At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

So Liu Jian desperately needed a way to keep fit comfortably.

Needless to say, as soon as he expressed this need, countless people rushed to find relevant methods for him.

Everyone is a parasite who revolves around Liu Jian's talent and wealth. Of course, Liu Jian must be considered. If Liu Jian feels uncomfortable, they must also be uncomfortable.

At the beginning of the second year of Xingyuan, some of his minions found a group of quacks for him. These quacks tricked him into taking a panacea that could prolong life and strengthen the body. He was very happy.

The doctors at the Great Medical Center all advised him to abstinence and exercise, in order to mend his empty body, it took time, sweat, and fatigue.

How could Liu Jian do it?

If he could do it, he wouldn't be Liu Jian.

But if you don't, you're going to have a big problem.

What worries him the most is that he still has a period of sage time after enjoying it. If he doesn't care about it and forcibly mounts his gun, he will not only feel uncomfortable, but also easily lose face in front of women.

As his body became weaker and weaker, his sage time became longer and longer, and the duration of one persistence became shorter and shorter.

But the pursuit and desire of women have not diminished at all, but have become more vigorous.

This made him feel inexplicably worried, worried that one day he would fail and continue to lose face, and the man's self-esteem would no longer exist.

If you can't play with women, you won't have ultimate happiness, so what's the point of living for him?

Isn't that very empty?

In order to obtain the panacea that would allow him to be strong and undisturbed by the time of the sages, he racked his brains, and the appearance of this group of quacks just met his needs.

Those quack warlocks often fooled him with words like "Three Thousands of Royal Women Ascending in the Day", which really made him think that he could become a god by playing with women and ascending in the daytime, which is far better than being an emperor in the world.

These charlatans are not completely incompetent.

The pursuit of immortality began in the period of Emperor Qin Shihuang, and in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, because Emperor Wu of the Han pursued immortality, so that the technology of refining elixir appeared in the flicker world.

It can't be said to be a fool's world. People at that time really believed that they could live forever by refining elixir and eating elixir, and the emperor was the same.

In the Han Dynasty, the pursuit of immortality through alchemy and eating elixir has never stopped. From the highest ruler to the local tyrants, they are all pursuing these.

After the establishment of the Wei State, Guo Peng hated this set of arguments, and explicitly ordered that people be prohibited from doing such things.

He believes that life, aging, sickness and death are the fate of people and cannot be changed. There is no panacea for immortality, which violates the laws of nature and is purely deceptive and depraved.

If someone dared to whisper in his ears that refining the elixir would make him immortal, he would directly beat the person thirty times and tell him to get out of Luoyang and do coolies.

The emperor took the lead in resisting. Naturally, there was no market for such a thing. Over time, these quack warlocks lost their jobs and livelihoods.

Kong has the ability to fool and refine elixir, but he has nowhere to display it.

But no, people always have to make a living, and they don’t have other skills. It is impossible to farm the land. I will never farm the land in this life. Idle is the most enjoyable.

So they found Liu Jian, the highest-ranked widow of the Han Dynasty, and sold him a panacea.

It happened that Liu Jian also needed these, and the two hit it off.

Liu Jian believed it, and gave them a lot of money to collect a lot of precious medicinal materials and rare minerals for them to refine elixir, which would make them strong and immortal.

They refined it, added a lot of precious medicinal materials and minerals, blended them into various elixirs with excessive heavy metals, and presented them to Liu Jian one after another.

Liu Jian ate it.

Then I was pleasantly surprised to find that after taking it, my whole body was hot and full of energy, and I felt very strong, and the long-term depression disappeared!

On that day, Liu Jian was overjoyed and immediately conquered the three women overnight, exhausted from tossing, seven times a night, showing his glory.

He announced the return of the former little prince with the golden gun.

The only pity is that this medicine is not always effective, but you have to keep taking it to keep getting stronger.

From then on, as long as Liu Jian felt sluggish and lack of energy, he would take this elixir, and then continue to show off his glory, seven times a night.

And he's getting better at time management.

Whether he realizes that the situation is wrong is a question, but people around him feel that his dark circles are getting heavier, his face becomes paler and bloodless when he does not take the elixir, and his eyes become duller and duller. It looks very wrong.

After summer, the weather is hot, and he also needs to eat heavy metal elixir, so it is easier to feel dry and hot all over.

So he spent a lot of money to build an igloo. The room was full of ice cubes, and it was so cool and comfortable that ordinary people would shiver when they went in, but he went in carelessly.

Later, he could not live without ice or drugs for a day. After taking drugs again and showing his glory, he succeeded in falling ill in the igloo.

This is what Hua Tuo learned about the specific situation.

After arriving in Shanyang Kingdom, he found the elixir with a shiny surface and smelled it, crushed it to see the color of the medicine inside, and sniffed the smell inside, the more he looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong.

