7 Xu Fu asked for medicine

However, it is said that Qin Shi Huang occasionally read the documents one day, and saw the report of the county guard of Dongjun, saying: "On a certain day in a certain month, a star suddenly fell from the sky, and it turned into stone on the ground." Somehow, the words suddenly appeared on the stone, 'The first emperor died and divided'. Look at the seven characters carefully, and it is yin, and it is recognizable. The First Emperor was furious when he received this report, and thought: "This text must have been carved by the people, and the ignorant and stubborn people dare to curse and bow down, which is extremely hateful!" "Ritsushi went to Dongjun to inquire. The Imperial Historian was ordered to go, but no one admitted it, and he could not point out the perpetrator of the crime without reason. Yushi had no choice but to return to Beijing to resume his life. When the First Emperor heard this, he immediately ordered: "Kill all the inhabitants of the stone, and burn the stone with charcoal." "The magistrate was edicted to tie up the nearby people to the court and behead them, a total of hundreds of people, everyone was called Qu Liantian, and there was nowhere to sue if there was a grievance.

The First Emperor killed many people to calm his anger a little. But after all, I felt that it was a bad omen.

Qin Shi Huang was sleepy and lay down for a few days. Endure the loud sound, shocking the heavens and the earth! Seeing the red sun falling in front of him, a child in Tsing Yi came from the east, his face was like steel, his eyes had heavy pupils, he wanted to hug the sun forward, but he never picked it up, and a child in red came from the south, shouting: "Little boy in Tsing Yi, you can't hold it!" I have been commanded by God to hug the sun. "The two disagreed and fought hard. The child in Tsing Yi fell seventy-two times in a row, and the child in red refused to accept it, so he jumped up and punched hard, and the child in Tsing Yi fell to the ground and died of exhaustion. The child in red picked up the sun and headed south. I saw that the clouds were misty, the red light was all over the ground, and the child didn't know where to go.

Qin Shi Huang suddenly realized it, thinking about how auspicious this dream is, and thinking that I am afraid that the world of Qin will eventually be obtained by others. So he was depressed all day long. He discussed with his close ministers and asked for the elixir of immortality, and he would be the king for all eternity.

In October, the First Emperor chose an auspicious day to travel. Ordered the left prime minister Li Si and the CRRC government to order Zhao Gao to accompany him, and the right prime minister Feng went to stay behind.

However, this tour did not follow the original path and set off to the southeast. The young son Hu Hai was favored, and this time he volunteered to travel, and the first emperor agreed.

In November, Qin Shi Huang traveled south to Yunmeng, passed through Jiuzhi Mountain, and heard that there was a Shun mound left on the mountain, which was to pray at the mountain. Then cross the river to the south, cross Danyang, enter Qiantang, near Zhejiang, there is a big tide on the river, the storm is very evil, so go west detour, go to the Ji Mountain, sacrifice Dayu Mausoleum, and look at the South China Sea. Still according to the previous example, standing stone carved ode.

After the standing stone, the brigade went to the Bohai Sea in a mighty way. Arriving at the seaside, Qin Shi Huang landed on Zhifu Island and indulged in a deep view. I saw that between the sea of clouds, the characters of the mountains and rivers appeared and disappeared from time to time, which was magnificent, and Qin Shi Huang was fascinated.

When Jiangsu Fangshi Xu Fu was on the side, he said that there are Penglai, Abbot, Yingzhou three immortal mountains in the sea, there are immortals living in them, the eight festivals in the mountains are like spring, the four o'clock is clear, I don't know the cold and heat, I don't know Jiazi. There is the elixir of immortality, and taking it can be regarded as infinite. After hearing this, Qin Shi Huang asked, "Have you ever seen this fairyland?" How can I get this medicine? Xu Fu said: "It is not difficult to ask for medicine, but it is difficult to get real medicine into the sea; If you want this medicine, you have to go into the sea to get it. The emperor said: "If you seek the real medicine, eat with Qing, and feather to become immortals, wouldn't it be beautiful?" Xu Fu said: "If you want to go, you must use ten big boats." All the craftsmen of all colors must be prepared. Five hundred boys and five hundred girls, gold, jewelry, shells, eating utensils, and the like were indispensable. After tidying up, the ministers set off. "The first emperor immediately ordered the construction of ships, complete in all colors, and crossed the sea to collect medicine with Xu Fu.

