Chapter 4 2. The First Emperor died and died

In 210 BC, Qin Shihuang, the first emperor through the ages, died of illness in Julu Sand Dunes while on a tour. In the last years of the first emperor, a meteorite fell in Dongjun. Someone carved the stone and said: "The first emperor dies and the land is divided." One year before his death, someone pretended to be a ghost, saying: "This year the ancestor dragon will die." The law of nature, the first emperor was silent for a long time, and then slowly said: "Mountain ghosts can only know about one year old." In fact, he himself was also very frightened. Of course death is inevitable, and asking for immortality and medicine is just to give himself a psychological boost. Find a balance—otherwise what kind of Lishan Mausoleum will be built!

But can my sons bear the heavy burden of the Great Qin Empire?After all, this is the largest empire known in history since ancient times!The old emperor had no idea, so he never determined his heir.But it is this hesitation that creates an opportunity for the conspirators.Zhao Gao, a close minister of the first emperor's side, coerced Prime Minister Li Si to conspire with him, forged the imperial edict of Qin Shihuang, bestowed the death of the eldest son Fusu and the general Meng Tian, ​​and made the youngest son Hu Hai the second emperor. After Qin II ascended the throne, in order to ensure his unstable position, he massacred his brothers and clan, shaking the ruling foundation of the Qin Dynasty from within.

In terms of national policy, the muddle-headed Emperor II did not notice the coming storm, and still maintained the established national policy of Nai Weng. At the same time, he maintained a huge military force in the north and south of the empire. Transshipment of grain and grass materials outside, the dead looked at each other.The three major projects of Efang Palace, Lishan Mausoleum, and the Great Wall exhausted people's resources. All of this, in the words of the people at the time, was called "the world has suffered for a long time".The Qin Empire has long been overwhelmed, and what is lacking is the last straw that crushes the hunchback.

Long before the death of Qin Shihuang, there were already some big figures in the future who gathered as thieves. Peng Yue, one of the Three Heroes of the Kai Han Dynasty, used to fish for a living, but at this time he was falling into the wild grass. There is also Mr. Yingbo, who was a commoner in Qin Shi. It is said that someone once gave him an interview, saying that he would become king in the future, but only after he was sentenced.So he occasionally violated the Qin law, and when he was tortured, he was quite happy, saying: "People say that I can be a king after being punished, so it's almost the same now?" The people around them almost died laughing when they heard his boastful words.

Because he was tortured by tattooing, he was also called "Tattooing Cloth".He was sent to Lishan Mountain for hard labor as a punishment, and he made friends with heroes among the coolies. Later, he took a chance to lead a group of people to escape and ran to the river to become a bandit. There is also a great man who was born in the fifty-first year of King Qin Zhao. When his mother was pregnant with him, the sky was very bad, with thunder and lightning, and according to historians, his father witnessed a dragon. Looking at this shocking, weeping ghosts and gods posture, you can know that this old man is by no means an idler.

But since I was a child, I can't see what is special about him. He is the third child, neither the eldest son nor the youngest son. He also likes to spend money recklessly and make some dubious friends.His father dislikes him very much, and often uses his second brother who is good at making money as an example to enlighten him, but to no avail. When Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, he was already in his early thirties. Considering his age, he should have participated in this vigorous unification war—but I haven’t heard of him having any outstanding performances, or he himself was shy and didn’t think much about it at all. Therefore, the history of his activities in the first half of his life is simply blank. We can only guess a few things through his social relations.

When he was young, he was active in Wei State, often traveling to Daliang, Waihuang and other places.Because of his friendship with Zhang Er, a disciple of Lord Xinling Wei Wuji, he also has a good impression of Mr. Wei, and he often worships Mr. Wei every time he crosses the beam. He worships heroes and is pretentious, but he has bad luck, and most of his life is just wasting time in vain.In this way, he lived until his forties. In his middle age, he honestly became the head of the Surabaya Pavilion in the Qin Dynasty. He was also distributed by the state with a three-foot sword handle-in terms of the nature of his work, he is a bit like the head of the current police station.He took advantage of his position to "good wine and sex". Fortunately, at that time, he didn't pay much attention to investigating the life style of grassroots cadres, so he happily embraced Liu Fei, a big fat boy who had an illegitimate child with Cao Ji, and lived a good life Good.He has been drinking and playing white papers in the hotel for a long time. The history books can verify that there are two families, Wu Ling and Wang Yu.

