Chastity Layman

  Chapter 381 Wealth disease

  Ma Zhou ate a meal in Duke Wei's mansion, and ate on the porch, surrounded by a small stove, drinking old rice wine, and eating kebabs, which was very comfortable. The only regret was that Qin Lang didn't make him happy.

   He only drank three cups of wine, and only ate two skewers of meat.

   "When did you become so petty?" Ma Zhou was dissatisfied. The relationship between the two is extraordinary, Qin Lang is kind to him, without Qin Lang's discovery and recommendation, he, Ma Zhou, is still a down-and-out scholar who travels in Chang'an poorly and can't even pay for the hotel room and drinks.

  He'll always remember that, though he'll never say it.

   "You've lost a lot of weight recently."

"That's why I need to eat more meat and drink more wine." Ma Zhou reached out to get the skewers again. The mutton skewers were roasted with willow branches. One skewer consisted of two or three pieces of meat, with mutton tail oil sandwiched between the meat pieces. Put it on the charcoal fire, rinse with oil, sprinkle some pepper and cumin Fuliu vine, the outside is burnt brown, and the inside is red and tender. The most important thing is that it is tender and juicy. It bursts in the mouth after a bite, not to mention how fat it is.

   After eating one skewer, Ma Zhou thought he could eat more than a dozen skewers in one go.

  Qin Lang's craftsmanship is as good as ever.

  But when did this guy become so stingy?

"Have you become more and more thirsty recently, have you urinated more, and most importantly, are you unable to do what you want now? It's hard to score twice with a beauty in your arms Bar?"

   Ma Zhou was a little dazed when he said this.

"I said Saburo, you are not very righteous, I know you are the first governor, even if you have been away for a long time, Wei Chang and Lin San still have a good relationship with you, but you don't need to stare at me, right? "

  Qin Lang shook his head.

"I'm not spying on you. What I said is just my speculation about you. I told you earlier that you already have the symptoms of diabetes. It's a chronic disease. To put it bluntly, you have The same organ is damaged and it is difficult to function. This organ is originally responsible for absorbing and transforming the blood sugar in the human body. When it is damaged, the blood sugar in your body cannot be effectively absorbed and transformed, so it will accumulate, and the blood sugar is high. lead to diabetes."

  Ma Zhou was confused.

   "Blood sugar? Diabetes? Could it be that the blood in the human body still contains sugar, and there is sugar in the urine when you have this disease?"

  Qin Lang smiled helplessly.

"This is a medical term. I'm just telling you that your thirst has worsened now. You must control it, otherwise the consequences will become more and more serious. You are still unable to do what you want, but at least once every three to five days. It's still possible."

"But if you continue like this, your waist won't work, and you won't be able to harden. Also, is your eyesight getting worse now? But this is just the beginning. If you don't control it well, you will go blind. And rotten feet."

   Ma Zhou couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle, "Are you kidding me?"

  Qin Lang had told him about this several times before, and he also went to the imperial doctor, and it was indeed diabetes, but for this symptom, the imperial doctors were also helpless, they could only say that it could only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.

  Ma Zhou didn't pay much attention to it, after all, this disease is just a chronic disease, not as severe as a sudden illness.

   "In your situation, you can only shut up, move your legs, eat less, eat more, exercise more, especially drink less alcohol and eat less fat, and don't drink porridge..."

  Ma Zhou was in a heavy heart.

   After all, he is still so young, and now he has won the trust of the emperor, so he has a bright future.

   "Don't put too much pressure on you. As long as you control yourself, you can control the disease. Then there is no problem in living to the age of eighty or ninety. It's just that you may be less powerful in the room in the future."

   "I won't eat. From now on, I will wake up every morning to exercise, and I will never stay up late again." Ma Zhou sighed.

  Qin Lang chuckled. He didn't believe that Ma Zhou could really do what he said, but he probably would pay more attention to it in the future.

  He picked up two sheep eggs, skillfully cut them open, and baked them on a wire rack.

   "You can always eat sheep's eggs?" Ma Zhou asked.

