Industrial alcohol methanol and edible alcohol ethanol have the same aroma of alcohol, but the aroma of methanol has a bitter taste, and the aroma of edible alcohol is more mellow, which makes people dizzy. Bailiyan has been exposed to medical ethanol all year round, and when she heard methanol at first glance, she knew that there was a problem.

Secondly, there is a feeling of warmth after ethanol rubbing, while methanol is a cold feeling, which is why medicinal wine can be used to treat joints and treat joint diseases, while methanol is not good, and methanol is still toxic to the human body through wounds.

Zhao Xun poured a bowl of rice wine into his stomach, motioned to the soldier to get a dog, and then asked Guo Pan, who was also embarrassed on the left:

"Father-in-law Guo, this wine ......"

Guo Pan's face was pale, and Ai Ai replied:

"Wine, wine is the imperial wine of Liang Guo's tribute, which is hidden in the palace wine cellar on weekdays, and our family also ordered someone to extract it yesterday, and even the wine seal was not opened when we came, which can be corroborated by the Marquis of Dingyang."

Guo Pan kicked the ball to Ding Yang Hou, where can Ding Yang pick up this hot potato, not to mention that Gongsun Yue, Jiang Yan, and Guo Pan's party are not as good as before, where can they still stiffen with Zhao Xun at this time.

"General Zhao, the matter of the imperial wine is really not very clear to the Marquis, although it is said that it is a companion, but the wine has not passed the hands of the Marquis, and General Zhao is invited to learn from it."

Zhao Xun just nodded, did not rush to a conclusion, and instead asked Bai Liyan (Wei Xian):

"Wei Xian (i.e. Baili Yan), how do you know that this wine is poisonous?"

"Back to Zhao Shuai, the method of making strong liquor must give birth to the first wine, and the first wine is poisonous, but the smell is similar to the real wine, and it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish it. Therefore, when the first layer of liquor is taken out and poured out, it is not harmful to eat it by mistake.

And the fake is fake after all, the fake wine smells bitter, and the palm of the rubbing is cold. And the real wine smells fragrant, rubbing it in the palm of the hand to heat. If it is a mixture of real and fake wine, its poison can be self-solved when it enters the body, and if there is more fake wine than real wine, you can know the truth by rubbing it in your palm. ”

"I see......"

Zhao Xun nodded slightly, poured the wine into his palm and rubbed it vigorously, and sure enough, it was cold, on the contrary, he rubbed his hands with rice wine, and his palm was hot. In that case, it all makes sense. Everyone present followed suit one after another, and the results were completely consistent with Zhao Xun.

After a short time, the soldier caught a soil dog and fed it a large amount of imperial wine, only a quarter of an hour passed, the earth dog appeared dizzy and nauseous one after another, and then began to faint until he vomited black blood and died, less than half an hour before and after, and the death was quite fast, and the death was extremely tragic.

Zhao Xun's face was pale, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and asked Guo Pan in a deep voice:

"Father-in-law Guo, where did the imperial wine come from!"

Guo Pan panicked in his heart, he really wronged him. The wine was extracted from the cellar, Guo Pan didn't even touch his hand at all, and Zhao Xun obviously suspected that he was going to poison everyone.

"General Zhao, our family has been wronged, how could our family poison and harm you and other pillars of the country, even if you give the old slave a hundred guts, I don't dare. The old slave came to reward the three armies on the order of the Queen Mother, how could he do such a rebellious thing. ”

Zhao Xuntie's face was blue, most of the time he didn't suspect that Guo Pan was poisoned, if it was a party dispute, he would only poison him and Wei Xian and a few others, and he couldn't implicate all the generals.

Obviously, someone wants to take advantage of the internal party struggle, this time the opportunity of the Xian king's reward, the commander of the Xian army has been completely eliminated in one fell swoop, such a sinister thing, there is no benefit to the whole Xian country, the only beneficiary can only be the black turban rebels.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xun breathed a sigh of relief and continued:

"Measure you, Gonggong Guo, and don't have such a rebellious heart."

Guo Panxin breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly thanked him:

"General Zhao is wise, even if he lends our family 10,000 guts, our family will not dare to do anything that endangers the community."

