Recently, the gossip crowd in Chang'an City seems to be like a festival.

First of all, all kinds of rumors and stories after the birth of the eldest son and the princess made them happy, and some guys even wrote some related metaphorical stories.

Although there is a certain risk in this, the leaders in the gossip party are not afraid of losing their heads, what are they afraid of?

It's just that, in the next few days, the wind changed.

It wasn't for the anger of the court lieutenant, the internal history of the Yamen Ti rode out in all directions, chasing and inspecting the gossip party that discussed the scandal in the palace.

Rather, it was because of something that attracted people's attention even more.

In a house in an alley, several big men secretly hid in a room and drank.

Recently, Tingwei and Neishi have stepped up their inspections of liquor.

Therefore, the price of alcohol in Guanzhong has skyrocketed, in the past, a pot of wine could be bought for about ten yuan, but now, a pot of wine costs at least 100 yuan, and it is often impossible to buy.

It's funny to say.

The stricter the government's control over liquor, the more prosperous the liquor trade became.

Tingwei and the internal history are strictly investigated.

But the people who sell alcohol are all big people with deep backgrounds, at least they are also the nephews or relatives of these big people.

Since ancient times, the punishment is not as good as the doctor, and the courtesy is not as good as the common people.

It's not a crime of rebellion, selfish armor, plotting misdeeds, cursing the monarch's father, and attempting to subvert the society.

It is not a capital crime of great public indignation, bullying men and women, and even killing people on the street.

The sons, nephews, and relatives of the relatives of the liehou are just selling wine, and the court lieutenant and the internal history have nothing to do with them.

So. In Chang'an City, wine is now sold and bought. On the surface, it is forbidden by the government, but in fact. As long as you're alert enough and willing to pay those jingle cuties for the liquids that get you excited, you can always buy the ones that get your blood pumping.

There is no doubt that these big men are a group of people who don't drink or have fun.

Between the cups, the two or three jars of wine that had just been bought were already left in the jars, and the two roast chickens and a leg of mutton on the table were only bones.

After a full burp contentedly, with the strength of the wine, one of them was a big black man. The god mysteriously said to his friend, "Have you heard? ”

"What did you hear?"

"The king of Jiangdu came to the Hajj this time, bringing a big surprise to His Majesty!" The man plucked his nostrils and said with a big grin: "There is an uncle of a certain brother who is on duty in the palace, according to his words, this surprise is extraordinary......

"What kind of surprise?" Everyone's curiosity was immediately aroused.

The man opened the window and looked outside, then lowered his voice and said, "This matter, come out of my mouth." Enter the ears of the king, and don't let others know about it! ”

Seeing this person's cautious appearance, everyone laughed and shouted, "Brother Tai, don't hang me and wait for your appetite." Say it quickly, and I'll promise never to spread it! ”

This guarantee is the most insincere guarantee, basically. Even in the world, which is known for its trustworthiness and commitment, few people will take such empty words seriously.

But the man may not be flaunting uncomfortable. It may also be that it is really uncomfortable and does not share it with others. He wasn't happy, or maybe he really trusted his friends here.

Anyway, he quickly whispered, "Have you ever heard of a place called 'Body Poison'?" ”

Everyone shook their heads blankly, not knowing why.

The man laughed proudly twice, and said: "You don't know about the poison, this is normal, you know, the poison is thousands of miles away from China, starting from Shu County, it takes half a year to arrive, even if you take the most convenient sea route, it will take two or three months!" ”

After hearing this, everyone rolled their eyes, their faces full of disdain.

In China's traditional concept, the land of Yidi, a civilized desert, is not a fierce barbarian like the Xiongnu, or a poor mountain with no clothes like North Korea.

Moreover, the Chinese people have been the most practical since ancient times.

No one will do what is not beneficial, and even if you force them with a whip, they will not work hard and do things perfunctorily.

But if there is a benefit to be obtained, there is no need for the ruler to agitate or order, and everyone will flock to it.

