General Qin

Early the next morning, in Xianyang City, after Marquis Marquis Zhao Tuo fell ill after taking medicine, an explosive news once again attracted everyone's attention.

"The emperor is going to cheat alchemists!"

"I heard that the medicine made by these alchemists was poisonous and presented to the emperor, but the Marquis Marquis mistakenly took it, so he fell ill."

"Hiss...doesn't it mean that if Marquis Wugong didn't take the medicine, then the emperor took it. This is to poison the emperor to death!"

"I guess they are the remnants of the Six Kingdoms who have rebellious intentions, and they want to poison the emperor by refining medicine."

Countless people discussed and expressed emotion, and after hearing the news that they were going to be murdered, they all rushed to the Baqiao outside Xianyang City.

They were going to watch the excitement, to see the scene where the emperor murdered alchemists.

The black Qin flag fluttered in the wind, and the heavily armed lieutenant army escorted hundreds of people to the Baqiao.

Among them, there are about 20 or 30 alchemists, and the leaders are the famous alchemist Hou Sheng and his disciples.

In addition, there were more than a dozen alchemists from other sects. They cried as they walked, and at the same time cursed at Hou Sheng's master and apprentice.

These alchemists also refine medicine.

But their output and quality have always been lower than Hou Sheng's, and they were not valued by the emperor, and the materials and money they got were much less. They didn't know that they were not treated as well as Hou Sheng on weekdays, but they ended up with the same fate when they died, and they were still implicated by Hou Sheng, so the resentment in their hearts could not be swallowed.

These people don't blame Martial Arts Marquis Zhao Tuo, after all, he is also a victim, and he is still lying on the couch and unable to get up.

Some of them blamed the emperor for implicating themselves, but the one who complained most in their hearts was Master Hou Sheng and his disciples.

"Old Shuzi Hou Sheng, you are so bold that you dare to offer such a powerful medicine to the emperor to hurt people, Nai Gong really wants to bite your head off!"

"Bah, it's better to let me wait if you don't have the skills, than to end up like this!"

"Woooo...I don't want to die."

He could hear the complaints of those alchemists, as well as the cries of those implicated disciples and servants.

Hou Sheng's face was as white as snowflakes, and he muttered.

"My medicine is fine... Ever since I killed two slaves with the medicine, I have undergone improvement experiments, and nothing has happened. The medicine made in the same cauldron should have the same medicinal properties. How could the other five medicines be fine? Something happened to the one that Marquis Marquis ate."

"The emperor must have done it. The emperor poisoned the medicine. I am taking responsibility for him!"

Hou Sheng didn't believe that his medicine had a problem until he died.

When he was pushed down by the Qin soldiers by the side of the Baqiao.

He straightened his neck and howled towards the blue sky and Xianyang City in the distance.

"If I die, no one in the world can cultivate immortality..."

As the ax and ax fell, the blood flowed wildly, and Hou Sheng's wailing stopped abruptly.

Along with him, hundreds of alchemist disciples and servants of the mansion were hacked to death.

Countless cheers from the people of Qin sounded around, all saying that it was a good kill.

One of the bearded burly men even jumped up and shouted: "To poison the emperor and Marquis Marquis is a heinous crime. Kill him and build a temple in Beijing!"

"Kill!"

"Zhujing Temple!"

Countless Qin people raised their arms and shouted.

The lieutenant soldiers swiftly piled up the corpses of these alchemists and rammed them with earth beside the Baqiao.

Killed.

Naturally, it cannot be buried alive as many people take it by definition.

Bai Qi, Lord Wu'an back then, didn't have enough time to dig a hole to bury 400,000 Zhao troops alive.

In history, Cao Cao, who killed 80,000 soldiers from the Yuan army, Shi Le, who killed 30,000 soldiers from the Jin army, and Li Shimin, who took 3,300 people from Mohe to death, would not be free to dig pits and bury them. That's a lot of work.

The so-called murder is what is said in the history books, "All the pits are exhausted, so the corpses are piled up on the road."

