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"Your Highness, calm down. Although I don't know why these two people offended His Highness, the most important thing now is to find out the situation of alchemy in the palace, so please forgive these two people for the time being!" Seeing that Li Yin was really moved Killing heart, Wang An was the first to stand up and persuade.Naturally, Lu Hong and others couldn't let Li Yin kill the two key figures just like that, so they all stood up to persuade them.

Li Yin was also angry just now, which is why he made such a hasty decision. Now that he saw the advice of the officials, he naturally calmed down his anger, and made people put the paralyzed Huo Yuanzi and Ashanlu bring it up.

"Your name is Huo Yuanzi?" Li Yin asked, looking at the middle-aged Taoist who was kneeling on the ground, trembling all over, with undisguised anger still on his face.

"Q...His Royal Highness, the grass-roots man is Huo Yuanzi, who was originally a Taoist priest of Zhenlong Temple in Zhongnan Mountain. Because he was good at alchemy, he was called into the palace and became a Taoist priest in the palace!" Huo Yuanzi started He was terrified by Li Yin, but he quickly adjusted his emotions. After all, he is also a person who sees the world, and he thinks he has done nothing wrong. In addition, he is a Taoist priest in the palace. Even if the opponent is King Qi, he can't kill him at will.

"Very good, I ask you, what are you going to use these drugs for?" Seeing that the other party could adjust in such a short time, Li Yin couldn't help but nodded secretly, but the expression on his face remained unchanged. asked.Capital Datang 593

"Reporting to Your Majesty, these drugs were ordered by the poor to go to Persia to purchase them in person, mainly for alchemy!" Huo Yuanzi said without hesitation.

"Hmph, this king is very ignorant. I don't know what kind of elixir you want to refine. You need to use such things as drugs?" Li Yin said in a cold voice.He knows the power of opium better than anyone else. Even at the beginning, he thought about using opium to poison people in other countries.But he knows that opium is a double-edged sword.If he is not careful, he will hurt others and himself, so he quickly gave up the idea of ​​planting opium, but now, fortunately, he did not use opium to harm others, but others used opium on his relatives. Life and death!

"This..." When Li Yin asked about the refined medicine, Huo Yuanzi suddenly became a little hesitant, and his eyes flickered, as if there was something he didn't want to say.

"Bah~" Li Min slapped the table hard.With a loud roar, he said, "Bastard, do you still want to experience the severe punishment of this palace?"

Seeing Li Yin getting angry again, before Huo Yuanzi could speak, the Persian businessman Ashanlu next to him rushed forward and replied in very fluent Chinese: "Your Highness, Caomin knows that these drugs need to be refined. What kind of elixir."

"Oh?" Li Yin noticed this Persian merchant only now, and saw that he was slightly fat, with brown hair, blue eyes, a high nose, and a standard Persian face.He looks about 50 years old. If it is normal, it is estimated that the other party must have a kind smile on his chubby face all the time, just like those ordinary businessmen yiyàng.But now his face is full of panic, obviously he hasn't come out of the shock just now.

"Talk!" Li Yin suddenly realized that he was really losing his composure, if he continued to press like this.Maybe there was nothing useful to ask, so I put away the anger on my face.And took a sip of tea to calm down.At the same time, he also discovered that when Huo Yuanzi heard what Ashanlu said.His complexion suddenly changed.

Seeing Li Yin's "look" become a little relaxed, this lifted Ah Shanlu's spirits, thinking that the most famous prince in the Tang Dynasty had changed his attitude, so he became more courageous and straightened up a little Waist said: "His Royal Highness, this drug is used to refine the Yannian Pill, and the person who refined the Yannian Pill is not a Taoist, but a monk from Tianzhu, whose name is Na Luo Er Sa Po .”

"Nonsense! Alchemy has always been the patent of Taoism. When will it be the monk's turn to make alchemy?" Li Min slapped the table angrily and said, and he also blamed Li Shimin in his heart, thinking that the emperor's father must be crazy. Even a monk of unknown origin believed it.

But then Li Yin thought of another thing. If Naluoer Sapo was just a Tianzhu monk with unknown origin, he should have no way to enter the palace. Someone must introduce him to him, so who is this introducer?

Thinking of this, Li Yin immediately asked Ah Shanlu about it.But Ashanlu was a little hesitant when he heard it, and his eyes kept drifting to Huo Yuanzi, the meaning of which was self-evident.And Huo Yuanzi's expression flickered at the beginning, but in the end he was probably out of breath, and then he pointed at Ashan Road and shouted: "What are you looking at, if you hadn't introduced him to me, how could I have brought him into the palace? "

And Ashanlu also immediately argued: "At first, I just saw that Luoer Sapo had some talents, so I introduced it to you, the Taoist priest, but you brought Naluoer Sapo into the palace to serve as His Majesty's favor. Alchemy, this is none of my business!"

