Li Shimin seemed to be very interested in this thing, Xia Hongsheng said for a long time, he didn't make a decision to control the cultivation and import of opium poppies, but when he heard that Xia Hongsheng could make some experiments, he immediately agreed, and handed over all the opium poppies in the palace to Xia Hongsheng, and ordered people to collect them everywhere, so that Xia Hongsheng could make opium.

Xia Hongsheng was disappointed, but he was afraid from the bottom of his heart. I don't know if my decision is the right decision, and I don't know what the outcome will be.

If it backfires, then you will become a sinner for the ages.

From March to November, the poppy flowers and bears fruit. At this time, it is just March and the poppy fruit has appeared, but it is not yet ripe, and it is the time to take the pulp apart.

Xia Hongsheng picked poppy fruits and locked himself in Jingyang's workshop, and no one was allowed to enter, even Qi Yong, who also let him stay outside and not enter.

The poppy fruit, which is not yet fully ripe, separates the skin and derives a white slurry from it, which is collected and placed to dry and solidify. The white slurry became a black patch of raw opium that exuded an unpleasant, disgusting, stale smell of urine. After boiling, drying, and fermenting the raw opium, the ugly, unpleasant-smelling black opium cake becomes a golden, smooth, greasy, sweet-smelling cooked opium.

Black turns golden, stale urine smells sweet—the more dangerous and vicious things are, the more seductive they are presented to the world.

Xia Hongsheng wrapped all the opium he had produced, put it in a box, and then took off his gloves - he didn't want to touch it at all.

On the edge of the Wei River, not far to the south, there is an endless mountain range.

In the uninhabited mountains, after a loud noise many days ago, after a while, there was an additional cave.

The members of Datang Blade's team escorted three people to appear outside the cave.

When they arrived at the entrance of the cave, the team member of the Tang Blade led by him had already seen a few people standing at the entrance of the cave.

"General!" The team leader went over and saluted.

The person who was called the general was Xia Hongsheng, he nodded, and the team member turned around and waved his hand, and the black cloth bags on the heads of the three prisoners were removed.

Xia Hongsheng knew about their crime early on, so his face was full of disgust at the moment.

The Tang Dynasty is now peaceful all over the world, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the emperor has reduced the punishment, and at the end of the year, there are only one or twenty death sentences in the whole country. The three people in front of him were already all the death row prisoners in the prison of Chang'an City.

A flower thief raped and killed more than 20 good girls. A robber leader slaughtered the people of a village. The other is the robber leader's internal response in the village.

They are all innocent people who are not to be regretted.

"Do you want to live?" The three people were brought to Xia Hongsheng, and Xia Hongsheng asked lightly, "The day of your execution is not far away...... By the way, one of you is this afternoon! ”

"You're a general?" The bandit leader looked like a fierce figure, raised his eyebrows and asked Xia Hongsheng.

Then, as soon as his legs were numb, the bandit leader who was about to have two Xia Hong's elevations fell to the ground and knelt down in front of Xia Hongsheng. His tone was disrespectful, and he was kicked on the numb bone of his leg socket by the member of the Datang Blade, and at this moment, the retreat had no intuition and couldn't stand up.

"Ben Hou is indeed a general." Xia Hongsheng nodded: "Do as Ben Hou instructs, and after the matter is completed, let Er and the others leave on their own." All culpability, written off. ”

"Hahaha, Lao Tzu's head was cut off by order of the emperor, can you say that it will be written off?" The bandit leader couldn't stand up, but he laughed maniacally.

"Or else?" Xia Hongsheng looked at him: "You are the one who was beheaded this afternoon, do you think this is the execution ground?" ”

The bandit leader was stunned, and his laughter stopped abruptly.

"Can you?" The bandit leader's eyes were full of longing: "What do you want us to do?" ”

"No other." Xia Hongsheng shrugged his shoulders and said, "Live in this cave for a while, and provide you with good food and drink." In the meantime, just do as Benhou instructs. ”

"It's that simple?" The flower thief next to him spoke: "I don't believe it." ”

"Ben Hou came to you to test the medicine." Xia Hongsheng said to the three of them lightly: "There is a new medicine, I just made it, I don't know if it is poisonous, let you try it." Poisoning you is your life. If the poison does not die, it is also your life that should not be extinguished. However, Ben Hou had tried it on dogs and sheep before, and he didn't see that one dead. How, do you dare to gamble your life? ”

The bandit leader laughed again: "Why don't you dare?!" It's a death horizontally and vertically, and there can be a whole corpse! …… If Lao Tzu hadn't been killed by the medicine, would he really let Lao Tzu go? ”

"Seriously." Xia Hongsheng smiled, and with a shake of his hand, he unfolded a yellow silk: "Your Majesty's decree to pardon you and others is here again." However, it will not be effective until you have finished trying the medicine. ”

The three of them were taken into the cave, where Xia Hongsheng gave each of them a smoking gun, taught them how to use it, and then gave them opium paste and fire crackers.

Watching the wisps of smoke rise from the cave, Xia Hongsheng instructed the Tang Blade team members who were guarding them not to inhale the smoke, and then left there.

On the second day, when Li Shimin personally arrived outside the cave, the three of them were lying on the stone bed, in a decadent posture, holding a cigarette gun in their hands, and while talking without a stubble, they took a hard puff, and the smoke they sprayed seemed to be unbearable, and they sniffed hard.

All three of them had a look of wandering on their faces, as if they were extremely happy. His body was as soft as a puddle of mud on the stone bed.

"What do you think of taking this medicine?" Xia Hongsheng asked outside the iron gate.

"Hahahaha! Comfortable! The robber leader shouted loudly: "It should be the life of Lao Tzu, not only did he avoid being killed, but he also got such a treasure!" ”

Xia Hongsheng sneered: "Yes, this is called forgetting worries, and those who smoke it are like climbing bliss." ”

"Good medicine! Good medicine! There were several shouts from inside.

"Xia Qing, this ......" Li Shimin asked in a low voice.

"Your Majesty, Wei Chen said before that this medicine can make the addict hallucinate, produce pleasure, and feel as happy as a fairy. Because of this, people ignore its toxicity, want to smoke it, and want to produce that pleasure. In this way, you will become addicted to it before you know it. A few days later, when they were addicted, His Majesty knew how vicious this thing was. (To be continued.) )