Pile the killed corpses beside the road, gather the soil and tamp them down to form a pyramid composed of corpses to frighten the enemy.

The Qin army did this kind of thing a lot. Even when Zhao Tuo attacked Chu, in order to anger Zuo Sima Zhaoping who was chasing him all the way, he killed the Chu army and built a capital with his corpse.

Half an hour later, the "pyramid" built by hundreds of corpses stood on the side of Bashui.

The torrential water flows, and Qin people passing by on the Baqiao can clearly see the arms, legs and feet of the hundreds of corpses buried in the rammed earth, as well as some dead bodies exposed outside the soil. head.

This is what the emperor means.

Kill alchemists to build a Beijing temple and deter the world.

He wants everyone in the world to know that if he dares to do wrong things and deceive the king, there is only one way to die.

Among the countless applauding crowds, some people looked different.

In a small mound outside Xianyang City, a few people in togas and sleeves are standing here, looking into the distance.

"Han Zhong, you didn't follow Hou Bang to learn the art of refining medicine, but now you have escaped a catastrophe, how do you feel?"

The person who spoke was an old man in a black robe with white hair and beard.

Although his beard and hair are white, the skin on his face is very plump, his eyes are piercing, and he does not have the shriveled posture of ordinary old people.

Han Zhong was a middle-aged man in his forties with a long and slender face. He sighed: "Fortunately, after listening to Lu Gong's words, he was not bewitched by Hou Si, so go and learn some medicine refining skills from him, otherwise today's blood will be broken." I am afraid that the head of my Han Zhong will also be on the Jingguan built by the people of Qin."

Lu Sheng nodded and said: "The medicine of immortality is planted by immortals, how can mortals get it? Hou Si thinks that by refining medicine with gold and stones, he can achieve the effect of immortality, it is wishful thinking. I said earlier that the things he refined are all It is a mortal thing, and it is impossible to achieve the effect of longevity. If you want to get the elixir, the only way is to seek immortality."

Han Zhong glanced at the "Alchemist Pyramid" in the distance again, and said with some fear: "Grand Lu, the emperor was furious and ordered to kill all the alchemists in Xianyang here. We are also alchemists, so I don't know if we will be implicated .”

Lu Sheng shook his head and said with a smile: "What are you worried about? What happened this time was because the medicine Hou Si offered made Marquis Hou suddenly ill, so the emperor was enraged and carried out the murder. What does it matter to my alchemist who is looking for immortals?"

Speaking of this, a bright light flashed in Lu Sheng's eyes, and he whispered: "Besides, after this incident, the emperor will definitely not believe the words of any alchemist, nor will he take those medicines of gold and stones. If the emperor wants to For longevity, we can only rely on us."

"This Hou Si gave us a helping hand with his life!"

...

In the residence of Marquis of Martial Arts.

After two days of conditioning, Zhao Tuo's complexion has improved a lot.

Although he is still lying on the couch and has not gotten out of bed, he has the strength to speak and eat, and he is able to eat normally, and even the number of times he goes to the toilet has basically returned to normal. Seeing that his physical condition is getting better and better.

This made everyone in the mansion very happy, and they all said that Junhou had a great fortune.

Zhao Tuo reasoned that he could recover so quickly after drinking the medicine prescribed by Xia Wuqie, and blamed the imperial doctor for the reason.

This made Xia Wuju who came to review him a little confused.

Is his medical skill so good?

After all, in this era when medical technology is still in its primitive state, the symptoms that Zhao Tuo showed were simply sudden and serious illnesses. Even with medicine, he would not be able to recover within ten days and a half months.

Zhao Tuo's recovery speed surprised even Xia Wuqiu.

Only Zhao Tuo knew what was going on best.

He didn't have intestinal dysentery at all, and it wasn't a disease after taking a strange medicine at all, but intestinal spasms caused by himself.

Intestinal spasm is not a disease, but a paroxysmal abdominal pain caused by strong contraction of intestinal wall smooth muscle after certain stimuli.

