Volume 3: The Land of Jingchu Chapter 314: No Gifts for This Year’s Festival
Bai Tu made a special trip to the medical school and asked Zhang Zhongjing about Liu Biao's symptoms. Indeed, Zhang Zhongjing also believed that this should be the legendary "diabetes mellitus."
However, Zhang Zhongjing only made this judgment based on his accumulated knowledge. In fact, Zhang Zhongjing had never seen with his own eyes the diabetes recorded in Huangdi Neijing that "this is caused by fatness and this person must eat sweet and delicious food frequently and gain a lot of fat."
I have seen other cases of "dissolving due to thirst", but after hearing about it, Bai Tu felt that those were more likely to be caused by hyperthyroidism or diabetes insipidus...
After all, the edible oil in the Han Dynasty was still mainly animal fat, which was not well absorbed, and there was no cooking method such as frying.
Although sesame was introduced into the Han Dynasty during the Western Han Dynasty and "sesame oil" was used as a vegetable oil, it was mostly used for lighting.
The earliest fried food in Chinese civilization appeared in the Three Kingdoms period. Fried cold food became popular during the Northern and Southern Dynasties - but since it was cold food, it probably wouldn't be fried meat.
As for the Han Dynasty, there was very little "sweetness" before Bai Tu produced "white sugar".
At this time, if you want to eat yourself into diabetes, both talent and hard work are essential!
Zhang Zhongjing also specifically emphasized that it is said that patients with diabetes in the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine have a higher risk of stroke than ordinary people.
With Zhang Zhongjing's judgment and evidence, Bai Tu became more determined to provide food for the people of Jingzhou.
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In the morning light, Jingzhou Prefecture welcomed a new day. The cook coated four carefully selected drumsticks with flour , fried them in a mixture of "fat" and sesame oil, and then placed them in a breathable food box and sent them to Liu Biao by a servant.
When Liu Biao woke up in the morning, he made four fried chicken legs and felt that his physical condition seemed to have improved recently.
Well, after all, I can eat and sleep, so I guess I’m just temporarily tired…
Looking at the chicken bones that had been sucked clean, Liu Biao thought about what had happened recently and felt a little better.
On the Jiangxia battlefield, after Liu Qi took over Cai Mao's position, he unexpectedly won more battles than he lost!
Although there were few big victories, there were constant small victories. Compared with Cai Mao's previous strategy of leading troops without fighting, Liu Qi had recovered Zhu County and even defeated the Jiangdong navy in Xiakou in more than two months, occupying the water fort in Xiakou. The Jiangdong navy could only hide in Wuchang.
This made Liu Biao happy but also regretful - if he had known it would be so easy to defend, he should have resisted the pressure from the Nanjun gentry and let Liu Qi replace Huang Zu. Maybe the Jiangdong soldiers would not even be able to enter Jiangxia now!
At the same time, he was even more angry at those incompetent nobles.
And Liu Qi was indeed as filial as he was before in Xiangyang. This "fried chicken" was introduced from Yangzhou, and Liu Qi first discovered it in Jiangxia, and then specially presented it to his father.
It was when Liu Qi captured Xiakou that he discovered that several fried chicken shops had opened in the nearby Mianyang City, and they were brainwashing people by shouting every day: We will not accept any gifts during the holidays this year, and the only gifts we will accept are fried chicken skins.
This gave Liu Qi an idea - yes! From the perspective of "seeing things reminds me of people"... if he gave something else, his father might not see it every day, especially with those people from the Cai family making trouble, it would be strange for Liu Biao to see his gifts every day!
But the recipe is different...
When Liu Biao eats it every day, he will think of his son... He will be so happy!
So Liu Qi specially collected and even secretly sent people to Yangzhou to bring back a batch of recipes.
Because of this, Liu Biao indeed felt Liu Qi's filial piety even more. Not only did his intention to depose the eldest son and enthrone the youngest son fade, but he even began to suppress the Nanjun gentry, especially the Cai family.
However, this move further stimulated the gentry in Nanjun, and the situation in Xiangyang became increasingly mysterious.
