Taiji Palace, Shenlong Palace.

His Majesty Li Er put on a loose robe, sat barefoot on the brocade couch, his hair was scattered and was being tied by the palace maid with a brocade belt, his face was a little swollen after waking up from sleep, his expression was tired and haggard, his left hand was on his knee, and the thumb and middle finger of his right hand were split and pressed on both temples respectively, and he pressed it down hard to relieve the discomfort of his head.

As he grew older, his headaches became more severe, often causing him to stay awake at night.

Especially since the death of the eldest grandson, he has become a serious illness, and since then, not only the headache has become more severe, but also accompanied by chest tightness, palpitations and other symptoms, and his memory has gradually declined. This made him tortured and emaciated, and even the things that had always been in the bed gradually decreased, causing the harem to complain......

Being woken up in his sleep, His Majesty Li Er's mood was very irritable.

The energy required to govern such a large empire is difficult for ordinary people to understand, and who can not be irritable if they can't even sleep soundly after all their hard work?

He rubbed his temples, took the double ginseng tea handed over by the maid and drank it, put down the jade bowl, and asked in a low voice, "Where is Li Junxian?" ”

The maid didn't dare to answer, and Wang De, the chief waiter on the side, bowed down and said, "Back to Your Majesty, General Li is waiting outside the order." ”

His Majesty Li Er snorted and said, "Let him come in, stay overnight, if there is no urgent matter that has to be like this, and I will not spare him!" ”

People who have the gas to get up are unreasonable.

Wang Dequan didn't hear it, and responded: "Oh! ”

took two steps back, turned around and walked out of the main hall, and called Li Junxian in.

Li Junxian dressed for a while, strode into the hall, came to His Majesty Li Er, knelt down on one knee, and said loudly: "The last general will detain the gate late at night, and report to Your Majesty if there is an emergency." ”

His Majesty Li Er snorted, straightened his body, and said in a deep voice: "Let's listen, is it the resurgence of the rebellion in the Western Regions, or is it the rebellion of the bureaucrats to attack the county seat of the prefecture?" ”

"Uh......"

Li Jun was envious for a moment, and said in his heart, what kind of tone is this?

It's a little inexplicable......

Thinking about the meaning of the emperor's words, he simply ignored it and said to himself: "Malaria broke out in Shilipo more than ten miles south of the city, ten rooms and nine empty rooms in the village, every family was infected with malaria and died, and it was precarious, malaria could ravage Chang'an at any time, and now Jingzhao Mansion has imposed martial law on all the villages nearby, and I don't know if there can be other villages nearby that can be infected." ”

"What?!"

His Majesty Li Er was startled, and subconsciously stood up, all the sleepiness and fatigue disappeared in an instant, and his spirit suddenly sobered up.

"Didn't you say that cases of malaria were only found in the mountains to the north? When did it get infected near Chang'an? ”

He couldn't help but be nervous, a plague of a certain scale is enough to shake the foundation of the empire, all the wealth and stability will disappear and collapse in the face of the raging plague, no matter how powerful the empire is, it will not be able to stop the plague from raging.

But now that malaria has invaded the Gyeonggi region, the Manchu civil and military forces are not aware of it......

"What is Jingzhao Mansion doing to eat, such an important thing has not been discovered until now?"

The Emperor thundered and shouted angrily.

In fact, this can't all be blamed for the inaction of Jingzhao Mansion......

In the past few years, the poor have a headache and brain fever and don't go to Lang Zhong at all, just look for a few herbs and eat them indiscriminately, diarrhea is also a common disease, how can the people think about malaria?

The people themselves don't know it, thinking that it is a common disease that will pass with a resistance, so naturally they will not publicize it everywhere, Jingzhao Mansion is in charge of more than a dozen prefectures and counties in Guanzhong, as well as Chang'an, and it is inevitable that there will be a shortage of manpower, and it is impossible to control everything, and it is inevitable that there will be omissions......

Li Junxian didn't dare to take this words, it was not appropriate to excuse Ma Zhou, and it was even more inappropriate to fall into the well, so he continued: "There is still one matter that Your Majesty needs to decide, dozens of soldiers in the army are hiding on the hill north of Shilipo, intending to wait for an opportunity to murder Fang Jun, the Marquis of Huating, and Fang Jun detected the situation and led the troops to exterminate him, and according to the confession of the captured soldiers, there are suspected spies lurking in Shilipo, when Fang Jun and others arrived, the spies still withdrew, and it was in this way that the situation of Shilipo was accidentally discovered. ”

"Someone mobilized soldiers and hid close to Gyeonggi, intending to murder Fang Jun?"

His Majesty Li Er's head hurt, and anger rose!

It just doesn't make sense!

Compared with the spies, what made him even more angry were those hidden soldiers! In Gyeonggi County, it is already a capital crime to dare to privately transfer troops and horses, but he still dares to murder a marquis and a horse?

Today is to murder Fang Er, so tomorrow will it be my turn Li Er?!

What a daring!

"Check! Give me a clear check! I want to see who has the courage to commit murder in Chang'an? Find out, punish him for the nine clans, and destroy him all over the house! ”

The already irritable mood was completely aroused, His Majesty the Emperor was furious, and the thunder was furious!

