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"On the fifth day of the second month, twenty-five virgins were selected and sent from Jiangzhou to the palace. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Later, the screams of girls were often heard near the alchemy room of the palace, and the bones of young children were found in the sundries sent by the alchemy room five days later; On February 21, 25 boys and boys were again selected from Luzhou and sent to the alchemy room as before. So far, nearly 100 boys and girls have been selected to be sent to the palace, and have been sent to the alchemy room by the internal guards to serve the alchemy Taoist! Truly, old emperor, your throne, it is really important for you to be the emperor! ”

"Bang!" One side of the inkstone smashed on the table, the power directly smashed the table full of cracks, the ink flew everywhere, stained the white as snow rice paper on the side, the hand holding the inkstone was covered with green tendons and kept shaking tighter and tighter, obviously the owner of the hand has reached the edge of rage.

Meng Qiu stared at the information in front of him with a hideous face, this information was absolutely accurate after detailed verification by the palace. Now Meng Qiu can be 100% sure that today, in order to continue to be the emperor and enjoy the imperial power, the throne, the glory and wealth, has reached the point of madness, killing people, killing people, mountains of bones, and bleeding, just for his throne alone, just for him to be immortal and continue to be the emperor.

Not much different from other emperors, Xuan Yu chose to recruit Taoist priests from all over the world into the palace to alchemy for himself, but what Meng Qiu never expected was that Xuan Yu actually chose the most cruel and crazy alchemy - alchemy of living people!

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was the prosperous era of the slave society, with hundreds of schools of thought contending, and production also reached its peak. Speaking of "Ding", this is an ancient cooking vessel, but also a ritual vessel to record meritorious deeds, legend has it that the Yellow Emperor made nine tripods, and the tripod has become a national treasure. Archaeological excavations of cultural relics, such as the famous Simu Wu Dafang Ding, show that bronze smelting (copper-tin alloy) and casting technology had reached a very high level at that time. The "Zhouli Examination Record" has already recorded the "six qi" rules with different alloy compositions and different properties.

Dingben is a utensil for cooking broth and food. But at this time, people hope that something else can be refined in Dingzhong. Legend has it that Qin Mugong's son-in-law Xiao Shi was alchemy in the palace, and he once refined the "Flying Snow Pill" for Qin Mugong's daughter to rub on her face (actually refined lead powder). He may be considered the first chemist.

Since all kinds of metal minerals are mined from the soil, there is a saying that the earth is born of gold in the Five Elements Shengke Theory. At that time, there was an assumption that minerals would change over time in the soil. For example, it is believed that orpiment turns into male yellow after a thousand years, and realgar turns into gold after a thousand years. Cinnabar turns green after 200 years, lead after 300 years, silver after another 200 years, and finally gold after another 200 years. Can this change be accelerated? At this time, there was the idea of seizing the heaven and the earth, trying to make "a thousand years of qi, one day, the treasure of the mountains, seven days". So he put all kinds of drugs in the ding, closed it and heated and smelted, thinking that it could refine valuable gold and silver, so that alchemy sprouted at the end of the Warring States period. In the Qin Emperor and Han Wu period, thanks to the support of the supreme ruler, alchemy was greatly developed, and at this time, it was not only necessary to make precious gold and silver from lowly metals such as copper and iron, but also to cultivate the elixir for the ruler to eat immortality. Therefore, this exploration activity launched in China should be called "Jindanshu". They compare people and things, believing that gold and jade are immortal and indestructible, so it is best to put forward the essence from gold and jade to give people to eat, so there is a theory that "those who serve gold live like gold, and those who serve jade live like jade". At this time, the alchemists hoped to refine a mysterious substance called "gold liquid", which can be immortalized by eating, and can be turned into gold by combining with ordinary substances.

The first to be keen on alchemy was Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, who summoned more than 1,000 monks in his palace to practice the golden pill and perform special functions, and later compiled "Huainan Zi", as well as "Huainan Wanbishu" and other works, but unfortunately the book "Wanbishu" is now lost.