For example, today's great water conservancy, extensive canal repair, the farmers in Guanzhong are crazy, on the construction site of Longshou Canal, every day the surrounding farmers, before dawn outside the construction site waiting to start, they are almost free of charge to help those contractors of Longshou Canal construction site to do a lot of auxiliary work, and even last summer when the heat is scorching, the workers on the construction site, as long as they rest, immediately have the three elders and squires of the surrounding villages to lead the people, send mung bean porridge and other things used to relieve the heat, There are even people who make special volunteers to sew and mend clothes and wash clothes for the workers who repair the canals and the officers and soldiers who supervise them.

It is said that after the opening of the Longshou Canal for water supply, that scene, the legendary Qi food pot is nothing more than that.

Many old people said that the scene near Longshou Canal reminded them of the scene when Great Qin unified the Six Kingdoms, and that the army that returned from Qin's victory was also embraced, worshipped, and supported by the people of Guanzhong.

These men, although they don't understand any big truths, can still do it if they simply seek good fortune and avoid evil.

Therefore, as soon as I heard that the body poison was so far away, no one was interested in it immediately.

Someone said: "Go to Shu County, go crazy, go from Chang'an to Shu County, you have to go over mountains and mountains along the way, and if you are not careful, you will be buried in the canyon!" And I heard that from the west of Shu County, there are mountains and mountains, dense jungles, and during the infestation of fierce beasts and barbarians, one accidentally died! ”

And there is a human: "By sea? As far as I know, it was the First Emperor who sent Xu Fu to take three thousand boys and girls to the sea to find immortals, with countless ships in the fleet, and thousands of Great Qin elites to escort them, but after the result was gone, there was no news, it was said that he was buried in the sea, and the First Emperor's fleet was buried in the sea. ”

"Besides, what is the benefit of the body poison, is it possible that there is an elixir? Even if there is, will it be my turn? Some people scoffed at it.

"Don't talk about it...... the black man said with a smile: "According to the uncle of the elder brother of a certain family, there is a mysterious place in that poisonous country. Legend has it that hidden in the deep mountains of the poisonous country, the name is 'Fountain of Youth'. Legend has it that King Chiyou once went to the body poison, and the body poison still has the legend of King Chiyou. It is said that King Chiyou obtained the Fountain of Immortality in the body poison, and drank the Fountain of Youth, so that he had the divine power to compete with the Yellow Emperor and the immortal body, otherwise, you think that why did the Yellow Emperor dismember the body of King Chiyou and suppress it under the famous mountains and rivers. Aren't you afraid of King Chiyou's resurrection after death? ”

After such a big bomb was thrown, everyone immediately came to the spirit.

O King Chiyou!

This is the master of the army!

In the traditional mythological system of the Han family, the powerful gods such as the emperor Taiyi, the four emperors of white, red, blue, yellow and black, and the lord of yin and yang, the landlord and other powerful gods, are the totems and sacrificial objects of all warriors, and the god of war believed in by the Han family!

Now I heard that the soldier master actually drank the spring water of the Fountain of Youth, so he had such inhuman power and superhuman vitality, and even the ancestor Yellow Emperor could only choose to suppress his body and limbs separately, rather than destroy him.

Who doesn't have a bit of fantasy? Who wouldn't want to be a superhero.

Why can Lu Gong Xiang Yu get widespread sympathy and nostalgia from the public. Isn't what this person did back then far beyond ordinary people?

Worshipping heroes and the strong is the instinct of all nations.

And everyone has a heroic dream in their hearts. Even among the humblest slaves and the lowliest Sikong Chengdan, there are heroes.

And China on this land. There will never be a shortage of heroes who start from the beginning.

Shun is in the acre, and Fu said that it is between the plates. The rubber mustache is lifted in the fish salt, and the Guan Yi I am lifted in the soldiers. Uncle Sun Ao is lifted in the sea, and Baili Xi is lifted in the city.

Emperor Taizu Gao, who was a pavilion chief, lived in the Ninth Five-Year Plan and created the Han Dynasty.

It's just that the so-called fantasy is also a heat wave.

For most sentient beings, even if there is really a fountain of immortality in the body poison, so what?