  He liked to eat this, but now that he heard that his glory would be damaged, he had to eat it even more.

   "It's best not to eat it." Qin Lang said.

  The roasted sheep eggs were delicious, and Qin Lang ate them with relish, while Ma Zhou sat on the side with a sad face.

  The wine is no longer fragrant, and the barbecue is not fragrant anymore.

  When Ma Zhou left, he was a bit lonely.

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   "Yesterday Ma Zhou went to your house, and when he came back he was dazed. What did you say to him? Why did he suffer such a blow?"

  In the Hall of Liangyi.

   Li Shimin questioned Qin Lang very rudely.

  So Qin Lang had no choice but to tell the emperor that Ma Zhou was sick and needed to recuperate.

   "Is this true?"

   "The imperial doctor can prove that what I said is true."

  The emperor now likes Ma Zhou very much, and Ma Zhou is very handy. He can be said to be the emperor's personal secretary, the imperial assistant, and he can't live without him for a moment.

   "I didn't expect Ma Zhou to suffer from such a stubborn disease at such a young age. I gave Ma Zhou a half-year vacation and asked him to go back to his hometown in Hebei Province to visit his relatives. It can be regarded as a return home, repairing the ancestral grave and house, and recuperating in his hometown for a period of time."

"Your Majesty, in fact, Bachelor Ma's illness has a lot to do with his eating and resting habits. He used to drink a lot, and when he was traveling, he always liked to have a full meal and a hungry meal, and he often overeat. I don’t like sports very much, and stay up late at night, so this person’s qi flow is not smooth, yin and yang are out of balance, and finally his body is in chaos.”

   "His condition is worsening now. First, he is more busy with official duties. Second, he is also unrestrained in his diet. Good wine and good meat have exacerbated his symptoms."

  In fact, people can't eat too well.

   If you eat too well and cannot consume it, then there will be problems in the body, ranging from poor flow to blockage in severe cases.

  The reason why there are more people with the three highs in later generations is because the standard of living has improved, and everyone eats more big fish and meat, and there is a lot of meat and oil, and it is also because most people have switched from physical labor to mental labor, or light physical labor.

   Less exercise and less consumption.

  Eat more and exercise less, so it accumulates more and more clogs, especially fish, meat and meat are less easy to consume than coarse fruits and vegetables, and are more likely to accumulate and clog.

   This is why the three highs are called the disease of the rich.

  Ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty, even fat people are rare, let alone three-high, but those rich and noble people tend to be obese and easy to be three-high, which is why.

Qin Lang remembered that Li Yuan, Li Shimin, and Li Zhi had three masters in history, all of whom seemed to be suffering from illnesses. After Li Yuan abdicated, he seemed to suffer from high blood pressure in his later years, and Li Shimin also suffered from gas disease in his later years. Li Zhi was often blind because of his illness , Let Empress Wu govern the country for him, which led to the two saints living in the same dynasty, and finally Empress Wu proclaimed emperor.

   Later, someone researched that, in fact, the three Li Yuan masters all suffered from the same disease, that is, the three highs.

   Both Li Yuan and Li Shimin have severe hypertension.

Qin Lang now thinks that Li Shimin is fine, after all, he is only thirty, he is young, and in his early years he fought north and south, conquering the world on horseback, so he has not been out of the capital palace for the past two years, working day and night on state affairs, and he has become a little fatter A little bit.

   This is a bad sign.

  The Li family came from the military aristocracy of Guanlong, so they have many Hu Feng habits, such as eating buttermilk and eating meat.

When leading troops to fight, it doesn’t matter if you eat more, after all, it consumes a lot of energy, but now that you are ruling the country in the palace all day, the amount of exercise will inevitably decrease. In addition, when you are the emperor, there are so many concubines and beauties in the harem, which also consumes a lot of energy. bloody.

   He often works overtime and stays up late, his body must be damaged, but the emperor's food is the best.

   Li Shimin's high blood pressure seems to be a matter of course, but I don't know if he has it now.

