Chapter 53 Joy and Sorrow

On a June day, the sun is scorching, the cicadas are singing continuously, this waterhole is shaded by large trees, and the stream is murmuring, which is particularly shady. This is indeed a good place to cool off, if it is not too far from Stone Town, Sun Quan will definitely come here every day to take a dip.

Sun Quan and Zhu Huan stripped naked, soaking in the waterhole leisurely, chatting in the sea and the sky. One barrel holds all kinds of melons and fruits, the other holds fine wine, and two barrels float on the water, floating between the two of them, and the two of them take the food and drink at will.

The wine, melons and fruits that are chilled by the stream are refreshing in the mouth, and make people feel less heated. They talk about life, ambitions, military affairs, and family shortcomings, and they talk about everything.

"King Gu plans to recruit another 100,000 to 200,000 troops within a year, of which 30,000 strong men can be drawn from the Shanyue tribes that have been conquered in these years. These Shanyue people, walking on the ground in the lofty mountains and mountains, are just suitable for confronting the southern barbarians in Western Shu. Sun Quan babbled about his grand plans for the future, and Zhu Huan gave full play to the demeanor that a good listener should have, just smiled and nodded, and interjected a sentence from time to time to take over Sun Quan's words.

"Gu also sent ships across the East China Sea to Yizhou (Taiwan Island). It is said that there are only a small number of indigenous people in Yizhou, all of whom are savages living in the mountains. As long as a force of a few thousand people can easily pacify these Yi people, and then the entire Yi Zhou can be completely taken into the hands of a lonely person. ”

At this time, Zhu Huan appropriately interjected a sentence to show his existence: "Yizhou is a remote overseas enclave, what is the benefit of it?" ”

"Hugh Mu (Zhu Huan's character) doesn't know that this Yizhou is not small, almost the size of a county, the climate on the island is suitable, the rain is abundant, and the land is fertile, suitable for planting all kinds of crops. If some people are relocated from the mainland to open up wasteland for production, within a few years, Yizhou will become a big granary. Sun Quan said.

"Oh, and that's it?"

"That's right, Hume, think about it, what does a big granary across the sea mean? My Soochow Navy is invincible in the world, and only we can go to this big granary at that time, and others will not be able to intervene.

That means we have a very safe place to supply our military rations, which means we can be invincible. This is another way for us to retreat in addition to Yun Mengze.

If things on land can be done, then we can do it, if things on land can't be done, we can retreat to Yunmengze, if Yunmengze can no longer do it, we can also retreat to Yizhou.

When the time comes, we will have a steady supply of military food in Yizhou, and we will attack the coastal states and counties with a strong naval army, and I believe that Liu Chan will have no way to take us. As long as we wait for the opportunity in Yizhou, once the Central Plains is in chaos, we can make a comeback and chase the world again, and we can't know who will die at that time, haha! Sun Quan said triumphantly.

If Liu Hou heard his plan here, he would be shocked that this guy actually had the same idea as Zheng Chenggong and Jiang more than a thousand years later.

"The king's plan is really good, we have a way out, invincible, we can give it a go, and Shu, Wei two countries to fight, win can reign in the world, lose, the big deal is to retreat to a corner, wait for the opportunity. Sure enough, hehe. Zhu Huan also laughed.

"Oh, what is this" Zhu Huan laughed happily, leaning forward and backward with laughter, but he didn't expect his ass to be hit by a hard object, he reached out and touched it, and felt out a long snail covered by his fingernail. "It turned out to be this gadget, and it made me feel pain."

"Hey, I've never seen such a small snail cockroach." After speaking, Zhu Huan curled his fingers and flicked the snail in his hand. The snail "poofed" and hit a soldier on the shore, and then rolled to the ground under the force of gravity. The soldier glanced this way, without saying anything, and continued to play the role of a human wall.

Sun Quan also reached out and touched under his buttocks, took out a snail, looked at it in front of him, and said: "It's really strange, I've come to this waterhole many times, I've never seen snails here before, and these snails don't know where they came from." Such a small snail crab has no meat and cannot be eaten, it is really a useless stupid thing. ”

"Oh? Does the king also like to eat snail mantis? Such a small snail that can be eaten, I do know that there is a mountain stream, rich in a kind of thumb toe size snail crab, after fishing up with clean water, wait for it to spit out the sediment, with perilla, jasmine, purple ginger and other condiments to fry it fiercely, the taste is both fragrant and fresh, if the king is interested, another day by Huan to do the east, please taste the king taste this mountain and water. ”

"Okay, since this delicacy is here, how can you miss it, it will definitely bother you in the future."

When they see these snails, all they can think of is to eat, drink, and eat, and never think about danger, which cannot be blamed on them, but only because they have lost more than a thousand years of knowledge.

At this time, many small insects that are invisible to the naked eye are attaching to the skin of the two, and then erect their thin heads, do oil drilling operations on the skin, and burrow into the human body from the skin at a very fast speed.

They then enter the veins or lymphatic vessels, migrate into the mesenteric veins, and some enter the portal vein system, where they parasitize, develop into adult worms, and finally live and have children there. The eggs they lay are excreted in their urine and urine, starting a new cycle of generations.

The two of them were ignorant of this qiē that happened in their bodies, and they continued to talk and laugh, unaware that the story of happiness and sorrow was about to be staged on the two of them.

