Chapter 1489 The Fountain of Youth
Just when the people who were promoted to family were at a loss what to do, Lu Zhi gave the answer.
Before she gave the answer, she went to a secret room, and no one knew what she did in it.
Everyone could only see her holding the fur ball and turning into a porcupine...
It was all pricked with needles and was dying.
"Tell them that on the other side of the sea and the mountain, there is the fountain of immortality and the elixir of life and death."
She then said to Maoqiu: "You have to make them believe it."
As she spoke, she inserted a needle into the other person.
"Why did you change the needle?" Maoqiu didn't answer, but asked an irrelevant question.
"It's a bit tiring to insert the knife. People are lazy, and I am no exception." Lu Zhi said matter-of-factly.
Furball was silent.
Subsequently, the government and the public became excited.
“I heard that there is a spring of immortality in the west!”
“It’s fake. The pre-Qin Dynasty once organized sea voyages to search for the elixir of immortality. It was useless to exhaust the people’s resources. The elixir of immortality was not found. , but became one of the causes of Qin's demise."
"That's not necessarily true. This is what came from the palace. It is said that the Queen Mother has given 300,000 taels of powder money to build ships and send land routes at the same time. The caravan has two sides and is now raising equity capital, saying that investors will have the opportunity to get the Fountain of Youth.”
"A noble person like the Queen Mother believes it, why don't you believe it?"
There was a lot of discussion among the scholars.
Those who had money and nowhere to spend it began to feel anxious.
But most people still feel that it is too ethereal and nihilistic.
Only a handful of old wealthy men tentatively invest in one share, which is better than nothing and just treat it as a thought.
If you lose money, you should be filial to the Queen Mother.
“It’s a joke, Zi Bu Yu has strange powers and confuses the gods. This kind of nonsense has deceived many emperors and wise monarchs. I didn’t expect that someone as shrewd and able to see through people’s hearts as the Queen Mother would also be fooled.” The Chief Assistant of the Cabinet He shook his head to his three sons at home.
"What my father said is that the only thing people fear in life is death. The Queen Mother is so majestic that she naturally wants to live forever, which is understandable." The eldest son agreed.
"Where did this news come from? Since the news came out, it means it was groundless. There must be a reason." The second son was smarter and thought of another place.
"It must be those profit-making Westerners who found some random pills and used them as elixirs to deceive the Queen Mother. I have seen this kind of thing many times before. They used some white elephants as auspicious signs. These seem to be Honest Westerners know a lot of tricks," the third son said disdainfully.
"What the third child said makes sense. Forget it. If the Queen Mother is addicted to the theory of immortality, it is a good thing. It saves the trouble for the court. Come on, boss, if you take a thousand taels of silver, we will treat it as our filial piety to the Queen Mother." Said.
The money is not much, but the attitude is.
Whoever objects to this kind of thing just doesn’t want the Queen Mother to live forever.
So in history, those who advised the emperor not to make elixirs would not get good results.
You don’t let me make elixirs, and you don’t give me other ways to live forever. Do you want to see me die?
Then before I die, I will kill you first.
This is what the emperor had in mind.
So throughout history, there are few people who can persuade kings not to pursue immortality...
So what if he is as wise as Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty?
It is said that he is the most wise master, broad-minded, and good at accepting advice. Isn’t he addicted to alchemy? Finally died of the elixir of life.
ridiculous.
As the first assistant, who came from second place in the rankings, he has a very clear understanding of those history.
So he won’t give advice at all.
Whoever advises you to die.
It turns out that there really is an iron-headed baby.
A Zuo Yushi, who was born in the same class as a Jinshi, said: "My minister Zuo Gang risked his life to advise: Since ancient times, there has been no one who has obtained the elixir of immortality and lived forever, let alone anyone who has obtained the elixir of immortality and has been in the world for a long time..."
After reading the memorial on this man, the chief assistant felt that he was dead.
Others also persuaded the upright censor to withdraw.
They are not kind-hearted, but they think that such an iron-headed baby should be reserved for critical moments. After all, the Queen Mother's eyes are too poisonous.
However, what was unexpected was that the Queen Mother did not kill him, but instead issued an edict:
"It didn't work in ancient times, but it may not work today. In ancient times, there were no big ships from overseas, but today there are. In ancient times, there was no such a large territory, but today there is."
"If you say no, then you go to sea , prove it to the Ai family.”
“If you prove it, the Ai family will believe you.”
Well, the Queen Mother’s tricks are hard to understand.
