After the New Year, when the excitement caused by the triumph gradually subsided.

An edict from the Qin Palace surprised all the officials and ministers in Xianyang City.

Zhao Tuo, the Marquis of Zhenguo, was not worshiped as prime minister by the emperor as they guessed, but became one of the Shaofu of the Nine Qings again.

The original Shaofu Zhang Han was transferred to the post of Shaofu who was in charge of the construction of palaces and mausoleums, and the previous Shaofu was sent to the south by the emperor as a county guard.

This change has caused a lot of discussion.

After all, when Zhao Tuo went out on the expedition five years ago, the emperor personally said in front of his ministers that when Zhao Tuo returned victorious, he would let him rule the world.

Is this to admit it?

Many people secretly speculate about the reason for this, and even instigate a lot of conspiracy theories.

"The merit is high! It must be a high achievement! ”

"This Zhao Tuo first destroyed the Six Kingdoms, then defeated the Xiongnu, and now captured Baiyue in the south, and his contribution is that no one has been able to compare with the Qin State since the Xianggong State, five hundred years. Such a feat, the emperor must be very jealous in his heart. ”

"If the emperor is in good health, maybe he will let Zhao Tuo be the prime minister, because the emperor himself can suppress him. But the problem is that the emperor has a physical problem, and at this time, he will think about the aftermath, and it is impossible to let Zhao Tuo take charge of the prime minister's power, so it is better to get his tricks and tricks. ”

It's different from some people's secret jokes.

As the prime minister of Zuo, Li Si breathed a sigh of relief and felt that his position was preserved, and at the same time, he noticed a special point.

Shaofu has the responsibility of manufacturing terracotta tiles and mausoleum utensils.

The general who is responsible for the construction of the mausoleum will be Shaofu Zhanghan, and he is Zhao Tuo's old subordinate.

"The emperor entrusted his posthumous residence to Zhao Tuo, this kind of trust...... Who in Great Qin can compare to him? ”

As Lees guessed.

After Zhao Tuo took over the Shaofu for the third time, in addition to asking about engineering, the whole person devoted himself to the imperial mausoleum project.

The ancients died as life, and death as life.

The matter of the emperor's tomb is very important in the emperor's heart, and he entrusts this matter to Zhao Tuo, which is the greatest trust.

Zhao Tuo naturally would not disappoint the emperor and went all out for this.

The imperial tomb is located at the northern foot of Lishan Mountain, north of the shore of Weishui.

This place was chosen by Lü Buwei.

When Qin Wangzheng ascended the throne at the age of thirteen, construction began, and this year is the thirty-seventh year of construction.

It's just that when it was first built, the scale of the mausoleum was not large, and it could even be said that it was cold.

In addition to the fact that the emperor at that time was still the king of Qin, but also because Lü Buwei, who was in power at the time, advocated the concept of frugal burial and resolutely opposed thick burials.

Lü Buwei even criticized the royal tombs of the eastern countries as "as tall as a mountain and as tall as a forest with trees", saying that building mausoleums on a large scale is a very wasteful practice.

The Qin State could not learn from the Six Kingdoms.

After the fall of Lü Buwei, because the Qin State was attacking the six eastern countries at that time, the national strength was basically consumed in the war, and the Qin Wangzheng at that time was thinking about how to unify the world, plus it was when he was young and strong, and he was not very concerned about the construction of the mausoleum, and there was little change in the construction of the mausoleum set by Lü Buwei for him.

Until the Qin State merged with one Yu, he changed from the king of Qin to the emperor of the world.

The six nations are destroyed, and all the nations bow down.

The steep rise in status made the first emperor's mentality swell, and with a wave of his hand, the former Qin Wang's Mausoleum was upgraded to an imperial mausoleum.

Everything is rebuilt, redesigned, and reconstructed, and the entire mausoleum must be matched with the identity of the supreme emperor in the world.

