Chapter 131, the cause of the death of King Han

In Yanzhou Mansion, Li Shucheng sighed: "Well, why is the emperor dead again?" Zhu Di died of illness on the way back from the northern expedition to Mongolia last year, and the emperor who had just sat on the throne for less than a year died this year.

"This emperor is obese and sick, and he has lived for so long is already the favor of God. Jiang Mingyue said. It is indeed the favor of God, if you die early, you will not be able to sit on the throne.

"You say, will Zhu Gaoxu take this opportunity to seize the throne?" Li Shucheng said. Zhu Gaoxi, as one of the main contributors to Zhu Di's Jingjing Battle, has a lot of credit, it can be said that if he hadn't killed the enemy many times, Zhu Di would have been caught even if he didn't die in front of the battle. In Zhu Gaoxi's opinion, he worked hard to be promoted from the king of the county to the king of Han, and his brother Zhu Gaochi, who was hiding in the rear, became the prince because he was the eldest son, and he must be unwilling.

"Even if he wants to take the throne, he doesn't have a chance. Jiang Mingyue said, "More than 20 years have passed since the Battle of Jingjing, and he has long since lost many cronies in the army. Besides, Wenchen didn't support him as the crown prince back then, let alone now? Moreover, the prince had already been named the emperor's grandson as early as the ninth year of Yongle. In addition, the king of Han has done lawless things all these years, who will have his heart for him?"

On the official road in the north of Yanzhou Prefecture, the two first met a team of people and horses in a hurry, and two hours later walked to a section of the road where there were hills on both sides, and found that there were many people hidden on the hillside.

The speed of the two was not fast, and at this time, they pretended to point and enjoy the scenery, intending to find out what the other party was about.

I only heard a voice asking, "Why are you still here?" Xie San, have you seen clearly?"

Another voice said: "Leader, the subordinates can see clearly, it is the ...... He. ”

"Tai What Tai, we are the people of the King of Han, he is not our crown prince. The leader said, "As long as we kill him here, the throne will belong to the king of Han, and I will not be able to enjoy the wealth and glory when the time comes." ”

When the two of them heard this, they quietly glanced at each other, these people were actually sent by Zhu Gaoxi to intercept and kill Zhu Zhanji! So Zhu Zhanji was not in the capital, but the group of people who had just passed!

Zhu Zhanji was indeed not in the capital, he was sent by Zhu Gaochi to Nanjing to prepare for the relocation of the capital. Zhu Di was named the king of Yan, and his station was in the current capital, and after ascending the throne, he expanded and moved the capital, but Zhu Gaochi had a different idea from his father, and planned to move the capital back to Jinling, so he sent Zhu Zhanji to prepare.

At this time, I heard a third voice say: "We have come to ambush when we got the news, are they walking too slowly? Do you want to send someone to investigate?"

"No need, right? He is a prince, and he is delicate and expensive, so he naturally can't go fast. We'll just wait here. Another voice said.

When the two approached, the ambushed group immediately reined in their voices and watched the two cross the hillside of the ambush and disappear behind the mountain. Why didn't these people kill Li Shucheng and the others? Of course, they were afraid of being exposed.

After crossing the hillside and making sure that they did not arouse the other party's alarm, the two returned to investigate, and there were more than 400 people in ambush on the slopes on both sides, and it seemed that they had a lot of information about Zhu Zhanji and his party.

Although the two looked down on Zhu Gaoxi very much, they didn't want to directly intervene in the power struggle, they just planned to send a message to Zhu Zhanji.

After hurrying all night to catch up with Zhu Zhanji and his party, Li Shucheng wrote a few words, tied the paper to a tree branch and sent it far into Zhu Zhanji's room.

Zhu Zhanji was sleeping soundly, and was awakened by the movement of a branch nailed into the head of the bed, and when he got up, he found the news sent by Li Shucheng, and immediately ordered to leave.

As soon as he left the city, he divided his troops, and he took a small team to hide his tracks, and the other team hurried to delay the time under his banner, and the later he was intercepted, the safer he was.

The two looked at Zhu Zhanji's arrangement, and Li Shucheng sighed: "It is worthy of following Zhu Di to conquer Mongolia, and he is very old and spicy at a young age!"

When Zhu Gaoxi got the news and sent someone to intercept and kill again, the time had already been delayed too much, and the other party had already left Shandong, so he had to go back, but he didn't know that Zhu Zhanji was still in Shandong at this time.

After Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, not only did he not attack Zhu Gaoxi, the king of Han, but also rewarded him generously. However, Zhu Gaoxu was naturally unwilling to give up, and after repeated temptations, he thought that Zhu Zhanji was weak and incompetent, so he rebelled.

However, the peace of mind is not the time for rebellion, and there are not many people attached to him. He sent a message to his old comrade-in-arms, the British Gong Zhang Fu, intending to ask the British public to make an internal response, and was even sent by the British announcement. What's more, Li Jun, the imperial historian who guarded filial piety at home, learned that Zhu Gaoxi had rebelled, and changed his name and surname to copy the road to the capital to make a change.

Zhu Zhanji drove the expedition in person, and the army arrived in Anle City, and Zhu Gaoxi in the city still wanted to fight at this time. But he didn't want anyone in his army to see that the situation was not good, and planned to kidnap him and sacrifice him to the emperor to atone for his sins. Although he was found and killed, he also woke up Zhu Gaoxu, and he no longer had the courage to fight, so he secretly sent someone to meet the emperor, planning to surrender the next day. Although he was dissuaded by Wang Bin and others the next day, he still pretended to go back to his house and secretly surrendered. The general who once had great achievements in war did such a ridiculous trick.

