Chapter 244: Shannan Road

There is no shortage of food, and no natural disaster is terrible.

One of the main reasons why natural disasters have a bad impact is that after the disaster, there is enough food and the affected areas can recover quickly.

With food in his hands, he didn't panic in his heart, and after all the ministers simply discussed the problem of grain scheduling, the problem was solved, but Yu Zhiqian keenly caught a trace of news in the recital.

"There's a plague in Shannan Province?"

The official of the Ministry of Officials who reported nodded: "Shannan Road reported that there is a disease in several villages below, but the number is not large, and it has been controlled, it seems to be smallpox!" ”

After Yu Zhiqian heard the official's words, he frowned: "Father, you should immediately send someone to Shannan Road to investigate, if it is really a plague, no matter how small it is, it should not be taken lightly, if it is smallpox, you should immediately send someone to deal with it!" ”

After hearing this, the emperor thought for a while: "Shannan Dao Assassin Shi Wang Dong is also a cadre, the prince doesn't need to worry too much, if the epidemic is serious, Shannan Dao should report it!" ”

But at this time, Di Renjie stood up: "Your Majesty, the plague is no trivial matter, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is right, you should send someone to investigate!" ”

The emperor glanced at Di Renjie, slightly displeased, Di Renjie saw the change in the emperor's expression, lowered his head and said slowly: "Your Majesty, don't you forget the matter of Hebei Province?" ”

After hearing the words, the emperor closed his eyes, thought for a while, and then said, "Jing Ke! ”

"The minister is here!"

"Let the Jinyi Weishan South Provincial Health Station investigate the plague problem in Shannan Province!"

"Whoa!"

"Where is the secretary of the ministry!"

"The minister is here!"

"Send Wang Dong's file to the palace!"

"Whoa!"

Yu Zhiqian saw that the emperor paid attention to it, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, among all the natural disasters in ancient times, the most terrible thing was the plague, a plague, so that a strong empire immediately decayed Cases abound, the medical conditions in ancient times were extremely poor, once the epidemic spread, the consequences were incalculable.

Even in the later generations, there are some epidemics, which will have a great impact on the country, so Yu Zhiqian has to pay attention to it, even if it is just a casual remark by an official of the ministry.

"Smallpox?"

Yu Zhiqian frowned and thought, smallpox was the deadliest infectious disease in ancient China, and there was no one of them, and it was not completely eradicated until later generations, but fortunately, Yu Zhiqian still knew how to treat this kind of thing, but it required a lot of experiments, because Yu Zhiqian only knew that the smallpox virus was restrained by cowpox, and how to restrain it still needed detailed research.

Getting the news that there was a plague in a place, Yu Zhiqian's whole person began to get nervous, and at the same time began to pray in his heart, the guy named Wang Dong in Shannan Province is really a cadre, who can suppress the disease, if it is a fool, the news comes back from Shannan Province, the imperial court sends people to investigate, there is no mobile phone, relying on human transmission, at least ten days have passed, ten days, enough for any virus to spread.

"I hope I'm thinking too much!" Yu Zhiqian muttered to himself, but at the same time decided that after he went back, he would take someone to study the smallpox virus, cowpox is easy to find, that is, the cow gets pox after getting sick, and when the time comes, find some death row prisoners to test, maybe it will be successful.

In his mind, Yu Zhiqian has already begun to think about how to study the smallpox vaccine, and strive to eliminate this damn virus as soon as possible, even if it cannot be eliminated nationwide, so that most people can be immune, in this way, maybe a lot of losses can be reduced in the future, after all, no one knows when the smallpox virus will break out.

There was not much turmoil in the court, and everyone didn't pay too much attention to this matter, only Yu Zhiqian was a little anxious, and Di Renjie rarely opened his eyes and thought about something.

Half an hour later, the envoys of Tibet went to court.

Lu Dongzan came to Chang'an City for a few days, a few days, he was completely frightened, Chang'an City is too prosperous, so prosperous that Lu Dongzan didn't dare to imagine, when he passed through Chengdu before, he felt that Chang'an City was at most similar to Chengdu, but after coming to Chang'an City, he understood what the frog at the bottom of the well in the Han population meant.

