Chapter Twenty-Six: The Pavilion Chief Speaks Wildly When He Sees the Driver

The first emperor did not get Meng Jiangnu, you were completely unhappy, and his spirit was broken, so he had to lead the fleet to the south of the Bohai Sea. Xu Fu was questioned from all sides, but there was no result. I came to the east gate of Qu County again. The First Emperor looked east at the sea, hoping to see some fantastic scenes on the sea again, but he saw nothing, but an astronomical officer who accompanied him saw an unusual astronomical phenomenon, and the official in charge of the celestial phenomena told him that there was a phenomenon in the heavens that was 'bewildered and guarded'. The First Emperor asked the officials: "What is the Glowing Guard?" The official explained this phenomenon to him in detail:

It turns out that ancient China used the naked eye to observe Mars a long time ago, like a firefly red, the brightness often changes, and when it moves in the sky, sometimes from west to east, sometimes from east to west, and a while bright, a moment dark, unpredictable, confusing, so people call it "glowing", that is, synonymous with Mars. So what's going on with "Glowing Confusion and Guarding the Heart"? It refers to the phenomenon that Mars does not linger for a long time near Antares in Scorpio. Because Scorpio is the sign of the emperor. It is said that the red first-class bright star in Scorpio - the red light of the "heart" is like blood and fire, also known as the "fire". And because Scorpio is a zodiac sign, it belongs to the Antares of the 28 constellations, and the Antares has three stars, representing the emperor, the prince and the minister. Mars always moves near the ecliptic, and if Mars stays near Scorpio and does not leave, it means that the emperor may die, the prime minister will step down, or the regime will fall. Therefore, in the view of the astrological officials, the distant stars are mysterious and inviolable, because "heaven and man take care of them", and the movement of the stars in the sky is linked to the fate of people on the earth, and it is often closely related to the life and death of the emperor and the destruction of the country.

At this time, the emperor asked the celestial officials what kind of thing could happen in this situation. The celestial official said: "When King Xuan of Zhou, there was a nursery rhyme that sang: 'Tired of the arc of the suit, the real death of the Zhou country'." King Xuan asked what was going on. The official in charge of astronomy said, 'There is a girl who is the reincarnation of the Luminous Star, the spirit of Mars, and she will bring disaster to the country. King Xuan searched everywhere for this demon, but he couldn't find it. Coincidentally, at this time, there was an old palace maid in the palace who was forty years pregnant, and she actually gave birth to a girl, and this girl was the later Baoxi! When the First Emperor heard such a thing, he was very depressed, thinking: How could there be such a bad omen in the eternal foundation that he had so hard created?

At this time, Li Si comforted him and said, "Your Majesty, you don't have to worry at all. What does these celestial phenomena mean in the vastness of the universe? We don't know, but as long as the people on earth do a good job, nothing bad will happen. The First Emperor said, "Oh, what evidence does the prime minister have?" Li Si said: "Your Majesty, when Song Jinggong was in power, there was also a 'Yingfu guarding the heart' thing. The official in charge of the astrological phenomena told Jing Gong that this was the murder of the main sword soldiers, and whether it was for Song Jinggong or Song Guo, there was a possibility of annihilation. Song Jinggong asked what method could be used to avoid the disaster. The astrological officer told Song Jinggong three ways: the first was to pass on the calamity to the prime minister; the second is to pass on the calamity to the people. The third is the harvest that is passed on to the grains. But Song Jinggong felt that this was not in line with Renjun's demeanor, and he was unwilling to hurt others. As a result, the astrological officer exclaimed that the lord had uttered from his heart the three kinds of benevolence and generosity of the king, which would surely sense the heart of the heavens, and the confusion would also move. When the officials astrological signs were taken again, they had already found that Mars had really left the range of the heart star, and Song Jinggong was extended by the heavens for twenty-one years, and nothing strange happened! At this time, the celestial officer also said: "Yes, yes, yes, what the Prime Minister said is indeed like this." Although the First Emperor didn't say anything, he was depressed in his heart, so he had to order to go home.

When the car drove to Ludi, the emperor found that people were avoiding him, and he was very unhappy, so he had to continue to walk back. One day, when the car arrived in Dongjun, it was already dusk, and the First Emperor suddenly saw a meteor above his head streak forward, and then heard a loud noise. People were very surprised. In a short time, a sergeant came to report in a panic and said, "Your Majesty, that meteor in the sky just now fell to the ground and turned into a big stone. When the First Emperor heard that there was such a strange thing, he hurriedly led his ministers to check it out.

