Twelve years have not seen, Mooney is already twilight, Jin Xuedi's hair has been gray for life, but it is slightly yellowish in old age, and the skin folds are undulating like mountain beams, and he looks very old. When they met, everyone dismounted and worshipped each other, and each performed their own rituals.

"Years no see, Captain Mooney."

"In your words, don't come to Yongxinghou unharmed."

"Hehaha...... That's not your character. ”

Baili Yan was extremely honest, and at this time, Gongliang Xiu stepped forward and gave a slight salute:

"Yongxing Hou has been doing well lately."

"Thanks to my brother, everything is fine."

As soon as the words fell, Mooney took two steps forward, came to Feiyu and reached out to caress him, and said as he stroked:

"This horse is what you call a thousand miles of leap."

"Why, Commander Mooney saw it in Qianyue Mountain."

Bai Liyan asked, casually leading Feiyu to Mooney. Mooney looked at it carefully, and then said:

"When I passed through the city, I saw that some of the royal guests rode this kind of horse, galloping back and forth to deliver news, faster than our horses, so I inquired about the news, and learned that there was indeed such a good horse. When I led my army north, there was a rumor that someone saw a wild horse that was running fast, with an amazing physique, but it was never seen, and he didn't want to be captured by you. ”

"It seems that you are unlucky, once every twenty or thirty years, you pass by there every time, and you don't meet it every time, and Benhou passes by once and catches all of them, so I can only say that your luck is too bad."

Baili Yan was soft and hard and did not show weakness, Mooney looked slightly depressed, and then returned the horse, and his eyes fell on Figos's face:

"Who is he?"

"Oh, he's Figos, when Benhou Duhui was defeated and broke through to the south, he caught the interpreter at Citrus Lake, and he has been carrying it with him since then, and now he is Gudappa's son-in-law."

"He's Gudapa's son-in-law!" Mooney was a little surprised, and hurriedly asked, "Is Gudapa still alive?" ”

Figos answered:

"My father-in-law is doing well, and the whole clan is doing well."

Hearing this, Mooney's expression was complicated, a little lost and a little envious. Seeing that it had changed dramatically, Bai Liyan asked tentatively:

"After the peace talks, you're not doing well in the south."

"Well, Your Majesty was furious and imprisoned many. Temir died in prison four years ago, and many of the defeated generals survived until the crown prince ascended to power. ”

The two provinces of Posong and Songdia suffered heavy losses in population and economy under the extortion of Bailiyan, especially the church.

After the peace talks in 634, the Church was angry with the unfavorable legion commander Nilesen in the First Battle of Duhui, and forced the moon god King Blendor to dismiss him from his position, and later dismissed Temir, Mooni and others from their posts and sentenced them to life imprisonment, and Temir died of heart disease and depression in prison.

Due to the defeat in the war and the plundering of Bailiyan, the anti-war sentiment and the questioning of religious authority in the country after the defeat were aggravated, and at the same time, the heavy losses and war expenses in the two provinces outside the Guanxi Province dragged down the finances, and further intensified the internal contradictions of the Holy See.

In order to consolidate his power and gain more support, he used the church's right to grant amnesty to the new king, pardoned Mooney and other old ministers, as well as the surviving patriarchs in the church who supported Blendor Sr. and the centrists, launched the fourth church coup d'état with the support of the army and church elders, and regained power.

Repeated conspiracies to seize power weakened border control and economic recovery, and the remnants of the Central Plains People's Resistance Army in the two provinces outside the Guanxi Province roamed in the primeval forests with dangerous terrain and often harassed the towns and cities, but they could never be wiped out.

Under the internal and external difficulties, the "pain fever" epidemic first broke out in the two provinces outside the Guanxi Province, and then the "Azovian" wind chill, which is an unknown epidemic virus cold.

"Pain fever" is an infectious disease unique to the Jinxuedi people, Bailiyan has heard of it during the Southern Expedition, and has never seen it in his previous life, and it has been speculated that it is an infectious disease caused by genetic defects of the unique race.

This disease is extremely strange, there is no sign at the onset of the disease, and then gradually feels soreness and numbness, then numbness, and then begins to ache, and there is no sign of body temperature, which is similar to the symptoms of rheumatism and severe spinal stenosis, until one day there is a sudden high fever, which can reach 41 or even 42 degrees, which lasts for two to three hours, and then dies suddenly.

This disease is a malignant infectious disease, usually the whole village of the population dies, very terrifying, and has a strong contagion to the Jinxuedi people, rarely in the Central Plains.

The "Azovian" wind chill first broke out in the city of Azovli, with rapid infection and high mortality, and was the second largest plague among the Jinxuedi people.

In order to cure and prevent these two diseases, the Jinxuedi people learned herbal medicine from the Central Plains, and at the same time obtained seeds, planted them outside the Guan, and concocted several kinds of prescriptions for hundreds of years to treat two kinds of malignant plagues, but the herbs could not be self-sufficient.

The climate of the central temperate zone and the alpine zone in the south is not suitable for the cultivation of tropical and subtropical plants, and it is impossible to cultivate Central Plains herbs on a large scale like the climate of the northern part of the Central Plains.

