Datang Library

Chapter 792 Bai Fan Discusses the Situation

In the middle of the night, there was constant sound of horseshoes in the city of Chang'an. King Li Jiancheng of Jin was easy to find and had been stationed in Chang'an City all year round. However, King Li Yuanba of Chu and Hou Baifan of Lantian were different. These two people were basically in Zhongnan Academy.

Li Yuanba is good at martial arts, the academy is full of masters, and there are a lot of juniors to learn martial arts, and he doesn't need to participate in military affairs, so naturally he doesn't have to live in the Chu Palace to do nothing.

Since Bai Fan's youngest daughter was a little older, he devoted himself to the academy again and started the great cause of education. The Tang Dynasty's military is already strong, and now it is governing the country. If there is a shortage of officials and scholars, it needs to rely on Zhongnan Academy, and Zhongnan Academy The academy once competed with the Guozijian and successfully incorporated the Guozijian. Since then, Zhongnan Academy has started to provoke the great cause of national education as a private institution.

When Li Er's messenger found Bai Fan, it was already the next morning. Bai Fan was teaching the students. He rode out slowly when he saw Li Er's warrant. Otherwise, he was going to show the messenger, or He was sent back because he didn't have time to be a counselor to the emperor every day.

Li Yuanba and Bai Fan rode Wanliyun and Saichitu and rushed from Lantian to the palace in an hour. Li Er had summoned the generals of the army and prepared for the worst.

"In short, quickly, something happened to the third brother in the southwest. The enemy used a slow poison, and tens of thousands of people in the city were poisoned. Now the situation is unpredictable. I don't know if the city is still in our hands. I don't know if the third brother It's life or death."

Handing over the urgent secret letter, Li Er said anxiously.

"What? I'll go to the southwest immediately to rescue third brother." Li Yuanba said loudly.

Bai Fan held down Li Yuanba, took the secret letter and read it carefully.

Chronic poison?Confusing people, just one dish can make people eat it and never forget it, the more they eat, the more excited they become?Do you have to have all of them?Just like gambling addiction, food addiction?Why does this sound so opium-like?

How can it be?Did someone use opium here in Datang?
Looking further down, after taking it for a long time, the generals began to have dark circles under their eyes and lost their spirits. Isn't this just drug addiction?

"No, it turned out to be this kind of poison, please wait for me a moment, I need to verify my guess."

After speaking, Bai Fan found a place to sit down, closed his eyes intently, and began to call up the library in his mind to search for information, to see what happened to this poppy's past and present lives.

Although everyone was puzzled, they all looked at Bai Fan. It was obvious that Lan Tianhou already knew the general idea.

After a stick of incense, Bai Fan understood that if the predictions were correct, the poppies in Southwest Tubo either came from Tianzhu or Hu merchants from the Western Regions. It seems that some experts pointed out that the use of opium was discovered so early.

"Your Majesty, if I'm not mistaken, this poison comes from a plant called poppy, which is recorded in the Buddhist scriptures as the flower of Wangyou. It was originally used for medical treatment, but the poison master discovered that this substance has hallucinogenic toxicity. , and refine it into poison.

As the secret letter said, this substance cannot be tested with silver needles, and the poisoned person will not realize it, and because of the hallucination of the poison, it will also produce a dreamlike feeling. addicted.

People who are poisoned more and more cannot do without poison. Over time, their energy and spirit will be exhausted, as if they are consuming their vitality, their complexion will be yellow and lifeless, their bones will not stand up, and they will eventually die. "

This……

Listening to Bai Fan's description, everyone felt chills down their spines. If they were given this kind of poison, would they just tell Lan Tianhou that they would not end well?

"Jane, hurry up and save Saburo." Old Li Yuan urged.

Bai Fan shook his head and said, "If it's really like what the secret letter said, I'm afraid it's too late."

"What? How?"

"Think about it, everyone, how far is Chang'an from Tibet in the southwest? How long does it take for the messenger to arrive here?"

