Chapter Seventy-Two: Shennong's Rule of the World and Taste a Hundred Herbs
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It is said that since the Shennong clan has inherited the throne of the emperor, he has been conscientious, doing everything himself, taking responsibility for himself, and promoting some of his previous practices in the Youjiang tribe, and spreading the method of cultivating grains to various tribes. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info At this point, grains began to be cultivated in the whole human tribe.
After humans learned to grow grains, the food crisis of the human race was solved, and there was a surplus of food, but many of the inedible grains were destroyed because they were not well preserved. Although in the past, the tribe also kept some uneaten prey, but most of the prey was difficult to raise and ferocious, and it was easy to hurt people.
Shennong also selected six kinds of animals such as pigs, cows, horses, sheep, dogs, chickens, etc., which were tame and easy to raise, and the tribesmen collectively called them "six animals". Since then, the six animals have entered the era of domestic breeding, and the surplus grain of the tribe can also be used to store the six animals without being destroyed due to poor preservation, and people do not need to hunt often because of meat, which greatly reduces unnecessary casualties.
Since then, people no longer lack food, and there is a surplus, some tribes or families sometimes have too much to eat, not only can not eat it themselves, but also the six animals can not be eaten and can not be stored for a long time, so they have no choice but to throw it away, and waste it. Shennong specially convened a conference to solicit the opinions of the ministers on this issue, and finally came up with a way, imitating his previous practice in the Jiang tribe, opening markets in various tribes, and building a large market with a whole street in Chendu.
In this way, people took their surplus goods to the bazaar and exchanged them with what they thought were worthy and useful, which not only greatly reduced waste, but also used them in useful places, and the various tribes also began to trade goods, which greatly strengthened the ties and exchanges between the tribes.
At that time, the human race still used the animal skin invented by Ziyi, and Shennong's found a plant called hemp in the search for grains, which can cure hemp as cloth and make clothes, but it is more comfortable to wear than animal skin, and it is easier to get than animal skin, so it will be promoted, and people have since begun to use linen cloth to make clothes, no longer need to wear animal skin, and gradually get out of ignorance!
Since Fu Xi invented Tao Xun, Qin Se and other musical instruments, people in addition to production began to have their own spare time, but Fu Xi's invention of musical instruments is too difficult to learn, not conducive to promotion, Shennong decided to improve these musical instruments, so it is to take the tung of the East China Sea, cut it for the piano, knot silk for the string, three feet six inches and six minutes long, there are five strings, said: Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng, Yu. Its sound can be the virtue of heaven and earth, can express the sum of Shennong, can make people entertain, and everyone calls it Shennongqin! But it is easier to learn and promote.
At that time, most of the human tribes of the human race roasted food with their hands, if they were not careful, they would often be burned, and there was a lack of utensils for things, so Shennong would have Jiang tribe to make all kinds of containers with soil, called pottery, and promoted it to the whole human race, since then people can use pottery to hold food, which is much more convenient.
At that time, although people already knew the spring, summer, autumn and winter, and had the Fuxi calendar, but it had little effect on farming, and did not know when to plant cereals, when was the harvest season, Shennong then observed the changes of the four seasons for several years, alternating between cold and warm, and improved the calendar of the Fuxi era. Since then, people have learned when to plant grains and when to harvest, so that the production of grains has greatly increased.
The advent of agriculture and animal husbandry not only solved the food problem of the human race, but also because people began to have surplus goods, so the primitive commodity trade began, and bazaars also appeared. After such a series of governance measures, the life of the human race has obviously been greatly improved, and the population has also increased rapidly, showing a more prosperous situation than in the Fuxi era. Moreover, the communication between various tribes has become more frequent, which has greatly accelerated the development of the human race.
