A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 963 Top Secret

Xuanyangfang.

The eunuch Zhang Anan came to announce the decree. This big Diao Si, who looked like a sick cat, was wearing a purple round-collared robe with a smile on his face.

"Proclamation of the imperial edict,"

Burning incense and setting the table, Wu Huaiyu listened respectfully to the imperial edict.

This is a reward edict,
"Under the sect: Dai Sikong, the Lingnan Road Observer, the Six-Prefecture Manager and the Annan Protector, the Lingnan Road Branch Du Ying Tian Yan Tie Ai and the Tibetan tribesmen, Shangzhu State, Jin State Gong Huaiyu, Gongge Shangxuan, Daoguang Under the earth, the rivers and mountains are idle, and the rocks are full of treasures. The energy is profound, broad and strategic. I conquer Tuyuhun and build new achievements.

His eldest son, the Duke of Pingyuan County, selected a student from Chongxian Hall and raised him in the palace. His second legitimate son inherited the clan, and was granted the title of Marquis of Jinyang County in recognition of his father's military exploits, and was selected as a student of Hongwen Hall. His third legitimate son, Wu Chengying, was granted the title of Prince of Shouyang County in recognition of his father's military exploits, and was raised in the palace.
It is advisable to express gratitude and show the sincerity of the reward.

The edict was issued in December of the ninth year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty. "

"Your Majesty Wu Huaiyu accepted the order, thank you!"

"Congratulations, Erlang."

It's amazing.

"Grandpa, try this Dahongpao. The hundreds of years old tea trees on the cliffs of Wuyi Mountain can't produce much in a year."

He smiled and brought the brewed tea to Zhang Ananda.

"Well, this tea is an oolong tea with obvious rocky charm. In addition to the functions of ordinary tea in refreshing the mind, eliminating fatigue, promoting fluid production, diuresis, antipyretic and heatstroke prevention, detoxification and disease prevention, digestion and tiredness, etc., it can also resist aging,"

Ten years have passed. Zhang Anan and Wu Huaiyu seem to have changed little when they met ten years ago. However, Wu Huaiyu knows that this person has always been Li Shimin's chief internal officer and an absolute confidant. He also has an Imperial City Secretary in his hands, so he should not be underestimated. watch for. Although the eunuchs in the early Tang Dynasty were not involved in politics, they cannot be compared with those powerful eunuchs in the middle and late Tang Dynasty who were able to depose and establish emperors and control the government.
But Zhang Ananda’s influence is not small.
Just like Zhou Shaofan before, he can be regarded as half a shadow prime minister.

Dahongpao is very resistant to soaking and still has a fragrance after seven or eight soakings.

Zhang Anan looked at Wu Huaiyu's technique and said, "The aroma smells fragrant, like orchids."

Wu Huaiyu invited Zhang Anan to drink tea.
The people he brought also had their own butlers to entertain them.

The reason for entrusting his son this time was Wu Huaiyu's military exploits. He did not participate in the battle to destroy Tuyuhun, but the magic weapon played a great role this time, so the emperor still took his credit.

This can be regarded as the emperor's reward for his pioneering in Lingnan, and perhaps it is also a compensation for Li Jing, Fan Xingniu Jinda and others.

"Your Dahongpao is like an elixir," Zhang Anan sipped it carefully and found that it tasted really good, "live, sweet, clear and fragrant,"

"Is there any way?"

Small pot, small cup, drink carefully and slowly.

"Well, the queen told me today."

"Over the past few years, your family has sent me a lot of tea every year. There are all kinds of good teas. After drinking too much, I will slowly learn to taste them."

Of course, this is just a reason, after all, he hasn't participated in Shenji Workshop for many years.

"Speaking of elixirs, you know about the story of the Indian monk, right?"

"It's hard to say. It's best to find the elixir from Monk Zhu that day. The elixir recipe will also work. Then I will find an opportunity to have a good talk with the saint, and then conduct a comprehensive examination and diagnosis of the body. Only then can I know where the symptoms are and prescribe the right medicine."

