Chapter 35 Chapter Thirty-Fifth You Gaoli

Dr. Joseph Needham of the United Kingdom said in "History of Science and Technology in China": Chinese alchemists are "one of the most important roots of the whole chemistry" in the world. While affirming the contribution of China's alchemy industry to the chemical industry, Dr. Comrade did not mention its contribution to the health care industry.Well, because there is no contribution at all!Taking elixir as a health product seems to have no other purpose except to make people die early.However, people will not have this level of worry until the situation is determined.Don't clean, don't get sick after eating, clean out of sight, out of sight and out of mind, I love nature!

It is much easier to make alchemy and take medicine than to practice hard. Li Shimin chose this method.If you want to keep your body healthy without delaying your work, you can only make such a painful choice. In ancient times without organic and inorganic chemistry, the pills made by alchemists were too unreliable.The elixir, which is highly poisonous, is comparable to Sudan red in power.Now, let's learn the basics of elixir together. The main ingredients of the elixir are: Mercury (Hg), Carbon (C), Tin (Sn), Lead (Pb), Copper (Cu), Gold (Au), Silver (Ag). Mercury's common name is mercury, because it is very dense and liquid, so once it falls on the ground, it disappears (this is why there is the term "mercury pouring into the ground").If it reaches the intestines of a person, the mercury molecules will stay in the body and eventually gather in the brain, ranging from talking nonsense to severe brain damage (not kidding).Needless to say, lead poisoning, where companies that can tolerate lead removal have a foothold, their consciences are eaten by dogs. Once the lead content in the body of a pregnant woman exceeds the standard, the baby will be deformed, and the child will be directly aborted. Then I started to learn how to bark like dogs and cats.

Pills kill people! In ancient China, there were two types of elixir. Ordinary ones are for health preservation, but elixir is made of gold and stone.Sun Simiao has a lot of alchemy methods in "Prescriptions of Thousand Gold". The reason is that gold and silver are immortal for thousands of years, and if they are eaten into the human body, they can also make people have an indestructible body.Because Sun Simiao has a great reputation for curing diseases and saving lives, no one doubts what he wrote, and Li Shimin certainly does not doubt it. Regarding the reason why Li Shimin passed away hastily in his fifties, many people think that he took pills.

This is the consensus of everyone, but I think that it is not the pill that really killed him.Li Shimin looked a little confused in his later years, there is always a reason for everything, so why did he rush to take medicine?He didn't know that the brains of people who took pills were squeezed through the cracks in the door? In fact, Li Shimin took medicine to heal the wound he brought back from Korea. Let's start from the beginning. In the fifteenth year of Zhenguan (641), a man named Chen Dade came to Korea. Mr. Chen Dade loves to travel. He said that his dream is to travel all over the world, wander around the world, find a house facing the sea, and wait for the spring to bloom.When he came to Koryo, he wanted to look around the most, but the tour guide in Koryo was not happy to accompany such a person around.Chen Dade is a rich man. He took out a lot of banknotes (money), put them in front of the tour guide, and said: "I don't have any other hobbies. I like to visit mountains and rivers by nature. Goryeo is beautiful. I just want to see more! "The tour guide collected the money and initiated a kind heart.Many people led Chen Dade to run around, and patiently introduced the relevant customs and geographical environment.

Within two months, Chen Dade visited Korea all over. Chen Dade has another identity, he is a spy sent by Li Shimin. He wrote down Goryeo's dangerous passes and defensive deployments into detailed documents and submitted them to Li Shimin. Goryeo in the early Tang Dynasty, located in the eastern part of Liaoning and the Korean Peninsula today, was shaped like an upside-down chicken leg. Chen Dade found that before this, the efficiency of Koryo officials was extremely low. After Gaochang was destroyed, the entire administration began to improve significantly.This shows that Goryeo was afraid of being swallowed up by the Tang Dynasty, leaving only chicken feet, and was already preparing to fight against the Tang Dynasty.

Chen Dade did not disgrace his mission. He once visited the veterans of the Chinese Expeditionary Force who were forced to stay in Korea.These veterans were brought by Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty. After Yang Guang's defeat, they were trapped and unable to return to the Central Plains, so they had to settle here. These people speak local dialects and can speak Goryeo with a strong local accent. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, fourteen or fifteen-year-old children joined the army and came to the Korean battlefield. After fifteen years in Zhenguan, thirty years have passed, and they have grown from children to men who are nearly half a century old.

Others were forty or fifty years old when they joined the army, but now they are very old and octogenarian.They came to Chen Dade, who was said to be from his hometown in the Tang Dynasty, to ask about the situation in his hometown.Chen Dade knew that Gao Li would definitely not release these people, all he could do was to comfort them as much as possible. An old man took Chen Dade's hand and said, "My family lives in Taiyuan. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, I joined the army and fought in wars. I couldn't escape from Koryo. Koryo asked us to marry their homeless girls as wives. We live together with Korean people. This place Half are Korean, half are Central Plains.”

