172. Ancient rejuvenation technique
By the Ming Dynasty, the girls began to get crazier, and at the same time began to get closer to modernization - perfume appeared!
The girls of the Ming Dynasty preferred perfume, they mixed rouge and mercury and other things together to make perfume, and frequently smeared on the body, because mercury is volatile at room temperature and can emit the smell of other spices.
No way, who makes the emperors of the Ming Dynasty prefer to stay in the harem, as a woman, if she can get the emperor's favor, then her life will change, but more women have never seen the emperor in their lives, and their hearts have already become deformed, which is why an emperor in the Ming Dynasty was almost strangled to death by a palace maid.
This is not groundless, there is a record in the history books - Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty has been weak since he was a child, and he has been married for ten years without children. However, the concubine Yingting was unable to catch it, so she believed in the prescription, claiming that the virgin's blood could be used to refine the elixir, which had miraculous effects.
Therefore, a large number of virgins entered the palace to fill the maids, in order to prepare for the collection. The women were devastated and had no way to complain, so they gathered their resentment on the emperor. In the twenty-first year of Jiajing, a murder that had been brewing for a long time was about to happen.
On the evening of the same day, the emperor slept in the palace of Duanfei. The night was deep, and sixteen palace maids, led by Yang Jinying, quietly approached the emperor's couch, first pressed their limbs, and then gagged their mouths with sweat towels. At the right time, the emperor's eyes opened, and the palace maid was frightened, so she quickly shook the rope, strangled it around her neck, and pulled it together, and the emperor's eyes were closed, and she stopped and twisted. is pre-escaping, the people outside are noisy, the footsteps are hurrying, and the souls of the palace women are scattered, stunned, and captured. What's the story? One of them, named Zhang Jinlian, was frightened, but fled to report the news, so the conspiracy was leaked.
When everyone heard the news, Emperor Jiajing rescued him in time and finally avoided death. Sixteen palace maids were sentenced to death together. Whistleblower Zhang Jinlian was also not pardoned. Emperor Jiajing suffered from this palace change of nine deaths and a lifetime, and Gai saw through the red dust, so he moved to Wanshou Palace, ignored political affairs, and devoted himself to cultivating and refining pills.
The meaning of this passage translates to that Emperor Jiajing is not in good health and has no children, so he found a lot of girls from the people and used their blood in a special period to refine medicine, but the palace maids were miserable, so after discussing it, they rebelled, and Emperor Jiajing was almost strangled to death by them.
This is indeed absurd in modern times, but in ancient times, it was indeed common.
When I think about these women, I find them pathetic and a little scary, because when a person's mind is deformed, the potential and power that it bursts out are almost endless.
All of the above has explained the status and importance of mercury in ancient times.
But if I guess correctly, it is estimated that there is a large amount of mercury in the entire valley, which is why for thousands of years, even if there is grass growing in the entire valley, there is not a single tree, and there are no mosquitoes.
But if I really deduce it, mercury was a rare thing in that era.
Because the manufacturing process and raw materials of mercury are very scarce, especially in ancient times, it is extremely difficult to mine, so all of them are mastered by the royal family, and it can be said that there are very few that can really circulate to the market.
Thailand has been a wild land in ancient times, and the culture has not been conveyed, so how can it be possible to circulate mercury such valuables here, at that time, the Thai people estimated that eating was a difficult thing, who had the kung fu to make so much mercury?
At this point, a thought has quietly emerged in my heart, that is, combined with the bronze man in front of me, it can be inferred that the first person who came here must have come from the Qin Dynasty.
But if that's the case, why are they here?
Although this trip has gained a lot, at the same time, there are a lot of doubts and suspense.
There is no point in going any further, because the concentration of mercury is very high, which is easy to hallucinate, and it has now become weeded and barren, which is why many people can't get out.
If there are no other formations to pile up, I guess as long as you wear a gas mask and look for a better weather, you should be able to get out of this road.
But now the priority is to find out what is written on the two bronze figures. This has a crucial impact and significance for our next actions.
At this point, I covered my nose and returned from the same way, and when I came to the two bronze figures, I looked up again, and found that the morning star had risen in the sky, that is to say, in another two or three hours, the sun would rise, although it was hazy and bright, but with the help of the light on the torch, I should be able to see what was engraved on it?
There was a sound of noise in the distance, and I knew that someone was coming again, and the patrol team of this village should also come here once before dawn to see if any outsiders had come in, or if there were any other people in the village who wanted to escape, which was also human nature.
There was deep grass everywhere, so I just found a random spot to drill into, and then curled up again.
On the way here, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, I tried to walk in some places without weeds, so as not to damage the grass on the side of the road and show traces, so this time the mountain patrol people did not notice my existence after coming over, and left after wandering around here for a while.
By the time they were gone, it was almost dawn.
At this time, I opened my backpack, took out some gauze, and wrapped the wound on my back that was originally a little cracked again, and wrapped it tightly to prevent the wound from cracking again.
By the time the wounds had been treated, it was already completely light outside.
According to the original plan, I should have rushed back before dawn, because it was like waiting for me all the time, and I didn't have a mobile phone on me, so there was no way to communicate, otherwise I would have said hello to her in advance.
But this time it was finally out, and it was necessary to figure out the situation here, otherwise this trip would have no meaning at all, and instead of taking so many risks next time, it was better to figure out everything this time.
As for Wanru, I'm sure she won't make much of a move, after all, during the day, although our current location is outside the stockade, if she runs around, if she is discovered by others, it will be very troublesome!