(a)

Those days when you were at the Hot Springs Shrine were unprecedentedly heavy with traffic. Messengers from south to north traveled back and forth. Six times a day, the fast horse transmission post maintains the military intelligence communication between you and the army, and between you and the state capitals along the front of the north and south.

On days when you are in good health, you have to meet with local officials and military generals who come to ask for advice, and you have to see summaries of military and political reports in various places. You're just doing these things in a different location, you just don't have to do them at the same time as you fight.

Among the various receptions at the Hot Springs Palace, there was a special one that was not on military and political affairs.

You meet with a merchant from the Western Regions who has lived in Yunzhou for many years and has been traveling between Asia and Europe for many years. This businessman was recommended to you by Sun Zhanming.

During the interview, the merchant offered to the Han cavalry to protect his caravan's long-distance cross-border trade, and for this he offered you two things that would be of great interest to you.

The first is a small box of white powder, the powder is brushed and crystalline, and has a faint sweet fragrance. The merchants of the Western Regions said that this is made by grinding and refining the stems of a rare white large-flowered species that grows on the plateau of the Western Regions, and the locals call it "Fissan", and for all kinds of severe pain, the analgesic effect is more than 80 times that of the hibiscus trafficked by the merchants of the Great Food Country! However, because the production is very small, the price is very expensive, and the price is often out of stock, this small box is his accumulation for many years. It's hard to say whether you can get it again.

The second is a book of weapons in the Western Regions and the regions west of the Western Regions, which depicts the armor and weapon styles of the armies of many Western countries.

You accepted these two things, and left the merchant of the Western Regions to live in the Hot Spring Palace for a few days, and had a long conversation with him several times, learning from him about the uses and principles of various weapons on the weapon spectrum, and listening to him introduce some classic wars in the Western countries in recent years. You're hugely inspired.

After a deep conversation with the merchant, you rewarded him, promised the Han army that he would provide military protection for his caravansera's cross-border trade, and sent him off to Yunzhou.

After the merchant left, you studied the book of weapons in detail for many days.

An idea arises in your head.

You decide that your recuperation is over, and after you leave the hot springs, you can test its viability in the midst of the war on the Southern Front.

(b)

While you are very interested in the weapon spectrum, Wu Shun is very interested in the box of white powder.

He summoned the commander of the military medical department and the consul of the Tai Hospital, and together they inquired in detail about the principle, usage, dosage, and contraindications of the drug.

In order to verify the efficacy and side effects of the drug, he hid from you, quietly stabbed himself in the thigh, and tested the analgesic effect and adverse effects of the drug, and the results were amazing, except for drowsiness and nausea and night sweats, there were no other side effects.

Wu Shun was really ecstatic now!

But unfortunately, the amount of these powders is still too small, according to the most economical dosage, it is barely enough for more than 20 times.

Wu Shun repeatedly told the merchant that he must do his best to get more powder after he returned, no matter what the asking price was.

The merchant said that although he was not sure that he would be able to get it, he would do his best and would continue to search for it in case of emergency military supplies.

Because he was not worried about the ability of the merchants, Wu Shun sent a letter to Sun Haocheng, who was fighting in the northwestern part of the grassland, attaching a sample of a little powder, asking Sun Haocheng to pay attention to the caravans coming and going to the Western Regions when he was fighting in the northwest of the grassland, and see if he could manage to get more, thinking that he would be in danger of reserves.

(c)

On the third day after the secret conversation with Xu Zaitian at the Shangshi Pavilion, the heart-piercing headache flared up again.

The pain tormented you all night. You can't close your eyes for a moment. You rolled out of bed to the floor several times in pain.

Wu Shun looked at your pain and suggested many times that you use the fisan sent by the merchants of the Western Regions, but you always gritted your teeth and endured it and insisted on not using it.

You know it's rare and precious, and you want to save it for the wounded soldiers in the army who need to have a major surgery to save their lives in the event of a war.

In those days, the medical conditions on the battlefield were very poor, and sometimes after a large-scale battle, there were corpses everywhere, countless wounded soldiers, and the dying filled the tents of the military medical department, and all the doctors of the military medical department were engaged in treatment, but there were still not enough people.

In cavalry warfare, there was no large depot to ensure supply, so the anesthetics that accompanied the army were often quickly consumed by the wounded soldiers in such situations, and were not enough in any case.

In order to save the lives of young dying, military doctors often have to perform various surgeries on them when no anesthetic is available. Sometimes, several other soldiers would hold down the wounded and control the wounded's struggle; Sometimes, the injured person is tied to the operating table; Sometimes, the injured person will be knocked unconscious with a large stick before the operation begins. Sometimes they are forced to use boiling oil to stop the bleeding and burn away the dead muscle tissue, stopping massive bleeding or further infection.

When these operations were carried out, the conditions were very bloody and cruel, which was unbearable to witness, and the wails and screams of the wounded soldiers one after another were terrifying, and many wounded soldiers died because they could not bear the pain.

You yourself have endured such brutal surgeries twice, and you know the pain of the wounded soldiers.

You have always bemoaned the deaths of the soldiers after the battle, and you have always worked to reduce the mortality rate of the soldiers. You have always been very concerned about the wounded and treated by the soldiers after each battle, and you feel deeply guilty and remorseful for any death after the battle.

From the moment you see this painkiller, you always think that if there is such a special painkiller available at such a moment, the wounded soldier can save a life. Although it is only more than 20 times, it can save 20 lives! You really don't want to be alone in order to be free from your suffering.

In addition, you always have an idea in your mind, and you also want to save some for the final battle, so as to ensure your ability to move and ensure that you achieve your goals.

With such a highly rational thought, you have defeated your strong urge to take medication immediately for pain relief time and time again.

You insisted that Wu Shun take the box away and store it in the military medical department, and no one should use it without your order.

(iv)

Wu Shun persuaded him several times, but you did not agree to use drugs to relieve pain. In desperation, he has no choice but to carry out your orders.

When he came back from carrying out the order, he knelt beside you, watching your suffering, helpless, so sad that he burst into tears.

You watched Wu Shun kneel in front of you like this and cry bitterly.

You weakly comfort him and say, "Junko, don't cry. ”

You say, "These are all the sufferings that I deserve as a murderer who betrays my father." ”

You say, "This is the righteousness of heaven, and the retribution is unpleasant." Nothing, is unfair. ”

Say, "I am willing to accept it without complaint." ”