A friend of the local county magistrate, Mr. Lu, came to seek refuge with his buddies to avoid revenge, so he settled in the county.Xiao He, an accountant of the county government, was borrowed to help, and was in charge of collecting money.Mr. Xiao He greeted everyone politely: "Friends whose gift money is less than 1,000 yuan, please take the initiative to sit down in the hall!" Our Mr. Surabaya Ting Chang talked nonsense and said arrogantly: "I will give you 10,000!" In fact, he didn't give any money.Mr. Lu heard that there are such straightforward people in this world, so he came out to greet him in person. Xiao He pushed him away and whispered in his ear: "I know this guy very well, he likes to talk big, he definitely didn't bring any money today, he came here for free..." Lu Mr. shook his head, I can tell fortunes, this man looks very good, he will be a very hero in the future.Xiao He smiled bitterly, anyway, I have never seen a hero who became a department-level cadre in his forties.

So Mr. Ting Zhang swaggered to the top seat, without any embarrassment. After drinking, Mr. Lu kept the pavilion chief for a chat, saying that your husband's appearance, I have traveled all over the world to read a lot of people, and I have never seen someone richer than you, so I hope to cherish myself.In addition, I have an unfeeling request—are you willing to be my son-in-law? When Mrs. Lu heard that the husband wanted to marry his daughter, Miss Lu Zhi, to such a half-old man, she was furious. The half-drunk Mr. Lu said angrily: "What do women know!" The daughter married Mr. Ting Chang.

As for the legendary story of Mr. Lu choosing his son-in-law by face-to-face method, I still think it's a myth.Because, later on, he married his youngest daughter, Lu Xu, to a strong man who killed a dog in the county—could it also be based on acquaintance?Although the strong man won the title later, whoever marries Lu Zhi's sister can lose the title of Marquis? Compared with the dog killer, the head of the pavilion with a national official position and a stable income is of course a better candidate for son-in-law.Daobi Xiaocao, Siyu Tengying, Dog Butcher Fan Kuai, and Zhou Bo mourning were all things in the pool at that time. It wasn't that the fire broke out and the Qin Dynasty lost its deer. How could their names be left in history!

The so-called heroes of the ages and famous generals are nothing more than "to make General Li meet Emperor Gao, what is the meaning of ten thousand marquises" that's all. The head of the pavilion, surnamed Liu, was the third eldest, and was also called "Liu Ji". Later, when he became prosperous, he changed his name to "Bang".After Miss Lu married him, she gave birth to a son and a daughter. Although the illegitimate son Liu Fei was old, he was not a direct descendant after all, so he had no right to inherit—after Liu San passed away, this became a big problem. Almost emptied Liu San's family that he had earned through bloodshed and tears. Because Liu San served as the head of the pavilion, he often escorted prisoners to Xianyang for hard labor.Once when the First Emperor was on a tour, Liu San was watching the excitement by the side of the road, and he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief: "Oh, that's what a man should do!" These two people, who are three or four years apart, are actually the same age.Of the two of them, one ended an old era that lasted eight hundred years, and the other created a new era that lasted two thousand years.Standing two thousand years later, we can say with certainty that they were all the most outstanding figures of their time.But at this time, their status is still very different. Liu San, who can't guess the future, naturally sighs that his body has come back to life, and nothing has been accomplished. In the thirty-seventh year of Qin Shihuang, that is, in 210 BC, Liu San escorted a group of prisoners to Lishan for hard labor.Along the way, the prisoners kept fleeing before they reached Zezhong Pavilion in Fengxi. Liu San settled the score, and all the prisoners would have run away before Lishan Mountain was reached.There was nothing he could do, and he was tired of this kind of life. He stopped to drink for a while, and then he untied all the ropes that bound the prisoners, and said to the astonished prisoners: "Brothers, you all go, I want to escape too." !” Touched by his act of righteousness, more than a dozen people voluntarily followed him. Liu San was drunk and followed everyone on the mountain road in a daze. The people who were going ahead ran back and told him that there was a big snake entrenched on the road and they could not pass.He bolstered his courage with wine and shouted angrily: "A strong man is on the road, what are you afraid of!" Holding the three-foot sword issued by the Qin Dynasty, he rushed forward and cut the snake in two.After walking a few more miles, I couldn't hold on anymore, and fell asleep by the side of the road. Some laggards passed by the place where the snake was cut, and saw an old woman crying there, saying that her son was the son of the White Emperor, who turned into a snake and was killed by the Red Emperor's son. Later generations took cutting the white snake as an auspicious sign for the creation of a new era. After waking up, Liu San thought that he would never go home, so he led these dozen or so people to hide in Mangdang Mountain as robbers. In the city of Xianyang, those who were hopeful said that there was kingly spirit in the southeast, so Qin Shihuang traveled eastward to overcome it.After driving through Kuaiji in the south of the Yangtze River, many people came to watch the emperor's guard of honor. After watching the emperor's ostentation, one of the young people disapproved: "He can be replaced!" His uncle was startled, and hurriedly covered his mouth and warned Said: "Don't talk nonsense, beware of exterminating the family!" The uncle said it anyway, but he felt in his heart that this child would have a future. This parade was the swan song of Qin Shihuang in history. He died of illness on the way and never returned to his magnificent capital Xianyang.