"White salt? Isn't that a medicinal herb? Luo Yiniang looked at the crystals in the wooden box in front of her and asked with a little doubt.

Chen Su and Zu Lin glanced at each other, and smiled together, Chen Su opened his mouth to explain: "This white salt is not the other white salt, the white salt contained in Tao Tongming's "Commentary on the Materia Medica" is actually a big green salt, also known as Rong salt, which is completely different from the white salt made by Mrs. Ye, Rong salt is a good medicine, this white salt, but it is a poison......

Luo Yiniang was shocked when she heard this, carefully looked at the white crystals in the box, and said: "It looks very clean, but it's a pity, it's a poison." ”

Zu Lin hesitated and opened his mouth: "This thing was originally made by Taiwei and Tu Nan Zhenren, and even the real people don't know much about its physics, but Taiwei knows it well." However, what Taiwei said at that time was that it was sulfur essence, sulfur essence, yang energy, and Qi Lie was still above the charcoal fire; However, this thing is yin and pressing, although it can also hurt people, but it is contained but not sent, hidden but not revealed, so the concubine and the real person secretly speculated, I am afraid that something went wrong, planting melons and getting beans, so for the time being, this thing is named white salt, and today I took the liberty to visit with the lady of the Han family, I want to ask Miss Luo, in the words of the Taiwei on weekdays, have you ever said such things? ”

Luo Yiniang shook her head in confusion: "This is never, Taiwei usually talks a lot, but he has never talked about this thing." ”

Looking at the faint disappointment on Zu Lin's face, Luo Yiniang felt a little unbearable in her heart, and blurted out: "Maybe it is unknown that this thing is contained in the codex written by Taiwei on weekdays......"

"Codex ——?" Zu Lin's eyes lit up, and then they dimmed again, "Taiwei's Codex, it is important to the military state of Yanzhou, but we and other women can't peep at it...... It's better to wait for the captain to return to the division and ask for advice in person."

Luo Yiniang immediately smiled and said: "This is not necessary, the codex that Taiwei writes on weekdays will be printed as a book and published in the world in the future, but it has not been finished yet, so it has not been published......

Chen Su, who was watching coldly from the sidelines, frowned: "Miss Luo, it's not like that, there is a difference between inside and outside, Taiwei doesn't shy away from girls, it doesn't mean that this thing can be shown to outsiders, this matter is not for me and other women to decide in private." ”

Chen Su can see that Zu Lin is actually playing a little trick, she came this time to clearly come to Li Wenge's codex, but she still wants to retreat as advance, and induce Luo Yiniang, who has no scheming, to take the initiative to invite, and that's not all, she pulled herself to come, obviously even the record of her own internal affairs in the general canon to participate in the military has also been calculated, on the surface, it looks like three women gossiping together, but in fact, there is Luo Yiniang, the 'confidential secretary', and she has her own The director of the office is here, watching Li Wenge's codex is all available, even if Li Wenge is dissatisfied after he comes back, it is not easy to blame, but she is dissatisfied that she has always claimed to be smart, but she was calculated by Zu Lin, a weak and weak female gentleman, and when she really thought that Luo Yiniang was serving in Li Wenge's house, she might have seen this thing.

Sure enough, as soon as she spoke, Luo Yiniang smiled without any intention: "The lady of the Han family is a pawn in the Shuaifu, and the lady of the Han family is here, so it can be regarded as a private peeping, although these codexes have not yet been published, Taiwei said that in the future, it will be published in the academy to educate Mengtong, and it is not a military secret, Mrs. Ye is Mr. Academy, even if she has a sneak peek, she should not be embarrassed to record it, this matter, Yiniang can still afford it......"

Speaking of the last sentence, Luo Yiniang glanced at Chen Su and bowed slightly.

Chen Su was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but suddenly look at Luo Yiniang differently.