This thing is clearly a medicine for tigers and wolves, how did it become an elixir?

These medicinal materials are very precious. Eating them can arouse people's interest and make people excited. It is difficult to control their desires. It is acceptable to use them for flirting occasionally. If you do this for a long time...

He found Liu Jian's attendant and asked him about Liu Jian's medication.

Then I learned that Liu Jian took one pill every three to five days at first, then one pill every two days, then one pill a day, and two pills a day before he fell ill.

Hua Tuo turned pale with shock, and looking at Liu Jian's bluish-white complexion and heavy dark circles under his eyes, he felt that Liu Jian's physique was beyond ordinary for being able to live to this day.

Ordinary people have to make such a toss, how many months can they last?

Already dead.

It's not easy for Liu Jian to be alive, and this complexion, the degree of dark circles under his eyes...why does it feel like he's been poisoned?

Did someone poison him?

Or is that elixir poisonous?

Not so, although they are all medicines for tigers and wolves, and there are also sayings that the medicine is three-point poisonous, but in the end it is still medicine, and it will not make Liu Jian the same as being poisoned.

What's happening here?

Hua Tuo felt that this was a big matter. Liu Jian was the abolished emperor. His safety was not only related to him personally, but also related to the political situation, which needed to be reported.

So Hua Tuo hastily prescribed medicines for Liu Jian, prescriptions for clearing away heat and detoxification, and prescriptions for nourishing food to Prime Minister Shanyang.

"Mr. Shanyang's body is very weak, so he can't use heavy medicines. He can only use some heat-clearing and detoxifying prescriptions to eliminate all kinds of harmful things in the body, and then slowly nourish with food. At the same time, he can't drink alcohol or have sex. Purity of heart and few desires, after a year, it may be effective."

Qin Chong, the Prime Minister of Shanyang, accepted Hua Tuo's prescription and was very surprised.

"Detoxification? Is Mr. Shanyang poisoned?"

Chapter 1584 One thousand five hundred and four

Whether it was maliciously poisoned by someone or caused by other circumstances, Hua Tuo actually didn't dare to make an assertion because he had no evidence.

Although he didn't take such things as elixirs, the elites in society used to take elixirs widely. Those elixirs were actually refined from medicinal materials, so Hua Tuo didn't feel that those things were really harmful.

Although occasionally some doctors pointed out that there is something wrong with those pills and eating them is not good for your health, but everyone wants to live forever.

When there is a market demand, someone will naturally provide services, which is a normal thing.

So Hua Tuo twisted his beard and said inexplicably: "The complexion is pale, bloodless, and the eye sockets are sunken. This is a symptom of the body being invaded by evil poison. , did not find anything poisonous, the only doubtful thing is this elixir."

Qin Chong looked at the "elixir" in Hua Tuo's hand that had a strange brilliance on its surface.

"This... is said to be made by those warlocks using very precious medicinal materials. They are all medicinal materials, so they won't be poisonous, right?"

Hua Tuo was noncommittal.

"You can't say that, and medicinal materials can't be used indiscriminately. You need to use medicine when you are sick. What's the point of using medicine when you are not sick? Some medicinal materials can only be used for special diseases. They have the effect of fighting poison with poison. Normal people use it, but it is harmful.

Other things in the Shanyang Mansion can be determined not to cause disease. Only this thing is not very clear to me. I need to bring it back to the Great Medical Center and call more doctors to study it together, so as to be sure what it is thing.

Although it is said that this kind of elixir has existed in ancient times, according to the ancient books I read, there were some sporadic records saying that those who took the elixir usually died of strange diseases, and it was difficult to find out the cause. very worried. "

Qin Chong was even more worried.

"Doctor Hua, you should pay more attention to this matter. Duke Shanyang has a special status and his heirs are young. If something happens to this, it is not a trivial matter, and it will cause a great shock."

Hua Tuo nodded, his expression serious.

Of course he knew the significance of Liu Jian's political status to the Wei Empire.

"I know that Prime Minister Qin will use my prescription to give Sanyang Gong first, and after careful conditioning, Shanyang Gong will wake up in a few days, but it is especially important to note that after Shanyang Gong wakes up, it must be strictly prohibited. Lord Sanyo drank.

Drinking alcohol will affect the properties of the medicine, which is not good for the health of Lord Sanyo, and more importantly, you should not get close to women. If you continue to behave like before, I'm afraid it will be bad. "

Hua Tuo reminded Qin Chong, and Qin Chong nodded, expressing that he would do it.

He couldn't bear the consequences of Liu Jian's accident at all.

Afterwards, Hua Tuo left Shanyang Country and returned to Luoyang. While begging to see Guo Jin, he summoned the doctors in the Great Medical Center to study these elixir together.

At that time, Guo Jin was so jealous that he was fighting corruption on a large scale, and had no time to talk to Hua Tuo, so Hua Tuo could only lead a team to study these elixir, and then submit the conclusion directly to Guo Jin.

