NovelBonte Chapter 539 Not Poisoned Doesn't Mean Not Poisoned
Chapter 539 Not Poisoned Doesn't Mean Not Poisoned
Chapter 539 Not Poisoned Doesn't Mean Not Poisoned
Li Shimin brought a group of ministers to the Hidden Immortal Pavilion angrily.
"I have seen Your Majesty."
When Taoist Master Jiuru saw Li Shimin coming, he looked happy and led a group of Taoist priests to salute.
Li Shimin nodded expressionlessly, and said: "You Taoists have worked hard for me to make alchemy, and I am going to reward you with some elixir."
A trace of panic flashed in Jiu Ru's eyes, and he said, "Your Majesty, these pills are expensive to make, and it's too wasteful for us outsiders to eat them."
"Don't waste it, come here, each Taoist leader will reward ten pills."
A dozen or so eunuchs walked in with trays in their hands.
Li Shimin looked at the Taoist priests with different faces, and said flatly: "You Taoist priests have been working hard to refine alchemy, but I have never eaten it. I was negligent. Now everyone will try your 'carefully' refined alchemy."
Jiu Ru and the others looked at each other, of course they knew there was something wrong with the pill, otherwise they wouldn't have said that they could only take one pill a month.
"What? Don't dare to take it? Is there something wrong with this elixir?" Li Shimin asked.
"Your Majesty, the elixir is naturally fine, but we are a little flattered." Jiu Ru said.
"Since there is no problem, then the Taoist priest will invite you." Li Shimin said lightly.
Jiu Ru knew that if he continued to evade, it would definitely arouse Li Shimin's suspicion, so he gritted his teeth, picked up a pill and ate it.
Anyway, if you eat one, it won't be a big problem.
Otherwise, they wouldn't dare to feed it to Li Shimin.
"Continue." Li Shimin said coldly.
"Your Majesty, the pill is so powerful that a mortal can only take one pill a month."
Where would Jiu Ru dare to take it? Although there is no testing equipment at this time, the Taoist priests who have made alchemy before have tried the medicine themselves. Normally speaking, eating three or five pills at a time will cause great damage to the body.
If you eat ten or eight, it may even be life-threatening.
Li Shimin no longer had the patience to waste time with them, and shouted: "Come here, feed the priests some medicine."
"Yes!"
A group of wolves-like imperial guards rushed in, arrested all the Taoist priests, and then squeezed their mouths to feed them pills.
There were more than 200 pills in this batch, and they were all brutally fed into the stomachs of these Taoist priests by the imperial guards before long.
More than a dozen Taoist priests, on average, each of them was fed more than a dozen pills.
Li Shimin walked to the top and sat down, looking at the Taoist priests with a cold face.
After the imperial army fed the elixir, they let go of the Taoist priests.
Those Taoist priests collapsed to the ground, completely without their previous immortal demeanor.
"Yuck~"
They were not in the mood to pay attention to their own image right now, they quickly scratched their throats with their hands, trying to spit out the elixir.
However, Gu's face turned pale, and tears flowed down, but he didn't spit out anything.
After about a cup of tea time, one of the Taoist priests fell to the ground and pumped up. After a while, brown blood flowed from his mouth and eyes, and he lay motionless on the ground.
A forbidden soldier stepped forward, put his hand between his nose, then bowed and said, "Your Majesty, he is dead."
Hearing the report from the forbidden army, Li Shimin's face was as dark as ink, thinking that he had been eating for several years, he shuddered.
But this is only the first one, and several more died after that, and the rest are half dead.
Eating more than a dozen pills at one time does not mean 100% death, and the specifics depend on the individual's physical fitness.
However, this can fully prove that nothing happened to the elixir taken before because the amount was not enough.
"Your Majesty, these Taoist priests are so hateful that they dare to poison His Majesty. They should seal up those Taoist temples directly, and thoroughly investigate this matter to see if anyone is behind the scenes." Cheng Yaojin said angrily.
