Chapter 282: The Deep-Rooted Disease of Mankind

"The troubled times in Rome are indeed similar to my China."

Zhang Zhongjing kept his hands on his hands, and at the same time made a rare comment.

For the old gentleman, although he doesn't care much outside of the medical Tao, he probably knows the vague historical trend behind him.

The time of decline of the two sides seems to be as long as the troubled times are, and now even the excitement of religion and the state of the epidemic are more similar.

Although those specific symptoms are not quite the same as the previous typhoid fever, it is caused by the cold, and for the doctors of the Han Dynasty today, it is typhoid fever.

However, at the same time, Zhang Zhongjing was also very envious of the in-depth medical research in later generations.

I also secretly made up my mind in my heart, and when today's event is over, I should ask Mr. Kong Ming for advice and study this medical dogma.

The fact that it can be used for more than a thousand years in later generations is enough to illustrate its value.

As for the dogma of innovation after it was abandoned by later generations, Zhang Zhongjing did not dare to hope for the time being.

Just as the military advisors and lords once sighed, even if there is a heavenly palace in the future at this time, it is most likely difficult to copy it with the power of the country.

The medical path is the same, just like a baby learning to walk, first learn to crawl, then learn to walk, and then watch and run.

Rushing for its merits and seeking its own benefits is not done by benevolent people.

Zhang Zhongjing has only now cautiously given his judgment, but what is more surprising to Liu Bei is the system of ancient Rome expounded by his descendants:

"Public food rations?"

This is a completely unfamiliar long word, but if it is broken up in two, the meaning is not difficult for Liu Bei and others to understand.

There is a saying in the Book of Rites, and the world is for the public.

Isn't this long word understood to mean the food rationing that is common to all in the world?

Liu Bei was only surprised when he knew about the system of the later generations, after all, after thousands of years, the evolution of the national system was beyond his ability to deduce.

But this ancient Rome was contemporaneous with the Han Dynasty, and judging by the meaning of this written record, even if it suffered from the great epidemic and troubled times, this kind of food rationing was still being carried out!

This is a set of methods that are completely different from the Han Dynasty, but it still seems to be effective for a hundred years, and Liu Bei is really surprised and curious at this time.

On the one hand, Kong Ming was equally amazed by the generosity of ancient Rome, and on the other hand, he also questioned:

"The rationing of such food must be differentiated by status."

After all, if you can give everyone food without restraint, then this Arabia will not rise, wouldn't it be beautiful to go to ancient Rome to eat the food that came to you?

Moreover, if the empire wants to implement such a system, it must also have a corresponding method of food collection.

Food could not be born from the emperor's words, and even in the West it should only be possible to grow food from the land.

So how did ancient Rome have such arrogant and stable grain reserves and sources, which became a curiosity for Kong Ming.

The map was also carefully and carefully taken out of Chengdu by Kong Ming, and it was carefully placed in Hanzhong before, until it was determined that Tongguan Kefu Sanqin was pacified, and the Qinchuan River in Guanzhong was stable for eight hundred miles, and Kong Ming brought the map over, and now it is hanging behind him.

Looking back, the first thing Kong Ming saw was the southern part of the territory of ancient Rome, where the climate was even hotter than that of Rome.

Now that we know that there is a 50-day harvest of Champa rice in Jiaozhou, and there is also a rich and fertile country like Tianzhu, it may not be surprising that the south of Rome is rich in grain?

And...... This giant lake, which was called the Mediterranean Sea by later generations, may bring much more benefits to ships than the Great Han River.

It has been measured before, and the distance between the north and south of this giant lake is about 800 miles, and if the baggage is transported by boat, Yuli is also.

But having said that, everyone is inevitably envious.

On the contrary, this made Jian Yong more and more determined in his heart:

When all the affairs of Xuande are over, he Jian Yong will inevitably go west.

That Tang Youxuanzang entered India to learn scriptures, and he Jian Yong should serve the future generations, and went to Rome to take the essence of Western science and deliver it to a strong man.

For this reason, even if you bury your bones in a foreign land, you will not hesitate to do it!

As for the rise of religion in the end, Zhang Fei can only sigh:

"This Rome and my big man are really brothers who are not compatriots."

Pang Tong and other thoughtful people are even more vigilant, although there are differences in the East and systems, but how similar is the trend of this history?

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Looking at the meaningful words of the juniors about the rise of religion, Sun Simiao was silent for a moment and suddenly became a little curious:

"This Emperor Han Cheng is not wise, why can he lock that demon Dao Gan Zhong in prison?"