Not to mention anything else, let's just say that there are some hot air balloons flying over his head from time to time, Lu Dongzan felt that he had come to the place where the gods lived, he clearly saw that there were people in the things flying in the sky, and his men began to kneel on the ground, but the surrounding Hanmin did not make any movements, just glanced at it and continued to work.

At the beginning, Lu Dongzan was still cursing this group of guys in his heart for disrespecting the gods, but later after knowing from Han Min's mouth that this thing was a flying artifact researched by the Yutang Empire, he understood why, and even felt a hot pain in his cheeks, and he knelt down towards the Yutang Empire's invention equipment.

In addition, Lu Dongzan felt the deepest is the wealth of the Yutang Empire, he specially entered several rice shops, pretending to buy rice, there was no grain in the granary, Lu Dongzan thought that the Yutang Empire lacked food like them, but when he said that he wanted a million stone of grain, the person in charge of the rice shop was not too surprised, but asked him to give money first, and they transferred the goods.

(The shopkeeper of the rice shop: A second fool in the trough wants to buy so much grain, it seems to be a nonsense person, just right, the old grain in the granary will rot if it is not sold...... )

Lu Dongzan thought that when the shopkeeper of the rice shop took them to the granary outside Chang'an City, looking at the mountains of grain, Lu Dongzan knew that they really did not lack food, and even too much food to eat.

paid for the grain and at the same time let them transport it to the border between Tubo and the Yutang Empire, but the shopkeeper instantly agreed, not worrying at all about how the million stone grain would be transported to Tubo......

(Rice shop shopkeeper: The granary near Chengdu is also about to become moldy, and there is too much grain!) )

The Yutang Empire has endless food, which is really terrible, in the eyes of Lu Dongzan, the grain will never be enough, and this million grains will not last long to buy back to Tibet, and the Yutang Empire, the food is outrageously cheap.

This is not the most terrifying, the most terrible thing is the weapons of the Yutang Empire, Lu Dongzan went to a few blacksmith shops, and what he saw was a variety of agricultural tools that dazzled him, and the iron used was the best pig iron, and these irons were only used to make agricultural tools, so how sharp would the weapons in the hands of the soldiers of the Yutang Empire be?

It may make people cry when they say it, as the prime minister of Tibet, among the guards, there are also a few people who have not been able to use weapons before the envoy, which is still given by Songtsen Gampo before leaving, but in the Yutang Empire, the farm tools in the hands of the people are sharper than the weapons in the hands of their warriors......

Grain, weapons, salt sold at sky-high prices in Tubo, etc., at first Lu Dongzan still fantasized that with his own ability, integrating Tubo could compete with the Yutang Empire, but now it seems that it is simply a fool's dream, that is, ten Tubo are not enough for the Yutang Empire.

"You must find a way to marry the princess of the Yutang Empire!"

Lu Dongzan secretly swore in his heart, and at the same time was thinking about how to take away some good things from the Yutang Empire, at least some of the items that the Tubo Kingdom would continue to have, but soon he found himself worrying, as long as he had money, the Yutang Empire could buy anything, such as a very transparent glass cup.

Lu Dongzan felt that this glass was the most flawless cup he had ever seen, without any flaws, the whole cup was transparent, and when he poured the wine into it, he could clearly see the wine in the cup......

In a few days, Lu Dongzan's mentality has changed dramatically, at first he felt that the matter of courting should be easily completed, and if he did not agree, he would threaten with force, but now it seems that he can only pray for mercy from the Yutang Empire, as for going to war? The only advantage is that Tubo has the protection of the god of the plateau, and the Yutang Empire cannot be defeated.

In the main hall, Lu Dongzan cautiously walked to the hall and respectfully saluted the emperor: "Foreign Minister Tubo State Minister, Lu Dongzan has seen His Majesty the Emperor of the Yutang Empire, I wish Your Majesty ......"

The emperor nodded, looked at the ministers of the Tubo Kingdom below, squinted his eyes for a while, finally saw clearly, and waved his hand: "No courtesy, give a seat!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Lu Dongzan, what is the so-called matter when you come to my court this time?"

The emperor didn't waste time, he only asked, Lu Dongzan was stunned, so direct? In the past two days, he has also been studying a lot of steps for foreign ministers to meet, not all of them are generally saluting, and then the emperor asks, and the foreign ministers convey their king's greetings, and then have a cordial and friendly exchange for a period of time, and finally ask the reason for the envoy, but now he directly does not follow the script and asks his own reasons.