"It seems that grandpa is also a master of tea tasting,"

Zhang Anan smiled and handed Huang Ling's imperial edict to him. This time Wu Huaiyu's three legitimate sons would stay in Chang'an, and the emperor would raise them in the palace.
Dalang and Qilang entered Chongxian Hall and Hongwen Hall as students respectively.
Lao Qi was also granted the title of Marquis of Jinyang County due to Wu Huaiyu's merits, while Lao Ba was awarded the title of Viscount of Shouyang County, plus the man from Chiyang County whom Wu Erlang Yin's father had earlier conferred the title of.
Now Wu Huaiyu's four sons have titles, one is a county duke, one is a county marquis, one is a county son, and one is a county boy. He himself is the Duke of Jin, and his father and son have five titles. His father, Warrior Ke, also has a title of Wenshui County Marquis. , Brother Huaiyi had a Marquis of Qushui County.

Anyway, it’s just a false title.
This time, both Xue Wanche and Li Jing had a son who was granted the title of County Marquis. The reason was that their lordships had reached the highest level and were already the Duke of Shangzhu Kingdom, so they had no choice but to grant their son the title of Marquis.

Having said that, Wu Huaiyu was not sure. After all, the emperor took the elixir last year and stopped this year.
It’s been a year since I’ve had it. If I hadn’t eaten less,

"Hey, a child doesn't have a long story to tell about this matter."

As the emperor's most personal chamberlain, Zhang Ananda knew more about the matter than the empress.

This Da Diao Temple, who is now the founding Duke of the country, spoke eloquently,
The specific cause was the Huanghuai Flood last year. The emperor rushed from Qizhou to Luoyang to coordinate the command. The summer was extremely hot, the journey was dusty, and the boats and vehicles were tired. Even in Luoyang, they worked day and night to deal with the disaster relief.
The emperor first suffered from dysentery, which was very serious, and then he suffered from gas disease again.
This illness, both serious and minor, came back and forth, and when I returned to Chang'an for the New Year, it still didn't get better.

It was at this time that I met the Tianzhu monk.

The Tianzhu monk offered a medicine. Of course, it was not an elixir of immortality, but an analgesic that could greatly relieve pain after being taken.

The emperor did feel much better after taking this medicine.

After that, the emperor's illness and other illnesses were gradually brought under control. At the same time, the imperial court selected a group of meritorious officials and women from noble families to enter the palace to supplement the emperor's harem.

This group of young girls came from the Seven Sects of the Five Surnames, the Six Surnames of Guanlong, Daibei Hao Clan, Jiangnan Gentlemen, etc. They were all young and beautiful, well-informed and courteous, and the emperor liked them very much.

Compared to the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the emperors and princes in the palace were all occupied by women from the previous royal family, nobles, and high-ranking officials who had not entered the palace. Now the emperor has become more particular.
Many officials in the imperial court have always believed that how can we no longer select those humble women from Yeting and Jiaofang to enter the palace? How can we allow these women to bear children for the emperor and princes? They should be selected from the nobles, nobles, senior officials and nobles. It is only appropriate for those young and outstanding women to enter the palace.

When a group of beautiful ladies from well-known families enter the palace, the emperor will inevitably favor them. The emperor is still young.

But perhaps after recovering from a serious illness, the emperor soon felt powerless.

Although Shang Pharmacy also prepared medicinal food for the emperor, it felt that the effect was not strong enough. At this time, Monk Tianzhu offered sacred oil, and the emperor felt that it was indeed strong enough after using it. But this thing overspent his energy, and the emperor soon found that he was even more powerless.

At this time, Monk Hu's divine oil didn't work, so he had to use strong medicine. He claimed that he could refine more powerful elixirs, so the emperor asked him to donate them.

Monk Hu from Tianzhu quickly refined the magic elixir. After the emperor used it, he found that it worked again.

He is full of energy and can even handle several women at night.

But this happiness is short-lived,

Soon the emperor discovered that his health was deteriorating. Not only could he no longer be happy, but carbuncles had grown on his back. At this time, the imperial doctors diagnosed the emperor as having been poisoned.
The emperor suffered from severe diarrhea and dehydration, and then the gas problem recurred.

Almost died,
Fortunately, a group of old imperial doctors worked together and the emperor stopped taking Hu Seng's medicine and finally brought it back.

I have been recuperating until now,

The emperor only looked good, but in fact he was almost empty.

