination of the county lord of Yongping suddenly happened, and Changsun Chong was solemnly reminded by his own Aya yesterday not to provoke Li Kuan recently.

"Brother Eldest Sun, don't worry. This Li Kuan is probably holding his breath now, I don't want to be a bird. ”

In Du He's opinion, Li Kuan's mood at this time must be very bad.

"Well, although we don't take the initiative to provoke, we still have to develop. The opera house under the Lion Mountain Academy has attracted the attention of countless people in Chang'an City in the past two years, and our Weishui Academy is also preparing to build an opera house to perform various plays. ”

The opera house has long been profitable, and Changsun Chong knows this.

How to run an academy for a long time, Changsun Chong has no experience.

However, he now realized a truth, that is, what Guanshishan Academy does, everyone just follows behind.

"I know this, I heard that the opera house, Xinhua bookstore, and printing workshop have all become a series of new industries."

Although Du He has always been unhappy with Li Kuan, when it comes to making money, he has to admire.

"Well, this Li Kuan has been out for so long, I don't know what will happen when he comes back, and everyone is staring at him during this time."

……

In the palace of the king of Chu, Li Kuan held a meeting with several of his important advisers in the study.

"Lord Wang, completely solving the grassland problem has been a big problem for thousands of years. In my opinion, it is still necessary to rely on force. ”

Xue Li was brave and strategic, and this time Li Kuan also called him over for a meeting.

"Emperor Qin and Han Wu, how many years have you been fighting with the Hu people? These Hu people are like weeds, they have no stubble and grow a new stubble. In my opinion, it is still necessary to follow the grassland strategy proposed by the prince before, cut the meat slowly with a knife, and let these Hu people speak slowly, which is very good around Liangzhou. ”

Xu Jingzong felt that all the measures in Liangzhou had the shadow of his own prince.

From these means, it can be inferred that Li Kuan is inclined to use soft means to root out the grassland problem.

Since he thought of this, Xu Jingzong naturally supported this view.

"I think coercion and temptation should be multi-pronged in order to truly solve the grassland problem."

Shangguan Yi's opinion is more compromised, which can be regarded as a more clever one.

"If you want me to say, we simply move to Jiangnan Province and other places one tribe at a time, and if we are willing to take the initiative to go there, then we will enjoy the same treatment as the Turks; If you don't want to take the initiative to go over, it just so happens that the slave hunting team in Liangzhou can also have a new direction for slave hunting. The South is now vigorously promoting rice cultivation, and it is at a time when a large number of slaves are needed. ”

Wang Xuance followed Li Kuan for most of the Tang Dynasty this time, and felt that the immigration strategy seemed to have a better effect than he imagined, and now he is properly supporting the continued expansion of the scale of immigration.

In his opinion, if there are no people on the grassland, where will the Hu people infest the Tang Dynasty?

"You all have a point. However, it can't be so cheap. In this way, didn't the East China Sea fishery recruit a lot of people to mine in the Wa Kingdom? Select 2,000 people from it and bring them back to Dengzhou, then train them for a few months, put them on the grassland, and let them be horse bandits for a few years. Tell them that as long as they complete the task, they can be given 100 acres of land in Datang at that time, so that they can become the people of Datang, and all the looted property will eventually belong to them. ”

Arrange for the regular army of the Tang Dynasty to go to the grassland to be horse bandits, Li Shimin probably will not agree to this matter.

But if you change to those Japanese miners in Iwami Ginshan, the resistance should be much smaller.

"When this king met with His Majesty yesterday, he had already proposed to build a cement road from Liangzhou to Dunhuang, as well as a cement road connecting Liangzhou to Shuozhou, so that the entire south of the Yellow River would be completely included in the actual rule of the Tang Dynasty."

"Northwest Trade has joined forces with various merchants in Liangzhou to raise the price of salt and tea by three percent, and strive to double it next year. Then, all the tribes that defected to the Tang Dynasty had to move to Jiangnan......"

Li Kuanlin shared some of his thoughts on improving the grassland strategy with everyone.

Of course, the most fundamental method is actually to turn the grassland into a plug in the south of the Yangtze River, so that the people of the Tang Dynasty can settle down and work there, and these places will naturally be as stable as Mount Tai.

……

The students of the School of Medicine of Guanshishan Academy received a very special task today.

"Lin Langzhong, I haven't heard that willow bark can be used in medicine, we have so many people now, and we have peeled so much willow bark, it feels weird."

Lin Ran is now a teacher at the Medical College of Guanshishan Academy, and yesterday Li Kuan specially talked to him, saying that he wanted to teach everyone to make an "immortal medicine".

At the beginning, Qin Qiong was terminally ill, and Li Kuansheng used the "immortal medicine" to pull him back from the ghost gate, this scene, Lin Ran still remembers it vividly.

So although Li Kuan's plan sounded very unreliable, he did it without hesitation.

"Peng En, His Royal Highness the King of Chu's immortal medicine production plan, how can you guess? Although willow bark has never been used in medicine in the past, who knows if His Royal Highness the King of Chu will have any special use? ”

Although Peng En is not Lin Ran's disciple, he can be regarded as a student taught by Lin Ran, and he is a relatively talented student in surgery.

It seems that the technique that Penn refined against a bunch of pigs and chickens was also of some use when it was used on people.

"That being said, I feel like these tourists always look at us strangely."

