Chapter 667
The anti-revisionist wave caused by the earthquake was cleverly resolved by Yunyao, and at the same time, it promoted a wave of Zhunn's research craze. Especially among the women in Chang'an, because there was a precedent for Princess Pingyang before, the club that studied Zhunn named herself the Detachment of Women to pay tribute to Princess Pingyang.
After Huang Bixia found out, she covered her mouth and laughed secretly, because Isn’t Zhu Nu the princess? She lives here smoothly, and there is no need to find it from ancient books. But she wouldn’t tell others that this is her own little secret.
The ministers now know the power of the princess. It is really hateful that His Highness, the princess, does not fight head-on with them and directly instigates the family. What's even more hateful is that many ministers give in to maintain family harmony. Only two ministers would rather divorce their wives than give in. But they could not change the overall situation, but these two were completely standing opposite the princess.
Yunyao didn't do anything to them, because even if they were killed, others would come forward. There would always be people who would use her as a stepping stone to gain excellence, which is inevitable. Anyway, for them, no matter success or failure, they would not lose. If they succeed, just like now, the two ministers became the leaders of the anti-princess camp. If they fail, they can also leave their reputation in history and earn a fortune at that time.
So the easiest way is to ignore them, if they want to object, they will oppose it. When they make mistakes, they will catch them all in one go.
What made Yunyao even more worried was that Li Shimin has become superstitious about alchemists now. It seems that he has felt the power of time. At his age, he must have had various physical problems and must have felt his irresistible aging day by day. He even asked Yunyao if there was any elixir that could prolong his life. It seems that he is still very confident in his daughter's alchemy technique.
Of course, Yun Yao has it, but the book of Life and Death says that Li Shimin can be the emperor for 33 years. If he does things randomly, he will modify Li Shimin's life span. As expected, people cannot escape the pain of birth, old age, sickness and death, so there are so many people who would rather give up everything and practice immortality, because the feeling of aging day by day is really terrifying.
Yes, but I can't give it to you. Yunyao has invented many elixirs so far, but there are no elixirs to delay aging. So Li Shimin also found the old genius doctor Sun Simiao because he was a long-lived doctor and asked about the mystery of long-lived life.
Sun Simiao said that when you live a long life, you must learn to be calm and then learn to breathe and qigong. There is no difficulty, and you can easily live through one hundred and fourteen.
Li Shimin couldn't learn it. He managed national affairs and was intriguing with others every day. He would not be able to be calm. He learned Qigong, but it didn't work. So in the end, the science represented by Yun Yao and Sun Simiao could not help him, so he could only find help from metaphysics, that is, to find alchemists.
Alchemists have been there since the Spring and Autumn Period, and their job is to refine immortal elixirs. In the Tang Dynasty, due to the popularity of Taoism, countless nobles refine elixirs, and many people died of elixirs. The young Li Shimin also disdained the alchemist, but in the face of irresistible years, he also started to develop metaphysics.
After these alchemists received the support of the emperor, they began to engage in superstitious activities, saying that their pills could cure all diseases, but unfortunately their pills were expensive and had no effect. Sun Simiao broke his normal mind. He found Yun Yao and complained: "These alchemists are all liars. Their pills are poisonous. People who will die after taking them. If they were ordinary pills, it would be fine, but how could poisonous pills be sold? Your Highness, you must persuade Your Majesty. Birth, old age, sickness and death are the norm, and you must not pursue immortality."
Yunyao smiled bitterly. Older emperors would hope that they could continue to control everything, but the facts could not be controlled, so the monarch would indirectly manage the government affairs through his jesters at the end. In fact, it was very simple, because the officials would disobey when they saw that the monarch was old, and the monarch would have to support new forces to fight against the officials.
Li Shimin may not know that alchemists are liars, but the older they are, the more they rely on these alchemists. In fact, the same principle is to replace alchemists with slandered ministers, eunuchs, and actors, because the emperor needs them to control the ministers.
Li Shimin is old and naturally has to face this problem, so he may not really want to refine the elixir of immortality, but it is very likely to be to build a new force as a trade-off. Therefore, Yun Yao may not be able to persuade him, after all, Li Shimin must have his own considerations.
"Since my father has found a alchemist, it must be because it is useful to him. If the alchemist is lying to others, he must also know that since he has agreed, it will be useless for anyone to persuade him."
Sun Simiao was anxious and said quickly: "But you will eat someone who will die."
"There is no need to worry about this. If you buy such expensive medicine, it may not be a disguised bribe." Yunyao said that ordinary people can't afford it, and those who can afford it may not be stupid enough to take medicine. So she said optimistically: "I think after so many years of hard work, from the nobles of the palace to the people, everyone should understand that it is the doctor who should be sick. So I think they buy elixirs not necessarily for the sake of taking it, but it may be an attitude."
"How complicated is it?" Sun Simiao didn't expect that there would be complex court disputes behind a simple alchemist trick. He thought it wouldn't be so complicated, maybe it was just a simple superstition, so he said: "A drug called Wushi Powder was popular before, but it didn't work, but there were many people taking it, so I think it might not be so complicated, just because someone wants to take pills, they believe in this thing. And once this trend is formed, others will imitate it, and more alchemists will join. At that time, not only the rich will buy medicine, but even the common people will have channels. At that time, there will always be stupid people." Sun Simiao is protecting fools, with a good hand and a kind heart.
Yun Yao did not consider that once the trend was formed, the fools who imitated Xi Shi would definitely appear. Perhaps high-end alchemists and buyers were bribed in the court, but when they came to the people, they would simply cheat, and the fools who were deceived would definitely take medicine, and there would definitely be unlucky unlucky ones who died.
Even if it is a fool, Sun Simiao wanted to save their lives. Yun Yao felt ashamed of herself. She always considered development, but she never cared about the vulnerable group like a fool.
Education is still not enough, there are too few scammers and too many fools.
So is it killing the source? Li Shimin probably won’t be happy, after all, alchemists are useful to him. The nobles have become popular with alchemy, and Li Shimin joins the alchemy industry, which is also a contractual method. They can reach a simple alliance through alchemy.
Therefore, alchemists are really useful. On the one hand, they can control all officials and on the other hand, they reach alliances with the nobles. When their bodies are weak, they can maintain the emperor's rule.
"The old miracle doctor thought carefully." Although Yun Yao was devoted to development and promoted education little by little, he forgot that development was a great cause for hundreds of years, not overnight, but it took time. But now there are fools waiting for rescue and cannot sit idly by. If the trend of alchemists rises, it will be the same as the era when the five stones were scattered in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, so alchemists should still be in charge.
Chapter completed!