Daming kill

As Liu Rushi expected, there was no accident at Li Ping's wedding, and Zhang Kuang also embarked on the journey out of Sichuan smoothly.

When Zhang Kuang left, many people came to see him off, including the newly married couple Li Ping.

Seeing Zhang Kuang's disappearing figure and Zhang Yingjiu waving again, Zhao Lanyue poked Li Ping and said, "Isn't it a little risky for you to just let him go?"

Zhao Lanyue knew that Li Ping had no illusions about subduing Zhang Kuang.

Zhang Kuang is not an ordinary scholar, he is an official of the Ming Dynasty with a real job, he belongs to the vested interest group of the Ming Dynasty, and as an official who once lost land, he was finally appointed by the emperor to the position of the army supervisor, so it can be said that he is deeply favored by the emperor .

Then Zhang Kuang himself has a responsible and upright character.

For such a person, the possibility of betraying Daming is extremely low.

This is also proved by Zhang Kuang's series of actions after the fall of Mianyang in Renzhizhou.

And through this period of getting along, Li Ping also believes that the clever Zhang Kuang must have discovered something.

But Li Ping still agreed that Zhang Kuang should leave his control, and in order to ensure Zhang Kuang's safety along the way, he also formed a guard team composed of hundreds of elite officers and soldiers, and the captain of the guard team was Ma Lan.

Ma Lan is also just married, and his new wife Zhang Ying is very reluctant.

Li Ping hesitated for a long time on the choice of the captain of the guard, but still felt that Ma Lan was the most suitable.

"It's a bit risky, but Zhang Kuang is not a pedantic person. And I respect him very much, and I don't want to go to the point of life and death with him one day. Now that he is gone, it may be good for us. I just hope he won't come back." Li Ping sighed Said in a sigh of relief.

Li Ping really appreciates Zhang Kuang, but his way is different, so he can't appreciate it any more!
At this time, Zhang Kuang happened to look back again, and his mood was also very complicated.

Zhang Kuang didn't know if it was right or wrong for him to leave at this time?I don't know what to do in the future?
He is 33 years old, in his prime, and has a long way to go.

He was also even more confused when he saw that sick, consumptive, ghost-like guy in rough clothes who deliberately dragged behind him continued on the horse, smirking back and waving at the same time unnecessary.

The sick tuberculosis ghost was Huang Chengdong, the hero who killed Zhang Xianzhong.

In fact, Huang Chengdong didn't come to attend Li Ping's wedding on purpose, and it was too late to send him a notice.

Not long after this guy brought the troops to Chongqing, he came to Chengdu alone, saying that he wanted to listen to Li Ping's teachings and carry out a major transformation of his entire army, and then happened to catch up with Li Ping's wedding.

Zhang Kuang didn't know much about Huang Chengdong.

He only knew that Huang Chengdong was Fang Guoan's subordinate, and that after Li Ping killed Fang Wuke, he ran away for fear of being punished by Fang Guoan, but he didn't know anything else.

Huang Chengdong's past seems simple.

Although he didn't know much, Zhang Kuang still didn't like this sick and consumptive guy very much, and he was also full of worries about Li Ping sending this sick and consumptive ghost to Chongqing.

However, because Huang Chengdong had the real feat of killing Zhang Xianzhong, and was said by Li Ping that he had repented before the Baishui War and communicated with the officers and soldiers secretly, and then after the Baishui War, Li Ping deliberately released him. Zhang Kuang couldn't say anything about Zhang Xianzhong's internal response.

After realizing that Zhang Kuang was looking at him, Huang Chengdong immediately gave Zhang Kuang a flattering smile.

Although Zhang Kuang felt uncomfortable, he politely replied with a stiff smirk to the guy who beheaded Zhang Xianzhong, and then turned around quickly.

But not long after, the figure behind him should have disappeared, and Huang Chengdong appeared in Zhang Kuang's sight again.

But this time, Huang Chengdong rode his horse around Ma Lan to get acquainted and talk to him.

This made Zhang Kuang think again.

Zhang Kuang knew that Malan had stopped serving in the reconnaissance force a long time ago, so there shouldn't be much interaction between him and Huang Chengdong.

Unless they knew each other before!
Zhang Kuang felt that the relationship between Li Ping and Huang Chengdong must not be that simple.

He remembered that at Li Ping's wedding, Huang Chengdong had approached Song Baolai's wife Qian Ying with a flattering smile and Qian Ying's awkward face of not knowing what to do, and he also remembered Zhang Ying's almost undisguised dislike for Huang Chengdong.

Zhang Kuang's mind turned quickly, and he realized at that time that these two women and Huang Chengdong definitely had more than just acquaintance.

But how did they know each other?Zhang Kuang was very confused.

Then look at the current Huang Chengdong and Ma Lan, they are definitely not an ordinary relationship, Zhang Kuang can't do it without thinking too much.

Plus Ma Lan and Ma Yong, Zhang Qing and Zhang Ying, Qian Ying, Zhao Lanyue's closest secretary Zhuang Ting, and Song Baolai.

