6. Burning books and pit Confucianism

However, it is said that Qin Shi Huang returned to Beijing from Bolangsha in fright, and he did not go out for three consecutive years. However, the first emperor was active by nature and refused to live in the palace, so he often traveled in small clothes. And because of the incident of returning to Bolangsha before, he was often afraid of being plotted by others, so he selected four strong warriors with weapons and escorted them to protect them.

Qin Shi Huang thirty-four years, the world is fine. One day, the first emperor arranged a banquet in the Xianyang Palace and assembled the ministers. Seventy wise men were among them, and they raised their glasses and offered wine to them. The First Emperor was drinking happily, and Zhou Qingchen stepped forward and said: "In the past, countries stood side by side, and the land of Qin was only a thousand miles. His Majesty has sacred the unification of the world, and has set up counties and counties to expel the barbarians, so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment, and there will never be any trouble in fighting. The country has been passed down for a long time, and His Majesty's merits are majestic, and emperors have not been able to reach it since ancient times. When the first emperor heard this, his words were exactly what he meant, and he was not happy. Who knows, but it annoys a doctor.

His surname is Chunyu, his name is Yue, and he is a native of Qi. Seeing that Zhou Qingchen flattered the first emperor very much, he couldn't help but speak: "The ministers Wenyin and the Zhou Dynasty can pass on the country for a long time, all of which are assisted by the meritorious heroes of the great feudal sons. Now Your Majesty is rich all over the world, and the children have no size, if the traitorous ministers are dictatorial in the future, and there is no relatives to defend the royal family, its situation is very dangerous! If you don't learn from the ancients, it will be difficult to break for a long time.! Qin Shi Huang was naturally unhappy when he heard this, but he still didn't have a seizure on his face, but he asked the ministers what their opinions were? At this time, Li Si had been promoted from Tingwei to Prime Minister, and after listening to Chun Yuyue's words, he attended the performance and said: "What the doctor said is still the habit of the Warring States. It is only because the princes of the Warring States Period treated the scholars well, so hundreds of schools of thought rose together, each boasting of knowledge, ridiculing the current politics, and slandering the monarch, which is really lawless. If this kind of bad habit is not strictly eradicated, it will be ordered to be reversed, and it will be very harmful! In the humble opinion of the ministers, please burn all the historical books that are not recorded in the Qin Dynasty, and the poetry books and books of the hundred schools of thought in the folk collection will also be burned. Since then, those who dare to talk about poetry and books will practice the Fa-rectification. If you dare to cite the classics to ridicule current politics, you will be punished. It seems that this method can respect the imperial court and eliminate floating discussions. ”

The First Emperor thought to himself: "This law is very good, not only can it eliminate many slanders, but it is also in line with his own policy of fooling the people." Then the edict was issued and handled according to the proposal. So all the ancient books of the people were burned.

Time flies, and another year passes. The first emperor was eager to seek immortals, and he couldn't hold back. Then he set out to ride east to travel to Jieshi, so that the Yan man Lu Sheng entered the sea and sought the traces of the immortals. Parade back to the north by yourself.

Lu Sheng was ordered to go, thinking: "There is a vast ocean in the sea, where are there traces of immortals?" But if you return empty-handed, you will be demoted and punished, and you will fall out of favor and neglect, how is it good? Thinking about it, when he was in a dilemma, he suddenly thought of a plan, and took a boat to the middle of the sea and walked back. But he secretly wrote a book to echo the first emperor's words: "Although the immortals have not met it, they have copied the immortal book privately." "Then I presented the book. The words in the book of the First Emperor are mostly illusory. But there is one sentence in it: "The one who died in Qin, Hu Ye!" The First Emperor was astonished when he read this! I thought: "Hu is the nickname of the Xiongnu, and now that the country is unified, the people are powerless to rebel, and the civil strife can be safe." Whoever will be my descendants in the future will be the Hu people. It is better to expel him from the fortress at this time, build a wall in the place of the Chinese diplomatic circle, and send troops to protect the defenders from future troubles. The first emperor thought about it, so he ordered Meng Tian to lead 300,000 troops to attack the Xiongnu.