After all, Sun Simiao probably remembered the matter of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, incompetent in governing the country, neglecting the government, causing his relatives to gain power, causing Wang Mang's rebellion, strangling his parents and his children, and finally killing his own heir.

And in his later years, he was so faint that he was good at sacrificing ghosts and gods to find immortals, and asked, this Taiping Sutra that Gan Zhong can pull out also refers to the Confucian doctrine of Wei Wei, and he is quite capable in this regard.

At least the Heavenly Court Divine Monarch and so on that he pulled out are now convinced by the people, which shows his ability, but he died at the hands of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty?

Li Shimin just smiled at this, and said meaningfully:

"This Gan Zhong can be falsely claimed to be the Mandate of Heaven and coerce the Son of Heaven."

"Like the emperor, he is out of control and indulges in pleasure, but he knows better what the destiny of heaven is."

Li Shimin didn't want to talk about this, but changed the topic with a smile:

"I don't know what the relationship between the Byzantine Empire in the West and ancient Rome is at this time?"

At the same time, it was also decided in my heart that after the opening of the sea was effective, I would send those who were good at secretaries to the West to sort out the history of their generations.

When the time comes, I wonder if it will surprise the juniors?

Li Shimin didn't believe the junior who casually said that he would distribute food to everyone, and he believed that there must be a lot of restrictions.

However, it is also more curious about things in the West.

And what especially made Li Shimin laugh was his evaluation of Sima Yi:

"Fantasy Literature...... Hahahaha. ”

[And in the face of epidemics during this period, something of almost the same nature also quietly arose at the same time.

In the East, this kind of thing created the image of the madman of the Wei and Jin dynasties, and it became a trend among the nobles and nobles, and it flowed in this land for thousands of years.

Its name is still seen in the annals of history, leaving a mark that cannot be ignored, and its name is Wushisan.

In the West, this kind of thing is given a supreme name: the panacea.

And its main ingredient is familiar to anyone who has read history textbooks today: opium.

It is impossible to know where Wushisan began, but it is more likely that it came from the folk monks of the Han Dynasty, and some people even speculate that the earliest source is Taiping Dao.

Because Goshisan is named because its main ingredients are five minerals, the name is quite easy to understand and does not seem to be in the style of the noble monks.

The pandemic was also due to epidemics, which began with chills caused patients to chill when typhoid fever struck at the end of the Han Dynasty.

The five-stone powder is dry and hot, and the associated effect of its short-term poisoning is to confuse people's minds, and this feeling of confusion makes those celebrities very addicted.

Do you remember the Wei and Jin celebrities we talked about before?

It was the great lama who asked, "Why did you come to the one in my crotch?"

This is the most typical symptom of overdose of Wushisan.

Smoking Wushisan will make the body dry, so for the Wei and Jin celebrities, being naked after smoking Wushisan is a kind of celebrity and gentleman style.

Long-term smoking will make the symptoms of chronic poisoning of the body gradually serious, and the gradually fragile skin can not adapt to rough clothes at all, so "honest meeting" has also become a kind of celebrity and gentleman in the Wei and Jin dynasties.

And this addictive drug also ran through the entire troubled era of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, causing countless evils.

The history of opium in the West is even longer, at least in terms of the history of Westerners themselves, there are traces of opium poppy cultivation around 4,200 B.C.

The Euphrates River Basin, one of the cradles of Western civilization, also has traces of opium poppy cultivation dating back 5,400 years, when ancient humans called poppies "happy plants".

For 3,700 years, Assyrian doctors believed that the opium poppy could cure all diseases, and the Assyrians at that time would prepare a plant drink to drink, and there were 115 kinds of drinks with poppy.

Because of its "healing" characteristics, the poppy was regarded as a miracle in the ancient West, the ancient Greek gold coins were painted with the poppy, and the ancient Rome also engraved the pattern of the poppy on the tombstone, which shows the ancient Westerners' respect for the poppy.

For example, in the "Ebers Papyrus" of ancient Egypt 3,500 years ago, people at that time used poppy to treat external wounds, and also fed infants to prevent them from crying at night.

And because of its hallucinogenic properties, the poppy was also quickly associated with religion, putting on a sacred coat.

Around 120 A.D., the king of Pontus in Central Asia concocted the earliest version of the "panacea", which is said to be invulnerable.