Penn scraped a piece of bark from the willow tree and put it in the back basket beside him.

On both sides of the Weishui, willow trees are planted all over the river, which can be regarded as having a long history.

Drop a little bark off each tree, and you don't have to worry about killing them.

Who made the chemistry level of the students of Guanshishan Academy not high enough, Li Kuan had to use this relatively earthy method to make some medicine first.

Let Datang increase its population by 10 million.

Li Kuan has not forgotten this task.

The top priority was to first come up with some classic special drugs, and after spending some points to exchange the method of medicine from the system, Li Kuan immediately arranged for the students of Guanshishan Academy to start working.

The miracle drug aspirin can't be made for a while, but salicylic acid is not difficult at all.

Although this salicylic acid, if used to relieve fever and pain, often has strong adverse reactions, it is better than a high fever.

With such a thing coming out, the number of people who die in high fever every year in Datang should be reduced by more than half, right?

……

In the Xuanzheng Palace, Li Shimin looked at Li Zhong with a puzzled expression.

"Kuan'er arranged for a group of people to peel the bark?"

Li Shiming was worried that Li Kuan had been doing something recently, so he specially asked Li Zhong to arrange for someone to keep an eye on the movements of the Chu Palace.

I didn't expect to hear such incredible news.

These trees are not Xue Yantuo people, what are they peeling for?

"It's true that the willow trees along the Weishui River have basically become pitted, and many of the willow bark has been stripped away."

Li Zhong was also puzzled for a while, but he had to honestly explain the situation clearly.

"What can willow bark do?"

Li Zhong: ......

Your Majesty, don't ask me this question.

I don't understand.

Li Zhong wants to cry without tears!

"Your Majesty, do you want to invite His Royal Highness the King of Chu into the palace?"

"Forget it, I want to see what kind of tricks Kuan'er can make of willow bark."

……

The eldest grandson of the house.

"Aya, there has been no movement in the Chu Wangfu for the past few days, and the only thing that makes people feel incomprehensible is a group of students from the Medical College of Guanshishan Academy, tossing willow trees on the edge of Weishui."

After the eldest grandson Wuji returned home on duty, the eldest grandson Chong wanted to listen to the teachings as usual.

"Medical school students?"

The eldest grandson Wuji sat on the Taishi chair, his index finger gently tapping on the table, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Yes, they are all students of the medical school, and hundreds of people are stripping the bark of willow trees on both sides of Weishui."

Changsun Chong is not as impulsive as he was back then, and he is 100% committed to his Aya's orders.

"There must be a demon when things go wrong, but everything related to Li Kuan can't be speculated on by common sense. In today's situation, we can only see more, talk less, and do less. ”

The eldest grandson Wuji is still having a headache for the tens of thousands of acres of land around the workshop city.

At the beginning, I bought so much land, although it did not depreciate, but it did not appreciate, so it occupied a lot of money from the eldest grandson's family.

"Well, over there in Weishui Academy, I have already communicated with the Du family, so let's stop for a while. During this time, it is estimated that many people in Chang'an City are watching the movements of the Chu Palace, and they are all watching what kind of madness Li Kuan will have. ”

There are a lot of bad things done by one person, and there is no movement between the fierce people, and everyone is a little unaccustomed.

"Your Majesty convened the ministers again after the court meeting today to discuss the construction of the cement road, most of which are related to the state capital of the surrounding grasslands, and my father estimates that this should have something to do with Li Kuan."

With the child's understanding of him, it was impossible for him to just let Xue Yantuo go, but he couldn't guess what the action was for a while. However, I don't think he's going to fight Willow Bark for no reason. ”

"It's better to be still than to be still, take a look first."

……

In recent years, Datang's national strength has been booming, and the population in Chang'an City has also increased year by year.

This life, old age, sickness and death is something that everyone needs to face.

Renxintang, the medical hall of the Chao family, is visited by countless people every day.

Most of the time, children have to stay through symptoms such as fever, while adults have to get through it.

Anyone who has had a fever knows that if you have a high fever, your body temperature will be slightly high, and you will have no strength in your body, and you will be uncomfortable.

If the high fever does not go away, then it is easy to have problems.

Why are there almost some madmen or fools in every village in Datang?

A large part of them have burned out their brains from fever.

The fate of this kind of person is even more pitiful than directly dying of illness.

"Master, this winter has not yet arrived, and it seems that there are more people who are sick and feverish than in previous years, and at the end of the year, I don't know what the scene will be. There are a lot more people in Chang'an City than before, and the medical hall has not increased much, so we will be tired and tired at that time, and we will be too busy. ”

It was Chen Chang, the apprentice of Chao Yuan, the owner of Renxin Hall, who spoke.

Chao Yuan, as the cousin of Chao Fang, a doctor in Tai Hospital, is a small prestige in Chang'an City.

"Every few years, the condition gets worse. Last winter was a warm winter, and it is not surprising that there are more diseases this year. ”

Chao Yuan quickly prescribed a prescription and handed it to the guys in the medical hall to grab the medicine, and asked Chen Chang to call the next patient to come and see the doctor.

Renxin Pavilion covers a large area, with its own special yard for drying some medicinal herbs, and a yard for some more serious patients.

Of course, although the Renxin Pavilion has the word benevolence, the fees that should be charged still have to be charged.

In Chang'an City, the people who can live here to see a doctor are all wealthy.