In 202 BC (the fifth year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty), Liu Bang, the king of Han, finally defeated Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, and officially ascended the throne as emperor, establishing the Western Han Dynasty. After Liu Bang became emperor, Wu Rui, the hero of the founding of the country, was named the king of Changsha, and established Changsha on behalf of the original Qin Changsha County, and renamed Xiang County Linxiang County as the national capital. Since then, the first princely kingdom has appeared in the history of Xiaoxiang, and Tanzhou has also become the capital of the kingdom for the first time. "Chu Nanxiong Town" developed into the capital of the Han Dynasty, and the ancient city of Tanzhou began to be known as the "Famous City of Chu and Han Dynasty".

In 193 B.C., because of his outstanding ability to govern the land, Li Cang was promoted to the prime minister of Changsha by Wu Rui, the king of Changsha, who took care of the affairs of Changsha and was given the title of Marquis of Dai.

In 190 B.C., that is, in the third year when Hou Licang became the prime minister of Changsha, one day someone came to report, in a farmland on the west side of the capital appeared a three-zhang square sinkhole, its sinkhole is bottomless, there are three good things and bold people with ropes to go down to check, half a month without a trace, the neighbors thought that a few people died underground, ready to arrange a funeral for them, three idlers actually crawled out of the sinkhole.

The three idle men told the villagers that their sinkhole was the entrance to another small world, where all kinds of rare beasts lived, dazzling gems could be picked up, and some tall white apes. In order to prove that what they said was true, they took out a shining stone to show everyone, which soon caused quite a stir in Changsha.

After learning the news, Hou Licang ordered three idlers who were out of the limelight to be summoned for questioning, and the three of them told the prime minister about what happened within half a month, and presented the treasures obtained in front of Li Cang one by one.

Gems and jade are not very novel in the eyes of Hou Licang, but there is one item that makes me very interested, and I bought it at the same time, and at the same time reported it to Wu Rui, the king of Changsha.

What Li Cang bought was a large piece of yellow-brown meat-like item called "Jurou", which is what we often call "Tai Sui" now.

The ancients have many records of "Tai Sui", in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", it is called "seeing meat", "gathering meat", "Tai Sui", "sealing", it is the ancient emperor's health delicacies, it is very rare, you can eat a piece, grow a piece, it is the top grade in the hundred medicines.

It is said in ancient books that emperors such as Yao, Shun, and Yu are all over 100 years old, and they have all eaten "Shimeat" and "Jumeat". The ancients believed that "seeing meat" and "gathering meat" had the effect of longevity and longevity, so later emperors were looking for this elixir that could make people immortal.

According to the "Historical Records of Qin Shi Huang Benji" records: Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries as the emperor of a country, heard that there is a kind of immortal medicine in the East, after eating can immortal and become immortal, so in the twenty-eighth year of Qin personally led the eastward to look for the elixir, he came to Langya Town, Shandong Province, and found a very famous doctor Xu Fu, ordered to find the elixir of immortality. Xu Fu then led thousands of boys and girls to the east and came to Penglai, Shandong Province to find the elixir. So Xu Fu repaired the ship, and only led 3,000 boys and girls from Dapeng Mountain, Zhejiang Province to Fusang, and arrived at the ancient Yingzhou, Abbot, which is now the Japanese archipelago, to continue to look for immortal medicine. It is said that the elixir that Qin Shi Huang asked Xu Fu to find was Tai Sui - Meat Ganoderma lucidum.

In later generations, Li Shizhen recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": The meat is like meat, attached to the boulder, with both heads and tails, and it is a living thing. The red ones are like coral, the white ones are like the fat cuts, the black ones are like the lacquer ones, the green ones are like the green feathers, and the yellow ones are like purple gold, all of which are bright and penetrating, like solid ice. And put it into the "vegetable" department "zhi" category, edible, medicine, enshrined as "the best of the scriptures", the effect is "long-term food light body immortal, prolonging the life of the gods".

"Shennong's Materia Medica" records: "Meat Ganoderma lucidum, non-toxic, tonifying, benefiting essence, increasing wisdom, curing knots in the chest, and being light and immortal for a long time." ”

Ge Hong, a Taoist of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, recorded in "Hug Puzi", "Zhuzhi pounds the powder, or turns into water clothes, which makes people light and immortal." ”

To sum up, the extent to which the ancients were fascinated by "meat lingzhi" can be imagined.

