Chapter 186: Power over the world
At that time, the workers who built the Jasper Shrine thought that Zhao Gao built the Jasper Shrine as a burial place after his death, and that a person who served the emperor built such a large-scale mausoleum, which was comparable to the imperial mausoleum, which was unheard of.
At that time, no one knew what Zhao Gao thought, until the statue of the Jasper Goddess was carved, and some people said that Zhao Gao was a eunuch. Before his death, he had never tasted the joy of men and women, so he carved so many female statues and placed them in his underground palace, hoping that there would be a concubine after death.
In order to build a giant palace for the ages, Zhao Gao personally selected a site and set up a statue in the dangerous Lushan Mountain. When digging the Lushan mountain, there will be nearly 100 casualties every day, until the completion of the project, the excavation of the Lushan Inner Palace killed more than 20,000 people.
But the real nightmare is not the excavation of the inner palace of Lushan, but the carving of the jasper statue, Zhao Gao wants to carve a statue of the ancients and the future, he is afraid of being surpassed by the latecomers. Therefore, 100,000 people were mobilized to hollow out the Obori Rock Mountain, which is adjacent to the Yangtze River. After the thousand-zhang long rock mountain was dug up, transporting this rock mountain to the belly of Lushan Mountain became the biggest problem. Later, someone found a kind of iron tree, which can bear the weight of 100,000 tons without deformation, and the iron tree is used as a rolling wood to transport mountain rock, which took half a year to do, and the dead are more than 10,000.
Next, the carving of the jasper statue became the biggest problem, because this is a mountain to carve, and there are only more than 100 craftsmen who can carve and chisel. It will take at least 30 years to complete such a huge project, and their construction period is only one year, and if there is a problem with the carving of the statue of the goddess, it cannot be reworked and rebuilt. Everyone is going to be beheaded.
Lu Xiu could only let the craftsmen teach the laborers the skills of carving, and everyone worked together, carving day and night, and many people died, and there was a labor riot in the middle. I don't know how many people died, but in the end, when the statue of the Jasper Goddess was carved and transported to the Jasper Shrine, less than 20,000 people remained of 100,000 people.
At that time, Gongzi Fusu and Meng Tian had already been executed, Zhao Gao's power was overwhelming, and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, Zhao Gao was not only talented and good at monopolizing people's hearts, but also gathered a large number of mysterious qi refiners, no one knew what he wanted to do.
When the Jasper Shrine was built, Lu Xiu knew that Zhao Gao's viciousness would inevitably wipe out all those who knew about the Jasper Shrine, so their only hope for survival was Prime Minister Li Si, and he sent someone to secretly send a letter to Li Si. asked him to rescue, but a few days later, news came that Li Si was framed for rebellion and beheaded in the city.
Lu Xiu mourned, he expected to die, he looked at the statue of the jasper goddess, and never knew who this jasper was.
Until he heard the news from the Qin Palace, Zhao Gao pointed the way for the horse.
On that day, Zhao Gao rode a giant deer and led hundreds of qi refiners into the court, and he asked the hundreds of qi refiners to attach a woman's soul to a paper person with demon magic, and the paper man could speak and move, claiming to be jasper.
There was a minister in the court who was frightened when he heard that it was Jasper, because he remembered that many years ago, the First Emperor had killed a woman named Jasper, who was not only young and beautiful, but also danced brilliantly, known as beautiful as Jasper, dancing like a flying swallow. On the day that the First Emperor favored her, he wanted to make her Concubine Yan, but when he had a room, he found that she was not a virgin, so he was furious and asked her to tell who the man was.
Jasper kept her mouth shut and committed suicide that night.
Before I died, I left a message in blood to give me power.
Nobody knows what it means.
Now that I think about it, the woman named Biyu should be Zhao Gao's wife, Zhao Gao has a goddaughter who is married to Xianyang Ling Yan Le, and his goddaughter is actually his biological daughter.
When Zhao Gao held the hand of the paper in the court and said that the giant deer in the hall was a horse, many people fell into a deep panic.
Those ministers who said that the giant deer was a deer, and within a few days they were slaughtered by Zhao Gao, and a few days later Zhao Gao wanted to be the king in the court, and several old ministers finally couldn't help but oppose it, and all the courtiers knelt down and asked Zhao Gao to dispel this idea, Zhao Gao laughed and put Qin II aside, he wanted to kill all the courtiers.
Just when Zhao Gao wanted to make a move, the giant deer in the main hall stopped Zhao Gao, so the ministers escaped.
Qin II was deposed by Zhao Gao soon after and killed in the dormitory.
Just when Lu Xiu thought that the Qin Dynasty would be replaced by Zhao Gao, the news of Zhao Gao's death came suddenly, and Zhao Gao's family was wiped out, and they were attacked and killed by the army sent by Ziying on the way to kill the Qin Dynasty clan.
Lu Xiu was overjoyed, thinking that he could finally see the light of day, and the laborers also cheered, waiting for the arrival of the holy oracle.
But three days later, the remaining 20,000 laborers were still ordered to be killed by people from the Qin Palace, and Lu Xiu was spared by hiding behind the statue he had carved himself, in which he had stored a large amount of food and herbs.
Lu Xiu didn't know how many days he had spent in the statue, he felt that Qin Bing should be gone, and the Lushan Jade Divine Palace should also be sealed, when he appeared under the Jasper Divine Palace, looking at the brightly lit underground palace, he was also deeply shocked.
He saw that the terracotta figurines at the foot of the jasper statue were still steaming, and blood was dripping from time to time, and he realized that these terracotta figurines were made of living people.
And around the figurine pit, the tomb ladder soars up, I don't know how high it is thousands of floors, and there will be floating lights on each floor, Lu Xiu knows that these are the means of qi refiners.