Speaking of the Xiongnu race, it is said that they are descendants of the Xia family and Miao, and often live in northwest China. They lived by herding livestock, and felt tents were set up where they lived, and there were no castles, houses, or writing. He learned to shoot and hunt since he was a child, shepherd animals when he has nothing to do, and serve as soldiers when he has something to do. If you are victorious, you will advance bravely, and if you are defeated, you will scatter and flee, not caring for each other. Its custom is to value the young and ignore the old, and the exquisite food is for the young people to enjoy, and if there is a surplus for the elderly. When the father dies, the son takes his stepmother. When a brother dies, he takes his wife, and so is his barbarism.

This time, Meng Tian was ordered by the First Emperor to lead 300,000 horses and horses to the north. The Huns were taken by surprise, did not take precautions, and fled from the wind. Meng Tian then took Henan and divided it into 44 counties, and moved the mainland prisoners to live. Then connect the Great Wall built by the former Yan, Zhao and Qin kingdoms. From Lintao in the west, to Liaodong in the east, a total of more than 10,000 miles.

On the one hand, Meng Tian built the city, and on the other hand, he led his troops to cross the Yellow River north and take the Yin Mountains. He is stationed in Shangjun to command and dispatch.

When Qin Shi Huang leveled the Six Kingdoms, every time he broke a country, he ordered the painter to paint his palace into a pattern, and he built it on the north saka of Xianyang. It is adjacent to Weishui in the south, Yongmen in the west, and the place where the two rivers of Jing and Wei are confluent in the east, and the pavilions are continuous all the way, and the compound road runs through. and placed among them the concubines, children, treasures, and treasures of the captive countries.

At that time, there were not many palaces. Except for the Xianyang Palace, all the palaces are in the Guannei, and there are 300 of them; There are more than 400 people outside the customs.

Qin Shi Huang has so many palaces and palaces that he can't get enough to play. Now I remembered again: "The main palace of Xianyang is an ancestral building, and it was just a prince of a country at that time, and the scale is naturally narrow. Now that I am the Son of Heaven, all the civil and military officials and their retinues have increased greatly. Whenever there is a formal banquet and the crowd is crowded, it is necessary to build a huge palace to see the magnificence. ”

The first emperor regarded Weishui as a heavenly river and built a bridge on the water. The bridge is six zhang wide and 280 steps long. Cross the Weishui to build a palace, 800 miles from east to west, 400 miles from north to south. The name is "Afang Palace". Tang Dynasty Du Mu has "A Fang Gong Fu", the gist of which is as follows: Six kings, four seas one. Shushan Wu, A Fang out of the 。。。。。。 Those who destroy the Six Kingdoms will also be the Six Kingdoms, not Qin. The Qin people, the Qin people, the non-world. Woof! It is enough to make each of the six kingdoms love his own people; Qin Fu loves the people of the Six Kingdoms, and the third generation can be the king of all generations, who will be wiped out? The Qin people have no time to mourn themselves, and future generations mourn them. Posterity mourns but does not learn from it, and it also makes posterity mourn for posterity!

This Fu describes the size of Afang Palace, which is incisive and vivid, and can be described as the largest palace in ancient and modern China and abroad!

One day, the first emperor drove to Liangshan Palace to climb the mountain to play, and suddenly saw a team of chariots and horses passing under the mountain, and the front and back hugged were very prominent. The First Emperor asked who it was? Left and right echoed: "It's the prime minister." The first emperor said to the left and right: "I have never seen the prime minister go out, it is so majestic!" There was a hint of displeasure in his words. At that time, the prime minister did not know that the first emperor was on the mountain and passed safely. A close attendant by the first emperor's side was close to the prime minister, and when he saw that the first emperor didn't like it, he secretly sent someone to report to the prime minister. The prime minister was surprised when he learned about it. A few days later, the First Emperor met the prime minister again, and felt that the number of followers was much smaller than before, and he thought that his close attendants had leaked my words. Then he immediately summoned the attendants to the front and questioned them one by one, but the public did not admit it. The First Emperor was furious and ordered the samurai to decapitate all the entourage and attendants the day before. The rest of the people were so frightened that they didn't dare to say more.

After that, no one knew where the procession of the First Emperor was.

