Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 742 Paracelsus
Liang En didn't think there was anything wrong with the old Wo Liangen who took over the group of independent dealers and antique smugglers, but it was a bit strange to find so much cash and precious metals from their warehouse at one time.

Although neither criminals nor Roma trust banks very much and often choose to carry cash with them, it is not normal to find so much in the store's warehouse.

However, after a simple analysis, Liang En and the others felt that it might be because this organization may only have such a public place that belongs to them, so only by putting these things here can each of them feel at ease.

After all, for a criminal organization, you expect them to be united and friendly, and it is basically impossible to trust others, so it is normal for them to be on guard internally.

This is why the other party chose to do so knowing that it is not very safe to put it in the underground market, because only when everyone can monitor it, they will be assured that no one will steal it for themselves.

But absolutely none of them could have imagined that someone could break through the indestructible defenses in their eyes and clear their property at once.

After a simple count, they determined that the sum of the money was only more than 50 U.S. dollars, which is quite a large amount for an illegal organization, but it is not a big sum for Liang En and the others now. .

Of course, Liang En decided to put the money in space as spare cash, and correspondingly, he would transfer 50 US dollars from the account to Cambodia and add it to the principal of the long-term interest loan.

Except for the money box, the contents of the remaining five boxes were the most interesting. As they had guessed before, the items contained in these boxes were cultural relics related to alchemy.

Three of the boxes contained glassware, apparently used for alchemical experiments, and the other two contained various books and notebooks.

"I guessed right before. The back of that badge is indeed an alchemist." Looking at the equipment in front of him, Liang En showed a smile on his face, "However, unlike what I imagined before, this should not be a grave dug out of it."

For a professional like Liang En, the sources of these items are generally clear enough. For example, these items should obviously be handed down from ancient times, and they are obviously different from those unearthed items.

And when they emptied all the five boxes, Liang En found a record book at the bottom of the box, which recorded the origin of these things.

This story is a bit long and has a certain degree of drama at the same time, if you briefly summarize it.That is when an addict trades his family treasures for something in order to satisfy his addiction.

"Sure enough, there are some things that should never be touched. If you touch them, your family will be ruined." Liang En sighed after simply reading the contents of the book, and then checked those books and notes that were a bit old.

Compared with those experimental equipment, these notes contained the most important information, and when he turned to the first page of the book, Liang En immediately realized that he had made a correct choice. ,

Because on the first page of the notebook is written a Latin word in blackened ink: Paracelsus and this word translates to Paracelsus.

Paracelsus was a Swiss physician, alchemist, and astrologer during the Medieval Renaissance.He was the son of a doctor named Wilhelm von Hohenheim in Zurich.

His original full name was Phillips Orioles d'Ophrast Bombasz von Hohenheim.But because he thought he was greater than the Roman doctor Celsus, he called himself Paracelsus.

Around 1514 AD he worked in the mines and metallurgical workshops of the southern German financier and alchemist Sigismund Fugger.He then studied medicine at the University of Basel in Switzerland, where he later taught for two years.

He broke with the tradition of scholars to teach in Latin and in a Germanic dialect, and was the first to do so at a university.

This is very important, because speaking the Latin classics in the native language of the Renaissance can be regarded as a symbol of progress. For example, the famous religious reformer Martin Luther retranslated the "Bible" in German.

At the University, Paracelsus invited the apothecary and barber-surgeon of Basel to attend his lectures, uniting the artisans of the medical profession with the scholars.

Also in the classroom, he advocates the use of native medicines, rather than medicinal animals or plants from the Mediterranean, derived from the ancient Roman tradition.

He also used the burning of the books of Galen and Avicenna, the generally recognized medical authorities, as a ceremony for his lectures to show his contempt for those old traditions.

Although it is said that in the legend, Paracels transformed into an alchemist in order to create a perfect life.He Mengkuluzi, an artificial human, was created and possessed the Philosopher's Stone, but it is actually just a legend.

Paracelsus was indeed an alchemist, but only considered alchemy as one of the pillars of medicine, since it was a technique for making medicines and explaining the functions of the body.

But he has no interest in the traditional project of alchemists, which is to make gold, and even expresses contempt for the practice of making gold on some occasions.

However, this does not mean that he is not important in alchemy. He has put forward a lot of innovative ideas, the most important of which is the addition of a third source between the two basic sources of alchemy, mercury and sulfur: salt.

This ternary combination solves the problem that the binary combination in the traditional alchemy of the Arabs is only applicable to metals and some minerals, and successfully expands the three elements into a basic component of a thing.

For example, the world is the trinity of earth, heaven and immaterial, while man is the trinity of body, soul and spirit.

However, judging from the records in Liang En's hands, Paracelsus is far from being a coherent author, because many notes seem to lack logic, and there are occasional inconsistencies.

This is also in line with another rumor, that is, a former colleague of his said that all his works were actually dictated while drunk.

In fact, few books were published during Paracelsus' lifetime until his followers collected his manuscripts after his death, and then organized and reworked his confusing and contradictory statements. of today's work.

It is precisely because of the help of these followers that the true historical Paracelsus is hidden in the fog, leaving only a legendary anti-authority idol.

And his attitude is very much in line with that of the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution at the time, which explains why the image of Paracelsus is more popular than his specific ideas.

After flipping through them briefly, Liang En discovered that these books should actually be the manuscripts of Paracelsus, and from these manuscripts he also realized the importance of his followers, because the loopholes in these manuscripts were too great. too much.

However, it was precisely because of these loopholes that Liang En was able to confirm that these things did come from Paracelsus, which belonged to the part that his followers wanted to hide.

(End of this chapter)