Qiao Yumian and others all believe that because the plague is man-made, there may be some kind of shortcut in the way of overcoming it-

"But they must not have the antidote...... "Purser Cai listened to the words of Qiao Yumian and the others, and couldn't help but say: "Otherwise, the Korean Duke would not just watch the sick soldiers in a hurry." ”

"Yes." Qiao Yumian nodded first, and then explained: "Although there is no antidote, if you can know the composition of the poison when you first applied the poison, it may be possible to prescribe the right medicine." ”

Even if the plague spawned by the poison must have changed through the spread of the people, and it is impossible to resolve the plague with an antidote that can suppress the poison alone, it is helpful to understand the source of the disease.

A gray-haired Jiangdu doctor also said: "It is precisely this reason, it is best to find the person who made the poison in the first place." ”

Shepherd's head nodded knowingly, and subconsciously looked at his own adult.

Chang Suining said: "I roughly know who it is. ”

Xiao Min mentioned this matter in the letter that Xiao Min sent to Jiangdu, and the object of Xiao Min's suspicion was a foreign woman who followed Li Xian.

Chang Sui Ning vaguely remembered that the name mentioned in the letter seemed to be called...... Allan.

It is said that this woman was brought back from the south by Li Xian, and she looked beautiful, and she stayed in Li Xian's tent almost all day long.

But according to Xiao Min's observation, this person is not a concubine and maid who serves people in Israel, and Li Xian is not obsessed with women, so Xiao Min has always believed that Li Xian chose to take people with him, mostly because Alan has something special.

Xiao Min paid special attention to Alan because of this, and in the few contacts he had with him, he could always smell the unique medicinal aroma from the other party. Later, he accidentally learned that whenever Li Xian was unwell and needed medication for treatment, he rarely went through the military doctor's consultation, and Xiao Min came to the conclusion that this Alan was probably a medical woman who was proficient in medical science.

After the outbreak of the plague in Yuezhou, Xiao Min naturally went through many clues and became suspicious of Al Lan, and informed Chang Suining in the letter.

But it is not enough to know who the drug makers are.

Li Xian would never have agreed to hand over the people under any circumstances—he was denying the cause of the plague, so how could he prove his guilt at this time?

So the answer is simple and straightforward – there is only one way to tie people up with sacks.

But a man who never leaves the barracks, never interacts with people, and is good at poison...... Obviously it's not easy to tie.

Chang Sui Ning looked thoughtful, and he had to think of a way.

While Chang Suining was meditating on this, a female soldier came in from outside to report that nearly a thousand people suffering from the epidemic had been sent over, including the sister in the little jacket.

The next day, hundreds of people came here to ask Chang Suining for help.

As more and more people live here, the shacks used for housing have been expanded. Correspondingly, the number of people needed is also increasing. But these are all easy to solve, and at the moment, apart from the cure, the only problem that makes people difficult is the supply of medicinal herbs.

Among the medicinal materials needed for the prevention prescription given by Xiao Min, at least four flavors of medicine have been in short supply one after another.

Although these drugs cannot have a real curative effect, after repeated adjustment of the dosage by doctors and other drugs, they have the effect of delaying the progression of the disease. Therefore, before the emergence of the true cure, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the life-sustaining medicine of the common people.

From the very beginning, the gold shake had people raise and purchase these medicinal materials in the states of Jiangnan West Province, but after many days, they did not get much - as the person who planned this plague, Li Xian had his subordinates privately hoard a large number of such medicinal materials early in the morning to meet the needs of the army in the future.

On this day, Shake Jin came back from outside and told Chang Suining that in the entire vicinity of Jiangnan West Road, it would be difficult to get enough medicinal materials in a short period of time.

When it came to the transfer of procurement materials, Chang Suining immediately thought of Meng Lie.

Meng Lie and Yuan Xiang went to the north together, and left the corresponding manpower for Chang Suining to send before leaving, but they were in Jiangdu and did not come here with them-

This place is still thousands of miles away from Jiangdu, and it will take at least ten days to send a message to explain this matter, to prepare for the purchase, and then to send the medicinal materials here, even if it is non-stop, it will take at least ten days. And the current medicinal materials can only last for three days at most.

Most of the three-day dosage was sent by the history of the Thorn in Chuzhou.

It is better to send a message back to Jiangdu immediately, and before that, try to snatch the ...... from Li Xianjun's army No, it's to borrow some openly?

Those Qincha and doctors who came to control the plague on the order of the Son of Heaven were still watching and staying near Yuezhou, and the public opinion around was very unfavorable to the imperial court.

Chang Suining made up his mind, and was about to send a message to Jiangdu, but he heard from his subordinates: "There is a group of Suzhou businessmen who claim to know the adults and have come here to ask for an adult." ”

Suzhou businessmen?