Seeing that the two were eager to clear up their responsibilities, Li Yin's face darkened, and he was about to get angry again, but Lu Hong who was next to him took the lead in scolding: "No noise in the hall, now let you Hu Shang will tell you about the origin of Na Luo Er Sa Po, and then Huo Yuanzi will tell you how he entered the palace!"

Huo Yuanzi and Ashanlu now understand that His Royal Highness Qi Wang in front of him is very disgusted with alchemy, so they are busy disregarding their relationship. Push it on the other party's head, but as long as you have a little brain, you can analyze what happened.

It turns out that according to Ashanlu, that Naluoer Sapo was originally a monk of the Jieri Dynasty, but because the death of the Jieri King caused great chaos in Northern Tianzhu, he fled from Northern Tianzhu to escape the war. Arrived in the Western Regions, and it happened that Ashanlu sold a batch of goods from Persia and passed through the Western Regions. In the end, he happened to meet the other party, and Ashanlu found that the monk knew some strange skills, so he brought him to Datang, hoping to borrow from the other party. To make friends with some nobles of the Tang Dynasty, it is convenient to do business in the future.

And Na Luo Er Sa Po did live up to the high expectations of Asanlu. Not only was he amazing in Buddhism, but he was also eloquent. In addition, he also knew some qiguài medical skills, and cured several nobles and bachelors who were seriously ill. Let Na Luo Er Sa Po quickly gain a certain reputation in Chang'an City, that is, under such circumstances, Ashanlu introduced Na Luo Er Sa Po to Huo Yuanzi.

Huo Yuanzi is good at alchemy, so he was called into the palace by Li Shimin, who was unwilling to be old, and then he made pills to take, but the pills they made couldn't make Li Shimin happy, so Huo Yuanzi and his gang The Taoist priest was even punished by Li Shimin.However, after Huo Yuanzi got acquainted with Na Luo Er Sa Po, he found that the other party knew some qiguài formulas, some of which can achieve a refreshing effect.

Although Huo Yuanzi vehemently denied what happened next, Ashanlu can prove that after Huo Yuanzi knew Naluoer Sapo's ability, he proposed to cooperate with the other party, using Naluoer Sapo's formula combined with his alchemy , developed a new kind of elixir. After people take this elixir, it can make people feel extremely energetic for a period of time, so they named it Yannian Dan Dedicated to Li Shimin, as for whether this elixir can really prolong life, only God knows.

However, when Li Yin heard that the main ingredient of the Yannian Dan was opium, he was very angry and anxious. As far as he knew, taking a certain amount of opium orally could indeed have a refreshing effect, but future generations would only Every Chinese knows that opium is poisonous, and if you take too much, you will definitely die.Capital Datang 593

Fortunately, there are not many drugs like this in Chang'an. Huo Yuanzi and the others collected them for a long time, and finally refined a lot of them. In the end, only a dozen of them were refined, and they were all taken by Li Shimin, so this The next time Li Shimin sent Huo Yuanzi to Persia to purchase a large amount of drugs, and Ashanlu himself was a Persian, so he knew where to buy drugs, so he took Huo Yuanzi to the sea and arrived in Persia by sea. After all, with the development of the maritime trade industry, it is much more convenient and faster to travel by sea than by land.

It is also worth mentioning that this guy on Ashan Road is very business-minded. The drugs brought to the palace today were purchased by Huo Yuanzi for Li Shimin. Furong did not set off with them, but would arrive in the Lion City a month later.

He intends to ask Naluoer Suopo to refine these drugs into Yannian pills, and then sell them among the nobles of the Tang Dynasty. Princes and nobles, and they can also use this to make huge profits.

In addition, Li Yin also learned from Huo Yuanzi that in addition to the Yannian pill refined by Na Luoer Sapo, there are also several Taoist priests who are good at alchemy and have also refined some pills, but these pills are The effect is not as good as Yannian Dan for the time being, so among the group of warlocks in the palace, Naluo Er Sa Po is the most favored now.

After hearing the ins and outs of this incident, Li Yin's face darkened scary, and at the same time, he was a little scared. In contrast, although Li Shimin's taking of the pill was serious, if Ah Shanlu really If you bring opium back to Chang'an, and then refine it into Yannian Dan and sell it everywhere, then the upper class of Tang Dynasty will probably form a habit of taking opium, and then it will be a real disaster!

Thinking of the terrible situation that might arise, Li Yin couldn't help shivering.But then he saw the two culprits in front of him. Although these two may not know the real danger of the drug, they actually have no good intentions.For this kind of person, it is not a pity to die if it falls into his hands, but Li Yin feels that killing them is too cheap for the other party. He has already thought of a good way, that is, he can give them the punishment they deserve and at the same time Let Li Shimin realize the dangers of pills. (to be continued...)