Anyway, it's not your turn, and it's just an after-dinner conversation, maybe in the future, when you are old, when you are dying, you can tell the stories you heard on today's wine table to your children and grandchildren.

That's all.

However, the black and strong man didn't intend to let everyone go like this, he lowered his voice, and continued: "Gentlemen, the so-called Fountain of Youth, the poison in the body is just a legend! Do you know what really shocked my brother's uncle? ”

The man stood up, glanced at the crowd, took a deep breath, clenched his fists and said, "It's the wealth of that poisonous place!" ”

"The five grains of the body poison, four crops a year, it is said that the people of the body poison do not need to cultivate at all, as long as the seeds are sown, wait for two months to harvest corn and rice, and the body poison is all year round, the wind and rain are smooth, there is almost no disaster, the local people, it is said that each person's life is to eat and sleep, play fine king, drink and gamble, play women, tsk tsk......"

"What?" Everyone took a deep breath, almost incredulous.

Is there such a beautiful and rich place in this world?

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, I'm not sure.

For the Chinese people, the world they live in is basically home and village, and the world of merchants and officials is broader, but at most it is within one county and one country.

Even the most knowledgeable people in the world may know the world as a corner, thousands of miles at most, and no matter how far away, at most they only have a general impression.

Even though the Ma Tan family, a well-respected Taishi company in Shiqu Pavilion, is known as the historian of the past dynasties and has traveled all over the mountains and rivers of Kyushu, he does not dare to say how much he knows about the world.

Most people, they only know the world they know, and the world outside their own knowledge, which is basically a kind of Chinese peculiar 'rather believe what is there than what is not'.

Therefore, as soon as Journey to the West came out in later generations, everyone automatically turned the road from the Western Regions to the body poison into a place where demons were rampant and extremely dangerous.

And now, after everyone heard about the poison, although they beat the drum in their hearts, some did not believe it, but they could not deny it, and even some people already believed in their hearts that there was indeed such a place.

After all, everyone has a hard time.

Ordinary people's lives revolve around the land for a year.

The harvest once a year is more related to the livelihood and life and death of the whole family.

The poisonous grains are ripe four times a year, which seems very unreasonable, but the poisonous man eats and sleeps every day, drinks and gambles to play a woman's life. But it inevitably makes everyone think about it.

Who wouldn't want to live in such an almost heavenly world?

Time. All you hear is the sound of your own swallowing saliva and your heartbeat.

It's been a long time. Only then did someone ask cautiously: "In such a rich place, the poison must be a big country, the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, and it must be a powerful country outside the territory, just like the Huns......"

"!" The strong black man quenched his saliva and said, "Strong fart!" As far as my brother's uncle knows, it is said that ten years ago, there was a clan that called itself the Yue clan. With 3,000 soldiers and horses, he attacked the body poison, even broke the body poison 17 countries, crisscrossed thousands of miles, took away hundreds of thousands of catties of gold, and the population was more than 100,000, but after the Yue clan left, the poison people were still the same, lying in the sun and sleeping, eating and sleeping and beating the fine king. Drinking, gambling, and playing with women! ”

"It is said that the people who cover the poisoned land do not need any labor at all, and the seeds are sown in the ground, and when the time comes, they go to reap them. There was food, there was no money, and I dug in the ground casually. You can dig out the gold and jade, and you will be thirsty. As for picking the fruit from the tree to quench thirst, Mencius once said: Born in sorrow and die in peace. It is said that in the country of the Yue people, there are often nobles, bringing dozens of people, and even without weapons, entering the country of body poisoning, showing off their might, there are poisonous officials, offering exquisite gold objects, women and wealth, just hoping that the Yue people can leave the ......"

After listening, everyone looked at each other.

Suddenly, a person screamed and beat his chest: "Why is the body poison so far away from my China?" Ay! ”

Suddenly, everyone agreed.

Just listening to what the black strong man said, everyone only felt that their hearts were surging, and they couldn't help themselves.

Such a rich land, such a country of abundance, why is it so far away from China!

And there are so many difficulties and obstacles on the road?

If it was only a thousand miles, everyone gritted their teeth and walked over.

