Walking on the way back to Mengfu, Meng Yi couldn't help but wonder: What do I really want?

As the saying goes, creation makes people. There are many ways for fate to play tricks on people, but the most desperate one is probably "contradiction". For example, the yin and yang sides of Tai Chi, the person who stands on the yang side, but gives him a pursuit on the yin side, let him pursue it all his life, but no matter how he catches up, he can only never ask for it.

Human beings, since the beginning of their spiritual wisdom, have been hoping to fight against the fate of God, and do not want to drift in the torrent of fate. The more powerful you are, the less willing you are to give in easily, and the more you will fight against fate. But what fate likes most is to play a seemingly frivolous but deadly and ruthless joke with you.

"Lü Buwei, do you think that if you kill my grandfather, you can control the military and political power alone? One day, you'll regret it! Meng Yi looked up at the Meng family members such as Fu Bo and Aunt Xi who were busy decorating the mourning hall.

Lü Buwei is in a high position and can manipulate authority, the only regret is that he forgot that Qin Shihuang Yingzheng will not be just a child forever, and he has also forgotten the identity of Zhao Ji, she is Qin Shihuang's biological mother, Lü Buwei and Zhao Ji are not clear, a little bit of Yingzheng can't save face, Lü Buwei intends to usurp the throne, but he thinks that the time has not yet come, and he does not dare to act rashly.

And Yingzheng doesn't want to be at the mercy of Lü Buwei anymore, and Lü Buwei's attitude is arrogant, and his relationship with Lü Buwei is ambiguous with himself.

Looking at Lu Gong, the shopping mall is proud, the political field is proud, and the bookstore is proud, it seems that everything is like a fish in water, but he only lost in the love field, and this time the failure is to be ruined, shattered, and never recovered.

The aftermath of the old general is extremely sad!

"Second brother, the king Wang Enhao specially instructed him to take care of his grandfather's afterlife, where did you go?" Meng Tian didn't see his younger brother Meng Yi for several days in a row, and he was very dissatisfied. According to the system of etiquette and filial piety, the descendants of Meng Tian and Meng Yi should keep vigil for seven days and seven nights.

"Brother, do you think King Qin is really kind? As for filial piety, it should exist in the heart, not in a superficial ritual. Meng Yi didn't show any mercy to his brother, and besides, this brother was too loyal, so he planted it on it in the future.

Meng Yi finally woke up at this moment: don't try to persuade or change a strong-willed person, it will only be in vain. Character determines life, and Meng Tian's character is doomed to a tragic ending.

"Second brother, don't listen to the rumors of outsiders, this time it is mainly because Lu Buwei is secretly planning and has nothing to do with the king. As courtiers, where can we speculate about the king? Meng Tian still pestered unrelentingly.

"Brother, wake up. Since ancient times, if you can't learn from Fan Li and retire, which one will have a good end? Shang Ying, Fan Ju, Zhang Yi, Sima Cuo, Wei Ran, and Bai Qi are all the best examples. Meng Yi sneered.

After hearing this, Meng Tian couldn't refute it for a while, and stood there stupidly.

In the eyes of the Chinese, life is made up of soul and spirit: spirit, body, tangible; The soul is the soul of consciousness and is invisible. The "soul" of the deceased rests in the ground and cannot be returned, but its "soul" is eternal.

The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was an era of social change, even if the traditional underground tombs were grand and the burial goods were rich, it was still difficult for people to understand the identity and status of the deceased, and of course it was impossible to achieve the political goal of the feudal rulers to establish the feudal hierarchy. The tombs and tombs all show the identity and status of the deceased to the world at a glance in the form of "tall mountains" and "trees like forests", and become a symbol of social hierarchy. Of course, due to the frequent wars at that time, the people were on the move, so in order to find a place for the burial of their relatives, the easy-to-identify burial system of "sealing the soil as a grave" was naturally adopted. The historical materials before the Spring and Autumn Period all called the tomb a "tomb", which refers to the place where the corpse is placed, not the "loess" where the corpse is buried in the concept of later generations.