Hearing the emperor's words, Lu Dongzan was stunned for a few seconds, then reacted quickly and said: "Your Majesty, the foreign minister is here this time, there is indeed something important, my king wants to marry a princess of your dynasty!" ”

The emperor frowned when he heard this, and Lu Dongzan thought that the emperor was dissatisfied, and immediately explained: "Your Majesty is angry, my king is only thirty this year, and he has not yet married a wife, my king admires the culture of your country, and has always admired your country, so he sent foreign ministers to express his heart, and wanted to marry the princess of your country, and form a friendship between the two countries for eternity!" ”

Lu Dongzan put the words that had been prepared in his heart as much as possible with a smile, wanting to leave a good impression on the emperor, and after the emperor heard it, he nodded slowly and glanced down: "What do you think of Aiqing?" ”

Yu Zhiqian secretly glanced at his father, knowing that his cheap father was fishing again, many times, the emperor had already made a decision in his heart, but he would not say it, to see how his courtiers were doing, to listen to any opinions, to see if there were any people who thought the same as themselves, or whether there were any supplements to their decisions, or to hear if there were any different opinions, or to see if there were any pig-brained people mixed with the ministers.

Hearing the emperor's question, the ministers below were thinking about the pros and cons of this matter, but soon a squire from the Ministry of Rites stood up: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister thinks this is a good thing!" ”

"Oh? Tell me about it? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, although there is a discord between our dynasty and the Tubo country, it is only a few minor conflicts, this time the Tibetan minister came to ask for relatives, which can ease the relationship between the two countries, and can prevent the people of the two countries from falling into the sword soldiers, and can ......."

The emperor nodded slowly, after this squire saw it, he was overjoyed, it seemed that his opinion The emperor was very satisfied, Lu Dongzan also secretly glanced at this squire, and secretly noted in his heart that this person needed to be thanked.

"The minister also thinks that this matter is okay!"

“……”

Many ministers are in favor of this courtship, because no matter how you look at it, they all feel that this matter does not look like a bad thing, and this kind of thing has always had this tradition since the Spring and Autumn Period, and this time it was Tubo who came to ask for marriage.

The emperor had a smile on his face all the time, and many people thought that the emperor might have agreed to this family affair, and at this time, the emperor suddenly looked at the position of the crown prince.

"What do you think, Prince?"

When this sentence was asked, Lu Dongzan didn't feel anything, but looked at the prince of the Yutang Empire curiously, this guy has too many legends, after coming to Chang'an, what he heard the most was about this prince, Lu Dongzan carefully observed Yu Zhiqian not far away, this prince is almost certain to be the next emperor of the Yutang Empire, so Lu Dongzan is very concerned.

Yu Zhiqian was also looking at Lu Dongzan, he was very short, his face was red, not because he was excited, but because he was drunk with oxygen.

"Father, the son feels that there is no need to be close to the relatives, the Tubo country and our dynasty have always had conflicts, although for the outbreak of large-scale stabbing can only be horizontal, but also in a state of war, there are many will die in the hands of the Tubo people, if you and the Tubo people, I am afraid it will chill the hearts of many soldiers!"

When Lu Dongzan heard Yu Zhiqian say that he didn't agree to make peace, his heart was cold, and he couldn't help but start thinking about whether he offended the prince of the Yu Tang Empire when he offended him, or whether his words made the other party unhappy.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's words are wrong, my country has had conflicts with your country before, it is because the two sides do not understand, my king marries the princess of your country, enhance the feelings and exchanges between the two countries, and can also avoid more conflicts......"

"Oh, you mean, if you don't get along, there's more conflict?"

Yu Zhiqian looked at Lu Dongzan with a smile, and as soon as the words fell, the generals of the DPRK and China immediately stared at Lu Dongzan in front of them angrily.

Lu Dongzan immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has misunderstood, the foreign minister has no such intention, my king came this time not only to ask for marriage, but also to apologize, apologize for the previous conflict with your country, and is willing to compensate your country for all losses!" ”

This is what Lu Dongzan thought of temporarily, Songtsen Gampo didn't mention this matter at all, but now he can't care so much, let's deal with the prince in front of him first!