At the same time, affected by climate and adaptability, temperate, subtropical, tropical herbal plants, to the cold zone, medium temperate zone, even in summer, the growth and development of its plants is not as good as temperate, tropical, subtropical, so the active ingredients are greatly discounted, and then suffer from large-scale outbreaks, the lack of herbal medicine is the inevitable result.

I took two lists from Mooney's hand, and the first one knew at a glance that they were all herbaceous plants in the Central Plains, including mint, Huoxiang, astragalus, licorice, lotus grass, plantain, sesame flower and other special herbs for the treatment of cold and flu.

The second one is unpredictable, all of them are hallucinogenic anesthetic herbs, including mandala, maze grass, small shaozi, fake lychee, betel nut, and Lexian fruit, which Bailiyan is puzzled by.

Hallucinogenic herbs are usually used for analgesia and alleviate symptoms, but cannot completely cure most diseases, so the dosage is very small, and it is impossible to use multiple hallucinogenic herbs at the same time.

After a moment's thought, Bailiyan asked Mooney:

"Mandala, Eczea Grass, Xiao Shaozi, and Betel Nut are all psychedelic herbs, what do you want these for?"

"The effect of treating pain and heat is excellent, originally we had a kind of Le Xian Fruit, but most of them were outside the Guan, after the Guanwai was looted by you, many plantations were destroyed, Your Majesty was busy with internal affairs to stabilize people's hearts at the first time, so some inconsequential plantations did not pay attention to it at the first time.

After the outbreak of pain fever, the amount of Lexian fruit increased dramatically, because many plantations were in poor management, so it could not cure pain fever, and it spread everywhere for a long time, which was not conducive to the cultivation and collection of Lexian fruit.

And your place has a lot of hallucinogenic herbs cultivated, and it is also very effective against pain and heat. I also heard that you stole the Lexian fruit and planted it in large quantities in the north, and the fruit is still better than ours, right? ”

Hearing the word "steal", Baili Yanmian did not change its color and vibrated the words:

"Don't say it so ugly, the Cupicon Valley is full of mountains, who let Ben Hou be so tight back then, otherwise, can I take it back to the Central Plains." However, there may be another way to cure this pain fever. I ask you, do you use only hallucinogenic herbs for pain fever, or do you use it with other herbs? ”

"It will be decocted with black ginseng and royal grass, and after boiling, it will be mixed with honey to take it, and it cannot be completely cured with hallucinogenic herbs alone, and there is a possibility of recurrence. But without hallucinogenic herbs, black ginseng and royal herb don't work at all. ”

"In other words, hallucinogenic herbs are medicinal leads."

"Almost, did you think of something again?"

"I haven't thought about it yet, it's not too late to tell Your Excellency when Ben Hou understands it. It's not easy to travel thousands of miles to Beihai, and you've been walking all the way for a year, right? ”

"Your Majesty urged me so much that I had to break away from the caravan and set off on a horse of thousands of miles, and it took two months to rush from Po Song to Qianyue Mountain, and then it took nearly two months in Jieping, and after I was allowed to go, it took another two months to rush all the way from Jieping to your territory. The caravan should have arrived at the festival at this time. ”

"Then you're here to buy medicine? No, I can't. ”

Bai Liyan teased, and immediately saw Mooney's face darkened:

"I knew that you, a treacherous villain, would fall into the well and take advantage of the opportunity to blackmail, so Your Majesty made an exception to open trade with you."

"Oh......" Bai Liyan sighed strangely, and then said: "It turns out that your state is also worried that when you are in trouble, you are afraid that we will not be rescued if we fall into the well, so you will trade with a lot of money in exchange for the opening of the Central Plains. It is said that Liang is the state of my princes, and your majesty does not submit credentials to Liang, but only shows favor to my king, why is this? ”

"Your goods are rushing to our territory, and we won't look for anyone you want."

"Why, the blockade of the southern border has been so powerful over the years, and you can still use the Central Plains thieves to get our goods."

"In your words, there is a way for fish and shrimp, and we always have a way."

After the armistice in the south, the royal guests strengthened the blockade and the arrest of thieves in the Central Plains, and it is said that the situation of smuggling and cross-border espionage should be greatly reduced, but judging from Mooney's tone, not only did it not decrease, but also due to the expansion of the productive forces of the Xian country, the goods smuggled to Jinxuedi increased because of the increase in the total amount of goods in the Central Plains.

Today, the production center of the Central Plains is in Xianguo, which not only has a large output, but also has low prices and costs and high quality after industrialized production.

In the eleven years from 635 to the present, especially in the last six years, the industry of Xianguo has undergone fundamental changes.

Not only the overall harvest of grain and livestock, but also luxury goods such as tea, silk, sugar, high-grade medicines, spices, etc., can be freed up for the production of luxury goods and non-essential goods thanks to market demand and increased overall productivity.

Others such as high-quality cloth, high-grade porcelain, candles, glassware, soap, paper, steel, and even toothbrushes, needles and threads, etc., Xianguo overwhelmed other princes with absolute prices, telescopes, magnetic compasses, Wanshi ships, and high-grade refining furnaces are completely monopolized.