"Sir, Dong Tianxing is outside asking for a meeting!"
Li Jiangyao looked at the sky outside the window and asked curiously: "It's so late, what can I do to the old man?"
Xiahou Ninghan took the robe and put it on Li Jiangyao's shoulders: "These days, I have been busy greeting people from various countries in Western Xinjiang, and I have forgotten Master Dong. It is better to meet him quickly. It is probably related to the lead. .”
Li Jiangyao nodded, put on his robe carefully, and then came to the front hall with Xia Hou Ninghan. When Dong Tianxing saw the two people coming out, he stood up from his seat, cupped his hands and said, "See His Royal Highness the Holy King and the Princess."
"Old man, please don't make fun of us." Li Jiangyao waved his hand quickly when he saw this: "The Holy King's incident is all for the purpose of stabilizing Western Xinjiang. We ourselves should not take it seriously."
Xiahou Ninghan also said: "Jiang Yao also specifically told the Zhenjiang Army that they were only allowed to call him my lord, not your highness."
Dong Tianxing laughed happily when he heard this, and immediately changed his words: "That's good. See you, Madam, the Protector."
Li Jiangyao pulled the old man to sit down and said with a smile: "Seeing you so happy, there must be some good news, right?"
Dong Tianxing nodded: "To be honest with the Protector, there has indeed been progress. After some research, Amenta and Wu Rong determined that the main function of lead in the soul-taking sand is to control the onset of toxins, and then control the obedience of the poison soldiers. instruction."
Xiahou Ninghan wondered: "About this, haven't we made similar judgments before?"
"The key question is, which toxins can be controlled by lead?" Dong Tianxing couldn't hide his excitement: "Two major poison experts from Miao and Xinjiang in Yunnan joined forces and combined their respective learnings to finally delineate a rough range."
He took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, handed it to Li Jiangyao, and continued to explain: "Meadow lead is not a panacea. The toxins it can affect are actually limited. From this perspective, Amenta and the others basically targeted the Turks for use. After identifying the type of poison, you will have the opportunity to find the corresponding antidote."
Xiahou Ninghan's eyes lit up: "It makes sense! Since the lead is equivalent to the medicine, we can really go back and speculate on which poisons it will cause to be effective."
Li Jiangyao looked at the list in his hand, and then handed it to Xia Hou Ninghan: "However, this range is still quite large. At a glance, there are nearly a hundred species."
Dong Tianxing said with a smile: "For laymen like us, it seems that the number is huge, but for Amonta Wurong, there are only five categories, namely stone, gold, insect, grass, and elixir. The so-called stone is from Toxins extracted from minerals, such as lead. Gold is burned out of special metals, bugs are toxins from animals or insects, and grass refers to toxins in trees, vines, flowers, and plants. The last elixir refers to the toxins produced through human power. Synthesis, mixing several originally non-toxic things to make them toxic.”
Xiahou Ninghan nodded slightly: "Well, according to the "Herbs", the five types of toxins correspond to the five colors of black, white, red, green, and yellow, which are consistent with the five elements."
"As expected of Mr. Hanmei's daughter, he is indeed knowledgeable," Dong Tianxing praised: "It is indeed as Madam said, although these five types of toxins are different in nature, they coincide with the laws of the five elements and complement each other. Lead is a kind of stone poison, and it is black. It belongs to water, and has the strongest effect on insect poisons that are red and fire."
Li Jiangyao understood: "In other words, the soul-destroying sand used by Ge Shuxuan to harm people is mainly toxins from animals or insects?"
Dong Tianxing responded: "That's right. Although the poison soldiers were not caught and the poison on them was not verified, Amenta and Wu Rong can conclude that it is mainly insect poison."
He paused and continued: "Coincidentally, no matter whether it is Miao or Yunnan, what they are best at is insect poison. Therefore, those two old guys are 60% sure that they can initially make an antidote, which will be effective within a certain period of time. To a certain extent, it can detoxify the poison soldiers and make them return to normal."
"This is great!" Xiahou Ninghan said happily: "Detoxification is the fundamental solution, which can effectively destroy the Turks' conspiracy."
Li Jiangyao still had some doubts: "But how should the antidote be used on those poison soldiers? We can't just arrest every poison soldier and then pinch their noses and pour the antidote down, right?"
Dong Tianxi chuckled and said: "Dadu Protector, it all depends on the methods of Amenta and Wu Rong. They both have magical powers, one can spread poisonous smoke, the other can cast spells, and the opposite is true. Is that okay too?”
Hearing this, Li Jiangyao and Xia Hou Ninghan looked at each other and smiled, and couldn't help but secretly praise Dong Tianxing and the others for their greatness.
If the antidote is blended into the smoke and the Gu insects, and then released over a large area, it can indeed affect the poison soldiers from a long distance.
"What raw materials are needed for the antidote?" Li Jiangyao said: "Just ask, I will provide you with as much as you want. If there is none in Western Xinjiang, I will immediately send someone to the Western Continent to purchase it!"
Dong Tianxing smiled and said: "I was just about to protect this sentence. Other materials are not too troublesome. They are available in Western Xinjiang and the Central Plains. They are just weights and lead, which must be taken care of."
Xiahou Ninghan smiled: "I never thought that this harmful poison could turn into a life-saving antidote in the end."
Li Jiangyao nodded and waved his hand: "There is no problem with the lead! I will write a warrant in a moment and let the Fifth Army handle it. I will buy the whole mine with real money and use it exclusively for you in the future!"
