Duobao Taoist

Chapter 32 Shennong Tastes Herbs

The development of all things under the Dao of Heaven will have corresponding spiritual treasures born, just like the human race, now that the human race is booming, the Dao of Heaven will naturally issue some spiritual treasures to suppress the luck of the human race. Luobao money is the ancestor of money in the human race, suppressing the luck of money in the world .When there are surplus fruits of human labor, commercial activities will naturally occur, but they are often very complicated, and bartering is not very convenient. Under the proposal of Taoist Duobao, Shennong implemented the method of minting coins and bartering with money , the human race has developed rapidly since then, but other things have also happened during the period.After explaining this matter, Taoist Duobao left.

During the prehistoric period, the living environment was extremely dangerous.Unpredictable weather, poisonous insects and beasts all threaten the survival of the human race.Shennong watched the people of the tribe continue to be infested with diseases, and watched the people of the tribe continue to use their lives to judge whether various animals and plants are edible, poisonous, and whether they can be used.

A sick clan member often means the loss of life, and each kind of poison often costs several lives or more.For the sake of his people, Shennong started to do the second major thing to benefit the prehistoric people after the five grains. Shennong decided to taste the herbs and beasts himself.

After Shennong arranged the affairs of the tribe, he went out to the depths of the mountains. Along the way, whenever he saw vegetation that he had never seen before, he whipped it with the magic whip ocher given by Zhen to see if it was poisonous or not, and put it on the ground. They recorded it, and took those poisonous weeds at night to test their toxicity. Slowly, Shennong discovered that all kinds of poisons have the attributes of five elements, and some powerful poisons even contain several kinds of five elements. , so it is highly toxic. Shennong observed its cold, warm, flat, and hot nature, and identified the righteousness of its ruler, minister, assistant, and envoy. Slowly, it can be used to detoxify and cure diseases.One day Shennong found a vine-like plant with small yellow flowers in the crevice of the stone. Shennong whipped it with ocher and found that it was highly poisonous, so he ate the flower and stem in his stomach. As if his intestines were broken, he hurriedly worked hard to dissolve the poison. After a while, Shennong got up and wiped the sweat from his head and said, "Fortunately, I have the Taoist protection handed down by my teacher, otherwise I will die here. I must kill this kind of poison." The grass is written down and told to the people, so that the people do not eat it by mistake and die. This kind of grass makes the stomach hurt, as if the intestines are broken, so it is called "broken heart grass".

Because of tasting all kinds of herbs, Shennong put himself in danger all the time. It is recorded in "Gang Jian Yi Zhi Lu": "The people have diseases, and the medicine stone is unknown. Emperor Yan started the growth of plants and trees, and observed their cold, warm, flat and hot nature. , distinguishing the righteousness of his ruler, minister, assistant, and emissary, tasted one mouthful and encountered seventy poisons, and transformed it into a god, so he wrote it on the document to treat the people's diseases, and the medical practice began from then on." It can be seen how Shennong's situation was at that time. Danger.After decades of debate, it was discovered that licorice can cure coughs, rhubarb can treat constipation, yellow lotus can reduce swelling, and so on.

Shennong continued to taste all kinds of herbs, and wrote the common and uncommon things in the book one by one.After Shennong finished writing the Medicine Classics, he began to study pharmacology to treat diseases for the human race.There are so many people in the human race. Although there are not as many diseases as in the later generations, there are still many people who come to see the doctor every day. Shennong is treating the human race, and at the same time researching the methods of curing diseases and writing them in the medicine scriptures.Shennong also passed on the medicinal scriptures to the human race, letting people know the medicinal properties and functions of all things.Some people learned a lot of medical principles from Shennong, and began to follow Shennong to walk around the human race and treat people's diseases.These are the earliest wandering doctors.

Shennong has been treating diseases in the human race for many years, studying countless corpses and writing down a complete map of the meridians and acupoints of the human body. When studying the meridians and acupoints, he also thoroughly studied the human body, and also wrote it in a book for future generations to learn.Originally, no one dared to study this complete human body map. After all, it is disrespectful to the dead.Shennong, as the co-lord of the human race, was too late to be grateful for the study of medical science for the human race. It would not stop Shennong from doing this, but many people came to dedicate their lives to help Shennong's research.

