Chapter 307: Burning Jun Mountain
At the end of March, Qin Shi Huang cruised to Nanjun along the Wuguan Road, although the road was tiring, but the weather was still good, occasionally light rain, but the spring along the way was pleasant, except for the attack on the car in Wancheng, the road was calm, it seemed to be different from what Chen Xu began to say.
In the early summer of April, the procession arrives at Jiangling, the seat of the Nanjun Prefecture, and then takes a boat down the river to Changsha County after staying for two days.
Between Nanjun and Changsha County, there is a large Ze, called Yunmeng.
In autumn and winter, the water falls on the island, and in the spring, the aquatic grass and wildflowers flourish like a grassland, but with the arrival of summer, there are thunderstorms in the upper reaches of the four tributaries of Xiangshui, Zishui, Yuanshui, and Lishui almost at the same time, causing the river to surge, so the big water is poured into the Dongting Lake, under the sweep of the water potential, the Yunmengze that has been calm for several months is suddenly smoky, forming an ocean that stretches for thousands of miles, leaving only an island in the center of the lake, called Junshan.
On April 15, a large fleet of ships entered Yunmeng Daze along the river, and then braved the wind and waves to prepare to break through the mighty and churning Yunmeng Daze, and then continued to the south along the Xiangjiang River to Changsha County.
But when the fleet just arrived near Junshan, the wind and clouds suddenly changed, with a gust of wind howling, and the waves on the lake rolled in an instant, and the turbid waves were monstrous, directly blowing the big boat violently, and it was impossible to continue to move forward, so Qin Shi Huang had to order the fleet to temporarily dock at the island in the middle of the lake to avoid the wind and waves.
The wind and waves came and went quickly, and soon after the fleet stopped, the wind stopped, and the lake calmed down, Qin Shi Huang ordered the fleet to set sail again, but who knew that just after leaving the island, the wind rose again, and the turbid waves were emptied with the momentum of a tsunami, and the big ship suddenly began to shake violently again, and there were faint signs of capsizing.
Qin Shi Huang had no choice but to order the fleet to retreat and dock at the island in the middle of the lake.
But strangely, as soon as the fleet turned around, the wind began to slowly calm down.
"If Your Majesty doesn't believe it, this eastern tour will inevitably be difficult and dangerous all the way, and the storms and sinister thunderstorms are all the power of the wrath of the gods who go against the will of heaven......"
Suddenly, Chen Xu's words sounded in Qin Shi Huang's mind like a spell.
"The wrath of the gods, is this the wrath of the gods?" Qin Shi Huang sat on the big boat, looking at the wind and waves in front of him and couldn't help muttering to himself.
After a moment, he frowned and got up to call the doctor who was with him: "Where is this?" ”
"Back to Your Majesty, the name of this place is Dongting Mountain, and there is a Xiangjun Goddess buried, which is inherently troubled!" The accompanying doctor hurriedly said.
"Goddess Xiangjun, could it be the Yao girl, Shun's wife, the second concubine of Zhao'e and Nuying?"
"Exactly, Emperor Shun died in the wilderness of Cangwu when he conquered the country of Sanmiao, buried in Jiuzhi Mountain, the second concubine of Empress Ying Wen Shun died, chased to Jiuzhi Mountain after tears and bamboo, grief under the Xiangshui and died, the descendants built a temple in Dongting Mountain, sacrificed to the goddess of Xiangjun, so this mountain is also called Jun Mountain." The doctor replied.
"Your Majesty, Xiangjun is the god of water, and he is buried on the mountain, and the minister suggests that His Majesty go to Xiangjun Temple to worship, and ask the goddess to calm the evil waves and not block His Majesty's journey!" Jiang Heng, who was standing next to him, reminded.
"I am the emperor, and even a mere concubine dares to claim that the god king is blocking my way!" Qin Shi Huang was silent for a moment, and then suddenly became angry.
On this tour of the southeast, his main purpose was to meet Chen Xu, and his greatest wish was to obtain a method of immortality.
But the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
His apprehension when he set off from Xianyang, the excitement along the way, and the excitement at the moment when he saw Chen Xu, but all these wishful thinking and eager expectations were shattered by Chen Xu's words.
Chen Xu not only did not have the art of immortality, but also directly told him that there was neither a sacred mountain nor an immortal elixir overseas.
At that time, under extreme disappointment and anger, he drew his sword and almost killed Chen Xu, but then a divine thunder descended from the sky to blow up the houses, revealing the Taiyi Divine Monument, and directly smashed his anger to pieces.
Chen Xu is a disciple of the Immortal Family, and with the protection of Taiyi Tianzun, he can't move him, but now the dead Concubine Shun also wants to block his trip.
Qin Shi Huang, who had been holding back for a long time and couldn't vent all the way, finally couldn't hold it back anymore at this moment, and waved his sleeve robe and shouted: "Order, recruit 3,000 prisoners nearby, cut down all the trees in this mountain with me, and burn the temple, I want to see, what can she endure me?" ”
"Yes, Your Majesty, please stop being angry, I'll arrange it immediately!"
The First Emperor was furious, and the accompanying officials, including Li Si Wang Ben, felt a chill in their hearts, so they could only quickly arrange for people to go to several counties near Dongting with the forbidden army token and the prime minister's edict to quickly mobilize the prisoners and people.