The Shennong clan manages the tribe and has a very good way of governing the world, and he said: "The husband is strong and does not plow, and there are those who suffer from hunger in the world, and there are those who suffer from the cold in the world when the woman did not weave the world." "He governs people with virtue, does not expect retribution, does not covet the wealth of the world, and the world is rich. Wisdom is more valuable than others, and the world respects it. He is virtuous and righteous, the people are diligent without reward, evil and righteous without punishment, rich without resentment, obedient to the people without orders, powerful but not killed, and the law is not annoying. There is no harm to the people, the criminal government is not used to rule, the first soldier is not the king is the king, it is all supported by the princes and ministers, and everyone loves the people!
However, at this time, although the human race did not afford to fight, it was often attacked by some fierce beasts and monsters, so Shennong invented a wooden bow, animal tendons as strings, bird feathers as feathers, and wood as arrows to arm some of the clansmen to protect the safety of the clansmen.
Shennong saw that the lives of the people of the tribe were getting better under his governance, and his heart was full of pride when he walked on the streets and alleys of Chendu, looking at the bustling people who came and went. At the same time, the various tribes of the human race also showed a scene of early prosperity.
However, at this time, Shennong also encountered troubles, but Shennong often heard that some old and weak people occasionally encountered headaches and fevers and still could not be cured, some people died like this, and even some middle-aged men and women could not work in such a situation, so they could only lie in bed and wait for improvement, and these phenomena are now more and more, and then there are more and more people who are injured by poison or poisonous insects and poisonous snakes, but the human race is helpless, and can only watch the tribesmen die. It turned out that at that time, the human race did not know medicine, and they did not know how to treat every illness, so they often died.
This problem has also plagued Shennong for a long time, but there were too many things in the land clan that needed to be held and dealt with before, and not too much energy was spent on this aspect, and this problem was not effectively solved. And now that most of the important things of the human race have been solved, we should also find a way to solve this problem.
The suffering of the clansmen, Shennong's eyes and pain. How to cure the diseases of his people? Shennong pondered and meditated for three days and three nights, and finally came up with a solution. It turned out that Shennong had a relatively good understanding of plants because of the search for grains, and knew that some plants could cure diseases, but there were many more plants that were poisonous, and it was impossible to see whether they were poisonous or non-toxic. So Shennong vowed to go all over the world, taste all the herbs, so that people could know what they could eat and what they could not eat, what was harmful when eaten, what was beneficial when eaten, and what diseases could be cured, and so on. Shennong decided to record these for people's reference.
However, he said that since the human emperor Shennong decided to taste the herbs, he tried the herbs by himself, so that future generations would know what to eat, what poisonous, and what medicine to treat what diseases, so he summoned his ministers and told everyone that he was going to taste the herbs.
When the ministers heard this, they were all shocked, and they crawled on the ground and cried bitterly and persuaded them: "No, Holy Emperor, your contribution to the human race is so great, the human race can't repay it even if you pour out the water of the nine heavens, your safety is related to the fate of the human race, how can you still risk your life to taste the herbs!"
After hearing this, Shennong laughed and said: "How can my safety be compared to the safety of hundreds of millions of people." Now that my people are facing the threat of illness, how can I, as the co-leader of the human race, not solve it?"
Seeing that Shennong's determination had been decided, no matter how hard everyone persuaded him, he would not change it, and a courtier named Dingguang came out of the crowd and saluted Shennong: "Holy Emperor, you are the co-master of the human race, and your life is related to the future and destiny of the human race, which is extraordinary. Since you must do the act of tasting a hundred herbs, I am willing to accompany you, follow the holy virtues of the Holy Emperor, and contribute to the people. ”
Seeing this, the other courtiers also asked to accompany them one after another to share Shennong's risk. After all, Shennong, as the co-owner of the Terran race, is very important to the Terran race, as long as he can contribute to his safety, many Terran elites will not care about their own lives. Shennong didn't allow it at first, but later saw that everyone's intentions were very sincere, so he had to agree.
The next day, the Shennong clan took a group of subjects, and left the Chen capital under the bitter weeping of countless subjects in the Chen capital, and walked towards the mountain. They walked and walked, their legs swollen, their feet calloused, and they kept walking, and they walked for seven hundred and forty-nine days, and they came to one place. I saw that the mountains were one peak after another, the canyons were one after another, the mountains were full of strange flowers and plants, and the fragrance was smelled from afar.