Shen Nong spent more than a hundred years researching medical theory in his reign, and finally wrote a book called "Shen Nong Baicao Jing", which shocked the world all day long.When this book was finished, Shennong suddenly felt empty in his heart, thinking that his avenue had been accomplished, and all that was left was to teach the alchemy and find a successor for the next generation of human race.

It is said that Taoist Duobao went to Beiming Wangyang after Chen Jun left, and returned Hetu Luoshu.When I came to Beiming, I saw that the door of the huge palace among the three thousand ice islands was wide open, and there were two rows of Taoists of various colors standing on the left and right, respectfully, and an ice road was left in the middle.Patriarch Kunpeng came out laughing, and said, "Fellow Daoist is a true believer. My son and I have been waiting for you for a long time." Immediately, Taoist Duobao was introduced into the hall.

Taoist Duobao entered the main hall, and the two sides sat down in the guest and host seats, and another servant came in to offer rare and exotic fruits.

The ancestor of Kunpeng asked someone to call that Jiutian Yunpeng. Taoist Duobao thought about it for a long time, and then said to Jiutian Yunpeng: "Since you have the intention of worshiping the poor Taoist as your teacher, the poor Taoist will make you perfect, and you will be poor." The third disciple of the Tao! There are two senior brothers who are now serving your patriarch on Jinao Island. Dao, love each other from the same sect, don't betray the master's sect, other things are not very important, but if you violate one of them, you will flee to the ends of the world, and the poor Tao will turn him into that ashes." At the end of the speech, his voice and expression were all stern.

Kunpeng was busy winking at Jiutian Yunpeng, Jiutian Yunpeng is also a smart person, he knelt down and said: "I will respect the teacher's order in the future and dare not disobey." Just go through the ceremony of apprenticeship right now.Taoist Duobao's complexion softened a little, he took out a golden long spear, and said: "You are Jiutian Yunpeng, so I give you the name Ling Xiao, since I am my teacher, I will not treat you lightly. The gun was obtained by me during the Lich War that day, and I refined it with Taoism, and it is also an innate spiritual treasure, so I gave it to you for self-defense." Jiutian Yunpeng, now Ling Xiao took over and thanked you.

Patriarch Kunpeng was overjoyed, he knew Taoist Duobao's art of refining weapons, and taught Taishang Laojun not to give up, the magic weapon refined by him would not be far behind.At that moment, he also took out a magic treasure in the shape of a bottle, and said: "This bottle is called Yinyang Erqi Bottle, which is the treasure of Yinyang Erqi. It contains seven treasures and eight trigrams, 24 Qi, and it takes 36 people. According to the number of Tiangang, it can be lifted. Move. This treasure can hold a person. If a person stays in it, if he does not speak, the inside of the bottle is extremely cool. Once he speaks, there will be fire, and it will turn into pus and blood. I got it in the heaven. In the future, you If I'm not by my father's side, I'll leave it to you to defend myself." The words were full of love and reluctance.

Taoist Duobao left immediately, and took Ling Xiao back to Jin'ao Island.

However, the Yuanshi Tianzun in Yuxu Palace had been planning on the human race early in the morning. The last time Guangchengzi was asked to accept Shennong as a disciple, he calculated that Shennong was the emperor of the three emperors of heaven, earth, and man. As a result, Taoist Duobao took the lead , first accepted Shennong, Guangchengzi had no choice but to retreat, but Yuanshi didn't let go of it. This time, he asked Guangchengzi to go down to the prehistoric world to find the whereabouts of the Xuanyuan tribe.

On the banks of the Jishui River in the northwest of the land, there is a medium-sized human tribe named Youxiong, who lives near the Jishui River. The monarch is named Shaodian.He is the tenth grandson of Emperor Fuxi's direct line, married Fubao, daughter of Youqiao family.

One night, Fu Bao saw a flash of lightning surrounding the star of the Big Dipper, and suddenly a white light shone at the center of the Big Dipper, illuminating the surrounding fields brightly.Fubao was induced to become pregnant. She was pregnant for three years and gave birth to a son in Shouqiu, named Gongsun Xuanyuan.When Xuanyuan was born, he appeared to be an abnormal god.Not long after he was born, he was able to speak and was extremely powerful. He was able to hunt bears at the age of five. The people in his tribe were all different. Shaodian was very happy to see Xuanyuan's intelligence, wisdom, bravery and martial arts, so he ordered to change the name of the Xiong tribe to Xuanyuan tribe .

