Drove away Xu Zheng, Bailiyan was not in a good mood, he knew very well the situation of Qiguo, after Baililu was in power, Qiguo was even worse than before, his own arrogance and extravagance and extravagance, coupled with the Jin State, the Weiguo blackmail and exploitation and the war in the south, the economy of Qiguo was withered, the people were not able to make a living, the population was plummeting, and the taxes were heavy, even Bailiyan had no way to return to heaven.

While pondering, the people of the first house behind him came to report:

"Yongxing Hou, the chief manager Jiang asked Hou Ye to take a step to speak."

"Got it, take me."

"No!"

With the palace people from the side hall to the north side of the Hongen Hall under the corridor, seeing Baili Yan hurrying, Jiang Hao walked over and said mysteriously:

"Yongxing Hou, please take a step to speak."

"Okay."

The two came to the bushes north of the Hongen Palace, Jiang Hao took out a gourd and said:

"The grease in the gourd is secretly obtained from the prince's mansion, and it comes from the oil barrels transported by the Jin people. According to investigation, this oil drum was placed and hidden in the basement of the prince's mansion alone, and it was extracted by Xihuan's cronies to use it for cooking.

I have looked for the oil mill Caidong and the medical hall Langzhong from the city of Chenling, and they don't recognize this oil, but it is non-toxic. ”

"So who is this oil cooked?"

"This is not easy to check, the prince's mansion and the king's banquet are all in charge of the Shang Shan supervisor, the prince's mansion has the Jin people and Yanping's forbidden army together, the official's people are really not easy to enter, so it is really difficult to verify whose meal these oils finally entered. And not every day to take this oil for cooking, but every three or five times, the amount is not much, more than one and a half catties or less than half a catty and a few taels, most of the time it is still rice oil, vegetable oil and soybean oil. ”

Bailiyan took the gourd handed by Jiang Hao, pulled out the stuffy head and poured it into his hand, it had a slight light brown color, very similar to white sesame oil, but there was no aroma of sesame seeds, and the water content was much lower, with a slight grass seed aroma. It has a very spicy taste in the mouth, and you can't taste the special taste at all.

Seeing Baili Yan frowning, Jiang Hao hurriedly asked:

"Could it be that the Marquis of Yongxing knows about this oil?"

Bai Liyan nodded:

"Well, this is cottonseed oil, which is an oil squeezed from cotton seeds, which is extremely rare at the moment, so most people in the world do not know that this oil exists."

"Is this oil poisonous?"

"This oil is edible and better than rice oil, but the disadvantage is that it can cause lifelong infertility in men and infertility in women."

"This ......" Jiang Hao was taken aback: "Could it be that the prince's concubines have been infertile for many years, and they have eaten dishes cooked with this oil!" ”

"Yes, it should be, but it's too rare to see this kind of oil."

Cottonseed oil was first developed for the supplement of industrial oilseeds, rather than the earliest oil crops, after the emergence of nutrition, it was gradually found that cottonseed oil is rich in substances needed by the human body, so it was used for food, but later it was found that cottonseed oil caused male and female sterilization, and the culprit of sterilization was gossypol.

This is a toxic ingredient that can make atrophic sperm die, ovarian mutation and menstrual disorders, not to mention long-term use, only a few months of consumption, can cause lifelong loss of fertility.

Crude cottonseed oil without filtration has a lighter pungent odor and is the main feature that distinguishes it from other edible oils.

It is not strange that the Jin people made cotton, but it is strange why the Jin people needed cottonseed oil.

The emergence of cottonseed oil is the oil product that appeared after the development of modern oil industry, and the manual collection efficiency of cottonseed is very low, the labor cost is high, and it is not cost-effective to use oil extraction at present, except for eating, there is no use.

Long-term consumption of cottonseed oil will cause infertility, with the current technical means, it takes a long-term practice process to realize this problem, it is impossible to know the presence of gossypol substances in cottonseed oil with the current herbalistic theory and other means, so how did the Jin people know that cottonseed oil can be artificially sterilized.

