Qin Shi Huang's convoy traveled all the way through Jimo and north to Yeyi, where he did not stop at the two cities, but continued eastward, arriving a few days later in Huangxian County, located in the northeastern part of the Jiaodong Peninsula.

At this point, the First Emperor made a rare stop.

He needed to do something important to the Qin State here.

After a continuous rush, Zhao Tuo had some time to rest.

At dusk, Zhao Tuo and Ziying made an appointment to go to the city of Huang County to blow the wind to dispel the fatigue after a long journey.

The first emperor was addicted to work, and as soon as he entered the city for a short rest, he only buried his head in reviewing documents.

He may have disliked Hu Hai on his side, which would affect his work, so he sent Hu Hai to Zhao Tuo and Ziying.

Zhao Tuo is Hu Hai's sister-in-law, Ziying is Hu Hai's uncle, both of them are elders, and helping the emperor take care of the baby seems to be in the past.

In fact, speaking of which, Zhao Tuo is still the younger generation of Ziying, and he has to call his uncle like Hu Hai.

However, Ziying is a generous character, seeing that Zhao Tuo is about the same age as himself, plus he admires Zhao Tuo's glorious achievements.

After being called "uncle" by Zhao Tuo for the first time, Ziying waved his hand to say that the two were about the same age, and Zhao Tuo was the title of Marquis of Lun, so it was better to be commensurate with each other as "son" and "prince".

This is probably also the reason why Zhao Tuo is willing to make friends with Ziying.

If every time he saw Ziying, he had to call the other party an uncle, and Zhao Tuo probably didn't want to have too much contact with the other party.

At this moment, the three of them stood at the head of Huang County, the yellow sunlight was falling on their heads, and they could vaguely see a mountain peak on the south side.

"Uncle, brother-in-law. The father said that he would go to Laishan to worship the moon lord tomorrow, and then set off for Zhifu Island. But I heard that this moon lord is the god of the Qi people, why did my father come to worship these gods of the Qi people? ”

Hu Hai pointed to the shadow of the mountain in the distance and asked Zhao Tuo and Ziying.

Ziying thought for a moment and said, "Probably to appease the hearts of Qi people." I Great Qin Jian annihilated the Six Kingdoms, Qi was a big war, and surrendered directly, its national strength was not greatly damaged, and then Zhutian was moved into Guanzhong by the emperor, which may cause a lot of dissatisfaction among Qi people, so the emperor toured east, and worshiped the eight gods of Qi along the way, which was a compassionate heart. ”

As she spoke, Ziying looked at Zhao Tuo and said with a smile: "Junhou, am I right?" ”

Zhao Tuo bowed his head and said: "What Gongzi said is right, in addition to appeasing the hearts of Qi people, I think the emperor may want to let the originally conflicting culture of Qin and the culture of the six eastern countries merge with each other, and finally make the world become one." ”

"Cultures blend with each other?"

Ziying was a little surprised, and her face was thoughtful.

Hu Hai opened his eyes, as if he understood or not.

Zhao Tuo smiled and looked at Laishan in the distance at dusk, as if he could see the Moon Lord Temple on the mountain through the dim light.

He originally thought that the reason why the First Emperor was anxious to travel to the east was because he was bewitched by Confucian scholars and scholars, and he only wanted to come here to seal Zen and seek immortal medicine.

But as the eastern tour progressed, Zhao Tuo found that the emperor's eastern tour actually had a certain positive significance.

One is that the emperor took the opportunity of inspecting the eastern frontier to understand the situation of the princes' hometowns, and used the emperor's power to deter those with evil intentions and achieve the goal of stabilizing the territory.

The second is to seal Zen to preach the Mandate of Heaven, carve stones and erect monuments to praise Qin Gong and Qin virtues, seize the commanding heights of public opinion and propaganda, and brainwash the scholars of the Six Kingdoms spiritually, so that they can gradually accept the rule of Qin.

On the way to the east, the first emperor also sacrificed to the eight gods of Qi, and announced that it would be included in the sacrificial system of Qin.

As we all know, in this ancient era, national events are in worship and worship.

In the past, except for Zhao, Wei, and Han, which were relatively similar in culture, most of the other countries had their own unique god sacrifice systems.

Qin has God, Chen Bao, Nute, Feng Nu, Du Lord, Three Shrine Masters, etc.

Chu has Taiyi, there are big priests, young priests, Xiangjun, Xiang Lady, etc.

As for the Qi Kingdom, there are eight gods, called God, Landlord, Soldier, Yin, Yang, Moon, Sun, and Four Hours.

The difference in the system of sacrifice to the gods also represents the difference in culture and thought between each other.

For believers, the infidels will always be the most hateful enemies.