Regardless of whether this Luo girl is smart or not, this cool and decisive self-confidence is rare, listening to the semantics of her words, it is clear that she has insight into Zu Lin and her own thoughts, but she does not care at all, while expressing the goodwill that Zu Lin wants, it also hints at understanding her own difficulties, and more importantly, she gently and skillfully said a word, and she has confirmed the "enemy" relationship with Li Wenge - this is clearly showing the two that although they have not discussed marriage, she Luo Yiniang is actually the hostess of this inner house......

Chen Su naturally knows all kinds of discussions about Li Wenge's marriage, and no one will rashly tell Li Wenge about this kind of thing, although Chen Su is a record of participating in the military, but after all, she is a woman, and this kind of gossip that is not related to cardinal affairs is naturally not good for Li Wenge to chew his tongue. Luo Yiniang behaves in a low-key manner on weekdays, and even Li Bin and Qin Gu, the two bigwigs who are extremely dismissive of Li Wenge's move, have never found anything wrong with her, but now it seems that this woman who can take people's lives with a knife is by no means a weak and bullying person, and people look closely at her own one-third of an acre of land.

……

Entering Li Wenge's study, Luo Yiniang took out three booklets directly from the drawer of an office desk.

This office desk is also designed by Li Wenge's own family, just like the desk of later generations, each drawer has a lock on it, Luo Yiniang opened the drawer by the right hand, Chen Su can see clearly, the drawer is inlaid with a small bronze plaque, engraved with a few tadpole words that bend and turn, the ghost-like font makes Chen Su confused, and he can't figure out what it is at all.

Zu Lin recognized it, these were several of the dozens of mathematical symbols that Li Wenge had taught them to his wife, but they didn't know what they meant when combined.

Science——

The bronze medal clearly marks such a symbol.

Luo Yiniang handed three booklets to Zu Lin, with the words "Mathematics" and "Physics and Chemistry" written on the covers.

Without hesitation, Zu Lin opened the booklet of "Chemistry" and flipped through them one by one, reading it very hard.

This is not to blame Zu Lin, Li Wenge's codex is all written in vernacular, and that's okay, the font he uses is all simplified characters, and it is written horizontally from left to right, how awkward it is to read. However, the chemical formulas composed entirely of letters and numbers during this period, Zu Lin seemed to be clearer and more understandable.

Luo Yiniang stood on the side with a determined expression, Chen Su looked at her secretly, and sighed in her heart, no matter which one is the wife of the future Taiwei Mansion, this Luo girl should not be underestimated, even if the family background is really a big problem, it will be difficult for this person to achieve positive results after all, but preconceived, even if she can't be a veritable bride, she can't run away as a housekeeper......

Luo Yiniang's heart is very indifferent, Li Wenge's desk has three drawers side by side, the left is "Military", the middle is "Economy", and the right is "Science". The only thing that Li Wenge carefully told to keep carefully before leaving was not these codexes, but his diary - it is also something that Li Wenge has to write a little bit every day, sometimes only a few dozen words, but since Luo Yiniang first met Li Wenge in Luoyang for more than a year, it has been like this day by day, rain or shine.

Luo Yiniang firmly remembered what Li Wenge had inadvertently said: These manuscripts are things I want to tell everyone in the world, and the diary is my own thing.

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Since the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period, Taiyuan is the northern important town of the Central Plains Dynasty, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties are the establishment of the hegemonic mansion, the imperial court military and the state are in charge, and the imperial capital is determined by this. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Li Yuan, the Duke of the Tang Dynasty, raised troops with this, and Taiyuan became the land of Longxing, so there was a Tang generation, and Taiyuan was the northern capital and became the northern support point of the huge empire. When the Central Plains Dynasty was strong, Taiyuan was the outpost of the northern barbarians, and the Dingxiang Campaign, the key battle of Li Jingping's annihilation of the Turks in the fourth year of Zhenguan, was the main force of the 3,000 cavalry in Taiyuan as the starting position. Once the Central Plains Dynasty declined, Taiyuan will become a solid barrier against the northern barbarians to graze horses south. Taiyuan was lost, and the country was in danger.

Five dynasties and ten kingdoms, Liang, Tang, Jin, Han and Zhou, Taiyuan is the third.