Sun Quan and Zhu Huan soaked in water for a very long time today, one person soaking in water is completely different from two people talking and laughing in water, happy I don't know how long time has passed, they have been soaked in water for a long time, which means that there are a lot of schistosoma larvae that burrow into their bodies.

Before they knew it, the sun had set in the west, and the heat was all gone, so they got up and wiped off the water on their bodies, put on their robes, and drove back to Stone Town in good spirits.

When Sun Quan's men withdrew to Stone Town, the waterhole returned to its peaceful state. The next day, however, it was noisy again. The people who came were the same people from yesterday's "CIA", and there was one more doctor among them.

Today, these spies are all farmers, each with a hoe and a shovel. Under the guidance of the doctor, they dug earth and rocks to forcibly cut off the stream on the waterhole. Dig another ditch from the side to divert the stream to other places.

The waterhole and the stream downstream of it never flowed in again, and finally dried up under the scorching sun. They forcibly diverted the stream precisely to cut off the schistosome-contaminated waterhole and creek and dry up, so that the snails and schistosomiasis larvae at the bottom of the water would be killed by the sun.

This is what the prince (Liu Hou had not yet ascended the throne at that time) and Guo Youzhi repeatedly explained before the doctor set off. They said that in order to prevent the plague from spreading to the world, it was necessary to completely kill them after using them, leaving no aftermath behind.

The doctor thought about it, and the most complete way to kill it was to expose it to the sun. Under the scorching sun, anything will become dry, even if it is a person, if it is exposed to the sun for dozens of days, it will become a human dry, not to mention a small worm.

Speaking of Sun Quan, Sun Quan had a lot of fun hunting that day, not only did he have fun hunting, but the most important thing was that a conversation with Zhu Huan made him feel open-minded, and the immeasurable falcon that Zhu Huan gave him was also one of the reasons why he was happy. This night, Sun Quan slept very sweetly. The next day, he began to have itching on his body.

After Sun Quan asked the doctor to see it, he took a few patches of medicine, and his skin was cured. However, after a few days of discomfort, symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal pain, and mucus and bloody stools appeared. When the doctor examined it, he was shocked, and it turned out that he had felt a lump under his ribs (the liver and spleen began to enlarge). The doctor prescribed some medicine for the subcostal lumps, but the symptoms never improved.

Ten days later, Sun Quan's illness became more and more severe, and he developed symptoms such as chills, fever, excessive sweating, lymph nodes, liver and spleen, and liver tenderness. At the same time, there is loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, dry cough, blood in the sputum, shortness of breath, etc. It didn't take long for Sun Quan to begin to lose weight and fatigue.

Sun Quan asked the famous doctors of Soochow for treatment, but he never got better, and finally his belly finally grew and he became a new generation of big-bellied men. At the same time, because of high ascites, patients also have symptoms such as post-food upper abdominal fullness, dyspnea, umbilical hernia, lower limb edema, pleural effusion, abdominal wall varicose veins, and jaundice.

It was only at this time that some doctors saw the clue and knew that he was suffering from Gu worm disease, which was already dozens of days after his onset. However, after they were diagnosed, they could only increase the sense of despair of Sun Quan and the ministers of Eastern Wu, because everyone knew that the so-called "Gu worm" disease was an incurable disease.

Since Sun Quan's illness, the Eastern Wu court has been in chaos. The court, which had been hit and clouded, got a little better after learning that Shu was divided, but after a few days of happiness, Sun Quan fell ill, and the sicker he became, the more he got sicker, and the court fell into a sad state again.

When Sun Quan was diagnosed with Gu worm disease, all the monarchs and ministers of Eastern Wu fell into despair. Everyone began to plan for their own future. There are those who support different princes who are ready to compete for the throne, and there are those who secretly communicate with Wei to find the next boss for themselves. There are even people who find Liu Hou and ask for refuge.

Except for a few people, no one has put their minds on handling political affairs and caring about the general trend of the world. These few people include Lu Xun.

Lu Xun has always been concerned about the movements of Wei and Shu. When he was sure that his old rival Liu Chan had indeed led his troops west to Yizhou, and Cao Wei had also sent two armies to attack Hanzhong and Jingzhou respectively, he also wrote to Sun Quan, asking him to send troops to Jingzhou to make trouble for Liu Chan.

However, at this time, the government of the Eastern Wu Dynasty was already chaotic, there was no timely conscription, and it was in a situation where there were few major generals and soldiers, and the heavy grain and grass were not well raised, so it was difficult to support the army to go out. The constraints of these objective factors made Lu Xun shout that no one paid attention to it, and he missed the opportunity to send troops to pick up the bargain in vain.

As mentioned earlier, Wei sent troops to attack Shu in two ways in an attempt to interfere with Liu Hou's action to recover Yizhou. Now the question is, why was Wei able to send troops? You must know that when Liu Hou arranged the "Nine Dragons to seize the heir" plan, it was arranged by Wei and Wu together. He sent men to Jianye, the capital of Eastern Wu, to carry out the same task, and also sent people to Xuchang, the capital of Wei, to carry out the same task.

Now that Wei is still sending troops, it can only prove one thing, that is, the members of the "CIA" sent to Wei to carry out the mission failed, and Cao Pi was not recruited.