Li Su has never been a noble person who is compassionate and compassionate, like all ordinary people, there is a kind side, there is also a despicable side, he has never had great compassion in his heart, and he has no courage to do big and evil things, he will go on when there is a good thing, and he will slip away when he sees that the situation is not good, and he will always give a few dollars to the beggar after doing a small bad thing, and then wishful thinking that good and evil will not increase or decrease, God has forgiven himself, and he never cares what God feels.

In his previous life, he was as ordinary as a speck of dust.

Solving smallpox has nothing to do with compassion for him, the word "compassion" is for monks, and Li Su can't be so detached. Maybe there is a faint trace of compassion for the villagers in his heart, but it is mainly for the Wang brothers and himself, this era is too strange to him, the Wang brothers are his only friends, he doesn't want to lose friends, that's all.

Li Su is just Li Su, and Li Su is not Bethune.

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Chang'an City, Taiji Palace, Ganlu Palace.

A middle-aged man wearing a bright yellow robe and not wearing a crown is sitting on the square couch in the empty hall, his gray hair is pulled into a very delicate bun, and then fixed with a jasper hairpin, and a nine-dragon jade belt is tied around his waist, the jade belt is inlaid into nine dragon patterns by many white jade of the same size and specification, and the soles of his feet are stepping on a pair of bright yellow soft-soled boots, his person is about eight feet tall, burly, with broad shoulders and round waist, slightly dark complexion, his eyes are vigorous, his forehead and the corners of his eyes are squeezed out of a few wrinkles, and his moderately thick lips are tightly pursed. He sat quietly in the empty hall, staring blankly at the messy pile of notes on the low table.

This person is the first emperor of the ages who finally became an emperor after a hundred battles and single-handedly created the rule of Zhenguan, Li Shimin.

Tang Emperor Li Shimin hasn't had a good night's sleep for five days. At this time, it was late at night, and Li Shimin had already slept peacefully, but in the past few days, there have been frequent bad news in the Guanzhong area, which has made him sleepless all night.

Seemingly inconspicuous little plague, no one expected to spread so fast, so fast that the imperial court did not even have time to prepare, it has swept more than a dozen villages outside Chang'an City, today Shangshu left servant shot Fang Qiao played, saying that smallpox spread more and more intensely, Chang'an City outside Jingyang County has more than 800 people died of smallpox, worse news is that smallpox has penetrated into Chang'an City, today the city of Changle Fang Fang official reported, there are three families in the Fang inexplicable fever, after diagnosis has been determined to be infected with smallpox.

This news quickly spread in Chang'an City, the officials and people in the city were panicked and turbulent, and the prosperous capital Chang'an is now closed, shops are closed, the streets are empty, and there are countless people who have fled the city to escape the plague.

Li Shimin is now in turmoil.

The plague is not only a plague, when it is strict enough to get out of the control of the monarch and ministers, it is the enemy of the Tang Dynasty, it brings not only the death of the people, but also brings a chain reaction of destruction to this peaceful and prosperous era, the people don't even dare to go out of their homes, who works? Who farms? Who does business? When the people have lost their comfortable and stable life, who will praise the emperor's kindness?

What made Li Shimin even more angry was that there were already some malicious voices in the streets, saying that the Son of Heaven did not cultivate virtue and therefore angered God, attracted heavenly punishment, and added guilt to innocent people.

The rumors of the long-tongued people in the market did not dare to say it thoroughly, but everyone in the Tang Dynasty knew what was going on.

In June of the ninth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin launched the Xuanwumen Mutiny, killed his siblings, forced his father Li Yuan to abdicate and make way for Xian, killed the elder with the young, usurped the father with the son, and the name of the country was not right, and it was also fate, after Li Shimin ascended the throne, the Tang Dynasty almost every year of natural disasters, and the voice of the people's malice is getting louder and louder.

The same is true of the smallpox plague this time, when the plague spreads more and more violently, the old tune is really repeated, the Son of Heaven is not in the right position, and he lacks virtue, but it has caused hundreds of millions of innocent people in Datang to suffer......

In the Ganlu Palace, Li Shimin was absentmindedly flipping through the songs, but his mood was extremely chaotic and irritable.

Smallpox! Smallpox!

Rebellions can be suppressed, floods can be repaired, wells can be dug in droughts, but how can it be this damn smallpox! All the doctors and doctors in the world are helpless, what can I do?

The sword and the imperial power had lost their effect, and Li Shimin suddenly felt a deep sense of powerlessness hit his heart.

The sound of hurried footsteps echoed in the corridor outside the hall in the middle of the night, and Li Shimin's heart became heavier and heavier, as if he had pressed a heavy stone.