Shennong and the others were walking forward, when suddenly a group of wolves, insects, tigers and leopards came out of the canyon and surrounded them. Shennong immediately asked his subjects to fight hard and kill the beasts. They beat away a group, and then they came up again, and they fought for seven days and seven nights before they drove all the beasts away.
At this time, the subjects said that this place was too sinister and persuaded Shennong to go back. Shennong shook his head and said, "I can't go back!"
This mountain is half cut into the clouds, and on all sides is a knife-cut cliff, and there is a waterfall hanging on the cliff, and there is moss, and the water is slippery, and it seems that there is no ladder to the sky. The subjects advised him to forget it again, and to go back as soon as possible. Shennong shook his head: "I can't go back!" The people of Li are sick and have no medical treatment, and they are still suffering, how can we go back!" He stood on a small rocky mountain, facing the high mountain, looking up, looking down, looking left, right, making up his mind, thinking of a way. Later, people called the small mountain where he stood 'Wangnong Pavilion'.
Then he saw several golden monkeys, crawling along the ancient vines hanging high and the rotten trees lying on the cliffside. He immediately called his subjects and told them to cut wooden poles, cut rattans, and build a frame against the mountain cliff, and build a layer a day, from spring to summer, from autumn to winter, no matter whether it was windy, rainy, snowy, or frozen, he never stopped working. It took a whole year and 360 floors to reach the top of the mountain. Legend has it that the scaffolding used by people to build buildings later was to learn from Shennong's method. And the location of the wooden frame built by Shennong himself has become the origin of the Shennongjia in later legends.
Shennong took his subjects to climb the wooden frame and went to the top of the mountain. Shennong liked it very much, he told his subjects to guard against wolves, insects, tigers and leopards, and he personally picked flowers and plants and put them in his mouth to taste. In order to try herbs and find medicine here, Shennong asked his subjects to plant a few rows of fir trees on the mountain, which were used as a city wall to protect against wild beasts, and built thatched huts to live in the walls. Later, people called the place where Shennong lived 'Mucheng'.
During the day, he led his subjects to the mountains to taste the herbs, and at night, he asked his subjects to build a bonfire, and he wrote down them in detail by the light of the fire: which grasses were bitter, which were hot, which were cold, which were sufficient for hunger, and which were for healing.
Once, he put a piece of grass in his mouth and tasted it, and in an instant the world spun around and fell headlong. The subjects hurriedly helped him to sit up, he knew that he had been poisoned, but he could no longer speak, so he had to use his last strength to point to a bright red Ganoderma lucidum grass in front of him, and then to his mouth. The subjects hurriedly put the red lingzhi in their mouths to chew and feed it to him. Shennong ate Ganoderma lucidum grass, the poison gas was dissolved, his head was not dizzy, and he could speak. Since then, people have said that Ganoderma lucidum grass can bring the dead back to life.
The subjects were worried that it would be too dangerous for him to taste the grass like this, and they advised him to go down the mountain and go back. He shook his head again and said, 'We can't go back!' The people of Li are sick and untreated, and they are still suffering in pain, so how can we go back!'
After tasting a mountain of flowers and plants, he went to another mountain to taste them, and climbed them up by using wooden poles to build a frame. I have been tasting for more than ten years, walking on countless mountains and mountains, and being poisoned countless times during this period, but under my crystal belly and my understanding of medicinal herbs, in the end, I turned the corner.
It's a pity that he only tasted part of the herbs, and Shennong was not discouraged, he believed that one day he would be able to record the special surnames of most of the herbs, but at the beginning, most of the subjects who followed Shennong led by Dingguang were also killed, and those who did not die were also driven back by Shennong, and let them take back what Shennong had gained from tasting herbs over the years.
On this day, Shennong came to the foot of a big mountain called Fajiu Mountain. There are also a lot of plants on this mountain, and many of them have not been seen by Shennong before. Shennong was overjoyed and put a small grass that he had never seen before into his mouth.
