Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

The troubled times in Rome are indeed similar to those in China.

Zhang Zhongjing kept his hands on his hands and made a rare comment at the same time.

For the old man, although he didn't care much about it outside of the medical profession, he probably knew the vague historical trend behind him.

The decline of both sides seems to have lasted as long as the troubled times. Now, even the excitement of religion and the state of the epidemic are relatively similar.

Although those specific symptoms are not quite consistent with the previous typhoid fever, it was caused by cold. To doctors in the Han Dynasty today, it was typhoid fever.

But at the same time, Zhang Zhongjing was also very envious of the in-depth medical research of later generations.

I also secretly made up my mind that after today's incident, I would seek advice from Mr. Kong Ming and study this medical doctrine together.

Later generations can use it for more than a thousand years. This long time itself is enough to illustrate its value.

As for the dogma that later generations would reform after it was abandoned, Zhang Zhongjing simply did not dare to hope for the time being.

As all the military advisors and lords have lamented, even if there is a heavenly palace for future generations at this time, it will probably be difficult to imitate it even if it is a drop in the bucket.

The same is true in medicine. Just like a baby learning to walk, it first learns to crawl, then to walk, and then to run.

It is not the behavior of a benevolent person to be anxious for his own success and seek his own interests.

Zhang Zhongjing had just cautiously given his judgment now, but what surprised Liu Bei even more was the ancient Roman system explained by his younger generation:

Public food rationing?

This is a completely unfamiliar long word, but if you break it into two, the meaning is not difficult for Liu Bei and others to understand.

It is said in the Book of Rites that the world is for the common good.

So can't this long word be understood as the food ration shared by the world?

Liu Bei was probably just surprised when he knew about the system of later generations. After all, after thousands of years, the evolution of the national system was beyond his ability to deduce.

But ancient Rome was at the same time as the Han Dynasty, and judging from the meaning of this written record, even if it suffered from a great epidemic and troubled times, such food rationing was still implemented!

This is a completely different method from that of the Han Dynasty, but it still seems to have been effective for hundreds of years. At this time, Liu Bei was really surprised and curious.

On the one hand, Kong Ming was equally amazed by this generosity of ancient Rome, but on the other hand, he also raised questions:

The rationing of these foods must be based on status.

After all, if food can be given to everyone without restraint, then Arabia will not rise again. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to go to ancient Rome and eat the food brought from here?

And if the empire wants to implement such a system, it must have corresponding food collection methods.

Food cannot be produced by the emperor's words. Even in the West, food can only be grown from the soil.

So how did ancient Rome possess such arrogant and stable food reserves and sources became what Kong Ming was curious about.

Kong Ming also carefully took that map out of Chengdu, and carefully placed it in Hanzhong before. It was not until it was determined that Tongguan had conquered the Three Qin Dynasties and pacified it, and that the Qinchuan River in Guanzhong was as stable as Mount Tai, did Kong Ming put the map away. I brought it here and now it is hanging behind me.

Looking back, the first thing Kong Ming saw was the south of the ancient Roman territory, where the climate was hotter than that of Rome.

Now that we know that Jiaozhou has Champa rice that matures every fifty days, and that there is a country as rich and fertile as Tianzhu, then maybe it is not surprising that the south of Rome is rich in food?

Moreover...the benefits brought by this giant lake, which later generations called the Mediterranean, were probably much greater than those of the Great Han River.

It has been measured before that the north and south of this huge lake are about 800 miles apart. It would be very beneficial to transport the baggage by boats.

But even so, everyone is inevitably envious.

This actually made Jian Yongcong more determined:

When everything in Xuande's office comes to an end, he, Jian Yong, will definitely go west.

In the Tang Dynasty, Xuanzang went to India to obtain Buddhist scriptures. He, Jian Yong, followed the example of later generations and went to Rome to obtain the essence of Western science and send it to strengthen the Han Dynasty.

For this reason, even if you bury your bones in a foreign land, you won’t hesitate!

As for the rise of religion mentioned in the end, Zhang Fei could only sigh:

This Roman man and I, the big man, are really brothers from different compatriots.

Pang Tong and other people with exquisite minds are even more alert. Although there are differences in the East and different systems, how similar are the trends of history?

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Looking at the younger generation's meaningful words about the rise of religion, Sun Simiao was silent for a moment and suddenly became curious:

The Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty was so unwise, how could he lock the demon Gan Zhongke in prison?