This Guangchengzi got the order of Yuanshi Tianzun to go down to find the next generation of the emperor. Yuanshi once said that the emperor would be born in the Xuanyuan tribe, but Guangchengzi searched for a long time but could not find the Xuanyuan tribe. On this day, Guangchengzi came to Ji By the riverside, I saw that the people in a tribe were very happy. After asking, it was the Xiong tribe that was renamed the Xuanyuan tribe. I also learned that the son of the tribe leader Shaodian was born after three years of pregnancy. He was named Gongsun Xuanyuan. He was very intelligent. Guangchengzi thought that this son must be the next emperor, so he rushed to the Xuanyuan tribe.

When Shaodian heard that a monk was coming, he didn't dare to neglect, put down the child, and rushed out to greet him.Arriving at the gate of the tribe, Shaodian saw a Taoist with a fly whisk in his hand, a face like white jade, and three black beards under his chin.Shaodian didn't dare to neglect and hastily saluted.The Taoist replied, "Poverty Dao is the disciple of Yuanshi Tianzun, a sage of Yuqing, and Guang Chengzi, a qi trainer in Jiugong Mountain, is here to accept Lingzi as his disciple. Patriarch, you don't have to be polite."

When Shao Dian heard that the sage's disciple accepted his son as an apprentice, he readily agreed, and summoned the tribesmen to hold a ceremony of apprenticeship for Xuanyuan, which was in line with Guang Chengzi's vanity.

Guang Chengzi lived in the Xuanyuan Tribe and devoted himself to teaching Xuanyuan, but he mostly lived in the mountains and practiced. He might be good at cultivating immortals and Taoism, but he didn't know much about civil production.Nowadays, martial arts are prevalent in the Xuanyuan tribe, Guang Chengzi knows a thing or two about martial arts, and in desperation, he fanned the flames there, telling Shaodian Xuanyuan that martial arts are the most respected in the prehistoric times, and the benefits of practicing martial arts.Shaodian ordinary people, how do they understand this? Xuanyuan is still young, but he is slowly influenced by Guangchengzi.

When Xuanyuan was nine years old, Shaodian passed away, and Xuanyuan succeeded him as the leader of the Xuanyuan tribe. For many years, Xuanyuan had not learned anything about how to govern the tribe because he followed Guang Chengzi, who was not familiar with human affairs. He took over the human race, but he was also quite annoyed by the handling of political affairs, and didn't know how to start.Ask about Guang Chengzi, Guang Chengzi only said that he only practiced morality and immortality, but he didn't know about it, and asked too much, Guang Chengzi was too embarrassed to see Xuanyuan again, so he reasoned that he was in seclusion and even disappeared.

Guangchengzi thought that it would not be a long-term solution for him to retreat without seeing Xuanyuan, but he didn't know much about civil affairs, so he went out of the seclusion to seek to see Yuanshi, hoping to get some solution from Yuanshi.

Unexpectedly, when Guang Chengzi came out, he saw that the Xuanyuan tribe was developing prosperously, and the people lived in a prosperous life. He felt that Xuanyuan was the emperor after all, and he naturally had the ability to govern the tribe well. It's time to trouble Yuanshi.But he said that Shennong was looking for the next Emperor, and after hearing Xuanyuan's name, he sent someone to invite Xuanyuan, and he wanted to talk to Xuanyuan in person.When Xuanyuan learned that Shennong wanted to see him, he was very happy and went happily.

When Shennong saw Xuanyuan, he was also delighted to see his handsome face, and said: "I am very happy to hear that a great sage has been born in the Xuanyuan tribe. Please send someone here to have a look, and I will see you today." , Sure enough." Xuanyuan also said: "I have heard for a long time that the master planted five grains to fill the world, raised six animals to prosper the world, opened up circulation to enrich the world, and made elixir to heal the world. That is the great sage who followed the emperor Fuxi , I have longed for it in my heart for a long time, and today I taste what I wish, and I am very happy."

Shennong and Xuanyuan sat down and called each other brothers. They were both one of the Three Heavenly Emperors, so they chatted happily.Shennong asked Xuanyuan some things about people's livelihood management, and Xuanyuan also answered fluently and eloquently.At that moment, Shennong expressed to Xuanyuan his intention to abdicate to the virtuous, and Xuanyuan did not refuse, so he decided to hold a succession ceremony three days later.

(End of this chapter)