Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 688
The lime was finally found. To be precise, what they sent them was half quicklime and half limestone.

Because the stone sent by others was used to set up clay pots for fire.

They don't know that this stone is called limestone, but every time they cook some soup, if the soup accidentally overflows and flows on it, the place where the stone was burned by the fire will instantly shatter and turn into white powder.

They can often pick up this kind of stone when they build a simple stove. There must be a lot of limestone near their tribe.

The problem is, their tribe is too far away from the Dao tribe.

According to their description, they stopped here after passing through more than a dozen tribes.

The meaning of this rest is to sleep, that is to say, they walked for more than ten days to get here. Judging from this, their tribe is at least 200 miles away from here.

Fortunately, the Indian tribes are very kind to their own people. People from other tribes will entertain them well. Otherwise, they will starve to death if they carry them for more than ten days in this primitive jungle.

More than 200 miles is already a terrifying distance in this primitive jungle. Even if they have horses, they cannot ride in most of the places and can only be led.

Fortunately, there are tribes along the way, and each tribe has at least a few miles of roads, and they can still ride.

It took Wang Chong seven or eight days to bring back more than 1 riders before he brought back more than [-] kilograms of limestone with his horses.

The next thing is simple, they have already prepared the things needed to clean up the poisonous miasma, and they have even opened the road from the Dao Tribe to the source of the poisonous miasma.

Early the next morning, Li Shuben, Wang Chong and others set off with more than [-] riders, carrying firewood, limestone, various herbs for smoking mosquitoes, realgar powder, hoes, and so on.

The road has been opened, and the distance of more than ten miles to less than twenty miles is nothing. After about half an hour, they rushed to the pool where the source of the poisonous miasma was.

At Li Shuben's order, more than [-] people immediately divided into four groups, surrounded the pool, then dug four huge pits, and started to burn fire.

They are here to clean up the source of the poison, so naturally they have to do it all at once, and the mosquitoes carrying the miasma poison will also be smothered to death.

So, after the four huge bonfires were lit, they threw all kinds of herbs that smoked mosquitoes into the fire, and it didn't take long for this primeval forest to billow with smoke, straight into the sky, and the huge smoke column was twenty or thirty It can be seen inside and out.

People in the nearby tribes would be shocked if they didn't know that they were cleaning up the poisonous miasma, because this scene can only be seen when there is a fire in the jungle.

Once this kind of primeval jungle full of trees catches fire, it will be devastating, and it will be unstoppable.

They can't be put out at all, so they can only run away quickly.

Even the members of the Dao Tribe did not expect that the smoked mosquito could produce such an aura. They were all stunned to see all this, and they were all dumbfounded.

However, Wang Chong kept shouting in the thick smoke: "Everyone, pay attention to your surroundings. Once a spark jumps out of the fire, extinguish it immediately. Don't really set the whole forest on fire."

They also brought water, and it was a special potion.

These potions were specially prepared by Li Shuben for burying the rotting corpses. The rotting corpses cannot be buried on pieces of quicklime. When burying, some water must be poured to turn the quicklime into slaked lime.

Although they didn't bring much water, there were still dozens of buckets, which was enough to water Mars.

The fire burned for a full hour, and the whole jungle was already filled with smoke, and the stench of rotting corpses also turned into a thick mosquito scent, and the four large fire pits were also filled with red-hot charcoal.

Seeing this, Li Shuben ordered people to throw tens of thousands of catties of limestone into the charcoal fire and burn it into quicklime.

After about an hour, the charcoal fire was extinguished, and the burnt quicklime was no longer hot to the touch. He immediately ordered everyone to wear masks soaked in the medicine to cover their mouths and noses, and then directly threw the quicklime blocks into the pool.

More than [-] people worked together, and tens of thousands of catties of quicklime were thrown into the pool, and the water in the entire pool boiled quickly.

Those flies and mosquitoes had been fumigated to death long ago, and the eggs in the water must have been completely dead after being boiled in this way, and the toxins in the pool water were neutralized with lime, and it was probably about the same.