  Qin Lang can only persuade Li Shimin a few words, let him take Ma Zhou as a warning, don't overwork, take a good rest, pay attention to diet, exercise more and so on.

  Li Shimin just didn't take it seriously, after all, he considered himself an emperor on horseback, not a frail scholar like Ma Zhou.

"I read the letter and advice you gave me earlier. You said that you would recruit 6,000 strong horsemen from the Yushe tribe from Hetao, and then recruit 6,000 horsemen from the other Turkic tribes and Zahu tribes, and gather 12,000 to go south to Lingnan. , stationed in Guangzhou, Guizhou, and Jiaozhou?"

"I feel very puzzled. How could you make such a suggestion? It's not like you don't know how hot Lingnan is. The people in the Jianghuai River and Huaihe Rivers in the Central Plains are not resistant to the climate in Lingnan, let alone the nomads in the north of the Great Wall. Moreover, there are mountains, waters, and dense forests in Lingnan. Not suitable for cavalry combat."

  Qin Lang knew that the emperor didn't understand his remonstrance at all.

"Your Majesty, this is a plan to kill two birds with one stone by driving away tigers and swallowing wolves. Now, although all the barbarians in northern Saibei have attached themselves one after another, I always believe that simple resettlement or self-government are extremely important. It is dangerous, and there will be endless troubles. If you want to make the northern border peaceful, the only possibility is to use the desert as the boundary. Only when the Han people surpass the Hu people, they must exceed in number and form a majority group, so that it is possible to maintain real control over Saibei."

   Otherwise, it will only be another Southern Huns.

  How much effort the Han Dynasty took to defeat the Xiongnu. In the end, the Xiongnu split up. One part moved to the north, and the other was attached to the interior.

   But after all, these people did not become real Central Plains people.

This is also the root of the later Wuhu chaos. The Sima family of the Jin Dynasty further moved these attached Hu people inward, and after the Sima family attacked and robbed each other and made a pot of porridge, these Hu people with strong strength came to the country. After all, they took advantage of the emptiness, and finally wiped out the Sima family, smashed the entire north, brought about a hundred years of turmoil, and almost wiped out the Han people.

   This is a very deep lesson.

  Conversely, when the Northern Wei Dynasty and Xianbei went south, they took the initiative to Sinicize reforms and engage in integration, but the effect was actually stronger.

"Your Majesty, if we transfer 12,000 people from Mobei to the south, this is equivalent to taking one out of ten out of ten people who are now attached to the Hus. This is a great reduction in the strength of the newly attached Hus. On the other hand, we can still use these northern Hus , transferred to the south to fight against the barbarians, and even deter the powerful chieftains such as Feng An, wouldn't this kill multiple birds with one stone."

  Li Shimin narrowed his eyes, and could hear the smell.

   "You are planning to go and never return. Are you planning to let them come back after being transferred?"

"Your Majesty, when the time comes, let these Huqi settle down in the south, and organize them into states or Zhechong mansions by hundreds or ten. We can let them marry local Han women or barbarian women, or Hu girls were transferred from their northern tribe’s hometown to start a family, but in short, they never returned.”

   "Then you can consider whether these barbarians are willing?"

"Your Majesty, they are newly attached people. As long as the imperial court rewards their leaders more and rewards them when they go south, they may not be willing to allocate land and land for them when they come to Lingnan in the future. Besides, they really don't want to. At that time, can they still fly back to Monan in a thousand rivers and mountains?"

  When Qin Lang faced the emperor, he also made no secret of his guard against the Turkic people.

   "All the ministries respect me as the Khan of Heaven..." Li Shimin hesitated.

"Your Majesty, back then the Turkic people and the Tiele people still respected Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty as the Saint Khan, and they also called Yang Guang a Saint Khan later on, but didn't Shibi Khan also besieged Yanmen? Your Majesty must not be deceived by them." , we must always maintain the strength of Datang, and we must always weaken our opponents, so as to ensure that they will always submit and dare not have second thoughts. .”

   "What other plans do you have, let's tell them together!" Li Shimin seemed to listen a little bit.

  (end of this chapter)