Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 710 Already had the means
The leader held a sharp blade and rushed forward. When he saw Yuan Xi holding a ring-shou knife in a posture of accepting the challenge, he couldn't help but secretly exclaimed that the opportunity was rare.

He was born as a Yellow Turban thief in Qingzhou. He licked blood from the tip of his sword and fought hard for more than ten years. It can be said that he has extremely rich experience in fighting enemies. Therefore, a quick look at Yuan Xi's sword-holding posture showed that he was no match for him.

One on one, I will kill him even if I die!

Sun Li chased after him in a hurry and slashed at the leader's head with his sword. The leader turned his body to one side and Sun Li's sword hit his shoulder armor, causing him to stagger.

However, the leader held back the pain, accelerated his body again, and thrust the ring-shou knife straight into Yuan Xi's lower abdomen. If the knife had hit hard, Yuan Xi would have been seriously injured even if he was wearing armor!

Yuan Xi waved his sword to block, and the two swords intersected, instantly distinguishing the superior and the superior. The leader twisted his arm and twisted Yuan Xi's ring-head sword away, exposing the empty space in his chest.

Yuan Xi took two steps back, and his chest was exposed. When the leader saw it, he felt happy, shook his arms, and stabbed straight with the sword again!

Seeing that Yuan Xi had no way to escape, and the leader was about to succeed with his sword, Yuan Xi suddenly disappeared!
The leader was stunned for a moment. When he saw a dark gap in the wall, he realized that there was a hidden door on the wall behind Yuan Xi!

Now that the door was open, Yuan Xi flipped in, leaving only a slight gap. The leader rushed in without even thinking, but saw the door slam shut, trapping his body.

Just as the leader was about to struggle, he felt a light touch on his arm, and then severe pain came. He shivered and retracted his hand, only to find that both of his arms had been cut off by the person behind the door!

He screamed, but Sun Li had already caught up with him and struck the leader with his sword horizontally, hitting him on the back of the head and knocking him to the ground.

When the group of assassins saw their leader facing such an end, they hurriedly fled in all directions, only to find that Youzhou sergeants were coming from all directions. In just a moment, these assassins were dead and captured, and none of them escaped.

At this time, Yuan Xi came out of the lower door. Looking at the assassins who were tied up on the ground, he thought, just because these people dared to assassinate himself, who had been tortured several times by Yang Feng, was he looking down on others?
After experiencing several life-and-death assassinations by Yang Feng in the Black Mountains, he had already summed up a set of experiences. He was much less courageous than Sun Ce. Even though he didn't have many guards around him, in fact, on his route, there were Many secret guards have been deployed in advance and various plans have been made to deal with today's situation.

Just like this time, the other party unexpectedly made a surprise attack outside his mansion. Everyone was very particular about the place where Yuan Xi was protected. There was a well-made secret door, and the outside was flush with the wall, and at the same time It's disguised, so if you're not inside, you won't be able to tell at all.

As soon as Sun Li issued a warning, the guards inside the mansion had already sensed the vicinity of the secret door and opened it, allowing Yuan Xi to retreat.

The main reason why Yuan Xi seduced the opponent's leader was to catch him alive. As expected, the opponent was fooled and rushed to pursue Yuan Xi who retreated behind the wall. His hands were cut off without even a chance to commit suicide.

After all the assassins were taken away by the Youzhou army, Yuan Xi entered the secret door, helped Lu Lingqi off the horse, and blamed: "Why did you rush out on your own? The enemy tricked you into using poison on your weapon. What if you were injured?" manage?"

Lu Lingqi moved her arms and said, "Don't you see that the situation outside is urgent? Who knows that your husband has a backup plan?"

"It seems that I have lived in this mansion for a long time, but I have never thought about why there are always several guards guarding this place. It turns out to be a secret door."

Yuan Xi smiled and said: "The cunning rabbit has three holes and leaves no escape route. If he makes the same mistake as Sun Bofu, he will regret it."

Lu Lingqi led the horse and walked towards the gate of the mansion with Yuan Xi, saying bitterly: "This assassin is probably sent by Cao Cao!"

"Speaking of which, this person is really disgusting. He uses such vile things!"

Yuan Xi smiled and said: "It doesn't matter. We are fighting life and death on the battlefield, and we will do everything we can off the field. Since we have become mortal enemies, of course we will think of these methods."

Lu Lingqi said unwillingly: "Is that the end of it?
Yuan Xi smiled: "Don't worry, I won't use my dead soldiers like this, but I have my own means."

Lu Lingqi looked confused, but Yuan Xi didn't say much. In fact, he had already taken action, but some methods were beyond the imagination of people in this era.

Xun You and Chen Qun were right to suspect that one of Yuan Xi's dirty tricks was to dump a large amount of honey at low prices in Yanzhou, where Cao Cao was located.

In this era, sugar was an extremely expensive luxury product, and candied fruits and malt candies made from sugar were also precious foods that only nobles could afford. Yuan Shu was very fond of honey, and Cao Cao and others were no exception.

Even judging from later records about the Three Kingdoms era, Cao Cao had high requirements for fine food. If he encountered exquisitely prepared food, he would definitely feast on it.

Youzhou produces honey and Xuzhou produces sugar cane. Candied honey can be made in both places. Through the Zhenjia Chamber of Commerce, Yuan Xi improved the sugar production process and made better quality sugar. Then, through the channels of the Zhenjia Trading Road, It was sold to Yanzhou, Yuzhou and other places at a lower price.

