Chapter 120: Finally Seeing Dan, Long Insight (Emergency Monthly Pass)
Full text without ads Chapter 120: Finally see the elixir and gain insights (urgent monthly ticket request)
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The alchemy room is different from the storage room. As soon as you enter, you will feel the warmth rushing to your face. There are no ads in the entire text.
The Taoist idiot couldn't help but feel happy when he saw this. Fortunately, it was already October and the weather was getting colder. It would have been a disaster if the prince had thought of refining alchemy in July or August.
The temperature in the alchemy room is much higher than outside.
In the alchemy room, there is a two-foot-high altar with two three-stone furnaces on the altar. There are large and small copper cauldrons on the middle and north furnaces. On the other side of the main furnace, various metal pipes turn out to be ancient distillation devices.
On the side near the door, there is a three-foot-high and six-foot-long table, on which are placed various tools for processing materials, knives and grinding supplies, various plates and empty jade boxes.
Seeing Dao Chi and Lu Bing come in, the prince called them forward and handed a two-and-a-half-foot-long pipe to Lu Bing. This was used to blow fire.
There is coal in the furnace, and the fire here is watched by a special person. It will not go out for many years, but it is just that it will not go out. Lu Bing's job is to blow up the small flame.
The Taoist idiot's job was to learn how to prepare elixirs from the prince.
Cinnabar, alum, and alkali must be ground into powder. Ginseng contains water, so it is more troublesome. First, it is sliced and dried, and then crushed and ground into fine powder. Astragalus and Atractylodes are both dry, so they can be sliced and ground directly.
The ingredients are not mixed. After grinding into fine powder, it is sieved three times. The finest sieve is made of palace gauze. The powder after sifting is fine and smooth.
Lu Bing puffed up his cheeks and blew up the small flame in the furnace. He put coal on top and congratulated the prince proudly.
The prince looked closer, and the Taoist idiot also took a look.
The so-called pebbles are coal. The pebbles prepared here are not ordinary coals. Most of them have been preliminarily burned and have a bit of coke. Such coals burn quickly and produce less smoke.
The so-called alchemy is really based on refining.
The prince first used the distillation device and put in cinnabar powder. After heating it for two quarters of an hour, what he got was mercury.
Looking at the silver-white liquid, the prince smiled. It was obvious that this step of processing was very successful.
Dao Chi sat behind the prince, holding his breath and concentrating, but his heart was frightened. This is mercury, whether it is liquid or vaporized, it is poisonous.
Who knows whether this simple distillation equipment leaks air or not.
Lu Bing looked at the mercury and his eyes brightened: "Your Highness, this is the art of alchemy? Can you make gold?"
The prince said: "If you want to refine gold, you need gold and stone, but what you refine is also gold sand. I'll let you see that some other time."
Lu Bing nodded endlessly, his face full of excitement and anticipation.
The Taoist idiot also became somewhat interested. Immortal magic is illusory, but hundreds of years ago, it was quite novel to see reactions similar to those in chemical experiments of later generations.
After the mercury was prepared, the prince next used a small copper cauldron. He first put the mercury in it, and then put in alum, stone alkali and so on.
The temperature in the alchemy room was getting higher and higher, and several people's faces were red.
The prince stared at the hourglass and waited for an hour before pouring in the ginseng, atractylodes, astragalus and other powders. After practicing for another half an hour, he cut off the fire source. He did not take them out directly, but continued to simmer them in the furnace.
Half an hour later, the prince opened the cauldron.
There was an inch-and-a-half square red cake paste at the bottom of the tripod. The prince took out the cake paste, placed it on a jade plate, divided it into nine parts with a jade knife, and then kneaded each part into a ball the size of a thumb.
Then the nine meatballs were baked in the oven for a quarter of an hour.
Nine reddish, silvery-white luster, steaming Qi Pills are released.
Lu Bing's eyes widened, and Dao Chi's face was unabashedly "shocked."
It turns out that this is alchemy, a mixture of mercury as the mother. Even if there are no gold and stones, all herbs are used, but mercury alone is the base, so this pill cannot be taken. If you eat too much, mercury poisoning will affect the digestive system and nervous system.
There will be problems in the urinary system and blood system. The consequences will be that the body is riddled with holes, and even if you can't die, it will be difficult to live well.
But as far as he knew, most of the elixir prescriptions recorded in ancient books used cinnabar, and mercury was essential after refining. It seems that it is not easy to influence the prince's hobbies by taking out the cinnabar and putting it aside.
thing.
What's going on? It is clearly recorded in history that Jiajing was emperor for more than 40 years, and was obsessed with alchemy for more than 20 years. It is really miraculous that he could not die after eating this thing for 20 years. Did he eat it or did he just practice it on his hands?
Addicted? History has not happened yet, so there is really no place to verify it.
How could the prince have thought that Dao Chi was "fearful of elixirs like a tiger" in his heart, and thought that the second child was fascinated by Cheng Dan.
He frowned, struggled a bit in his heart, and said: "Okay, seeing how useless you two are, I will give you a pill each." After that, he picked up a pill with his fingers and divided it into each.
He was also secretly proud. Refining elixirs does not always result in elixirs. It can be achieved three times out of ten, and four times is good. Today, he did not originally think about making elixirs. He was just planning to try twice to let Dao Chi, Lu Bing
Two processes of seeing and seeing.
Unexpectedly, the elixir was released in one go and the quality was quite good.
Dao Chi held the elixir with residual warmth in his hands, his face full of excitement, and said: "Thank you for the reward, Your Highness. The solar terms have changed. My grandmother is not feeling well, so I can honor my grandmother."