But it was said that one day, Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng and others had a secret discussion: "The Lord is rigid by nature, likes to use severe punishment, and is greedy for power, and refuses to be indifferent. My generation can't seek immortal medicine for it, so it's better to abandon it. The two agreed, and fled together.

Afterwards, someone reported the news of the two of them to the first emperor before leaving. When the First Emperor heard about the case, he was furious and said: "I usually hope to seek longevity and peace, which costs a lot of money, and I will be especially polite and rewarding to Lu Sheng and others." Now you dare to slander! I must be arrested and punished with a heavy sentence before I can vent my anger! So he ordered all localities to be strictly investigated. Officials from all over the country were ordered to go out to Na, but they were not found.

The first emperor hated Lu Sheng and others in his heart, but he escaped and had nowhere to vent his anger. suddenly remembered that the two were originally Confucian students, so he turned his anger on a group of Confucian students. He issued an edict ordering the imperial history to pass on all the Confucian students in Beijing, and ask them one by one, did they make words to confuse the public? There were people in a group of Confucian scholars who usually liked to talk about it, so they sat down and were guilty of slander. There are countless people who have been involved in tossing and turning. The imperial history repeated the confession of the case, and the first emperor convicted him according to his name, and a total of more than 460 people were convicted of capital crimes, and all of them were punished in Xianyang City.

Fusu is the eldest son of Qin Shi Huang, resolute and brave, known as benevolent heart, all the ministers at that time, including Qin Shi Huang, were very satisfied with this son Fusu, the former Fusu is the closest person to the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty, if Fusu can succeed to the throne as emperor, maybe the Qin Dynasty's national Zuo will not only be short for more than ten years.

Fusu is kind-hearted. Whenever the first emperor was brutal, he often admonished him. Seeing that the first emperor had killed countless Confucian scholars, he said: "Now that the world has been decided, the people in the distance have not yet returned to their hearts, and a group of Confucian scholars are just reciting Confucianism, but Your Majesty has dealt with them with severe criminal laws, and the ministers are worried that the world will be unstable because of this." I hope Your Majesty will see it. Qin Shi Huang was furious, not only did he not listen, but he was disgusted with Fu Su's words. So he was sent to Shangjun to supervise Meng Tian's army, and assisted Meng Tian in building the Great Wall to resist the nomadic Xiongnu in the north.

The first emperor was still angry, because he saw that the Confucian students killed this time were limited to Xianyang. I thought: "There are such people everywhere, and they like to shake their lips and trumpet their tongues to ridicule current politics on weekdays." Now I hear that I have killed many people, it is the tragedy of the rabbit and the fox that hurts it. Everyone will inevitably be dissatisfied in their hearts, so it is better to take advantage of this to eliminate them all. However, if the magistrate is ordered to take charge of the rule, I am afraid that the world will be in turmoil or chaos. And as soon as the wind is revealed, the cunning ones evade in advance, and they will slip through the net. but with the lure of profit, and then quietly catch it all. The first emperor made up his mind, and under the pretext of attracting talents, he ordered all counties to recruit Confucian students and send them to Beijing within a time limit, waiting for hiring. As soon as this edict was issued, many people who were greedy for wealth and wealth came to Beijing one after another.

By the time they were ready, there were seven hundred. The first emperor summoned them all, pretended to be warm and consoled, and worshiped them all as Lang officials. All living beings are thankful for their duties, and each of them rejoices.

The First Emperor summoned his cronies and instructed him: "You can go to Lishan, find a place near the hot springs, and plant melon seeds, so that he can bear fruit in the winter moon." When the fruit is fruitful, let someone report it, and there shall be no mistake, and no leakage shall be made to others. "He was ordered to go. In the place of Magu, melon seeds were planted according to the words. The melon is heated by the hot spring, and in the cold winter, it actually sprouts and leads the vines, and the fruit becomes fruitful. So he sent a letter to report it. The First Emperor pretended to be surprised, summoned all the beings and asked, "Recently, it has been so cold that some people have reported that the melons in Lishan are fruitful, I don't know why?" "All the beings have their own opinions. Some say that it is auspicious, and some say that it is a disaster, and there are different opinions. The First Emperor said to all living beings: "You have never seen the real melon, and you have your own suspense and speculation, so you have different opinions. You can go to the place to understand it in person, and then decide to repeat it. ”

