Emperor Kangxi sent me to marry

"Han Wu made a copper immortal dew tray and drank it with jade scraps, but he died before he was seventy; Sima Pi broke the grain and drank pills, but he failed to become an immortal and poisoned himself to death. At the age of 25, he met the King of Hell. If you don't know these far-reaching stories, Yes, just talking about the red pills and spiritual dew drinks of the previous dynasty, they sent away the two emperors. The fourth brother can also use his sister to give away all the kings in the history books who were obsessed with seeking immortality and ruined their country, one by one. Can you list them?”

Even Haifeng knows this. How could Sibeile, who had studied royal education in the study room since childhood, not know this?
However, people always approach things they want to believe in. Sibeile had a preconceived idea and believed that making elixirs would lead to immortality. No matter how ironic the evidence was, he would not accept it.

"Fourth sister can't do it just by talking about it, so why don't you just talk about it? Zhang Boduan, a real person in the Song Dynasty, lived to be 99 years old. He wrote "The Enlightenment Chapter". My sister read it."

"'When I swallow a pill of spiritual elixir, I realize that my fate is not determined by fate.' Fourth brother, don't open your mouth. How do you know that I haven't read it?"

Chen Shuyi taught her to read. She never stuck to the Four Books, Five Classics and Confucian teachings, but she should read them all by analogy.Although Zhang Boduan's article talks about how to make elixirs [-]% of the time, if taken out of context, there are one or two philosophical sentences in it. Haifeng read it casually once during his enlightenment, put it away in his bookcase, and never took it out again. .

Haifeng guessed that it was probably this sentence, 'I realized that my fate was not determined by fate', which vaguely touched Yongzheng's mind!

After all, to seize the throne from among so many princes, given Si Baile's current conditions, it really requires a 'miracle'.

"You have to believe this yourself. Fourth sister has nothing to do with it. But you still encourage Khan Amar to secretly visit Taoist priests and burn elixirs, which is to shake the foundation of the country! If there is even the slightest mistake in Khan Amar's dragon body, what are you going to do? Compensation? Can you afford it?"

Throwing out the most severe threat, Haifeng thought that Sibeile would be a little shaken, but to his surprise, he was unusually calm.

"Okay, the fourth sister is well-read, and my brother is offended. But whether the elixir is beneficial or not, as a son of a man and a minister, how can I not test the elixir for Khan Ama? The most important thing is to harm me first."

"so"

"That's right. I have taken the elixir several times. Now I am light and healthy, which is much better than drinking the concoction from the Taiyuan Hospital. The fourth sister insists on staying in Huangluzhuang, so the younger brother has no choice but to report to Khan Ama truthfully!"

I'll play as soon as I play, am I still afraid of you?

Haifeng simply asked someone to bring two sets of the Four Treasures of the Study. She and Sibeile each sat down to write secret notes to Kangxi.

Duobu sat in the ground-sized guest room, leaning against the charcoal fire to keep warm.I could clearly hear the quarrel between my wife and brother-in-law next door.When Axiang came over with some warm medicinal wine and side dishes, Duobu couldn't help it and gossiped with her in a low voice.

"Your master, when you meet anyone, you always have a calm attitude, even if the mountain collapses before you, but your expression remains unchanged. Only in front of Sibeile. I don't know what the evil is, but I get angry easily. Isn't there a sentence in "Journey to the West", 'One thing brings down another'? I think that's what it means."

Axiang actually had the same idea, but she didn't dare to say it. She pursed her lips and smiled for a while before replying seriously.

"Let me think of something, I am afraid that my master will suffer a loss. What if the emperor is partial to Si Baile?"

"Don't worry. Khan Ama can't even tell the difference between right and wrong. The one who made alchemy for him and sought enlightenment is his son. Qibele, who supervised the construction of Guihua City in the ice and snow, isn't he his son? Of course I have two opinions in my heart. Sixty-nine and so on, a bowl of water must be leveled on the bright side. When it gets bright, I will call Balezhong and ask Qibele to come over."

Unexpectedly, I haven't written the book yet. After only three or four points of wine, Qibele, accompanied by three or four people, arrived before dawn.

"Brother-in-law, fourth sister and fourth brother, where are you going?"

"You ask me, who I'm asking. Come, sit down and drink something to ward off the cold. Why did you come so fast?"

"A letter from Masika. I see that he is rigid on the surface, but he understands very well in his heart."

Qi Beile took off her leather boots and got on the fire bed to have a drink with Duo Bu.