Fortunately, Dongting is the prosperous place of the old Chu, the fertile land along the Dongting Lake can be called the land of fish and rice, Luo County, Pingjiang, Huarong counties are densely populated, but in one day, 3,000 prisoners are escorted to Qi, and then the nearby fishermen are recruited to send all 3,000 prisoners to Junshan Island by boat.
For a while, the trees on the small Junshan Island roared and fell like autumn corn, and then puffs of smoke rose into the air, and the Xiangfei Shrine, which was sacrificed by nearby fishermen, was burned.
Looking at the bare and almost burned to the ground of Junshan, Qin Shi Huang seemed to still be angry, and ordered people to carve his two great seals under the cliff on the east side of Junshan Mountain, trying to seal Junshan in the name of the emperor, and then ordered the forbidden army and his entourage to board the ship again.
But when the fleet set sail, the wind came as scheduled, not only that, the sky dark clouds rolling, lightning and thunder, the violent rain poured down, the entire Yunmeng Daze radius seemed to be submerged by the storm, the huge waves were monstrous if there was a dragon churning, after a few hard breaks, the big ship almost overturned on its side, and the fleet was also scattered in formation, Qin Shi Huang had to order the return voyage back to Junshan again.
"It is a great disrespect to destroy the temple, which causes the Hunan god to be angry, and please ask Your Majesty to rebuild the temple and worship sincerely, and the evil waves will naturally calm down!"
Li Si, Zhao Gao, Wang Ben and the accompanying officials all bowed to the ground and pleaded.
In this era when the theory of immortals is the most rampant, if mortals want to fight with invisible gods, it must not be a rational act, and the emperor is obviously dizzy in this way.
Qin Shi Huang stood on the bow of the boat and pondered everything that was happening in front of him, and couldn't help but take out the letter that Chen Xu had written to him again and unfold it.
"His Majesty the First Emperor: Although the turmoil in the southeast is sinister, Your Majesty is the king of heaven, and it will be safe......"
Just when Qin Shi Huang saw this, suddenly a gust of wind whistled by, and the letter in his hand was swept away by the wind with a hula, rolling and dancing in the air and disappearing in the blink of an eye.
"Your Majesty, be careful~" Whether it was Li Si and the others or Xuanwu Wei, their faces were pale with fright.
Qin Shi Huang stood on the side of the ship, his hand in the air and a gesture of grabbing forward, but unfortunately this gust of wind was too violent, and he disappeared without a trace before he caught anything.
"The gods are wrathed...... The gods were furious...... Qin Shi Huang repeated this sentence in his mouth, and then his face slowly became extremely depressed, and he seemed to have suddenly aged several years.
"Arrange for craftsmen to rebuild the Hunan Shrine, I ...... Worship the goddess yourself! ”
"Yes, Your Majesty Shengming!" The ministers all breathed a long sigh of relief.
Three thousand prisoners have not left, and from the nearby requisition of craftsmen to direct the construction, three days later, the construction of the Hunan Shrine was completed, several adjacent temples have also been completed, Qin Shi Huang personally led the accompanying officials, under the auspices of Taibu and Taizhu, to offer three animals and fruits, divination and incense worship.
And just after they finished worshipping, the hazy sky gradually cleared, and the smoke and waves of Yunmeng Daze also subsided.
When we boarded the ship again, everything was calm, the wind and sunshine were beautiful for thousands of miles, and the fleet moved forward smoothly without half a minute of twists and turns.
"Could it be that I'm really just an ordinary mortal?"
Standing at the bow of the boat, looking at the vast blue waves of smoke and water, Qin Shi Huang's heart became heavier and heavier, but there seemed to be a voice in his ears that was getting clearer and clearer, and a young man in strange clothes was standing in front of him.
"Your Majesty is now prosperous in the Spring and Autumn Period, why bother to strive for ethereal immortality, when you have the ambition to sweep the six countries in the past, conquer Baiyue in the south, conquer the Xiongnu in the north, conquer the Qiangyue Wusun and other countries in the Western Regions in the west, expand the territory of my Great Qin ten times and a hundred times, truly be a human emperor who is mighty in the four seas, and create a prosperous Great Qin of the country and the people, maybe at that time, the heavenly immortals will pity Your Majesty's contributions......"
In late April, Qin Shi Huang paraded to Changsha County, stayed in the county seat of Linxiang for two days, and then continued south to Du Pang Ling, which borders South Vietnam.
Da Yu Ridge, is the closest to the east of a pass, out of the big Yu Ling is the East Yue, that is, Guangdong and Fujian and other places in the later generations, Qin Shi Huang in the Great Yu Ling inspected for ten days, and the guards and officials of the Tunshu Da Yu Ling after several deductions and discussions, the procession set off again to Huiji County to prepare to go north to Langya.
Originally, when the patrol Changsha Jiujiang counties, although it was summer, and it was a hot and humid place in the south, thunderstorms appeared from time to time, but basically there was not much impact on the parade, although there were several bandits attacking, but there was no threat, a total of more than 300 bandits were killed, four bandits were beheaded, and everything was smooth sailing, but just after arriving at Huiji, the weather began to become extremely bad.