Qin Official

Dianrui, this is an ancient official position. This official has been set up since the Zhou Dynasty. He is responsible for the collection of jade and auspicious objects, identifying their names, their uses, and arranging their clothing.

In short, as long as it is related to the court and jade, Dianrui will be in charge.

In recent years, as the road for Kunlun jade in Khotan to be transported to the Central Plains has been completely opened, and beautiful jade has been continuously sent through the silk and sugar road, Dianrui's responsibilities have been significantly increased. All the jade made by the jade masters of Shaofu will be provided to The royal family, the country and Sweden must file the records one by one, and all the losses and benefits must be clearly understood.

In early November of the thirty-seventh year of Qin Shihuang, Dianrui received a special mission to appraise a lost jade.

The crystal clear jade was turned over and over in Dianrui's hands, and his concentration was no less than that of later antique experts. After comparing the color, size, shape, pattern, engraving, and even the marks left by the craftsmen of the piece of jade with the records in the book one by one, Dianrui came to an astonishing conclusion:

"Your Majesty, this jade is exactly the same piece of jade that was thrown into the river when the emperor was touring Huaibei in June of the 32nd year, fishing for a tripod in Pengcheng, and offering sacrifices to the water god. Everything is exactly the same!"

Qin Shihuang looked solemn. He asked Dian Rui to step back and summoned the envoy to send the jade back.

"Tell everything exactly and tell it again!"

The envoy was so frightened that he could only kneel before His Majesty and talk about his bizarre experience...

"One month ago, by your Majesty's order, I followed the imperial censor to Dongjun and reported to the governor of Dongjun. Since no one around Yunxing in Dongjun confessed, who had inscribed the words of treason and he was suspected of being an accomplice? Therefore, regardless of male, female, old or young, more than a thousand people living in three villages within a radius of ten miles were executed! Now that all the thousands of people have been executed, I will return to Xianyang and resume my life..."

That was a big event that happened last month. After the meteor shower, Dongjun reported that a meteorite had fallen on them.

It doesn't matter if the meteorite falls to the ground. What's important is that "The First Emperor died and the earth was divided" engraved on the meteorite!

This matter has been spread among the people. People from the six nationalities in Guandong all secretly said that this was a prophecy from heaven, which represented the will of God and foreshadowed the death of Qin Shi Huang, the Qin Dynasty will be divided into seven, and the six kingdoms will be restored.

When Qin Shihuang learned the news, he was very shocked, but he did not believe that it was a sign from heaven. He thought it was man-made and a curse.

"There are always unscrupulous people who want the emperor to die!"

There have been people who wished him dead for a long time.

At the earliest, he was a son of a nobleman from Handan. He was born as a grandson of the Qin State after the Changping War, but he was held hostage in Handan. He grew up in resentment and rejection, which shaped his later character.

After that, his younger brother Chang'an Jun Chengqi's mother clan and Lao Ai's disciples coveted the throne.

Even his own mother, Empress Dowager Zhao, never forgave Qin Shihuang for killing his two half-brothers until her death. She held him tightly with her hands, digging her nails into his flesh, and cursed viciously: "You goddammit! "

Qin Shihuang just looked at her silently and said nothing. He understood that cursing was the weak verbal resistance of a weak person. Let her go!

It’s up to others to laugh and scold, but the unification cause of Qin Wangzheng will never be delayed in the slightest!

The kings and scholar-bureaucrats of the six kingdoms were always looking forward to the sudden death of Qin Shihuang to relieve the pressure of the Qin army's eastward advance. They even sent Jing Ke and others to assassinate him with swords, but they still could not stop the wave of unification of the world.

The three armies cheered, their heads bowed, and even the gods on Mount Yi shouted long live!

Qin Shihuang was so immersed in the dream of immortality that it was not until recently that he discovered that everyone was looking forward to his death!

Courtiers, generals, officials, heads of Guizhou, and even his own sons...

A staunch person is like a high-spirited person, shouting: "The days are mourning, and I will perish with you!"

Smarter people are waiting for the day when the sun sets. "The moon is about to rise and the sun is about to set." Recently, some people in Xianyang have been secretly singing this song. Who is the moon they are looking forward to? Does Qin Shihuang know?

The curse of one person is not terrible, but what about the curse of thousands of people? No matter how tough a person's life is, how can he withstand the mouth of the whole world?