All the beings were ordered to go together. When they came to the valley and saw the melon fruit, everyone pointed to the heavens and the earth and made a big discussion, each insisting on one thing and refuting each other. The First Emperor had sent people to ambush him in all directions. The beings happily quoted the scriptures, and the controversy was unresolved. Suddenly, I saw earth and rocks like rain and hail, flying down from the mountains on all sides, and panicked in all directions. Helplessly, the way out of the poor valley has been cut off, and there is nowhere to escape. The sound of the call for a while shook the world and was unbearable. The sergeants only cared about filling in the earth and rocks, and pressed until the public was silent. Pity all 700 people buried alive! So far, there are still high pits on the west bank of Lishan Horse Valley. It is passed down from father to father, that is, the place where Qin pits Confucianism.

However, it is said that Lishan Huaqing Pond is a famous scenic spot in Xi'an. For many years, many emperors have built soup pools here, and have left nine dragon soup, concubine pool, Feixia Pavilion and other places of interest. How did the hot springs of Huaqing Pond come about? There is an interesting legend here.

Legend has it that many years ago, Nuwa Mending Heaven left a stone in Lishan, so people built a Niangniang temple there. For many years, the incense of Niangniang Temple has been very spiritual, attracting believers from near and far to come here to worship Buddha and burn incense.

After Qin Shi Huang unified China, he came to Lishan for a day. He saw that the incense in the Niangniang Temple was very strong, and he also wanted to go to worship. The guards drove away the believers, and Qin Shi Huang entered the Niangniang Temple. The Niangniang Temple is not big, and Qin Shi Huang turned around and stopped in front of the statue of Nuwa Niangniang. Qin Shi Huang saw that the statue of Nuwa Niangniang was very beautiful, and thought to himself how good it would be if he could find a beautiful girl like Nuwa Niangniang as a concubine! Thinking about it, I took a few steps forward, getting closer and closer to the idol. Hearing a "bah" sound, Nuwa Niangniang spat on Qin Shi Huang's face.

Qin Shi Huang touched his face and was startled, Nuwa Niangniang is a clay sculpture, how can she still spit on her, could it be that she is really alive? The more Qin Shi Huang thought about it, the more frightened he became, and hurriedly left the Niangniang Temple with his guards.

It is strange to say that after Qin Shi Huang went back, sores appeared in the place where he was spitted. It's itchy and painful, and the worse it gets. He hurriedly summoned the imperial doctor, who looked at the sores on his face and said that there was no way to cure this kind of rotten sore, and Qin Shi Huang felt very uncomfortable. The minister who accompanied him to Niangniang Temple that day was called Xiang Ping, who was a confidant of Qin Shi Huang. He saw that the sores on Qin Shi Huang's face were getting worse and worse, so he secretly came up with an idea and said: "Your Majesty is the emperor of the world, rich from all over the world, even if he is occasionally disrespectful, the goddess should also be forgiven." ”

Listening to Xiang Ping's words, the gloom on Qin Shi Huang's face did not dissipate, he frowned and said listlessly: "But the goddess didn't forgive me!" ”

Xiang Ping raised his head and said, "Your Majesty can go to the temple to burn incense sincerely, and Nuwa Niangniang will forgive you when she sees that you are indeed sincere......"

Qin Shi Huang had no choice but to go to Niangniang Temple to burn incense. After 7749 days in a row, Nuwa Niangniang was finally moved.

On this day, Qin Shi Huang just finished worshipping, a bamboo stick jumped out of the table stick, Qin Shi Huang took a look, and the words "Tangquan scab" were written on it. While he was thinking about it, a guard came in and reported that many steaming hot springs had appeared at the foot of Lishan. Qin Shi Huang was overjoyed when he heard this.

It turned out that Nuwa Niangniang was angry with Qin Shi Huang for being rude, so she punished him with sores. But seeing that Qin Shi Huang could correct his mistakes, he showed his magic to help him treat. Nuwa Niangniang took out a bottle from her arms, dipped some water in the bottle with a twig and sprinkled it on Lishan, and a steaming hot spring appeared at the foot of Lishan.

Qin Shi Huang used a hot spring to wash off the scabs, and after a short time, his face gradually improved.