Those folk legends about the First Emperor I

Before winning Zheng and becoming the king of Qin, Zheng was still a weak one among the princes of Qin, his mother was the former Zhao national singer, his father had many wives and concubines, and his mother was not favored, and he was ostracized and hostile from his brothers for a long time after returning to Qin, when the probability of Zheng becoming the king of Qin was but very small, all brothers had the support of power, and only his mother supported him, the teacher LĂź Buwei and the teacher only supported him secretly, and his only supporter was his mother, although he escaped from the dangerous Zhao State, But when it came to Qin's shadows, there were no fewer crises at all. Winning politics is not liked by his father, because he is too mature and calm, like a good politician who always stands up at a critical time. Winning Zheng was unable to gain the support of the major forces at that time, and his long-term vision was too early to look to the future, he actively established a good relationship with the outstanding descendants of the major scholars, and showed his talents, so that his hard work finally achieved results, after his father's death, he as the eldest son as the custom of the king of Qin, but due to the opposition of many people at that time, the compromise between each other finally decided to be selected by all parties to test and choose the candidate for the king of Qin. This is undoubtedly the best situation for Win Zheng, after all, although he is long, he has few supporters and is relatively weak, but fortunately, he failed to live up to his own efforts, and finally succeeded in ascending the throne and becoming the king of Qin.

In a declining aristocratic home, the master's home burns incense and worships the Buddha all day long, and often implements benevolence and relief for the people in the declining family of more than a dozen people, it is very strange that in this family, the master is about forty years old but does not see a child, every day the hostess sighs in the small courtyard and prays to God and worship the Buddha in the hope of conceiving a child, the master has a pumpkin seedling all the year round will bear a lot of pumpkins every year, especially this year, the other plants in the yard are withered because of the pumpkin, and the host also specially instructed people to take care of the pumpkin seedlingsEvery day, the hostess would go to the pumpkin seedlings to make a wish and pray for blessings, telling about the desire to have a child. A year pumpkin vine only bears a pumpkin, this pumpkin is very big is two or three times the size of the usual, at the same time this pumpkin is very red, from a distance looks like a jewel shining, the hostess likes this pumpkin very much, since the pumpkin appeared every day to accompany and stroke, the person who takes care of the pumpkin also likes it very much, this pumpkin is so beautiful that it seems not to be ordinary. Finally in the winter, the pumpkin vine withered, but this particular pumpkin is more red, and now it is blood red and bigger, which makes the people very alarmed that this is ominous, but the owner thinks this is a blessing, so the original people are dismissed, a few days later the owner and the two are looking at the pumpkin, at this time the pumpkin moved, scared the two of them to take a few steps back, after a flash of red light, the pumpkin cracked, the two secretly hid at the gate of the courtyard to peek, the pumpkin came out of a girl, the girl is the most beautiful Zhong Lingyuxiu that the owner of the family wants, The girl looked at the two people at the door, opened her hand to the two and said, "Daddy, mother." The smile on her face continued, and the hostess soon burst into tears, and took the lead in running over to take the girl into her arms, and the man stood in place and secretly wiped his tears, and the whole family suddenly seemed to have life. Soon after, the girl was named Meng Jiangnu.

In the blink of an eye, the girl is fourteen years old, these years are the happiest time for the master's family, the girl is now beautiful and lovely like a jade person, the people who came to propose marriage stepped through the threshold, but they were all rejected, because the girl did not like it, everyone in the host family loved the girl very much, especially the girl's parents, almost gave everything that could be given, the girl was very filial and very polite to people, and the only requirement for the girl to choose a son-in-law was to make the girl feel excited, and countless excellent men were eager to get along with each other to gain favor, but none of them failed. On this day, the Meng Mansion came to propose the person again, this time it was a declining aristocratic family, just a glance at the man and woman agreed to the marriage to surprise everyone, the master was puzzled, so he secretly inquired about the news of the other party, although the other party tried his best to hide but in an old servant of the other party accidentally learned, it is said that the boy was born in a melon, most of them just listened to a story, but the male and female owners were happy after hearing and soon began to organize a wedding, the wedding date was set on the day of the girl's birth, when the wedding was not held, The boy often came to the Meng Mansion as a guest and talked very happily with the host's house, the boy's name was Fan Xiliang, the boy and the girl got along like old friends for many years, and they liked each other in all aspects. A few months later, the wedding was held as scheduled, all the relatives and friends of both parties arrived, the joy spread in the town, after a solemn ceremony for half a day, finally the two became husband and wife, at this time the officers and soldiers came to the town to take all the young adults away, Fan Xiliang was also taken away, so that the husband and wife cried goodbye to each other, Fan Xiliang was forced to leave, Fan's father and Fan's mother couldn't stand the child's departure, and passed away two days later, before the death of the Fan family gave the only remaining family property to Meng Jiangnu, a few months later, after careful consideration, Meng Jiangnu said goodbye to her parents, A man on his way to find his father.

