#239 - Ming 26: Red Lead Prescription
The History of China
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The Daoist Pursuit of Immortality
In 15 forty, jajing formally announced that he would devote himself to the daoist pursuit of immortality. A dawist adviser recommended intercourse with virgins, practice that was part of an ancient esoteric wisdom. But wherit took a turn for the worse. He would force those girls to subsist on a diet consisting solely of mulberry leaves and rain water in order to maintain their purity of essence. And we're not talking about 25 year old re taking about eight, ten, 12, 14 year olds. It's really, really odd and awful. They began to think that if only they could get rid of this insane blood and urine drinking monarch, that their own suffering
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