"Hurry, cook me another pot of scallion leaves and yunxiang herbal tea. Remember to use the Buzhou Mountain Snow Water brought back by Buwei County, and never boil the river water."

"Also, sprinkle more deworming dew on my back, and change the camphor at the four corners of the cabin. You should cook your clothes as well. Never bring invisible lice mites into the cabin! You will slapped to death when you see mosquitoes! Remember to wash them after the patter!"

Li Su was panting and irritated, covered her forehead with a white and clean linen towel, and she lay in the shaded cabin with weak body and resting.

All the personal soldiers next to them strictly follow the requirements. They were afraid of Li Suhe who did not fan the air, and they were afraid of Li Su's sweating if they fanned hard.

Dian Wei, who was quick-witted, had his eyes as big as a copper bell. He was careful to keep an eye on the surroundings, holding a hard fan similar to a bamboo mat in his hand. When he saw the flying insect approaching Li Su, he slapped him to death.

In the tropical areas at the end of April, the scorching sun was hanging in the sky, splashing out a scattering of hot and radiant light, steaming the trees on both sides of the Lushui River to steam a cloud of sand and dust. However, the fleet still flowed downstream firmly and quickly, not affected by the insect clouds at all, and even became more and more rushing.

It can be imagined that in summer, mosquitoes and small flying insects can be seen in the woods in the south of the Yangtze River, but in tropical areas it will only be ten times more violent than in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River. It is not surprising that the insects look like clouds and fog from a distance. Even the ancients believed that the miasma energy was a small flying insect like clouds.

Li Su finally bid farewell to Guan Yu in early April, Gao Shun, left Yongchang County, and arrived in Dianchi County in mid-April. He was still very awe of what people in Nanzhong said about "spring peach blossom miasma", but after thinking about it, he felt that spring should be from the first to March of the lunar calendar, and April was considered early summer.

So after resting and recuperating on the banks of Dianchi Lake until late April, I finally boarded the fleet from Muma County and went downstream. I felt that this time node was almost the same as Zhuge Liang's "May Crossing Lulu" in history, so it would not be dangerous, and at most it would be a little uncomfortable.

Kunming County Magistrate Meng Xin advised Li Su for this and said that the toxic gas of Lushui is quite powerful at the turn of spring and summer. Li Su is asked to be cautious. If you insist on going, you can consider land, that is, the mountain roads in Wei County.

But after thinking about it over and over again, I asked someone to calculate the mileage. Not only did I have to go around the mountain road, but it took more than 800 miles to return to Zhuti County. I couldn't even ride a car, so I could only ride a horse and walk with a horse. It took half a month to walk, and it was not enough to get to Zhuti. There was still a long way to land for returning to Jianwei County.

If I had been in the rain forest for more than half a month, I still wonder how many tropical diseases I would have.

In contrast, I believe that science is the only way to believe that the flower dew water plus camphor and attention to hygiene are enough to resist the legendary Lushui poison gas.

After all, the return journey of the waterway is downstream. You can travel two or three hundred miles a day without rowing or lifting sails alone. Then you can support the oars and oars and accelerate slightly while ensuring the safety of navigation. More than four hundred miles a day is also expected.

Shortening the time is the biggest control variable.

On the other hand, the reason why Li Su was anxious to go back was not only because of the summer vacation, but also because he was worried that he could not grasp the variables in the north and even the outside world. He originally planned to return to Chengdu at the end of February this year, and had plenty of time to deal with the military and political affairs that happened in spring and summer. Now it has been 192 years, and Dong Zhuo was undoubtedly killed by Wang Yun this year. Although he will be more or less affected by the butterfly effect now, Li Su's best choice is to ensure that he is prepared and adapt at any time.

If you want to blame, you can only blame Li Su for not inventing a sedan chair, a luxury that can pass through rugged roads without any obstacles and shade. In this era, there is only a "shoulder carriage" similar to a slider, which is a simple sedan chair that was carried by a wealthy man in later generations when he was riding Mount Tai Huangshan with the rich people.

The Book of Han records that Yan Zhu, the prefect of Kuaiji, was ordered by Emperor Wu of Han and the Taiwei Tian Fu to quell the Minyue Rebellion. He wanted to go from Kuaiji (Shaoxing) to Dongou (Wenzhou). Because the mountainous areas in southern Zhejiang were rugged and difficult to travel, he cut bamboo into an open-top carriage and sedan chair to go to war.

The complete sedan with a car and a cool mattress on the top of it did not appear until the Tang and Song dynasties.

The Han Dynasty either took a car or rode a horse, and there was nothing wrong with it on the plains. When the mountains were not open to traffic, the weak civil servants would suffer in great pain.

"I really envy those governors and governors who came to Yunnan in the Ming and Qing dynasties who were able to take office in sedan chairs and carry them from Zhaotong to Qujing to Kunming. They are carried by sedan chairs and shock-absorbing more than a thousand miles of mountain roads. It is really a slave owner's enjoyment.