At this time, the handsome tent was in a mess, the air was dirty, since the wine was poisonous, the meat was difficult to ensure that it was not poisoned, after Zhao Xun let people withdraw, he ordered someone to take the dried meat and give everyone a full meal, and then hurriedly announced the royal edict, issued rewards, and the generals at all levels were rewarded in kind to varying degrees, and the annual salary of the meritorious generals was raised.

Baili Yan received the reward second only to Ye Xin, and got eight small gold collars, twenty pieces of cloth, five pieces of Luo, five pieces of silk, five pieces of silk, and two pieces of silk.

It is worth mentioning that the current position depends on how much Yu Lu has, Bai Liyan was the pioneer officer of the Guangxin Army, and the Yu Lu was only 100 stones, and after being reappointed as the pioneer officer of the Xian Army, Yu Lu was promoted to 200 stones.

This time he was promoted to the position of vanguard general, and Yu Lu was only 250 stones, which was only equivalent to the left capital lieutenant Yu Lu, which was less than half of Lu Gao's right capital governor's annual salary of 500 stones, but he still had to serve as Lu Gao's boss.

The reason behind this is that most of the reasons behind it are that the addition of Yu Lu is too high, and the king of Xian cannot explain to the inner and outer dynasties, if he openly increases the official and enters the knighthood, the identity of the people of Baili Yanqi is illegal, and the new title of "vanguard general" is mostly to make the nominally justified compromise.

hurriedly rewarded the real thing, the generals dispersed, and Bai Liyan and Ye Xin were left by Zhao Xun for questioning:

"In the first battle of Shaoping, General Lu Gao has explained clearly to the commander, but there is one thing I want to hear the opinions of the two, and I don't know if the two can consider it."

"Please make it clear to Zhao Shuai."

Ye Xindao, Zhao Xun continued:

"Well, Lu Gao said that there was discord within the Black Turban Army, which was divided into two factions, the Central Plains and the Westward Expansion, what do you think about this?"

At this time, Ye Xin glanced at Baili Yan, and seeing that he was thoughtful, Ye Xin said first:

"According to common sense, when the army fights, it should gather troops to annihilate the enemy, so as to save time and effort, not to mention that the Black Turban Army will divide the main force into two, and it will also have wars in the Sun Country and the Changsun Country, and it may be difficult to hold on for a long time.

However, since last year, the combat strength of the Black Turban Army has increased rapidly, and most of the military uniforms, equipment, and weapons have been unified.

The last general thought that our army did not know how long the strength of the Black Turban Army could last, so the future battle situation should still be dominated by confrontation and confrontation, and should not seek a decisive battle with the main force.

Zhao Shuai must also know that the Black Turban Army has created a new strange tactic, and our army has never fought with it, and a rash decisive battle may be extremely unfavorable to our army, so please Zhao Shuai Mingjian. ”

"Well, what Lu Gao said about the new black scarf formation is very tricky." When the words fell, Zhao Xun looked at Bailiyan, and when he saw that he didn't say a word, he asked: "Wei Xian, you have made great contributions to Shao Ping's first battle, have you ever thought carefully about the rebels?" ”

"Don't hide it from Zhao Shuai, the internal discord of the Black Turban Army is fundamentally the fundamental difference between the two strategies within it, which leads to the uneven distribution of war materials, and then exacerbates the internal division between the two factions in order to distribute the war baggage.

As Governor Ye said, our army has no way of knowing how much baggage the Black Turban Army has accumulated before the uprising, which can be used for the expenditure of 1.2 million troops for a few years, but as long as it is a thing born between heaven and earth, no matter how much it is hoarded, sooner or later it will be empty.

Especially the grain and grass, the current grain and grass can be stored for three years, and the new grain enters the old grain and goes out, alternately and repeatedly, and it can be stored for six or seven years at most. Before the Black Turban Army, swords, guns, swords, armor, clothing, salt, grease and other baggage could be stored several years or even more than ten years in advance, and there was no problem in storing them for decades, but the grain and grass could not be stored for a long time. The Black Turban Army was so anxious to take the entire capital county, and its purpose was still to replenish food and grass.

Judging from what Shao Ping has already grasped, the Black Turban Army was able to move in millions of people from outside Xianguo, and the cost of grain and grass was huge. From this point of view, the lack of food and grass for the Black Turban Army estimated by the last general last year is not a reality, nor is it a lack of combat strength.

