Chapter 17 Seeking Immortals and Medicine
[After unifying the six kingdoms, Qin Shi Huang became complacent and started to seek immortality, build palaces, and cruelly oppress the people.

Finally, during the reign of Qin II, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rose up in rebellion to resist the tyranny of Qin. This uprising opened the prelude to peasant wars in feudal society and was of great significance in history.

[There were meaningful things like building the Great Wall, fighting the Huns, building highways, building water conservancy projects, and developing Lingnan, while there were also extravagant things like building mausoleums and the Afang Palace. With so many things done in just over a decade, the people must have been under a great burden.]
[Was only the foundation of the Afang Palace built, or was it burned down by Xiang Yu until only the foundation remained?]
[It seems that only the foundation has been built.]
[He was too eager, and he finished all the work that would have taken two or even three generations to do. With such heavy labor and military service, the people's strength would collapse sooner or later.]
Ying Zheng pondered, should he slow down his pace, otherwise he would not build the Afang Palace?

But the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor must be repaired. Not only must it be repaired, but it must also be repaired more safely and carefully, without any risk of theft.

And there was the little Xiang Yu. Did he burn palaces while fighting for supremacy in the world?

Liu Bang nodded: "That makes sense."

He also came from the Qin Dynasty, so he naturally knew how the lower-class people lived.

The First Emperor created an unprecedented feat and unified the Central Plains after years of war, but it also brought a heavy burden to the people.

[Now let’s look at the third point that the First Emperor Ying Zheng was criticized for—seeking immortals and medicine.]

In his middle and late years, Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng was puzzled. The elixir given by the alchemist was indeed useful. He felt full of energy after taking it. Why did he feel that he was being deceived?

When he was still the young King of Qin, Ying Zheng was hesitant. Was he really so confused in his later years?

He thought he was very pragmatic. If seeking immortals and medicine was really useless, his future self would never let those sorcerers go. Keep seeking immortals, which meant it was still useful.

The young Ying Zheng blushed when he saw his father Zichu's disapproving look, but he would not be fooled.

Ying Zheng, who was still a baby, was in a miserable situation. When Yiren patted him on the back gently, he immediately started to cry loudly, looking very sad.

"The young master is still young, why do you have to be so cruel?"

Facing the condemning gazes of the people around him, Yi Ren was stunned. He really didn't use any effort.

[The early Emperor Qin Shi Huang was probably a realist who unified the world through force.

But in the face of unprecedented achievements, Qin Shihuang was surrounded by praise and flattery, and gradually became detached from reality, wanting to ask for immortality and elixir from immortals.

As a result, in his later years, he was even fooled by alchemists. 】

[Liu Zhuzhu: Sprinkle some water, I even married the princess to the Taoist priest]
[Princess Wei Chang: You are noble and smart, why don’t you marry yourself?]
[The first husband was Cao Xiang, the Marquis of Pingyang, but the second husband was a liar. What a disparity...]
[But at that time, Luan Da was deeply trusted by Emperor Wu of Han, and was named General Wuli and Marquis of Le Tong. He was in the limelight, and Emperor Wu of Han might have really thought that this marriage was a good one.]
[He really thought so. When Princess Wei Chang got married, Emperor Wu gave her 10,000 kilograms of gold and changed her title to "Dangli". It can be seen that the princess was very favored. It was just that Liu Zhuzhu was really not that good and was deceived badly.]
[Zhuzhu was fooled and his IQ dropped to zero instantly.]
[We were talking about Qin Shi Huang, but the comments have gone off topic.]
Princess Wei Chang, who suddenly knew that her father would marry her to a Taoist priest, could not accept it and went straight to Wei Zifu's palace.

Liu Che was angry and guilty. Princess Wei Chang was his first child. Her birth proved that there was no problem with his fertility. Naturally, he loved this daughter very much.

Liu Che was extremely angry at the moment because his future self was fooled like this.

But how much of this anger was because of Princess Wei Chang? How much was because he was deceived? Liu Che knew it very well.

Wei Qing wanted to say something but stopped himself. The sky also revealed that Marquis Pingyang seemed to have died young.

But looking at Liu Che's ferocious expression, he thought it would be better to wait until His Majesty calmed down before speaking.

[During the Warring States Period, there were people in the coastal areas of Qi and Yan who claimed to be able to achieve immortality by seeking immortality and refining elixirs. These people were called alchemists, or people who practiced alchemy.

