Chapter Thirty-Eight: The King of Medicine

There has not been much progress in investigating the 12 needles in southern Xinjiang, and I am still in school most of the time, but according to Mr. Hua Tuo's tips and through some understanding of wild history, I gradually grasped the history of the 12 needles in southern Xinjiang.

Around the time of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang sought the elixir of immortality, and wanted to use the mysterious witchcraft or Taoism of southern Xinjiang to achieve his goal of immortality. At that time, there was a medicine king in southern Xinjiang, and it was said that witchcraft and medical skills were first-class, so Qin Shi Huang arrested this person and asked him to make alchemy, but the alchemy was done by Taoism. The Medicine King told Qin Shi Huang that witchcraft is the way to exorcise demons, and that if you want to live forever, you need to seek a deep rift valley that can enter the center of the earth. So Qin Shi Huang began to send people everywhere to search for the deep rift valley that could enter the center of the earth, and after searching for many years he did not find it, Qin Shi Huang saw that he was getting old, so he put pressure on the medicine king to execute him. The medicine king told Qin Shi Huang that he could use an acupuncture technique to prolong Qin Shi Huang's life and wait for the results.

Qin Shi Huang immediately let the medicine king exercise acupuncture, the medicine king's acupuncture and moxibustion secret technique did have an effect, after a few times, Qin Shi Huang really felt that he was refreshed, although he had a lot of opportunities, but every time he asked the medicine king to use acupuncture for him, he immediately regained his energy. Legend has it that the acupuncture technique used by the king of southern Chinese medicine is the nine needles in southern Xinjiang, which is indeed an unfathomable acupuncture technique in traditional Chinese medicine.

A few years have passed, after all, the medicine king's southern Xinjiang nine needles are not a fairy art, although it can relieve fatigue, but in the end it cannot stop people's aging, at this time, the elixir of immortality has not been found, Qin Shi Huang executed the medicine king in a fit of anger.

When the medicine king entered the palace, he brought an apprentice from southern Xinjiang, and it may also be an entourage, this entourage has the true inheritance of the medicine king, and when the medicine king was executed, he once left him a secret scroll to bring back to southern Xinjiang.

The entourage listened to the words of the medicine king, and bribed the people in the palace with all the property that Qin Shi Huang had rewarded them, and they replaced the entourage with the prisoners in the prison to go to the execution ground, and the entourage secretly fled back to southern Xinjiang.

As for why the medicine king left a secret scroll for his entourage or apprentice to invent the life-threatening twelve needles in southern Xinjiang, it is possible that the medicine king was worried that after he died, Qin Shi Huang or Qin II would continue to come to southern Xinjiang to look for the elixir of immortality, and at that time he would definitely arrest people back, so it would be up to this twelve needles in southern Xinjiang to get rid of Qin II, of course, this is just speculation.

In addition, I speculate that the disciples of the Medicine King succeeded in popularizing this acupuncture technique in southern Xinjiang, a technique of covert killing, which they used to rebel or resist the control of various dynasties over them.

For example, the King of Dian during the Three Kingdoms period, although he surrendered to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he only gave in temporarily, and was still waiting for the opportunity to make a comeback, so he sent Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty twelve beauties who knew acupuncture.

As we said earlier, the King of Dian sent twelve beauties to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to secretly study the twelve needles in the palace, but according to the current wild history, long before this, when Qin II, the King of Medicine had already invented the twelve needles in Southern Xinjiang, but he had not added the other three needles to the acupuncture secret scroll before he died, so the twelve beauties who entered the palace to murder Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty may not have fully and truly mastered the twelve needles in Southern Xinjiang, or they caused witch Gu in the palace to cause chaos in the Western Han Dynasty. This is more effective than directly killing Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, if the dynasty is in chaos, the world will be in chaos, and the king of Dian will raise troops.

When Zhuge Liang led his troops to level southern Xinjiang, he caught Meng Huo's wife, and Meng Huo's wife also wanted to solve Zhuge Liang through this method, she selected several beauties who were proficient in the twelve acupuncture techniques in southern Xinjiang to give Zhuge Liang, and asked the acupuncturist in southern Xinjiang to regulate his body because of the fatigue of the war and the car. But what kind of person is Zhuge Liang, how can he fall for Mrs. Zhurong, and Zhuge Liang is a decent person, and he knows that people in southern Xinjiang are good at using poisonous Gu things, how can he let a few beauties like poisonous snakes stay by his side. Zhuge Liang saw through Mrs. Zhurong's tricks, and pretended to accept, late at night let a soldier dress up as Zhuge Liang, several southern Xinjiang acupuncture beauties pretended to use acupuncture to relieve Zhuge Liang's fatigue, trying to kill Zhuge Liang, they were just down to the seven needles when Zhuge Liang saw through, in fact, Zhuge Liang is not proficient in acupuncture, but understands the human body acupuncture points and astronomy, he judged according to the human body acupuncture points and astronomical knowledge, this acupuncture is murderous acupuncture.

After Zhuge Liang caught Meng Shu and Mrs. Zhu Rong, he scolded Southern Xinjiang for this cruel way of killing.

Now they have figured out the ins and outs of the twelve needles in southern Xinjiang, but why they came to Thirty Mile Town to make waves, it is still a mystery, Thirty Mile Town has no emperor, and there is no enemy for them, so what are they doing in Thirty Mile Town? And I'm still in their lock-up range, so what do I have to do with the Twelve Needles in Southern Xinjiang!

I asked Hua Tuo, and he said that during the Qin Dynasty, there was indeed a medicine king in southern Xinjiang.

"Qin Shi Huang caught the medicine king into the palace to seek the elixir of immortality, and then executed the medicine king, legend has it that the medicine king is the best at acupuncture, but there is no information about the medicine king."

The Medicine King is a Taoist god who evolved from a famous doctor in ancient Chinese history or legend.

One is Shennong, tastes herbs, pioneers medicine, and is respected as the king of medicine.

The second is Bian Que, who knows the source of medicine and understands medical theory, and passes on the Yellow Emperor's "Plain Book" that is, he discusses the pulse method with Bian Que, and later generations worship him as the king of medicine. During the Warring States Period, the people of Bojun had the surname Qin and Yueren, who were good at medicine, practiced medicine in Qi and Zhao, and people also called Bian Que and worshiped as the king of medicine. Taoism respects Bian Que as the true monarch of the medicine king, and the "Orthodox Taoist Collection" contains the "Eighty-one Difficult True Scriptures of the Medicine King".

The third is Sun Simiao. Later generations respected him as the king of medicine, and he never stopped worshipping. In order to worship the king of medicine, the king of medicine meeting is often held on April 28 of the summer calendar.

In China's folk beliefs, the belief in the king of medicine is very common. Due to the different folk customs in various places, there is more than one medicine king who believes in it, and the medicine king of southern Xinjiang is not recorded in the history books, but only the legend of southern Xinjiang.

I asked Hua Tuo who had stronger medical skills compared to him in the medicine king of Southern Xinjiang.

Hua Tuo said: "There are many ways to heal people, I am good at external medicine, and the king of southern Chinese medicine is good at internal medicine!" ”

Then, in order to pursue the twelve needles in southern Xinjiang, I must go to southern Xinjiang in the Three Kingdoms to find clues to the medicine king.