Chapter 16: The Hundred Horsemen (Part II)

'After all, it's still for the elixir!' Zheng Kejun let out a long sigh in his heart, but on the surface, he still replied respectfully, "Back to the Holy Lord, the last general will send someone to take advantage of his long knowledge to inspect the two elixirs up close." It does look quite magical. But the effect is nothing more than ......"

"Two copies?" Li Xian interrupted again, and two rays of light quickly shot out from his eyes.

"There are two different medicines, one is called Baifuning, and the effect is to relieve the patient's high fever." Zheng Kejun hesitated, and his voice began to rise unconsciously, "The other one is the evil elixir, the effect is only to solve wound infection, which is very similar to gunpowder!" The last general also sent someone to verify the merchant Ren Qiong, who was indeed injured by a dirty arrow coated with gold juice, and the treatment was not clean, which led to the wound infection and the evil spirit backlash. A few days ago, he went to lead the team to Ganzhou again, and he looked as strong as ordinary people! ”

"Can only be used to heal wounds?" Li Xian's eyes quickly dimmed, and his voice revealed undisguised disappointment.

"It can only be used to heal wounds. The shopkeeper of the firm has repeatedly emphasized that there is only one effect. That's why no one cares about it. Zheng Kejun honestly repeated, not daring to exaggerate or reduce the effect of the "evil elixir". "As for the rest, it's all a lie!"

"Hmm-" Li Xian let out a low groan from his mouth, and did not continue the topic just now, but he did not tell Zheng Kejun to retreat.

Zheng Kejun, the deputy head of the Hundred Horsemen, opened his mouth, but did not make any sound. Mu Ran stood in place, his heart full of mixed tastes.

If even the emperor needed to use the "Evil Pill to Ward Off Evil Spirits" to treat the Jinchuang infection, then where would the enemy army have to hit? To what extent does Datang's national strength have to decay? !

If the emperor is hiding in the deep palace and is still injured by the assassins, then what is the use of asking for a hundred horsemen? What is the value of his existence as the deputy chief and the hundred horsemen under his command?

Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth fiercely and reminded stubbornly: "Holy Lord, the last general once used the death row prisoners in the prison to test the efficacy of gunpowder. Useful for almost all traumatic injuries. It's just that the pain is unbearable when I apply it. ”

"Hmm!" Li Xian let out a deep groan from his mouth again, noncommittal to Zheng Kejun's statement.

Seeing this, Zheng Kejun had no choice but to turn his heart sideways again, and added in a low voice again, "Qi Song Sheng, the last general has already found out that although the two elixirs are consigned by the three commercial houses, the real behind-the-scenes support is the Baoguo Gongjia. The Duan clan has always been loyal to the monarch, and if the Holy Lord wants them to offer medicine, he can arrange for someone to secretly give advice at any time. ”

"Nonsense!" Li Xian finally stopped groaning this time, frowned tightly, and scolded sharply, "Do I need to take advantage of it?" I don't go out of the palace gate, what do you want that elixir to do? This kind of bastard talk, I will not mention it again in the future! ”

"The Holy One will be convicted of his sins, and he will be convicted of his sins!" Zheng Kejun was scolded in confusion and bowed his body to salute.

"Let's go down!" Seeing his sincere and frightened face, Li Xian suddenly felt happy again, and waved his hand lightly at the door.

"The last will retire!" Zheng Kejun was like being amnestied, so he quickly saluted again and strode out of the study. When he crossed the threshold, his legs and feet were mixed with garlic, and he almost didn't get planted on the ground.

"Humph!" Seeing all the appearance of this person "fleeing from the wilderness", Li Xian, the Emperor of the Heavenly Divine Dragon, was even more angry, holding the book case in his hand, and snorted coldly.

He asked himself if he was a murderer, especially compared to his mother. But since the prince killed Wu Sansi and committed suicide at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, most of the people around him saw him like mice and cats.