In the whole Chinese etiquette culture, the funeral ceremony and the related mourning dress system are the most complex contents. This is the most sophisticated and important object of our culture, and it has been particularly valued since ancient times. After the three ceremonies, the etiquette writings of the past dynasties are the most popular with funeral rites and mourning clothes. According to the records of the Book of Rites, the process of the funeral is about to be the first to die, the small funeral, the big funeral, the funeral, the new moon, the first to die, the ancestor, the repatriation, the funeral, Yu, the yi, the small auspicious, the big auspicious, the Yu and many other rituals. Strictly speaking, a complete funeral should include three major parts: funeral, burial, and sacrifice. Generally speaking, "funeral" is to stipulate the behavior of the living and the relatives of the deceased during the mourning period, "burial" is to stipulate the courtesy due to the deceased, and "sacrifice" is an intermediary ritual to stipulate the connection between the living and the deceased during the mourning period.

Although Meng Yi was busy with the aftermath, he still had to take care of the necessary funeral etiquette. In this way, half a month has passed.

Just after the funeral of his grandfather Meng Fu, another unexpected thing happened in the Meng family.

"Lü Buwei plans to put you in charge of building the Lishan Mausoleum?" Meng Yi was very surprised and asked again.

"That's right, that's a good result. After your grandfather died, whether it was the king or Lu Xiangguo, their trust in the Meng family was not as good as before. General Meng Wu sighed.

"I think it's the best ending. The king will be able to perform the crown salute soon, and Lu Buwei has worked hard for so long, but he still can't stop the return of royal power! There must have been a commotion in Xianyang recently. My father's hibernation in the Lishan Mausoleum may not be a way to protect himself. Meng Yi was very happy and pointed out the changes in the situation in the court in the future.

"What about you? Will staying in Xianyang be implicated? General Mengwu's beloved son was anxious and hurriedly asked.

"Father might as well ask the king for permission, and the Meng family moved to Licheng, so that he could guard the mausoleum for the king for generations in the future. King Qin was ashamed in his heart, and he would definitely be gracious, and Lü Buwei would not stop him. Meng Yi suggested.

"It's so good, this court is extremely dangerous, it's really not a place where our generals should stay for a long time." Meng Wu nodded in agreement.

It is Xiangbang Lü Buwei who holds the power of the court, and the person in charge of the mausoleum repair project is naturally him. However, Lü Buwei actually sent General Meng Tian to be responsible for the construction of the Lishan Mausoleum, which shows that Lü Buwei was also worried that the remnants of the Meng family would take the opportunity to retaliate against him if they stayed in Xianyang, so he further suppressed the Meng family's forces.

I'm afraid he didn't expect that the Meng family wanted to stay away from the storm whirlpool of Xianyang.

Meng Yi had to marvel at the imperial mausoleum of King Yingzheng of Qin, which was really magnificent in scale.

The imperial mausoleum of King Yingzheng of Qin was built from the first year of King Yingzheng of Qin to the second year of Qin II, that is, from 246 BC to 208 BC, which lasted 39 years, and was the first large-scale and well-designed imperial mausoleum in Chinese history. There are two rammed earth walls inside and outside, symbolizing the imperial city and palace city of the imperial capital Xianyang. The mausoleum is located in the south of the inner city, is in the shape of a covered bucket, is 51 meters high, and the circumference of the bottom edge is more than 1,700 meters. According to historical records, there are also various palaces built in the Qin Tombs, and many strange treasures are displayed. There are a large number of burial pits and tombs with different shapes and connotations around the Qinling Tombs, and there are more than 400 of them.

The imperial mausoleum of King Yingzheng of Qin is adjacent to Li Mountain in the south and the shore of Weishui in the north.