Of course, this so-called low-priced sugar is not affordable for ordinary people, and will eventually flow into the hands of wealthy families, and Cao Cao is certainly no exception.

So after tasting cheap and delicious honey, almost no one in this era can resist this temptation, and because the price is relatively reasonable, they will form the habit of eating sugar.

This kind of habit is fine for others, but it is very troublesome for Cao Cao's family.When Yuan Xi rescued Cao Song in Xuzhou, he felt that he seemed to be a little fat, but he didn't pay much attention to it. It was not until people who heard Cao Pi said that Cao Pi liked to eat sweets and was fat that he began to vaguely grasp it. Some ideas.

Combining the rumors that Cao Cao often had headaches, as well as the living habits and short life records of later generations of Cao Pi, Cao Rui and others, an idea gradually took shape in Yuan Xi's mind.

According to the archaeological results of Cao Cao's tomb, Cao Cao suffered from severe dental caries and periodontitis. In ancient times, there was only one possibility most of the time, which was that he ate too much sugar.

Cao Cao had a bad temper and had hallucinations before his death. His persistent headaches may have been caused by high blood pressure, which are consistent with complications of diabetes.

Cao Pi’s record is even more typical. He likes to eat sweets, especially candied stone honey. According to records, this is to relieve thirst and relieve thirst. Thirst and boredom are both clinical manifestations of diabetes. Such symptoms include thirst, polyuria, Metabolic disorder is a prominent feature, so diabetes was called "diabetes syndrome" in ancient times.

Another record is that after Cao Pi succeeded to the throne, his character gradually became crazy. He only lived to be 39 before he died. He even killed many important officials of Cao Wei a few years before his death. His behavior was almost crazy. No one in the civil and military dynasties dared to do so. Word.

This behavior highly overlaps with Cao Cao's irritable and irritable characteristics, and both are very similar to complications of a certain disease, which points to a possibility.

Cao Cao has a direct family history of diabetes.

This is most likely the reason why the descendants of Cao Cao are shorter-lived than the previous generation, so that the Cao family was finally taken advantage of by the long-lived Sima family and was cut off.

Yuan Xi is not someone who just tolerates losses, so although the methods he uses are a steady stream of work, they are more insidious.

As long as the Cao Cao family develops the habit of eating a lot of sweets, over time, the Cao Cao family will become irritable, short-lived, and end prematurely.

This kind of related knowledge is incomprehensible to people of this era, so no matter how Xun You and Chen Qun checked, they found nothing wrong in the honey, because Yuan Xi had never tampered with it.

As long as he provides a continuous supply of honey to Yanzhou, it is equivalent to sending this kind of chronic poison to the Cao family openly and openly into the population of the Cao Cao family.

Although Cao Cao lived to be 55 in later generations, which was considered a long life at that time, what if he consumed several times more honey?
Yuan Xi did not tell Lu Lingqi and others because it was not necessary for everyone to know about it, not because he felt psychological burden about it.

On the contrary, after fighting with Cao Cao many times, Yuan Xi has understood that he and Cao Cao have the same purpose, so there is no possibility of reconciliation between the two, and the final outcome can only be life and death.

He and Lu Lingqi returned to the mansion. When the girls heard that Yuan Xi had been assassinated, they were all panic-stricken. Yuan Xi comforted them with a few words and persuaded them to go back to their rooms, but Zhen Mi and Lu Lingqi stayed.

He said to Zhen Mi: "I will secretly go south in a few days, and everything in the house will be left to you."

Zhen Mi quickly agreed, and then heard Yuan Xi say: "Before this, I will release the news of the assassination and injury to confuse the enemy."

"Among Youzhou officials, there must be some who are working carefully. They will take advantage of the visit to find out the information. It is impossible for me to arrest them for interrogation, so I can only find someone to pretend to be injured. I hope that my wife will hide the information with the female family members of the house. , so as not to reveal any flaws in front of others.”

Only then did Zhen Mi understand Yuan Xi's intention and whispered: "Don't worry, husband, I will discuss it with all the ladies one by one and try not to show up."

Yuan Xi sighed: "This is the only thing we can do now. I have to wrong you for a while. If everything goes well, it won't delay so much time as last time."

He saw Lu Lingqi who was hesitant to speak and said, "I know I can't persuade you."

"So if you come with me this time, how much revenge you can take on Marquis Wen depends on fate."

Lu Lingqi listened and nodded heavily.

Soon, the news that Yuan Xi was stabbed with a poisonous arrow and was seriously injured in bed spread throughout Jicheng, causing quite a commotion.

After all, although Zhao Yun is the shepherd of Youzhou, the entire Jicheng knows that Yuan Xi is the backbone of Youzhou. If something happens to him, where will Youzhou go?

However, the next day, Zhao Yun, who had rushed back from Bingzhou, appeared in front of everyone and said that Yuan Xi's injury was not serious, and that all Youzhou affairs would be temporarily handled by Zhao Yun. The officials and people in Jicheng were relieved.

However, some people have become active. Yuan Xi's condition is unknown. Will Zhao Yun take the opportunity to seize power?

So many people came to Yuan Xi's house to visit him with various thoughts, hoping to see Yuan Xi's true appearance.

(End of this chapter)