This made him feel uncomfortable in his heart, but also felt very aggrieved. It's like a monk who hasn't even stepped on ants to death, but he was suddenly regarded as a murderer by the government.

God pity him, the emperor, didn't do anything at that time. Including the death of the rebel son, it is not his hard work as a father.

That rebel killed people and killed red eyes, and even led troops to storm the palace that night. As an emperor who is in the prime of life, of course he can't order someone to open the palace gate, let the rebel son in, and then be a emperor who doesn't care about anything!

In that case, not only Princess Anle, the queen, but also several other princes, who are usually at odds with the rebel, will die without a place to be buried. The "Zetian Great Sage Empress", who has been laid to rest, will also come to him in a dream to ask him whether the assertion that he is not suitable to be an emperor more than 20 years ago is right or wrong! (Note: The Great Sage Empress Zetian is the nickname that Wu Zetian left for himself before his death.) )

"I am not the Lord of Meanness!" The scene when he was ousted from the throne by his mother for the first time quickly flashed in front of him, and an unwilling roar immediately erupted from Li Xian's mouth.

However, in the next instant, he realized his gaffe. He suddenly raised his hand and covered his mouth with death.

This action is really a bit too forceful. In an instant, his heart throbbed, and a violent cramp quickly spread along the back of his sternum to his shoulder armor, arms, and other places. It hurt so much that his eyes turned black, his face turned pale, and beads of sweat ran down his forehead.

"Shengshang-" The eunuch on duty, Gao Yanfu, was quick and experienced, and he hurriedly rushed forward with an arrow step and pressed his shoulder with one hand. Then he stretched out the index finger of his other hand, and pressed hard in the trembling of his chest, and the Zhiyang and other places behind him.

A series of acupuncture points pressed past, and Gao Yanfu was so tired that beads of sweat rolled on his forehead. As for Li Xian, the Emperor of the Heavenly Divine Dragon, his face eased significantly, and his heart gradually returned to normal. (Note: Acupressure points are one of the many first aid techniques for angina, and they are indeed effective.) But it is not recommended to try, and it is only right to go to the hospital when you are sick. )

"Shengshang-" The rest of the eunuchs and palace maids, only then did they realize that the situation was not good, and they rushed forward with screams, and sent tea soup for him, rubbing their chests and making a mess.

Gao Yanfu didn't want to compete with others, so he quickly took a few steps back, bowed down and asked, "Holy Lord, can you send the imperial doctor into the room for diagnosis and treatment?" The old slave can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause. ”

"Forget it, this disease, the imperial doctor will not cure it at all!" Li Xian's heart had returned to normal, but his spirit was wilting like a frosted crop, waving his hand, and commanding weakly.

"Holy Lord, Imperial Physician Sun once said......" Very worried about Li Xian's physical condition, Gao Yanfu lowered his head and whispered advice.

"Don't tell anyone about today's events. You, give them a gag order! Li Xian refused to listen to his words, and interrupted with a frown. Immediately, he closed his eyes and leaned back on the throne, refusing to listen to any more sounds around him.

It's no wonder that he is so desperate, this is not a disease that can be cured by too many doctors at all, but a curse that God has put on the head of the Longyou Li family! Back then, Sun Anzu's grandfather, Sun Simiao, was helpless against the disease. What's more, Sun Anzu's ability is less than one-tenth of his grandfather's!

Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty Li Yuan died of this disease, and Emperor Taizong Li Shimin also died of this disease. His father, Emperor Gaozong Li Zhixian, was blinded by the disease, and in the end he still could not escape.

However, his mother, because of her surname Wu, was not bothered by this disease at all, and after surviving his grandfather and father, she ousted him, who was a son, from the throne, and happily became the empress for twenty-one years.

And he, since his second accession to the throne, has endured hardship. It wasn't until he defeated Zhang Zhizhi and other five thieves, and survived the powerful minister Wu Sansi to death, that he finally raised his eyebrows. Unexpectedly, it was less than five months before the curse fell on his head again.

