Different from the semi-finished products that were not completed in history, because a new magnificent palace was needed for the "Queen Mother of the West" to live in, Qin Shi Huang did not hesitate to let the Mo family participate in the project, and the construction process of Afang Palace was completed by two-thirds.

Its scale is huge, and the labor and wealth are huge, not counting the buildings of Acheng and Zhongnan Mountain in the periphery. Just a front hall, then five hundred steps from east to west, fifty zhang from north to south, can sit ten thousand people on it, can build five zhang flag under it, Zhou Chi is the pavilion road, from His Royal Highness to the South Mountain, the top of the South Mountain is thought to be que, it is the compound road, from Afang to Wei, the party to Xianyang......

The largest building is the Ming Hall at the foot of Nanshan Mountain, which is 294 feet high and 300 feet wide, with three floors, including an upper, middle and lower floor, with a huge wooden pillar in the middle, running through the top and bottom. The lower floor is the main hall, the middle floor is the altar dedicated to the Queen Mother of the West, the upper floor is the dome pavilion, the gold-painted copper phoenix with a height of one zhang stands on the top, and the roof is covered with wooden tires and lacquered tiles.

This hall has just been completed, and the hall is empty, but as the emperor's personal guards, the guards are loyal and conscientious, and they have turned the Ming Hall up and down: every door must be opened to see, in case there is a traitor hiding, every brick must be knocked on, for fear that the inside is empty.

Even if it is the third floor that is closed, Zhonglang Riding ordered Li Liang to let people open it, take a ladder, and climb up to take a look in person.

In the small space composed of various pillars and corridors, there is nothing but a thin layer of dust on the columns.

"It's dusty."

Li Liang frowned, but he was also relieved, since the dust was intact and there were no traces, it meant that no one had been here.

He didn't feel dirty, so he reached out for a broom and cleaned it carefully, and then he finished the inspection.

As everyone knows, just where Li Liang's broom has not touched, there is also a hidden secret door, which is a small secret room that can only accommodate one person, and there is already a person hidden in it.

After Li Liang went down, a blowhole, and a pair of eyes peeked through this place that was difficult to reach by light, peeking into the main hall of the Ming Hall.

It's the ink that suits the forest!

As a builder, it couldn't be easier for the clever inkman to leave himself a secret door in the attic.

These designs can't be seen on the diagram at all, even if the most powerful master craftsman comes, there is no clue from the outside.

The ink master knew that Qin Shi Huang would definitely come here!

The "Statue of the Queen Mother of the West", in fact, is Athena, which will be placed in the Ming Hall today.

The statue is a gift from the Great Xia Kingdom to Qin Shi Huang, after getting the news that the Qin Dynasty will send troops, the King of Great Xia is very happy, and sends skilled craftsmen from the country, according to the appearance of the "Queen Mother of the West", carved in marble, finely carved, the straight nose, the handsome face, the smart eyes, it is really vivid!

It is said that after the statue of the Queen Mother of the West was carved, His Majesty couldn't put it down, let people decorate it with the ivory offered by the Marquis of Changnan, cast a golden luan crown, put on a soft Shu brocade, burn the agarwood offered by Lingnan, often be alone with it, stay for an hour, and after each time, they are stunned......

After all, this was the last obsession of the emperor for immortality.

And this is also the only chance for the Moji to succeed in the assassination.

After drawing lots, Shilin successfully got this honor, and it happened that he was short in stature, and he didn't feel crowded when he stood in the dark room.

Considering that he had to identify as many as five of the same side car of the same type as Qin Shi Huang when he was stabbing outside, the Ink Scholar still gave up the big crossbow that had been built and could shoot two hundred paces, but the accuracy was worrying.

At the moment, he can only shoot fifty paces in his hand, but the crossbow with high accuracy, he has trained thousands of times for today, and used more than ten strings, so he must ensure that one hit will be hit!

According to the plan, after succeeding, Shilin will use the flint he carries with him to ignite himself as soon as possible! destroyed the corpse and destroyed the traces, and by the way, the Afang Mingtang, which had worked hard and lost money, was also burned!

"What the world needs is a light and meager endowment, stop the war, and don't need the Queen Mother of the West!"

The waiting time was longer than Shilin imagined, because the sorcerer calculated that the most suitable time to place the statue was after nightfall, so Qin Shi Huang did not arrive until the main hall of the Ming Hall was brightly lit.

Although it was a little stuffy, Shilin still endured the cough and sneeze choked by the dust with great perseverance, only rubbing his nose desperately, and silently reciting the oath of the ink of heavenly exorcism in his heart:

"Stand up today, give your life, have no fear and no retreat, and die without regrets!"