At the end of last year, Kejing Bank followed suit in the Guihua City project and also installed glass windows.Indoors, the charcoal fire burned more and more prosperously, and the warm air turned into drops of crystal tears when it met the cold window sash.The dying moonlight and the pale east, through the mist, mixed into a full piece of cotton wool, wrapping the entire courtyard.

Although it can hardly be called a beautiful scenery, it is not an exaggeration to say it is a wonder.

Qibele stared at the scenery for a while and muttered silently. "Actually, why should fourth brother seek immortality? You can't see everything in the human world even if you spend your whole life."

Dobu came back from the dead. As a person who has experienced this, he paused for a long time before answering Qibele's question.

"Birth, old age, illness, death, separation from love, meeting of resentment and hatred, not being able to ask for anything, and the five yin being destroyed. The world has these eight sufferings, and it is impossible to escape. There must be something, there must be something to think about. But the Taoist priest's method of refining elixirs, I But I don’t believe it. Pills can kill people. Even though I don’t know any medical skills, I know it. It’s clearly written in history books, but how many people have died from it? How come my fourth brother just believes in this?”

"Is that why the fourth sister and brother-in-law came here in a hurry? Didn't you say they would arrive in the morning the day after tomorrow?"

"That was the original estimate. Do you remember the last time you wrote a letter about doing that, that, what, railway tracks?"

"Didn't you say it was called Railway?"

"I still can't figure out whether it's a railroad track, a railway track, a railroad, or a track. Your fourth sister always talks about it mixedly. Anyway, it's just that, a thing made of wood and iron bars. It's done."

Qi Beile originally put her chopsticks towards the spiced beef, but immediately put them down.

"So fast? Don't tell me, after digging the ditch, you can start tinkering with this again?"

"There is a newly hired blacksmith in the Princess Mansion who is very clever. He said that to start a furnace to smelt iron, you must light a fire. It is too painful to do this work in the summer, but it is just the right time in the winter. When your fourth sister heard this, she really made sense and started working in the winter. , a charcoal fire can not only smelt iron, but also keep people warm, why not do it? So I allocated the money. In one winter, I made almost thirty miles of track. I tried it, and it turned out to be good. It can transport goods, Transporting water is quick and saves the animal’s leg strength.”

After Qi Beile listened carefully, he couldn't help but get excited and asked questions eagerly.

"That's good, we are also lacking in clever ways to transport goods here. Most of the materials for building the city were transported from Daqingshan and carried by animals. The cost is too high, and the construction period is tight. If it were here We can also build that, iron, railway tracks, and the palace will definitely be built before Khan Amma’s northern tour in July!”

Dobu smiled slightly, held the wine cup in his hand, and made two gestures to the next door.

"So, Huang Luzhuang must not be brought back to the capital by Si Beile. This matter is entirely dependent on him!"

Personal notes:

1. Yongzheng was obsessed with immortality, alchemy, etc., which began when he was a prince, and he even wrote a poem praising it.He mentioned to his officials many times in secrets that he often took elixirs and found them to be beneficial and harmless. He also gave them to his subordinates as rewards, but he would not give them to his close associates.

During his reign, he wrote secret messages to his cronies such as Li Wei and Yue Zhongqi many times, asking them to find capable Taoist priests and send them to the capital to meet him.

Other alchemy activities include, but are not limited to, opening a furnace in Xiuqing Village near the Old Summer Palace, spending at least hundreds of thousands of kilograms of coal on alchemy; naming Zhang Boduan, the founder of the Jindan Sect, as the real person of Ziyang, and asking his subordinates to go to Tiantai Mountain to establish his dojo. Carve a model and try to recreate it in the capital, and so on.

The official website of the Palace Museum clearly states on the introduction page of Yongzheng that Yongzheng died of "superstitious Taoist priests and overdose of pill pills", which should be considered a final conclusion.

2. A quote from Taishan comes from Su Xun's article "The Art of Mind".

3. The Eight Sufferings are mentioned in many Buddhist scriptures, and it is currently unclear which one came from the earliest.

4. Zhang Boduan's "Enlightenment of Truth" is not too long. I personally feel that 99% of it is a guide to alchemy, but a few sentences can be read individually.Especially the sentence quoted in the article.

5. The emperors listed in the article who died after taking elixirs are only a small number. In fact, the Tang Dynasty was the hardest hit area.The person who died after eating red pills was Ming Guangzong Zhu Changluo, who only served as emperor for a month; Linglu drink was said to be just sweet rice soup, but after the carpenter emperor Zhu Youxiao drank it, his whole body swelled and died (it is said that Wei Zhongxian was poisoned) .

(To be continued, I can’t write anymore)