Li Er said in a deep voice: "The eight-hundred-mile express letter has been used for 20 days."

"Yes, in 20 days, if I am the mastermind of this conspiracy, I don't have to wait for the entire city to fall, and all the generals in the city will be poisoned before I can close the net. What's more, thousands of soldiers have already been poisoned when the letter was sent."

Li Yuan slumped back to his seat with a pale face, muttering, that, that...

"Third Uncle's fate may depend on auspicious people and heavenly fortune. The city of Yuhe must have fallen, and it's time for us to prepare for battle."

Li Er clapped his palms on several cases, and said angrily: "You despicable Tubo man, Maogong, with an army of 20, follow me to flatten Tubo to avenge my third brother."

Li Ji succeeded Li Jing as Minister of War, originally planned to belong to Hou Junji, but now Hou Junji was obsessed with the Tang Navy and had no interest in Minister of War, so it fell to the young Li Ji.

Hearing the emperor's call for generals, Li Jiwei was puzzled: "Your Majesty, think twice, the fall of the city of Yuhe may be in vain for the preparations we have made in the Tang Dynasty for several years. There will no longer be 20 soldiers capable of fighting the plateau, and our [-] army may not be able to go to the plateau."

"Even if the whole army is wiped out, I will destroy Tubo, and the Thunderbolt will flatten them." Li Er said angrily.

Li Jiancheng shouted: "This king spent all his wealth to make Thunderbolt."

"All the treasures of Da'an Palace are used for military expenses." Li Yuan shouted.

"I broke into the city of Tubo and took the head of Songtsen Gampo." Li Yuanba shouted.

The military department looked at the anger of these people and felt emotional. It seems that the Li family of the royal family is still so united and so terrifying, but His Highness King Chu, what the hell is Songtsen Gampo?It has long been history, and now the king of Tubo is said to be named Li.

Bai Fan stepped forward and said: "What I mean by preparing for war is not that we invade Tubo, but that we defend the Tang Dynasty. If the city of Yufu is destroyed, the hundred thousand thunderbolts in the city may fall into the enemy's hands. From then on, Tubo will be able to deal with it." Great Tang's weapons will cause heavy losses in future wars."

Li Er woke up suddenly, didn't he, he forgot about it in a hurry.

"The most serious thing is not the [-] thunderbolts. I am confident that they will not dare to imitate them. Although the [-] is too much, when it is used up, the most terrifying thing is drugs."

"What? How many drugs do they have? Can they still poison me, Da Tang?" Li Er didn't believe it.

"Hehe, I don't know how much, but with this addictive thing, no matter whether it is a poor beggar or a rich bureaucrat, no one can resist poisoning and addiction. Estimated by loss.

If it is in my hands, we don’t need to send out our army, as long as we plant land and do business, then as long as I think about it, I will be enslaved from the east to the country of Wa and the west to Daqin. "

I... Li Er has the urge to scold your mother, you bastards in Tubo, why did you come up with such a big killer?What if Bai Fan wants to be an emperor on a whim one day?
The officials below are afraid to speak anymore, Lan Tianhou is no longer arrogant, he is simply invincible in the world while talking and laughing.

"Your Majesty, what kind of eyes do you have? Could it be that you can't trust me?"

Li Er said awkwardly: "Where is it? How could it be? Don't I know your skills? If you want power, why do you need such obscene methods?"

Bai Fan rolled his eyes, I believe you are a ghost.

"That's right, I already had something like poppies in my hand, but I just thought it would hurt the peace of the world, so I didn't show it to others. Unexpectedly, the enemy got there first, so I can't blame me for being cruel."

"Okay, okay, I will give you an order to allocate ten thousand mu of fertile land to you, and I will sell it outside if you make an idea."

I... I don't seem to mean that, besides, aren't I studying revenge at this time?
"Bastard Erlang, your third brother's life or death is uncertain, what are you doing?" Sure enough, old Li Yuan began to curse.

　Today's Chapter 2, thank you for your support.

　　
　
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