"Ahem..." Speaking of this, Ma Wensheng was actually desperate.

Pingxi Hou, you are so sick that you are almost gone, and you are still thinking about this.

But... obviously, this is very effective.

Even Liu Jian was moved. This hero who guarded the border town had some wishes before he died. What happened?

Ma Wensheng thought for a while and continued, "He also said that if His Majesty had been acquiesced to this marriage, he would be able to rest even if he died. He would rather be taken away by His Majesty Guo. He also said that this epidemic would inevitably be uneasy in the southwest. As long as he still had a breath, he would continue to inspect the guards with this serious illness. If he died, his wife Liu would inherit his will and conquer Guizhou for Your Majesty, Guizhou would be settled, and the southwest would be settled, and the Ming Dynasty would be held. He understood this principle."

"In this report, there is also Liu's personal memorial..."

Ma Wensheng sighed and continued, "Liu said that since she married into the Fang family, she will be a member of the Fang family one day, and even if she dies, she will be a ghost of the Fang family. If her husband is unpredictable, please ask the court to send an imperial envoy to prevent any accidents. Although she is a woman, she is willing to serve the imperial envoy and die for the imperial envoy."

That's what I said...

Emperor Hongzhi became silent. Needless to say, Fang Jinglong's loyalty and righteousness was indeed admirable.

Emperor Hongzhi naturally understood the meaning of Pingxihou, but at the same time, he couldn't help but worry about Pingxihou's physical condition.

He immediately said: "Immediately ordered the imperial doctor to go to Guizhou quickly and try every means to treat Pingxi Hou. But the most urgent task is to cure the disease."

Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but sigh: "The Fang family is loyal and martyr, and no one is dedicated to the court and dies. If Fang Jifan learned about this, he still doesn't know how worried he is."

He found that he was actually beginning to worry about the feelings of that guy Fang Jifan.

What we should be more concerned about is that the decay situation in the entire Yunnan and Guizhou is the one.

Now that such a big plague breaks out, it means the death of countless people. The Ming Dynasty's dominance in the Yunnan-Guizhou area will be weak. In addition, the current distractions between her and Annan are difficult to protect Annan, but she can only take this opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

Emperor Hongzhi stood up, held his hands behind his back, and walked back and forth in the hall, feeling very anxious.

Every outbreak of malaria, in the Yunnan-Guizhou area and in the past, meant military failure or rebellion.

I hope this time can be spent safely.

Moreover, every time malaria is the most harmful military guards, which means that a large number of casualties among Han people will fall into an extremely weak situation. At that time...

Emperor Hongzhi sighed, then stopped, looked at Liu Jian and others with bright eyes, and said word by word: "I want the princess to marry Fang Jifan, the son of Pingxi Hou, what do you think?"

Liu Jian and others were silent.

A princess is not suitable for marrying meritorious people. In the eyes of many people, this will increase the risk of foreign relatives interfering in politics.

But now...

If you get sick in Pingxi, death is right in front of you.

If a person is about to die, if the princess marrys her, the title of Pingxi Hou will naturally be taken away by Guo.

At this time, if you object, it is a bit unreasonable.

This is a loyal and fraternal family. Didn’t the Ming Dynasty always advocate loyalty and filial piety?

Fang Jinglong is older. Although malaria is not an incurable disease, the mortality rate is extremely high. Once infected, people of Fang Jinglong's age will almost be like stepping on the coffin board.

Moreover, the situation in the southwest is critical, and the court needs to use the help of Liu and her tribesmen to try their best to maintain the situation.

Otherwise, once the southwest is corrupt, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Emperor Hongzhi added another sentence: "Looking back at the beginning, when the Duke of Qian was ordered to seize Yunnan in the face of danger. Emperor Wen married the princess to the son of the Duke of Qian as his wife. I did this, and there are precedents to follow. I only have one daughter, so why not marry the princess to the loyalty and righteousness of the Fang family? There are tens of thousands of Han soldiers in the southwest, hundreds of thousands of families, and many immigrants, and countless people. At this moment, I not only care about their safety, but also hope that I can use the joy of the princess to marry the worry of the crisis in the southwest to dilute the worries of the crisis in the southwest. Liu Qing family, Li Qing family, and Xie Qing family, let alone, in the ancestral law, it is not impossible for the princess to marry the ministers to marry the ministers. But even if there is no precedent in the ancestral law, there are also feelings outside the law. Fang Jifan's father is in danger. I think he is like a thorn in his throat. I grant marriage and reward loyalty. Isn't it okay?"

Liu Jian calmed down, and His Majesty's words really made him unable to refuse: "If Your Majesty gives an order, I have nothing to say."

Emperor Hongzhi breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Xie Qian and Li Dongyang.

Xie Qian smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty is justified, but the law is nothing more than human feelings, and I have nothing to say."