Qin Shi Huang also seems to know this, and he is pursuing the unification of government decrees, requiring all counties in the world to have one writing, one currency, and one weights and measures.

In terms of faith, he chose to be inclusive, and did not force the princes to give up the gods they believed in, but selectively absorbed the gods of other princes into the Qin sacrifices.

Among them, the eight gods of Qidi are the most important.

In the past, the emperor sacrificed to the sky in Mount Tai and Liang Fu sacrificed to the earth, and now he is preparing to perform a sacrificial ceremony in Laishan, where the Qi people worship the moon lord, which is to show an attitude.

The eight gods of Qi are now also the righteous gods of the Qin Kingdom, and the gods that you Qi people sacrifice are the gods of my Great Qin.

This reminded Zhao Tuo of the Roman Empire, which also absorbed the other party's gods into its own god system after conquering a region and nation.

The two great empires, the East and the West, both coincidentally chose this approach.

I will conquer you, and I will not destroy your gods, but I will make your gods my gods.

This would not only eliminate the religious revolt of the conquered, but would also accelerate the rapid integration of the two originally different cultures.

What the First Emperor is doing now is probably to unify the ideology after unifying writing, currency, and weights and measures.

While Zhao Tuo lamented the "unification thought" of the First Emperor, he was once again wary of Lu Sheng and other scholars.

"Lu Sheng, this guy is really well prepared, and he doesn't leave any flaws in his work. Obviously, the overseas islands in the northeast of Huang County are closer, and there are often mirages, but they still gave up and deliberately led the emperor to Zhifu Island, probably because of this reason. ”

Zhao Tuo thought of this, and his eyes gradually turned cold,

In the northeast direction of Huangxian County, it is the Penglai District of Yantai City in later generations, its geographical location is close to the sea, and it is said that some people have seen the appearance of fairyland there. After going out to sea for a certain distance from there, you can also come to dozens of islands called the Changsan Islands in later generations, where the water is full of moisture, and it is a good place to watch the sea.

But Lu Sheng and the others gave up this place and chose to go further away to Zhifu Island.

"Although mirages often appear on the seashore in summer, they have never been regular, and they are talking about a fateful word. Sometimes you can't necessarily see it after waiting for a few years, Lu Sheng also knows this, if the emperor is asked to wait for a mirage on the seashore of Huangxian County or overseas islands, but it doesn't appear in the end, the emperor is afraid that he will be furious and even angry with them. ”

"But Zhifu Island is different, it is a place where the Qi people sacrifice to the Yang Lord, one of the eight gods, the emperor wants to sacrifice the eight gods of Qi, and he is going to go there, even if the mirage does not appear in the end, the emperor will not be furious like in other places. The sacrifice of the eight gods, I'm afraid it's a way out for Lu Sheng to find for himself, this old guy is really a smart person. ”

Zhao Tuo secretly sighed, he also thought of this stubble after knowing that the emperor was going to make a special trip to Laishan to worship the Moon Lord, and he felt more and more that Lu Sheng was a talent, but he was much more witty than the Hou Yan who was refining medicine in Xianyang.

It's a pity that he strayed into the immortal path, and I don't know how slim the road to finding immortals is. I'm going to see what happens to these monks if I don't have a mirage on Zhifu Island. ”

……

"Lu Gong, the letter has arrived. Xu Shi has successfully captured the alien beast in the sea, and is now waiting on Zhifu Island, just waiting for the emperor to arrive, and then he can offer it to the emperor. ”

At the same time, Han Zhong happily took a letter and went to report to Lu Sheng.

"It's so good, the fairyland thing is ethereal and impermanent, no one knows when it will appear, in case the emperor goes to Zhifu Island but doesn't see the fairyland, although there is a shrine of the Yang Lord to atone for the sin, but it is not safe after all. Now that Xu Shi has captured the strange beasts in the sea, it can prove the overseas theory, so that even if the fairyland does not appear, it will not disappoint the emperor and blame us. ”

Lu Sheng stroked the white beard under his chin and laughed.

The emperor's eastern tour is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for their monks, and they want to take this opportunity to show the emperor the mysteries of overseas, prove the existence of immortals, and let the emperor give money to people and support them to go to sea to find immortals.

But this kind of big event is only pinned on the wonders of the fairyland that collides with chance, which is not very safe, that is not Lu Sheng's style, so when he was in Xianyang, he had already contacted a very famous Fang Shi in Qidi.

Xu City!

"Historical Records: Feng Zen Book": The First Emperor then traveled east to the sea, paying homage to the famous mountains and rivers of the shrine and the eight gods...... Eight gods: Five Yang Lords, Ancestral Zhifu. Sixth, the moon lord, the ancestral hall of the Lai Mountain.