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Chapter 38 Gifts

A few days later, a team of cavalry escorted the carriage toward the palace. Yuwen Wen, who had "healed his injuries", sat in the carriage. It had been six days since he fainted in the hall. After coordinating with multiple parties, he entered the palace to face the holy.

He still got off the car at the door of the car, walked through the door, and entered the palace from Changhe Gate. Of course, there were several wooden boxes with him, which contained gifts for the little emperor.

Although he was a royal family, he still had to undergo inspections by bringing things into the palace, because the itinerary was scheduled a few days in advance, so there were eunuchs waiting by the door, so naturally there was no need to flip over the things one by one. The generals guarding the gate just opened the box to check and confirmed that there was nothing that looked suspicious inside.

Taking this opportunity, Yuwen Wen, who was standing by the Changhe Gate, looked around again. The newly completed palace continued to use the foundation of the Old Qi Palace, and even the layout was similar. The addresses of several gates were basically the same as the original site.

Perhaps it is to save time, or to save design thoughts, according to what others say, the Great Zhou Palace that entered the present day is basically the same as the Old Qi Palace, and even the names of the main palaces are similar.

The Tai Chi Hall is naturally the main hall that all countries have. The layout of the car door, the terminal door, and the Changhe Gate has been set up in several dynasties that have established capital Yecheng in succession. Yuwen Wen just felt that it was rare for the court to be so untaught.

It was only six years since Qi was destroyed. It was not that the powerful minister usurped the throne and moved into the palace with his luggage. It would be fine if he copied the palace style as it was, but most of the palace names had not changed. How lazy would he be!

Thinking of this, Yuwen Wen couldn't help but think of another thing. According to the original historical trajectory, Yang Jian accepted the abdication of the Zhou Dynasty in the Sui Dynasty and despised the original Chang'an City. At this time, the city was the Han Chang'an City. After hundreds of years of war, Yang Jian decided to build a new capital.

The new city was located in Longshouyuan, southeast of Chang'an City in Han Dynasty. The newly built capital was named Daxing City. It was also the predecessor of Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty and the later Xi'an City. However, the Sui Kingdom has not yet unified the north of the Yangtze River as before, so there has been no movement in the construction of the new city.

'The construction of a large-scale construction is a waste of money. Now it is a troublesome situation. I think the court is trying to comply with the people's strength as much as possible.' Yuwen Wen thought that Chang'an, the former capital of Zhou, became the capital of the enemy, and could only build an imperial palace in Yecheng, the capital of the enemy. In order to save time and effort, copy the original palace shape, which is probably helpless.

After delaying for a while at the Changhe Gate, Yuwen Wen entered the gate and continued to move forward. Under the leadership of the eunuch, he walked around the Taiji Hall and passed Zhuhua Gate to the Zhaoyang Hall behind. The eunuch first entered the hall to report, and then Yuwen Wen entered to meet him.

After following the example, the young emperor Yuwen Qiankeng gave him a seat, and Yuwen Wen sat down and "reminisced" the emperor.

"How is Mr. Xiyang's injury?" Yuwen Qiankeng asked. Yuwen Wen fainted in the hall that day, which really made him worry.

"When you go back to your Majesty, your injuries have been healed. Now you can eat and sleep. Please rest assured."

"Don't be too sad for Xiyang Duke. My father and brother were also harmed by Yang Ni. Whenever I think of it, I can't help but feel like a knife. I just sigh every day but feel sad in vain..."

"I read history books and knew that King Goujian of Yue placed his courage in sitting, and he leaned on his gallbladder when sitting and lying down, and tasted gallbladder when eating and eating. He worked hard to strengthen his strength for ten years, and taught ten years of lessons, and finally he was able to defeat the Wu Kingdom and take revenge."

"Your Majesty said very much. My husband and Duke Qi, the prince, were in Shannan to prepare for war, so that one day he would cooperate with the imperial army to attack Yang Ni, and when he attacked Chang'an, it would be the day to avenge his shame."