Seeing that the water in the pool was boiling, Li Shu ordered people to stop throwing quicklime blocks, and then directly poured the potion into four huge pits, poured all the quicklime inside into mature lime powder, and finally poured the rotten corpse and the soil around the rotten corpse Shovel them all in and bury them, and the miasma poison here will be cleaned up.

Even if their mission was completely completed so far, Li Shuben had no intention of going back at all.

There is no way, there are too many herbs here, and he can discover new ones every day, and there are at least a dozen of them a day. This is heaven for someone like him who is obsessed with herbal research, how could he be willing to go back.

He lingers here and forgets to leave, but someone can't help but come to the door.

At around noon that day, he had just picked the herbs and was about to plant them in the medicine garden, when a voice came from a long way away: "Master Li, long time no see."

Jin Yiwei Commander Luo Sigong!

He put down the towel, turned his head to look, sure enough, Luo Sigong had already walked up the steps with several personal guards.

Isn't this guy in charge of the overall situation in the city? What are you doing here?
He hastily went up to meet him, politely cupped his hands and said: "Oh, Mr. Luo, I have lost my way, please forgive me."

Luo Sigong hurriedly cupped his hands in return and said: "Master Li, you are polite. I came here uninvited and interrupted your research on herbs. Please forgive me, Sir Li."

This said.

Li Shuben hastily ordered people to bring tables and chairs, put them on the balcony outside, poured Luo Sigong a bowl of herbal tea with his own hands, and said politely: "Lord Luo must be very hot all the way here, come on." , drink some herbal tea to get rid of the fire."

Luo Sigong picked up the herbal tea and drank it down without hesitation.

This herbal tea is actually sweet and sweet, with a hint of medicinal fragrance in the sweet, very delicious!

He couldn't help smacking his lips and said: "Master Li, what kind of herbal tea is this, it's so delicious."

Li Shuben smiled slightly and said, "This is what I prepared to quench my thirst. The effect of the medicine is not very strong. The main point is the taste, that is, I put a little more sugar cane."

Well, there is even Xianxin who specially prepares herbal tea to quench his thirst.

Luo Sigong couldn't help sighing: "Lord Li, I'm so excited."

Why does it feel like this guy has something on his mind?
Li Shuben couldn't help asking: "Lord Luo, what's wrong with you?"

Luo Sigong couldn't help sighing: "Oh, the emperor is coming, I haven't made much progress yet, I'm really in a hurry."

emperor?

Li Shuben quickly asked: "Have you received the news, how long will the emperor be here?"

Luo Sigong shook his head slightly and said: "I haven't received the news yet, but counting the time, there will be at most ten more emperors and the emperor will arrive soon."

Oh, there are still ten days left.

Li Shuben thought for a while, then asked again: "Lord Luo, what do you mean by not making much progress?"

Luo Sigong couldn't help sighing again: "It's really hard to find news here, it's hard to walk an inch in the primeval jungle, and I've only searched south for more than five hundred miles, but I haven't come out of Natal yet. What about the scope, it won’t work like this.”

This is indeed.

Walking through the primeval jungle is not an ordinary difficulty, if you are not careful, you may even die in it. It is not easy for Luo Sigong to explore more than [-] miles south.

Li Shuben couldn't help but sighed and said: "This matter is really difficult, what are you going to do next, Mr. Luo?"

He knew that the reason why Luo Sigong came to him must be to discuss this matter with him.

Sure enough, Luo Sigong immediately said solemnly: "I have to ask Mr. Li for help in this matter."

How can I help?

Li Shuben said very simply: "Lord Luo, if you have anything to do, just order it."

Luo Sigong hurriedly said politely: "Don't dare to order, this time I really ask Mr. Li for help.

I heard that Lord Li has a very high prestige in the nearby tribes, so I would like to ask Lord Li to come forward and call the chiefs of the nearby tribes to discuss, to see if they can follow the example of those tribes in North America, form a tribal alliance and become a vassal state of Ming Dynasty.

In this way, we can ask them to gather young and strong to open a way in the primeval jungle, and it will be much more convenient for us to explore south. "

(End of this chapter)