When Qin Yuan heard the news that the prince was willing to mobilize 5,000 people to reinforce Xuzhou, he was completely stunned and showed an expression of disbelief.
Although Xia Shang's expression was calm, when he recalled his experience in the Prince's Mansion and heard Li Xin's straightforward response, his heart felt the same as Qin Yuan's at that moment.
Five thousand people is not a small number.
Although there are millions of troops in Dahua as a whole, each soldier is distributed throughout Dahua and has his or her own position. Every time a person is mobilized, the position is changed, so dispatching troops and generals is far from being as simple as just talking.
Li Xin was willing to send 5,000 men, which was to mobilize a group of flexible personnel from the army he controlled.
To put it bluntly, these changeable personnel are Li Xin's private army, and they can fight to the death for Li Xin at critical moments.
Now because of Xia Shang's words, Li Xin actually changed the core power he could control. The actions of these five thousand people were undoubtedly a great weakening of Li Xin himself.
And Xia Shang was Li Xin's enemy, so it was impossible for him to make such a big sacrifice just because of Xia Shang's words.
Xia Shang was ready to talk a lot when he went there, but he didn't expect that he just said a word and was sent away by Li Xin.
Although he was beaten away, this result is undoubtedly the best.
Xia Shang also believed that with Li Xin's status, as long as he agreed to something, he would definitely not go back on it.
With the five thousand people promised by Li Xin, the crisis in Xuzhou was completely resolved.
Qin Yuan was so excited that he clasped his fists and wanted to kneel down to Xia Shang.
"What are you doing?" Xia Shang quickly stopped him.
"I would like to thank you for your generosity and righteousness. If you had not wanted to help, the officials and people of Xuzhou would have suffered, and the generals would not have been able to return to pay their respects. The generals of the Xuzhou army will also be punished."
"I'm not wiping your general's butt by helping you. I just don't want the people to be implicated. Also, I have never had a good impression of Japanese pirates. I will do my best to help them fight against Japanese pirates. Besides, this is not the case.
Even if I help you, it is all the result of the efforts of various families in the capital."
Qin Yuan was still excited: "Anyway, if I hadn't met you, things wouldn't have turned around in such a quick time. Thanks to your kindness, I will definitely bring him back to Xuzhou and let the officials and people of Xuzhou know."
Who is silently supporting behind the scenes?"
"Go back? You can't go back for the time being." Xia Shang said with a smile.
"Huh?" Qin Yuan was stunned.
"Your affairs have been dealt with, now it's up to you to handle mine."
"Adult matter?"
"Don't forget the thieves from the Haisha Gang that I mentioned to you. You have to find a way to send these cancers back to the military camp for me to train and train them."
Qin Yuan suddenly realized: "Your Majesty has an order, and I should obey it. I just heard that there are many bandits in the Haisha Gang, and I only have a few hundred people around me. If I want to escort them all to Xuzhou, I'm afraid there will be a lot of trouble."
"Things are indeed a bit troublesome, but along the way we can contact various counties and cooperate with officials and militiamen in the counties to send this group of people there through alternating escorts from various places."
"But many of these bandits are people with strong martial arts skills. We soldiers are good at fighting in formations, but not good at fighting in rivers and lakes. And it may not be easy to control those warriors with internal skills."
"This requires some drugs that can suppress the warrior's internal strength." Xia Shang smiled coldly.
This time when he sneaked into Jianghu, Xia Shang had no choice but to play the role of a villain in martial arts novels, using some not-so-glorious methods.
Poison and medicine are indispensable, and drugs that suppress a warrior's internal strength are naturally the best choice.
Xia Shang was born professionally in making poisons and medicines.
I followed the third master to learn the method of making poison, but I haven't seen the use of force for a long time.
Now, it's finally time to make it available.
The Xia and Shang Dynasties had methods for making poisons, but they did not have the medicinal materials for making poisons.
In the capital, the place with the most medicinal materials was the imperial doctor Zhuo Yuan's private garden not far outside the capital.
To this end, Xia Shang visited Zhuo Yuan and made a list of the medicinal materials he needed.
Zhuo Yuan was very happy and gave Xia Shang medicinal materials and temporarily lent Bieyuan to Xia Shang for making poison.
Of course, Zhuo Yuan's things would not be given in vain, and it also cost Xia Shang a lot of money.
During this period, a lot of money was spent. If it weren't for the extortion from Fenghui Bank, the Xia family would have almost gone bankrupt.
Xia Shang felt that his sword-making plan needed to be accelerated, and that the Mingjian Villa must quickly generate economic benefits, otherwise his income would not be able to keep up with the increasing expenses.
Because we have to deal with it this time
There are a lot of people, so the amount of poison required is also very large. Some medicinal materials that are consumed in large quantities are not in stock, so Zhuo Yuan also needs to ask someone to purchase supplies from other pharmacies.
Xia Shang also had enough time to make it.
Three days passed in a row.
Xia Shang felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction as he watched himself make fifty or sixty kilograms of poison powder.
These days, Qin Yuan has been following Xia Shang like a follower.
Qin Yuan's purpose is also very simple.
The first-person master helped him solve the biggest problem. No matter what, he had to help the first-person master complete the task before he could leave.
The more than 100 soldiers he brought with him first went to the Haisha Gang area to disperse, pretending to be villagers and staying in hiding.
Qin Yuan followed Xia Shang, but he didn't know what Xia Shang was busy with these days. Although he vaguely guessed that it might be poison, he couldn't imagine that there were dozens of kilograms of poison in front of him.
It's more like flour than poison.
The poisons in my impression all come in small packages. Have you ever seen so many of them in front of you?
"Sir? These are...poisons?"
Xia Shang nodded.
Qin Yuan took a breath: "This... so many..."
"It's rare to make poison once, so I just do a little more. I don't know how much is the right amount. There's nothing wrong with a little more."
"Is this the poison that Sir said can suppress a warrior's skill?"
"According to my understanding, it should be. This kind of poison will not hurt people's lives, but it will make people weak and lose their ability to resist. It is especially effective for warriors. People with deeper internal strength will be more affected. And this
There is no antidote to the poison, so you can only remove it by yourself. It should take more than a month for the poison to completely disappear. This time should be enough to escort him to Xuzhou."
Qin Yuan was still very curious and wanted to take some to smell it, but after thinking about it, he decided against it.
"Is there such a magical poison in the world? I wonder what this poison is called?"
"Um..." Xia Shang thought for a while, "Let's call it Shixiang Ruanjin Powder."
Shixiang Ruanjin Powder.
Listening to the name, Qin Yuan felt that it was smooth and appropriate.
But he obviously didn't know that choosing such a name was just a feeling in Xia Shang's heart.
Also, Master once said that making poison is also an art, and only poison that is integrated with emotions has a soul.