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Chapter 1348: Hehe, expired lottery ticket [asking for monthly ticket]

Luo San's words seemed to be a bit unfair to Wei Cheng.

Shen Tang said dimly, "Oh, if he hadn't had a dispute with Gong Xichou and had fought you without my knowledge, sending you back to your peak state, I wouldn't have used the granary as bait to fish. The guy in Weicheng didn't work for me, but to clean up the mess he made. The siege strategy does take a long time, but it can minimize the losses."

You've made things difficult for yourself for no reason.

Shen Tang didn't turn hostile because of their friendship.

Luo San: "..."

It is really hard to refute Shen Tang's accusation.

Luo San still doubted Shen Tang's statement that he would "not cause trouble for Luo Hou". What was the difference between this plot and no plot?

The threshold for achieving this condition is really too low.

The price Shen Tang paid is hard to measure with money. The investment in a bloody battle is astronomical, not to mention the invisible losses that cannot be seen by the naked eye. On the other hand, Luo San, the loser, can save his life and return to freedom without paying any price. Where in the world can there be such a cheap good thing?

Luo San is just old, he doesn't have Alzheimer's disease.

Since Shen Tang was trying to hide the truth and refused to confess, Luo San would not go out of his way to cause trouble and would not feel comfortable until he skinned her alive.

He considered and said, "I agree to your terms."

Shen Tang's face was visibly relaxed.

Once again, I sigh——

Luo San, the Che Hou, was really the most easygoing of all the Che Hous she had met. He was mentally stable and very reasonable.

"But..." Luo San changed the subject and mentioned the captured old subordinates. He wanted to ask Shen Tang how to deal with them. If possible, he still hoped that the old subordinates could have a better ending. "Those old subordinates have followed me for many years. They may have made some mistakes but they have never violated the great principles. They are all strong men. My lady is broad-minded. Can you carefully consider their fate?"

In troubled times, human lives are like straw.

Prisoners of war were not even considered human beings.

The better ones, after surrendering, would be used as cannon fodder in the next war, and if they were lucky enough not to die, they would have hope of climbing up; the worse ones would be sold in various ways, completely reduced to slaves, and sent to wastelands to do hard labor and corvee labor, and they would have to work until they died as long as they were alive.

If Luo San had not been completely defeated, he could have exchanged the captives in his hands for those of Shen Tang and redeemed all his people, but Luo San had no hope of turning things around. Naturally, there was no possibility of rescuing these captives.

According to Luo San's understanding, it was basically impossible for Shen Tang to use these prisoners of war as ordinary soldiers. He never thought that Shen Tang's existence was to break the cognition: "The country has its own laws, and the army has its own regulations. Even I cannot easily give Luo Hou a backdoor... Your old subordinates, why don't you come forward to persuade them. See if they are willing to continue to join the army, or redeem themselves through labor."

The former is less controversial.

The original organization was disrupted and arranged in various military camps.

As for the latter, Luo San really needs to come forward and speak out.

She never burned, killed or looted ordinary people during wars, but she was not a philanthropist either. The high cost of war had to be shared, and prisoners of war were one of the biggest sources of profit. Prisoners of war had to sell their own labor to earn enough money to redeem themselves.

Luo San: "..."

If someone else had said this, he would definitely know what the two paths given by Shen Tang meant: joining the army means dying as cannon fodder, and redeeming oneself through labor means working as a slave until death. But with the previous preparation, Luo San always felt that it would not be that simple.

If he could be free again, why would he make things difficult for the remaining members?
Luo San asked: "I wonder what the rules are?"

Shen Tang once again expressed his admiration for Luo San's stable mental state.

If it were any other general, he would have been unable to sit still.

After more than ten years of fighting, Shen Tang already had a complete process for the placement of prisoners of war. The cost of raising a young and strong man in troubled times was too high. She would not easily kill prisoners of war unless necessary, nor would she torture them to death. If these people could give up their original identities without bloodshed, live as self-employed farmers, support their families as ordinary people, and contribute to the population of Kangguo, Shen Tang would not deliberately make things difficult for them, let alone raise the butcher knife for a large-scale purge.

She gave Luo San a general description of the process.

Luo San: "..."

I read it again and again, and for the first time I suspected that I was illiterate.

I know every word, but I can't recognize them together: "Are these true? Lady, are you doing charity?"

Now it was Shen Tang's turn to be speechless.

She often didn't fit in with these old men because she wasn't perverted enough. Wei Cheng also said something similar, complaining that Shen Tang was too lenient and generous to the captives in the Gao Kingdom War. If the captives were not killed, they should be grateful, so how could they dare to think of anything else?

Luo San looked at it again and again, frowning in confusion.

His inquiring look made Shen Tang feel uncomfortable.

"If Luo Hou has any questions, just ask."