But after researching and researching, I felt that there were no known poisons besides medicinal materials and minerals, so someone suggested that everyone look through ancient books to see if they could find some unknown poisons.

Hua Tuo thought it was okay, and was going to do it like this, but at this time, his deputy Zhang Ji put forward another opinion.

"Since Mr. Shanyang has the symptoms of poisoning, you also suspect that there is something wrong with the elixirs. Why don't you give these elixirs to some living creatures and see how the living creatures react after eating these elixirs?"

Hua Tuo immediately felt that this was a good idea.

In the palace, the poison test of the food that the emperor wanted to eat was also tested with live animals. Since we want to judge whether the food is poisonous or not, it is better to test it with live animals. They are all live animals, so they should have something in common.

Hua Tuo found pigs, sheep, chickens, and ducks, and fed them with the elixir he got. He did experiments according to the dose Liu Jian ate every day, and observed the four animals every day. Case.

These animals were all similar to Liu Jian at first, and there was nothing wrong with them except for hitting the wall excitedly. Everyone thought that this thing might not be poisonous.

It's an aphrodisiac actually.

Many dignitaries in the previous dynasty also used these things to make alchemy, and some people took special pills specifically for the affairs of men and women, but nothing happened, which shows that this is normal.

Zhang Ji insisted on continuing.

"Duke Shanyang took the elixir at the beginning of the year, and it has been four or five months now, and it took four or five months to finally fall ill. If we want to pursue rigor, we should continue."

Some people think that Zhang Ji's actions are meaningless, but Hua Tuo thinks that Liu Jian's health problems are serious, and he must be cautious, so he supports Zhang Ji's opinion.

The experiment continued, and finally, a month later, the chicken had a problem. It staggered and fell down after walking a few steps, and then died within a few days and became cold.

This discovery caused inexplicable panic in the people of the Great Medical Center.

Immediately afterwards, the duck also had a similar problem, and also vomited, and it went away within a few days.

Although the pigs and sheep had no obvious symptoms and did not die, they would sleep for a long time after being excited for a short time and become lazy and unwilling to move more.

This situation is really unusual. The doctors of the Great Medical Center all agreed that there is something wrong with this elixir. Although they don't know what the problem is, they must not continue to let Liu Jian take it.

So the Great Medical Center sent people to Shanyang Country to warn Qin Chong, while continuing to ask Guo Jin to clarify the problem here.

Coincidentally, at this time, Guo Jin had almost finished dealing with the matters to be dealt with, ousted Zaoyi, initially resolved the opposition in the DPRK and stabilized the situation, and had a little leisure to pay attention to Liu Jian's affairs.

Then Guo Jin summoned Hua Tuo and learned the specific situation from Hua Tuo.

"Is this elixir poisonous? Did someone poison it on purpose or what happened?"

It's not that Guo Jin doesn't know what the pill is.

Guo Peng told him that he knew that the so-called elixir was made by blending some medicinal materials and some minerals.

He also knew that this kind of thing began during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han pursued immortality, vigorously promoted the development of the alchemy business, and took "elixir" to try to live forever and prolong life. He didn't know whether his final death had anything to do with it .

Guo Peng told Guo Jin that most of these things are poisonous, not the kind of poison that kills people all at once, but a kind of chronic poisoning, which will cause people to be poisoned slowly, and finally die of extremely painful illnesses.

Guo Peng firmly did not believe in any theory of elixir. He ordered to reject the theory of elixir at the beginning of his ascension. Anyone who dared to concoct alchemy and take it would be punished. He also sent people to destroy all kinds of alchemy tools.

But unexpectedly, the wild fire would never end and the spring breeze would blow again. Liu Jian, in pursuit of physical fitness and a golden gun, gathered a group of warlocks who were almost out of food, and asked them to make alchemy and take it by themselves, and the trouble came to this point.

"We don't know about these things. It is said that the Prime Minister of Shanyang himself doesn't know. Shanyang Gong's alchemy is still carried out in secret. I don't know if there are people with bad intentions interfering in it, but there is definitely something wrong with this elixir. .”

Hua Tuo reported further.

Guo Jin patted the armrest.

"**** told me that there are not only medicinal materials and other weird things in the elixir, but also minerals, which will make the elixir poisonous, and you will die if you eat it."

"toxicity?"

Hua Tuo was stunned, and said, "Your Majesty, the Supreme Emperor said that the poison comes from minerals? But we also use a lot of mineral products in our daily life, such as copper and silver. The ancients also used copper and silver as food utensils. , aren’t all sick?”

Guo Jin shook his head.

"There are always some minerals that are non-toxic, and some minerals are poisonous. There is not only one kind of mineral, and it is very likely that it is a deadly mineral. It is difficult for us to distinguish, so we don't know.