To this day, the emperor's dragon power is no longer there, and he has never regained his strength.

Afterwards, Monk Hu was handed over to the Imperial City Department to be executed secretly. All the harmful elixirs, divine oils, etc. were also destroyed, and the matter was tightly sealed.

"The elixir recipe and elixirs of Monk Hu are not left behind, but the medicinal materials he purchased can still be known."

Zhang Ananda also came prepared today.

He took out a list with various medicinal materials on it.

Wu Huaiyu looked at it carefully several times.
There are indeed medicinal materials on it, but there are also many poisons, such as cinnabar, which Taoist priests like to use most in alchemy. It is also called cinnabar. Its main component is mercury sulfide. Although cinnabar is a natural ore, mercury sulfide will decompose into mercury when heated. Mercury When encountering sulfide, it turns into black mercury sulfide. Black mercury sulfide turns into red mercury sulfide when heated by air, and the elixir eventually becomes the infamous red pill.

Ge Hong, a master of alchemy, and his disciples believed that it contained the secret of endless life and could make people live forever.

But in fact, those who believe in this thing and dare to eat it will have a short life, or even die suddenly.

The purpose of Monk Zhu's so-called magical elixir that day was not to live forever, but to help the emperor regain his glory. However, when he was living in the Central Plains, he actually learned the Taoist method of alchemy, and also added cinnabar and other deadly things.

Tianzhu Monk’s medicinal materials also include honey, realgar and orpiment.
I don’t know if that guy thinks that one female and one male can harmonize yin and yang or what. Realgar and orpiment, one is arsenic sulfide and the other is arsenic trisulfide, which are not good things at first glance.

Tianzhu monk also added natural saltpeter.
There are also saponins, nux vomica, etc.
Damn, this is not refining the elixir of life. Isn’t this properly refining gunpowder?

There is sulfur, saltpeter, and saponins can provide charcoal. If he hadn't added too many other messy materials,

Monk Zhu's alchemy furnace was really going to explode that day. If he had summarized it, he would have been able to summarize the most secret gunpowder in the Tang Dynasty's military weapons technology.

This kind of food is for the emperor to eat.

It actually had a miraculous effect at first, and she felt energetic at night after eating it?

Wu Huaiyu couldn't believe it.
He felt that the magic elixir that Monk Hu had just paid tribute to was definitely not refined by himself. It was probably just some kind of Yang-strengthening medicine. It was indeed effective when the emperor took it, but the medicine itself was only temporarily useful. The more he took it, the worse it would be. .

Monk Hu must have known it himself, so what he paid tribute later was the magic elixir he had refined.

Perhaps Monk Hu himself believed more and more in the red pill he refined.
Otherwise, there is no reason why he would dare to pay tribute to the emperor?

But in history, there were so many emperors who died of poisoning after taking the elixir of longevity, and there were always those who were bold enough to pay tribute to the emperor with the elixir of immortality.

"You still have to find the exact recipe and know what ingredients are used,"

Wu Huaiyu basically concluded that the emperor was poisoned by heavy metals and needed to be detoxified, but he also had to know the specific situation so that he could take appropriate medication.

But looking at it now, although the emperor was poisoned by taking the elixir, it was better than he originally expected, because the emperor didn't take the elixir for a long time, and he started using sacred oils and other substances, which were less harmful.

If you really have been taking the elixir for a long time, it will be difficult for the gods to save you.

Another point is that after the symptoms of the emperor's poisoning appeared, the imperial doctors treated him in time. Now that the emperor has failed to show his glory, it is a sequelae.

The legacy must be eliminated before we can find a way to regain our glory.

"Your Majesty must have had a bad stomach lately,"

"Indeed, I have stomachache, dizziness, loss of appetite, fatigue, and soreness in my limbs..."

It sounds like mercury poisoning, which is consistent with the Tianzhu monk buying cinnabar.

"Erlang, you must find a way to cure the saint. Famous doctors in and outside the palace have already treated him, but the effect is not very good."

"Also, this matter must be kept secret. Even if it is a mysterious talisman, you can't tell me."

Wu Huaiyu nodded, "I know,"

The condition of the emperor's dragon body is naturally the top secret of the Tang Dynasty, especially now that the condition cannot be revealed at all.

(End of this chapter)