Li Cunqiao, Shi Jingjiao, Liu Zhiyuan, the three generations of founding masters have all been based in Taiyuan and have the world, in the eyes of people at the time, this is not accidental.

The ancients talked about chess, there is a saying of "golden horn and silver edge grass belly", the four corners of the chessboard are edged on both sides, and the chess pieces placed on the corners have to deal with only two directions, which is the "golden horn"; The chess pieces leaning on the four sides of the chessboard have only one edge and have to deal with threats from three directions at the same time, so they are inferior to the golden horn and are "silver edges"; The chess pieces in the center of the chessboard are not close to each other on all sides, and must deal with threats from all sides at the same time, and the worst form is "grass belly". At the strategic level, looking at the middle and worst events in the era of cold weapons, this law also applies. The ancients emphasized "form victory" when discussing soldiers, which is the truth. Guanzhong, Sichuan and Shu, living in the corner of the world, surrounded by mountains and rivers, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are fertile fields, can raise the people, can train soldiers, is worthy of the name of the "golden horn"; The east of the river is supported by the east and west of the two mountains, communicating the north and the south, and is the "silver edge" made by heaven and earth, while the roads of Henan and Hebei, and even Daliang and Huaishang, are the places of the four wars and are regarded as "grass belly".

Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, due to the frequent wars in Guanzhong and Sichuan and Shu, coupled with the fact that the water conservancy is not repaired, the fields are barren, and the population is withered, resulting in the "golden horn is not gold", and the monarchs of the past dynasties have to build the capital in the big beam on the bank of the canal because of the convenience of grain transportation. Therefore, the "silver edge" of Taiyuan is becoming more and more important.

From the Later Tang Dynasty onwards, those who could be Taiyuan vassals were either the emperor's son, the emperor's son-in-law, or the emperor's sworn brother - however, whether it was a son, son-in-law, or brother, without exception would pose a direct threat to the imperial power itself.

Chai Rong's title before succeeding to the throne was "King of Jin", and before that, he was "Founding Marquis of Taiyuan County".

Chai Rong, the Marquis of Taiyuan, is just a name.

The food of the royal prince is the capital of the enemy country.

Since Guo Wei ascended the throne, he has always been in the midst of internal and external troubles, and he has no hands to clean up Hedong. In addition, the death of Xiangyin Gong back then, in the final analysis, was the Guo family who lost the Liu family. It was Emperor Yin of the Han Dynasty who killed Guo Wei's family, but Liu Chong's father and son were not stained with blood, and they were involved in a bloody storm for no reason. Naturally, Liu Chong back then and Liu Min today would never admit that his greed had harmed his son, and he would rather put all the responsibility on Guo Wei, the initiator.

In this regard, Guo Wei naturally doesn't care, he did the first year of junior high school, and he couldn't complain about others doing fifteen, just like Liu Chengyou did the first year of junior high school, and he Guo Wei also did fifteen, there is no essential difference.

In this regard, Chai Rong does not agree.

In the heart of this young Zhou Tianzi, the death of his wife and children, the pain of losing his family, every cent of this account must fall on the heads of the Liu family's father and son.

The Liu family, who is entrenched in Taiyuan, is the former Marquis of Taiyuan, the king of Jin, and the enemy of today's Great Zhou Emperor.

It has been three full days since the Battle of Gaoping......

Liu Min sat on a stone, holding a coarse grain cake that was as hard as a stone in his hand, and his eyes looked straight at the mountains to the west, not knowing what he was thinking.

The old emperor's helmet has long been thrown away, the cloak behind him has been torn off half, the armor on his body is still complete, but there are many blood stains on it that can't be wiped clean, the heart guard is concave inward, the white hair is unkempt and hangs down, the white beard is condensed with a layer of dew, the straight knife placed flat next to him is full of gaps, and the war horse on the side is listless and uses hooves to scrape the ground, bowing his head and pulling the grass roots on the ground.

How did it end up like this?