Both Huang Chengyan and Bai Tu hoped that Liu Cong could succeed to the throne of Jingzhou Prefecture, so that there would be a basis for launching the plan of surrendering the city. However... this was different from an ordinary heir seizing power. In order to support Liu Cong, Huang Chengyan did not mind doing the opposite, causing Liu Biao to turn his heart towards Liu Qi.
Because in this way, the support of the Nanjun gentry for Liu Cong will be even stronger, and no one knows these gentry better than Huang Chengyan!
When Liu Biao wanted to depose the eldest son and enthrone the youngest son, although they supported him, they would not push it too actively. After all, the gentry was not a monolithic group.
However, when Liu Biao made it clear that he wanted Liu Qi to succeed him, the Nanjun gentry, who felt threatened, would support the Cai family to take the throne even at the risk of breaking off relations with them!
What Huang Chengyan wanted was not only for Liu Cong to succeed to the throne, but also to tear apart Liu Biao and the Nanjun gentry, making Liu Cong the only legitimate representative of the latter. This would bring the greatest benefits to Cai Shuang, while weakening the Jingzhou Prefecture...
Compared with the open and secret struggles in Xiangyang, Liu Qi, who was still in Jiangxia, was in high spirits at this time. The weak and submissive look he had developed in Xiangyang became increasingly majestic because of his domineering and powerful performance on the battlefield.
In contrast, his cousin Liu Pan was not in such a happy mood in Jingnan at this time.
Liu Qi officially took office as governor of Jiangxia in September of the fifth year of Jian'an. The Jingzhou navy that was in charge of Jiangxia attacked Miankou in early December. And eight months earlier, in the south of Jing...
The Wuxi tribe, which Liu Pan originally used as a barrier, suddenly began to assist the Yangzhou army!
During the New Year, when Liu Pan first heard that Mohuken had died and Shamoke had succeeded him as the leader of the White Tiger Tribe, he smiled happily.
After all, in his opinion, Mohuken is not only greedy and vicious, but also insidious. In comparison, Shamoke... isn't he just the big fool beside him?
It seems that the people of Wuxi really don't have enough brains. They actually let a reckless man be their leader. God is really helping me...
Huh? It doesn't seem right. Why is there a story about Chen Gong in it?
What? Shamoke accepted the appointment from the General's Office and served as the Southern Pacification Envoy, and was also recommended as the General of Southern Defense?
By the time Liu Pan discovered something was wrong, even the envoys he had sent to the White Tiger Tribe were beaten back with sticks.
On the other side, there was a group of Shanyue people who had infiltrated the four counties of southern Jing. However, these people's whereabouts were uncertain. Not only did they always take dangerous mountain roads, but they also plundered villages along the way and even attacked smaller counties for supplies. Their purpose was unclear, and Liu Pan could not take care of them for the time being.
Although Liu Pan condemned ,... Chen Gong's reasons were very sufficient - those people were not in the same group as the General's Mansion, and they had previously cooperated with Mohuken to ambush the Shanyue coalition forces, and Chen Gong himself was almost martyred.
Therefore, Chen Gong claimed that the Snake Repairing Tribe was cooperating with Liu Pan!
Each side held a different view, and the people of the Xiu Snake Tribe had been roaming around all the time. Jingnan was a vast area with few people, and they always hid in the deep mountains and forests. Apart from looting supplies, they rarely came out, and even... In order to avoid retaliation, the Xiu Snake Tribe tried to be more restrained when looting, and sometimes they would leave after extorting a batch of food and grass, so no one focused on exterminating them for a while.
However, after the beginning of spring, the Yangzhou army under the command of Zhang Liao began to capture cities in Guilin County from Linwu County, and Lingling County was abandoned...
Not to mention the failure of the war, but Wei Yan always had an expression of "see if I am right" and "I'll teach you not to listen to me", as a result, Liu Pan angrily sent him to supervise the transportation of grain and grass.
Not to mention Liu Pan, even Huang Zhong was speechless at Wei Yan's emotional intelligence.
At the same time, as Zhang Liao pressed on step by step, Huang Zhong could only struggle and gradually become serious...