Meng Jiangnu went to the border, passing through many places along the way, most of the families did not have young adults, only children and the elderly, occasionally encountered people who evaded conscription, and also encountered the difficulties of bandits, but they were all resolved by Meng Jiangnu with extraordinary wisdom, Meng Jiangnu walked forward while asking for news of her husband, she dressed up as an elderly man, disguised as a person looking for a child, painted her white complexion yellow, and almost did not talk to anyone except to inquire about her husband's news. She always gave a little comfort to the young man who had left the house of the old man who had left his house with tears on his face, so along the way she received a lot of news about her husband's team, and he was very talkative and impressive, so she learned that he was going to be sent to repair the Great Wall. After Meng Jiangnu learned of the astonishing mortality rate of the Great Wall, she couldn't help but feel anxious, and she exhausted the entanglement she had brought to speed up the pace of pursuit. Hard work pays off, two years later, Meng Jiangnu found the edge of the Great Wall, it took two months, she almost asked the people of the Great Wall over and over again, but there was no news of her husband Fan Xiliang, she was unwilling to ask over and over again, and finally after a few months, she finally stopped the pace, one day she changed into a wedding dress and stood on the edge of the Great Wall, her beauty attracted everyone's attention, after a while, she covered the red scarf with tears in her eyes, and instantly the dark clouds pressed down and the thunder did not stop, and after a while, the Great Wall fell a section, A breeze blew and sent the red scarf on Meng Jiangnu's head to a dry bone, Meng Jiangnu cried silently and walked to the dry bone, hugged the dry bone and cried, the lightning and thunder continued, and in a moment, the Great Wall fell again, and when everyone seemed to come back to their senses, they saw Meng Jiangnu's dry bones turn into white smoke and disappear into the sky.

Legend has it that after the First Emperor destroyed the Six Kingdoms, all the palace concubines of the Six Kingdoms were locked up in the palace by the First Emperor, and I don't know how many of the famous court women were because of the seven-foot wall, which played the song of longing for the country and sorrow every day, and the guards in the past could not help but feel sorrowful in their hearts. It is said that the first emperor would come here every night to pamper a new person, and several people in a row were promoted to the top of the people in one day, but because there were too many people, even if it was day and night, there was no way to pamper everyone, so the first emperor invented a bracelet made of jade, and only those who had not been favored would carry the bracelet, so the first emperor decided whether to favor or not according to whether to bring a bracelet every day. Because the palace concubines are so much that some have never seen the first emperor in their lives, and at the same time, the first emperor gave his favored palace concubines a lot of gold and silver wealth to squander, the palace concubines in order to be favored after doing everything they can, some even play day and night just to attract the first emperor to see, the palace walls of the grief and sorrow occur day and night every year, and some of these palace concubines because they are too beautiful often get the favor of the first emperor, in the perennial grievances these concubines gradually forget the scars of the country lost in the things that are extremely attractive to the first emperor. It is rumored that she was often favored by the First Emperor, she gave birth to a daughter for the First Emperor, this girl is very beautiful and charming, very much like her mother, the First Emperor could not bear the separation of mother and daughter, so let the mother and daughter live together, the girl admired the father of the First Emperor. Twenty years passed, the girl grew up, but her mother died, the first emperor often took the girl out on a parade, when the first emperor was obsessed with the art of immortality, the girl took the initiative to ask Ying to learn Taoism to help the first emperor.

It is rumored that because many Confucian scholars opposed some of the policies and strategies of the First Emperor and continued to convey many things that were not conducive to the rule of the First Emperor to the people of the world as talented people, most of these Confucian scholars were the children of declining aristocratic scholars. At the same time, most of the learned people came to the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms who were destroyed by themselves, and they were naturally dissatisfied with Qin's contempt, so this induced the occurrence of the incident of burning books and pit Confucianism, and legend has it that the first emperor killed all the scholars in the world and burned all the classics in the world except for Qin, which undoubtedly became one of the reasons why later generations did not like the first emperor.

