"Zihe car?"
After learning the order from the palace, everyone in the Demon Suppressing Division was greatly surprised.
"Why does Your Majesty need so many Zihe chariots?"
The Zihe Che is not an ordinary thing, but the placenta left behind by a woman after giving birth, also known as afterbirth, chaos skin, and Hunyuan Dan.
"Supplementary Materials to Materia Medica" states: It is mainly used for patients with weak blood and emaciation, women suffering from strain, snoring, dark skin, and various diseases in the abdomen.
"What else can it be used for? Of course it can be used to make the elixir of life.
This kind of thing is believed to contain the fetal blood of newborns, and may contain the essence of innate blood. "
"I don't know if there are some Taoists or monks who are slandering and deceiving Your Majesty. They actually came up with such a recipe and asked for so much in one breath..."
"The capital has a population of one million. Although many disasters have occurred in the past and many people have died, there should be many pregnant women among the remaining ones. A hundred pairs is actually not too much, and it should be enough."
"That said, it may not be easy to get enough in a short time."
"Wait a minute, is there a time limit for collecting all these things?"
"The order from the palace was not clearly stated, but it seems to be very urgent. It is actually planned to be completed within half a month?"
"Just going door to door asking if there are any pregnant women expecting to give birth, and meeting the deadline, you have to prepare for several days."
Everyone in the department felt a headache.
This kind of errand is indeed not that easy to do.
The only thing that makes everyone in the department feel a little relieved is that this errand will not fall on them for the time being.
After all, the original duty of the Demon Suppression Division was to deal with evil spirits and deal with all kinds of strange incidents.
When it comes to the emperor's minions and hawks, we have to look at the East and West Second Factory.
The palace had greater trust in the eunuchs of the East and West Second Factory, and of course they were responsible for matters that were more personal to the emperor.
This time, the palace sent everyone from Xichang out.
On the side of the Demon Suppressing Division, Yuan Zhi and others from Catching Wind Hall are mainly in charge.
As the new imperial concubine of Li Li, Li Chuan also received secret orders.
"I won't do it!"
But when Li Fan saw it, he put away the decree on the spot.
He has not lost his integrity to the point of casually following random orders.
Fortunately, he also has the confidence to disobey orders and show disrespect.
"It's better if you don't do it, lest those innocent people say that our father and son have no bottom line in trying to curry favor with the emperor, and become like those eunuchs.
However, those eunuchs are really powerful.
Normally, you can grab chicken feathers and use them as arrows. Shouldn't you take this opportunity to plunder people's wealth and disturb the people? "
When Li Xin learned of Li Fan's decision, he didn't say much, but looked worried.
Since ancient times, it is not uncommon for eunuchs to cause trouble.
The emperor delegated power to them, and there was no telling what kind of trouble would result.
…
Anhuamen Street.
Horses roared in all directions, and cavalry appeared in all directions.
People from the East and West Second Factory were wearing bright clothes and angry horses, galloping wantonly.
They were running on the wide road, raising clouds of smoke and dust. After a while, they were knocking on the door from door to door in groups with the chiefs of their respective towns.
"I hereby advise you that if there are pregnant women or women who have just given birth in your home, you should report it in time."
Da'anfang, Datongfang, Dunyifang...
Go all the way north.
Even Anlefang and Changmingfang, which had suffered disasters before, were not spared.
Almost at the same time.
Mingdemen Street, Qixiamen Street...
Andefang, Tongyifang...
Something similar is happening.
After some Tiqi knocked on the doors of several houses, they found pregnant women and even began to take them away by force.
"Master, what are you doing?"
"We didn't break any royal laws."
"This is someone who is already nine months pregnant and is about to give birth. You can't follow her.
You go. "
"The imperial court has issued an order to collect Zihe chariots for medicine. It would be a great blessing for your people to be selected."
"Don't stand in the way. If it delays the important matters of the court, you are the only one asking."
Faced with the obstruction from the pregnant woman's family, the people from the second factory angrily criticized her.
If some of the eunuchs wanted to gather the pregnant women in advance to wait for delivery, it was just to prevent themselves from not being able to collect enough of the allocated share, so they planned to do something more appropriate.
Then, many other eunuchs fell in love with money and started fighting purely to compete for this resource.
Some people even took the opportunity to extract money. If there was no pregnant woman in the family, they used money to top it off.
Anyway, the order from the palace was passed on quickly, and there were no details. They were just told to act expediently.
Collecting money from people who are not pregnant is called taking advantage of others.
"What did they do? Isn't it just collecting Zihe cars? It takes so much effort."
"There aren't necessarily many pregnant women in the city, but it shouldn't be a problem to get a hundred."
Within the Demon Suppression Department, everyone couldn't help but talk privately.
"Otherwise, you are not as capable as the people from the East and West Factory No. 2. Think about it, the number of pregnant women giving birth is uncertain, but the palace is pressing hard, and it is limited to ten days and a half. Just do it.
If you were one of them, you would have to work hard to get the numbers together before the deadline? "
Some people know the ropes and tell the key.
It turns out that the people in the East and West Second Factory did not coordinate and take care of everything. They collected information one by one and arranged it centrally.
Instead, each is responsible to his or her own leader through his or her own department.
Whoever can grab enough Zihe cars in the shortest time will be able to do the job effectively and will be rewarded.
On the contrary, the light punishment may be punishment, and the serious punishment may be loss of life.
In this way, the number of Zihe vehicles really needed is far more than a hundred.
Because you have no idea how much your colleagues can receive from elsewhere, and how quickly they can receive it.
Others have already finished their work, but you are still slowly counting, contacting, and pointing out the day when the baby will give birth and come to pick it up. The day lily is already cold.
Those colleagues will not leave the good Zihe car to you for free.
At that time, buying it with money will only be a trivial matter. If you hand it over directly and take credit for it, but you get nothing, then you will be in big trouble.
Li Ao couldn't help but be speechless after listening to everyone's private discussion.
It's outrageous that this kind of thing can lead to a kind of competition.
However, he couldn't help but guess: "Is there something wrong with Emperor Delon's body and he urgently needs these things to rescue him?"
He had no way to pry into the situation in the palace yet, so he had no way of confirming it.
But there are some possibilities that cannot be ignored.
…
In just a few days, things were going crazy in the south of the city.
People from the East and West Second Factory, headed by Yuan Zhi and others, searched everywhere and carried out various cruel acts to restrict pregnant women.
They are not running for the total