But so far away, separated by lofty mountains and oceans, everyone is a little afraid.

This is because those who drink here belong to the most adventurous group of the Han people: rangers.

If ordinary people hear this, I'm afraid they should do something.

And in the midst of the mourning, a voice suddenly sounded: "Actually, the body is poisonous, and it is not so difficult to walk......

Everyone looked, but it was the strong black man who was talking.

"How?" Someone immediately asked.

"It is said that in addition to the west from Shu County, or the sea route, there is also a road that can lead to the body poison ......" The black strong man said with a smile: "Out of the Great Wall, from the territory of the Huns, through the Western Regions, you can reach the body poison, it is said that the Yue people are the tribes living outside the Western Regions, it is said that these Yue people are driven by the Huns where the ......"

"And this?!" Immediately the crowd began to talk.

Before, there was no comparison, and naturally it was not very clear, whether the so-called poisonous people were the five scum of the war, or was the combat effectiveness of the Yueshi people too explosive?

But now, with such an intuitive comparison of the Huns, everyone is very clear.

The Han family and the Xiongnu have just been facing each other not once or twice.

A few years ago, when the first emperor ascended the throne, the right Xian King of the Xiongnu broke through the invasion with great momentum, at that time, the all-out war was imminent, and there were many people sitting there, and there was no lack of retired soldiers who had just passed the Xiongnu at that time.

The combat effectiveness of the Huns, everyone knows in their hearts, they are the so-called 'condor shooters' among the Huns, and their strength is about the same as the team rate in the Han army, that is, the archery shooting is more accurate.

It's not that the Han army can't defeat the Huns, it's just that the Han army is mainly infantry and can't keep up with the mobility of the Hun cavalry.

Basically, the current combat effectiveness of the Han and Xiongnu armies is probably between the two middles.

The Huns themselves admit this matter, otherwise, why would they marry a princess and marry?

The common people choose their own sons-in-law, and they all talk about the right family, let alone the country?

In the past, the Han family could only marry the daughter of the clan and send wealth in exchange for peace!

But now, the Huns took the initiative to marry their daughters and sign a peace treaty.

Although everyone doesn't understand diplomacy, they all know a simple truth: if you can't beat someone, that person doesn't need any affinity, just grab it.

Since, the so-called Yueshi people, with only 3,000 people, swept thousands of miles across the Seventeen Kingdoms, and the Huns drove the Yueshi people to the Western Regions like chickens.

Although everyone is not good at math, they still know the simple conversion.

In other words, the combat effectiveness of the Han army was approximately equal to that of the Xiongnu army. And the Xiongnu army is larger than the Yueshi people, and the Yueshi people are far superior to the poisonous people.

Unconsciously. In everyone's minds, the image of the Xiongnu suddenly became extremely dazzling. Even many people's perception of the Xiongnu fell to a low point all of a sudden.

Although, the image of the Huns has never been higher.

But unlike before, everyone hated the Xiongnu in the past, because the Xiongnu invaded the Han land, tortured and killed the Han people, and everyone hated the enemy and defended the country.

But, for now. The Xiongnu have become a roadblock to prevent everyone from going to the poisonous paradise.

Cutting off people's financial routes, such as killing parents, killing parents, not sharing the sky!

"Fuck the Hun barbarians!" Someone slammed the table and scolded viciously.

"My brother is now at the age of the first master, and my family was still thinking about whether to delay it for two years and then enlist in the army, but now it seems. It's better for my brother to enlist in the army earlier, to enlist in the army earlier, to learn to fight, and in the future. As long as my brother and I can fight side by side and defeat the Huns! Someone else said it aloud.

In the Han system, all the people were soldiers, and all men in the first Fu were obliged to serve in the military. And there is no escape, that is, the children of the prince's relatives. Nor can it be avoided.

However, the people are not interested in being soldiers. But there is hesitation, after all, the loss of a middle-aged male at once is a huge loss to any civilian family or even a small and medium-sized landlord's family.

Unless the Son of Heaven issues an edict to mobilize, the people will know that there is a war and the time has come to make meritorious contributions, so they will enthusiastically participate.