In the middle of the night, such a hurried pace often means another disaster has happened.

In the past few days, he has been under tremendous pressure in his heart, Li Shimin only feels that he is about to collapse, and when he hears the sound of footsteps, the anger in his heart rushes straight to his head in vain.

Outside the palace gate, a trembling figure knelt down, but it was a eunuch.

"Initiation of the Majesty, Shangshu Province Urgent ......"

Li Shimin broke out, slapped the dwarf in front of him fiercely, and said angrily: "Where did the trouble happen?" Every day is either a plague or a rush, is my Tang Dynasty condemned by heaven and man, and there is nothing to be desired? ”

"Get out! Get out of here! I don't want to hear a word today! ”

The eunuch was so frightened that his body trembled like chaff, beads of sweat rolled down his forehead, his heart was racing, and he plucked up his courage and said, "Your Majesty...... Your Majesty, this urgency is not bad news, it is a good thing......"

"It's a good thing, I don't want to ...... Slow, good thing? What's good? Li Shimin came back to his senses, and a ray of hope slowly rose in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, Shangshu Province received an urgent report from Jingyang County, saying that Sun Simiao and Sun Lao Immortal had found a person who could restrain smallpox in Taiping Village......"

"What?" Li Shimin stood for a moment, then his face showed ecstasy, and he didn't care about the king's demeanor at the moment, so he ran to the eunuch in three or two steps, and glared at the eunuch with a hideous face: "Say it again!" Has Sun Simiao found a way to restrain smallpox? ”

"Your Majesty...... His Majesty was not discovered by Sun Lao Xian, but by a villager in Taiping Village, under the rule of Jingyang County, and Sun Lao Xian personally verified that this method is effective for smallpox, so that those who are not infected with smallpox will not be infected with this plague for the rest of their lives......"

Li Shimin's joyful expression gradually became strange: "Old Sun Immortal failed to find a way to restrain himself, but he was found by a villager in Taiping Village?" ”

"Exactly, this villager's surname is Li, his name is Su, and the Jingyang County Order said in the newspaper that Sun Lao Immortal has a lot of praise for this son......"

Li Shimin waved his hand indifferently, the mood of many days of haze finally cleared up at this moment, as for who Li Su was, it didn't matter to an emperor who controlled tens of millions of people.

The important thing is that the turmoil in the capital city of Chang'an can finally be settled, all kinds of unfavorable rumors in the court and the people can be quelled, and his throne can be re-secured.

A villager with no name who solved a major crisis in the Li Tang Empire and saved thousands of people in Guanzhong is a great merit and a great joy.

"The great joy of the country, how can it be rewarded without merit? Order, summon the officials of the three provinces and six departments to enter the palace immediately, Sun Simiao was worried about Sheji, and went to the epidemic area in person with an old body, and relieved the people from hanging upside down, although there was no merit but there was labor, the old fairy had resigned as an official three times, I was not reluctant, and gave 10,000 gold, 100 horses, Li ......, a villager of Taiping Village, Jingyang County. Li ......"

The eunuch cautiously reminded: "Li Su." ”

"Li Su has made this great contribution to my Tang Dynasty, this merit cannot be rewarded without being a knight, and he is the prince of Jingyang County...... "Li Shimin looked excited, talked endlessly, and spoke as fast as a cannon.

The eunuch's cheeks twitched a few times, and seeing that Li Shimin was so excited that he couldn't help himself, the eunuch stopped talking and bowed down.

Li Shimin's heart was as careful as a hair, and when he found that the eunuch's expression was wrong, he suddenly stopped and looked at him with a frown: "Do you have something to say?" ”

"The slave and the maid don't dare, the slave and the maid have no words."

"Tell me if you're not guilty."

The eunuch sweated coldly, hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "Qi Xià, Li Su from Taiping Village is only fifteen years old this year......

Li Shimin's eyes widened and said in surprise: "Fifteen years old? This...... Do you have such a skill? ”

Immediately, Li Shimin quickly understood what the eunuch meant, sighed, and didn't know whether it was regret or joy, he finally recovered from the out-of-control ecstasy, shook his head with a wry smile, and said: "The hero is a young man, I am old...... Fifteen years old, has not yet performed the crown ceremony, the knighthood is very inappropriate, I am afraid that there is a lot of criticism in the DPRK and China, the young man became famous, Mu Xiu in the forest, the knighthood is harmful to him, change the will, specially promoted Li Su as the doctor of the Imperial Physician's Department, specially awarded the method of curing smallpox, and gave another 10,000 gold, 20 acres of fertile land. ”