The Great Qin Empire---Qin Li

Ye Zijin lay in the curtain, her face a little pale, and she was still covered with thick blankets in March. A female leukorrhea doctor was taking her pulse beside the couch.

The so-called "leukorrhea" refers to the area below the belt meridian. Women often suffer from leukorrhea, so doctors who specialize in treating obstetrics and gynecology diseases are called leukorrhea doctors.

Although the world's doctors are mostly men, many schools still pay attention to passing on the knowledge to men rather than women, especially the active ulcer doctors on the battlefield, almost 100% of them are men, but there are exceptions. In order to facilitate the treatment of noble ladies, the doctors who take care of the patients are mainly female doctors...

After a thorough inspection, the doctor let go of her hand and said to Ye Zijin: "How do you feel now, lady?"

The girl said shyly: "My lower abdomen is stabbing, and my whole body is cold."

The doctor smiled kindly. This kind of thing is something that every woman has to experience: "How old are you when you have your period?"

"I had my period before I was 15 years old."

Ye Zijin said softly: "I didn't feel too much discomfort at the time. When I came to Xianyang in January this year, I stopped having my period for a month, perhaps because of the fatigue of the journey. In March, I suddenly felt pain..."

"The lady's disease is the stabbing pain of blood and qi in the woman's abdomen, the menstrual flow is not smooth, and the lower abdomen is full and painful. It is a common disease and it is not a big deal..."

Although the female doctor said that this was a common disease among women, Zijin still felt uncomfortable. At this moment, she could do nothing but frown and lie on the bed to rest.

The doctor said that this disease has two causes, internal and external. The external cause is that the external evil wind and cold enter the body from the lower part to the veins, causing pain.

Zijin suddenly remembered that although her family was from the Central Plains of Korea, she had lived in Jiangling, Nanjun for the past seven or eight years and was accustomed to the hot climate there. She ate the same food as the locals. Suddenly she came to Xianyang in the north and suffered a lot on the road. It probably had a certain impact on her body.

"As for the internal cause, it is qi and blood deficiency."

While speaking, the doctor also introduced the treatment method to the girl.

"There is no medicine to cure this disease quickly, it can only be treated slowly."

In addition to the usual medicines, the doctor also recommended a product that has been selling well in Xianyang recently to Zijin.

"Brown sugar?"

The doctor said, "Yes, brown sugar from Nanjun is sold in the market. The imperial physician Xia Gong uses it as a medicine, and the bitter medicine soup is not so unpalatable. In addition, brown sugar is said to have the good effects of soothing the spleen and liver, replenishing blood, activating blood circulation, clearing blood stasis and expelling lochia."

After a lawsuit, the brown sugar from Anlu was cleared of its stigma and was even selected by the Shaofu as a tribute for next year. The imperial physician Xia Wuqi also proved that brown sugar has the potential to be used as medicine. As its reputation grew, the price of the last few hundred kilograms of brown sugar began to rise and it was sold out. Now it is no longer available on the market.

Ye Zijin was a little amused after hearing this. Her family was not short of this thing. Last month, that person gave 50 kilograms as a gift, but her father stubbornly bought it at the market price, unwilling to be labeled as "accepting bribes from former officials."

Since it was a prescription from the doctor, she would listen to it. She asked the maid to tell the kitchen to cut some brown sugar, boil it with ginger, and serve it in a lacquer ear cup.

This is a Chu-style lacquer ear cup brought from Nanjun. It is made of ramie, oval, with a curved belly and a flat bottom. It is light and feels like a thin wing when Zi Jin picks it up. The inside and outside of the cup are painted with red phoenix and cloud patterns. The brown sugar water is served in it, which is no different from ordinary medicine soup.

But it smells much better. Holding the ear cup with both hands, the girl opened her mouth slightly, drank a little, and immediately felt a sweet taste on the tip of her tongue.

"It's much more delicious than bitter medicine."

The girl smiled, puffed up her cheeks and blew gently, then raised her slender neck and drank the rest of the sugar water.

After two cups of brown sugar water, I don't know if it really has a miraculous effect or a psychological effect, my body warmed up, and my lower abdomen didn't seem to hurt so much.