After this prescription was introduced to ancient Rome, it was improved by the famous tyrant Nero, which greatly increased the proportion of opium poppy in the prescription, and soon became the elixir of the ancient Roman emperors, known as Diyega.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the famous physician Galen later used poppy juice to concoct a more potent antidote and gave it to the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius in the hope of curing the disease.

This opium product was also used on Commodus, the last emperor of the Antonine dynasty, to unknown effect.

And some of the famous monarchs in European history, such as Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, etc., were loyal customers of Diyega's opium products.

Needless to say, the people themselves have the habit of taking opium products, and the troubled times and epidemics make the people face the same problems as the people in the late Han Dynasty.

As a result, hallucinogenic opium products were active in the West until the seventeenth century.

It was only then that doctors made it clear that opiates had a two-way effect: they also made the patient inevitably addicted to the treatment of the patient, and eventually became toxic.

This addiction later became a powerful weapon in colonial aggression, and a large amount of dumped opium could quickly seize the wealth of the colony, and it could also make the people of the colony quickly addicted and lose the ability to resist, which was the Opium War that brought heavy pain to modern China.

To this day, opium products are still active in the West, but Wushisan has long disappeared in the long river of history.

What everyone may not expect is that the climate has also contributed a lot to the elimination of this addictive drug in early antiquity. 】

Those who felt this more deeply were the people of the Manna Temple.

After all, in addition to treating diseases and saving people, and researching medical skills, one of the things that the current Imperial Doctor Sun often does is to publicize the dangers of Wushisan.

It is also for this reason that there are still people who smoke Wushisan among the princes and princes of the Tang Dynasty, but they are basically not publicized.

But at this time, looking at the meaning of the juniors, what Doctor Sun said is not only right, but also the publicity of its harm is likely to be relatively small?

It's just that the younger generations are also a little secretive about the harm to it, which makes everyone in the Ganlu Hall a little blind for a while:

It is said that this thing is infinitely harmful, but how can it be infinitely harmful, and how can something similar to it leave a great deal of pain on a country?

Li Shimin set his eyes on Sun Yaowang, and the rest of the people couldn't help but focus their eyes on Sun Simiao.

After all, looking at the respect of medical Tao in later generations, and the praise of Zhang Zhongjing, most of them can also be judged:

This Sun Simiao is likely to be regarded as the "forerunner" of the Tang Dynasty in a sense.

Sun Simiao took a long breath and had a plan in his heart:

"How the poison of the five stones is scattered, we will see in two months."

So the eyes that gathered gradually dispersed, and at the same time, Sun Simiao also quietly came to Li Shimin's side.

"How many apes do you want?"

The meaning is not difficult to guess, because Li Shimin also understood when the light curtain talked about Dr. Galen's achievements before:

Apes are quite human-like, so if they are trial drugs, they can be tasted first.

In this regard, Li Shimin waved his hand to give permission, and said that how can a few be enough? At least give you forty or fifty, Sun Simiao had no choice but to thank you with tears and laughter.

At this moment, Li Shimin is a little self-conscious, and now his style of Zhenguan is good.

Because of the effectiveness of Zhenguan's governance, there are not many condemned prisoners in the imperial prison today.

Coupled with the need for autopsy by Dr. Sun, these condemned prisoners had to be pulled out for execution from time to time, and then the corpses were sent to the new Imperial Doctor's Office.

As a result, the number of condemned prisoners in the Imperial Prison is now almost exhausted.

Otherwise, why not apes, just test the medicine on the condemned prisoner.

Temporarily solving Sun Simiao's matter, Li Shimin is also a little amazed now.

Later generations compared Wushisan with this opium product made from opium poppy - although it is called opium for some reason.

But at least this attitude shows that the two are similar in nature.

Li Shimin has seen a "celebrity" who has taken Wushisan and is elegant, and all kinds of crazy diseases can be described as terrifying.

Because of this, Li Shimin could not imagine that the entire West had taken this substance for 5,000 years, and it had continued to the later generations as later generations said......

Wait, Li Shimin knocked on his head and couldn't help but be secretly vigilant.

He was still wondering what the harm of this opium was, but considering that later generations of the West knew that this opium product was harmful, but it still continued, and its power can be seen.

So the emperor of the Tang Dynasty snorted lightly, and couldn't help but be more curious about the results of Doctor Sun's experiment.

Taking a small amount of Wushisan can cause fever and cold, and regular consumption of Wushisan can be called a Wei and Jin demeanor.

What will be the final result of taking a large amount of Wushi Powder on a regular basis, this so-called addictive nature?

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