Dong Tianxing clapped his hands happily: "That's great. Protector General, the people of the Central Plains will be saved this time!"
Li Jiangyao was equally pleased and said: "Go and tell Amenta and Wu Rong that they are kind to Shengtang and the people, and our Suppressing Army will never treat them badly. For now, I will draw a big picture. Cake, when the world is at peace, Western Xinjiang will open two trade routes to Miao and Yunnan, so that the special products there can be sold to the Western Continent, and everyone can make money together!"
"Oh, I thought of this together!" Dong Tianxing said with a smile: "The two old money fans were still talking to me two days ago. Seeing the kings of the Western Xinjiang countries rushing to come to the Holy King City, they thought about it. Can we do business with Xijiang? Now that Daduhu has personally proposed it, it must have made the two of them extremely happy?"
Xiahou Ninghan said happily: "With the opening of trade routes, not only will wealth come in and the people will become rich, but it will also facilitate exchanges and integration across the country. It is truly a blessing for the world."
"Who says it's not? The world is lucky and the people are lucky." Dong Tianxing stood up, cupped his hands and said: "General Protector, madam, the matters here have been discussed, and it's time for me to leave."
Li Jiangyao heard that his words meant more than just saying goodbye, and quickly asked: "What? Are you planning to leave Xijiang?"
Dong Tianxing nodded slightly: "I decided to go to the Central Plains first to serve as a front station for Amenta and the others. If this matter is to be accomplished, the crown prince's support is needed."
Li Jiangyao expressed understanding and said: "That's right. Only with the cooperation of many parties can things be accomplished. Let's do this. I'll write a letter to Murong Xue and Shen Lie each and take it with you. After they read it, they will do their best to help you."
"Then I will also write one," Xiahou Ninghan smiled mischievously: "I will write it to His Highness the Crown Prince."
Dong Tianxing couldn't help being surprised and happy.
Murong Xue is a general in front of the imperial army, holding a heavy army, and Shen Lie is even more incredible. He is the head of the Nilin Division and has unfathomable energy. If the two of them are willing to help, everything will be fine. What's more, the fact that the Protector's wife can directly write to the prince is a perfect connection.
Two days later, Dong Tianxing, carrying three letters, embarked on the road to Luoyi, the eastern capital. To be on the safe side, Li Jiangyao specially selected four top masters from the White Robe Army, plus spies from the Intelligence Department and the Reverse Scale Department, to disguise themselves and escort them all the way.
At this time, Prince Li Bing had already moved his residence to Luoyi and returned to the magnificent Eastern Capital of the Holy Tang Dynasty.
However, in just over a year, Luoyi has already changed.
After being crazily bloodbathed by man-eating monsters, the entire city seemed like a ghost land. Even though hundreds of thousands of troops were stationed here, not many people dared to come back.
Not only Luoyi City, but also all counties within a radius of two hundred miles are the same.
Under the instruction of Ashina Zhijin, Ge Shuxuan madly created more than 10,000 poison soldiers who were completely unconscious and out of control, and spread them throughout Luoyi. As a result, millions of Shengtang soldiers and civilians were attacked and threatened, and fled south and east.
In the entire Yuzhou, almost every ten houses are empty.
In order to prevent the poisonous soldiers from spreading to the surrounding areas, Murong Xue arranged heavy troops to guard Luoyi, and at the same time mobilized troops to disperse and blockade various prefectures and counties to prevent these monsters from going to other places.
The Shengtang army also paid a huge price for this. More than 6,400 people were killed and more than 20,000 were injured. The nearly 160,000 troops were tightly contained in more than a dozen cities and hundreds of villages and towns, and for a while they were no longer able to launch an attack on the Turks.
At the same time, the Huaiyang King's army located in the southeast continued to send small groups of soldiers and horses to harass the Prince's Army's defense line. One day they burned a baggage camp, the next day they stole a garrison fortress. In three months, they actually eroded hundreds of miles of territory. , causing the troops of the Yinshan Dudu Mansion to continuously shrink and withdraw their defenses.
According to intelligence, Li Kuang has sent two envoys to Jingxiang and Yizhou, and secretly contacted Anping County Prince Li Chenglin and some court officials.
The situation in the world is becoming increasingly unfavorable to Prince Li Bing.
It was at this time that Dong Tianxing came to Luoyi.
Thanks to the introduction by someone from Nilin Division, Old Dong met Shen Lie and Murong Xue very smoothly. The two of them couldn't help being surprised and happy after hearing his entire experience. Especially when I learned that Li Jiangyao took advantage of the situation and became the Holy King of Western Xinjiang with great religious significance, I was even more excited.
Feel uplifted.
This means that it will not take long for Western Xinjiang to gather the strength of the entire territory and fully devote itself to the decisive battle against the Turks.
Shen Lie keenly pointed out that there were many Western Xinjiang troops in the Eastern Expedition invasion army. When they heard the news about the Holy King, they were bound to be greatly shaken at the spiritual level and were very likely to defect before the battle. Therefore, Nilin Division must seize this precious opportunity and spread this matter widely among the subordinate armies in Western Xinjiang.
Murong Xue was more concerned about the poison soldiers. After reading Li Jiangyao's letter and then listening to Dong Tianxing's explanation of the antidote, he suddenly lost all his sadness. He excitedly praised Old Dong and others for their loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, and suggested that he immediately go to the palace to see the prince and tell the prince the good news.