After the autumn of last year, he suddenly retreated to Taoli, and most of them were still the people of Xianxi, Qiunan, and Duxian Xi County, which was not enough to supply the Black Turban Army with grain and grass, but also relied on the 4 million grain and grass intercepted by Muyang Cang to help Xianxi, Qiunan and other counties, resulting in its forced withdrawal.

According to this estimate, the 1.2 million huge soldiers of the Black Turban Army may still have to be maintained for a year or two, and the decisive battle may be hopeless in the short term. ”

In order to transfer millions of people from Sun, Zhi, and Xu to the territory of Xianguo within half a year, the common people are willing to do not care, just need to go on the road, settle down, and the agricultural losses in one or two seasons after settling down, this cost will cost at least more than 4 million stone of money and grain.

Such a huge expenditure cannot be achieved by the rebels who have risen hastily and hastily, but must be prepared all year round, with careful strategic planning, in order to carry out the population migration in an orderly manner, without strict organization, without the advance of the grassroots mass work, it is impossible to efficiently transfer a huge amount of manpower to other countries in a short period of time.

Since the Black Turban Army has the spare strength to transport a huge population, its family background must be quite thick, otherwise it would not be able to suddenly storm last year, and it can maintain such a large number of soldiers this year. Even in modern warfare, it is very difficult for a country with a population of more than 20 million to maintain a standing army of 1.2 million, which can only be achieved under the national system of non-centralized power.

At this time, Bai Liyan continued:

"Zhao Shuai, today's poisonous wine can be seen, the Black Turban Army is eager to take the capital and the entire Xianguo, and does not hesitate to poison us, its intention is to divide the river with the Jin State in the short term, so as to mobilize the main force to the west of the Changsun Kingdom, bypass the Sishui River from behind to defeat the Sun Kingdom, and destroy the Liang State.

As soon as the Liang State died, the Central Plains and the Xihai countries relied on the co-lord feudal system will be wiped out, and then it will really be a leaderless group, and the Black Turban rebels can sit on the rich land of the entire Central Plains, use a plan to make the countries kill each other, and then break each other, in order to seek the reunification of the territory.

It's just that after reunification again, the Central Plains civilization may be wiped out, and the Black Turban Army is bound to establish a god-religious state to rule the world, and then the real people's dark rule will envelop the Central Plains, and its cruelty is far worse than the harsh government of the following countries, which is an unforeseeable disaster for everyone. ”

"Cult of God?" Zhao Xun thought hard about the meaning of the four words, and seemed to have an understanding and asked: "General Wei is saying that the divine right is used to replace the royal power of the Son of Heaven?" ”

"Yes, after all, God is an illusory and ethereal thing, and the reason why all beings worship it is because they don't know the truth of all things between heaven and earth, and they don't know why it is, so they call the incomprehensible things as immortals, which is actually the ignorant idealism of the world.

If it is not clear why it is so, to give authority is tantamount to giving authority to animals. Animals can know the needs of human hunger, cold and warmth, and God cannot conjure up grains out of thin air, but still have to grow from the ground.

You can't assume that it is a gift from God just because the ground can grow grain. If this is the case, the joy of the woman to live and multiply, and the male and female of the beast to mate, is not also the gift of God, not the desire of human affection.

If this is the case, those holy envoys who flaunt courtesy, righteousness and shame, and only look forward to the king's father and horse, and raise and plunder young women for their lewd pleasures in various names, are simply like Guo's father-in-law, wouldn't it be better to be a father-in-law, not because they have been deprived of the privileges of war.

If this development continues, what kind of situation will be the situation after the Black Turban Army unifies the territory, Zhao Shuai and Ye Dadu should also think about it. What is the true reign of darkness is nothing more than the exploitation and suppression of the people in the name of God, which is more severe than today. ”

Zhao Xun was silent for a long time, pacing behind him with his negative hand, and only after a moment did he say:

"The chaos of Shaoping, but the rebels ruled a city, if it is the same all over the world, what General Wei said is probably not alarmist. Now that Xianguo is short of grain and grass, Beihai County has a sign of famine, at least two million stone grain and grass shortage, if you can't subdue the county, the summer grain and autumn grain of the county will be counted by the Black Turban Army, which is really a dilemma. ”