Xu Fu used the name of seeking medicine to receive fees year by year, and it was too much to count, he was at ease at sea, and he did not look for the elixir of immortality. Thanks to his ability to speak well, every time he saw the first emperor, he said that he had sailed for many years, and he got Penglai several times, and there were big mackerel in the sea, making waves and blocking the sea boats, so he could not go up the mountain to seek medicine. The minister wants Penglai medicine to be obtained, and the only way to get rid of the mackerel is to get rid of it first. When the first emperor heard that not only did he not accuse him of deception, but also carried out according to the proposal, he chose to shoot hundreds of people well, and accompanied the imperial boat to shoot fish in person. Immediately set off from Yaoya, and went forward to Zhifu, only to have a big fish to come, if it sinks and floats, the giant scales can be distinguished. The crossbowmen stood on the bow of the ship and used their skills to shoot at the fish. In an instant, the blood drifted, and the big fish suffered many arrow wounds, and sank into the water leisurely. The first emperor pointed to the big fish as an evil god, saying that he had shot him to death, and then he should be safe, and ordered Xu Fu to ask for medicine again.

Xu Fu was about to sail east with three thousand boys and three girls and many food and goods on his original ships. Xu Fuhe said to the public: "Emperor Qin wants me to wait for the elixir of immortality, imagine where the elixir of immortality comes from?" If we return empty-handed, we will be angry, and we will be beheaded. When the crowd listened, they couldn't help but cry.

After many days, I saw an ocean, and the sea was deep and blue, and there was no shore in all directions. One day, seeing an island in the distance, Xu Fu urged the boat forward, reached the shore, and moored the boat together. Xu Fu went ashore to take a lookout and saw that the plain was vast and could accommodate many people. The mountains and rivers are beautiful and the climate is mild. But the hazel is barren and barren, there is no trace of people, if it is slowly opened up, it can become a happy land, Xu Fu is secretly happy. He returned to the ship and ordered all those who came with him to land. Everyone thought to themselves: "Living in the mainland for a long time, being abused by the government, the suffering is unspeakable." Now that I have obtained this new world, although it takes a lot of effort to open it up, I am free from oppression, and I am already happy. Then the people rejoiced, and the boys and girls were married to each other, and from that time on the island lived and worked in peace and contentment. Neither taxed nor tortured, everyone put their life's skills to work on a desert island. There are those who dig wells, there are those who plough fields, there are those who make utensils, and there are those who build houses. In a short time everything was ready. If compared to the story of Robinson's drifting island, this is a fact, and now there is an ancient tomb somewhere in Japan, which is said to be the place where Xu Fu was buried.

This year, another incredible thing happened. A messenger who was walking at night was passing through Huayin from the east, and suddenly a man stopped him with a jade bi. He said to the envoy, "Please give this piece of jade to the king of 滈 (hào, hao) for me, and said to the envoy, "This year the ancestral dragon dies." The messenger was puzzled and asked him what he meant. However, this strange man left the jade bi behind, and disappeared into the night in the blink of an eye. The messenger, who was confused but also felt bad, returned to Xianyang with Yubi and immediately reported to Qin Shi Huang.

Qin Shi Huang's first reaction after hearing this was that the "ancestral dragon" in this sentence referred to himself, and after he retired from the dynasty, he said to others that "ancestral dragon" refers to people's ancestors. It sounds like a hard tone, but in fact, there is a sense of helplessness. Then he sent someone to send the jade brought back by the envoy to the imperial palace for identification, and it turned out that this piece of jade was actually the one that was thrown into the river when Qin Shi Huang was paraded across the river in the 28th year. How did the jade bi that was sacrificed to the water god ten years ago be sent back by an unknown person?

However, it is said that the first emperor was very jealous in the world, not only did the scholars die countless unjustly, but even the people at home and abroad suffered a lot for the sake of continuous servitude, and there was no reward. There are only two of them who have been favored and enshrined. One is a trader in Wushi County, named Liu, and the other is a widow in Ba County, named Qing. After selling the animal and making a certain amount of silver, he went to buy silk and shipped it to Xirong for sale. Rong people are plain and brown, they have never seen the flowers and colors, once they see it, they are all envious, and they report to the king of Rong. King Rong summoned Lu to see, saw a lot of things, that is, he couldn't bear to let go of the play, but also the blessing to the soul, so he chose the best silk hands to dedicate. King Rong couldn't help but be overjoyed, willing to repay the value, and immediately ordered to give thousands of livestock to Lu, as a price, Lu was happy to accept it, Xie Beirong King, drove back the livestock, and then sold it in the mainland, making ten times the profit. He also raised horses and cattle, raised more and more, countless, and even the enclosure was not enough to accommodate, so he simply purchased a mountain garden, and drove the horses and cattle to the valley, and went out of the twilight, but the valley was satisfied, and it was not lost. He has always been rich and noble, rich enough to be psychic, and he didn't know how to exercise the officials, so he told the first emperor about this, saying that he concentrated on animal husbandry and became very rich. The peddler was degraded by Qin, but he received an edict to make him king, allowed him to enter the capital on time, and had to be in the same class as the ministers to congratulate.