No, after returning to Chengdu, people must invent the decaying covered sedan chair. Who can bear it when basking in the sun in summer? Of course, it is not necessary to be used to invent the sedan chair on the plains. Only the mountain roads can I sit on it. After all, I am not a demon who has to treat the soldiers harshly."

While Li Su was depressed by the condition on the boat, she was already thinking about how to better avoid suffering in life.

He felt that this was what he deserved, just like Zhuge Liang could still ride a four-wheeler, so it was not too much for him to sit in a sedan chair in advance.

...

Three days after setting sail, on April 25, Li Su and his team returned to Tanglang County, Zhuti County. Pang Xi, the governor of Zhuti County, greeted him at the dock, hoping that Li Su would stay in Zhuti for a few days if he was unwell.

But Li Su refused. He just wanted to go to the north to escape the summer as soon as possible before midsummer came, so he thanked Pang Xi for his kindness and accepted the supplies Pang Xi prepared, especially fresh and pure mountain spring water, fresh fruits, and some freshly prepared meat.

Pang Xi seemed to have figured out Li Su's requirements for entertainment on a business trip to a hot place, and said carefully: "Governor, even if you don't have to enjoy it, all the fruits were picked and washed just today. The cows and ducks were cooked immediately after slaughtering and bleeding this morning. They were absolutely fresh, and the food boxes were covered with gauze cabinets."

Li Su waved his hand: "You are just trying your best to eat and drink for me, don't you have to spend so much trouble - do you know my boat arrives today? It's okay to prepare mutton in the future, and there is no need to slaughter the ox at will."

Pang Xi showed off: "Where, how dare I spy on the governor's itinerary? I just know roughly - I have prepared these things for three days and three times, and I have been rewarded for the soldiers in the first two times. In the midsummer of Nanzhong, the governor is still the most important thing, and eating less mutton, and the cow is accidentally bitten to death by the beast."

It turned out that he knew that Li Su was going back north, so he prepared a batch of supplies here every day. If Li Su didn't come, he would eat it himself.

Li Su nodded: "It's better to focus on the governance of the place in the future. Don't look at the fact that Zhuti County was originally poor, the Lushui trade routes will flourish year by year in the future. In less than three or five years, Zhuti will be as rich as Jianwei. You do a good job and can always be the prefect."

This guy has done enough homework and has found out that Li Su's health habit of "not eating mutton when he gets angry in summer", so he finds the beef that has just been bitten to death to deliver vegetables.

The poultry meat also specially chose ducks, obviously because they were attracted by the medicinal properties of the duck to cool down and remove fire. In this era, there was no such method as cooking dried bamboo shoots, so the old duck cooker offered by Pang Xi was stewed with fresh bamboo shoots.

...

The sailing was also too fast, and even though he set sail again after taking some supplies from Tanglang County, he returned to Jiangyang, the capital of Jianwei County.

However, because the weather changes too quickly and the water and the water are not adaptable to the environment, Li Su's tropical disease, which was not too serious, is still sickly. However, he suffered from severe colds and diarrhea one after another. Several problems that are not serious are mixed together. He was so ill that he could not get up and had to find a famous doctor to treat it.

Fortunately, my diet was quite light in the last few days. The meat dishes I ate were all cold-cut beef that the beast bite to death. I drank the old duck soup stewed with bamboo shoots that I snatched from my mouth. It was not greasy. After diarrhea, even the beef stopped, and finally protected Li Su's physical fitness foundation.

Don’t think that this situation is exaggerated. It’s that tropical diseases are really too lethal to northerners. Li Su’s fleet is about a thousand people, with a total of seventy or eighty boats. After six days of going down the Muma River, he fell ill in two or three hundred people, and more than a dozen died of illness. Li Su is already very considerate and pays attention to hygiene work, but the conditions of ordinary soldiers must not be comparable to Li Su.

"Cough cough cough... It seems that haste is not enough. I don't know if I can catch up with Dong Zhe being killed by Wang Yun. Forget it, there is no hurry. Anyway, it's not time to send troops. It's really surprising. Zi Jing is in Hanzhong and will always find a way to deal with it. It's better to take good care of the disease."

After entering Jiangyang County, Li Su asked all the guards to rest on vacation, treat them if they are sick, and all the infectious diseases live in isolation. He himself prepared to lie down for a few days. He also ordered to remove all the other meats and fish in his diet, and let them cook millet porridge every day, and at most some bamboo shoots and old duck soup.

Chen Shi, the prefect of Jianwei, personally took good care of him, and came to visit the disease every day, conveyed news, and said some good news to Li Su.

"The governor is really a pillar of the country. He crossed Lu and went deep into the barren areas without avoiding malaria. He regained several barbarian counties that had not returned to the king for a long time. He was really a role model for ministers."