He immediately sent his censor to the place where the meteorite landed, and checked the person who made the carvings from house to house, but found nothing. The angry Qin Shihuang ordered that all the families near the meteorite be executed and the engraved meteorite be destroyed immediately!

People died and stones were burned, but the shadow in Qin Shihuang's heart did not go away with him, and he always felt uneasy.

Sure enough, it was only February, and when the messenger came back from Dongjun, something strange happened again!

The envoy said: "I was passing through Huayin Pingshu Road from Guandong at night. It was a heavy fog at that time. In the fog, suddenly someone stood in the middle of the road holding this jade. He stopped me and said, 'I will leave it to you, the Lord of Dianchi."

The so-called Lord of Bianchi is the local god in Bianchi next to Afang Palace in Weinan. His status is similar to that of the Jinghe Dragon King in later generations...

Qin Shihuang sent someone to take the jade brought back by the envoy to the imperial palace for inspection. The inspection result was that it was indeed the jade that Qin Shihuang personally threw into Surabaya in the 32nd year.

That time, Qin Shihuang failed to get water from the cauldron. It was a pity that the gods did not give him any reply.

But now, how come the jade used to worship the Water God five years ago was sent back in a confused manner by an unknown person?

Is the god's reply too late, or is there something fishy?

The messenger continued: "The man also said, and said..."

"What else can you say?" Qin Shihuang asked.

The messenger lay on the ground and said in a low voice: "That man also said, 'Ancestral Dragon will die this year'!"

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"Ancestral dragon will die this year?"

As the messenger said these words, the entire palace fell silent.

Zulong, what does the key word in this sentence mean? The few learned officials who were listening did not dare to speak, but everyone knew that this was probably referring to Qin Shi Huangdi!

The Qin Dynasty did not respect dragons, and it did not stipulate that dragons were reserved exclusively for the royal family and the emperor. Tonghou and Lunhou also carried the dragon flag.

But following the period of posthumous titles, sacrifices to the Five Emperors, and auspicious movements in the early days of unification. The first emperor of Qin regarded the black dragon as the auspicious sign of Qin's water virtues, and people gradually began to regard the dragon, which could be used by princes and princes, as the symbol of the Qin Dynasty.

The most typical example is that a certain general in the Southern Expedition was trying his best to change the image of the Qin Dynasty to the dragon. He made a dragon totem in Lingnan and added messy settings to it, such as goat's beard and frog-like sounds. He wants to make Yue people become "descendants of the dragon".

In recent years, in Guandong, due to the ban on speech control, people are not allowed to say the three words "Qin Shihuang" casually, so scholars often use "Zulong" as a proxy for the first emperor.

The terrible silence lasted for a long time, and the messenger had no choice but to finish the story: "I was puzzled and asked why, but the man had disappeared in the fog, leaving only the jade he had given me. I saw that this jade looked like a royal thing. , so the horse will not stop and come to report."

After a long silence, Qin Shihuang finally spoke.

"Even if that person is really a mountain ghost, he doesn't know anything about a year old."

"Just like summer insects cannot speak of ice, who is this little mountain god? He dares to predict my life and death? Destroy the jade and dare to reveal this matter, clan!"

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Qin Shihuang's anger was stagnant in his heart.

If meteors can be construed as auspiciousness, for example, during the reign of Duke Wen of Qin, meteors fell from the sky with the crow of roosters. They were collected as national treasures of Qin and the Chen Bao Temple was established.

However, the inscription on the meteorite "The First Emperor died and the earth was divided" and the current predictions are all symbols of disaster. When these things spread, I am afraid it will cause turmoil.

The emperor's power was there, and since Qin Shihuang didn't like these "prophecies", there were people in the government and the public to deny them.

For example, they openly defined the word "ancestral dragon": "The ancestor of the dragon is the ancestor of mankind." He denied that this was a surrogate name for the emperor.

After several major purges, the few remaining doctors hurriedly offered sacrifices to Qin Shi Huang.

Immortal immortals' poems believe that making people sing praises to the strings can drive away "mountain ghosts" with bad intentions.

What is good above is bound to be bad below. Qin Shihuang was superstitious, so everyone used superstitious methods to get rid of superstition.

The wizard who was good at divination calculated that the hexagram was auspicious for traveling, and thought that Qin Shihuang should leave Xianyang and travel to other places to avoid the curse and at the same time carry out another great migration...

