Zhang Zhenren told the first part of the story in the bamboo slip, which already amazed us. And the second part of the story he was going to tell was incredible, and he knew what it was like. Here, Zhang Zhenren took a sip of tea and continued to talk for us.

This second thing may be familiar to everyone, that is, a famous event in history, book burning and Confucianism. Although everyone knows about this major event, few people know the hidden story behind the book burning pit. That is, the efforts made by Qin Shi Huang for immortality are also related to the Xu Fu who was said to have crossed the Middle East. ”

"After King Zhou Mu disappeared, the clue in the hands of the First Emperor was broken, but the First Emperor was indeed an extremely intelligent person, and he began to rely on the content of the previous conversation with King Zhou Mu, and wanted to find out how to live forever. At first, the First Emperor thought of the magical substances that had been brought back by King Mu of Zhou. Because the world was already unified at that time, it was not difficult to find something anywhere. ”

"The First Emperor mobilized his army and came to the capital of Zhou Tianzi and began to excavate, but half a year has passed, and the capital has been turned over, but nothing has been found. At this time, Xu Fu proposed to check Zhou Tianzi's historical materials to see if he couldn't help but find something useful. It doesn't matter if you check this, you really found clues. ”

According to historical records, when King Wu of Qin was in the third year, King Wu of Qin went to Luoyi to raise the Fire Dragon Ding, wanting to bring Zhou Tianzi to Xianyang. King Wu of Qin failed to raise the tripod and was injured and fractured his lower leg, and as compensation, Zhou Tianzi took some treasures from the temple to compensate for the Qin state. Qin Guocai withdrew his troops and retreated to Xianyang, and soon after, King Wu died, and King Qin Zhaoxiang succeeded to the throne and lost a trace forever. ”

When Zhang Zhenren told this story, he didn't know that Qin Wu was the King of Qin back then. And he himself became a living dead because he ate that miraculous thing. If he knew, maybe he would interview Qin Wu.

Xu Fu knew this information and immediately reported it to the First Emperor, and after the First Emperor found out, he was very disappointed, after all, it was impossible to get that thing again in the country. However, the First Emperor was not willing to give up, but began to have a further vision, wanting to achieve true immortality, not to be a living dead. ”

The First Emperor began to mobilize a large number of Confucian scholars, began to investigate historical materials for him, and read the books that recorded King Mu of Zhou's journey to the west. It's been almost a year now, and although I haven't found those clearly recorded books, I have also found some clues, and I can know the approximate route of King Zhou Mu. ”

"After knowing these routes, the First Emperor recruited Xu Fu into the palace again, wanting to send him to find the secret of true immortality." Hey, then I know about this matter, Xu Fudongdu went to Penglai to find the elixir of immortality and refine the elixir of immortality for Qin Shi Huang. Later, I took 500 boys and girls to Japan, and I heard this story. No, didn't King Zhou Mu go to the West.

"Grandpa, didn't that King Zhou Mu go west, and then Xu Fu crossed to the east, isn't it just the opposite direction." I raised my question, and I don't know if it's a naïve question. But my grandfather just looked at me and smiled, it seems that this time I asked the right question.

"Xiaoyu is quite smart, everyone has heard of Xu Fu Dongdu, but after all, it was two thousand years ago, and no one has ever seen it. In fact, even people at the time did not necessarily know about it. In fact, at that time, Xu Fu's eastward crossing was just a disguise, and the real direction was actually westward. ”

"The first emperor finally found some clues in the history books, and after Xu Fu sorted it out, he reported to the emperor that he wanted to go west to seek the immortal elixir. The First Emperor was also over fifty years old at the time, so he naturally wanted to live forever as soon as possible and become the emperor of ten thousand years. Therefore, in order to cooperate with Xu Fu's work at that time, all manpower and physics were mobilized to complete the westward journey. ”

"At that time, in addition to the five hundred boys and girls who were deployed for Xu Fu, there were also three thousand armor soldiers, and even this golden captain Zhou Tong. After all the preparations were completed, the First Emperor did two things in order to hide people's eyes. The first is to create the illusion that Xu Fudong went to find the elixir, and the second is to burn books and pit Confucianism. ”

"The reason why no one knew about this westward trip was because all the Confucian scholars who participated in the investigation at that time were killed. And those historical materials that record King Mu of Zhou's westward journey have also been burned, which is the real purpose of burning books and pit Confucianism. After the work of burning books and pit Confucianism was completed, Xu Fu began his official journey west. ”

"The First Emperor granted Xu Fu a golden tiger talisman, and Xu Fu became the supreme commander of the Western Expeditionary Corps. The Golden Tiger Talisman is the half of the Tiger Talisman we found at that time, my uncle reacted faster than me, and he had already taken out the Tiger Talisman and handed it to my grandfather to see. Grandpa Shi Zu took the tiger talisman in his hand and looked at it, and seemed to have some eyebrows.

"Deshui, it's really good, this should be the golden tiger talisman granted by the First Emperor, but I don't know why it's only half. This tiger talisman must be combined into one to mobilize the army. "After reading it, my grandfather returned the tiger talisman to my uncle.

This Xu Fu traveled west for several years, and in China, the first emperor still continued to create the illusion of Xu Fu's eastward crossing, and only Li Si and Zhao Gao knew some of the facts inside. Almost three years later, this Captain of the Golden Touching Dynasty named Zhou Tong was sent back by Xu Fu to bring some news to the First Emperor. ”

Zhou Tong brought back some Western specialties, told the First Emperor about some local customs, and also brought back a white bead, which is said to be related to the mystery of immortality. After Zhou Tong came back, he did not return to Xu Fu, but soon became seriously ill and died. ”

"In order to commemorate Zhou Tong's exploits, the First Emperor built this mausoleum for him. And Zhou Tong recorded his deeds on this bamboo slip and left it to his son, so that he could secretly put it in the mausoleum, maybe future generations can still see one or two. This bamboo slip has ended here, but looking at this fracture, there should be the second half of this bamboo slip. "I lost that half of the bamboo slip, so I'll talk about it.

"Grandpa, the bamboo slip does have another half, but it has been snatched away by Wei Ran." I said aggrievedly.

"Xiaoyu, my grandfather said bluntly, this bamboo slip is really a very important thing, whether you can be resurrected in the end depends on the content of this bamboo slip. Now this bamboo slip only records half of the content, and I think the second half of the content is the key. If you really want to come back from the dead, you have to get the second half back. ”

Find it back, how to get it back, it's not for me to go to Wei Ran.