Yes, there is also that Shi Lei who always makes people very uncomfortable. His new marriage is simply the original maid beside Zhao Lanyue.

And Han Jiu, not only married the female official next to Zhao Lanyue, but also heard that Zhao Lanyue was the matchmaker.

This is a strange big net.

However, Zhang Kuang's meditation did not continue, because soon there were people around him.

Those were two barbarians.

Lisi and Anwensi.

They all survived the war.

However, although both Li Leisi and An Wensi expressed their high admiration for Li Ping and their great obsession with Li Ping's army, which was very different from Ming Dynasty's scientific culture, they really wanted to stay in Sichuan and Li Ping's army, but they were met by Li Ping's army. Ping sternly refused.

Li Ping firmly asked Li Leisi and An Wensi to leave on the grounds that he did not want the soldiers and civilians to believe in the religion of the barbarians.

In this regard, Li Ping is surprisingly not enlightened.

At the same time, Li Ping strangely did not show any surprise or interest in the scientific knowledge and novelty objects of these two barbarians.

However, Zhang Kuang is not surprised by these.

After being in Li Ping's army for a long time, the things of Li Leisi and An Wensi are really hard to find novelty.

What surprised Zhang Kuang was that Li Ping could distinguish the nationality of these two barbarians. Although this is not rare in Ming Dynasty, it is definitely rare. The key point is that Li Ping is still a general.

Moreover, Li Ping's army is currently promoting the use of Pinyin, which is similar to the Yi people's characters, to mark the unified pronunciation.

This is even more strange.

Sure enough, Li Leisi and An Wensi also expressed their curiosity about these issues. They wanted to find out about Zhang Kuang, who had been in Li Ping's army for a long time.

Li Leisi and An Wensi have been in Daming for many years and are well versed in the situation of Daming.

And in order to facilitate missionary work to cling to the powerful, they also let them know the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, the status and influence of civil officials in the Ming Dynasty, and Zhang Kuang's identity and status.

Of course, in this team, they couldn't find anyone to talk to except Zhang Kuang.

But before, Lilesi and An Wensi rarely had the opportunity to get in touch with Zhang Kuang, and Zhang Kuang did not have enough interest in them, or Zhang Kuang didn't have the energy to talk to them at the time.

"China is a big country, and there are many talented people. Some things have never been heard or seen, but it doesn't mean that there are none. It's just that many of them have been included in unscientific miscellaneous studies and have not been disseminated or recorded. That's okay. But strange!

General Zheng Zei and the others happen to like miscellaneous learning, and they also like to collect miscellaneous learning. In addition, General Zheng Zei is the leader of an army, which makes miscellaneous learning particularly prosperous here. Zhang Kuang explained with uncertainty in his heart.

This statement is actually Li Ping's explanation.

Li Ping did not say that he, Song Baolai, and the others worked out all the things that were beyond this era or the scope of science and culture in the Ming Dynasty, or were created under the leadership of them.

In fact, Li Ping made up a fictional history for most of the super-classic things, and even changed the names of some formulas involving Western names.

Moreover, in order to reflect rationality, some of the descriptions of nature, astronomy, and medicine are deliberately wrong, and then they are discovered and corrected or waited to be corrected later.

A generally reasonable explanation is actually very critical, at least it can save a lot of trouble.

Of course, whether others believe it or not is another matter.

Zhang Kuang respected Li Leisi and An Wensi, which was also the attitude of many literati in Ming Dynasty towards Westerners who had mastered modern scientific and cultural knowledge.

Although the Ming Dynasty was conservative, at the same time it was very open-minded, and it was not as outrageously arrogant as the Manchu Qing Dynasty, including that many Ming people knew that the nationalities of Westerners were different.

"Zhang Jianjun, I heard that you are also very interested in medicine. I'm curious what this willow tree is? Literally, it seems to be related to willow trees. Do you know? Willow tree saved my life, this is a god Medicine!" Lisisi took advantage of the opportunity to open a new topic entry point.

Lilesi was frightened by the chaos on the day Zhang Xianzhong was killed, and then developed a fever, but soon recovered after being fed a white powder called Liugan by Li Ping's army who captured him.

This shocked Lillies deeply.

Afterwards, I was even more shocked when I witnessed Li Ping's army's extremely high cure rate for all kinds of wounded, especially a large number of astonishing surgical treatments, and Li Ping's army's rare incidence of malaria in Sichuan, a place with a very high incidence of malaria. .

Since he was once in Zhang Xianzhong's army, Li Leisi clearly knew the troubles that malaria brought to Zhang Xianzhong's army from outside.

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Then they were simply numb!

Countless unheard of almost overwhelming.

"Oh, this is a new medicine, but it's also an old medicine. The material is willow. It was extracted from willow by the director Gao of the hospital some time ago. It is much more convenient than using willow bark directly. , and more effective. I heard that they have failed many times in order to extract Liu Gan." Zhang Kuang said without concealing.

Zhang Kuang had seen the announcement of the successful production of willow ganja and the understanding and comparative experiments on the efficacy of willow ganja in his favorite "Health Knowledge".

