It was already extremely quiet down here, and the Song army was marching at an extremely orderly pace. The sound of their feet tapping on the floor even became a unique beat.
Instead, the command room seemed extremely quiet.
Li Qiong relit the candle behind him, and the room returned to its previous appearance. Wang De was the first to react... For the other two, the impact of immortality on Yasha was not that big. Because he had never thought about such a thing at all.
And these two people are both people who have read books. Reading a lot of books means being knowledgeable in one aspect, and thinking a lot is another aspect.
They wanted to convince themselves that Li Qiong was making fun of everyone, but no matter how hard they tried, it had no effect. They only had the word 'immortality' in their minds and could no longer fit anything else.
"hey-hey,"
Wang De laughed a little dryly, "I've watched too many scholar plays, and I can't even think of such a thing."
Li Qiong sat back in his seat, shook his head and said:
"Learning about the art of cultivating one's nature, people at that time thought that one's appearance would be magnificent even if he was a hundred years old... This is the sentence used by Hua Zu in the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms. You two gentlemen must have heard of it."
"The art of cultivating one's nature is actually a self-cultivation skill left behind by Mr. Li. If you practice it, you can live for a hundred years. If you take it with medicine, you can prolong your life, ranging from three hundred to a long life."
"Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty knew the news for some reason, so he asked his confidant Li Jingxuan to return to Bozhou. He had grown up with him and trusted him very much. When he came, Bozhou was also his hometown, and he started When things happen, it should be more convenient than others."
"So Li Jingxuan built another road according to the Han Road. This road was wider and higher, but the trend was exactly the same as the Han Road. But it is obvious that Li Jingxuan did not find the medicine of Hua Zu."
Xin Zan stuttered a little: "You, you are making things up! This troop transportation road was built when Wei Wu returned to his hometown to recruit troops after his failure to assassinate Dong Zhuo. Could it be that at that time, he was already looking for the elixir of immortality? "
Li Qiong remained calm: "In the beginning, it was indeed the way to transport troops, but later..."
He shook his head: "Later there was a third road, but the entrance to that road was at the Huazu Temple. By the way, it was the Huazu Temple outside the city. The one recorded in the state annals was not the one in the city. The current one and the one outside have been demolished... which is where Huazu's tomb was. Including the two or three roads we walked through, there is actually only one direction, and that is Huazu's tomb... Just like As you said, Du Chong broke the levee of the Yellow River and the water poured into the eddy. That road has indeed been submerged."
At the same time, outside Bozhou City.
Liu Bang looked at the bulging hill, which looked like a barren tomb... Bozhou City was now filled with the smell of golden soup, spreading to the sky and burning people's eyes, which made him regret using this method.
But at this time, his stomach began to rumble as if responding to everyone's ammunition. While asking Huang Yanjie to bring the tissue paper, he quickly walked around to the back of the mountain bag, untied his belt, and began to defecate.
"You, what evidence do you have?" Xin Zan was still asking, but looking at his expression, he already believed it.
"No evidence is needed," Li Qiong looked at him, "That tunnel is inside the wall of Gunxuehan Road. As soon as you open it, the river water inside will flow out. If you don't believe me, sir, you can give it a try."
Liu Zhan lowered his head and thought: "Old Taoists naturally believe in this medicine, but since Cao Mengde has not found the medicine, why would Li Jingxuan build an identical one? Isn't this a waste of effort?"
Li Qiong looked at the Taoist priest again. He had been pondering this aspect for a long time, but unlike this one, he discovered the problem as soon as he heard it.
"Actually, Li Jingxuan found it and found the elixir of immortality. This path was cultivated to show to Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty."
"you mean……"
Now, even Liu Zhan couldn't calm down.
"He found it, but he didn't dare to use it, at least he didn't dare to use it while the emperor was alive, because Tang Gaozong didn't believe him, otherwise he wouldn't have come to Bozhou in person. He had been sent by Tang Gaozong all his life He was monitored, and his daily meals and drinks were recorded in a book. Even until his death, he did not take the medicine."
"As a result, Tang Gaozong passed away the second year after his death. This can be regarded as fate."
"Wu Fu also found out about this later, but Li Jingxuan was already dead at that time. His son Li Sichong, forced by the Wu family, had no choice but to kill Wu Sansi with Wei Wang Li Chongjun. Naturally, he failed and was disgraced. life."