It's impossible not to be excited. If the prince asked them to try the elixir on a whim, it would be a disaster.
Seeing that the prince seemed reluctant to part with the pills, and the quantity of the pills was not large, the Taoist idiot hurriedly took out the filial piety.
After hearing what he said, the prince still didn't respond, and Lu Bing started to get confused.
If you are a Taoist idiot, there is only one elder in your family, and you have both parents. Which one does this pill honor?
The prince himself is a very filial person, and he was very satisfied when he heard that filial piety comes first. He was already thinking about how to divide the remaining seven Qi-enhancing pills.
Lu Bing's face was filled with confusion. He carefully held the pill and said, "Your Highness, can this pill be divided into two halves?"
The prince nodded and said: "Use silverware and jadeware to separate them, do not use ironware."
The Taoist idiot was thinking about how to persuade the prince to give up cinnabar for making elixirs, but the history of Taoism handed down in China for more than a thousand years all used cinnabar, so his empty talk was not convincing.
If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch the tiger's cubs?
Dao Chi thought for a while, and his face showed more and more curiosity and yearning, as if he was fascinated by alchemy.
When the prince saw that both of them were impressed by his "alchemy skills", he felt very happy, but when he thought about the princess, he said with a bit of helplessness: "The alchemy taught by my father, the king, is disgusted by my mother and concubine, so what should I do if I am alone?"
Today's elixir refining was done without the knowledge of the princess. If it happens more often in the future, it will be spread to the princess's ears.
Lu Bing frowned and said, "What should we do? Your Highness would never want to make the princess unhappy."
The Taoist Chi pondered for a while and said: "The princess doesn't like the pills, probably because she doesn't know its wonders. Your Highness can study it slowly. When the princess sees the magic of the pills with her own eyes, she won't stop her anymore."
As he said this, he thought in his heart that the princess was powerful.
However, the prince's temper and filial piety are too bad, and he can't even talk about being smooth. In addition, the prince is fourteen years old this year, and he is in the period of rebellion. The more the princess stops him from making alchemy, the more he will become addicted to it.
After listening to Dao Chi's words, the prince picked up a pill and said, "Have you seen it with your own eyes? Find someone to try the pill to show it to your mother and concubine? But many pills are good for nourishing qi. What can you tell?"
Dao Chi thought for a while and said: "Your Highness, is there any elixir that has been proved by previous people to be able to regenerate bones and the dead? Even if it is not so magical, it can still have special effects on certain diseases. Such a elixir cannot be refined.
Are you able to witness this to the princess?"
After hearing this, the prince fell into deep thought.
The alchemy rooms in the alchemy room were collected by the prince over more than 20 years. However, when it comes to the alchemy pills that can be seen with the naked eye mentioned by Dao Chi, there are many alchemy prescriptions mentioned, but the prince has not seen them.
Lu Bing heard the Taoist idiot pouring pills on the pills. He remembered what the two of them had just said in the storage room, and then said: "Your Highness, what the second brother Wang said is exactly what he said. The reason why the princess doesn't like your highness's alchemy is simply because she feels that both inside and outside the Taoist family
The elixir is illusory, and I don’t want Your Highness to indulge in it. If the princess sees with her own eyes that the elixir prepared by Your Highness is a real good thing, there will be no reason to stop it."
The prince was quite moved, nodded, and said: "Okay, starting tomorrow, I will try to find a prescription that is effective in curing diseases."
It took three hours to prepare this furnace of elixir. If I were to make the second furnace, it would be at night.
The prince got off to a good start and was already satisfied. He stood up and said, "Go back first and accompany Gu to refine elixirs tomorrow afternoon." After saying this, he looked at the clothes of the two of them and said, "These clothes were changed from the Qiyun Palace and worn to the front.
, it’s a bit more ostentatious after all.”
Dao Chi and Lu Bing stood up and responded.
The prince glanced at Dao Chi again and said: "Erlang put these pill pills away first, and don't tell others about it for the time being. It won't be too late to let you know when he makes more pills after being alone. Although it's nothing, you don't have to worry about the scarcity of the pills but the inequality.
, it’s not good to make them think too much.”
Dao Chi bowed in response, solemnly put the pills into his purse, and then put the purse close to his body.
The prince shook his head and said with a smile: "It's not a good elixir, why is it like this? I will refine it into a good elixir later and give it to you. It won't be too late for you to treasure it..."
A few people chatted and laughed, left the alchemy room, and returned to the Qiyun Hall along the same route. Dao Chi and Lu Bing went to the side hall to change their clothes and went back separately.
Before the two of them parted ways, Dao Chi whispered to Lu Bing: "The book says that there is erysipelas in refining elixirs. It is better to wait until the elixirs are properly tested before taking them."
Lu Bing was surprised and said: "Is that true?"
The Taoist idiot said: "I read few Taoist books earlier, and I forgot where I remembered this sentence. Since His Highness likes to make alchemy, we should also read more Taoist books in the future. We must understand it clearly. It would be better to accompany the prince to make alchemy."
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Lu Bing didn't like reading. Hearing this, he hurriedly said: "Good second brother, dear second brother, this job of checking the classics should be left to the second brother. I'm really impatient with this."
The Taoist idiot said: "I can come and look it up, but my family's farming and reading heritage is mostly Confucian books. For Taoist books, I have to help me find and replace them."
Lu Bing nodded and said: "It's easy to say, I'll look for books. Your Majesty is good at teaching, and what he preaches is imitative. There is really no shortage of Taoist books in this mansion. I will look for it for my second brother when I go back today, and I will bring it to him tomorrow morning..."
ps: The word "refining alchemy" in the article is mostly yy. If there is any coincidence, it is purely accidental.