When Zhu Gaoxi landed, Li Shucheng and Jiang Mingyue were already far away from Daming, hundreds of miles north of the envoy Lubu, Li Shucheng took Jiang Mingyue to let her see the aurora and the polar day and night.

However, there was an unexpected harvest on this trip, Li Shucheng discovered a plant, and after testing, it was confirmed that this plant is very effective against ascariasis. Because this plant is similar to the Artemisia grass of the Ming Dynasty, it is named Artemisia insecticide. Li Shucheng collected a lot of stems, leaves, flowers, especially seeds, and planned to go back to see if he could plant them in Daming.

After returning to Daming, the two looked for a planting site, and finally stopped in Weixian, and after three years of experiments, they finally planted the deworming artemisia successfully.

In the past three years, the deworming artemisia brought back by Li Shucheng has been tried by the villagers, and its reputation has already spread.

Ascariasis, at this time it is called tidal disease, and roundworms are called tidal insects. It is a very widespread disease, whether it is ordinary poor people or high-ranking officials, there are roundworm parasites in the body. Although there are also treatments, the effect is not good. After Li Shucheng used anthelmintic artemisia to treat tidal disease, the families of county officials used it, and the county magistrate specially came to see Li Shucheng, and then ensured that Li Shucheng's experiment was not disturbed.

The reason why the magistrate is so preferential is because he has been awakened by his wife, and if this is successfully planted, it will be a great achievement! This tide disease is not only common to ordinary people, but also to high-ranking officials and nobles, as well as concubines and princes in the palace.

In the past few years, the villagers have followed Li Shucheng and learned a set of processes such as preserving seeds, turning the ground, planting, harvesting, drying, and making decoctions. After this year's planting, more people will plant next year. Moreover, drying and making decoctions, Lang Zhong in the county has also learned to learn art by stealing teachers. They understand better than the villagers why the dried insect repellent medicine cannot be dried with fire, it is best to dry it in two or three days, and they also know why the decoction can not be boiled directly on the fire, but should be steamed in a steamer with low heat and slight heat, because in this way it will not lose its medicinal properties, and it is necessary to maintain the medicinal properties when concocting other medicinal materials.

After the Zhixian was sent to the central court, the emperor saw a series of names such as the prefect of the county and the political envoy on the recital, and knew at once that in addition to the prefect, the rest of the people were to share the credit, but with this miracle medicine, the people of the Ming Dynasty were less afflicted by dampness. So, the emperor ordered the county order to bring meritorious people into Beijing.

But when the county order received the holy decree and came to find Li Shucheng, Li Shucheng and Jiang Mingyue had already left. The county magistrate asked the neighbors: "Where is Dr. Li Yuanshan, why is he not at home, where have you gone?" Li Yuanshan is Li Shucheng's name in his previous life, and it is also his pseudonym after coming here.

"I haven't looked at it in days. The neighbor said, "I'm afraid I'm going to visit relatives and friends." ”

Even after asking several people, there was no news of Li Shucheng, and the county order told the eunuch to pass the decree. The time was urgent, and the eunuch had no choice but to take the county order and Lang Zhong in a county, and count the truckloads of medicinal herbs to return to Beijing to restore his life.

The eunuch reported the truth, but the emperor was considerate of his subordinates and didn't care, what he cared about was the treatment of tide diseases, as long as someone knew how to treat it.

Of course, to treat the royal family, even if the prime minister and the prince offer medicine, it is impossible to go directly like this, even if the emperor agrees, the civil and military officials will not agree, and the drug testing procedure must be taken.

As soon as the hospital tested the medicine, it shouted that this medicine was poisonous! Originally, some prescriptions were already poisonous, and it was normal to fight poison with poison, and even arsenic could be used in medicine, so it was no big deal. However, this is a royal cure, who would dare to prescribe a poisonous medicine?

"Your Majesty, the prescription is poisonous, this person has bad intentions, please Your Majesty put this person in prison, interrogate him strictly, and find out who is behind the scenes. Several officials said immediately.

The emperor waved his hand and said: "It has been written on the fold that the prescription is slightly poisonous, and it is precisely because of the slight poison that it can cure diseases without poisoning people. ”

The test was naturally successful, and each of the ten people pulled out a lot of tide insects, and then after the imperial doctor diagnosed that the body was indeed fine, the cold sweat on the body of Zhixian and Langzhong stopped. This feeling is really too tormenting, and the county magistrate thinks that he will never ask for such credit in the future, and if he is not careful, he will lose his life, and even implicate his family and relatives.

If the test was successful, it was natural to cure the disease, the royal family, the cabinet, the princes, the six ministries, and the five military governors' mansions, and then, the medicine naturally spread. The emperor decreed that Weixian County should widely plant artemisia insecticide, and select local trials across the country to expand the production of medicinal materials and benefit the people of the whole country.

This is the first time that the emperor has decreed the implementation of medical techniques since the imperial court issued an order to implement epidemic prevention and prevention of diseases such as big necks in the 24th year of Hongwu. So, he ran to his uncle Zhu Gaoxi, who had been deposed as a concubine, and went to Zhu Gaoxi, who couldn't see him and messed with him.

Then he ordered someone to detain Zhu Gaoxi with a 300-pound copper cylinder, light charcoal around the copper cylinder, roast Zhu Gaoxi to death, and then kill Zhu Gaoxi's sons.