After all, Sun Simiao probably remembered the story of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty. He was incompetent in governing the country and neglected the government affairs, which allowed his relatives to gain power and cause Wang Mang's rebellion. He strangled his own children to death and eventually exterminated his own heirs.

Moreover, in his later years, such a foolish king was fond of offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods and seeking immortals. The Taiping Jing that Gan Zhongke pulled out also made reference to the Confucian prophecy theory, and he was quite capable in this regard.

At least the people of heaven and the gods he pulled out are now convinced of it. It shows his ability, but he died at the hands of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty?

Li Shimin just smiled at this and said meaningfully:

This Gan Zhongke falsely claims that destiny is to coerce the emperor.

Those who lose their moral integrity and indulge in pleasure, like the Cheng Emperor, actually know better what destiny is.

Li Shimin didn't want to talk more about this, so he just smiled and changed the subject:

I wonder what the relationship between the Byzantine Empire in the West and ancient Rome is at this time?

At the same time, I also decided in my heart that after the opening of the sea is successful, I will send people who are good at writing secretaries to the West to sort out the history of their generation.

When the time comes, I will give it to my descendants. I wonder if it will surprise them?

Li Shimin didn't believe the junior's casual statement about distributing food to everyone, and believed that there must be quite a few restrictions.

But it also made me more curious about things in the West.

What particularly made Li Shimin laugh was his evaluation of Sima Yi:

Fantasy literature...hahahaha.

[While facing the epidemic during this period, something with almost the same nature also quietly emerged at the same time.

In the East, this kind of thing created the image of the madmen of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Absorption became popular among nobles and celebrities, and it has been circulating in this land for thousands of years.

Its name is still found in the annals of history, leaving a mark that cannot be ignored. It is called Wu Shi San.

In the West, this kind of thing is given a supreme name: universal antidote.

And its main ingredient is familiar to anyone who has read history textbooks today: opium.

The specific origin of Wu Shi San is unknown. It is more likely that it came from folk alchemists in the Han Dynasty. Some people even speculate that the earliest source is Taiping Dao.

Because Wushisan is named after its main ingredients are five minerals, the fairly easy-to-understand name does not seem to come from the style of an alchemist raised by a noble noble.

The epidemic was also caused by epidemics. It was first caused by the onset of typhoid fever in the late Han Dynasty, which made patients feel cold all over.

The medicinal properties of Wushi Powder are hot and strong, and the accompanying effect of short-term poisoning is to confuse people's minds. This confusing feeling makes those celebrities very addicted.

Do you still remember the famous scholar from the Wei and Jin Dynasties we talked about before?

It's the one who asked Da Lala: Why do you guys come to my crotch?

This is the most typical symptom of overdose of Wushi Powder.

Smoking Wushi Powder will make the body hot and dry, so for celebrities in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it was a celebrity fashion to be naked after taking Wushi Powder.

Long-term smoking will gradually worsen the symptoms of chronic poisoning in the body, and the gradually fragile skin cannot adapt to rough clothes. Therefore, being frank became a celebrity trend in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

And this addictive drug also ran through the entire troubled times of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, causing countless crimes.

The history of opium in the West is even longer. At least according to the history studied by Westerners themselves, there are traces of opium cultivation around 4200 BC.

The Euphrates River Basin, one of the birthplaces of Western civilization, also has traces of opium cultivation dating back 5,400 years. At that time, ancient humans called opium poppy a happy plant.

In the 3700s, Assyrian doctors believed that poppy could cure all diseases. At that time, the Assyrians would prepare plant drinks to drink. There were 115 kinds of drinks with poppy added.

Because of its healing all diseases properties, the poppy was regarded as a miracle in the ancient West. Ancient Greek gold coins were painted with poppies, and ancient Rome also engraved poppy patterns on tombstones, which shows that ancient Westerners respected the poppy.

The ancients at that time were convinced that opium poppy could cure all diseases. For example, there is a record in the Ebers Papyrus of ancient Egypt 3,500 years ago. At that time, people used opium poppy for external application to treat trauma, and they also fed it to babies to prevent it. Crying at night.

Because of its hallucinogenic properties, poppies were quickly associated with religion and became sacred.

Around AD 120, the king of Pontus in Central Asia prepared the earliest version of the all-purpose medicine. It was said that this medicine could make people immune to all poisons.