Otherwise, it can be delayed as long as it can.

Of course, some people were puzzled and asked the black man: "The body poison is so far away from China, how did the news of this body poison reach the palace?" ”

Everyone also turned their curious eyes to the black man.

The black man smiled and said, "Didn't I say that?" It's the king of Jiangdu! ”

He said mysteriously: "The subordinates of the king of Jiangdu accidentally bought an exotic treasure and dedicated it to the king of Jiangdu, and the king of Jiangdu dedicated it to His Majesty, and His Majesty Xià Qizhi, but he wrote to inquire, and it happened that the foreign merchant who bought the treasure and the king of Jiangdu was stranded in Jiangdu, so the Son of Heaven ordered the king of Jiangdu to bring his face to the saint, these things were all said by the foreign merchant, and the merchant came to poison himself, and sold the treasures of the country for the king of a certain country in exchange for my Chinese silk!" ”

"Moreover, it is said that Mrs. Xia has also confirmed that there is indeed such a tribe as the Yue Clan, and outside the Western Regions, there is indeed such a place as body poison......"

Everyone suddenly sighed, Mrs. Xia? It is the Xiongnu princess who married the Son of Heaven! If this lady confirms it, then this matter is almost a real thing!

This explanation is reasonable, and everyone is still very confident in Chinese silk.

Only the black strong man laughed in his heart: "My mission is really smooth, and now more than 90 people have been agitated, only a few are missing, and the goal of 100 people has been reached, and at that time, he can be promoted to embroidered guard, and from then on he will become an eagle dog of the court, a minion of the Son of Heaven, and an official body!" ”

This person is the peripheral member of the embroidered guard.

Embroidered clothes and Weitong guò drama Meng and others have taken extensive roots in the three religions and nine streams of Chang'an City, and have developed countless eyeliner.

These eyeliners are usually paid to do things, not members of the embroidered clothes.

However, according to the regulations, these peripheral members, as long as they complete certain prescribed tasks, have the opportunity to be absorbed into the embroidered guards, and from then on become the registered officials of the imperial court, and they are directly subordinate to the Son of Heaven, and belong to the minions and hounds of the Son of Heaven.

This identity has a great attraction to the three religions and nine streams in Chang'an City.

What's more, there are also regulations for embroidery guards, once absorbed, registered, and become embroidered guards, then except for the crimes of great rebellion, unfilial piety, and Brun, other crimes will be emptied and will not be pursued.

Therefore, many rangers, criminal absconding, and incognito fugitives with criminal cases have been attracted by the embroidered guards and become their peripheral members, and many people who are like black and strong men are dreaming of completely whitewashing the past, regaining their lives, and becoming the eagle dog of the imperial court.

The successful role models of Ju Meng and others are the motivation that motivates them to work hard and work hard.

At the same time, many, countless characters like this black strong man are tirelessly telling similar stories to different groups of people in various places in Chang'an City.

These people, before this, have been 'trained' for a period of time, and the relevant stories have been memorized early, and what to say to what kind of people is also clear.

For the common people, they focused on describing the wealth of the poisonous body and the comfortable daily life of the poisonous people.

To the merchants, they spoke of the riches of their poisonous properties and the inexhaustibility of their wealth.

To the soldiers, they described the cowardice and vulnerability of the poisoned army, as well as the wealth gained by the Yueshi after their victory.

Inspirational stories such as 'A certain Yue's soldier, who was poor and had only one clothes left, actually used gold chopsticks and white jade utensils after a trip to get poisoned, and became a nobleman and married the daughter of a great nobleman in Yue's country' and other inspirational stories are widely circulated.

As for the aristocracy, these people either described the mystery and power of the Fountain of Youth, or the meekness and obedience of the local people.

In their words, the poisonous people almost respond to their nobles and officials, and never complain.

This immediately made many nobles feel overjoyed and unable to help themselves.

As a result, the rumors about body poison and the related different story versions instantly replaced the original palace affairs and became the hottest and hottest topic in Chang'an City.

Almost even a three-year-old child knows that there is a place called body poison, rich and good, it is simply a paradise on earth! (To be continued......)