He lightly wound the crossbow arrows, aimed them at the dark holes, and aimed them at the place where they had accurately measured, and there were more than thirty paces, and it was very likely that Qin Shi Huang was standing there, standing in front of the statue of the Queen Mother of the West......

Shilin couldn't help but tremble as he imagined that His Majesty the Emperor, who was as great as a god, being shot in a pool of blood by himself, an unknown ink man, and fell at the feet of the Queen Mother of the West, who was in his heart.

Scared, expectant, but unlike Qingji, Shilin does not seek to leave a name, but hopes that his name will be erased forever.

If the emperor died, the center of the Qin Dynasty would fall into a brief period of chaos, but the rest of the Mo would immediately support Fusu to succeed him.

Then, create a world that everyone is looking forward to, non-offensive and love, and still virtuous and compatible!

At this moment, the chariots and horses were swaying, and there seemed to be a commotion outside.

The faint sound of tapping on the pillar rang three times, and then disappeared, which was the signal from the other inkers to Shilin:

"Qin Shi Huang's royal car is here!"

……

Tang Duo stood behind Gongzi Fusu and watched the dotted "palace lanterns" in the distance gradually approach.

This kind of palace lantern is made by the ink artist with exquisite craftsmanship, using fine wood as the skeleton to make an octagonal, hexagonal or quadrangular shape, and then inlaid with tissue paper between the skeletons to let the fire burning inside reflect the light.

It was originally intended to be popularized among the people, replacing torches that were easily blown out by the wind, but now it has become the exclusive use of the royal family.

"The skill of the ink master should benefit the world, not just one person."

This was Tang Duo's idea, but it was selfish that brought him to the step of plotting to kill the king.

In the past ten years, Qin Shi Huang has completely expelled Confucianism and Huang Lao, and the Yin and Yang Fangshi have almost been pitted, and the hundred schools in Guanzhong have disappeared, leaving only the peasant family and the Mo family to survive.

In the eyes of the Mo, the peasants did not have any high-level political demands, but just hoped to pull the nobles into the fields to increase the production of grain, vegetables and fruits by the way, which was consistent with the government's goals.

But the Mohists are different, in addition to Shang Tong, the Mojing on love, non-attack, funeral, and use are completely opposite to the emperor's style.

"Qin Zheng and Mo Gui are originally going against each other, and it is a matter of time before they separate......"

The young Moshi believed that the Qin Dynasty had failed the Mo family, but Tang Duo was not surprised: in the past two hundred years, the Moshi had been crossed the river and demolished countless times, and in the Lu State, the Song State, and the Yang City of the Chu State, no country could tolerate the long-term existence of an organization with its own armed forces, or even become bigger and stronger.

Qin Mo forcibly pulled out his own teeth before he united with Qin, hoping to take root in the system, but now it seems that they still failed.

Since it is impossible to join the same stream, it has to be clearly distinguished.

"The cunning rabbit is dead, the lackeys are cooking, the birds are gone, and the good bow is hidden. Now Qin Shi Huang relied on the skills of the ink man, so he was still allowed for a while, but one day, our skills are passed on to the craftsman through engineering, and the ink will not be tolerated in Qin! ”

Tang Duo has seen Qin Shi Huang's methods of dealing with the hundreds of schools of thought, and when the time comes, it may be banned forever, and the learning of Zi Mozi will be extinct!

Out of this sense of crisis, Tang Duo chose to take risks and pinned his hopes on Fusu.

The rest of the ink people are determined to "even if the ink people are destroyed, they must eliminate the great harm for the world". Tang Duo is not, he hopes that he will occupy a place in the new court of Gongzi Fusu as a new giant and as an important minister who supports the new monarch. And then from top to bottom, implement the politics of the Mo family, so that Zi Mozi's ideal is no longer just an ideal!

And the premise of all this, Qin Shi Huang must die!

While thinking about it, Qin Shi Huang's car was getting closer and closer, and he had already passed through Acheng and entered the Qiandian area.

Six almost identical imperial cars stopped in front of the Ming Hall, each with a corner, but there were five guards, except for the penultimate car, and after it was opened, the old emperor in a robe slowly walked down.

He has rarely appeared in the past six months, and his tall figure is still the same, but he seems to be thinner than before, and there are heavily armed armor soldiers on the left and right, forming a human wall, and the wind can't blow in.

"Long live Your Majesty!"

Fusu took the ink and craftsmen to bow down and wait for the first emperor of Qin to enter the Ming Hall for inspection.

The long-planned assassination of the Ink Artist will be carried out there!

But Qin Shi Huang only took a few steps forward, but stopped, and the old emperor raised his head and looked at the vast night sky.

