As soon as Quentus finished speaking, the chief veteran Gayus immediately took over and said, "If this is true, we are all having a banquet in heaven or hell at the moment?" The people at the banquet burst into laughter.

But Kuntus rolled his eyes and said, "Gayus, your words are not funny at all. The poisonous lead tube is not a fast-acting poison that can quickly poison people. Its damage to the human body has been accumulated over the years. This is not something I made a guess after listening to Feng Hu's words, but I have a basis for it."

Seeing that everyone seemed to disagree, he said, "Does people over forty years of age often experience headaches, nausea, vomiting, irritability, convulsions, lethargy, and forgetfulness?"

There was a sudden silence in the lobby. Augustus touched his bald head in the middle and broke the silence and said, "I have all the symptoms you mentioned, but I am already a 60-year-old. How do you prove that these are not caused by age naturally?"

Kuntus smiled calmly and said, "Now, it seems that he is weak and sick at age forty, and his memory is reduced. He is 65 years old and he is not far from the grave. It is natural to be the trunk of the Roman Empire. But our Roman Empire has a history of thousands of years. I have read various historical documents, but it was not like this before. More than two hundred years ago, before the large-scale use of lead-cast water pipes in the city of Rome. Not to mention the health of ordinary citizens and free people. Just the senators in the senate, the army in the army in the army.

The chief, from Caesar to Anthony, Octavian, and all the way to Mario, who is not a person with great wisdom, great talent and good health? In recent decades, we, Rome, have produced a hero like Seville, the grandfather of His Majesty Alexander. He is still energetic and intelligent. But please note that Seville has lived in the army since his youth and used natural water sources outside the military camp. Therefore, his intelligence, physical strength and health have not been harmed by lead poison."

After Kuntus's words, the palace lobby became even quieter, and it could be described as silent.

When Quentus spoke, Gayusben scooped up a spoonful of soup with a spoonful and sent it to his mouth, but hurriedly threw the spoon back into the soup bowl, as if it was burned. He coughed slightly and broke the embarrassing silence of the scene, and then said, "But... I said Quentus, I said so much, but this is still your conjecture. This historical information may not be recorded accurately, nor may it be left completely. How can we use these simple comparisons to determine that the lead water pipe is toxic?"

Kuntus sneered calmly and continued: "What I said is based on, of course it is not just a simple comparison of these materials. I also arranged for people to do various comparison tests, including tests for rabbits, sheep, monkeys, and human tests directly with slaves. There are short-term and large-dose lead poisoning tests, and long-term chronic poisoning tests that imitate drinking lead pipe water."

After saying that, he whispered a few instructions to the servant behind him, and the servant immediately ran outwards. Then Kuntus said to everyone: "Please continue eating and wait for a moment. The evidence or the results of my experiments over the past year will be immediately returned to everyone."

After hearing this, everyone began to lower their heads to eat and drink again. However, the soup was no longer used. Amyas gave a few instructions to the maids and servants around them, and they immediately organized people to ease the soup and water, and the kitchen also organized manpower to go to the reservoir to fetch water and cook soup and other things again.

But when Quentus was about to remove the soup in front of him, he scooped a scoop with a spoon and swallowed it into his mouth. Looking at Gayus, who was surprised by his eyes, he smiled and said, "Although this lead is poisonous, it requires a large dose. It takes years and years to poison the water passing through the lead tube. So such a meal or a scoop of water is relatively negligible. So everyone doesn't need too much psychological burden."

Even though he said so, no one in the lobby except him drank water or soup. Some people didn't even eat dishes and pastries, but just drank wine.

Soon, a group of guards and slaves under Kuntus came to the hall with seven or eight "big boxes" in their hands. When the oil cloth covered on the "big boxes" was unveiled, people discovered that there were several large cages. There were all kinds of animals in it. There were rabbits, goats, and monkeys, and there were two of each species. There were two people in the last cage.

Quintus stood up and spoke, "Please observe carefully how these animals and people are different from their normal similarities."

After Kuntus said this, everyone realized that no matter what animals or humans, they were all mentally retarded with squinted eyes and mouths, and their hair fell off in large quantities. But strangely, they or their mentally retarded look different.

Kuntus continued to explain: "I can't completely simulate the effect of taking lead water pipes, because it took decades. So I was doing the experiment with a large dose of lead salt. One was to feed the subjects a lot of lead salt directly, and the other was to only add a small amount of lead salt to the daily drinking water. Of course, even the latter should be ten times the effect of the lead water pipe. As a result, the former became this state in just over half a month, and the latter did not change at first, but it also became this state in the past year, but it was just a little lighter than the former."

At this time, Alexander's palace lobby was completely silent, and no one expressed doubts about it anymore. Quentus waved his hand and asked his subordinates to withdraw these test subjects. Then he continued to say to Alexander: "Your Majesty, the lead-cast water pipe is related to the foundation and survival of our Roman Empire. My subordinate believes that the empire's increasing decline in the past century is directly related to this. This lead water pipe is the root of the empire's patients. At least one of them. My subordinate begs His Majesty to allocate special funds as soon as possible to transform the large towns with water supply systems in Rome and even the whole country. All lead-cast water pipes are eliminated."

Quintus's words woke everyone in the hall who was still dazed, and they all agreed to his petition to Alexander to transform the water supply system nationwide.

Alexander Ben spoke up to agree happily, but when he saw Amyas wink at him, he hurriedly stopped. Then Amyas responded to everyone: "Lead poison is related to the foundation of the empire, so it is naturally necessary to solve it. But now it is impossible for our treasury to use this money to transform the water supply system across the country on a large scale. Even the water supply system in the city of Rome cannot afford it. So this matter can only be temporarily..."
Chapter completed!