Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Compared with Li Shimin, there are a large number of historical records that can confirm and compare what later generations said.

The Han ministers in Han Chang'an could only stare at each other.

After all, according to what later generations said, the Five Stone Powder became popular in the Jin Dynasty, and today the Han Dynasty is still struggling.

Therefore, even the toxicity of Wushi Powder can only be understood from the few words of later generations.

It is true that Wu Shi San was founded in the Han Dynasty, and Doctor Zhang also affirmed this point.

However, because they knew the harm of this substance from the light curtain early, Liu Bei's subordinates all avoided it. Even Liu Zhang, who was indulging in enjoyment in Jiangling City, did not smoke this substance.

Therefore, it is even more difficult to imagine how such things could bring harm to the country and the family?

Have you ever seen such a thing as a poppy, Divine Doctor Zhang?

Kong Ming was still more concerned about this thing, so he asked Zhang Zhongjing directly.

After stroking his beard and thinking for a moment, Zhang Zhongjing felt that the burden on his shoulders was a little heavier.

No, or there may be slight differences in the records of the name of this thing in ancient and modern times.

This may also be the most reasonable speculation. After all, there has long been the Silk Road for exchanges between the East and the West. If this thing really has such miraculous effects, someone will definitely send it to the Han Dynasty in order to make huge profits.

Kong Ming also nodded thoughtfully, and looked at each other with Pang Tongfazheng, with inquiring eyes flashing in their eyes.

With the wisdom of the two of them, it can also be seen that later generations have many reservations about this thing.

For example, the difference in the names of poppy and opium products, the specific symptoms of opium addiction, etc.

This statement is unclear, but perhaps it was just like the Han Dynasty suppressing Taoism at this time, and if it was harmed, it was banned as a warning.

Looking at the historical context of later generations, China's dealings with the West must be inevitable.

Adhering to the idea of ​​​​a military strategist who knows himself and his enemy, he can fight a hundred battles without danger. I am afraid that this poppy also needs in-depth research to understand its medicinal and poisonous properties.

But at the moment, it seems that there is very little said about this thing in the future. I am afraid that in the end we will have to try to help traders through the Silk Road.

But of course, regarding this matter, we still need to talk to Mr. Xuande carefully and keep it confidential.

For a time, Pang Tongfazheng's sense of crisis became more obvious.

In fact, this sense of crisis has never been eliminated.

As revealed by later generations, the two men's understanding of the people of the country has long been different from usual. The importance of arithmetic, the power of engineering, and the importance of articles cannot be abandoned. Now, it is seen that medicine can also endanger a country.

If we want to secure the country and the people, what we know and learn is more complicated than before.

And every time Kong Ming gets the upper hand, just like this miracle doctor. They all know the medical skills of Divine Doctor Zhang, but the person closest to Divine Doctor Zhang is still Kong Ming.

Pang Tong sighed, and now he felt that it was not impossible to imitate later generations and compile a book similar to the Yongle Dadian.

At least after reading it, even if you don’t have any mastery, you should be a hundred years old, right? Then governing the country and governing the country is already one step ahead.

[Five Stone Powder itself is actually quite magical.

For example, Ge Hong, who was famous in the Southern Dynasties, recorded the ingredients as cinnabar, realgar, alum, Zeng Qing, and Ci Shi.

Chao Yuanfang, a famous doctor in the Sui Dynasty, left records: stalactite, sulfur, white quartz, purple quartz, and red stone.

As for He Yan, who was the first to start the trend of smoking Wu Shi San, the specific formula of his smoking has been unknown.

In addition, He Yan is said to be the direct grandson of General He Jin. After the Gaoping Ling Incident, he was framed and killed by Sima Yi, Emperor Xuan of Jin Dynasty, and three tribes were annihilated.

From this perspective, the Gaopingling Incident can indeed be regarded as a link between the late Han Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty.

The great epidemic in the 22nd year of Jian'an completely changed Cao Pi's character, and the extravagant style that started there gradually became popular among the entire elite class.

He Yan went a step further on this basis. He competed and talked with Xia Houxuan and Wang Bi, created a trend of the time, and founded the metaphysics of Wei and Jin Dynasties.

Yuan Hong's Biography of Famous Scholars written by the Eastern Jin Dynasty calls these three people Zhengshi Famous Scholars, which shows their outstanding reputation at that time.

When this kind of top celebrity comes out to bring goods, the effect is almost the same as when Li Bai wrote poems for tea and wine in the Tang Dynasty. The effect can only be said to be very amazing.

Moreover, due to the constant epidemics and typhoid fever, which made people feel cold, there were not so many ways to keep warm and keep out the cold in ancient times, so the five-stone loose stool that stimulated body heat was also very popular.

The hallucinogenic feeling attached to this medicine will make people feel ecstatic, and people who have used it will praise it even more.

However, if taken for a long time, Wushi Powder can cause more serious harm than opium products. In addition to making people dependent, records of death and disability caused by Wushi Powder have never been cut off during the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

In the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao also spent efforts to study Wu Shi San and gave warnings:

Five stones are very poisonous. I would rather eat kudzu than eat five stones. If you encounter this, you must burn it immediately, so as not to cause harm to your life.

However, the disappearance of Wu Shi Powder simply depends on the suggestion of Sun Simiao, a KOL in the medical field, which is definitely not enough. There are many more complicated factors involved.

The biggest factor is that the climate has officially begun to heat up. The average temperature in the Tang Dynasty was about 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than ours now, and about two degrees higher than in the late Han Dynasty.

Climate has the most intuitive impact on people's livelihood, and the quality of people's livelihood also determines the fate of the feudal dynasty. Here is a more clear picture for comparison.

The temperature change index in the middle of this picture is the most intuitive.

The top contains three indices, namely the latitude changes in the agricultural-pastoral ecotone, changes in the rice price index in each era, and the number of wars.

This should not be difficult to understand in comparison, because the largest war in ancient times was the dispute between farmers and herders, and this kind of war was directly related to people's livelihood.

It is not difficult to see from this that with the end of the great cold in the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, the agricultural and pastoral transition zone began to move northward. After the Hu people were repelled, people's livelihood developed steadily. The cost of living of the people decreased year by year, and the suitable climate also reduced drought and flood disasters. ,

Moreover, when the cold receded, the typhoid epidemic lost the soil to take root. After all, the climate was already hot enough, and there was no need for Wu Shi Powder to stimulate body heat.

And as the temperature rose, ancient China also began to unify again, and Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty resumed advocating Confucianism to govern the country.

Although Confucianism in the Sui Dynasty was not as prosperous as in the Han Dynasty when one hundred schools of thought were deposed and only Confucianism was respected, it was still the mainstream.

Under the scrutiny of Confucian culture, the demeanor of the Wei and Jin Dynasty celebrities who often ran around naked seemed very inappropriate.

Moreover, after the Tang Dynasty, the cotton introduced to China began to shine. The cost of cotton cloth was lower and the effect of keeping out the cold was better.

Due to the superposition of various factors, large-scale typhoid epidemics such as those in the late Han Dynasty also lost most of the rooting soil, and the popularity of Wushi scattered among the people also ceased.

However, Wushi Powder did not completely disappear among the elite class. People in the Song Dynasty improved the formula of Wushi Powder to make it less toxic based on the research on lactoliths in the Tang Dynasty.

It's just that the Ming Dynasty took it a step further and added male silkworm moths, urine powder, virgin menstrual water, and red lead to the original one to create the famous aphrodisiac Red Pill specially provided by the royal family.

And coupled with the inexplicable lifespan of the Ming Emperor, the effect of this red pill...]