Legend of Afang Palace, the first emperor in recognition of his great achievements to build a huge official palace, exhausted countless gold and silver financial resources, requisitioned millions of people to exhaust more than 100 years of years still under construction of the super official palace, the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu wrote a "A Fang Guanfu" famous all over the world.

The monarchs of the Six Kingdoms perished, and the whole country (for Qin) was unified; The mountains (the trees were cut down) in Shu were bare, and the Afang Palace was built. It covers more than 300 miles of ground, and isolates the sun. It is built from Lishan to the north, and then turns west to Xianyang. Weishui and Fanchuan are mighty and flowed into the palace wall. Five steps to a building, ten steps to a pavilion; The corridors linger like ribbons, and the teeth-like cornices peck high like a bird's beak. The pavilions are built according to the slope of the terrain, (the lower corners) are hooked to the center (of the higher places), and the corners (side by side) are fighting against each other. The complex of buildings is like a dense beehive, like a swirling whirlpool, towering high, not knowing that it has tens of millions. It turned out to be a long bridge lying on the water waves, and there were no clouds, why were there dragons? It turned out that the overpass was walking in the air, not that the rain had passed and the sky was clear, why did it go out of the rainbow? (The house) is high and low, deep and confusing, so that people cannot distinguish things. The stage is full of warmth because of the loud singing, like a spring light; The dance hall was full of chill due to the fluttering sleeves, like a wind and rain. In one day, in the middle of a palace, the climate is different. The palace concubines of the Six Kingdoms, the princes and the grandsons, bid farewell to the palace buildings of the Six Kingdoms, walked down the palaces of the Six Kingdoms, and came to the Qin State by chariot, they sang in the morning and played music in the evening, becoming the palace people of the Qin State. The bright stars are shining brightly, which is the mirror in which the palace concubines have opened their dressing; The dark green clouds disturbed one after another, this is the palace concubines combing their morning makeup buns; Weishui rose a layer of greasy, which was the rouge water abandoned by the palace concubines; The smoke rises obliquely, and the clouds and mist surround the sky, which is the spice made of pepper and orchid that is being burned in the palace. The thunder suddenly shook, and it was the palace car that drove past; The sound of the wheeling car became farther and farther away, and there was no trace of it, and I didn't know where it went. Every piece of skin, every face, is so beautiful and coquettish. The palace concubines stood for a long time, visiting from afar, looking forward to the emperor's coming. Some palace maids failed to see the emperor for thirty-six years. The gold and jade collected by Yan and Zhao, the treasures of Korea and Wei, and the Qi country. The essence materials of the Chu State have been plundered from them for many generations and years, and they have been stacked like mountains. It couldn't be kept all of a sudden, and it was all transported to Afang Palace. Baoding was treated as an iron pot, beautiful jade was treated as a stubborn stone, gold was treated as a clod of soil, and pearls were treated as gravel. Alas! The will of one person is the will of tens of millions of people. Emperor Qin loved prosperity and luxury, and the people also cared for their own homes. Why is it that when you plunder treasures, you can even scavenge them cleanly, and spend them like mud and sand? Emperor Qin was so extravagant and wasteful that there were more pillars than farmers in the fields; There are more rafters on the beams than there are women workers on the loom; The nail heads on the beams and pillars were more brilliant than the millet in the granary; Corrugated is of different lengths, more than the strands of silk on the whole body; There are more straight or horizontal railings than the castles of Kyushu; The sound of the orchestra was noisy, more than the words of the citizens. so that the people of the world dare not speak with their mouths, but they dare to be angry in their hearts; (However) the thoughts of Qin Shi Huang, who had lost all the people's hearts, became more proud and stubborn day by day. (As a result) Chen Shi and Wu Guang on the border shouted, Hangu Pass was captured, and Chu Xiangyu set a fire, but unfortunately (the gorgeous Afang Palace) turned into a scorched earth. Alas! It was the Six Kingdoms themselves that destroyed the Six Kingdoms, not the Qin State. It was the Qin Dynasty itself that destroyed the Qin Dynasty, not the people of the world. Alas! If each of the six kingdoms loved its people, it could have relied on the people to resist the Qin state. If the Qin Dynasty loves the people of the Six Kingdoms, then it will be passed on to the third generation in order and can be passed on to the ten thousand generations as the emperor, who can destroy it? The Qin Dynasty fell too quickly) The Qin people did not have time to mourn themselves, but later generations mourned him; If future generations mourn him but do not use him as a mirror to learn a lesson, it will only make future generations mourn this future generation.