After this prescription was introduced to ancient Rome, it was personally improved by the famous tyrant Nero, who greatly increased the proportion of opium poppy in the prescription. It soon became the elixir used by the ancient Roman emperor, and was called dinoga.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the famous doctor Galen later prepared a more powerful all-purpose antidote using poppy juice and gave it to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in the hope of curing the epidemic.

This opium product was also used on Commodus, the last emperor of the Antonine dynasty, with unknown effects.

Later, some well-known monarchs in European history, such as Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, etc., were all loyal customers of Dinega, an opium product.

Needless to say, among the people, the people themselves have the habit of taking opium products. Troubled times and epidemics have caused the people to face the same problems as the people in the late Han Dynasty.

The result was opiates with hallucinogenic properties that remained active in the West until the seventeenth century.

Only then did doctors clearly point out the two-way effect of opiates: when treating patients, they will also inevitably lead to addiction and eventually become toxic.

This addiction later became a powerful weapon in colonial aggression. Large amounts of opium dumped could quickly seize the wealth of the colonies, and also make the people in the colonies quickly addicted and lose their ability to resist. This is what brought to modern China The painful Opium War.

While opium products are still active among Western folk to this day, Wu Shi San has long since disappeared in the long river of history.

What everyone may not have expected is that the climate also played a big role in eliminating this addictive drug in early ancient times. 】

The people who feel this more deeply are undoubtedly the people in Ganlu Hall.

After all, the current Dr. Sun, in addition to treating illnesses and saving people and studying medical skills, one of the things he often does is to publicize the dangers of Wu Shi Powder.

For this reason, there are still some people among the princes and ministers of the Tang Dynasty who smoked Wushi Powder, but they have basically not publicized it publicly.

But looking at the younger generation’s intentions at this time, not only is Divine Doctor Sun right, but the publicity of its harm is probably relatively small?

It's just that the younger generation was a little bit secretive about the actual harm it caused, which made everyone in the Manlu Hall a little confused for a while:

It is said that this thing causes endless harm, but how can it cause endless harm, and how can something similar to it leave huge pain to a country?

Li Shimin turned his attention to Sun Yaowang, and the rest of the people couldn't help but focus their attention on Sun Simiao.

After all, judging from how much later generations praise medicine and praise Zhang Zhongjing, we can probably tell:

This Sun Simiao is likely to be regarded as a pioneer in a certain sense in today's Tang Dynasty.

Sun Simiao took a long breath and had some thoughts in his mind:

How poisonous Wu Shi Powder is, we will know in two months.

Then the gathered gazes gradually dispersed, and at the same time, Sun Simiao quietly approached Li Shimin.

How many apes do you want?

The meaning is not difficult to guess, because Li Shimin also understood when Guangmu talked about Dr. Galen's achievements before:

Apes are quite human-like, so if a drug is being trialled, apes can taste it first.

Li Shimin agreed with a wave of his hand, and said how many would be enough? I'll give you at least forty or fifty, and Sun Simiao could only thank you dumbfounded.

At this moment, Li Shimin actually felt a little proud of himself. Now Zhenguan's style is pretty good.

Because Zhenguan's governance was quite effective, there are not many death row prisoners in the imperial prison today.

Coupled with the needs of Doctor Sun's autopsy, these death row prisoners need to be taken out for execution from time to time, and then the corpses are sent to the new Imperial Medical Office with clever names.

As a result, the number of death row inmates in the prisons has been almost exhausted.

Otherwise, there is no need for apes, just test the medicine directly on the death row prisoners.

Having solved Sun Simiao's matter for the time being, Li Shimin is now a little surprised.

Later generations compared Wu Shi San with the opium product made from poppy - although I don't know why it was called opium.

But at least this attitude shows that the two are similar in nature.

Li Shimin had seen arty celebrities who took Wu Shi Powder, and their various illnesses were frightening.

Therefore, Li Shimin simply could not imagine that the entire West had been taking this substance for five thousand years, and it continued into what future generations would call future generations...

Wait, Li Shimin knocked on his head and couldn't help but secretly wake up.

He was still wondering about the harmful effects of this opium, but considering that in later generations, the West had known that this opium product was harmful, but it still continued to exist, which showed its power.

Then the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty let out a hiss, and couldn't help but become more curious about the results of Dr. Sun's experiment.

Taking a small amount of Wushi Powder can produce fever and ward off cold illnesses. If you take Wushi Powder regularly and have severe illnesses, you can be said to have the style of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

So what will be the final result of taking Wu Shi San in large amounts frequently? This so-called addiction?

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