But knowing that willow ganache comes from willow bark, he found out later.

It's not much of a secret.

In fact, almost all ancient civilizations have records of using willow bark to treat diseases, but modern Europeans have to wait more than 100 years to realize the efficacy of willow bark.

On April 1763, 4, the British pastor Edward Stone sent a long letter to Earl Macclesfield, president of the Royal Society, in which he mentioned his research on willow bark.

Then this letter mentioning the efficacy of willow bark was published in the "Proceedings of Natural Science".

Why is this letter so valued in Europe.

Because the active ingredient of willow bark is salicylic acid.

And what is salicylic acid?
If aspirin is mentioned, it is estimated that no one will not know it.

And its crude product extraction method is not complicated.

Wash and disinfect a large amount of willow bark, cut into small pieces, soak in water, heat to boiling, keep for 20 to 30 minutes, filter out impurities such as bark while hot and continue heating the remaining solution until white crystals appear at the bottom of the solution. Heating, and then putting the solution in cold water to cool down, the white crystals obtained are crude salicylic acid.

This method looks simple, but it is not as simple as separating a layer of window paper.

It took Gao Lei a lot of time to get it.

Gao Lei, who was frustrated in love, became more and more closed, and at the same time devoted almost all her energy to medicine.

And the successful extraction of Liugan is undoubtedly another revolutionary progress for Daming.

Its importance cannot be overstated.

Whether it is its extraction process or the method of comparative experiments to verify the efficacy of the drug, it has once again opened a new window for the development of medicine on the land of China in this era.

"So that's the case, can you introduce it in detail? I believe that Liu Gan will save countless lives in the future." Li Leisi said excitedly.

As for the Chinese people's use of willow bark as medicine and the efficacy of willow bark, Lexy still knows something about it.

But don't know much.

Due to the lack of understanding of willow bark in China, the use of willow bark is not standardized, the actual use effect is very unstable, and there are many other flowers and plants that can provide similar or similar medicinal effects, the medicinal effect of willow bark is naturally not correct know.

It is even more difficult for Lisi Si, a foreigner who sees that Chinese medicine is full of various flowers and plants and has many overlapping functions, to pay special attention to willow bark.

But Zhang Kuang knew that he knew no more than Leslie, because he saw that Leslie was holding a set of "Health Knowledge" in his hand.And An Wensi is also full of excitement, holding the anatomical drawing of blood vessels in the whole body of the human body and the drawing of human bones and muscles.

The anatomical drawing of blood vessels in the whole body of the human body was recently completed by the very controversial butcher doctor in Li Pingjun.

This person is said to be of extremely bad character and greedy.

But he was bold and flexible, and finally won a reward of as much as 1000 taels of silver for this achievement.

Gao Lei, who was born as a doctor, has a big plan. She wants to complete the Chinese version of "The Structure of the Human Body", which is more abundant, so as to put the development of Chinese medicine on the fast track.

For Gao Lei's plan, Li Ping naturally agreed with both hands, and offered a very high reward, which made many surgeons who became monks flock to it.

And these studies have greatly promoted the development of Li Pingjun's surgical techniques and the ability to heal the wounded in terms of short-term benefits.

For these research results, Li Ping did not keep all the research results in his hands. He adopted the method of publishing and publishing to spread them, so that more people can understand them, make more people interested, and let more people participate together. .

If any knowledge cannot form a system, an audience group, or the ability for sustainable development, it will only stand still or disappear in the end, just like countless leading scientific achievements in Chinese history, which are only short-lived.

Since many technical books, including stylistic textbooks, are open, Li Ping naturally did not prohibit the two foreigners from reading them, and even gave them a copy of each.

Anyway, there was nothing else going on along the way, the two foreigners lacked someone to communicate with, and Zhang Kuang, who had become more and more isolated, was no exception, so they soon had a happy chat.

Entering Sichuan is difficult, but exiting Sichuan is very fast.

Especially after starting to take the boat, Zhang Kuang arrived in Chongqing very quickly.

In Chongqing, Zhang Kuang's entourage reminded Zhang Kuang to take a detour to visit the veteran Qin Liangyu, and use her huge influence in Sichuan to unite more people who care about Daming to check and balance Li Ping.

But Zhang Kuang just vetoed it with a slight heartbeat.

Unlike Yang Zhan, who was writing letters before he left, Qin Liangyu was already 70 years old, and his physical condition was already very poor. His confidant and backbone were completely lost when he resisted Zhang Xianzhong's entry into Sichuan, so he could not play much role.

And even though Li Ping asked Huang Chengdong to garrison Chongqing and found reasons to transfer Zeng Ying away, he also strongly invited Qin Liangyu to stay in Chongqing.

But Qin Liangyu returned to the stone pillar that he had lived for many years on the grounds that his body was old.

In this case, it is of little significance for Zhang Kuang to go to Qin Liangyu again, and he will make many problems public.

So Zhang Kuang didn't stop, and continued to leave Sichuan.