Chapter 144: Ingredients of the Juice



Zhao Jichang said in one breath that he didn't want the emperor to use this kind of thing on the soldiers in the army.

This is no different from poisoning.

Speaking of poisoning, the head of the Imperial Medical Bureau secretly came to see Zhao Ji last night.

He was not talking about anything else, but exactly the matter of the medicinal pills that the eunuch had sent over.

Previously, Zhao Ji had reached a deal with the chief eunuch, asking the eunuch to secretly scrape some powder from the pills that the emperor took every day and give the powder to the head of the Imperial Medical Bureau.

Let the head of the Imperial Medical Bureau carefully identify what is in it.

There was finally some news last night.

But last night Zhao Ji was with the emperor in the study to discuss the rebels.

So the head of the Imperial Medical Service came to nothing.

Zhao Ji and he made another appointment for tonight.

The moon was shining in the sky, and Zhao Ji finally waited for the head of the Imperial Medical Bureau to arrive.

"Please take a seat, sir. You don't have to be polite here. If you have anything to say, just speak directly to the point."

Zhao Ji noticed that the director of the Imperial Hospital looked very bad, but seemed hesitant.

That's why I mentioned it deliberately.

After Zhao Ji said this, the head of the Imperial Medical Service finally told the whole story.

"In the past two days, I have been following your orders to carefully analyze these drugs. I didn't know what they were like before, but once I analyzed them, I was really shocked!"

The head of the Imperial Hospital sighed.

"I didn't expect that this Master Zhang was so bold that he actually added some cinnabar and other things into these pills. These things may seem nourishing, but in fact, cinnabar cannot be excreted from the body. Over time, all of them remain in the emperor's body."

"Plus, there are some hallucinogenic drugs and some aphrodisiac drugs in here, just like a hodgepodge, mixed together, this is what makes the emperor show a false sense of health!"

At this point, the head of the Imperial Hospital pounded the table and said, "If the emperor continues to take the medicine prescribed by this old Taoist priest for another half a year, I'm afraid he will die!"

Zhao Ji had anticipated from the beginning that Zhang Zhenren would definitely not put anything good in the pills.

Now that he knows the truth, he is relatively calm. He is not as shocked and angry as the head of the Imperial Medical Service.

"I guess he used these dirty tricks in order to make the emperor trust him."

Zhao Ji sees things very clearly.

The head of the Imperial Medical Service had now calmed down a little. In fact, he was just angry that the entire Imperial Medical Service had put in so much effort to make the emperor's condition slightly better.

Now this evil Taoist priest who appeared out of nowhere has made the emperor's health worse again with just a few random pills, or even made it worse.

After his emotions calmed down, he started talking about the other medicine.

"The medicinal juice in the porcelain bottle that Master Zhangyin gave me the first time was brown in color. It did contain some nourishing medicines, but they were just ordinary ten-year-old ginseng, common angelica and the like."

"I did find a strange thing in here, which looks like the Five Stones Powder that is traded in the dark among the people!"

After hearing this, Zhao Ji's eyes widened. He didn't even bother to drink the tea in his hand and put it directly on the table.

"Are you sure it's the addictive Wushisan?"

The head of the Imperial Hospital nodded and said, "That's exactly it. If Master Zhangyin drinks this bottle of medicine, Master Changyin will undoubtedly become addicted to it, and even dependent on it!"

"Even if adults don't want to eat it, they won't be able to control themselves. It's like turning people into puppets."

To put it bluntly, Wu Shi San is made of poppy shells, and it is an addictive bad thing.

Basically, people who eat these things will gradually lose their willpower and eventually end up going crazy.

"It seems that Master Zhang gave me this bottle of medicine in order to control me!" Zhao Ji sneered.

Then the head of the Imperial Hospital continued, "The medicine you gave me the second time was dark brown in color. It is a little different from your medicine. First of all, the difference is in the materials."

"The herbs used in it are far inferior to the one in your hand, Master Zhangyin. However, the herbs that work in it are not ordinary herbs either. It is also Wushisan!"

Zhao Ji was also a little surprised when he heard this.

Then a light bulb went off in Zhao Ji's mind, and he figured out the specific reasons behind some things.

Zhao Ji seemed to have fallen into a misunderstanding all along. He always thought that Zhang Zhenren was introduced by the Governor of Nanjun, so Zhang Zhenren should be in a passive role of being forced to do something unpleasant.

But in fact! Master Zhang might be the mastermind behind the scenes!

It is not difficult to control the Governor of Nanjun using a small dose of Wu Shi San.

As long as the Governor of Nanjun drank the first bottle, it would be like stepping into hell.

Next, Master Zhang only needs to make a request when the Governor of Nanjun cannot drink the medicine every month. Under such extreme torture, the Governor of Nanjun will definitely agree 100%!

In this case, then this matter makes sense.

First of all, it must be that Master Zhang deliberately contacted the Governor of Nanjun, then used the medicine to control this person, and then asked the Governor of Nanjun to send Master Zhang to the emperor.

Through these pills, Zhang Zhenren made the emperor trust him very much.

The relationship between Master Zhang and the Governor of Nanjun is like that between a businessman and a buyer.

I'm afraid it was the Governor of Nanjun who asked Zhang Zhenren to buy the medicine that he couldn't quit, and Zhang Zhenren's bargaining chip for selling the medicine was the emperor.

Now the course of events has become gradually clear, and Zhao Ji is now also very clear that Master Zhang has bad intentions.

However, there is one thing Zhao Ji has not figured out yet. He doesn't understand why Master Zhang must enter the palace and must contact the emperor.

Now it seems that the Nanjun Governor is not behind Master Zhang, but there must be someone else behind it.

Otherwise, how could a mere ascetic have gone to such great lengths to sneak into the palace?

There must be some unknown secrets or some unknown plans.

What Zhao Ji has to do now is to figure out this plan and the real mastermind behind it.

Now that Zhao Ji is in the open and this person is in hiding, he may have to think of a way to lure him out.

"Thank you, Master. You don't have to worry about other things. I will find some ways to find out who is behind this. The emperor's health still needs you to take good care of him!"

"By the way, this pill is real. The emperor cannot take it anymore!"

Speaking of this, a new idea came to Zhao Ji's mind.

"Master, you might as well refine some pills during this period. They should be of similar color..."


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