Li Dongyang hesitated for a moment and nodded.

Emperor Hongzhi said: "Since that's the case, then I will issue an order. What happened today is joy and sorrow. I wish the country and the country are peaceful and the people are at peace. Now my daughter Zhu Xiurong is waiting for her name. Now I hear that Fang's loyalty and righteousness will be released from the palace and marry Fang Jifan, the son of Fang's family..."

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West Mountain.

Fang Jifan has received a letter from his family.

Looking at the letter from home, Fang Jifan frowned.

This is not so much a letter from home, but rather a will. I hope Fang Jifan can keep his family business in the future. From now on, he must not be ridiculous. He must look at the forefront and look after his work. He must not be as willful as before and take good care of his own girls.

Dad...had got malaria.

Moreover... Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the ninth malaria has completely exploded in the Yunnan-Guizhou area.

Malaria has swept across the three provinces, and almost all the military guards have experienced an epidemic. In severe cases, it has reached the point where the entire military camp is wailing.

Panic has spread, a large number of officers and soldiers have begun to flee privately, and the people have begun to bring their families with their families, hoping that the farther away from the birthplace of the epidemic, the better.

The originally stable front line of Yunnan and Guizhou is about to move again.

After reading this family letter, Fang Jifan couldn't help feeling melancholy and felt very uncomfortable.

My dad... is a hindsight.

It was only at this time that he had asked the palace about the princess and herself after he proposed marriage.

Although he complained in his heart, Fang Jifan knew that the epidemic was like a fire and once it could not be controlled, he would not know how many people would die, even his father.

Fang Jifan was a little anxious. Malaria is a difficult and complicated disease in this era. At this important moment, we have to control the disease and cure the disease and save people.

He hurriedly found Zhang Xin.

The cultivation of Jinjinna trees has been started since Xu Jing brought back the seedlings and seeds the year before yesterday. It has high requirements for the environment. Zhang Xin has probably figured out their habits and therefore has begun to plant them on a large scale in the greenhouse.

It took extremely high cost to plant cinchona trees. At that time, there were too many tree species and crops that needed to be cultivated and were unwilling to invest too much. If Fang Jifan had not paid attention to it, Zhang Xin would not have been interested in this cinchona tree.

In the past two years, continuous greenhouses have been built throughout the northern foot of the West Mountain to widely plant cinchona trees. However, most of the cinchona trees are not yet ‘adult’ and are not tall and strong. At present, they are only as tall as humans, and the trunk is only thick in water cups.

Originally, the growth cycle of this tree took six years to grow. In terms of economic benefits, if you start scraping their bark now, the benefits will not be high and it is very likely to cause necrosis of the cinchona tree.

When Zhang Xin heard that Fang Jifan wanted to take the bark of the Jinjina tree, he was immediately dissatisfied: "Thousand households, in order to plant these trees, have used hundreds of manpower to farm. This tree has a very high demand for temperature and soil, and requires a lot of water to irrigate. It is very spoiled. It is not easy to build a greenhouse and it costs a lot of money."

What he didn't say was that this cinchona tree had cost him countless efforts.

Although he didn't say it, he could hear his reluctance from Zhang Xin's voice.

At this time, Fang Jifan couldn't manage so much, so saving people was important, so he said to Zhang Xin very seriously: "At this time, saving people is important. At present, bark and medicine are extremely needed. Compared with human lives, no matter how much money is this tree cost, how much money is worth?"

Fang Jifan suddenly felt that when he said this, his back was very straight. What does it mean to be a correct view of the country and the people? We, Fang Jifan, are you.

"Get the bark immediately and how much can you harvest."

Fang Jifan personally went to the cultivation base of the Jinshana tree on the northern foot of the north. Here, thousands of Jinshana trees occupied hundreds of acres of land. In order to create a tropical rainforest environment, this large area of ​​land has been specially renovated.

With the order of Fang Jifan, even Zhang Xin could only bear the pain and pass the order.

Hundreds of farmers started to do things with knives that specialize in picking up the bark. They carefully scraped off the bark of the cinchona tree, and then filled it with a dustpan. The next day, dozens of baskets of cinchona tree bark were transported into a special pharmaceutical workshop.

In the last life, people extracted cinchona cream from the bark of the cinchona tree, which became the first generation of antimalarial drugs. Since then, with the development of the pharmaceutical industry, people have made quinine from the ingredients of this cinchona cream.

This special drug is very effective for malaria and is a fast blood schizocalcium killer.

It is actually not easy to make quinine, but... with the bark of cinchona, this primitive quinine is much easier.

In South America, the rainforest environment there is similar to that in Yunnan, Guizhou and the Western Regions, which are in the tropical and subtropical areas, so the Indians discovered the cinchona tree, and dried the bark of the cinchona tree and ground it into powder to treat malaria.
Chapter completed!