174. The First Emperor and the Qing Dynasty

And more than ninety percent of the dansha in Bashu is in the hands of the widow Qing, so it should be said that the relationship between Qin Shi Huang and the widow Qing is a commercial dealing.

But what's going on here? We are not the parties involved in history, and we certainly don't know much, and because the age is too old, it is more of a legend, and I have read two records in the wild history at that time.

The first account is a very detailed account of how Qin Shi Huang and Ba Qing first met.

One year, after traveling around the homeland of the Six Kingdoms, Qin Shi Huang returned to Lishan Mausoleum to explore the construction of his own mausoleum.

Qin Shi Huang walked all the way, a pair of gloomy eyes looked around, pointing and pointing from time to time, conveying his supreme instructions, and the minister in charge of the construction of the mausoleum only complied.

Qin Shi Huang came to the furnace where mercury was refined, and saw the workers pouring dansha into the furnace to heat it, and the mercury flowed out of a hole.

Qin Shi Huang asked, "The supply of dansha is not a problem, right?" The foreman in charge of refining mercury replied, "Everything is normal." ”

After hearing the referendum's answer, the First Emperor nodded with satisfaction.

You must know that although the First Emperor visited the Immortal Mountain, he also realized that if he could not find the immortal himself, it was possible that after a hundred years, he would eventually turn into dust, so he also hoped to build a grand mausoleum, and at the same time, this mausoleum could not be stolen and excavated by anyone.

Just as the First Emperor was inspecting, a man flew off his horse, knelt on the ground, and shouted: "There is a riot in Ba County, there is an 800-mile rush here, and please ask Your Majesty to make a timely judgment!" ”

As he spoke, he held a copy of the newspaper in his hands and held it high above his head.

Seeing this, the personal eunuch next to the first emperor hurriedly stepped forward, took the recital table, and presented it to Qin Shi Huang.

It turned out to be Ba Di Tong County, and a conflict broke out between a female soldier named Qing and the officers and soldiers of Ba County.

Kiyoshi was a widow who took over a large family business after her husband's death. This is a family that has been mining dansha for generations, and at that time there were two major dansha producing areas in the country, one was Ba County, and the other was South Vietnam.

The widow Qing controlled the mining rights of the entire Ba County area, and in order to ensure the smooth progress of the huge Dansha mining industry, she also raised a family of thousands of soldiers.

The mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang uses a large amount of mercury extracted from dansha, not only to create a magnificent atmosphere, but also to flow the mercury to a map of the territory of the Great Qin Empire; There is also a willingness to preserve the corpse in order to resurrect the dead, and the use of the toxic gas of mercury can also prevent the invasion of tomb robbers.

The origin of dansha, Yiba County is the closest to Lishan, the place where the imperial tomb was built, so the Qing Dynasty has become the main supplier of dansha required for the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.

Now there was a conflict between the Qing soldiers and the officers and soldiers of Qin Shi Huang, the cause was because of Dansha, and the county guard responsible for purchasing Dansha thought that there were too many impurities in Dansha and asked for a deduction of two catties; The foreman of Qing believed that such a low selling price was basically unprofitable, and the impurities did not exceed the originally agreed standards. The two sides quarreled, and in the end there was an armed clash of arms, each with casualties.

As is customary, private armed forces like this who dare to confront the official army will be killed. However, the county guard of Bajun felt that the relationship between the emperor and the Qing was delicate, and he didn't know how to deal with this matter, so he hurriedly wrote a note to ask the emperor to make a holy judgment.

After the report was circulated, Qin Shi Huang asked the ministers around him: "What do you think the secretaries should do?" ”

On this issue, the ministers of the DPRK and China were also divided into two factions.

Some of the first emperor's personal generals believed that this matter had touched the authority of the Great Qin Emperor, so it must be exterminated, and at the same time, they could also take this opportunity to take all the widow Qing's family wealth and influence for their own use.

Widow Qing's influence on Daqin is very great, as a Bashu businessman, she is not only very successful on the road of business, but also very much in love with Qin, when Qin built the Great Wall, she also scattered her family wealth and supported it.

For this woman, the First Emperor still had some admiration in his heart, so when he heard the advice of these generals, he immediately frowned.

It is clear that the First Emperor did not want to do what the generals said, because if he did, it would affect the situation of the people in the world and make everyone think that he was a tyrant.

Because the old ministry of the Six Kingdoms has always been ready to move, and the First Emperor is in front, he once burned books and pit Confucianism, which has made the whole world complain, if at this time, once such a big thing happens, the First Emperor also understands that it will be a very big obstacle and difficulty for the stability of his regime.

Of course, the First Emperor also had a reason to be able to exterminate the widow Qing.

After Qin Shi Huang annexed the world, for the sake of the stability of the country, he immediately collected the world's weapons, transported them to Xianyang to be melted, and cast 12 huge "golden people" (bronze people) and placed them in the Xianyang Palace. At that time, even possession of a broken sword and a blunt knife was severely punished, let alone possession of a private arm.

Therefore, just this one, the First Emperor could have sent troops to annihilate the army of the widow Qing.

But Qin Shi Huang obviously didn't want to do this, but all these generals around him were big and coarse, and they had been fighting all their lives, so how could they understand the hard work of the First Emperor.

At this time, Prime Minister Li Si stood up and took the initiative to take this responsibility, saying that he would go to investigate in person.

Otherwise, how can it be said that Li Si can sit on the prime minister?

It didn't take a few days to investigate this matter clearly, it turned out that this matter was no wonder that the widow was clear, it was indeed the officers and soldiers here who were too strict in their review, and there were some suspicions of doing nothing, and in the end they impulsively added troops, which caused a conflict with the officers and soldiers.

Moreover, after this conflict, both sides suffered casualties, and no one took advantage.

Hearing this, the emperor nodded and asked the prime minister how to deal with the next step.

Prime Minister Li Sinai is a dragon and phoenix among people, and he penetrated the mind of the first emperor at a glance, and said a lot of good things for the widow Qing.

Of course, he said these good things not only for others, but also for his own career, after all, patting sycophants is also a learned thing, if you don't shoot well, it is easy to shoot on the horse's hooves, and it is yourself who will be kicked at that time.

Li Si gave Qin Shi Huang a suggestion, that is, let the First Emperor travel in person, see what the situation is, and then he can also achieve a good story, people will think that the emperor is considerate, and at the same time aware of public opinion.

The First Emperor naturally understood that what he lacked now was public opinion, so he readily agreed, and your personal identity came to Bashu with a few personal retinues and Li Si.