A large number of prisoners of war and subordinate prisoners of the Six Kingdoms were escorted to Lishan Mountain, where they worked day after day to build the most magnificent mausoleum ever built for the emperor.

Zhao Tuo is now at the northern foot of Lishan Mountain, and what he sees is a very large, very magnificent and magnificent cemetery.

"The prince knows that there are three springs under the underground palace, as for the pole, the materials used are all the three soil that the prince said, the waterproof effect is very good, plus the drainage and water blocking facilities, the safety is safe.

Zhang Han told Zhao Tuo about the situation of the imperial mausoleum project.

Zhao Tuo nodded, and went down to the three springs, that is, when he dug into the ground, he passed through the three layers of spring water, which can be described as extremely deep.

When you get to this place, you are very susceptible to groundwater erosion.

When Zhao Tuo was doing Shaofu a few years ago, he made a large amount of Sanhe soil and provided it to the general who was responsible for the construction. Nowadays, the materials of the underground palace of the emperor's tomb are basically made of sanhe soil, and the waterproof effect is very good.

Because the time has reached the thirty-seventh year of Qin Shi Huang, the entire imperial mausoleum project has actually come to an end, and the underground palace is basically done.

It is densely fortified with crossbows made by craftsmen, and if anyone approaches, they will be shot on the spot.

At the same time, a large amount of mercury is also transported to the other place, and it will be instilled according to the distribution of hundreds of rivers and seas, so that this underground palace can have astronomy and geography.

In addition, there are also candles made of mermaid paste sent by Binhai County, which can be extinguished forever after being lit.

Coupled with a large number of treasures, this imperial tomb will become the most luxurious mausoleum in the world.

But Zhao Tuo felt that this underground palace should store more precious things.

He reviewed the books sent by the Imperial History Mansion that were ready to be stored in the underground palace, and his eyebrows immediately furrowed.

All are paper versions.

"That's it?"

"The emperor loves to read the most, how can such a few books be enough. Through the imperial historian, it is said that all the classics and documents in the world should be backed up and sent here. In addition to the paper book, you also need to get a simple version, what if the emperor wants to see the bamboo slips? ”

In the face of Zhao Tuo's request, the imperial historian Feng Qujian felt very difficult.

The classics of the world have to be backed up into the underground palace, how much work is that?

Paper books are fine, they have printing.

But to make a simple version, I don't know how many people will have to be tired.

It's hard to do, but I don't dare not do it.

The Marquis of Zhenguo was right.

In case the emperor thinks you have few books underground and wants to read other books, or suddenly you don't want to read paper books and want to see bamboo slips, who will send them down?

Just in case, of course, you have to prepare everything.

What Zhao Tuo said was politically correct, and when the emperor heard it, he had to praise it: "The Marquis of Zhenguo thinks well and knows my intentions." ”

Feng Quji could only keep his face black, and in addition to dealing with government affairs every day, he kept urging his subordinates to work overtime every day to copy books.

Zhao Tuo was very satisfied with this.

Qin Shi Huang's underground palace, in the original history, even after more than 2,000 years, was still not excavated, and after being detected by scientific means, the contents remained intact.

This shows that the imperial mausoleum that Zhao Tuo is building now will be the best storage room in the world.

Therefore, Zhao Tuo wants to take this opportunity to stuff all the ancient books and documents in the world, such as "Lianshan", "Guizang", "Yellow Emperor's Outer Classics", what history books of the Six Kingdoms, and hundreds of schools of thought.

In this way, even if there are wars and chaos on the land of China in the future, there will be many wars and disasters, which will damage the classics and documents.

In the imperial mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, there is at least one treasure.

All the documents and classics that can be found in the pre-Qin era are here.

The underground palace of the First Emperor will be safer than all the libraries.

Zhao Tuo was afraid that the paper would not be able to withstand storage, so he also thoughtfully prepared an extra bamboo version, so that even if one was damaged, it could be compared with each other.

"This is my Zhao Tuo's contribution to Huaxia!"

