casket of old days

Chapter 77 Kaier Pills and Golden Wine

Before going to Hao Yongtai's house, Chu Qiguang went to the Taoist temple and met with Taoist Fayuan.

Another ten taels of silver were stuffed into the Taoist priest, and the two sides immediately had a good time, Fa Yuan ordered Daotong to have a banquet, and ate with Chu Qiguang.

Chu Qiguang smiled and said, "Daoist Fa Yuan, don't you have a commandment not to drink alcohol?"

Fa Yuan smiled slightly, raised his cup and said, "This is not ordinary wine, but French wine, which is made from various medicinal materials. Although it tastes like wine, it is not real wine."

Chu Qiguang has also become familiar with Fa Yuan these days, and knows that the Heavenly Master has all kinds of clear rules and precepts. If it were more than a hundred years ago, most of the priests with cultivation base in the teaching would strictly abide by the precepts. Taoists, the atmosphere has not been corrupted.

But in this day and age, not only the officialdom is corrupt and corruption is serious, but the Tianshijiao is also in decline, and people's hearts are not old.

More and more Taoist priests began to pursue the enjoyment of gold and silver, and various ways to bypass the precepts were also thought up one by one.

Chu Qiguang secretly analyzed this phenomenon in his heart: "The change from the founding of the Han Dynasty to the present is the rapid development of the commodity economy. Not only the wealth of the upper class is expanding, but the enjoyment of gold and silver is also increasing. The social atmosphere Increasingly extravagant. '

In addition, all kinds of businessmen in the society became rich overnight, which gave birth to various wealth myths, which accelerated this kind of thinking, and made the whole society gradually take pride in chasing money. Everyone in the six departments and nine ministers talked about gold and silver. , A person's value is often measured by his ability to make money. '

'And in this way, it also gave birth to cultural and ideological emancipation, and various trends of thought surged.For example, many big Han people today regard the moral people of the past as pedantic, and they are extremely pragmatic. '

"Of course, there is nothing wrong with this. People don't live by eating air. There is nothing wrong with pursuing material gains. It's just that the Han Dynasty faced this kind of cultural and spiritual impact. Some people inevitably went astray. extreme...'

"In fact, if this kind of ideological emancipation goes the right way, maybe the Han Dynasty will pay more attention to practical affairs, and then to technology that can bring benefits, and finally even driven by interests...to develop a scientific system..."

'But in this situation, it's just convenient for me...'

Chu Qiguang smiled slightly, and after a few rounds of drinking with Taoist Fayuan, he seemed to casually ask the other party some questions about the elixir taught by the celestial master.

However, this is not the first time that Fa Yuan has come into contact with people who want to buy internal pills, and seeing that Chu Qiguang is doing well in Qingyang County, he directly quoted the price locally.

"I'm just a demon subduing mage in Qingyang County, and I can't get much. Brother Chu Xian, I think you are also a dragon and a phoenix among people, and you must have a bright future in the future, so I will tell you the real number. Make a good deal..."

According to Fa Yuan, the only internal pills he can sell are Kaimu Pills, Kaier Pills, and Kaibi Pills. Long Snake Mountain or Baiyue Temple in the capital purchased goods, or they had to keep them for their own use.

Chu Qiguang knew that Longsnake Mountain was the headquarters of Tianshijiao, and the pills and talismans that could be used on it were generally better than local Taoist temples like Qingyang Temple.

Chu Qiguang only needs to buy ear pills, while Daoist Fayuan sells ear pills for 40 taels a piece.

It sounds like it's not much more expensive than Bailian Gao, but the key is that one ear pill can only last for a stick of incense. If you use ten or eight pills for a day, it will cost you several hundred taels of silver. The flowers are gone.

However, Taoist Fayuan also reminded Chu Qiguang that pills such as Kaimu Pill, Kaier Pill, and Kaibi Pill use overbearing medicinal power to stimulate the meridians, temporarily increase vision, hearing, and smell, and use it two or three times a day It's okay, if you use too much, it's easy to get erysipelas into the brain, causing disability in mild cases, and death in severe cases.

After all, these three elixirs were originally used by the Heavenly Masters to fight, track, and ambush monsters in advance, and some of them were extravagant enough to use for training.

Even the big families like Wu family and Hao family in Qingyang County don't use Kaier pills to practice every day, and only Chu Qiguang and Qiao Zhi have strange backgrounds, so they have such extravagant ideas.

After all, most of the warriors still improve their martial arts bit by bit with water honed kung fu.

However, if he only took Kaier Pills without the other two medicines, he probably wouldn't be able to reach the third level in a month as Qiao Zhi estimated.

But even if you only take Kaier Pills, it is estimated that you will spend more than 3000 taels a month.

Chu Qiguang sighed in his heart: "Poor culture and rich martial arts, I am really right. This martial arts training will cost money, and there is almost no upper limit."

I have also earned thousands of taels of silver these days, but after taking medicine and practicing martial arts every day, it has been spent in less than two months.

Next, if medicine is needed, the cost will be even higher. I am afraid that the Hao family and the Wu family did not spend all their money on martial arts like this. '

After all, for the Hao family and the Wu family, using more pills and less pills is a matter of a few years earlier and a few years later. Anyway, the highest is the fifth level of martial arts. How many people in the world can enter the Tao?Ordinary warriors basically don't expect to be able to enter the Tao.

Moreover, besides practicing martial arts, the wealthy families also have to spend a lot on property, business, entertainment, and contacts.

But Chu Qiguang knew that there might be troubled times in a few decades, and he could probably guess what the end of the dynasty would look like, so he had to seize the time every day to quickly improve his strength and climb to a high position. Generally speaking, it is a snowballing process, the faster the upgrade, the better.

Next, after making an appointment with Taoist Fayuan to buy medicine, Chu Qiguang went to Hao's house.

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In the garden of the Hao family, Hao Yongtai looked at Chu Qiguang with a smile: "Brother Chu, you don't know that He Wenyan has become an ant on a hot pot these days. Your method is really useful."

"In a few days, Nangou Township and twelve other townships will probably fight again. At that time, there will be a civil uprising. He Wenyan, let alone measuring land and equalizing taxes, even the magistrate may I can't do it either."

Chu Qiguang nodded and reminded: "You still have to be careful, I feel that this matter is not that simple."

For Chu Qiguang's reminder, Hao Yongtai didn't take it seriously, but just kept Chu Qiguang and had a banquet together.

Looking at the table full of food and wine, Chu Qiguang, who had just had a banquet in the Taoist temple, patted his stomach helplessly, feeling a little bit back to the feeling of socializing and entertaining in his previous life.

'What else can I say... drink...'

Seeing that the atmosphere was getting better and better between pushing the cups and changing the cups, and when he felt that the heat was almost ready, Chu Qiguang said, "Brother Tai, have you heard of golden wine?"

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After drinking for three rounds, under Chu Qiguang's continuous pouring, Hao Yongtai also got drunk.And Chu Qiguang also successfully sold the gold wine, and made an appointment to bring it over tomorrow for Hao Yongtai to try.

Then Chu Qiguang asked the boy to lead the way, and he helped Hao Yongtai back to the wing. On the way, he took the opportunity to take some Hao Yongtai's blood, planning to have Qiao Zhi test it after returning.

As soon as Chu Qiguang came out of Hao Yongtai's room, he saw Hao Xiangtong frowning and looking at him gloomily.“What??

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(End of this chapter)