Chapter 223 Smoking is harmful to health
There are many new species brought back from the New World, and only the golden sand has been moved to the main hall. Li Shimin led all the ministers to the outside of the hall to see the strangeness, while Captain Chen explained them one by one, and at the same time, Captain Chen also asked Li Shimin to name these things.
Li Shimin happily agreed, named the chili pepper spicy dice, felt that it was so down-to-earth, and named the peanut ground bean, which is also down-to-earth, and the most important thing is to distinguish the ground bean from the original falling peanuts......
Captain Chen took out another sun-dried leaf and explained: "Your Majesty, this leaf is extremely useful, and the tribesmen over there in the New World often use this leaf, mosquito bites, and even poisonous snake bites can be used to treat it. This leaf can also refresh the mind, the tribe people have a special bamboo tube, the dried leaves are cut into shreds and stuffed into the bamboo tube to light, you can suck the smoke from this leaf through the small mouth at the other end of the bamboo tube, the first few times you smoke should choke, you will not get used to it. ”
Wang Haoran thought at first what kind of herb this was, so he didn't pay much attention to it, and after listening to Captain Chen, he was stunned to realize that what Captain Chen said could not be tobacco leaves! He hurriedly stepped forward and took the leaves from Captain Chen's hand, which felt quite like tobacco leaves, but there were not many fluff on the leaves, just some that fell and stuck on the leaves, probably because they were dried, and confirmed: "Captain Chen, is this leaf originally covered with this fluff on the entire leaf?" ”
"yes." Captain Chen saw Wang Haoran's serious face, and he didn't know what he meant by asking.
"What's wrong?" Li Shimin also saw that Wang Haoran was wrong.
Wang Haoran shook his head, in later life, he was also a smoker, but for a period of time, he often went to work as a volunteer to accumulate points for the household registration of a big city, and one of them was a public welfare activity to promote the harm of smoking, so he has a deep understanding of the harm of smoking. He wanted to quit smoking several times, but when the craving started, he couldn't control it so much, and as soon as he rebounded, not only did he not quit, but the craving for smoking became even greater than before. Since crossing over to Datang to change his body, and Datang has not had tobacco leaves before, he has never smoked again. He wanted to stop the Tang people from making tobacco, at most growing some for medicinal purposes, but how could this be explained? It stands to reason that he saw this tobacco leaf for the first time, and he should not know anything about this tobacco leaf, so Wang Haoran didn't know how to speak for a while, so he could only bow his head with a gloomy face and remain silent.
Li Shimin had never seen Wang Haoran show such a worried look, although he couldn't guess it, he felt that there must be something bad. However, Wang Haoran didn't want to say more at this time, so Li Shimin changed the topic, planning to talk to Wang Haoran in private later.
Wang Haoran is quite entangled in his heart, his life experience is absolutely unspeakable, once it is revealed, those who want to control their fate will come to the door one by one, Wang Haoran will set up many hostile forces on any side, and will also become the number one hunting target of those people, and the ability to predict the future will be feared by anyone. However, although smoking can bring huge benefits, it is at the expense of people's health, and you can't ignore people's health for the sake of money, right? Datang has never had tobacco, isn't this still thriving? Wang Haoran can't do this kind of immoral thing, he is sure to stop it.
However, the trade-off was too difficult for him, and he had to try to find a safe way to say it.
After thinking about it for a while, Wang Haoran found an opportunity to ask, "Captain Chen, are there many people in the New World?" How is your physical condition? ”
"I don't know how many there are, we can't speak well over there, so we can't inquire about it. However, there were four tribes that we came into contact with during that time, and our tribe was only two or three thousand people. The living conditions over there are harsh, so they have developed a strong physique, and all of them are extremely strong. Captain Chen replied.
"Then they generally live to be a few tens of years old?" Wang Haoran continued to ask.
As soon as he said this, Captain Chen seemed to remember something interesting, and replied: "I don't know how old I am, the difference in words is a problem, and they don't have a concept of time in years." One of the strange things about this is that there is a brother and sister, the older sister looks like he's in his early thirties, but the younger brother looks like he's almost forty. Out of curiosity, we surveyed other people, and most of them were like this, men tend to age more easily than women. If you take the estimation of the age of the women over there as the benchmark, there are only a handful of people who can live past the age of 50, and they can generally only live to be less than 50 years old, or even die of illness in their early forties. ”
Wang Haoran was overjoyed in his heart, and continued to ask: "Then the woman over there sucks this leaf?" ”
Li Shimin saw that Wang Haoran took the initiative to lead the topic to this leaf again, presumably Wang Haoran was ready to talk about his views on this, what could make Wang Haoran frown? Li Shimin was very curious, so he listened very carefully.
Captain Chen thought for a moment and replied, "Yes, yes, but there are few. ”
Wang Haoran was quite satisfied with this answer, and asked again: "What kind of disease do you get from illness and death?" ”
"We ship doctors often see them, and we hear from the ship doctors that those people have a lot of asthma problems, and a large number of people who die are also caused by this cause of lack of energy. However, it is more likely that it is due to premature aging due to unbalanced nutrition. For example, the women over there rarely get asthma, but they are also sad to pass the 50 mark, and many die because of difficult births. Captain Chen didn't know what Wang Haoran wanted to inquire about, so he simply told everything he knew.
"So, asthma is a big problem over there." Wang Haoran only picked out what he needed to say things, "Your Majesty, the disease of asthma lies in the lungs, and the smoke that smokes this leaf is inhaled into the lungs, and men in the New World smoke a lot of this cigarette, so asthma generally occurs in men." Therefore, the younger brother thought that it was necessary to study this leaf carefully. Doctor Sun is proficient in pharmacology, and the younger brother implores His Majesty to let the younger brother take this leaf to consult with Divine Doctor Sun, after all, the species in other places may not all be beneficial. ”
"But, is it better to take these ground beans and corn together to study?" Li Shimin still couldn't guess what Wang Haoran was thinking, and he couldn't figure out how Wang Haoran asked how the shortcomings of this leaf were done in a few words. This is a common thing, and Li Shimin is too lazy to bother with his brains, anyway, he knows that he can't figure it out himself, but he also began to wonder who this kid is? Is it really just the apprentice of the Three Immortals? Li Shimin was skeptical.
Li Shimin's question was very serious, but in Wang Haoran's opinion, it seemed that he was laughing at him, how could peanuts and corn still need to be studied? Just cook it in the pot and you can eat it! However, he agreed, lest his purpose for tobacco leaves be too obvious.