In the vicissitudes of the earth for billions of years, many species have been annihilated and extinct, but Tai Sui has been able to reproduce to this day, which shows the strength of its vitality. They mostly grow in an anaerobic environment of 20-100 meters underground, live in the soil, and survive on water, so they will not rot and deteriorate when placed in water. At the same time, this slime fungus mainly relies on spores and hyphae to reproduce, and it is very active, and it can be regenerated by cutting at will, but it is by no means the endless growth that everyone legends, and the growth is very slow.

Before the end of the world, scientists studied it and found that "Tai Sui" contains highly anti-corruption substances, and at the same time contains rich substances that improve immunity, and can replicate itself by absorbing organic matter and humus, so its body contains the strongest bioactive ingredients found on the earth so far, with the most complete functional nutrients, and is the top grade in supplements from traditional Chinese medicine.

From the perspective of modern science, "Tai Sui" is a large slime mold complex between the original organism and fungi, and its structure is not composed of a single cell, but an aggregate composed of bacteria, slime molds and fungi.

It has the ability to promote and modulate immune function; Slows down aging; Enhance disease resistance; Regulates metabolic homeostasis, promotes the synthesis of nucleic acids and proteins; Enhance the body's hematopoietic capacity; Inhibits the growth of cancer cells and other functions. At the same time, it is also an important scientific research object in many fields such as genetics, biochemistry, cytology, and biopharmaceuticals.

After Li Cang bought this piece of "Ju Meat" with a lot of money, he instructed his subordinates to put it in a water tank and soak it tightly, hide it in a secret room, and never checked it again until his wife Xin Chai died, and the liquid soaked in "Tai Sui" was taken out and used to be placed in the coffin......

When Wu Rui, the king of Changsha, summoned Li Cang to the palace, Li Cang told what he had heard exactly what he had heard, and asked Wu Rui to send troops to occupy this cave world.

Wu Rui, the king of Changsha, was a prince who relied on meritorious service in the war against Qin, and of course he didn't care too much about sending troops, but had to consider the factors of military expenses and personnel.

Now that Changsha is under his jurisdiction, he will inevitably need a lot of expenses to send troops, which he has to pay for himself, which is a big problem for Wu Rui, who has just become the king of Changsha, because he is the first generation of princes, and the accumulation of wealth has just begun, and he has not yet squandered the capital; second, how many people to send and how to supply grain and grass in the rear; Third, a series of issues such as whether it is necessary to ask the Empress of Beijing for instructions before sending troops.

Hou Licang hurriedly emphasized the problem of "Meat Lingzhi", and the three idlers of the ** only cut off a small piece of the object, in their words, that thing was enough to fill a room. If, as they say, bring back this huge "meat lingzhi" and then dedicate it to Han Gaozu, then the appreciation and reward that can be obtained must be amazing. The trio also mentioned creatures that looked like giant white apes, which Hou Licang suspected was the Classic of Mountains and Seas. Nanshan Jing. The white raccoon recorded in the book, "There is a beast, its shape is like Yu and white ears, and the pedestrians walk, its name is called the raccoon, and the food is good to go." (There is a beast that is shaped like a white ape, and can both crawl and walk upright like a man, called a raccoon, and eating its flesh can make a man walk very fast.) What's more, there has never been a dynasty like the Han Dynasty before China, and in the past four hundred and five years, successive emperors have taken it as their responsibility to expand their territory.

It's just that Wu Rui, the king of Changsha, believes in Lao Tzu's doctrine, "Cave sky, cave person, pass also." That is to say, this is the place that leads to the sky. He thinks that the famous cave mansion is the same as the stars in the sky, it is the condensation of the mellow essence of the Great Dao, so it can pass through the realm of immortals, I don't know if there will be immortals in the small cave world, and if you rush to send troops, will it lead to bad consequences.

After talking about the worries in his heart, Lord Licang, the first prime minister of Changsha State, pondered for a while and found a solution.

Send an expeditionary force, but in the name of the Han Changsha State Mission. In this way, if you really encounter immortals in the small cave world, you can have some excuses.

In order to make the procession of the mission look more realistic, nearly 300 female soldiers were placed in the 600-strong procession, and although they were dressed as dancing girls and wearing no armor, each of them had a sword hanging from their waists......

Unexpectedly, there has been no news since these missions entered the sinkhole, this time it has been two thousand years, time has buried a lot of memories and inheritances in the long river of years, and this "Han" word is still deeply imprinted in the minds of these underground humans.