Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

"Dad, what is a backward era?"

Zhao Dezhao's question left Zhao Kuangyin speechless.

The Zhao Song emperor had been looking at the light curtain for so long that he naturally understood the word "era".

In other words, every time he saw Zhuge Wuhou talking about the pacification of Cao and the revival of Han, and saw Emperor Taizong of Tang boasting about maritime affairs, and then recalled the relevant records in the Three Kingdoms and Tang Shu that he had read, this feeling was particularly strong.

As for the meaning of the word "backward", there was no need to explain it, so Zhao Kuangyin became more and more silent.

Even though he had seen all kinds of "wonders" in later generations with his own eyes, he was fortunate to have the opportunity to look up at the universe with the younger generation, and he understood the huge gap of a thousand years.

But understanding does not mean being able to accept it, especially when he understood some of the ills of the era he was in.

"Liu Qing, what is the number of bones in one person?"

Zhao Kuangyin suddenly asked.

So Liu Han's expression immediately became tangled.

For him, it was good to be a transparent person here in the past two times, to open his eyes and think about medical skills, and to boast that Jian was in the emperor's heart.

Although what he got today was somewhat like a long drought before a rain, Liu Han also felt that the emperor would definitely ask him more questions, and sure enough...

If the emperor asked this question in the past, he might have answered "365".

But now that the barrier has been clearly broken by later generations, Liu Han naturally knows how to answer, or to tell the truth:

"Your Majesty, I study pharmacology, so I don't know the number of bones, but I have heard from my family that it is about more than 200."

"More than 200."

Zhao Kuangyin pondered for a moment and suddenly sighed:

"More than 200, the difference from 365 is almost a hundred."

As for other fallacies listed by later generations, Liu Han knows them without asking.

After all, when he was a military general before, the easiest thing to see was indeed all kinds of corpses.

After stripping off the clothes and removing the flesh and blood, how can there be any difference between black and white bones? How can there be any difference in the number of ribs? Basically, we can only guess whether it is a boy or a girl based on the size of the skeleton.

I heard that some old revolutionaries can determine whether it is a boy or a girl based on the slight difference in the waist bones. Maybe it is the difference in the pelvis in later generations?

"Liu Qing." Zhao Kuangyin's eyes suddenly became distant and asked a question:

"If I order you to preside over the compilation and rectification of the errors in the medical books of the previous dynasty, and give you the imperial guards to assist in dissecting the bodies of criminals, to show their meridians on paper, and to count their bones as the outline of medicine..."

Before Zhao Kuangyin finished speaking, Liu Han had already stepped out:

"Your Majesty, I will not refuse to die!"

"I don't want you to die. If you don't want to, you don't have to leave your name. You just need to verify the number and edit and preserve the things that are circulated throughout the world. I will do it."

Zhao Kuangyin couldn't hear what Liu Han said again.

He just looked at the light curtain on the top of the hall, and suddenly recalled the matter of Zhou Shizong's destruction of Buddhism, and he had a sense of enlightenment.

Song Ci hid the real number and recorded the fake number, fearing the power of the emperor and the law of the ancestors.

What if the power of the emperor collides with the law of the ancestors? Who will win? Zhao Kuangyin suddenly wanted to try.

Perhaps the Northern Song Dynasty Reform recorded in later generations can give him an answer. After all, Wang Anshi shouted "The changes in the sky are not to be feared, and the ancestors are not to be followed."

This is a minister of his younger brother's descendants, but when he thought of his younger brother's biological son, the Song Zhenzong who was enthroned, Zhao Kuangyin wanted to shake his head. At this moment, he remembered the words in the Book of Songs that almost everyone knows.

"Although the Zhou state is old, its destiny is to be renewed."

...

"Sun Yaowang..."

Li Shimin spoke subconsciously, but was met with Sun Simiao's contemptuous gaze:

"Has your majesty not read the book I presented the other day?"

The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty was a bachelor, so he nodded:

"I will read it later today..."

Sun Simiao nodded, and he was not too surprised about this. After all, the book he presented was indeed a bit thick, so he simply explained:

"The book is thick because most of it is the pictures drawn by Minister Yan."

"The texture of human skin, the location of internal organs, the shape of the skeleton, the location of each bone, etc. are all marked, and naturally include the total number of bones."

"Your majesty, don't worry, it's not 365."

Hearing what Sun Simiao said, Li Shimin was also relieved a little, but thinking about the content of what he said...

How about finding a time to eat and watch it with Guanyin Bi?

[In addition, there are some ridiculous and almost superstitious records in Xiyuan Jilu, such as "tigers bite people's heads at the beginning of the month, bodies at the middle of the month, and feet at the end of the month, and cats bite mice in the same way", "male servants of drowned people lie down and female servants lie on their backs".

However, on the whole, Xiyuan Jilu is undoubtedly a summary of the wisdom of the working people at that time.

Moreover, because Song Ci broke through the traditional criminal law books' tradition of "just telling stories and understanding the truth by yourself", he sorted out a set of effective forensic examination methods, becoming the first specialized work with a guide nature in the forensic medicine profession in human history.

Therefore, from the beginning of its publication, Xiyuan Jilu has become a must-read standard for scholars to hear lawsuits and decide cases.

With Song Ci's model, imitations soon appeared on the market at that time. At that time, the more famous ones were two books with similar names, namely "Pingyuan Lu" and "Wuyuan Lu".

Later, when the Ming Dynasty was compiling the Yongle Encyclopedia, it was specifically commented on, saying that the "Pingyuanlu" was still okay, but the "Wuyuanlu" written in the Yuan Dynasty was a complete patchwork. The case conclusion theory cited was basically excerpted from "Xiyuanlu" and "Pingyuanlu". There were only two new discoveries in the whole book, one was the difference between hanging and strangulation, and the other was the famous silver hairpin poison test commonly used in modern costume dramas.

But modern people who have studied chemistry know that the silver hairpin poison test has considerable limitations. Its essence is that the ancient purification methods are not good. Arsenic extracted from arsenic sulfide minerals inevitably contains a large amount of sulfur elements. After contacting silver, it will undergo a sulfide reaction and turn black.

In addition, human sweat contains various ions, among which chloride ions and sodium ions are good conductors of electricity. When silver comes into contact with sweat and air at the same time, it will form a temporary primary battery, which accelerates the oxidation reaction and also produces black silver rust.

Moreover, most people's proteins also contain sulfur. Some sulfur ions will be excreted from the body with sweat. When they come into contact with silver, they will also undergo a sulfidation reaction to produce black silver sulfide, which is basically the same as the poison test.

These junior high school chemistry contents are not very relevant to what we are talking about today, so I will not repeat them.

In short, although there were many works that followed the trend at that time, because the quality was basically difficult to compare with Song Ci's works, later generations simply took the essence from the follow-up works and added them to Xiyuan Jilu. After generations of revisions, Xiyuan Jilu has become more and more perfect.

As the Ming Dynasty restored China, the prosperous culture began to accelerate cultural exchanges with neighboring countries, and the name of this criminal justice official in the Southern Song Dynasty finally began to go global. 】