It turned out that a meteorite fell from the sky, it was very large, and some of it smashed into the ground, and it was more than a foot high. The First Emperor looked around the meteorite, and suddenly found a line of words on the stone, which actually read, 'The First Emperor died and the land was divided'. The emperor was shocked, so he touched it with his hand, and it turned out that the ink had not yet dried. The First Emperor thought to himself: This must have been done by the people in the vicinity, and they wanted to curse themselves with the Heavenly Stone, so he was furious in his heart, so he ordered all the people in the vicinity to be arrested and interrogated to see who did this 'lack of virtue'. But after trial, who would dare to admit it. In a fit of rage, the First Emperor killed all of them. Then he ordered the big meteorite to be piled up with firewood and grass to be burned, and asked the doctor to make a poem "Immortal True Poem", and ordered the musicians to sing it, saying that in this way, they could seek good fortune and avoid evil.

Then a strange thing happened: when the car came to Pingshu City, Huayin County, there was a crazy person who stopped the tiger guards at the front, offered treasure and said: "You dedicate this to the water god of Zhuchi for me, and the ancestral dragon will die next year!" The Tiger Guardian felt that this man's words were terrible, so he brought the treasure to the First Emperor and told him what he had said. The first emperor thought to himself that the 'ancestor' was the beginning, and the 'dragon' was the king. Could this be yourself? He also asked Li Si to inspect the treasure offered by this person on the spot, which turned out to be the piece of jade that the first emperor threw into Dongting Lake in order to suppress the wind and waves when he toured Jiangnan in the 28th year. The emperor felt that this matter was very strange, so he sent someone to arrest the person who offered the treasure. But the soldier came back and said that the man had long since disappeared. Qin Shi Huang muttered in his heart, he didn't know who the person who offered the treasure was, let alone how he got the jade.

The First Emperor returned to Xianyang in full of suspicion. At this time, he found out through the car window that the people were hiding in Tibet, as if they were hiding from the epidemic. I also saw that the ministers and soldiers were all depressed and listless. The First Emperor thought to himself: If the people saw me like this, they would definitely laugh at the fact that they were asking for hardship when they went out on patrol, so he immediately ordered the three armies to rectify their power. When the officials received the order, they beat the drum and sounded the trumpet, and shouted repeatedly: "The three armies are all in order!" When the soldiers heard the command, they cheered up. When the car came to Xianyang City, the sergeants shouted in unison: "The first in the Qin country, invincible in the world!" The founding emperor, long life without borders! The soldiers walked neatly and with a soaring murderous aura, and walked towards Xianyang Palace together.

The city of Xianyang is very lively, and the streets are lined with people, so they watch the emperor's car together. In the middle of the crowd, there was a tall middle-aged man, who was also crowded into the crowd to watch. When he saw that the emperor's car was so magnificent and the scene was so grand, he praised it in a tone of surprise, envy, admiration, and forgetfulness: "Hey, the big husband should be like this!" At this time, there was a free and easy young man beside him, so he hurriedly pulled the placket of the man's clothes with his hand, and then said close to his ear: "Big brother, don't forget God, this is going to destroy the clan!" The tall man came to his senses, glanced around alertly, and then left with the young man.

This middle-aged man with a lot of emotion is a native of Zhongyangli, Fengyi, Pei County, Surabaya County, surnamed Liu, the third in line, known as Liu Ji. This person is wearing a dark bamboo crown and a black official uniform, and he looks graceful and majestic. His big face like a full moon was carved with a high nose, a broad forehead, dragon eyebrows and phoenix eyes, and a beard and sideburns that were very beautiful. This person's buddy is very righteous, benevolent and open-minded, likes to give, and has the demeanor of an elder, so people recommended him to be the pavilion chief of the Surabaya Pavilion. Because Liu Ji had a great influence in the local area, the county magistrate often sent him to Xianyang on business trips. This time, I escorted a batch of valuable timber to Xianyang. After they finished their errand, they wandered around the city, and happened to meet the car of the first emperor returning to Beijing, as the saying goes: 'There are countless people from all over the world, which man is not a husband?' The prestige of the First Emperor inspired his ambition, and he exclaimed as he had just made.

The young man next to him is named Xiahou Ying, who is also from Pei County, serving as the secretary of the Pei County stable, equivalent to the driver of today's car class, and is also in his twenties. There is also a brother named Ji Xin, who is five years younger than Liu Ji, but looks like Liu Ji, so people say that they are brothers. Both of them are strong in martial arts, so the county magistrate asked them to be Liu Ji's assistants. After watching the emperor's car, everyone embarked on the journey home together.