Zhu Xiang forbade him to read in the car, saying that he hurt his eyes. He ate, slept, slept and ate every day, and it was very boring.

"Do you want me to catch a critter for you?" Li Mu asked.

Ying Xiaozheng nodded: "Okay." ”

On the way to Shu, in addition to eating their own food, the Qin army would occasionally go out to hunt when camping and hunt some game to satisfy their hunger.

Li Mu is an idle person, and he must personally lead the team every time he hunts.

A few days later, he brought back a rabbit for Ying Xiaozheng.

Ying Xiaozheng shook the rabbit ears and immediately asked Zhu Xiang to help roast and eat them.

Li Mu: "......" The relief he said does not mean that one person has a whole rabbit alone.

Zhu Xiang couldn't stand up with a straight smile when he learned about this. Although Bunny was pitiful, he really couldn't think of what the First Emperor's cub looked like raising rabbits.

He originally wanted to instigate Li Mu to catch one and bring it back to Ying Xiaozheng if he saw a panda. But he just thinks about it.

Pandas are also bears, and even if they are domesticated, they are very lethal. Because it doesn't control its strength, an ordinary play action can hurt someone. Moreover, pandas only eat bamboo, and the amount of feces is large, so it is not easy to keep as a pet. What's more, there is no vaccine now, and if you are injured by an animal, it is easy to get sick.

When Zheng'er becomes an adult, it is okay to keep a few ornaments in a private garden, and forget it as a pet, it is too dangerous.

Zhu Xiang made up his mind not to raise pandas, but on the way to Guanzhong, he frequently saw panda probes probing his brain, which made him feel very itchy.

"Uncle likes black and white bears?" Ying Xiaozheng asked.

Zhu Xiang said: "Don't you think it's cute? ”

Ying Xiaozheng said in disgust: "It's a bit stupid." However, my uncle liked it, and when Zheng'er grew up, he asked Bashu to pay tribute to the black and white bears for his uncle to play with every year. ”

Zhu Xiang laughed: "No, my uncle doesn't have the energy to raise it." ”

Although Zhu Xiang said this, Ying Xiaozheng still quietly wrote down that his uncle likes silly black and white bears.

The Qin army marched into the stone gate and was about to enter the Golden Bull Road, but was blocked by the Qin generals guarding the pass.

General Qin clasped his fists and said: "The cottage weapon fight ahead, please stay in Shimen for a few days, so as not to get involved in barbarian disputes." ”

The Qin general who guarded the stone gate was named Du Mo, and he was a fierce-looking bearded man.

He saw Li Bing's banner and knew that Li Bing was the soon-to-be-appointed Bashu County Guard, so he specially came to greet him in person, and he was familiar with it.

Although the Shimen garrison was not under the jurisdiction of the Bashu county guard, there were no disadvantages to having a good relationship with the magistrate.

Li Mu was puzzled: "Fighting? Why don't you send troops to exterminate them? ”

Du Mo looked at Li Mu. Although Li Mu is very young, he can lead the army to escort the county guard into Shu at such a young age, and his family background must be good, so he doesn't dare to underestimate Li Mu.

He said respectfully: "Little general, Bashu is different from Qindi, the mountain barbarians are aggressive and ignorant, they fight among themselves, and the Qin army generally does not interfere. ”

Bashu had a lot of exchanges with Chu, so the middle and low-level generals were more accustomed to calling the king of Qin "the king".

Li Mu said to Zhu Xiang: "Do you want to stay here for a few days?" If you want to get to Chengdu earlier, I will lead the troops to talk to them and leave first. I don't think they dare not listen. ”

Li Mu was worried that if the road was delayed for too long, Ying Xiaozheng would not be able to bear it.

When he was guarding the northern frontier in Zhao State, he often dealt with Rongdi in the north, and knew that as long as he was scared and scared, these people were still very honest. It's just a borrowing, it shouldn't be a big problem.

Zhu Xiang asked, "General Du, may I ask why they are fighting?" ”

Only then did Du Mo realize that the old man he thought was the county guard was actually a young man.

Du Mo looked at Li Bing.

Li Bing introduced: "This is Changpingjun Zhu Xianggong......"

Before he finished the introduction, Du Mo fell to his knees with a thud, and his leather armor didn't slow down his kneeling speed, so frightened that Zhu Xiang jumped back and almost slipped.