Chang Suining couldn't help asking: "What's your name?" ”

"Said it was surnamed Dai."

Last name...... Chang Suining thought about it and was unimpressed.

On the contrary, he shook Jin quite in surprise and said: "It sounds like the Dai family's medicine store-"

"Medicine shop?" Chang Suining looked at Shao Jin, and only listened to Shao Jin: "My lord doesn't know, the Dai family business in Suzhou has a lot of roots in the Jiangnan area, and its main business is the medicinal material business, and in the past two years, the family business has expanded more than doubled, and it has become the first pharmacist in Jiangnan Dongdao." ”

Suzhou belongs to Jiangnan East Province and is adjacent to Jiangnan West Road.

When Chang Suining heard this, he thought about it and went to see him immediately.

Shake Jin followed Chang Suining's side and walked out, thinking in his heart - this Dai family's business, could it be that he heard the wind and made a special trip to sell it?

Chang Sui Ning was in poor conditions here, coupled with the sweltering heat of summer, and for the prevention and control of the plague, most of the time he kept the open air ventilated, so he did not invite people to talk to the shack, but Chang Sui Ning went to meet them.

A group of people came in carriages and horses, and many people stood in front of several carriages, led by a couple in brocade clothes in their early forties.

Seeing Chang Suining coming, the couple hurriedly stepped forward.

"Chang Niangzi!"

The woman called, but knelt down with her husband and bowed to Chang Suining.

After the husband and wife got up, Chang Suining saw their faces clearly, and then vaguely recognized them.

At this moment, a servant came over pushing a young man sitting on a four-wheeled seat.

The woman urged: "Dalang, quickly salute the benefactor!" ”

The blue-clothed young man sitting on the seat of the car looked handsome and thin, but his eyebrows and eyes were very vibrant, he raised his hand uprightly and saluted Chang Sui Ning: "Dai Zifa has seen a benefactor!" ”

He also said sincerely: "Zifa is unable to move and cannot make a big gift to his benefactor, so please forgive me." ”

His surname is Dai, his name is Zifa, the eldest son of the Dai family in Suzhou, five years ago, when he entered Beijing with his parents to do business, he was born to break his legs, and he has been unable to walk since then.

Previously, in order to convict Ming Jin, Chang Sui Ning had found many sufferers who had been affected by Ming Jin's evil deeds, including Lu Chong, and the Dai family couple.

At that time, Chang Sui Ning only vaguely remembered that they were doing business in the Jiangnan area, but he didn't carefully explore what kind of business they were doing, and he didn't expect to meet here today-

The woman was also very emotional, looking at Chang Suining's eyes with gratitude and admiration: "I never thought that in two or three years, when I saw Chang Niangzi again, I would change my name to Chang Jie." ”

Suzhou is not far from Jiangdu, and they have naturally heard about Chang Suining, but they have never bothered them.

In fact, when Jiangdu was rebuilt, they also asked Jiangdu's old friend to donate a sum of silver, but they did not mention the old things, and Chang Suining naturally failed to connect the person who donated the silver with the couple who had a brief intersection in the past.

Goodbye at this time, I only feel that the spirit of the Dai family and his wife looks much better than before.

Although it has been two or three years, the gratitude of the Dai family and his wife to Chang Suining is still written on their faces.

After their eldest son's legs were ruined, he was depressed and sought death many times, and as parents, they endured no less suffering than their children.

It wasn't until they brought the news of Ming Jin's execution back to Suzhou that the eldest son regained his life little by little.

Dai Zifa is quite talented in business, and after regaining his vitality, he began to help the family take care of the business again, and in the past two years, Dai's business has expanded, and he accounts for half of the credit.

After thanking the old words, when it came to the plague, Dai Zifa naturally mentioned the supply of medicinal materials.

Chang Sui Ning didn't understand the details, so he asked the shake gold in charge of the matter to talk to the young owner in detail, and he went to the side to talk with the Dai family and his wife.

Sha Jin has already quickly calculated in his heart, thinking that this Dai Shaodong may take the opportunity to raise the price of medicine.

Although it seems that he is here to thank his benefactor, it is not uncommon for him to use this to kill him while saying words that are as deep as the sea.

Shake Jin followed the eldest princess of Xuan'an to take care of various businesses, and he has always been very familiar with this aspect.

But at the same time, the gold was also very calm, and at first he did not take the initiative to mention the price, first talked about the time and route of the delivery of medicinal materials, and then set the required amount with the other party, and finally talked about the price of medicine.

Dai Zifa shook his head and smiled: "The Dai family doesn't take a penny. ”

Shake the gold and smile, the Dai family doesn't take a penny, just give some hard-earned money to the medicine farmers and the people below, right?

She has heard a lot of words that sound decent, but actually ask for a lot of money.