Looking at the brown sugar cut into blocks on the lacquer plate, which she could add to the cup at any time, the color was not as bright red as at the beginning, but rather dark brown due to long-distance transportation. The girl took a look and said to herself, "I think we should not call it brown sugar anymore."

She thought jokingly, "It is black in color and sweet, black face and sweet mouth, so it is more appropriate to call it black sugar, right?"

Speaking of black sugar, black sugar arrived. After a few days, Ye Zijin's menstrual period was over and she was in good health. Hei Fu finally took time off and came to visit Ye Mansion...

...

Three waiters on each side waited behind them. Nei Shi Teng and Hei Fu, the host and guest, sat opposite each other in the hall. Nei Shi Teng gestured expressionlessly to let Hei Fu go first. Hei Fu bowed to Nei Shi Teng, picked up the arrow at hand, aimed at the copper pot between the two, and threw it out.

The arrow hit the copper pot without missing a beat. Hei Fu smiled and said, "Neishi, please!"

Today was a day off, and they didn't talk about official business. The host and the guest didn't want to sit there in boredom. They played the game of pitching pots according to the custom of the time. The one who hit the most shots won, and the loser drank the prescribed number of cups. Throwing arrows and drinking wine just filled the awkward gap of having nothing to say, which was good.

But in Ye Teng's mouth, it was not the case at all. He said indifferently, "My mansion courtyard is not wide enough to set up a swan and prepare a bow to compete. Besides, you are not good at shooting, which is well-known. It's not difficult for you. You should learn from the nobles in Xianyang and play pitching pots for fun."

Hei Fu was not bad in close combat, and could fight with warriors such as Dongmen Bao to a draw, but in terms of archery, after several years, there was still no improvement.

He had to say awkwardly: "Whenever I have free time, I will often practice bows and crossbows."

"As a guard beside the emperor, there can't be any mistakes."

Ye Teng said with emotion: "I heard that Zhao Gao, the commander of the Central Chariot House, although he is nearly forty years old, gets up at sunrise every day, practices swordsmanship and archery, and drives for several miles outside, just to keep his body from slackening. In addition to martial arts, he is also the best in grammar, especially his good handwriting, only the court judge and Hu Wujing can compare with him. The reason why your majesty has trusted and loved him for twenty years and has not reduced his grace is largely because no one around him can be more loyal than him."

Hei Fu was stern. Zhao Gao, the commander of the Central Chariot House, was in charge of the emperor's carriage and had tasks only when he was traveling. Therefore, on weekdays, he only entered the palace when the emperor asked him to draft an edict, and he didn't meet Hei Fu very often.

Every time he saw him from a distance, Zhao Gao smiled and greeted Hei Fu with appropriate words, neither humble nor arrogant.

But Heifu always felt that behind that smiling face, there might be a scorpion-like heart, so he only pretended to be nice to him, but was very cautious in secret.

From talking about pitching pots to archery, Heifu could hear that the old leader was instructing him.

"The Langwei and the close ministers need to be like a fully-strung crossbow, full of power, ready to shoot at any time, and the only one who can pull the trigger is your majesty!"

"There are hundreds of Langguan in the palace. Although your majesty seems to trust you very much recently, you must not be arrogant because of your favor. You must know that everything you have now is given by your majesty! Without your majesty's favor, you are nothing! Those who flatter you and win you over will abandon you overnight!"

Ye Teng was instilling the way of being a minister to Heifu, but Heifu did not agree with this sentence.

He relied on his military merits to reach this position step by step, and he was not a minister who was promoted by luck...

But he still had to agree.

While Ye Teng picked up the arrow pitcher, Hei Fu brewed his words and talked to his old leader about another matter.

"When I came over the Wei Bridge, I saw some immigrants from Shandong, driving or pushing sedan chairs, going west from Weinan."

"Yes, the first batch of immigrants has arrived."

Ye Teng contemptuously called the immigrants from the six kingdoms of Shandong "immigrants", meaning immigrants from the defeated countries who were forcibly relocated.

This "Governor of Zhili" of the Qin Dynasty has such an attitude, so don't expect those immigrants to get much good treatment. Although those who were relocated were at least middle-class families with a family wealth of more than 100,000 yuan, or merchants and handicraftsmen, it was obviously impossible for them to bring their real estate in their hometowns. The migration was hasty, and there was little surplus wealth when they arrived at the relocation place. When many families arrived in Xianyang, they were no different from beggars.