At the beginning, Chen Dade was only surrounded by a few people and did not attract people's attention. But a few days later, a shocking scene appeared. Everyone heard that there were people coming from their homeland, one spreads it to ten, ten spreads it to a hundred, the people of the whole city, as long as they are from the Sui Dynasty, flocked to it, they gathered all over the wilderness, they surrounded Chen Dade to ask questions. Someone asked: "The old woman who sells thread balls in Chenmiao, Xuyi is my mother. Is she okay? Before I left, she cried for several days." Someone asked: "How is Donglai now? How is my father now?" Already?" "My family is in Luoyang, do you still have the Tian family in Chaoyang Neighborhood to the east? How are they doing?" People ask the most about their family members.It is impossible for Chen Dade to know, and there is no way to know.He lied: "They are all very good, so you can rest assured." "The old man is taken care of, and the price of rice in the Central Plains is now a few cents."

After listening to Chen Dade's words, those homesick people suddenly burst into tears, and the neighbors' longing for decades broke out in an instant, and there was a lot of crying in the surrounding area. To be honest, the people behind couldn't hear or see what Chen Dade was doing. The people in front clapped their hands and cried with joy, and the people behind were also happy.The outskirts of the city are also full of people, holding the hands of their wives and children and weeping there.People comfort and encourage each other.My parents are still alive and miss each other. Although there is no news, mom, can you feel my happiness?

Only those who are far away from their homeland forever know what it means to be homesick. In appearance, Chen Dade is just a tourist in Central Plains.The Sui people of Goryeo told him that Goryeo was no longer the Goryeo of the past. After they were hit by Yang Guang, they were devastated.But now, they have been recharging their energy for thirty years and have recovered their original strength. After Chen Dade returned to the court, he told Li Shimin about the situation. Li Shimin said: "Koryo was originally just four counties in China. We sent tens of thousands of troops to attack them from the north. They will definitely resist with all their strength. At this time, we will start from Donglai Sea Road in Shandong and directly enter Pyongyang. Both land and water will advance together. It's not difficult to take them down." After a turning point, Li Shimin continued, "I won't do this now, the prefectures and counties in Shandong have just begun to recover, and I don't want to work too hard on the people."

