Chapter 403: Settling Down
Unexpectedly, after An Jae-hyun took the medicine given by the new king, his cough stopped immediately.
"This is truly a miracle medicine!" After kneeling down to thank the emperor for his grace, Xu hurriedly called on her sons to send her husband back to his room to rest.
Unlike other official families in Xiacheng, the An family had no servants. The household was run by Xu and her several wives.
A few years ago, when Xu was still in good health, she followed An Zaixian to a small county on the border to take up her post. She and her husband suffered from the cold on snowy nights and experienced floods together.
Xu's health was not much better than her husband's.
After her husband lay down on the bed, Xu almost lost her balance and fell to the ground.
An Yongwu was quick to support his mother and sit down on a chair nearby.
Seeing their mother's frail appearance, the sons were heartbroken.
"Mother, how about you take a pill too? I heard it's a tonic, so anyone can take it."
By this time, An Jae-hyun had fallen asleep, his breathing steady and his coughing gone. Although the medicine had only just been taken, it was obvious that it was working well. Several people urged Xu to take the miracle drug as well.
Xu shook her head and refused, "This must be something the Lord appreciates your father and was given specifically to him, hoping that he would take good care of his health..."
Your father has spent most of his life writing his policies for governing the country, determined to realize his ambitions. Now that he has finally earned the emperor's favor, even if he can't easily enter the court and personally implement the policies in his book, it's good to be able to watch. This miraculous medicine must be precious and rare, so I won't take it."
Merchants had already bought medicine from Lingnan and brought it to Xiacheng to sell. The brothers had also heard about the Lingnan miracle medicine a long time ago.
Although they had never spent money to buy the medicine, they knew its price.
Sometimes, a single pill would cost them two or three years' salary. And that was only what was sold in Lingnan pharmacies. The efficacy of the medicines was certainly different from those bestowed by the new emperor.
From a profit perspective, if Dad took the medicine, it would benefit the An family more. But the brothers knew how hard Mom had worked over the years.
Even in the minds of the brothers, their mother worked harder than their father. Their father worked for his ideals and ambitions, but what about their mother? Their mother always followed their father, with only their father and their children in her eyes. She had devoted her entire life to this family.
She never lived a day for herself, and her whole heart was thinking about this family and them.
The brothers were unable to persuade their mother to take the pills, so they could only discuss it secretly and ask someone to use their connections to buy some miracle medicine from a Lingnan pharmacy for their mother.
Today, the new emperor rewarded the An family with so many gifts. The An family is no longer as financially strapped as before, and can still afford to buy some medicine for their mother's health.
It’s just that the miracle drugs from Lingnan pharmacies are expensive, but more importantly, there are many fakes on the market nowadays.
It is not easy to buy genuine medicine.
While the brothers were worrying about how to buy the real miracle medicine, Lu Shiyan returned to the palace early as agreed.
In order to facilitate entry into the space and keep the secret of the space unknown to others, Jiang Tangtang retained the previous rules and did not keep anyone to serve him.
No one is allowed to approach the entire bedroom without her permission.
This was probably the most eccentric emperor that many palace servants and imperial guards had ever seen in their lives.
Moreover, although Lu Shiyan was not the emperor, his status was as noble as that of the emperor, and his travel style was also very different.
Whenever he traveled, he rarely arranged for guards, and he would ride a huge and majestic eagle and fly in the sky.
The people called this act a miracle.
Today, the former Western Rong people have long since emerged from the shadow of national destruction. Apart from working every day, they enthusiastically discuss the divine birds flying in the sky, future new policies, etc.
Not only did the former people of Xirong discuss this, but even the people of neighboring countries who knew that Xirong had been destroyed were also discussing this.
Instead of fearing war and worrying about their country being occupied by a powerful enemy, many ordinary people even stretched their necks.
They were looking forward to Lu Shiyan and Jiang Tangtang bringing their magic weapons to attack, just like they did with the Xirong, and taking over their country without anyone noticing.
In order to reduce casualties and military consumption, Jiang Tangtang and Lu Shiyan used aphrodisiac incense to capture the entire Xirong Palace.
Naturally, they would not tell anyone about the medication. Some guards were unwilling to admit that they were knocked down by drugs without anyone knowing, so they kept silent about it.
There are all kinds of speculations outside about how the two men changed the situation in Xirong in just one night.
Somehow, this matter spread to neighboring countries such as Rouran, and gradually changed its meaning.
People said that Jiang Tangtang summoned divine soldiers from the sky, so it only took one night to capture the Xirong Palace.
Now, Jiang Tangtang has become a god in the hearts of many people. It is said that God saw that their lives were too hard and came to save them.
In recent years, the Rouran and other small neighboring countries, like the people of the Western Rong of the former Great Zhou Dynasty, have experienced the sufferings of war, drought, floods, locusts and plague.
Their lives are even more difficult than those of the people in the original Great Zhou Dynasty.
Countries like Rouran were small in size and weak in national strength, but they were ambitious and wanted to take advantage of the war between Xirong and Da Zhou to get a piece of the pie and join the battle.
The price of rashly joining the war is that the people of the entire country will be dragged into dire straits.
Due to various disasters such as drought and locusts, many villages have been deserted.
Although the Great Zhou also experienced this series of disasters at that time, Jiang Tangtang never gave up on helping the people. During the drought, he organized people to go out to sea to fish, cultivate kelp, and plant sea rice.
Later, when a locust plague occurred, they organized people to catch locusts for food, and when a plague broke out, they immediately developed medicine to treat the plague.
Lingnan has become a life-saving place in the eyes of the common people, and its reputation has spread far and wide.
Not to mention that after Jiang Tangtang took over all the territory of the Great Zhou, he immediately implemented a land reform system, allowing people across the country to own land.
Compare this to themselves. After experiencing a series of disasters and finally surviving, the imperial court not only did not reduce their taxes, but instead increased them because the treasury was empty.
Now, in the eyes of the people of Rouran and other countries, the country governed by Jiang Tangtang is a paradise.
Jiang Tangtang didn't know yet that the people of the surrounding small countries were eagerly expecting them to attack quickly, overthrow their dynasties, and become citizens under her rule.
At this moment, she was carefully reading the book given to her by An Jae-hyun.
When Jiang Tangtang first read it, she thought the book was well-written. An Zaixian is different from many people of this era.
She is not pedantic at all, and many of her ideas are almost similar to those of a time traveler like her.
After taking a closer look, she was even more amazed.
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