Liu An, the king of Huainan, was later killed for rebellion, and Liu Xiang got a secretary for refining gold when he copied the home of the king of Huainan, so he went to the trial himself, but he was unsuccessful. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che is Liu An's nephew, and he is also keen on the strange performances and alchemy of the monks, he summoned many people with special functions into the palace, and when the performance was successful, he was named a general, and even married the palace master, but once the scam was revealed, he was immediately pulled out and beheaded.

In the Han Dynasty, it was the period of the rise of alchemy, and although real gold was not refined, a variety of fake gold that looked like yellow silver and silver were made. Many kinds of chemical reactions were discovered, mainly those between lead, mercury, sulfur, arsenic, etc., and various alchemical instruments and methods for refining medicines were also created.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei Boyang compiled a work on alchemy, "Shen Tong Qi", which is recognized as the oldest surviving alchemy book in the world (the oldest surviving alchemical work in a foreign country is the manuscript of St. Mark, which is a manuscript from the 10th century AD). In fact, "Shen Tong Deed" is a theoretical work summarized by Wei Boyang after studying and summarizing a large number of alchemy books of his predecessors, "Six Hundred Chapters of Fire Records", he divided substances into two categories, yin and yang, and proposed that in order to produce new substances, yin and yang must be coordinated, and similar substances will not be combined together. He also pointed out that if "the medicine is not of the same species, the division of the dosage is uneven, and the discipline is lost", then it will be "flying turtles and snakes, and becoming more and more perverse", which is actually an explosion in the process of alchemy (this is the prelude to the invention of gunpowder by alchemists).

In the book, Wei Boyang recorded the knowledge of the synthesis and decomposition of lead, mercury, sulfur, etc. However, Wei Boyang has a big shortcoming, that is, the book uses various hidden words, such as: "The girl on the river, the spirit and the most godly, the fire will fly, there is no dust, the ghost is hidden and the dragon is hidden, I don't know what exists, I want to control it, and the yellow bud is the root." In fact, the maiden on the river is mercury, and when the mercury is heated, it will evaporate (fly) and disappear. If you want to fix the mercury, you need to add yellow buds, which are sulfur, and then red mercury sulfide will be generated after heating.

Wei Boyang's use of cryptic language to write books is related to the cultural fashion of the time (Eastern Han Dynasty), when cryptic language (i.e., anagrams) was prevalent, for example, Cao Cao and Yang Xiu saw the words "Huang Juan's young woman's grandson and grandson" written on Cao E's tablet, and they guessed the words "wonderful words" on their own. In fact, in the "Participation Deed", Wei Boyang even expressed his name in a hidden language: "When the time is to do harm, be neighbors with ghosts; For a hundred years, travel the world; Chen Fu Yuxi, east and west to the south, the soup suffers from doom, and the water and drought are separated. ”

In the eyes of many emperors, "alchemy" is a magical Taoist technique that can help them seize the creation of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon, and realize the desire for immortality. Therefore, in ancient times, alchemy, Taoism, and alchemy Taoists were extremely prosperous, and many people took this as a business, among which there was such a group of people who made alchemy extremely cruel and inhumane, which is the so-called alchemy of living people.

Legend has it that the heart, liver, and brain of unpolluted boys and girls are believed to contain a large amount of youthful substances, which can rejuvenate and immortalize youth. In order to achieve their goals, they do not hesitate to kill boys and girls, and are rejected and delayed by the world, and are often killed on the spot once their whereabouts are exposed. And the current emperor Xuanyu actually recruited such demons into the palace for his own throne, and also selected boys and girls from all over the country for him to kill alchemy, such an emperor is no longer qualified to be an emperor.

After a long time, Meng Qiu slowly stood up, washed his hands and tidied up his appearance, slowly pushed open the door of the house, and walked towards King Yan's study. His face was calm but resolute and resolute, and now was the time to make a decision, and the answer would be a matter of life and death.

Walking slowly to the door of King Yan's study, Meng Qiu gently pushed the door open:

"Your Highness, Meng Qiu will ask you a word: Now I want to kill this dog emperor who misled the country and harmed the people, will you help or not!"

"What do you say! Why do you want to kill your father! “

"He's damned!"

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