Today the moon and stars are scarce, it is a rare sunny day in winter, the sky is the same as usual, empty, what is there to see?

But Qin Shi Huang was stunned and did not move for a long time.

The essence of human beings is a repeater, and a person looking at the sky will trigger a group of people to follow suit.

Fusu, the ministers, the guards, the craftsmen, the ink masters, everyone raised their heads one by one, and when they saw what was happening in the sky, their performance was even more exaggerated, their mouths were wide open, and some even collapsed to the ground in fright.

Since he was born, no one has ever seen such a beautiful scene:

The moon covered Xuanyuan, and on the curtain of the dark night sky, a little extremely bright starlight appeared inadvertently.

The bright light is getting bigger and brighter, and the golden meteor, dragging its long tail, is like a long golden arrow shooting through the sky!

With the leader, countless bright stars began to appear, move, and accelerate. One, two, three, and finally dozens or hundreds, long or short, large or small, from south to northeast!

The stars rained down from the sky, like a flock of Pegasus, roaring loudly, and the sky kept making a low rumbling sound, but I didn't know where it fell.

Tang Duo felt that his teeth were trembling, and the stars were falling like rain, which was extremely ominous! Is this a warning to them?

As far as the eye can see, there are people who bow down to worship the sky and tremble, but Qin Shi Huang is peerless and independent, tall and lonely......

In a few moments, the most dense meteor shower has passed, but the sporadic ones are still in an endless stream, Qin Shi Huang stopped looking up, glanced around, and gave a cold order to Lang Wei on the side:

"Go back to Xianyang, and then kill the wizard who said that tonight is good and suitable for placing the statue of the Queen Mother!"

……

The Ink Man's violent assassination plan was interrupted by this sudden meteor shower.

In Xianyang City, the city was also so frightened that the chickens and dogs were crowing all over the city, and it was not peaceful.

Only Zhang Cang, who firmly believes that "the fall of the stars is the change of heaven and earth, the transformation of yin and yang, and the rare of things", very calmly watched this rare celestial phenomenon on the city tower with his new friend in the past two years, the Daxia man "Su", who stayed in Xianyang for friendly academic exchanges.

Zhang Cang said: "There are many records of the meteors, and it is recorded in the history books of the Wei Kingdom, in the fifteenth year of Emperor Xia, the stars fell like rain at night. "Zuo Biography" also said that in the summer and April of the seventh year of Lu Zhuanggong, the stars were missing, and the stars fell like rain at night, but it was in April, and the Yunxing at the turn of October seemed to come from a different source......

The fat man listened to Man Xianyang's cry, and the people who bowed to the sky all over the street shook their heads: "There were not many people who could see it clearly, but everyone could detect it, but they were all scared and uneasy. In fact, when the star falls on the earth, it is a stone. Between the great river and the water, there are often falling star stones, and perhaps they are the gravel falling from other Great Kyushu, which is like driftwood that has been swept to the shore by the waves. It's a natural thing, it's weird, but it's also a thing. And to be afraid of it, it is not ......"

Since Zhang Cang communicated with him about the record of the meteor in Zhongxia and provided a very pertinent hypothesis, Su Shi did not hide it, and pointed to the star field drawn by the meteor shower in the Central Plains dialect and said to Zhang Cang:

"The people of Bactria believe that it was the lion defeated by Hercules, and it was released into the air by Zeus and became Leo, the fifth house of the zodiac."

Zhang Cang asked seriously: "Su Shi, you are the most intelligent wise man in Great Xia, do you think this is a disaster, auspiciousness, or a natural occurrence?" ”

Su has always disagreed with the other people in Bactria (Great Xia) who were sick and rushed to the doctor, and the ghost Athena was the Queen Mother of the West that the emperor was looking for, and wanted to borrow the power of the Qin Dynasty to resist the plan of the Seleucid Dynasty (Tiaozhi) to go east, and really regarded this goddess of war as Helen who caused the Trojan War?

So, Su touched his beard and made a joke that seemed innocuous to him:

"Perhaps, is it because the Lion Palace does not want Athena to be taken away by His Majesty the Emperor, and issues a warning to snatch her back?"

……

Today is the last night of the 36th year of Qin Shi Huang. Heifu, who is far away in the south, is far less calm than Zhang Cang.

Lingnan Panyu, standing on the city wall, Heifu also saw the entire East Asian land, can witness the Leonid meteor shower, it is really magnificent and extraordinary, so that the soldiers of the Southern Expedition are dizzying, and they also hula lala knelt down, thinking that the end has come.

"The stars weep blood, and the rain of fire falls from the sky."

Although he was in the tropics, Heifu felt an unprecedented chill, and after a long time, he let out a long breath:

"Winter is coming!"