In the eyes of Xiao Zhizhong, Bi Gou, He Zhizhang and others, he promoted Zhang Qian to the position of the young eunuch of the fifth grade in one breath, because this person donated gunpowder, windmills and machine wells, and made a contribution to the escort.

In the eyes of Zong Chuke, Ji Chu Ne and others, he reused a person of unknown origin because this person was eloquent and used a passionate rhetoric to deceive his trust.

Actually, none of this is entirely true!

Li Xian knew in his heart that the reason why he valued Zhang Qian, in addition to the above reasons, was because this person also gave him a glimmer of hope to get rid of the curse.

He didn't want to die, at least, until he proved himself to be a worthy king.

Even if there is still one breath left, even if he can't see with his eyes like his father did in the end, he still hopes that he can live, live until the rule of Yonghui returns, and live until the day when the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses re-level the Western Regions and drive the Tubo people back to the plateau.

However, that Zhang Qian can send a life-saving elixir to Ren Qiong, the merchant who took him in. can send windmills and machine wells to Bi Gou, who has the grace of knowing him. You can give Zhang Ruoxu and He Zhizhang, who casually ordered a few words from him, and send gunpowder and chrysanthemum white. But until now, he has not shown the slightest gratitude to the Tang Emperor who was promoted to a high position in the fifth rank by him in one go!

However, Li Xian couldn't send someone to hint, or summon Zhang Qian into the palace, and ask him if the Qin Mo Master Sect had any elixir that could prolong life or cure heart disease. Otherwise, it will definitely leave a laughing stock on the living record of "not looking at the artifact of benefiting the country and the people, only asking about personal life and death". It will definitely make his mother under Jiuquan smile backwards!

No, absolutely not!

Li Xian doesn't care about the daily life record, and he doesn't care about leaving a mediocre name in history. However, he couldn't care less about the ridicule from his mother!

At that time, his mother-in-law Wu Zetian ousted him from the throne, and it was not his fault at all. It's that his mother is obsessed with power and doesn't want him, who is a son, to get out of control.

If he were the emperor, in the past 20 years, there would be no smoke everywhere in the Western Regions, no rivers would be lost, there would be no rebellions within the Tang Dynasty, and the treasury would not be poorer than the steps just swept.

If he was the emperor, in the past 20 years, the Turks would not have revived, and Tuyuhun would not have rebelled. The Tubo people will not kill all the way from the plateau to the city of Suzhou, and the connection between Chang'an and Anxi will be compressed into a narrow line!

If he ......

In the more than three years since he ascended the throne for the second time, he has defeated the five people who controlled the government, Wu Sansi, who survived to death, and rehabilitated Zhaoxue to the heroes of Lingyan Pavilion who were wrongly killed by his father and mother, and gave their children and grandchildren enviable wealth and glory.

He abolished torture and whistleblowing, lowered taxes, straightened out the court, and made the shadow of money reappear in the treasury, so that the sixteen guards of the Tang Dynasty had the courage to fight again.

He has gradually corrected the mistakes made by his mother back then, and gradually restored Datang's vitality, but God is unwilling to give him more time!

"It's not fair!" Quickly clenching his fists, Li Xian gritted his teeth and gurgled.

No, he has to take the lesser of two evils. Rather leave a laughing stock, he must also find an opportunity to summon Zhang Qian in front of him and ask Qin Mo if he has a secret recipe for treating the heart muscle, or if there is a corresponding elixir?

He needs time, and Datang also needs time. So......

"Your Majesty, take the medicine, be good!" A gentle but undeniable voice suddenly sounded in his ears, clearing all the thoughts and decisions in his mind in an instant.

"Hmm" opened his eyes and looked at his wife Wei, who was already over forty-five years old but still as gorgeous as a peony, and opened his mouth obediently to Emperor Tianshenlong, and drank the medicinal soup that the other party fed with a silver spoon!