As soon as the grass was entered, Shennong only felt that the sky was spinning in an instant, and it suddenly fell to the ground.
Although the poison surname this time is much stronger than the poison in Shennong's past, the magic of Shennong's crystal belly is not so much in the first place. However, the poisonous surname of this grass actually triggered the other poisonous surnames that Shennong had been mixing and suppressing in his body all along, and countless poisons were mixed together and mutated, and it was no longer the poison of the mortal world.
Shennong wanted to try all kinds of antidote herbs before, but it didn't have much effect, and the pain in his abdomen was even worse, as if his intestines were broken. After trying several times, the result was still the same, Shennong had to give up, but he still endured the severe pain to record this herb, and named it "Broken Intestine Grass", hoping that the clansmen would not make their own mistakes in the future, and then Shennong thought deeply: "I didn't think that I was going to die here, but unfortunately my ideals have not been realized, and I have not helped the tribesmen solve the threat of illness." ”
Shennong was constantly breaking out in a cold sweat, and he felt a pain in his stomach like a crushing heart, and his intestines seemed to break into several knots. Just when Shennong thought that he was about to die, his consciousness gradually fell into a daze, and faintly, he suddenly heard a sighing voice: "Alas, for the sake of the human race, you have suffered like this not once or twice, and now you have regret in your heart?"
"For the sake of my people, I still don't regret anything. After hearing the voice, Shennong replied with a tight mind, although he couldn't speak.
"Why are you so troubled, if you want to give up your life and soul for the sake of the human race, will you not regret it?" the voice sounded again.
"Even if I give up my life and soul, I will fulfill my dream!" replied Shennong with the last trace of consciousness he had awakened.
"Oh! Then I saw a mysterious figure appear next to Shennong, not Taishang Laojun or anyone, it turned out that Laojun calculated that his apprentice Shennong would be in trouble in Bajing Palace, so he immediately came, and this was the scene just now.
The poison in Shennong's body is also quite tricky if it is dealt with by the likes of Da Luo Jinxian, but it is not difficult for a saint, not to mention that Lao Jun is better at alchemy, and soon Lao Jun will get rid of the poison in Shennong's body.
As soon as the poisonous surname was removed, it didn't take long for Shennong to wake up. After Shennong woke up, as soon as he saw that his teacher Taishang Sage was by his side, he immediately knew that it was his teacher who saved him, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he immediately bowed his head and said: "Disciple Shennong, thank you for saving your life." ”
Lao Jun helped Shennong up, looked at Shennong with satisfaction, and said lightly: "You are very good, better than I imagined! Since you have this heart, you are not willing to stop you as a teacher, and this is also your merit." However, although you are extremely talented, and you have also learned the Taiqing Dao method, after all, you are still a mortal, and many medicinal herbs are highly poisonous to you. ”
Lao Tzu then took out a tripod and a brown color, three feet six inches long whip to him, said: "This is the Shennong Ding and the ochre whip, the former is made by the teacher to imitate the innate spirit treasure Qiankun Ding, give you to refine the pill only, the latter is for the master to take the essence of the innate wood to refine the treasure, can identify thousands of plants and trees, as long as you have used this whip to know that this plant is poisonous and non-toxic, but it is convenient for you to distinguish the herbs." ”
Then he pointed to Shennong again, only to see a purple light disappearing into Shennong's eyebrows, and said: "This is the alchemy experience of the teacher for hundreds of millions of years, I hope you can carry it forward, benefit the people, and leave for the teacher." Then he vanished. Shennong saw that the teacher was gone, but he still wanted to deduct three heads respectfully in the direction where Lao Jun disappeared, and said silently in his heart: "Teacher, don't worry, Shennong will definitely live up to your expectations." ”
Later, after decades of debate, Shennong finally tasted almost all the plants and trees, and recorded them one by one, at this time it has been 7749 years since Shennong left Chendu, so Shennong is ready to return to Chendu to sort, compile and disseminate the valuable records he has obtained from tasting herbs.
(To be continued)