The occurrence of this incident also started with Wang Li, who finally built several large warships near Shouchun after a lot of hardships.

In the past two or three years, Yinggao has been vigorously developing all aspects of Daqin. But for Wang Li and Chen Ying, the most important place had to be placed on the construction of large warships.

If this is to supervise the construction of warships according to the standards of the previous First Emperor's reign, in fact, it is really not difficult, and this thing has never been owned by Great Qin, right?

But as soon as everything gets to Yinggao, the standard will immediately become different, and the same is true for this warship.

After reading the construction drawings of the Great Qin warships in the previous period of the First Emperor, Yinggao directly rejected the previous drawings, and then put forward new requirements both in terms of the size of the warship and the materials.

And after Yinggao made a request, he didn't care what kind of way you wanted, all he wanted was the result, which made Wang Li and Chen Ying embarrassed, it can be said that these years, in addition to completing Yinggao's new policies, Wang Li and Chen Ying's main energy was on the construction of this Yinggao warship.

In the previous year, they basically didn't make any progress, and they had to send people to search for craftsmen in this area throughout Great Qin.

It wasn't until a year after Yinggao gave the order that the construction of the warship was on the right track, and they finally knew which part needed what material to make it strong, and how to connect the behemoths on the drawings.

In the next two years, although the construction of warships was still slow, four large-scale warships were finally built, and one of them was able to sail steadily in the sea after Chen Ying's attempt, so that they finally took the initiative to send the news of the warship to Xianyang City for the first time.

And when Yinggao received the news of Wang Li and Chen Ying, it had been exactly a year since he executed Zhang Liang.

This was originally a great thing for Yinggao, Wang Li and Chen Ying were all real generals, and they would definitely not fool themselves, so Yinggao announced the matter in Daqin's court the next day after receiving the news.

His original intention was undoubtedly to show one of Great Qin's new achievements in front of the Great Qin officials, but the Great Qin officials who had not seen the warships made by Wang Li and Chen Ying were not very fond of this matter.

The evidence they came up with was that several years ago, when the First Emperor was obsessed with the various ways to prolong life provided by the Fangshi and took advantage of the opportunity to go out on patrol to conduct a large-scale experiment, one of them was a Fangshi named Xu Fu, who claimed to the First Emperor that there were three immortal mountains in the sea, Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou, and that among these three immortal mountains, there were immortals living in them.

This kind of thing has always been the most tempting to the First Emperor, so the First Emperor didn't say a word, and directly ordered Xu Fu to take a few huge warships that were in Daqin at that time, and take three thousand boys and girls as an offering to the gods, and enough food to support their lives for three years, and then went to sea.

As a result, the First Emperor waited for many years with high expectations, and Xu Fu did return safely, but unfortunately, the legendary immortal was not found.

After Xu Fu promised that he would go to sea again to find the gods for the First Emperor, the angry First Emperor did not put Xu Fu to death.

And then, just when Yinggao was about to burst onto the ground, Xu Fu set off again, but this time he set off and has not come back until now.

This matter was deified by many Great Qin officials when they discussed it in private, because Xu Fu was a very influential figure in the Taoist school at that time, so they would rather believe that the immortal Xu Fu really found was just that he had gained benefits and would not come back.

Because these things involve the privacy of the First Emperor, many princes, including Fusu and Yinggao, don't know very well about it.

At this time, the officials said this matter, just to tell Yinggao that our Great Qin would have been able to pay the sea for a long time, so it is not an uncommon thing that the warship that has been built now is not unusual, otherwise, then Xu Fu has been at sea for so long, and he has long been swept away by the huge waves at sea, where can he come back?

But what Yinggao saw in this matter was not what they said, what he saw was a trace of crisis, although the possibility was not very large, but it could not be ignored.

In his previous life, Yinggao did know about Xu Fu's going to sea, but Yinggao at that time couldn't believe that he knew how powerful the sea was, even in the world more than 2,000 years later, there would be many modern ships disappearing in the monstrous waves, let alone this era.

But looking at it now, it is obvious that this thing is true, and Xu Fu did return to the realm of Daqin safely after going to sea for the first time, so the statements of these officials, Yinggao really can't refute it.

As for refuting the words of these officials, in fact, Ying Gao really didn't have much interest, what he thought of in his heart was the situation after Xu Fu went to sea for the second time.

After the court, Yinggao summoned Meng Yi and Feng Quji to the main hall of his Xianyang Palace for the first time, which summoned Meng Yi and Feng Quji at the same time, which is a very rare move for Yinggao, and the most people who enter and leave Xianyang Palace on weekdays are naturally Xiao He, Zhu Jia, and Han Xin, but Meng Yi and Feng Quji are much less, let alone at the same time.

After the two arrived, Yinggao didn't sell it, and opened his mouth directly.

"Summoning the two of you here today, I want to know about my father's dispatch of that Fang Shi Xu Fu overseas, that Xu Fu went to sea for the second time, it has been five or six years, and it is rumored that the food he carried on the ship is only enough for him to last for two or three years, for this matter, I don't know what the Tai Lieutenant and the right minister think, or there are details that I don't know back then, I can tell them."

When they were in the court, others mentioned Xu Fu, Yinggao just waved his hand noncommittally, Meng Yi and Feng Quji both thought that Yinggao didn't want to mention much about Fangshi like Xu Fu, after all, the First Emperor was almost killed by the Fangshi who Zhao Gao had bribed, or in the final analysis, the First Emperor's death was still related to the long-term consumption of the pills that Fangshi had refined for him.

But judging from the current situation, Yinggao attaches great importance to Xu Fu's affairs.