This symptom is terribly painful, and it will cause diarrhea, but it will not kill anyone, and there is no risk of death. It is no problem to carry it with the body of a young man like Zhao Tuo.

As for why Zhao Tuo had intestinal cramps, it was naturally the oranges.

In order to save Li Xin in Chudi, he rushed hundreds of miles to Shouchun, the capital of Chu. He ran out of food on the way, so he could only eat oranges for a long time, and even ate a lot of oranges on an empty stomach. His stomach had already been stimulated. pole.

After that battle, Zhao Tuo felt like vomiting when he saw oranges. If he ate oranges, he would suffer from vomiting and diarrhea. If he ate too many oranges, it would cause intestinal spasms, and he rolled all over the floor in pain.

That's why he didn't allow Heihip, Shejian and others to visit before, because most of the soldiers who followed him to attack Shouchun had this symptom, if they come in to have a look and ask, there will be a The risk of passing through the band is eliminated.

Fortunately, Zhao Tuo's plan was successfully completed.

He pretended to be a serious illness with the intestinal spasm caused by eating oranges, successfully deceived Xia Wuqi, and made the first emperor and the whole people in Xianyang think that there was something wrong with the medicine offered by the alchemist.

After the eldest princess exposed Hou Sheng's lies, Zhao Tuo took the opportunity to make a suggestion and asked the emperor to investigate the previous records of these alchemists in refining medicine.

After interrogation and investigation by professional Qin officials, it was found that some of the medicines that these alchemists had previously refined had overpowering properties, not only causing sudden illness, but even risking sudden death.

According to the confession of Hou Sheng's disciples, before Hou Sheng entered the Qin Dynasty, the medicine he refined used to be too strong, and the slave who tried the medicine died.

In this way, it explained why Zhao Tuo fell ill after taking the medicine.

Because Hou Sheng's medicine refining skills are not good enough.

One of the six medicines was taken in too much dose, and he became very ill after taking it.

It happened that the emperor gave this medicine to Zhao Tuo.

All the reasons were clarified, and everyone was happy, and the first emperor also cleared his suspicion of killing Zhao Tuo.

However, in the eyes of everyone, Zhao Tuo completely blocked the emperor.

"Marquis Wu Gong blocked the poison for His Majesty, how loyal he is!"

The first emperor felt remorse and gratitude towards Zhao Tuo under the rejoicing and fear.

"Zhao Tuo is really my lucky star."

If Zhao Tuo hadn't been there, the one who was lying on the bed today with a pale face and constant diarrhea would be Shi Huangdi.

In anger, the first emperor not only murdered the alchemist who refined the medicine, but also killed all his servants and burned all the medicines to vent his hatred.

"I think the emperor will not dare to take medicine indiscriminately anymore, and after this incident, the future Chinese emperors may be afraid of this medicine refining technique, knowing that this thing is poisonous, from this point of view , is also a good thing."

The corner of Zhao Tuo's mouth curled up into a smile. Although the fate of those alchemists was a bit miserable, these people didn't want to work and produce. They lobbied the monarch all day long and took a lot of resources to refine poisonous medicine for the emperor. moths are harmful to society rather than beneficial.

If this matter can be used to suppress alchemists' practice of refining medicine, it can be regarded as rectifying the social atmosphere.

Outside the door, there were footsteps.

Zhao Tuo looked up and saw that the person who came was his wife.

"Sir, do you want to eat something?"

Ying Yinman walked into the house gracefully and asked Zhao Tuo softly.

Hearing this, Zhao Tuo really felt a little hungry.

He smiled and said, "Manman came just in time, and I was just about to eat."

Ying Yinman also smiled, but her smile was full of cunning.

She turned slightly sideways, revealing the maid holding the food plate behind her.

on the food plate.

There are some nice yellow oranges.

The familiar faint orange fragrance means that they come from Huainan, Chu.

"Sir, let's eat some oranges first."

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