The widow and young man kept the festival, relied on the ancestral Danxue as a livelihood, worked hard and thrifty, and enjoyed a huge amount of money. According to records, there were thousands of widows and servants, as many as tens of thousands of workers and soldiers, and the total population of a county at that time was only 40,000 or 50,000. The widow Qing has become a local "overlord". But the widow Kiyoshi is neither "Sherlock" nor "Grande", she is a resolute and feminine woman.

One year, the widow's hometown was hit by a heavy hailstorm, leaving many people in the vicinity homeless. The widow Qing used a huge amount of silver taels to resettle the lives of the victims and help them resume production and rebuild their homes.

In order to maintain business and protect business interests, the widow Qing Baqing took out gold silk and gave it to the officials. The officials sent troops to protect her, strictly rejected the thieves, and played on her behalf, telling her how she was determined to run the house. Qin Shi Huang was lustful and prostituted on weekdays, but he preferred that folk women be different from men and women, and they should be cautious and idle. After Ba County's performance, he issued a special decree to ask the widow to enter the court to see the driver. The widow Qing is a female husband, after hearing the order, some children did not panic, immediately took the bags into the capital, along the way because she was recruited by the imperial court, the origin is very large, of course, do not dare to slacken, all the care is extraordinarily thoughtful. When the widow Qing arrived in Xianyang, she scattered the white squirts stored in her bag to the henchmen of the first emperor, and someone praised her on her behalf. The first emperor immediately ordered to be introduced, and the widow Qing boldly entered, knelt down and bowed three times. When the first emperor saw that she was polite, he ordered her to get up, and asked her to take the cake and give her a seat next to her. The institutional class of the Qin Dynasty was very unequal, and even the prime minister of the dynasty had to stand by the side, never hearing of the gift of sitting and waiting. However, this Bashu woman ascended the palace for the first time, and she was so gracious that she actually treated each other with courtesy, which attracted the surprise of the civil and military forces on both sides. and the first emperor's kind words of condolences, the widow was thoughtful and did not have a hasty attitude. The first emperor was very pleased, and rewarded him well. The widow got up to thank her, and then wanted to leave, and the first emperor kept her for a few days, let her travel around the Xianyang Palace, and then returned.

The widow was out of the capital, and the long distance was unharmed, and the officials sent them off along the road, and the supply was the same as before. When she returned home, there was a county guard to greet her, and it is said that the court returned to the fate, and he should build a Huaiqing platform for his wife to celebrate chastity. The widow was relieved. Sure enough, the construction was not carried out day by day, and it was built in the mountain where the widow Qing lived, and the cemetery after the widow Qing's death was called the "fairy cave" by the locals, and became the place of worship for people to pray for blessings and manifestations.

As we all know, Qin Shi Huang's origin has always been a mystery, some people think that he is the illegitimate son of Lü Buwei, not the birth of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang, plus his biological mother Zhao Ji was with Lü Buwei in her early years, and later had adultery with Chang Yu, "The first emperor is strong, and the queen mother is not more than obscene", so that it led to a coup d'état.

In order to keep his throne, Qin Shi Huang had to imprison Zhao Ji, kill the two sons born to her and Chang Yu, and behead Chang Yu at the same time.

This incident has always been Qin Shi Huang's heart disease and has had a serious psychological impact on him. Therefore, he enacted many laws that severely punished fornication, and vigorously commended the chastity of women, and the widow Qing happened to meet this moral standard of virginity, and was a loyal daughter who abided by the morality of women at that time.

Therefore, the widow Qing was set as a moral benchmark by Qin Shi Huang, respected by Qin Shi Huang, and shined in the annals of history.

However, women in business during the Qin and Han dynasties were not an isolated phenomenon. According to the "Hanshu Wang Mang Biography", the son of the evil woman Lü's mother was "unjustly killed" by local officials, and Lü's mother scattered her wealth, sold wine to buy weapons, and recruited young people from poor families to carry out revenge plans. and Zhuo Wenjun, a talented woman in the Western Han Dynasty, eloped with Sima Xiangru, and her family cut off her financial resources, so she opened a wine house with Sima Xiangru and sold wine by herself. Later, Zhuo Wenjun's father, Zhuo Wangsun, couldn't bear his daughter's suffering, so he gave her 100 slaves, 1 million money, and various property, and the couple bought many fields and houses. That's all for later.

