Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

Several people were chatting while eating peaches.

After spending some time in the pavilion, they went to find Wen Beijiao together.

This is also one of the big things they came for today.

They have lived in Xishan Villa for quite a long time.

You can't always live in the villa.

Although they were in the court, at this time, everyone still thought that they lived in the imperial city and occasionally went to the villa for entertainment.

But after a long time, it can no longer be hidden.

to the place.

Wen Beijiao was already waiting at the door. He handed each person a mask and a pair of gloves to wear. He covered all the exposed skin tightly before leading them into the yard, explaining to them as they walked that covering up was just to be prepared.

“It’s hard to describe the people here.”

Wen Beijiao led his men into the house and ordered them to lift the curtain. Zhu Di was the first to see the person who was imprisoned in the first barricaded cell facing him.

He was emaciated, with sunken eye sockets and high cheekbones, but his face was surprisingly rosy.

Zhu Di looked at the five cells in the house one by one.

Each room had people who were slightly better off than the one before it.

The person in the fifth room looks normal.

Along the other wall of the room were a dozen cages.

There are two to three to seven to eight monkeys in each cage.

The worst condition looked like a skinny toddler, lying on the ground dying.

The cage in the farthest corner clearly contained baby monkeys, with babies lying all over the floor.

After reading it, Zhu Di found it unbearable even though he had killed countless people on the battlefield.

He pulled Xu and walked straight out.

Wen Beijiao was smart enough not to say anything at this time.

Then he went out of the yard.

The group of people changed their clothes again in the place arranged by King Zhou before sitting down again to talk.

"It's poisonous, right?"

Zhu Di's face was extremely ugly. He never expected that he would spend ten years and so much money to build a huge poison palace for himself, or in other words, a royal cemetery.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Wen Beijiao stood up and bowed in response.

"What's up with that guy who looks fine?"

Zhu Di still held out a glimmer of hope.

"Your Majesty, please allow me to explain in detail."

Wen Beijiao bowed again and asked for instructions.

"Sit down and talk. No need to be formal. The more detailed the better."

Zhu Di waved his hand.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Wen Beijiao did not refuse. At the young eunuch's signal, he sat down and began to describe the entire experimental process.

After he came back with this matter.

The first thing was to discuss this matter with the alchemists in the Zhou Palace. After all, many of the alchemists were highly skilled in medicine. They might not be unaware of the disadvantages of cinnabar.

After a detailed discussion, Wen Beijiao obtained a lot of first-hand information.

There are many people who have killed themselves while refining elixirs.

It's because of the pills he took that he died.

He just made elixirs for rich people to prolong their lifespan, but he himself died young, or was bedridden early and died.

The alchemists have always felt that this is the price they must pay for peeking into the secrets of heaven and interfering with the lives and deaths of others.

Like longevity, like health.

The alchemists had never thought that cinnabar was poisonous, and they could not agree with Wen Beijiao's statement at all.

So everyone started to get busy.

First, a large yard was built in this garden.

Inside are dozens of rooms of the same size that can be completely closed.

The floor is paved with tiles from the palace, and the walls are painted red.

But the proportion of cinnabar contained in them varies.

Some death row prisoners were placed in these houses when they arrived.

Some other death row prisoners were placed in the alchemy room where cinnabar was always burned.

Apart from this, the prisoners’ three meals a day and other supplies are all normal, and they are allowed to go out for exercise at regular times and locations.

For the prisoners living in the house, Wen Beijiao tried his best to imitate the daily routine of Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi.

Those in the alchemy room were divided into ten groups, staying in the alchemy room for between two hours a day and ten hours a day.

quickly.

The death row prisoners in the alchemy room began to show symptoms.

Those who stay less often have swollen and painful gums, erosion, bleeding, and drooling. Burning pain in the mouth and throat, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.

The longer you stay, the more severe the above symptoms become. They are also accompanied by body aches, chills, fever, breathing difficulties, yellowing of the skin and eyeballs, and even convulsions, coma, and mental disorders.

This batch of death row inmates won’t have long to endure.

The deaths were all horrific.

Those who live in the house.

The people in the room with the highest concentration of cinnabar used in the interior decoration.

Four months later, he developed headaches, dizziness, forgetfulness, frequent dreams, insomnia, drowsiness, palpitations and sweating.

Emotions also vary: some are withdrawn, some are irritable, and most people are easily excited and angry.

At six months, both men and women experience tremors in their fingers, tongue tips, and eyelids, become unable to take care of themselves, have loose or falling teeth, and some even have blue-black lines on their gums.

Men are unable to have sex and women's menstrual cycle is disordered.

The above are only adult men and women.

There were no children among the death row inmates, so Wen Beijiao conducted the same experiment on a group of monkeys.

There are adult male monkeys, female monkeys, and baby monkeys of different sizes.

The results of this experiment are much more terrifying than those of adults.

A male monkey, about the size of a five or six-year-old child, died faster than a human after staying in the alchemy room.

Among the monkeys staying in the house, most of the female monkeys had miscarriages, and some even gave birth to stillborn babies that looked strange and unrecognizable.

Wen Beijiao kept the monkey's body.

The most experienced coroner in the capital was invited to perform the autopsy.

The coroner concluded that the monkey was poisoned before he even started operating.

After the autopsy, the kidneys were the most severely damaged organs in the monkey's stomach, followed by the heart and lungs.

"The man the emperor mentioned before who looked fine is the luckiest one among all of them. The cinnabar used on the walls, beams, and floor tiles of his room is exactly the same as that in the palace. But he only looks fine. I and a few old doctors feel his pulse and diagnose him every day. He has kidney disorders and damage to his heart and lungs, but it's not obvious."

Wen Beijiao gave the final summary.

"Is this the reason why the imperial families have always failed to enfeoff their descendants since ancient times?"

Xu thought of it immediately.

Cinnabar is a precious substance that has always been used by emperors of all dynasties as paint on palace walls and beams because of its bright color.

"Yes, Madam. Most founding emperors can give birth to a large number of offspring. However, if the successor emperor is born in the imperial city and lives in the imperial city for a long time since childhood, it is very likely that there will be few offspring in the third generation, and it is even more likely that there will be no offspring in the later generations."

Wen Beijiao bowed and gave it directly.

“It has the greatest impact on children, young children?”

Zhu Di also asked.

"Yes, Your Majesty."