Li Su was not in the mood to flatter him: "Cough cough... don't say these useless things. I never want to touch this miasma again. After all, we are not strong enough. Yun Changyide also encountered the miasma and was full of vitality."

He tried his best to not think about Guo Jiazheng's Wuhuan's illness, while secretly reminding himself to pay more attention to comprehensive and scientific fitness in the future.

Chen Shi didn't flatter him, so he changed his perspective: "Governor, there is another good news, which is what makes the Governor happy. Do you still remember the abandoned wells more than ten miles west of Gongjing Township? Last summer, you personally asked to go down and hit it, but you really saw it! You have a very outstanding vision and are good at observing Feng Shui and geography. At the beginning of spring this year, two abandoned wells were brine there.

Then the craftsmen continued to dig deeper as you ordered last year while drawing water and brine. After digging for another two months, they were all angry last month. There was also a well that seemed to have penetrated the water veins underground. There was no need to pump the stear, and they could spray the high ground by themselves.

Now a small pond is formed at the wellhead, which can continuously boil salt with a fire stove. One well will spray thousands of stones of water every day, and boil more than one thousand stones of salt. But the fire is not enough, and more than two thousand stones of brine have to be divided into the fire well at the Gongjing every day."

The salt well was finally drilled out of the spray well? More than 1,000 stones per day, and the annual output was 500,000 stones and 60 million jin of jin. According to the nutritional standard of 6 grams of salt per person per day in later generations, one jin of jin can be eaten for 40 days. The current production capacity of this well alone can meet the additional salt consumption of 7 million people. I continue to dig deeper and don’t know if I can spray more.

Zigong Jingyan is worthy of being a powerful existence that can "Sichuan salt to help Chu" in later generations.

Li Su was rarely excited: "Okay, then set up another township in the abandoned well, called Zibianjing Township... Well, the word "玉子" is not elegant, so it's better to call Ziliujing. It's too far from Jiangyang, and it's also sixty or seventy miles away. I think it's better to set up another county, so I'll take one word from Gongjing Township and call Zigong County."

Chen Shi's achievements in farming in Jingyan on the side also inspired Li Su's confidence. He thought of Xun You and Zhuge Jin in various counties in Shu County, promoting hydraulic machinery and silk brocade, and he would have achieved remarkable results in the past year. If he hadn't recovered, he would have wanted to return to his fiefdom as soon as possible and see it with his own eyes.

Li Su thought so in her heart and asked Chen Shi casually: "My lord is in Chengdu, right? Have he asked me what I have recently?"

Chen Shi was stunned and bowed north: "The lord is now in Nanzheng. After the beginning of spring, he said that he should work hard to govern and take the northern expedition to eliminate thieves. Only by going to Hanzhong can he strengthen the spirit of the patriots."

Li Su thought about it and recalled the countermeasures he had with Liu Bei before going to the expedition last year. At that time, Li Su himself suggested that Liu Bei: he went north to Hanzhong and put on a positive attitude of being incompatible with the Han and thieves. At the same time, let the army continue to stay in the Chengdu Plain and Nanzhong to train troops in practice, and accumulate experience in actual combat so that more food in the Hanzhong Basin can be accumulated and food for future Northern Expeditions.

Li Su shook her head: "It's because I'm so sick that I forgot about it. For this reason, I don't rush to go back to Chengdu. If I get better, I will continue to take a boat to Jiangzhou and go north to Hanzhong by Jialing River."

I have to make a difference with Liu Bei before I can return to Chengdu to enjoy my happiness.

Li Su stayed in Jiangyang for about ten days, until the ninth day of the fifth month, curing all the fever, cold and gastrointestinal problems, and then continued to sail by boat. After three days, he quickly flowed down to Jiangzhou.

Because Jiangzhou was Cai Yong's capital, Li Su went to the territory of his teacher and father-in-law, and stayed for two more days to show respect for his teacher and filial piety, and then moved from the Yangtze River to the Jialing River to the flow upstream.

From Jiangzhou further north, the boat drove much slower, but fortunately, the boat was more stable against the current, so Li Su, who had just recovered from a serious illness, was less likely to be seasick. Is it slow? Is it tired and the ordinary soldiers who are carrying oars and rowing oars, and it has nothing to do with Li Su.

It took three days to go to Dianjiang and ten days to Langzhong. Twenty days later, it abandoned the boat at Xiguan Post outside Yangping Pass and finally arrived in Nanzheng at the end of May.

Liu Bei received a quick report when Li Su got off the boat at Xiguan Post, so he personally took Lu Su and Xu Huang and others to ride a horse outside Yangping Pass to pick up people. But Li Su came quickly, so Liu Bei ran into Li Su's team as soon as he arrived in Mianyang.

"Thank you for your hard work. Have you ever been troubled by miasma and pain in Nanzhong? Since I'm back, I'll talk about anything else later."

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