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Volume 3: A blow of destiny, the king appears Chapter 43: Parade

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    Later generations believed that Qin Shihuang was obsessed with success and had a tyrannical personality. Under his rule, the people were in dire straits.  ¡èThis site's website address: sp;¡èObjectively speaking, he is the first emperor of China and the founder of the title of emperor. He is also the founder of the Chinese emperor system and the person who brought China into the era of centralized imperialism.  But since ancient times, people's evaluation of Qin Shihuang has been mixed.

    Since the destruction of the Six Kingdoms, Qin Shihuang has aroused the hatred of countless nobles of the Six Kingdoms, so it is not uncommon to be assassinated. In addition to Jing Ke¡¯s assassination of Qin, which is more familiar to people, "Historical Records" also records three assassinations against Qin Shihuang.

    At the end of the Warring States Period, Gao Jianli, a native of Yan State, was good at zhuzhu (an ancient percussion instrument with a thin neck, round shoulders, hollow thirteen strings) and was a good friend of Jing Ke.

    After Jing Ke¡¯s death, Qin Shihuang ordered Prince Dan and Jing Ke¡¯s retainers to be rounded up, and all the retainers fled.  Gao Jianli then changed his name and worked as a bartender, hiding in Songzi to work.  Soon after, Gao Jianli considered that he might remain anonymous for a long time and feared that there would be no end to his hiding in fear, so he no longer concealed his identity. He was invited to take turns to be a guest in Songzi City, where he performed constructions. The audience was full of praise and gave Gao Jianli wine.  Show appreciation.

    Later, because of Gao Jianli's superb construction skills, he was invited to perform in the palace by Qin Shihuang.  However, he was reported by one of Qin Shihuang's ministers, and although Qin Shihuang pardoned his capital crime.  But his eyes were blinded first to prevent assassination.

    "I didn't expect Gao Jianli to be blind, but he filled the building with lead. When the First Emperor was fascinated by him and didn't pay attention, he got up and hit the First Emperor with the building filled with lead.  Gao Jianli's assassination attempt on Qin Shihuang ultimately failed and he died. From then on, Qin Shihuang never dared to approach the people of the Six Eastern Kingdoms.

    Zhang Liang, the mastermind of the Bolangsha assassination and a member of the family for five generations, later became the Three Heroes of the Early Han Dynasty.

    In 218 BC (the 29th year of Qin Shi Huang), Qin Shi Huang passed through Bolangsha (now Yuanyang County, Xinxiang City, Henan Province) on his third tour. The convoy accompanying him was suddenly hit by a 120 kilogram (about 30 kilogram) large iron  Vertebral impact.  However, the large iron vertebra hit another car, the assassination failed, and Qin Shihuang was not injured.

    Zhang Liang was the mastermind behind this incident. His family was an official for five generations. Out of hatred for destroying Han, he almost spent all his wealth to find warriors to assassinate Qin Shihuang. Later, he found a strong man who hit Qin Shihuang's chariot with a large iron spine. Unfortunately, he was hit by mistake.  Vice car.  Qin Shihuang spent ten days hunting for this, and the pursuit was very urgent.  Zhang Liang had no choice but to change his name and surname, and fled to Xiapi to hide.

    One night in 216 BC (the thirty-first year of Qin Shi Huang), Qin Shi Huang and four warriors traveled incognito in Xianyang.  However, he was attacked by a group of bandits near Lanchi Palace and the situation was critical. Fortunately, the bandits who attempted to attack Qin Shihuang were killed in the end.  Since we suspected another mastermind of the incident, we searched the Guanzhong area for twenty days.

    Qin Shihuang advocated the legalist concept of governing the country. Based on the original legal decrees of the Qin State, he absorbed certain provisions of the laws of the six countries and formulated and promulgated unified laws throughout the country.

    The Qin Dynasty was very strict in its management of officials.  Many laws were enacted to punish officials.  When officials break the law, they do not enjoy privileges like those in the Western Zhou Dynasty, that is, they are not punished as high as officials, but the punishment is aggravated.

    Qin Shihuang¡¯s harsh laws aroused dissatisfaction among scholars.  Various accusations came one after another, and various theories different from Qin Shihuang's Legalism were endless.  Due to the contention of hundreds of schools of thought in society at that time, it seriously hindered Qin Shi Huang from unifying the thoughts of the people of the six original conquered countries.

    Prime Minister Li Si believed that this threatened the rule of the Qin Dynasty and advocated severe suppression of these scholars.  Qin Shihuang supported Li Si's views and launched an incident of burning books and humiliating Confucians:

    The so-called book burning.  In order to unify the thoughts of the people of the original six kingdoms and consolidate the rule of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shihuang began to destroy the history books of the other six kingdoms except "Qin Ji", and retained books on agriculture, technology, divination and medicine.