Qin Shi Huang was a tyrant, decisive, cruel, and vicious, and Qin Shi Huang killed all the kings of these six countries to prevent future troubles.

There are also more than 3,000 harem concubines of the monarchs of the six countries, so many harem beauties, they are all out of the water hibiscus, naturally beautiful, and their faces are like peach blossoms, it would be a pity if these beauties were released.

Although Qin Shi Huang was not a lustful king, he did not exterminate all these harem beauties, but incorporated most of them into the harem. This was very normal at that time, people at that time did not take chastity too seriously, and Qin Shi Huang was more interested in enriching the harem, with the meaning of showing off.

Qin Shi Huang took these harem beauties to the Qin State, but there were too many harem beauties in these six countries, and Qin Shi Huang's harem couldn't be put down at all, so he specially built a very large palace complex to house them, and this palace group is the well-known Afang Palace.

There are already a lot of concubines in the Six Kingdoms, and there are thousands of beauties in the harem before, which is enough to form an army.

These concubines don't worry about eating and drinking fat powder, and they dress up very charmingly every day, singing and dancing during the day, and drinking and playing music at night. Qin Shi Huang is a big hero in their minds, everyone hopes to attract the emperor through their beauty and singing, and they look forward to it every day, hoping that one day the emperor will be lucky to themselves.

Unfortunately, Qin Shi Huang's harem is too much, and the emperor is busy with state affairs and has his own wives and concubines, so he rarely visits them. These concubines can only look in the direction of the palace, looking forward to the arrival of the emperor, most of these people have never seen Qin Shi Huang's face, and some concubines have not even seen the emperor's face for 36 years.

These concubines from the Six Kingdoms, who left their own country and were regarded as the capital of Qin Shi Huang, were lonely in the deep palace, tasted the same as chewing wax, and resented women in groups, with long nights and miserable lives.

These concubines didn't know what the hatred of the country was, and when Qin Shi Huang came, they sang and danced, but when they came, they waited for it, and this situation lasted until Qin Shi Huang died.

Qin Shi Huang had many children in his life: 23 sons and 10 daughters, which can show that he was also a normal man, although the beauties of the six countries showed their talents in order to compete for favor, but there are almost no records of queens and concubines in the history books.

According to the ancient habit of early marriage, Qin Shi Huang had time to marry a wife who was marrying the Ming media, but he did not do so, from his teens to his fifties, although Qin Shi Huang was busy with political affairs, he still had the time and opportunity to set up a queen.

Qin Shi Huang did not become a queen because he himself was unwilling, so he was the only one in Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum.

As for the reason why Qin Shi Huang did not establish a queen, many people say that it was because of the influence of his mother Zhao Ji, when the empress dowager had an affair with Lü Buwei, who controlled the government, and later had two children with Chang Poison. These things irritated Qin Shi Huang a lot, and Qin Shi Huang's dissatisfaction with his mother's misbehavior directly led to his prejudice against women.

However, there are many legends about Qin Shi Huang's feelings in folk history.

It is said that Ying Zheng fell in love with a woman in Handan City when he was a child, called A Fang Nu, and after unifying the world, Qin Shi Huang wanted to make her the queen, but was opposed by the ministers, because she was a Zhao girl. Because Qin Shi Huang's regime was not stable at that time, in order not to embarrass him, Ah Fangnu committed suicide by martyrdom. In order to commemorate Afangnu, Qin Shi Huang built Afang Palace.

Li Jiang is the daughter of a craftsman in Zhao State, and Yingzheng has been a childhood sweetheart who has been a hostage in Zhao State since he was a child. Because of Li Jiang's background and political factors, the ministers have always opposed her as a concubine, but Qin Shi Huang has repeatedly ordered Li Jiang to be the queen regardless of other people's opinions, but Li Jiang has refused. Li Jiang never married and has always been by Qin Shi Huang's side, which can be said to be Qin Shi Huang's spiritual pillar.

Gongsun Li is the granddaughter of Gongsun Yu, the general of the Patriotic Empire, and her senior brother Jing Ke is a childhood sweetheart. The Qin State attacked the Wei State, Jing Ke fled to the Qi State with Gongsun Li, and met the Qin King Yingzheng, Yingzheng found that Gongsun Li was the woman he admired when he was young, so he threatened Jing Ke's life to enter the Qin Palace and named Liji. Gongsun Li was pregnant with Jing Ke's son when she entered the palace, in order to keep Jing Ke's bloodline, Li Ji had to commit to the Qin Palace, and finally Gongsun Li was executed because Jing Ke assassinated the King of Qin, otherwise Gongsun Li would be like Zhao Ji, giving birth to a fake offspring of the King of Qin.