The Queen Mother seems certain that there are overseas ones.
Otherwise, how could he say such a thing.
With the honor of the Queen Mother, why is there any need to chat with a sixth-grade censor?
Just order them to be punished as "disrespectful".
The shrewd courtiers began to think that things were a bit interesting.
Some people started to feel excited. Of course, there are still very few people taking action.
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The first fleet finally went to sea.
Time suddenly accelerated to three years later.
The fleet went out with thirty ships, but when it came back there were only six ships. They were still devastated and dilapidated.
It makes people feel intimidated and makes them uncomfortable talking about it.
This is the reason why the big landowners are reluctant to go to sea.
No one wants to go to the sea to make a living unless they are forced to a dead end.
"This is wrong. I remember that the previous dynasty also had large fleets sailing to the Western Ocean. It seems that the casualties were not so heavy?" The chief assistant thought there was a clue to this.
It must have been drifted away. As soon as we set out, several boats were secretly taken away to other places.
The reason why it cannot be transported by sea is that it is too easy to manipulate things on the sea, and no one is watching.
“Because we are going to the ocean, and the previous dynasty only sailed offshore. When we came to the farthest place of the previous dynasty, the locals told us that the spring of immortality is in the deep sea, and we should look for it there.” said the captain.
"Then have you found it?" the chief assistant asked quickly.
"This matter cannot be discussed. I can only tell the Queen Mother." The captain said mysteriously.
That night, a group of assassins broke into the middle of the moored fleet.
However, as soon as he entered, he was surrounded by many guards pouring out of the cabin. The front row was wearing leather armor and holding spears, and the back row was shirtless and holding heavy crossbows.
"The Queen Mother has long expected that someone wants to pick peaches, kill them for me!" A handsome guard commander wearing a red official robe pointed at the assassin with a knife.
Arrows rained down like rain, and assassins took to the streets one after another.
However, there was still an assassin who was shrewd enough to sneak onto the ship from another place while the group was being strangled. In a certain bottom cabin, he was lucky enough to get a bamboo tube of spring water, and then from under the sea Hold your breath and run away.
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In a secret room in a manor somewhere.
A group of old and elderly people were looking at the blue spring water, looking at each other under the bright butter candles.
"Who dares to drink?"
"Find a servant to try?"
"No, the portion is too small. One sip will save one person. Try it. If it works in the end, it won’t make you a pariah. Who wants to be the one who can’t drink? ”
"Forget it, let me do it. Doctor Zhao said that I can live for three months. I will die early and be reborn early." A decadent fat man who was too old to move said with difficulty.
Everyone thought for a moment, poured out a mouthful, and handed it to the other person's white beard.
The old man drank it with difficulty, then his eyes turned white, he fell down and died on the spot.
“It’s really fake!”
“This water is so poisonous!”
"Hedinghong is not that powerful!"
Everyone was terrified.
Fortunately they were not deceived by the elixir of life, otherwise, wouldn’t their deaths have been in vain?
"What should we do with this water? Drop it?"
Immediately someone wanted to drop the bamboo tube, but someone stopped him.
"Keep it, this kind of highly toxic, instant-acting medicine is also a rare treasure." Someone said with burning eyes.
Three days later, a strange news came that a baby son was born to a wealthy family nearby.
When he was overjoyed, the little baby suddenly spoke and said that he was Wang Chui, a third-rank official in the imperial court who had already retired.
And he also clearly stated where his home is, who his wife is, who his son is, and how much fertile land his family has...
The wealthy family thought they encountered a monster and asked a Taoist priest to suppress it.
After hearing this, the group of senior staff looked at each other in shock.
They sent dead soldiers again to steal the baby. After a conversation, they were ecstatic!
"So that's what happened! After eating it, you can be reincarnated without drinking Meng Po soup!"
"Sure enough, gods really exist, they are just saints I just don’t want to say it, for fear that everyone will only seek the next life and forget about this life.”
“Great, let me take a second sip!”
Many senior staff members took turns drinking the blue water without hesitation... and they all fell dead with smiles on their faces before they died.
The death of members of the public became a major unsolved case in the local area, which paralyzed many police officers... Until many years later, no one could solve it. Finally, it was solved by a young man named Gongsun. More to come.
After that, many prodigies appeared in nearby places.
They can write eight-legged essay at the age of three, take the examination for scholar at the age of six, and take the examination for the civil servant at the age of ten.
The examiner failed in the exam because the examiner felt that he was so young and would wait and give the opportunity to the elderly first.
(End of this chapter)