The coastal areas are always full of rough seas, and the appearance of mirages will leave people with endless imagination.

Therefore, the alchemists in this area and the various adventures they spread out have compiled many moving myths in legends.

[In ancient times, mirages appeared, but the ancients did not know that they were caused by the refraction of light, and there was no other way to explain it except as a miracle.]
The listeners seemed to understand that Tianmu meant that those fairy mountains and fairy scenes were "mirages" because of the refraction of light, but they still didn't understand. Some people with strong action were eager to try it out at home. Water can capture light, and so can colored glaze. They tried both to see if they could make it.

In the 219th year of Emperor Qin Shihuang's reign ( BC), the year of the Fengshan Ceremony at Mount Tai, Emperor Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng came to the former site of Qi with his eastern tour convoy.

Xu Fu, a local scholar from Qi, knew that Qin Shihuang wanted to seek immortality and decided to cater to his wishes.

He said to Qin Shi Huang: "Above the East China Sea, there are three immortal mountains, named Penglai, Fangzhang and Yingzhou, where immortals live."

Qin Shi Huang was very happy after hearing this and asked Xu Fu how he had met the immortal.

Xu Fu made up a story in a very serious manner, saying that one could take thousands of boys and girls, build dozens of large ships, and prepare all the gifts, and then go into the sea to meet the immortal.

Hearing him speak so sincerely, Qin Shi Huang believed him and followed Xu Shi's instructions one by one.

[Thousands of boys and girls, so many families were forced to separate, this is really a sin committed by the First Emperor.]
[My dear ancestors! There is no immortal mountain on the sea, but there is that damned little life! Don’t ask the immortals for help, just lead the Qin army to kill it!]

[Ancestor, please! Go and kill it!!!]

[In our daily life, there are coal mines, copper mines, silver mines, gold mines, etc., and there is also a world-class gold mine. You are really confused, why are you praying to the gods? Go and get it!]
[And Xu Fu, you are such a great navigator, why don’t you become a liar? ! ! What a waste of talent! ]
[Xu Fu should have a good life after that. It won't be difficult to go back. My ancestors, I beg you to get rid of it!]

[I knew that every time I talked about this, the comments would inevitably mention it, but unfortunately there is no if in history.]
Ying Zheng, the ancestor who was placed with great hopes: ...What heinous crime did that young man commit that the descendants have to beg the ancestor who was separated by more than 2,000 years to beg for mercy?
And Xu Fu, who took the boys and girls and never returned, still had some doubts in his heart.

Emperors such as Liu Che were puzzled. This little thing seemed to be extremely unpopular. Every time it appeared, people would call for its destruction.

These descendants seem to hate this little life.

But more of their attention was attracted by the gold mine, gold mine!

Where is this little day? Tianmu, can you explain it more clearly?
Some people speculated: "This little country seems to be the Wa country mentioned earlier, which can only be reached by crossing the sea."

Crossing the sea? Sending troops across the sea is not an easy task.

At this time, Emperor Yongle Zhu Di had a lot to say. For his Ming Dynasty, crossing the sea was just a piece of cake.

This country is among the “unconquered countries” listed by the old man before, which is a bit troublesome.

In the 215nd year of Emperor Qin Shihuang's reign ( BC), he traveled east to Jieshi, the former site of the State of Yan.

Jieshi faces the sea to the east, and Qin Shihuang was very sorry that there was no news from Xu Fu after he went out to sea.

Because he was eager to seek immortality, Qin Shihuang sent Lu Sheng from Yan to look for immortals, and sent Hou Gong and others to sea to find the elixir of life.

But everyone knows the result, there is no immortal, and there is no elixir of life. 】

[Instead of pinning your hopes on an elixir of immortality, it’s better to go to bed early and get up early, and exercise.]
[Both are great emperors, and both take elixirs. Ying Zheng is 49, Li Shimin is 50, and Liu Che is 70. Pigs are still strong.]
Ying Zheng and Li Shimin were so envious that their eyes turned red. It was twenty years longer.

Liu Che was proud. Even though he was called "pig", he was in a very good mood. It seemed that the elixir was still effective. Qin Shihuang and Emperor Taizong of Tang must not have taken good elixirs.

Not all alchemists are liars. Tianmu is still a little biased.

(End of this chapter)