Li Mu held the frightened rabbit-like Zhu Xiang, crying and laughing: "He worships you, why are you still afraid?" ”

"It's not that I'm afraid, it's just that I'm not used to it." Zhu Xiang hurriedly said, "General, please get up, I don't have a real job, and the general doesn't have to kneel." ”

Du Mo hurriedly said: "I kneel to Zhu Xianggong, and it has nothing to do with official positions. ”

He didn't say why he knelt down to worship Zhu Xiang, got up and said, "If it was Zhu Xianggong, maybe he could easily order them to stop fighting." The reason why they fought was because a person from a cottage stole potatoes from another cottage that had traveled thousands of miles to get them. ”

Zhu Xiang: "......" He didn't know how to answer for a while.

Chapter 79: Green onions dipped in garlic

Zhu Xiang inquired in detail about the fighting situation of the two cottages.

The barbarians of the two cottages are all "Ban Yu Barbarians", that is, the Ba people who were destroyed by the Qin State.

The Ba people originally made a living by fishing and hunting, and by the time of the Qin Dynasty, the Ba people on the plains were already an agricultural civilization, and the arable land in the mountains was scarce, so they merged fishing, hunting and farming.

After the expansion of the Qin state, not all places strictly followed the Qin law, but adapted measures to local conditions.

For example, the Pakistans continued their original slavery and gradually assimilated them in the form of rewards.

When King Hui of Qin was king, he demanded that the Ba chieftain must marry a Qin woman every generation in order to assimilate his descendants; Today's King Qin Zhao promised that each household would have a tax-free quota of one hectare of land, and no matter how many wives and concubines he married, his wives and concubines would not need to pay more taxes.

The two policies cooperated with each other, not only encouraging the Ba people to go down to the mountains to cultivate, but also making the poor Ba women more willing to join the rich Ba nobles as concubines, resulting in most Ba civilian men not being able to marry their own women. There is no need for the King of Qin to give Qin women, they will take the initiative to combine with the migrating Qin women and be further assimilated.

In ancient times, the people at the bottom did not have the idea of love or disobsession, and marriage was to live and reproduce. What's more, the Pakistani people are still slaves.

Because they often intermarry with the Qin people, and Shimen is located in the transportation hub of Shu, their news is not too closed.

When exchanging supplies with the incoming caravans, they not only learned the Qin dialect, but also learned about the major events of the Central Plains and the Qin State. Some of them are ambitious young people who will also go out with the caravan to do business and increase their knowledge.

Although their news will be a year and a half later than the outside world, Zhu Xiang has been famous all over the world for more than a year and a half, so it is really the freshest time in their ears.

The whole field on the mountain is scarce, and it is not easy to cultivate. They had heard that potatoes could grow a large bunch of potatoes as long as they gave a piece of land in a small corner, so they saved up many caravans to buy potatoes.

The caravan was honest and did not trap them. Although potatoes are cheap, it is worth so many precious mountain goods that it is worth transporting potatoes all the way to Shimen.

The cottage that entrusts people to buy potatoes is called Qingpian Village, and the cottage across a ravine is called Hongpian Village, and the reason for the name is that the cliff on one side is bluestone, and the cliff on the other side is red soil.

The people of Qingpian Village bought potatoes and were thinking about how to eat and how to plant them, and the people of Hongpian Village came to Qingpian Village to exchange things, and felt that the potatoes were very strange, so they touched a few and left.

When the people of Qingpian Village begged for potatoes, the people of Hongpian Village learned about the magic of potatoes from the caravan and were willing to exchange animal skins for potatoes.

The people of Qingpian Village naturally refused. The two sides went from a verbal altercation to a fight, and then it became a fight between the two villages.

After Zhu Xiang heard the whole thing, he wanted to say that the people in Hongpian Village were at a loss, but this kind of thing could no longer be explained by reason.

It's like a war between Wu and Chu that collapsed on both sides, and the origin was when two women on the border fought over the mulberry leaves of a tree.

They went from women scolding each other, to bringing in both fathers and brothers to fight each other, to fighting in two villages, and finally somehow it developed into the end of the town defenders and the end of the two kings.

Zhu Xiang smiled bitterly: "Shouldn't I be glad that the people who compete for potatoes are all Qin people." If it is a Qin and Chu people, Li Mu, you haven't adapted to the climate in the southwest, so you have to hurriedly put on your armor and go into battle. ”

The young and vigorous Li Muman didn't care and said: "There are no unscrupulous generals in the Chu State, and I can win if I hurriedly put on my armor." ”

Zhu Xiang said: "I heard that there is a family with a surname in Chu that has been a general for generations, which is very powerful. ”

Li Mu said: "I haven't heard of any good generals with surnames in the Chu State. What are his exploits? ”

Zhu Xiang thought about it carefully, and now there really isn't.