Luo San asked, "Looking at the foundation under your majesty, it's not something that ordinary forces can have. It's not too much to establish a country on the spot. This kind of preferential treatment for prisoners of war is unheard of... Forgive me for being frank, your behavior is comparable to that of ancient saints, but why are you still a scattered army?"

To date, Shen Tang's forces are still regarded as rural warlords.

There is neither funding from other countries nor assistance from famous families.

She is now fighting without a legitimate reason, which is to say that she is the henchman of bandits, but judging from the details of the preferential treatment for prisoners of war, she is more organized than many regular armies. If Shen Tang's forces negotiate with Shanyong County in the name of the country, and Shanyong County runs out of ammunition and food, Luo San will consider the possibility of opening the city without bloodshed. Doing it or not is one thing, but at least there is hope.

Luo San's camp belongs to "Suginaga County".

Shen Tang didn't know that the common people in this land were all migrated from other places. Where did all those people go?
Naturally, they were all killed in Luo San's accidental massacre last time.

He sealed the out-of-control Wudan totem in the city wall, built up military defense, and served as the commander of Shanyong County peacefully no matter how the regime changed. His original intention was to atone for his sins. In theory, as long as Shen Tang did not massacre the city and exterminate the race, Luo San could negotiate.

Of course, there still has to be a fight before going to the negotiating table.

A brave warrior always respects strength.

Shen Tang: "..."

what is this?
She worked so hard to save up five million in assets, only to find out that the expired lottery ticket she bought many years ago had already won five million?
So what are the twists and turns in between?
Is she unlucky?
It must be Kangshi who misused Huabei again.

Shen Tang rubbed his swollen brows to relieve the headache.

"…Not a guerrilla group."

The head office had been planning to go public a long time ago, and it might still be one of the top five companies in the mainland. Its goal is to take down other listed companies and unify the entire financial sector. She did not take the initiative to reveal these facts, so she let Luo San slowly discover them. The king and his subjects are like lovers, and curiosity is the first step to falling. She did not believe that Luo San would not develop a good impression of her if he peeled off the layers of the branch company like peeling an onion.

Kangguo, the succubus in the country.

Luo San thought he was not a curious person, and he would not easily believe the other party's sweet words before he saw Shen Tang's promise come true, until a man who claimed to be a doctor of Xinglin came over. When the other party saw him, his eyes lit up and his gaze was fiery, and he looked like he wanted to use his gaze to see through his clothes and strip him naked.

Luo San: "..."

He suddenly remembered what Magistrate Suginaga said, that a group of strange people took advantage of his unconsciousness and robbed his chest and abdomen.

Could it be the person in front of me?

"Are you the doctor from Xinglin sent by the Lady?"

Shanyong County is not a big place, and the news is not very well-informed. Luo San has never seen the methods of the Xinglin doctors with his own eyes, and only thought that this title was used to refer to some doctors with excellent medical skills, such as the Xinglin Master. "Lord Luo, are you well? The master should have told you, right?"

Doctor Xinglin put down the medicine box with an enthusiastic attitude.

Luo San hummed: "I will try my best to cooperate."

He has a good temper in many aspects, one of which is that he does not cause trouble for doctors - this is very rare. Wudan warriors are self-confident about their strong strength and abnormal recovery ability. They look down on low-level doctors and have a very arrogant attitude. If they can cure well, it is because of their own strength. If they can't cure well, it is because they are mediocre doctors who harm people, which has caused many appalling medical troubles.

The doctor from Xinglin smiled so hard that his teeth were visible.

She said eagerly, "Don't worry, Lord Luo. As long as you cooperate, I will definitely do my best to cure your stubborn disease. Even if my medical skills are not good enough, I will find someone to help you. All the favors will be mine. If there are some results in the future, I will write a second report for you from the Medical Bureau."

Luo San didn't quite understand what he heard.

But he had a good temper, so he nodded and replied: "Okay."

Doctor Xinglin's smile became more sincere.

If we were to ask who the doctors in the entire medical department envied the most, it would definitely not be the imperial physician Dong Dao, but the chief craftsman Bei Jiu, who had nothing to do with the medical department. It was simply because the chief craftsman had a human test subject who helped collect data without any regrets.

According to the rules of the Medical Bureau, certain experimental medical techniques involving human ethics can only be tested on death row prisoners and animals, not ordinary people.

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But, rules are dead, people are alive.

High-level warriors are not included in this list. Qualified warriors will not risk being guinea pigs for the medical department, unless they really can't survive, they will come to gamble and try their luck to turn a bicycle into a motorcycle. So far, I haven't encountered such a gambler.

The gambler didn't come, but a kind-hearted man came.

The medical expenses of Luo San and his former prisoners of war were all reimbursed by the government. He did not owe the Medical Department any favors. Not only were they willing to be guinea pigs for him, they also donated their strong, flawless bodies for free. He was simply a living Bodhisattva of the Medical Department!

