Whose little lady is so crazy?

Chapter 357 See what you can do

Outside the hall, Hong Xiaoduo and Kaiyang did not dare to go too far and just strolled nearby.

"Mom, you are doing this for the good of Fengliang Country, but they are so ungrateful that they act as if you have ruined their good plans." Kaiyang complained sullenly.

"Actually, it's not all their fault, because they don't know the harm of that thing." Hong Xiaoduo said as they walked.

Kaiyang looked up at her, wanting to ask her how she knew that, and if she had seen it with her own eyes.

But then I thought, my mother is very powerful. She knows a lot of things that even Master and Sister Feiyan don’t know.

So, it’s normal to say that you know about opium now.

More than an hour later, Hong Xiaoduo was still thinking that if she had lunch in the palace later, she should not think about the situation in the morning.

The next moment, a eunuch came trotting over and said that the people who had gone out to investigate in the palace had returned and the emperor had also returned to the palace.

Coming back? Hong Xiaoduo and Kaiyang smiled at each other and chatted so much that they didn't even notice what was happening at the palace gate.

When the adult and the child walked into the hall, there were a few more people inside.

"Okay, you can tell me now," said the emperor.

The person in charge of this matter was Yue Wenchao, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice. After watching Hong Xiaoduo and Kaiyang sit down, he said, "Reporting to Your Majesty, Your Majesty has ordered me to investigate the matter. I have already checked the three drugstores in the capital and found that a total of six people bought opium multiple times.

The person who bought it the earliest is the one who has been buying it for five years. The remaining five people, two of them have been buying it for four years, one has been buying it for three years, one has been buying it for two years, and one started buying it at the beginning of summer this year.

Because opium was expensive and a foreign product, these people greeted the owner of the drugstore and asked him to keep some for them next time. Therefore, they took the initiative to leave their addresses and names with the drugstore.

Of the six people, only the first person who bought opium bought it because he broke his thigh while riding a horse. The first fracture was not properly fixed. After it healed, he found out that he had to change doctors, who broke the dislocated part and reconnected it. The pain was unbearable, so he bought it.

"What is the current condition of these six people, physically, emotionally and so on?" Minister Cao asked anxiously.

"The man who has been buying opium for five years is Shi Chenyu, the third son of Shi Tianfu, a large grain producer. He is 46 years old. When I saw him, he was so thin that his bones were visible. The hungry refugees in the northwest a few years ago were not as scary as him.

His face was yellow, his eyes were dull, and he looked several years older than his father. He seemed quite impatient when he saw me. When his father was seeing me off, he kept apologizing, saying that his son was like this because of his old leg injury.

One of the two people who had been buying opium for four years was Liu Baohua’s grandson, Liu Pengyang, 23 years old. He first took opium because he had a toothache. He heard from others that opium could cure toothache, so he tried it and it really worked. After that, he would take that stuff whenever he had a toothache...” Yue Wenchao explained in detail the reasons why the six people first came into contact with opium and their current conditions.

After he finished speaking, everyone, except the emperor, looked at Hong Xiaoduo in surprise.

"Your Majesty, after my investigation, I found that what Miss Hong said before was true. Taking opium can really make people addicted and change their temperament.

According to people close to these people, after taking opium, they enjoyed a comfortable and ecstatic feeling. However, once the opium was out of stock and could not be found, the originally filial ones would disobey their elders and relatives, and the originally gentle and refined young men would become violent and attack their wives and children.

Now, even though these six people were found, that is because they are expensive and their number is extremely small.

Therefore, we really can’t buy this stuff from the Kingdom of Poppy anymore. Its harm is no less than the Hanshi Powder that was banned in the previous dynasty. It can even be said to be worse than Hanshi Powder. Otherwise, if it continues for a long time, more and more people will be infected with this stuff, and the consequences will be disastrous if it spreads. What’s more, the prescriptions for treating diarrhea and pain in the doctors of our Fengliang Kingdom do not necessarily include opium…” Yue Wenchao said worriedly.

After hearing what Yue Wenchao said, Hong Xiaoduo almost gave him a thumbs up on the spot. After all, he was from the Ministry of Justice. The emperor only asked him to investigate, but he not only observed carefully, but also analyzed the problem and thought of the consequences. Moreover, what he said was more convincing to the people present here than what he said himself.

Hong Xiaoduo looked around again and saw that the emperor and the other officials all had serious expressions on their faces. It seemed that they had really heard what he said.

After Yue Wenchao finished speaking, his gaze fell on Hong Xiaoduo again. To be honest, when he received the emperor's order, he was very confused. Why did the emperor suddenly order him to investigate such a matter?
Thinking that today is the day to negotiate trade with foreign envoys, and opium is produced by the country of poppy, but I have heard that the other party has been raising the price every year, could it be that this time they want to find some shortcomings of opium and bring down the price?

Those who served the emperor were all good at observing people's words and expressions. They saw that Yue Wenchao was confused, but they also knew that Yue Wenchao would not ask questions, so they took the initiative to speak and roughly explained the reason.

Yue Wenchao personally witnessed the case of a dancer in a music hall being tortured to death. Because of Hong Xiaoduo's ability, the real murderer was found before the three courts even held a formal trial.

Therefore, it was because of her that Yue Wenchao learned about this matter, and he did not doubt her at all.

This time's mission was completely different from the previous ones. How to describe it? Let's just say that if he didn't know that this matter was caused by her, then he was just doing his job rigorously.

But knowing that this matter was caused by her, it was completely different. Although she still had to do her job rigorously, there was something else. It was no longer a simple job of diligently carrying out the task assigned by the emperor, but she felt a little excited and a little curious.

It's like being involved in uncovering the truth that confirms something, a truth that most people don't believe and question.

Some things become special just because you participate in them!

When he followed the list provided by the pharmacy, checked one by one, witnessed the condition of people who frequently used opioids, and learned about other changes, he immediately realized the seriousness of the problem.

Therefore, when he reported to the emperor just now, he did not follow the procedure and simply report the results of his investigation truthfully and call it a day, but he also expressed the dangers and impacts he felt.

In other words, he was standing on the side of Hong Xiaoduo.

This is not only about trusting her, but also about trusting that your own judgment is correct.

"Your Majesty, if this is true, then the Opium Country is too evil and too immoral. They use this thing to harm us and raise the price every year." Minister Cao believed it and was also annoyed.

“That’s not necessarily true. Perhaps, up to now, they themselves have not felt that this thing is harmful, because many nobles in their country are using it, and they just simply want to make money from our Fengliang country.

However, if we want to know the truth, we have to ask them. "Hong Xiaoduo couldn't help but speak when she saw Lord Cao's angry look.

"How can we ask this? I guess they won't tell the truth even if we ask them." The Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites frowned slightly.

Hearing this, Hong Xiaoduo smiled and said, "Whether he will tell the truth or not, we can only know after asking him. As long as we ask the right person, it will be fine."

When they heard her say that, with that tone and that look, several adults couldn't help but murmur in their hearts, "You're not young, but your tone is strong. Look at what you can do..."

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