Therefore, Qin Shihuang decided to move 30,000 households from Guandong to Hexi. At the same time, 8,000 criminal women were moved to Lingnan to marry the single soldiers who were left behind. The Southern Expeditionary Army would not be transferred back for the time being, and would still be guarded by Heifu.

As for the cruise direction? There was a dispute among the three fortune tellers in Xianyang City who were the best at reading Qi. They believed that the Emperor's Qi was in the northeast, southeast, and due south. They argued endlessly. They all believed that Qin Shihuang needed to go there and use the emperor's power to suppress it.

"Then let's go southeast."

Qin Shihuang thought about it and found that he had already visited the northeast and south, but he had not yet traveled to Kuaiji in the southeast, so he could go to worship Yu's remains.

The ministers retreated calmly, and Qin Shihuang fell into deep thought.

In fact, everyone does not know that although Qin Shihuang himself forbids others to talk about death, and even tabooed it to the point that he did not even establish a prince, he no longer valued death as much as he did a few years ago.

"The sun rises and sets again, but has anyone ever thought that the sun that will rise tomorrow will still be the same one as yesterday?"

After thinking about this, death is not scary, at least it is not as scary as in the past.

The terrible thing is to die too early, the terrible thing is to die too soon!

This is absolutely unacceptable to Qin Shihuang!

Qin Shihuang's body, he knew, was hard to recover from years of hard work in government affairs. Recently, hematemesis had become more and more serious. Whether he could survive this year was really a question.

Therefore, those dangerous speeches must be controlled, and slanderous prophecies must be cut off from the source!

Think about it carefully, what started all this?

"Yinghuo guards the heart, the stars fall, and Shen Bi returns to his ancestral dragon and dies..."

It's Yinghuoxing!

We must find out who is the incarnation of the Yinghuo star that represents disasters, wars, and even brings disaster to the Qin Dynasty!

It was not until mid-November, when the new parade was being prepared, that the guard at Hangu Pass reported that a fugitive who had been wanted for several years took the initiative to surrender at the pass.

"This person said that he knows who Yinghuo Xing is, and that he has been praying for several years for the Heavenly Will Book to be presented to His Majesty!"

who is he?

Qin Shihuang frowned when he saw the name of the fugitive.

"Warlock Fang...Lu Ao?"

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In the thirty-second year, Qin Shihuang visited the east. Before his assassination, Lu Ao left Xingjia with An Qisheng on the pretext of looking for books similar to "River Map" for the emperor.

Later, Warlock Fang's scam was exposed, and he was even implicated in assassinations and rebellions in various fields. Qin Shihuang was angry and trapped more than a hundred people, and Warlock Fang in Xianyang disappeared.

Lu Ao was also arrested by the government, but his whereabouts were mysterious. It was said that he had appeared in Yandi and fled to Donghu. Why did he suddenly run to Hangu Pass and be captured without any help?

Although the other side's sorcerers no longer trusted him, after careful consideration, Qin Shihuang asked people to secretly escort Lu Ao to Xianyang, and sent him to the palace in shackles to receive him in person.

"The guilty minister pays homage to Your Majesty."

After not seeing him for several years, Lu Ao's appearance changed drastically. He no longer looked like a fairy, but instead looked thin and gaunt, with a head full of white hair, as if he had aged dozens of years.

Qin Shihuang just asked him coldly: "Tell me, do you know who Yinghuoxing is?"

"I know."

Lu Ao paid his respects again: "I was deceived by Han Zhong and slandered by Xu Fu. However, I have no intention of rebellion. In order to clear my grievances, I went overseas for His Majesty to find fairy islands. I also followed the guidance of gods and traveled far to Hu Tian. At the end of the North Sea, on the blue ice and snow, I saw black ants automatically gathering under the guidance of ghosts and gods to form characters..."

It’s a word, it’s a prophecy. Qin Shihuang’s face is not sullen, and he is about to wave his sleeves and ask someone to take this officer away, but Lu Ao grabs the ground with his head and shouts: "Your Majesty, this prophecy in the heavenly book is related to the survival of the Qin Dynasty!"

Qin Shihuang stopped and turned around: "What did the so-called Heavenly Book say?"

Lu Ao raised his head, his forehead was broken and bleeding. He looked at Qin Shihuang and said word by word:

"Those who destroy Qin are evil!"

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ps: Attending the annual meeting, there is only one chapter today