Shake Jin followed these words to negotiate the price, but made Dai Zifa stunned, after he reacted, he laughed and said: "This girl really misunderstood-"

His expression was very serious: "The Dai family is here to repay the kindness, and what the benefactor has done is a respectable righteous act, and the Dai family has the opportunity to do this little effort, which is a great glory." ”

After a moment of silence, Shake Jin smiled a little awkwardly.

Very good...... The only bad thing is that she seems to be too narrow-minded.

Then he looked at the Dai Shaodong family in front of him, and there was more sincerity and emotion in his eyes-either the Dai family's business is getting bigger and bigger, and this money deserves to be earned.

But Shake Jin still refused, and it was their eldest princess's mansion who was responsible for the supply of medicinal materials here. She just didn't want to suffer, but the eldest princess's mansion never encroached on the interests of merchants.

However, Dai Shaodong's mood to do his part is also very firm, and the two have repeatedly pulled for a long time, just like the host and the guests pushing and pulling each other on the New Year's Festival.

After the Dai family left, Shake Jin informed Chang Suining of the result of this pull.

Chang Suining was not only moved, but also very emotional.

Probably this is the joy of making good connections with people.

At this moment, the sun will set in the west, and Chang Sui Ning looks to the northwest direction, only to see the sunset in the sky.

I wonder if the good karma she sent to the north has also arrived?

Meng Lie and the others had to stock up on military supplies along the way, and they wanted to travel slowly, but the news must have reached the north.

Recently, there has been no urgent news from the north, and the battle of Yumen Pass must have been smooth and stable.

At this moment, in the northwest realm, the boundless desert is like a long river, and a round sun is slowly sliding into the river, like a huge sunset map of the long river, which is shaken away by the heavenly immortals and hangs between heaven and earth.

A line of iron riders appears in the painting, raising dust and sand under the setting sun, breaking the silence but making the world even more magnificent.

As Chang Sui Ning expected, at the Yumen Pass, the turmoil has been settled.

With Cui Jing's previous deployment, it was almost doomed for Beidi's less than 20,000 iron cavalry to return defeated, but this time they even failed to "return defeated"-

The northern territory is vast and has a special combat environment, so it has always fought against foreign races, mostly to expel people.

But this time, when the nearly 20,000 Beidi Tie cavalry were defeated and retreated, they were pursued by the Xuance army with perseverance.

Those Beidi Iron Cavalry were forced to flee in different directions, trying to distract the attention of the Xuan Ce army, but Cui Jing still personally led his troops to pursue and kill, and made a military order that the offenders would never be given a chance to leave alive.

In the battle of expulsion at the Yumen Pass, the real head-to-head battle between the two sides only took a few days. However, this pursuit lasted for more than half a month, and Cui Jing and his subordinates were not able to collect their troops and return one after another until recently.

In this battle, Beidi was not only defeated, but nearly 20,000 Beidi troops were wiped out.

Lieutenant General Xuan Cejun saw the style of General Cui Jing's battle this time, and he felt that it was different from the usual, and the killing spirit displayed in this was a hundred times better than in the previous battles.

But most of them can understand the purpose of this - this is the first battle of the Beidi invasion, and they will be able to deter the Beidi army that is about to move, so as to win more time for Dasheng to prepare for the war.

Vice General Yu also thought of this important consideration, but he still felt that in this battle, the Metropolitan Governor seemed to be different from usual.

He tried to ask a side question, and at that time, the Metropolitan Governor said: [Xuan Ce Army and Beidi have an indelible enmity. 】

Vice General Yu was puzzled for a moment, and quickly reacted, did he mean the big battle more than ten years ago?

But in that battle, it was they who won the big victory, and it was Beidi who was beaten badly...... How can the person who wins even better remember the revenge?

Moreover, most of the governors have always led troops to fight, and they are almost not mixed with personal emotions...... What kind of feud is this?

Vice General Yu didn't bother to dig deeper, of course, even if he did, he couldn't find out anything.

At this time, seeing that Yumen Pass was in front of him, the young general led by him slowly dismounted and said, "Spread the book to the Jingshi, this battle has been won." ”

"Yes!"

Deputy General Yu answered, walked for a while, drove his horse to catch up with his own governor, and asked in a low voice: "Governor, do you want to send a letter to Jiangdu immediately?" ”

Cui Jing was a little slower and said, "Don't worry, I haven't had time to write a letter yet." ”

Vice Admiral Yu let out an "ah" in puzzlement, and then suddenly said "oh" - the Governor of the Metropolitan is going to write a letter in person.

After reacting, Vice General Yu sighed in his heart, such a beautiful victory, transmitted back to the Beijing Division, and the words "this battle was won" were lightly written...... When I arrived at the regular envoy, I had to write a letter in person. (End of chapter)