According to the plan, a total of 120,000 households were to be relocated westward, and of course it was impossible to put them all in Xianyang. As far as Hei Fu knows, Xianyang is just a transit station. Among those "relocated captives", 10,000 households will be relocated to Beidi County, 10,000 households to Longxi, 10,000 households to Beidi, 10,000 households to Ba County, 10,000 households to Hanzhong, and 20,000 households to Shu County. The remaining 50,000 households will be allocated to the counties of Neishi. On average, each of the 40 counties in Neishi will receive 1,000 households, which means that at least 100,000 acres of new land will be opened up to be enough.

Xianyang, which was allocated 10,000 relocated captives, has a dense population in the north of Wei River and cannot be settled. It can only put these immigrants who have arrived in succession in Weinan.

But even so, at least one million acres of new fields are needed to accommodate this huge immigrant population!

"Your Majesty wants to open five gardens such as Shanglin for the relocated captives to cultivate!"

The so-called five gardens refer to the multiple royal gardens distributed in the south of Weishui, which cover a wide range. Starting from Lantian and Yichun in the east, along the Zhongnan Mountains to the west, to Changyang and Wuzha, and then turning east along the Wei River, the area is more than 300 miles wide.

This is a place with a small population in Guanzhong. The garden has undulating hills, deep forests and giant trees, flowing rivers, and dense ponds, which have bred countless kinds of birds, beasts, fish and turtles. It has been an ideal hunting place for the Qin royal family in the past hundred years.

However, opening the Five Gardens is the first time in history.

As early as the time of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Qin was hit by a severe famine. Prime Minister Fan Ju asked King Zhaoxiang of Qin: "The grasses, vegetables, acorns, jujubes and chestnuts in the five gardens are enough to feed the people. Please release them."

However, after thinking about it, King Zhaoxiang of Qin rejected this request. The reason was shocking to the people of Shandong, but the people of Qin believed it: "The Qin law is that people are rewarded for their merits and punished for their crimes. Now the vegetables and grasses in the five gardens are released, so that people with merits and without merits are rewarded. If people are rewarded for their merits and without merits, this is the way to chaos. If the five gardens are released and chaos occurs, it is better to abandon the jujubes and vegetables and rule!"

So even though the famine was rampant, King Zhaoxiang of Qin, who was as hard as stone, would rather abide by the law than open it up to let the people eat. While the deer in the five gardens were running happily, countless people starved to death outside.

This is the most criticized thing in King Zhaoxiang of Qin's life.

But Qin Shihuang made a different choice from his great-grandfather. He decided to open the Five Gardens and let tens of thousands of immigrants settle down and live here and open up land.

Nei Shi Teng praised this policy: "Your Majesty is benevolent, it will benefit the country and increase the agricultural industry. It will be beneficial without any harm."

But he shook his head and said: "But even if we start farming now, we will miss the spring planting. I'm afraid it will not be until the autumn of next year that the exiles can grow the first batch of grain. Before that, they have to be supported by the government. Although Guanzhong has also built public toilets, collected manure, and started composting. Guanzhong is the place with the highest grain yield per mu in the world, and it has the benefit of beautiful manure. It will definitely have a good harvest next year, but with an additional 50,000 households and 300,000 mouths, I'm afraid the grain price will also soar."

One of the duties of Nei Shi is to maintain the grain price in Guanzhong. If the grain price soars to two or three hundred per stone, then his official position will be over.

"I do have an idea."

Heifu had ulterior motives in asking about the immigration and relocation of captives, and he immediately suggested: "It can help Neishi solve his problems, so that the government can solve the food crisis next year several months in advance!"

"What idea?"

Neishiteng smiled, he knew that Heifu had many ideas, and he let him in today, so why didn't he have the intention of consulting?

In order to get the girl he liked, in order to get rid of being single as soon as possible and marry a good wife, Heifu, a rice party loyal to future generations, resolutely betrayed the organization at this moment!

Heifu, a rice party traitor, shamelessly gave Neishiteng an idea.

"Grow wheat!"