Time Against Heaven

Chapter 312 Shennong Tastes Herbs

The Shennong era was the era when the human race started farming.

Before becoming emperor, Shennong had already discovered five grains such as wheat, rice, millet, millet, and bean, and spread them to all ethnic groups.After becoming the emperor, Shennong continued to increase the promotion of the cultivation of five grains such as rice, millet, millet, wheat, and bean.

He invented farm tools and encouraged the human race to cut down more trees, cut off weeds, and reclaim the land to grow grains.

In order to plant five grains on a larger area, Shennong also studied water conservancy, dug ditches, and led water directly to the fields, which not only avoided the hard work of daily irrigation, but also greatly increased the yield of five grains.

As time goes by, some human tribes with fertile land around them will have more food than they can eat even if they don't go out hunting after they have the grains that they can cultivate themselves.

Without going out to hunt, the chance of encountering fierce beasts is naturally low, and unnecessary casualties are greatly reduced.

In a few yuanhui time, the total population of the human race has doubled several times under Shennong's governance. Because of this, Shennong's reputation has surpassed that of Fuxi back then.

On this day, Shennong discovered another problem.

Since the Ziyi clan invented animal skin clothing, the human race has been wrapping their bodies in animal skin. However, Shennong promoted the cultivation of five grains, and the human race went out to hunt less and obtained less animal skins. The population doubled on the contrary. It is no longer possible for everyone to wear animal skin clothes like before. It would be nice to have a small piece of animal skin to cover important parts. Most human races can only use leaves as a little cover.

Shennong was worried about this, and after discussing with his master Nanji Xianweng, he determined several roads, and Shennong inspected them one by one. Finally, he made linen out of hemp, woven linen out of hemp thread, and then cut the linen into clothing.

After the experiment was successful, Shennong extended the technology of weaving linen to all human races. From then on, human races began to have clothing other than animal skins, and no longer had to use leaves to cover them.

In addition to weaving linen, Shennong also used earthenware to burn all kinds of pottery, which is much more convenient to hold water and food than before.

Another few yuan will pass, and the human race will become stronger and stronger under Shennong's governance.

At this time, Shen Nong also felt that the human race still needed less and less places for him, and he no longer knew how to make the human race stronger.

"Is it time for me to find a sage to abdicate?" Shennong couldn't help thinking.

But he had a vague feeling that he still had a long way to go before he could achieve the same level of merit as Fuxi.

Shennong asked his master Nanji Xianweng.

The Antarctic fairy also hopes that Shennong will complete his merits as soon as possible, but he is just a strong man at the peak of Da Luo Jinxian. He cannot communicate with the long river of heaven and destiny like a saint to calculate, so how can he know how Shennong can achieve his merits and virtues.

"You are the emperor, you only need to read more, check more, and you will have your own insights when the time comes!" Nanji Xianweng is worthy of the same inaction temperament as the Taishang Laojun, and his words are full of inaction, let nature take its course.

Shennong didn't force himself to know it now, he watched and checked more, as the Antarctic fairy said, to understand what problems the human race still needs to solve.

One day, Shennong saw a woman crying bitterly. The woman held a boy who looked about ten years old in her arms. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the boy's face was ashen, and he was obviously dead. up.

Shennong hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with your child?"

The woman raised her head when she heard the sound, and when she saw that it was the Emperor, she was startled, and after wiping her tears, she got up and bowed down.

Shennong stopped the woman and said, "There is no need to be so polite. Tell me why your child is like this?"

Normally, the boy who died in the woman's arms was less than ten years old, and the human race's lifespan of a hundred years, if there is no exception, it should not have died at this age anyway.

The woman said sadly: "My son is not blessed. He accidentally contracted a cold disease the day before yesterday. He couldn't make it through today and died young."

At this time, the human race doesn't know medicine, and if they get sick or injured, they can only survive with their body and willpower.

Although the woman is sad, such things have happened too many times in the history of the tribe. In fact, all tribes including the woman have become numb. The child died young, and he could only lament the poor fortune and failed to survive the illness.

Suddenly, Shennong asked people to help the woman bury the dead child.

For the next few days, Shennong stayed behind closed doors, thinking deeply day and night, and finally he realized his final mission: "The survival of the human race requires not only food, but also the torment of diseases. Diseases can cause the human race to die at a young age. Almost all the people who died of old age in the human race did not die of old age, but eventually died of illness! No matter how old or young the human race is, they cannot escape the torment of disease. I am the Emperor of Humanity, and I will find good medicine for the human race!"

After realizing his final mission, Shennong's whole person changed, and his whole body was full of determination and fearlessness.

Shennong began to take his entourage to tour the prehistoric land, looking for good medicines that could cure diseases along the way.A group of people climbed every mountain, encountered water and crossed water, and they walked like this for ninety-nine and eighty-one years without fear of hardship.

Suddenly one day, Shennong saw a wild ox grazing, and suddenly he thought: A ox eats all kinds of grass, but has he ever heard that a ox suffers from illness like a human race?
All things in the world are interdependent, and there are countless species in the vast expanse, and there must be something that can heal the ailments of the human race.

Without the slightest hesitation, let alone the slightest fear, Shen Nong reached out and plucked a blade of grass beside him, put it into his mouth and chewed it carefully, feeling the bitterness in the blade of grass, and experiencing every subtle feeling.

After a while, Shennong smiled and said, "Sure enough, all things grow and restrain each other. Although the leaves of this grass are extremely bitter, it is impossible for human food, but I chewed it carefully, and I felt a little bit of refreshing in it."

Shen Nong chewed another grass blade of a different type, and found that this grass blade was just the opposite of the one just now, and after chewing carefully, it felt hot and dry.

"Each flower and plant has different characteristics. Humans suffer from diseases and have abnormal reactions such as chills and heat. If the symptoms can be neutralized with the characteristics contained in each different grass leaf, Can the pain be cured?"

Shennong's eyes are bright, he has found a correct path.

In the following period of time, Shennong and his entourage walked in the wild, resting at night along the way, chewing various flowers and plants that have never been encountered during the day, and experiencing each flower and plant whether it is cold, warm, flat, or hot. characteristics, and recorded them one by one.

Shennong encountered different kinds of flowers and plants in this way, of course, it is impossible to go smoothly. In fact, the vegetation in the world has different characteristics and effects. Those that are beneficial to the human body are harmful to the human body. The human body is 'poison'.

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(End of this chapter)