The most terrifying thing is that the vast majority of people have no awareness and defense against this, no one can prove that cottonseed oil can cause infertility, it is no wonder that Zong Botai can not detect the clues, even if it is the well-informed medical saint Liu Boxi, I am afraid it is impossible to diagnose it as a toxic and damaged organ, and Jin Guoda can not admit it.

At this time, Jiang Hao said:

"Yongxing Hou, how can you prove that this oil can cause infertility?"

"Can't!" Bai Liyan said in frustration: "At least with the current means and medical skills, it cannot be confirmed that this oil can cause infertility. Lang Zhong and the medical officials had no choice, and the medical saint Liu Boxi couldn't detect it, just like musk can cause slippery tires, it was not known at all in the early years. ”

"That'...... Is it not perishable to be invisible? ”

"Yes, the person who does this should be cut off from his children and grandchildren."

Jiang Hao was furious, :

"The Jin people are really despicable, this matter should be reported to the king immediately!"

"Then Lord Jiang has thought about it, the prince is a matter of the country, how can we come up with evidence to convince the king and the ministers."

"You can't hide it, it's a bully."

"This matter is too tricky, we have no evidence, and the Jin people can not admit it, and the king will be in a dilemma when he knows it. If you confront the crown prince and the crown princess, on one side is the father, and on the other hand, you will have a wife, it will be difficult for the prince, and the king will also be embarrassed, and it will not only be a dispute between the heirs, but also a dispute between the Xian State and the Jin State. ”

"Alas......" Jiang Hao sighed, and said without a solution: "Then Yongxing Hou, what do you say!" ”

"Not long after the death of Lu Hou, the king's mood has just improved, and now he is in the ascendant, this matter is tantamount to a slap in the face, more than ten years have passed, and it is not bad for these days. Wait for the first three days of the first lunar month, and wait for the king to calm down, and then report it at the right time, otherwise the heart will fluctuate greatly, and the holy body will be hurt in anger. ”

King Xian has many children in his life, but he is only worried about the infertility of the prince's concubines, Bailiyan is worried that Xihuan's poisoning will intensify the relationship between King Xian's father and son, and will also intensify the fragile relationship between Bailiyan and the prince.

Xihuan is deeply influenced by his uncle, can deceive and coax, and is proficient in acting and flirting, the prince has been erosive and gentle in the countryside for many years, and does not take the national hatred as the priority, but he has fun with Xihuan all day long, which shows that he has a very deep relationship with Xihuan, and in the case of not being able to come up with ironclad evidence at the time, even if the prince knows that all the women in the house are infertile, he will not believe that the problem lies with Xihuan.

After paying attention to Jiang Hao, Bai Liyan hurriedly hid the anger on his face and returned to the Hongen Hall to continue the feast.

Xihuan and the prince are like loving husband and wife, but few people see Xihuan's vicious face under disguise, how cruel and bloody.

The banquet lasted until the afternoon, when King Xian was drunk and finally carried back to the harem by the palace maids.

Bai Liyan felt that it was not easy to be a monarch at this time, even if it was not easy to be a faint monarch. Family affairs, national affairs, world affairs, everything must be straightened out, and worrying all the time about others coveting their rights is not something ordinary people can do.

Previously, there was Gongsun Yue, King Xian became the shopkeeper again, and as a result, the government was in a mess, and now there are Gao Xun, Nuo Yiyan, Zhao Xun, Bailiyan, a mess Bailiyan has not been sorted out for more than ten years, and there is a prince, and the days ahead will be more difficult than now.

After leaving the palace, Bai Liyan asked Jiang Jie to go to Yongxing City to move to invite Zong Botai to discuss urgently, for the New Year, Jiang Jie, Zong Botai, and Zhao Anling are all family people, if it is not an emergency, Bai Liyan does not want to stir up the army in the year, and he is not ready to collide head-on with the salt lord behind the princelings.

In the evening, Xiao Chunyu and Tang Tao women competed for beauty, and they all tried their best to pull Bailiyan back to their rooms.