He vaguely saw the glow of fire coming from the top of the Jasper Statue, so he walked up the ladder of Fuyao Heaven, and above the head of the Jasper Statue, he saw a giant deer locked in a copper cage, and under the copper cage, a man wearing a feather suit.
Lu Xiu hid behind the statue of the Heavenly Ladder and saw the face of that person clearly, it was Zhao Gao.
Zhao Gao didn't die?!
Lu Xiu didn't know why Zhao Gao didn't die, could it be that Ziying killed Zhao Gao just a conspiracy? Is it a bureau deliberately set up by Zhao Gao?
He saw Zhao Gao raise his hands flat, the fireworks in his hands were monstrous, the copper cage above his head was burned red, and the giant deer in the copper cage hissed, as if begging for mercy, Zhao Gao laughed, the copper cage melted and closed, trapping the giant deer in the copper cage.
After that, Zhao Gao glanced at Lu Xiu, who thought he had been discovered, but Zhao Gao did not make any moves, but talked about his life.
Zhao Gaozu was originally a nobleman of Zhao State, and during the Warring States Period, the world was united vertically and horizontally, and countries formed alliances and exchanged contracts, and each other took the royal family as hostages. Most of these hostages, who were unfavored alienated among the many children of the monarch, often stayed in foreign lands for a long time after being hostaged, and many of them were poor and deprived of life and could not be returned until they died.
Zhao Gaozu is such a person, from Zhao to Qin as a proton, no favor in Zhao State, no help in Qin State, unexpectedly stranded in Qin, and later married a wife and had children in Qin State, and his descendants lived in Xianyang City, becoming Qin people, no different from ordinary people.
Later, Zhao Gao's family ran to Zhao in exile, Zhao Gao's father, brother and uncle were captured by Zhao Guo to fill the army, and were buried alive by the Qin people in the war, Zhao Gao's family had no pillars, several brothers worked day and night for the livelihood of the family, and later died tragically, and the young Zhao Gao and his mother were captured by the Qin people and taken to the palace as slaves.
Zhao Gao's mother was weak, she was not quick when she worked, and she was often abused and whipped by people in the palace, but Zhao Gao's mother endured it, because she also had two young sons, one was Zhao Gao and the other was Zhao Cheng.
Zhao Gao's mother with two sons, tired day and night, finally one day fainted while working, she was woken up by the palace people with cold water, because she was unable to work and was beaten, his mother was fierce, when she was beaten, she was unconvinced, so she was stripped naked by the palace people in public.
Zhao Gao's mother fell into a slump and felt deeply humiliated after returning to the residence, and fell ill within two days, and Zhao Gao and Zhao Cheng wanted to visit but were not allowed to enter.
Late at night, Zhao Gao climbed into the slave girl's room and saw his dying mother, who was already dying, and she grabbed his hand and asked him to take care of his younger brother.
Zhao Gao agreed, watching his mother die with hatred. Macro sarcasm.
Since then, Zhao Gao and Zhao Cheng brothers in the palace for the slaves to make a living, often not enough to eat and clothing, and will be beaten from time to time, and finally one day, his younger brother Zhao Cheng was hungry and panicked late one night, sneaking into the slave shop to steal things to eat when he was caught, and was strangled to death in public at noon the next day.
And the person who strangled Zhao Cheng was Zhao Gao.
The leader of the palace knew that Zhao Gao and Zhao Cheng were brothers, and in order to make an example of the monkey, he asked Zhao Gao to kill his younger brother with his own hands.
Zhao Cheng was tied to the town wind pile, crying, he was only sixteen years old, and he didn't want to die yet.
When Zhao Gao strangled Zhao Cheng's neck with a rope, he whispered, you go with peace of mind, my brother will avenge you.
After Zhao Cheng's death, the hateful gaze in Zhao Gao's eyes attracted abuse and beatings again and again, he found that it was difficult to take revenge, he became more and more desperate in his heart, and he wanted to die several times, and it was at that time that he met a woman named Biyu.
That Biyu is also one of the female slaves in the Qin Palace, quite popular in the female slave room, she once slipped out to play in the middle of the night when she met Zhao Gao who wanted to commit suicide, and rescued him, the two have known each other since then, Biyu knew from the conversation that Zhao Gao was quite talented, and the two soon became a good friend, and made a private lifelong agreement.
A year later, Biyu became pregnant with a child, secretly gave birth in a female slave house, and gave birth to a daughter, Zhao Gao had gradually learned how to buy people's hearts at that time, and some benefits were promised to others, so Biyu and his child were secretly sent out of the Qin Palace.
But it didn't take long for this matter to be known by the head of the palace people, Zhao Gao was facing the moment of life and death, at that time, Qin Shi Huang was recruiting concubines, and Jasper, who could sing and dance like a fairy, was naturally recommended to enter the palace, and on the night she was favored by Qin Shi Huang, she asked to put the head of the palace in the slave house to death, and Qin Shi Huang agreed without thinking about it.
After that, Biyu committed suicide, and Zhao Gao gradually gained prestige in the slave house, he became more and more tactful, more and more quick, and his scheming city government became deeper and deeper, and he was promoted to Qin Shi Huang's side step by step, until he was in power.
Zhao Gao remembered that night, when Biyu told him her plan, Zhao Gao cried and agreed, her death was exchanged for his life.
Biyu knew that Zhao Gao was smart, and she told him before she died, if she could, she would dominate the world for me in the future.
At this point, Lu Xiu knew Zhao Gao's purpose in building this Jasper Divine Palace, and knew who the woman named Jasper was.
Zhao Gao looked at the jasper statue in front of him and said, I am willing to point to the deer as a horse for you, and I am willing to dominate the world for you.