When Zhao Tuo was proud, he didn't forget to stuff some private work into it.

For example, he wrote his own book "Physics".

"It's not enough, I'm going to write more."

Zhao Tuo became addicted to the book collection in the underground palace, and in his spare time after daily work, he began to compile his book "Zhao Zi".

A lifelong method of using soldiers.

He was proficient in mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, geography, astronomy......

There are even all kinds of isms, as long as Zhao Tuo can think of them, they are all stuffed into it.

Zhao Zi

This is an ancient book born out of the "Fragment of the Public Loss" and contains all things.

After writing this, he still has some unfinished business.

"When the emperor is studying underground, it can also be seen to soothe his mood."

Zhao Tuo adhered to this idea and created a lot of work to relieve the emperor's fatigue.

From "The Adventures of the Monkey", "The Story of 105 Men and 3 Women" to "Thirty Years of Hedong, Thirty Years of Hexi", "One Hand Covering the Sky", "Supreme Bone and Heavy Pupil" to "The Lord God and Ten Thousand Worlds" and other strange things were written by Zhao Tuo, and then treasured into the box and stuffed into the dungeon.

Anyway, he is the commander-in-chief, and in the name of being good for the emperor, he stuffed things into the underground palace, and others didn't dare to look at it or ask more.

After doing this, Zhao Tuo did not stop, his eyes moved out of the underground palace and put it in other places.

In addition to the underground palace where the emperor is buried, there are above-ground buildings and a large number of burial pits.

The above-ground building is a rectangular park in the north-south direction, surrounded by two walls, divided into the inner city and the outer city, the whole is in the shape of "Hui", the north and south are 2,400 steps long, and the east and west are 1,200 steps wide.

There are various mausoleum buildings between the inner and outer castles.

For example, the temples of sacrifice, palaces, large and small courtyards, as a whole, correspond to the real court buildings.

According to the etiquette established by Fengchang, after the death of the emperor, everything in the above-ground sleeping palace of the emperor's tomb must be the same as when he was born.

Four times a day, at a fixed time, the emperor's meals, fresh fruits and vegetables were served in the palace.

The attendants and palace maids who lived in the building had to fold and lay out the bedding for sleeping on time, place the clean water for washing, and all kinds of utensils commonly used by the first emperor, in short, everything had to be operated according to the time when the emperor was there, day after day, and Daqin was there, and it would always be like this.

Because the mausoleum building was planned too much, Zhao Tuo was not easy to interfere, and there was no need to interfere.

His gaze was on the burial pits outside the mausoleum building.

What terracotta warriors and horses pits, copper carriage and horse pits, copper poultry pits, stone armor pits, burial horse pits, rare birds and beast pits......

Zhao Tuo's goal was a pit of figurines and a pit of beasts specially designed by himself.

Taking advantage of the convenience of Shaofu in charge of firing pottery figurines, Zhao Tuo stuffed a lot of private goods into it.

He was born in the military and did not want to destroy the terracotta army.

But these two pits, then you can completely let go of the play.

The people in the pit of the Hundred Opera Warriors were holding all kinds of strange long-barreled fire-breathing weapons, which made the Qin people look confused.

As for the tomb beast pit that Zhao Tuo made, it was even more incredible.

Angular steel warriors, big-headed men with their hands crossed on their chests studded with gemstones, exotic women with snake-haired hair, and warships engraved with the word "Star Destroyer......

They will act as tomb beasts, guarding the perimeter of the Imperial Tomb.

Of course, compared to the concealment and safety of the underground palace, this burial pit located on the periphery is easier to be dug out.

When Zhao Tuo was buried, he was naturally prepared.

Even he was looking forward to what his expression would be if future generations dug up these things.

"I'm really heartbroken for this imperial tomb."

Zhao Tuo sighed faintly.

Since he plunged headlong into this big project, it has been nearly a year.

It was not until August of the 37th year of Qin Shi Huang that the emperor's condition changed.

(End of chapter)