The battle in which Xiang Yan, who became famous in later generations, was to cooperate with Changping Jun, who rebelled against Qin, and attacked from end to end, and caught the Qin general Li Xin by surprise. In addition, Xiang Yan has no record before or after.

Objectively speaking, this big victory is actually not his credit, but Changpingjun's credit.

The famous generals of the Six Kingdoms in the late Warring States period, except for Li Mu, were able to resist the attack of the Qin State once or twice, even if they entered the threshold of famous generals, there was basically no chance of attacking the city.

Thinking about it this way, the reputation of the "famous general" is indeed a bit watery. It's normal for Li Mu to look down on it.

"For the time being, there are no war achievements. However, since the generation is a general, there must still be some ability. Zhu Xiang said, "You order a hundred cavalry to go up the mountain with me, and I will give you some herbs." Bring water and dry food, and do not drink the water they bring. ”

Li Mu was puzzled: "Will they still poison us?" ”

Zhu Xiang shook his head: "It's not poisoning." The drinking water of the cottagers is close to the place of life, and it is easy to be contaminated with feces. They also drink raw water and are prone to parasites. Be careful. ”

Li Mu nodded: "Okay." ”

Those who often lead troops to fight will be concerned about the problem of water pollution, otherwise most of the soldiers will be wiped out by the plague before the war starts.

Although the soldiers were not in a position to drink all the boiled water, they were also careful when choosing a water source, choosing the upper reaches of the camp when taking water, preferably with a place for animals to drink.

The herb Zhu Xiang mentioned is garlic juice.

After smoking garlic, Zhu Xiang began to promote this "miracle medicine".

Garlic, especially purple-skinned garlic, will produce allicin when crushed. Even without the use of alcohol, garlic juice has a strong antibacterial effect, and it also has a miraculous effect on parasites.

Zhu Xiang's Institute of Agricultural Sciences has a special research topic on the prevention and treatment effect of garlic products on schistosomiasis. Although there are specific drugs for schistosomiasis in modern times, resistance will gradually accumulate. Allicin is not easy to accumulate resistance, and researchers hope to extract cheaper and more convenient anti-insect drugs from garlic.

However, allicin is not easy to preserve, and no cheaper drugs have been developed.

Zhu Xiang does not prepare allicin, so he crushes garlic and applies it to bare skin, which is enough to prevent mosquito and schistosomiasis bites.

Mashed garlic with soy sauce is a delicious dipping sauce for those who are used to eating garlic. Zhu Xiang also selected a variety of green onions that can be eaten raw directly, and piled a lot of them in the carriage as health care products for Ying Xiaozheng.

After entering Shu, the climate was hotter and humider than that of Kanto, Ying Xiaozheng was bored, so he peeled the skin of the green onion, dipped it in soy sauce and garlic paste and gnawed the green onion as a fruit.

Zhu Xiang looked at Ying Xiaozheng's appearance of gnawing green onions, and he couldn't help but hold his forehead and cover his face.

It's a trivial matter to smoke something, he doesn't care about the taste, he just has the illusion that he is sorry for the future Qin Shi Huang's fan sister and brother.

He raised his baby too down-to-earth.

"Uncle, I want to go too!" The bored Ying Xiaozheng raised the half-gnawed green onion in his hand.

"Okay." Zhu Xiang said, "Follow me, don't walk around, don't touch it." ”

Ying Xiaozheng nodded and continued to nibble on green onions.

Li Mu frowned: "Zheng'er goes, will it be dangerous?" ”

Zhu Xiang said: "With your protection, it will not be dangerous." The Ba people are also Qin's people, and when he comes out, it is rare to encounter a weapon fight, and if he gains a little more knowledge, he will take a class. ”

Li Mu sighed: "Okay." Zheng'er, follow me. ”

Ying Xiaozheng nodded while nibbling on green onions, wondering whether to follow his uncle or his teacher.

Li Mu looked greedy, and also touched a green onion to gnaw.

After taking a bite, he frowned. Every time he watched Zheng'er nibble on the green onions very sweetly, he couldn't help but want to try them, but every time he still couldn't get used to the taste of raw green onions.

Zhu Xiang laughed at Li Mu, lit a fire, and sprinkled a little salt on the green onion that Li Mu had bitten after cooking, so as not to waste this good green onion.