It is not a big deal to repair the palace. Your Majesty used the private treasury of the young master and did not use Taicang's money. But if the alchemists can move in and a lot of saltpeter and sulfur are sent in, then the problem will be big.
This is about refining elixirs.
Is Your Majesty asking for immortality when you are not yet thirty years old? Since ancient times, most emperors who have sought immortality have been absurd. Even wise and powerful monarchs like the First Emperor and Emperor Wu did many foolish and cruel things in order to seek immortality.
Jiaozhou is about to be recovered, and the world will be reunited soon. A good wise king must not be addicted to taking elixirs to seek immortality.
That alchemist deceived the king, his crime is worthy of death!
I couldn't just sit back and watch. Xun Yu raised his eyes and looked at the majestic Weiyang Palace. He made up his mind to punish the traitor and protect the country at the right time.
He straightened his clothes and stepped into the palace.
When they walked to the front hall, they bumped into Tian Feng, who was preparing to ask for an audience with His Majesty. The two looked at each other and knew why the other came.
Xun Yu secretly thought to himself that Tian Yuanhao was straightforward, hot-tempered and could not speak. If His Majesty were angered, he would not listen to his advice. He might as well stop him.
Thinking of this, he asked softly: "Brother Yuan Hao, how are you going to advise His Majesty?"
"Recruiting alchemists and getting close to villains is a foolish way to play. I will directly denounce it and enlighten your majesty."
"What if Your Majesty doesn't listen?"
"For the sake of the country, I dare not spare my life. Today I will follow the example of Lieutenant Li and pound the pepper." Tian Feng looked upright and was ready to remonstrate to death.
Xun Yu secretly praised him for being a truly loyal and upright man. During the reign of Emperor Ling, Taiwei Li Xian went to the palace to discuss matters with a closed-mouthed pepper, intending to give advice to him even before he died.
This matter was rumored to be a good talk, so he naturally knew about it.
Chili pepper is an immature Zanthoxylum bungeanum. In history, it has completed assassination and death missions many times, and became a suicide medicine that was relatively easy to buy in the pre-pesticide era.
Using modern pharmacology to explain it, it should be that the volatile oil content of immature Sichuan peppercorns is very high. If consumed in large quantities, it can cause bleeding in the lungs and bronchial tubes in a short period of time, making breathing extremely difficult, causing poisoning, fainting, and death.
In a moment.
Volume 36 of "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" records: In the fifth year of the Western Han Dynasty (AD 6), "in winter, in December, Mang served pepper wine on the twelfth lunar month and poisoned the wine." Liu Qu fell ill after drinking it and died.
Weiyang Palace was fourteen years old.
This poisonous pepper wine uses closed-mouthed peppers. The recipe of peppercorn wine clearly states that the peppercorns used must be picked to remove the closed-mouthed peppers, especially Sichuan peppercorns.
Xun Yu liked incense and was very knowledgeable about spices. Naturally, he also knew about the highly poisonous nature of chili pepper.
He persuaded: "Brother Yuan Hao is very impatient. The matter of the alchemist entering the palace has not yet reached such a bad situation. Let me try to persuade you. If it doesn't work, how about we die together with Yuan Hao?"
He really didn't want to see Tian Feng die, but he was also afraid that he would insist on remonstrance as soon as he came up, which would make the matter impossible to change, affect the normal operation of the court, and delay the national affairs.
Tian Feng kept silent and refused to change his mind no matter how much he tried to persuade him. He was extremely stubborn.
It wasn't until His Majesty summoned them that they entered the imperial study. Xun Yu sighed helplessly. He was afraid that Tian Feng would irritate His Majesty, so he said first: "I heard that a noble scholar came to serve Your Majesty and could refine elixirs. I was very curious. Can I see it?"
Ichiban, increase your experience?"
He wanted to expose the alchemist who had deceived the king in front of His Majesty and have him killed for deceiving the king.
In this way, with your Majesty's wisdom, you can naturally understand that it is absurd to make elixirs to seek immortality. This way, the crisis can be eliminated, and your Majesty will not lose face. It is much better than speaking out and admonishing.
And this matter can also serve as a warning to those who are lucky enough to make progress.
Naturally Tian Feng could understand the twists and turns here, but he was disdainful. What is the use of killing the alchemist? Only if your majesty understands the principle of being close to the virtuous minister and staying away from the villain can the real solution to the problem.
In everything, you should seek the truth rather than the truth!
He was not interested in knowing whether the emperor was willing to recruit alchemists, nor did he want to see the farce of exposing the liar, so he directly advised: "Your Majesty, when I heard that the alchemists entered the palace, I suddenly thought of the young man, Luan Da. Does your majesty know these two people?"
Xun Yu closed his eyes to calm down the anger in his heart. Tian Feng really didn't know how to behave. So many people deserved to be resentful of him.
Liu Xiang smiled and looked at Xun Yu and then at Tian Feng. Both of them came to the alchemist to persuade him not to indulge in alchemy and seek immortality.
He first answered Xun Yu: "The alchemist has entered Taiyi Palace and it is inconvenient to leave the palace. If Wen Ruo wants to see him, I will take you there later."
After saying that, he looked at Tian Feng: "Young Master, of course I know about Luan Da's story. What Yuan Hao is worried about will not happen. Throw away the bag of closed-mouth pepper in your arms. It is fake and will not kill anyone.
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Tian Feng was a censor, and Jin Yiwei kept a close eye on him. His family was not a wealthy family, and they did not always have spices such as Sichuan peppercorns. So when he asked someone to buy Sichuan peppercorns, he was tricked by Jia Xu.
Poisonous fake.
Although this kind of fake can't kill anyone, it will make him uncomfortable for a long time. Liu Xiang couldn't bear to watch him make a fool of himself.
Why should we suffer this kind of sin?
It's better to throw it away.
As for Shaoweng and Luan Da, the two charlatans during Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, they are recorded in historical records, so they naturally know about them.
It is said that the young man once summoned the deceased Mrs. Li of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to meet with Emperor Wu. He gained favor and believed that he was an excellent alchemist, so he was canonized as General Wencheng and asked him for advice on how to drive away evil spirits.
As a result, a year later, his various Taoist techniques became increasingly ineffective, which inevitably made people suspicious.
So, in order to prove the effectiveness of his alchemy, the young man wrote a picture and asked the cow to eat it, and then said that the cow's belly contained divine words given by the gods.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty became increasingly suspicious of this and sent people to investigate. It was found that the letter in the cow's belly was the young man's own handwriting, so he executed him, but lied to the outside world that he died of horse liver poisoning.
Luan Da is Shao Weng’s fellow disciple.
In order to show his full trust in him, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty granted the alchemist several general titles, rewarded him with a very luxurious mansion and thousands of servants, and even married his daughter to him.
Later, Luan Da went to Mount Tai for a tour and came back and lied that he had met his late master. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was very angry because he sent people to follow him secretly and found out that he had been deceived, so he cut Luan Da in half and let his daughter age
I became a widow easily.
Tian Feng talked about these two people to persuade Liu Xiang not to be deceived by charlatans.
Of course he was not deceived. He repaired the Taiyi Palace in Zhongnan Mountain and sent a thousand soldiers of the Qimen Army to garrison it. He also sent alchemists who presented secret recipes in order to purify saltpeter and sulfur and then make gunpowder.
"I know you have doubts, so let's go with me to Taiyi Palace in a while and show you a big treasure."
In a few days, everything will be ready, and he will do a test at Taiyi Palace, fifty miles southwest of Chang'an.