Liu Min is not afraid of failure, he has experienced too much bloody wind and rain in his life, when his son was killed, he also had a heartache, didn't he survive? Compared with the pain of losing a son in old age, what is the failure of the day before yesterday? If there is no soldier, you can recruit again, and if you don't have it, you can choose again, as long as you are alive, it is not a failure, he wants to let Chai Rong, a yellow-mouthed boy from rice rice, take a good look, he is by no means a weak and incompetent old man who can step on it and bully anyone......

However, the circumstances of the past two days have made the old emperor's mood fall to the bottom......

As the saying goes, the defeat of the army is like a mountain, this is the norm, these years to be the head of the army, if there is no food and grass in hand, it is strange that the soldiers are willing to follow you, so when they were withdrawn the day before yesterday, there were still three or four thousand soldiers, but now there are less than seventy people left, it is not surprising at all, Liu Min is also very fully psychologically prepared. Some surrendered, some ran away, and some died...... This is normal, with thousands of people around him, Liu Min felt uneasy, such a large team couldn't run fast at all, and it was just waiting for Zhou Jun to catch up and be killed.

Even if the military heart is still there, it is necessary to divide the troops, and Liu Min still has this military common sense.

Even if Xu Jiping, the person on duty in the left hall yesterday, tried to cut off his head while he was asleep to go to Zhou, Liu Min didn't take it seriously, the tree fell and scattered, this is a normal thing, what if Xu Jiping is also his godgrandson? I can't even rely on my own son these days, let alone just a godson who is just a godson? After being woken up by Wang Dezhong, he didn't say anything, and just cut off Xu Jiping's head with his own hands.

He knew that there were many people in the team who were Xu Jiping's accomplices, and he also knew that there were still many people secretly spying on him, and they wanted to wait until the tiger was napping before making a move.

He scoffed at all of them. I'm old, but it's not my turn to worry about these mosquitoes and ants who can't get on the table.

What he was sad about was the coarse grain cake in his hand.

After three days and more than 100 miles of escape, only three villages were found, two of which were basically empty and there was no one. Wang Dezhong led people to search desperately, and only then did he find a person in the third village - it was a little girl with a yellow face and thin muscles, who could not tell her age at all from her appearance, and was wrapped in a piece of linen cloth that leaked everywhere, and this coarse grain cake was found from a hole in the wall of her house.

The common people fled, which he can understand, everyone is afraid of the rebellion, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, and it is normal for people to be afraid.

In his own county seat, the country dock fort under his rule refused him entry, and even sent his family to search for him, trying to tie him up to the Zhou army, which he could also deal with indifferently. The sage has long said that villains are difficult to raise, and if he was angry with these people, he would have died of anger.

It's just that, under his rule, why did Li Shu become poor like this?

In the past three years, he has never forgotten revenge, to avenge his eldest son, and to crush the bones of the enemy who killed his son. He only slept for two hours a day, endured humiliation in the face of the Khitan conquest, cut down on food and clothing, and couldn't even pay the salaries of his courtiers.

He originally did not seek to make the country rich and the people strong, nor did he want to be a pioneer like Emperor Shenyao of Tang Gaozu...... I don't have any of these unrealistic wishes, and my requirements are not high, I just want to take revenge.

"Jieping, am I wrong?"

Wang Dezhong, who was standing on the side, sighed softly, looked at the emperor in his eyes, but shook his head and did not answer.

He hadn't eaten for nearly three days, and his stomach was burning like a fire, but he couldn't relax, and he was the only one left with the emperor if he fell, I was afraid that the emperor would really have no hope of returning to Jinyang alive.

"Your Majesty is not wrong, but it is the monarch who rebels against the army, but there is hunger and embarrassment in the mountains and wilderness, and the beasts eat people, which is the loss of the prime minister."

He said the standard answer, but Liu Min smiled wryly and waved his hand: "No wonder others, since ancient times, there has never been a king who is stupid and the prime minister can be virtuous."

He suddenly raised his head and looked at Wang Dezhong: "Jieping, if you and I can survive Jinyang, I am willing to retreat to Taishang, retire to the heavens, and pass the throne to Chengjun, if so, a privy envoy, are you willing to give in?" ”V！ ~！