Li Shimin has also rewarded him a lot these years. Although he has no feeling for longevity, the emperor's rewards cannot be lost, and he has eaten a lot.
"Su Guogong is cautious." Fang Xuanling said.
The Li family seized the world and respected Li Er as the ancestor. Let's not say whether it is true or not, but everyone in the world knows it.
And Taoism respects Li Er as the ancestor of Taoism. If all the Taoist temples in the world are sealed, how will people in the world view the royal family?
What's more, this matter is obviously a scandal.
Emperors and princes and nobles pursued longevity and ate poisonous elixir, which made the world laugh out loud.
It's too late for the court to cover up, how could everyone know about the trouble.
Li Shimin naturally understood this too. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened them again, his face had calmed down.
"All those who are not dead will be sent to the Ministry of Punishment. All Taoist priests in Hidden Immortal Pavilion will have their homes confiscated, all their property will be confiscated, and all family members will be enslaved." Li Shimin said coldly.
"Yes!"
In the sound of Li Junxian's promise, Li Shimin left the Hidden Immortal Pavilion with all his ministers.
When he came to Ganlu Palace, Li Shimin ordered all the imperial doctors of the Imperial Hospital to be called over to examine him and all the ministers.
Unfortunately, the Tang people still don't know what heavy metal poisoning is, and there is only one final result.
Not poisoned.
Li Shimin and a group of ministers finally breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that they were not poisoned.
"It seems that as long as this elixir is not taken in large quantities, it will not cause any harm to the body." Changsun Wuji said.
Lin Xuan made a great contribution by pointing out that the elixir was poisonous, so Changsun Wuji naturally wouldn't make him so comfortable, and deliberately downplayed Lin Xuan's role.
"If it can't be found out, it doesn't mean there is no poisoning." Lin Xuan said lightly.
He just saw that those imperial doctors not only examined Li Shimin's body, but also checked the body of everyone present except him.
Needless to say, one of these people counts as one, and they have all taken pills. Judging from their nervous appearance, they should not take less.
All these ministers ate, but could Li Shimin's children not eat?
Just look at those sons and daughters of Li Shimin. Li Chengqian died at the age of 26, Li Tai died at the age of 34, Li Lizhi died at the age of 22, and Princess Jinyang only lived to be 12 years old.
It can be seen that those children of Li Shimin, the more favored they are, the faster they will die.
The children favored by Li Shimin lived a little longer than Li Zhi, who lived to be 56 years old.
Li Shimin and the others are adults with stronger resistance, but his children have been eating since childhood.
Lin Xuan had been a little strange before. Although the eldest grandson empress had hereditary asthma (the kind that is passed on from daughter to son), she also lived to be more than 30 years old. Why did her daughters die earlier than the other.
Now it seems that it is all caused by Li Shimin's love for them.
"What is the meaning of this, Marquis of Jingyang County? Could it be that your medical skills are better than these imperial doctors?" Changsun Wuji sneered.
"This question involves many things, and it is difficult to explain clearly. Simply put, the death caused by the pill is not because it contains poison." Lin Xuan said.
How he explained to these ancients what heavy metals are and why they can cause death is not clear at all.
"Marquis of Jingyang County, are you kidding? The elixir is poisonous, but everyone has seen it, and now you say that the elixir is not poisonous. Do you still want His Majesty to continue taking it?" Changsun Wuji said darkly.
"Zhao Guogong, I just said that the cause of death caused by the elixir is not the kind of poison you think. The elixir contains a lot of heavy metals. Humans are not iron eaters. If they eat too much, they will die naturally. And your majesty and everyone Although the adult eats a small amount, taking the elixir for a long time will accumulate a lot of heavy metals in the body, if it cannot be excreted, although it is not fatal, it will greatly affect the life span." Lin Xuan said.
(End of this chapter)