When Xu Fu was revered by the First Emperor, in addition to Zhao Gao, who was more important to the First Emperor, it was really Meng Yi and Feng Qujian who knew more about the details, so Ying Gao asked questions now, and they had to tell Ying Gao about the situation at that time.

"Your Majesty, that Xu Fu is really very good, the first time he went to sea, all the officials in my Great Qin court thought that he would definitely be swallowed by the monstrous waves, and it would be difficult to return, but Xu Fu returned to Great Qin after more than a load, and because of this, the first emperor did not condemn him, and gave him another chance, as for why he went to sea again and did not return......

Feng Qujian opened his mouth first, and said the special features of Xu Fu, in this era, people are still quite afraid of the sea, because the weather in the sea is changing rapidly, no matter how big a ship you are, as long as you encounter a little wind and waves, it is possible to disappear on the sea in an instant, but Xu Fu found another way, not to say that there are immortal mountains on the sea, the first emperor naturally can't take this risk himself, so he can only let Xu Fu go instead of him.

And Xu Fu is really a little bold, when he went to sea, he was personally sent by the First Emperor, and Meng Yi and Feng Quji were also listed at that time, they saw Xu Fu's big ship disappear into the sea, and then returned to Xianyang, so Xu Fu went to sea, there is absolutely no behavior to fool the First Emperor, that is to say, these two seas are true and undoubted.

But when it came to the fact that Xu Fu had not returned from his second trip to sea, Feng Quji was a little hesitant, obviously, he was probably not sure about this matter.

Feng Qujian didn't say anything, Yinggao naturally looked at Meng Yi and asked, "Does Taiwei know something about Xu Fu's second voyage to sea, or in the hearts of the two of you, is this Xu Fu already buried in the belly of the fish, or is there something else hidden?" ”

In the history of the previous life, Xu Fu's second trip to sea was a mystery case, but Yinggao knew that it was a mystery case in his previous life, but it was not necessarily a mystery case in this era, these people were all people who watched Xu Fu go to sea with their own eyes, once there was something wrong with this, they were people who might know first-hand information.

And according to Yinggao's understanding, Xianshan should definitely be made up by Xu Fu to fool the first emperor, in the context of that period, as long as it is a Fang Shi who can say something different from others, almost all of them make a lot of money, and Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng, who caused the pit and kill Fang Shi, are among the vivid representatives, this Xu Fu, of course, is also a representative.

But Xu Fu is so great that he was able to go to sea and return successfully, what does this mean, it shows that people know the sea route and how to deal with the complex weather changes at sea, otherwise you are lucky to persist for ten days, and it can't be simply said to be luck if you insist on coming back for a year.

A person with such an experience did not come back the second time, and the possibility in this is something that Yinggao must understand.

When Meng Yi saw this situation, he knew that he had to speak, not to mention that although this matter could never be mentioned when the first emperor was there, but once a son of heaven and a courtier, Yinggao was the emperor of this era, and he really wanted to know about it.

"Don't hide it, before Xu Fu went to sea for the second time, there was indeed something unusual, although we found out at that time, but helpless...... The First Emperor had a lot of faith in Xu Fu, but he would do his best to satisfy everything Xu Fu wanted, so he ......"

"What's so out of the ordinary?" As soon as Ying Gao heard the words unusual, his eyes froze, and he suddenly felt that something he was very worried about in his heart seemed to be very likely to happen.

"If it is according to what Xu Fu said when he went to sea for the first time, carrying three thousand children and men is already the best tribute to the immortals in the immortal mountain, but before he went to sea for the second time, he changed his words, and only carried a thousand children and men, and the rest of the positions were all loaded with the treasures of my Great Qin, for the first emperor, he only said that it was precisely because there were no these treasures of Great Qin that the immortals in the immortal mountain were angry and did not want to meet."

"What's wrong with that?"

After Ying Gao listened to Meng Yi's words, he didn't say anything, but continued to ask quietly.

"In my opinion, there are no immortal mountains overseas, and there are no immortals, this Xu Fu obviously found out that what the rest of the Fang Shi did could not last long, and sooner or later it would be discovered by the First Emperor, and Daqin did not have a place where he could hide, so he went to sea again in desperation, according to what he brought when he went to sea, I and the right minister thought that this guy would definitely not return."

"Exactly, this guy not only carried a lot of rare treasures, but even Mei Ji also carried more than a dozen, saying that it was dedicated to the immortals in the fairy mountain, but in fact, it was ......."

When Meng Yi said this, Feng Quji also began to express his thoughts, obviously, this matter also caused some sensation among the officials of Great Qin at that time.

"Then Xu Fu, after returning from his first trip to sea, did he ever tell anyone about what he saw and heard at sea? And those who go to sea with him, what has he said? ”

Feng Quji and Meng Yi's statement made Yinggao's original worry a little bit deeper, but in front of Meng Yi and Feng Quji, Yinggao of course couldn't express his thoughts for the time being.

He just wanted to understand layer by layer, not only to understand how far Daqin's navigation level had developed a few years ago, but also to understand where Xu Fu had gone when he went to sea.

"What these people mentioned the most was that there was a small island not very far east of Great Qin, and the islands were full of uncivilized people, far from the immortal mountain that Xu Fu was looking for, so they didn't stay there, and as for the others, they didn't mention it."

This so-called island east of Great Qin, Ying Gao knows that it is basically the land of Dongying in the future, but from the place where they set out from Great Qin to the land of Dongying, it will not take much time at all, and Xu Fu went to sea, but it took more than a year to return, during this period, where did he go? Now it seems to be a clear mystery. And in this mystery, there is precisely Yinggao's concern.