"Later, before Wu Fu had time to attack other members of the Li family, she herself died. The Li family didn't know how many people were still looking at the medicine, so they started with Li Shen's father, Li Me, and distributed the medicine. The matter is rotten in the stomach, and this matter has completely become a secret."
"Later..." Li Qiong seemed to be starting a long memory, "Even when Taizu of this dynasty came, he also came to look for medicine, because Patriarch Chen Tuan had a deep connection with the Zhao Guan family, and he was Taoists, who are also from Bozhou, have learned Li Laojun's health-preserving methods, but they have no medicine to assist them. Although they live long, their lifespan will eventually end."
"Ancestor Chen Tuan was worried that Emperor Taizu would go to war for this medicine, causing the city of Bozhou to fall into a bloody storm again, so he walked on the Zhaowang River to meet Emperor Taizu, and used his immortal talents to enlighten Emperor Taizu. Don't do anything. When Taizu had an epiphany, he gave up the reason that "dragons don't enter the vortex" and turned around and went back."
"Then there are Emperor Zhenzong and... Emperor Huizong. Zhao Guan's family is the flesh and blood of the late emperor, so he should know about this matter."
"so……"
The sound of footsteps gradually approached, and it turned out that they were Wang Shizhong and the other three who were returning from making tea. Xiao Yaksha nodded towards his father who was already a little confused, indicating that everything was normal, but Wang De didn't even look at it. He was still chewing carefully the things Li Qiong threw out.
"So, in exchange for this medicine, the Zhao Guan family will exchange Bozhou City. Do you think the Zhao Guan family will agree to Qiong?"
Li Qiong took the tea and cups from the two of them and poured a cup for the three people in front of him. Li Qiong took a careful sip and then drank it all, looking extremely focused.
"You...have this medicine? Then you don't take it yourself?"
"How talented are the Zhao Guan family to be bewitched by your words? Let alone whether the medicine is real or fake, even if it is real, if it is just a non-toxic medicine, how do you want the Zhao Guan family to win their trust?"
"Is it possible to see if the people who are trying the medicine can live for a hundred years? Is it possible that Bozhou won't take it?"
"Furthermore, if Zhao Guan's family takes your medicine and regrets it, what can you do to him? Can Bozhou City really be safe and sound?!"
Xin Zan and Liu Zhan were like two divine arm bows, constantly firing towards Li Qiong, but judging from the fact that they had already said that Zhao Guan's family would regret it, they already knew it in their hearts.
No one would refuse the temptation of immortality, let alone an emperor.
Even a great man like Qin Shihuang had the dream of immortality, and even a woman like Wu Fu wanted to live alone.
Zhao Guanjia couldn't refuse, he was an ambitious person.
Ambitious people will make ambitious choices.
Li Qiong smacked his lips and swallowed all the tea flavor into his mouth:
"Let Zhao Guan's family make the choice first. Qiong has Qiong's backup..."
As he spoke, he took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Wang Qi and said:
"My nephew, please do this for me, deliver this letter to Zhao Guan's family, and then bring his words back to me. Thank you very much."
He even raised his hand towards Wang Qi. Xiao Yaksha looked at his father with some doubts, but saw that Wang De seemed to be a puppet. After a while, he nodded gently.
Xin Zan immediately burst out in anger: "Wang De! You can't go, you can't let the officials know about this!"
"Wang De, do you want to see Bozhou continue to be controlled by the Jin people?"
"Wang De, General Wang, you can't, you can't, you can't!"
…
The old man threatened and begged for a while, but Yasha nodded towards Wang Qi. The latter didn't know the inside story, so he took the letter and went out.
As soon as he went out, he heard Li Qiong shout again:
"There is a horse a hundred steps ahead, ride faster!"
Xin Zan seemed to have been beaten. He slid from the stool to the ground, put his face in his hands, and kept whimpering.
Wang De couldn't bear it and sighed:
"You old man, you don't know. The official is kind to me and has given me a lot of medicine. Now I don't want to say whether the official wants to live forever. I can't let him not even have the qualifications to know about this. That's bullying." Jun."
Then he looked at Li Qiong and said, "Scholar, you'd better run away. The officials must want Bozhou's... the longevity medicine is nothing in the eyes of the officials."
"Oh? Then we'll see."
Li Qiong looked at him with interest, and the two exchanged glances, both of them firm.
(End of chapter)