According to the custom, the first three days of the year are the right of the lady of the main room, but who let Jiang Rong have a period, and the opportunity fell to the other women in vain, so she spent the night in the main room of Qiao County, and breathed some breath, so that Princess Lan Yuan could be prepared.

At noon the next day, Zong Botai hurried to the Hou Mansion, it was said that he was still in the dark, but a proverb made Bai Liyan no longer dare to despise the so-called "metaphysics and easy learning".

The proverb says: "The golden crow drags the sky, the yin is full of the anode, and it is said that the cow and the horse are windy." ”

Zong Botai only explained the "Yin Sheng Yang Pole" and "Niu Ma Feng", alluding to the Yin Sheng in the middle of the court, both Xihuan, and the anode refers to masculine righteousness, which is very likely to be Baili Yan, Niu Ma Feng, and the two factions of Xihuan and Baili Yan will set off huge waves. The trigger event is that Bailiyan found that the prince and concubine were infertile, and the specific trigger time was related to the "Golden Crow Dragging".

Zong Botai only solved the "Yin Sheng Anode" and "Cow and Horse Wind", but he couldn't solve the "Golden Crow Sweeping the Sky", and Baili Yan suddenly realized after thinking about it.

Proverbs are usually composed of literal, abstract, hidden, hidden, hidden, hidden, metaphorical, metaphor and other elements, the prophecy can calculate the proverb, but it does not mean that he can decipher his own proverb, often many times, there must be a sign of verification with the prophecy to have an epiphany.

"Golden Crow Dragging" in the Golden Crow generally refers to the sun, "dragging" means stretching, can also be a figurative metaphor is dragging and dragging, shaking or referring to the shaking of the strip, such as the tail, the sun is round, plus a tail, visualized like a sperm.

In other words, the origin of this proverb is related to fertility, and the heavenly homonym field, a woman's womb is often compared to a fertile field that needs to be cultivated in traditional Chinese medicine, which is not only a matter of men and women having sex, but also refers to children and rights.

If the whole is broken down in detail again, another hidden meaning of "Golden Crow Dragging" refers to the ascension of the crown prince to the throne. It is a metaphor that after the crown prince ascends the throne, the political showdown caused by infertility will break out in full force.

After all, Zong Botai's cognition is far inferior to Bailiyan, and he naturally can't imagine that the abstract metaphor of "Golden Crow Dragging" will refer to a man's sperm and a woman's uterus, but it accurately launches the current and future trends, and Bailiyan has to pay attention to this "metaphysical and easy-to-learn technique".

In addition, Bai Liyan does not think that after a few years the crown prince ascends the throne, Xihuan can make any big waves, because the Xianguo in a few years will make the Central Plains fearful, but now this nest prince, always so gentle and dull It is none of his business, if it is not for the impact brought by Xihuan, it must be that the prince has some unreasonable actions against the sky in the future, triggering a full-scale political showdown. It is not even ruled out that when Bailiyan and Xihuan Yin and Yang are fighting, some people will take advantage of it.

Bai Liyan has chatted with Zong Botai several times before about metaphysics and easy learning, which is very different from what he has in his impression of stargazing, throwing copper coins, and pinching his fingers.

He can even calculate future things such as rockets, missiles, cars, televisions, bicycles, etc., of course, Zong Botai's understanding and expression is not accurate.

For example, automobiles are called black four-wheeled iron cars by Zong Botai, television calls them human performances, and missiles are chimneys that breathe fire at lightning speed.

All in all, for the first time, Bai Liyan believed that there was a special science with unpredictable prophets in this world, such as "Tui Bei Tu" and "Song of Baked Cakes".

But not all the proverbs are truthfully confided, and Bai Liyan is also very clear that some proverbs are extremely evasive, often related to the prophecy's person, or the life of the person concerned, so he would rather rot in his stomach than make noise. Once the noise is in the mouth, according to Zong Botai's words, Bailiyan's understanding will be like a butterfly effect, subtle changes, and eventually lead to comprehensive changes.

Just as Bai Liyan believed, Zong Botai followed him not only to fulfill his own ideals and ambitions, but also for other purposes, but not to mention, it was obviously related to some special events.