She asked cautiously, "So -- start testing the drug?"

Luo San nodded: "Yes."

Shen Tang had given a warning before sending people over. Any method to be used had to be checked by her first, and not all methods could be used. Although there were restrictions, the Xinglin doctor was also very satisfied - Luo San could help him better control the dosage of new prescriptions and the effect of the doctor's words, and he could also feedback the efficacy information in the first place, while those experimental animals would not speak.

Luo San had little hope for treatment.

Agreeing was just obedience to Shen Tang.

But after seeing the unique treatment method of Doctor Xinglin, he fell silent - it turned out to be this kind of Doctor Xinglin?

Did he remember what else the lady said?

The most skilled doctor in the world is under her command?
How could such a talented person easily obey anyone?

Back in the dungeon, Luo San asked the county magistrate Suginaga next door.

"Have you ever heard of the doctor Xinglin?"

The county magistrate had only heard of it, but his uncle had actually seen it.

The head of a noble family in the capital was seriously ill. The filial son of the family traveled thousands of miles to invite a doctor who was said to have miraculous medical skills. This person called himself the Doctor of Xinglin. With a little help, he actually saved the patient who was sentenced to death. The head of the noble family wanted to return the favor and make the other party famous, stirring up public opinion to give him the name of the Doctor of Xinglin. The doctor did not accept it, saying that he was not worthy of it.

【Mr. Dong is a jewel in the crown, and I am not worthy of being his match.】

"Why do you ask that?"

Luo San asked: "Who is the most powerful doctor in the world?"

There is no first in literature, no second in martial arts, and it is difficult to judge the level of medical skills. How dare that female monarch say that the best doctor is under her command?

He calmly replied, "I'm not sure about that, but I heard from a doctor in the medical field that the most respected doctor in the field is a doctor named Dong Dao... I've never heard of this name before."

"Dong Dao?"

"He is said to be the pioneer of medical practitioners in Xinglin, so he should be the strongest."

Luo San asked again: "Where is he from?"

"It seems to be someone from the Northern Kang Kingdom?"

"Northland? Kangguo? This name sounds familiar."

Suginaga County Magistrate joined the group chat: "Kangguo? Doesn't it sound familiar? He was the one who unified the northwest forces and was so rampant that he couldn't find his way north. He also shamelessly listed the famous officials and celebrities among his civil and military officials. What country thing? The first volume is still a commoner old woman. I remember her name...what was her name...I don't remember, anyway, she was a country woman with the surname Li..."

What strategies could a country woman have for flood control?
It is widely believed that this is Kangguo's "deification", using any means to win over the people, and deliberately fabricating such an old woman for the common people of Kangguo to see. If we work backwards from the results, we can find that the royal court wasted some words and the people were moved to tears.

The county governor said: "I heard that the ruler of Kang is very popular among the people."

It was the first time he knew about it and he was amazed that it was possible to play like this.

The King of Kang is really good at having fun.

Luo San was not interested in whether the King of Kangguo was popular among the people. He asked, "Dong Dao? Does he have affiliation? Who does he pledge allegiance to?"

"The doctors of Kangguo are of course loyal to the ruler of Kangguo. Who else could it be?" The county governor suspected that Luo San's brain was damaged after going out. "Speaking of this ruler of Kangguo, he is also weird. I heard that someone was indignant about the famous ministers and scholars spreading rumors, so he went to Kangguo to argue and tear off the other party's fig leaf. The result was that the man ran away and never came back."

My uncle guessed: "Killed?"

The county magistrate nodded in agreement: "Most likely he was killed."

Luo San didn't care that the topic had deviated so drastically.

His mind was full of "Dong Dao, the first doctor in Xinglin, was loyal to the King of Kangguo", so the words of the lady were just exaggerations. This is understandable, everyone will exaggerate to flatter themselves. The doctor in Xinglin under the lady's account did have some skills: "What is written in the biographies of famous ministers and famous scholars?"

"There are currently two volumes of this thing. Which one do you want to listen to?"

"It's all right."

Being in jail and recuperating is a boring job, and having someone to talk to can help pass the time. The county magistrate is a scholar after all, and he has a photographic memory, not to mention that he has read and studied the two volumes of biographies of famous officials and scholars many times.

He remembered every word.

For a moment, he spoke fluently.

Luo San listened quietly, but he frowned when the county magistrate mentioned that in the second volume Chu Yao had a student named Lin Feng.

"Lin Feng?"

(へ╬)
After staying up all night, I feel exhausted.

Until now, people are still confused.

Fate always plays tricks on us at critical moments.

I feel better now. Yesterday I felt that my hands were shaking so much that they didn't belong to me. My mind was buzzing and blank, and I completely lost the ability to think.

This is yesterday's update, not the 16th.