Two years later, in the seventeenth year of Zhenguan (643), Datang still had no intention of attacking Goryeo. The Tang Dynasty recharged its energy and stored up its energy, and did not plan to make life difficult for Korea. In the previous sixteen years, the practice of Li Ji, the governor of Bingzhou (Taiyuan), was particularly prominent. Taiyuan is the key place guarded by the Tang Dynasty. After the destruction of the Eastern Turks, Turkic people, Xianbei people, Chile people, and Han people scattered here lived together. It is indeed a great achievement to be able to manage the millions of people. A rather difficult thing to do.But Li Ji did it, and the people of all ethnic groups in Bingzhou were very grateful. The officials who were evaluated came here, and they were very frightened by the scene of everyone scrambling to praise him. Bingzhou has never been so peaceful. Li Shimin praised him, "In order to resist the Turks, Emperor Sui Yang asked the people to build the Great Wall for him, but it was still useless. I only put a Li Ji in Jinyang to make the border peaceful. His Great Wall is more majestic than any other Great Wall!" There was Li Ji in the Tang Dynasty, so the Great Wall was not built. This year, Li Shimin was just about to go to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen. Zhenzhu Khan of the Xue Yantuo tribe learned of the situation, and he had evil thoughts. Zhenzhu Khan's reputation spread far and wide. When the Tang Dynasty wanted to destroy Gaochang, he once wrote a letter to Li Shimin, expressing his allegiance to the Tang Dynasty.After Li Shimin's analysis, he immediately issued a document persuading Gaochang to surrender, stating that he could accept Qu Wentai's surrender.The reason here is obvious, Xue Yantuo is not a reliable partner.Xue Yantuo intentionally paralyzed Datang, while he gathered his troops and prepared to take advantage of the situation. Before Feng Chan, when the heads of all nations gathered, it was their best time. Zhenzhu Khan was indeed fully prepared. In the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, he gathered millions of soldiers and horses, ready to go. His son, Dadushe, was an outstanding diplomat. He contacted the leaders of Tongluo, Bugu, Huihe, Mohe and other tribes, sent gold and horses, and was able to form alliances. He invited 200,000 troops from these tribes.Zhenzhu Khan was very satisfied with the situation of the army. He said to his subordinates: "Li Shimin is going to Fengshan, and the soldiers and horses have to follow him. The border of the Tang Dynasty is not prepared. At this time, I will take Ashina Simo (Li Simo) ) is easy, and then you can go straight to Chang'an and seize the Central Plains." Relying on the large number of people, the spirit of the leaders is also very good. Soon, the army sent troops to Monan, stationed in Baidaochuan, guarded Shanyangling, and prepared to swallow the Turkic tribes of Tang Dynasty. The Turkic Khan who was guarding the frontier was unable to resist Huanghuang's army, so he led his army back to the Great Wall, retreated into Shuozhou, and sent envoys for emergency.Feng Chan's team was already on the way, and for the ministers who begged Feng Chan countless times, Xue Yantuo's behavior would force Li Shimin to return, which made them very annoyed.When the report came, Li Shimin packed his luggage again and ordered the team to be withdrawn immediately, Feng Chan was suspended, and the team returned to the court. He deploys accordingly: Order Zhang Jian, the governor of Yingzhou, to lead the Tang army and the Xi and Khitan troops to suppress Xue Yantuo's vanguard; Li Ji, Minister of the Ministry of War, was the general manager of the Shuozhou Road, with 60,000 soldiers and 1,200 horses stationed in Yufang; Li Daliang, the general of the right guard, was ordered to be the general manager of the Lingzhou Road, with 40,000 soldiers and 5,000 horses, stationed in Lingwu; Ordered General Zhang Shigui, General of the Right Tunwei, with 17,000 soldiers, to be the general manager of the Qingzhou Road Marching Army, and stationed troops in Yunzhong; Li Xiyu, the governor of Liangzhou, was appointed as the head of the Liangzhou Road Marching Army, and was responsible for the sneak attack from the back. The generals were ordered to march out.Before leaving, Li Shimin called them together and warned them: "Xue Yantuo thinks his army is strong. They have traveled thousands of miles across the desert, and they are already exhausted. The way of using soldiers is to advance quickly when the advantage is seen, and retreat quickly when the disadvantage is unfavorable. Judging from the battle between Simo and Xue Yantuo, Xue Yantuo marched too slowly. Simo’s retreat was also too slow, and he didn’t do well in the two rounds. I had already asked Simo to burn down the grasslands in the west, and Xue Yantuo’s soldiers didn’t know that there was no grass in the grasslands, so they were already hungry. "The scouts I sent out reported that Xue Yantuo's soldiers and horses had already begun to gnaw bark and grass. "You should cooperate with Simo to form a corner against Xue Yantuo. You must wait patiently. When Xue Yantuo wants to retreat, and then launch a surprise attack, you will kill them all!" Xue Yantuo made a big mistake. The cars on Li Shimin's side have all reached the eastern part of Henan, and will soon reach the border of Shandong. They are about to reach Mount Tai, but they can only turn around and go back to Chang'an.However, it took more than two months for Feng Chan's 100,000 people to return to Chang'an.Someone must pay for these expenses, yes, let Xue Yantuo, who has nothing to do, be responsible. The vanguard of the Tang army quickly reached Xue Yantuo's camp and achieved the first great victory. On the seventeenth day of the twelfth lunar month in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan (641), Li Ji was the first to report the victory. He broke Xue Yantuo's troops in Nuozhenshui. The story happened like this... Zhenzhu Khan is quite sensible. Seeing that Li Shimin was willing to turn his head and return to Chang'an, he sent envoys to the court, which means that we think you are going to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen. It is wrong to take advantage of the emptiness of Chang'an to make a surprise attack. Thinking that Emperor Tian Khan turned around and came back, we were wrong, and it was not easy for everyone, so we just pretended that this had never happened. Zhenzhu's letter really disgusted everyone, and everyone said that Zhenzhu must be beaten. In order to express his true remorse, Zhenzhu Khan announced that he was preparing to make peace with the Turks he once wanted to swallow. Li Shimin will not talk nonsense with Zhenzhu, he will press the messenger and let the army continue to move. Xue Yantuo is good at cavalry, Zhenzhu Khan and Dadu She are both famous strategic inventors.Therefore, Xue Yantuo's combat effectiveness is not as bad as imagined. Xue Yantuo's infantry could be said to be one of the best on the planet at that time. When they fought against the Western Turks, they used their own infantry to kill Shaboluo and Ashinasheer to death.Since then, the prestige of Zhenzhu Khan has shocked the Turkic tribes, and Zhenzhu Khan also had an epiphany—— "It turns out that the best in our army is not the cavalry, but the infantry!" So he practiced foot combat every day, and practiced to a high degree of proficiency. His foot combat is arranged like this: Five people form a group, one person leads four or five horses, and the other four fight in front.Because of their well-trained, infantry can usually rely on strength to win. When the enemy is lost and is about to retreat, Xue Yantuo's infantry will retreat quickly.These infantry used the fastest speed to find their own group of horses, and rode to chase the scattered enemy soldiers. The enemy soldiers could only be hacked, and the combat effect was excellent. No, Zhenzhu Khan's son, Dadu, set up an order to use 30,000 such infantry to fight against the Turkic soldiers sent by the Tang Dynasty, and forced the Turkic soldiers to the Great Wall.Dadushe is a very narcissistic person. He thinks he is handsome. He stands outside the Great Wall and poses in various poses. After waiting for a long time, he suddenly finds that there are no Turkic soldiers around the Great Wall.Dadushe is also a person who has seen the scene. Seeing the Turkic soldiers hiding, he ran outside a big city outside the Great Wall.He was convinced that the Turkic soldiers were hiding here, so he began to provoke. The thick scolding sound resounded through the sky.