"I heard from people that there are many smoky places in the south of the mountain. There are countless poisonous snakes in it, and there are also mountains, rivers, ponds, scattered straits. It is not appropriate for the people to reclaim farmland. I wonder if it is true?"

"The terrain of the Shannan Jing, Xiang, An, Jiangling and Huangzhou General Administration has slightly different terrain, so I'll listen to the empresses who come one by one..."

Before the young emperor had been to Shannan, Yuwen Wen turned into a tourism expert and explained the customs and customs of various parts of Shannan to him. This was his main responsibility for this trip, speaking with the emperor, saying some interesting topics to relieve his boredom and mood.

Shannan was the land of Chu in ancient times. If it were the Jiuzhou of Yugong, the current boundary of Shannan is the southwest part of ancient Yuzhou and the northern part of ancient Jingzhou. Shannan Jingzhou General Administration is located in the Nanyang Basin known as later generations. It was developed as early as the Han Dynasty. Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, started his career here.

The Xiangzhou General Administration and Jiangling General Administration are also part of ancient Jingzhou. The development time was early and there were many fertile land households. The Anzhou General Administration is adjacent to the ancient Yunmeng Daze. As the area of ​​Yunmeng Ze gradually narrowed, large areas of paddy fields were reclaimed, and the number of people moving here increased.

The Huangzhou General Administration is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River and the southern foot of the Dabie Mountains. There are the Wushui River in Xiyang. For hundreds of years, the government has been competing with the Xiyang Barbarians (Wushui Barbarians). Now most of the barbarians outside the mountain have been transformed into people.

"The water network in Jiangmian is crisscrossing, and the water can irrigate farmland, but the rainy season is raging and disasters. Therefore, if you want to promote agricultural work, you must first build water conservancy, whether it is river embankment or ditches..."

"Your Majesty asked if there are poisonous insects and strange beasts in Shannan. I have been serving as the governor of Bazhou for more than a year. There are indeed poisonous insects in this place in Jiangmian, called schistosomiae..."

"Schistosomiasis!" Yu Wen Qiankeng was shocked when he heard this, but he was surprised and faintly expectant. Yu Wen Wen was very familiar with the expression, just like most children, who were both afraid of unknown things and wanted to know them.

"Schistosomiasis, also known as water Gu, is a living by sucking flesh and blood of humans and animals. This insect was born in water when it was young. Once people and animals were discovered by them when they entered the water, they immediately swarmed up, drilled into the body from their pores, attached to the internal organs, sucked the essence and blood and lay eggs in the body, ten in one lifetime, ten in ten in one lifetime... "

"It was attached to humans and animals by Schistosoma schistosomiae. At first, no abnormality was seen. However, the insects reproduced in the body, and humans and animals began to have fever, cough and asthma, chest pain, and then became thinner and thin, with dull eyes, weak limbs, and bloating and ascites. Like a pregnant woman, the people call it bloating disease. Can Your Majesty know why?"

"Why is this?" Yuwen Qiankeng asked, his face turned pale. He thought he had guessed the reason, but he was not sure.

"The patient was harmed by schistosomiasis, and his liver was enlarged, and the worms in his abdomen were densely packed..."

"Ah!" Yu Wen Qiankeng was shocked when he heard this. When Yu Wen Wen said this, a cluster of blood-red insects squirming in the human belly appeared in his mind, and he couldn't help but feel chills all over his body.

"This...what should I do? Jiangnan water network is everywhere. How should people cultivate fields?"

"Your Majesty is worry-free. Although Schistosoma erectile dysfunction, it has a fatal weakness." Yuwen Wen said, "When this worm is young, it must be housed in a type of snail in the water, and it cannot survive other than that."

"This snail is like a long nail, so it is named snail. I learned from a volume of ancient books that blood-sucking larvae must be resident on the snails to survive, so if there is no snails in the water, there will be no snails."

"Then are schistosomiasis where there are snails?"

"There are not necessarily schistosomes where there are schistosomes. There are schistosomes where there are schistosomes. " Yuwen Wen replied, " In case, I ordered people to kill schistos everywhere. The method used is to drop live lime. The quicklime boils when it encounters water and kills the schistos."