    In addition to the post of doctor, those who dare to hide poetry, books, and Baijia in the world all ordered the guard and Wei to burn them.  Those who dare to even talk about "Poems" and "Books" abandon the market and think that the past is no longer the present.  If an official conceals the information and fails to report it, he will be punished in the same way as the person who collected the book ("Historical Records. The Chronicles of Qin Shihuang").  This policy was implemented from 213 BC to the fall of the Qin Dynasty in 206 BC.

    But some people believe that Qin Shihuang ordered some books to be kept in the royal library. It was not until Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, set fire to Xianyang after he conquered Xianyang that these books disappeared completely.

    In the thirty-fifth year of the First Emperor (212 BC), Xu Fu went to the sea to seek immortality. He spent tens of thousands of dollars but could not find the medicine.  The First Emperor felt deceived, so he ordered the censor to interrogate the officials and expose each other, implicating more than 460 people. The First Emperor ordered them all to be buried alive in Xianyang.  This is the famous trap of Confucianism.

    Some people think that the people Qin Shi Huang killed were sorcerers and not Confucian scholars. However, according to the "Historical Records of Qin Shi Huang", it is recorded that the people Qin Shi Huang killed all recited the Dharma of Confucius.

    "Moreover, "Historical Records of Scholars" also said that after Qin Shihuang killed all living beings, the six arts were missing from then on.

    According to "Historical Records", in 211 BCWithin one year (the thirty-sixth year of Qin Shihuang's reign), three strange things happened in succession.

    First of all, there was the astronomical phenomenon of Yinghuo Shouxin. The ancients called Mars Yinghuo. Antares in the twenty-eight constellations is simply called the heart. Antares is the Scorpio constellation in modern astronomy. The appearance of Yinghuo Shouxin is called a sign of great misfortune.  The emperor is about to lose his throne, or in a serious case the emperor dies.

    In the same year, a meteorite fell in the Dongjun area (now Puyang City, Henan Province). During this period, someone engraved the seven characters "the emperor died and died" on the meteorite, which spread to the ears of Qin Shihuang.  Qin Shihuang was furious and ordered the imperial censor to go to every house to investigate, but no one confessed, so he arrested and killed all the people living around the stone and burned the meteorite.

    This incident made Qin Shihuang unhappy, so he asked the doctor to compose a "Poetry of Immortals". When he toured the world, he ordered the musicians to play and sing wherever he went.

    In the autumn of the same year, an envoy from Guandong passed through Huayin Pingshu Road at night. Someone stopped the envoy with a jade in his hand and asked the envoy to send the Wang Bi to Bianchijun, saying that Zulong died this year.  The envoy asked him why, but the man immediately disappeared and left the jade behind. The envoy could only take the jade back and tell Qin Shihuang his adventure.

    Qin Shihuang was silent for a long time, saying that the ghosts in the mountains could only predict events for a year at most, and lightly pointed out that it was already autumn, so this statement may not come true.  Before he dismissed the envoys, he called Zulong meaning the ancestor of people, which meant that he had nothing to do with Zulong's death.

    Later, Qin Shihuang asked the imperial government to inspect the piece of jade, and found that it was the piece that sank into the water when the emperor was out on inspection in the 28th year to cross the river. Therefore, he asked for a divination, and the result of the divination was migration.  It was auspicious (the oracles recorded in historical records said that traveling was auspicious), so he ordered 30,000 families to be moved to Beihe and Yuzhong areas, and each family was awarded a first-level title. However, Qin Shihuang in 210 BC (the thirty-seventh year of Qin Shihuang)  The fifth tour was also the last tour in his lifetime.

    At the end of 211 BC (the thirty-seventh year of Qin Shihuang), Qin Shihuang embarked on his fourth nationwide tour, accompanied by his youngest son Hu Hai, Prime Minister Li Si on the left, Zhao Gao, who was in charge of the Zhongche Mansion, and Prime Minister Feng Qu on the right.  Ji is responsible for staying in the capital, and his specific patrol route is as follows:

    Xianyang ¡ú Yunmeng (now Yunmeng County, Hubei Province) ¡ú Haizhu (now Tongcheng City, Anhui Province) ¡ú Danyang (now Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province) ¡ú Qiantang (now Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province) ¡ú Kuaiji (now Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province) ¡ú  Wu (now Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province) ¡ú Langya ¡ú Rongcheng Mountain (now Rongcheng City, Shandong Province) ¡ú Zhifu (now Zhifu District, Yantai City, Shandong Province) ¡ú Pingyuanjin (now Pingyuan County, Dezhou City, Shandong Province) ¡ú Sand Dune (now Hebei Province  Pingxiang County, Xingtai City)

    "Historical Records of the First Emperor of Qin"

    Qin Shihuang and his entourage arrived in Yunmeng in November of that year, held a memorial ceremony for Yu Shun at Jiuyi Mountain, then took a boat down the Yangtze River, visited Jike, crossed Haizhu, and arrived at Qiantang via Danyang.
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