Lishan is a branch vein at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, stretching for about 25 kilometers from east to west and about 7 kilometers wide from north to south. Legend has it that the mountain resembles a black steed, hence the name.

This area has a beautiful natural environment, and the entire Lishan Mountain, only the east of Lintong County to the east of Ma'e Mountain Range has a higher altitude. This mountain range is symmetrical left and right, the forest is lush, the valley peaks ask each other, the mountain body is slightly arc-shaped spread in the south of Lingnan, the shape is like a lotus flower in full bloom, the emperor's tomb is located in the Lishan peaks and peaks embraced, and the whole Lishan is integrated, just like the lotus stamen dwells in the middle. From the practical point of view of the time and the feng shui concept of later generations, this is an ideal place to set up a cemetery. On the east side of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, there is a fish pond water that is artificially transformed, for this purpose a dam in the southwest side of the cemetery has been specially built in the east-west direction, the dam is more than 1,000 meters long, generally more than 40 meters wide, the widest point reaches more than 70 meters, the residual height is 2 to 8 meters, it is commonly called the Wuling site. It was this dam that changed the water from the fish pond that originally came from the northeast of Li to the northwest, and passed around the northeast of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.

In addition, on the east side of the cemetery, there is an endless stream of hot spring water passing by. The south side is backed by mountains, and the east, west and north sides form a trend of water on three sides. "Surrounded by mountains and waters" is the most domineering place of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang!

The enormity of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, the number of workers and the duration of the project are unprecedented.

The construction of the cemetery project accompanied Qin Shi Huang's political career throughout his life. When he was 13 years old and had just ascended the throne, in the first year of King Yingzheng of Qin (247 BC), the construction of the cemetery began. The ancient emperors built tombs during their lifetimes were not the first initiative of Qin Shi Huang, as early as the Warring States Period, it has become a common practice for princes and kings to build tombs during their lifetimes. For example, Zhao Suhou's "fifteen-year longevity mausoleum", as well as the mausoleum of the king of Zhongshan in Pingshan County, was also built during his lifetime. However, Qin Shi Huang advanced the time of the emperor's mausoleum to the early days of his reign, which was a little improvement of Qin Shi Huang. The cemetery project was built for 39 years, and it was not completed until the death of Qin Shi Huang, and the second emperor Hu Hai succeeded to the throne, and then it was basically completed after more than a year of construction.

Throughout the cemetery project, it can be divided into three construction stages. This is the initial stage. From the accession of King Qin at the age of 13 to the 26 years of unification of the whole country, the design and construction of the cemetery project were carried out successively in this stage, and the scale and basic pattern of the cemetery project were initially laid.

Ancient Chinese rulers forced civilians to perform unpaid labor, including forced labor, miscellaneous labor, military service, etc. In ancient times, all labor activities carried out by the state to engage in labor activities carried out by people of all strata without compensation were called forced labor, including forced labor and military service. It is yet another heavy burden imposed on the people by the State. During the Qin and Han dynasties, adult men were required by government law to perform forced and military service for the government. The age at which the service began, that is, the age of Fu, was 17 years old in the Qin period. In the Qin State, the servants had to bring their own clothes even if they fought a war. Anyone who evades forced labor is convicted by law of the crime of "escape" and "lack of service."

"Lishan looked around, Ah Fang was burned, where was the luxury at that time? I saw that the grass was sparse and the water lingered. I still hate the smoke tree. The nations of Zhou, Qi, Qin, Han and Chu, win, all turned into soil; Lose, all turned into dirt.

The peaks and mountains are like gathering, the waves are like anger, and the mountains and rivers are on the surface of Tongguan Road. Looking at the western capital, he hesitated. Sad, the Qin and Han dynasties, the palace and thousands of rooms have been made of soil. Xing, the people suffer; Death, the people suffer! ”

Meng Yi silently recited the poems that have been passed down through the ages in his heart.