After hearing Yuwen Wen's statement that the states in Shannan have begun to extinguish snails, and the people will never be harmed by schistosomiasis again. Many wastelands that have not been reclaimed for many years have begun to be used. Yuwen Gankeng breathed a sigh of relief.

"It is indeed not appropriate for Shannan Prefectures and counties to persuade farmers and sericulture. It is really hard for Duke Qi, the prince, and Duke Xiyang."

Seeing the topic open and the atmosphere became warm, Yuwen Wen presented the gifts he brought on this trip. Since the imperial court established the capital of Yecheng, the royal family went to Beijing to meet the emperor for the first time, so the gifts they prepared were naturally indispensable.

First of all, there are fifty-five deer skins, three thousand six hundred mixed skins, one hundred twenty thousand geese feathers, more than 300 kilograms of various medicinal materials, one hundred forty-five dark blue satin, one hundred and seventy black green satin, and one hundred and three hundred and three red satin.

Then there are living creatures: twelve deer, thirty-six geese, and twenty-four pairs of mandarin ducks. These were sent to the palace the next day after arriving in Yecheng, so today we brought the second batch of gifts.

Three collars of ring lock armor, two pairs of carved dragon and jade paperweight, six sheets of leopard skin, three sheets of tiger skin, one sheet of white tiger skin, six pairs of ivory, five horn bows, and one hundred and fifty-six carved feather arrows.

These are all ordinary things, and the next one is the highlight.

"Your Majesty, this is a glass treasure mirror. It will be revealed in the face of people. There are three sides in total."

"Your Majesty, this is a thousand-mile mirror. You can use it to see the scene in the distance, with three of them."

"Your Majesty, this is a self-sounding music box. You can use the power of the mechanical stake to make music." Yuwen Wen said. Yuwen Gankeng, who was so in love with Liuli Jing and Qianli Jing, became even more interested when he heard this.

"Xiyang Gong, what's going on with this...the music box?"

Yuwen Wen held a wooden box to the table in front of the little emperor, took out a square hole key from the box, inserted it into a square hole on the side of the wooden box, and turned it a crisp and pleasant sound from the wooden box.

The sound was like the sound of the mountain stream and the stream kept ringing. Yuwen Gankeng looked at the music box in surprise: "This...what is this? How can it be so interesting..."

"Your Majesty, I met a foreign merchant in the East City of Chang'an when I met a music box of music in the Western Regions. I was puzzled at that time. I thought I would buy it and study it for a while, but I never thought about it but I was a good person to come first. Then I explored it for a long time and made this thing in the near future."

"This thing is powered by clockwork, so it does not require manpower. Just use this key to tighten the clockwork, and a pleasant sound will be made in the box. It's just that the music is single and it's repeated."

Yuwen Wen turned the blame seriously. There were no merchants selling music boxes in the world. He was inspired by the Western music boxes in later generations and made a test work of Xiyang music boxes for "creating income". He never wanted to be sent to Yecheng to meet the emperor, so he brought it as a gift.

Yuwen Gankeng carefully held up the music box and listened to the pleasant sound. His cousin presented the glass treasure mirror, which was really surprising. He tried the magical Thousand Mile Mile Mile, which could see the distant palace clearly. These gifts really made people love them.

"Mr. Xiyang, these gifts are so interesting!"

"Your Majesty, Duke Qi heard that His Majesty was worried about national affairs, so he specially presented the map of Shannan Prefectures and counties. The prince Yu Wenming presented a hundred volumes of books to Your Majesty. The poor ministers were not talented and collected many stories..."

"Story? It's so good. Mr. Xiyang must tell me!" Yuwen Gankeng was very happy. He lived alone in the palace, without relatives or friends. Everyone came and went and saw familiar faces, and he had nothing to do except read books every day.

Now my cousin has traveled thousands of miles to Yecheng to visit him and brought many interesting gifts and told stories to him. How could Yuwen Gankeng, who is just a child, be unhappy?
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