Li Junxian lay on the ground and didn't dare to say anything, and waited until the emperor vented, then he said: "The last general has already verified that there are many soldiers of the Right Wu Houwei among the soldiers, but these soldiers only admit that they want to murder Fang Jun, but they refuse to confess who instructed them, and even deny that the mastermind behind the scenes is General Qiu. ”

His Majesty Li Er was full of anger, but he was stunned for a moment: "Right Wu Hou Wei? Can't go wrong? ”

When you say it, you know that you can't be wrong. What kind of virtue is Qiu Xinggong's old man, how can he not know? is the most retribution-worthy person, his son's death is so miserable, if he doesn't seek revenge, he will have a ghost.

Li Junxian said: "There will be no mistake. ”

His Majesty Li Er pondered for a while, then sat back on the brocade couch, sighed, rubbed his temples, and said, "Execute all those soldiers, and then you go and pay tribute to Shen Qiuqiu, so that he can do his own ......"

After a pause, he changed his mind again: "It's better to wait for the Qiu family's funeral to be completed, and then go to the door to apply for the funeral." ”

After all, Qiu Xinggong is a veteran who follows him before and after the saddle and the horse charges, although he is a little tyrannical, but his loyalty is undoubted, and Qiu Shenji's death is extremely miserable, as a father, how can he be indifferent? The means are a little harsh, even if the national law is intolerable, after all, there are extenuating circumstances.

Of course, this is on the basis that Fang Jun is not injured, if Fang Jun has any accidents, it is definitely not as simple as applying for money.

You Qiu Xinggong is an old brother, isn't Fang Xuanling?

When it comes to meritorious contributions, two Qiu Xinggong can't compare to one Fang Xuanling......

Li Junxian responded: "No! Now that Jingzhao Mansion has sealed off Pingkangfang, searching for Sun Wu, the captain of the guarding school, trying to find out the whereabouts of the spies, I wonder if Your Majesty can have an edict? ”

His Majesty Li Er's eyes were gloomy: "Eldest Sun Wu? Is it a child of the eldest grandson's family? ”

"It's the distant branch of the eldest grandson's family."

His Majesty Li Er was silent for a long time, and his tone was deep: "Then wait until after the arrest and interrogation, no matter what the result is, send it to the Zhao State Mansion." ”

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*****

Yanping Gate.

On the upper floor of the city gate, the candlelight is bright.

The soldiers on duty were divided into several waves, except for the soldiers who went out to patrol the city, the rest of the people did not sleep peacefully, and they all talked about Fang Jun's entry into the city just now.

"Captain Eldest Sun is afraid that he will suffer this time."

"That's it, who doesn't know that Fang Jun's family and the eldest grandson family have always been at odds? It was rumored that Fang Er had an affair with Princess Changle, so he designed to frame Changsun Chong, and later Changsun Yu also died unexplained, and he was also involved with Fang Jun, and even Zhao Guogong was repeatedly hit by Fang Jun in the court, and he couldn't get off the stage......"

"Didn't you hear? There is a commotion in this city, and I am afraid that something big will happen. ”

"Could it be that guy Dai Dou Li is really a spy?"

"Who knows, maybe Fang Er is going to clean up the eldest grandson and want to add to the crime?"

"This is not good, I look at the guy wearing the hat and feel suspicious......"

Everyone talked about it, and they all lost their sleepiness, in fact, they were a little worried in their hearts, if it was true that Changsun Wu had something to do with the spies, so many soldiers were afraid that they would all be implicated, after all, once it was involved in the spies, the strict investigation was certain, who knew what else would be provoked under Miki?

At this moment, I suddenly heard someone shouting from under the city: "Open the city gate!" ”

The soldiers looked at each other, what was going on tonight?

One by one, they knocked on the gates of the city and rushed to the market......

The soldiers patrolling the city outside were already shouting from the city tower and asking, "Who is the one who detains the city?" ”

Two people in the city rode horses, and one of them said: "We are the imperial doctors of the Tai Hospital, and we have been ordered by the emperor to develop a medicine for the treatment of malaria. Wait for the door to open the door quickly, if you miss such a big thing, the sin will not be forgiven! ”

What?

Ordered by the emperor to develop a drug for malaria?

Doesn't that mean that there is now a cure for malaria?!

No one does not know the dangers of malaria, and it has been rumored that malaria patients have been found sporadically in some states and counties in the north these days, and people in Chang'an City are also panicking......

The soldiers who were not on duty got up one after another, rushed out in a swarm and lay down on the edge of the arrow stack, and asked loudly: "This is true!" ”

The imperial physician under the city was also quite excited, and replied: "It's true, open the city gate quickly, and we will enter the palace to report the good news to Your Majesty!" The people of the world will never suffer from malaria again! ”

The soldiers defending the city hoisted a hanging basket to the bottom of the city, and asked the imperial physician to put the seal voucher into the hanging basket, and hoisted it up to carefully check that it was correct, and then opened the city gate.

The two imperial doctors were in a high mood, and they did not dismount, but directly through the city gate hole, and galloped towards the direction of the palace......