Daqin arrests alchemists, what does it matter to me as a qi refiner?

Chapter 58 See you in the picture!

West of Langya County, by the Yishui River.

A huge dragon boat was parked on the Yishui River. Due to heavy rain, the soldiers were braving the heavy rain to scoop water out of the dragon boat to prevent the huge dragon boat from capsizing due to its unstable center of gravity.

On the side of the dragon boat, there is a palace built according to the mountains of Mengshan!

The whole palace building is huge and magnificent. It is divided into front hall, fairy palace, rooftop and earth altar, and palace palace.

The front hall is where the emperor and ministers work, the fairy palace is the sleeping palace, the roof and the earth altar are places for worshiping the heaven and the earth, and the palace is the gate. pass.

This is the Langya Palace, and from the layout point of view, it is clearly a reduced version of the Xianyang Palace.

In ancient times, high platforms were necessary to build palaces. The higher the status, the higher the high platforms.

Although the scale of the Langya Palace is far smaller than the Efang Palace under construction, it uses Mount Meng as a high platform, uses the unique white stone near Langya as the hall, and then directly uses the materials removed from the ancient Yue King's Palace to build it. .

The highest point of the palace is the core of the entire palace. A main hall stands on 99 white stone steps. This is the "Four Seas Return to One Hall", where the First Emperor went to govern.

The Hall of Four Seas Returning to One is empty, only a few curtains and a few tables.The First Emperor was standing at the entrance of the hall with his hands behind his back, watching the heavy rain outside through the high threshold, feeling a little lost.

A slightly sharp voice sounded behind him. It was a chamberlain who was reading a letter.

"The former general Ping reported that on April 22, the navy had arrived at Fusang. Xu Fu and three thousand boys and girls were not seen. They will go south to Yankagoshima to search for them!"

The First Emperor snorted lightly.

The former General Ping was Zhang Ping. He led the Daqin navy out of the East China Sea to search for the alchemist Xu Fu. It has been nearly half a year, but he still hasn't found him.

However, the First Emperor hadn't taken pills since the winter of last year, and the medical officer Xia Wu took medicines every day for recuperation, and his irritable moments were much less than before.

Therefore, the first emperor did not say anything about killing Zhang Ping this time, but only hummed to express his displeasure.

The servant secretly recorded the reaction of the first emperor. Zhang Ping's performance was actually to ask the first emperor when he would return. He heard that the navy suffered heavy losses due to the storm in the sea and could not travel far.However, the first emperor was displeased, which shows that the first emperor's heart of chasing Xu Fu has not changed.

"The guard's army at Bainidudu said in a report," the chamberlain picked up the next bamboo slip, "Young Master Fusu and General Meng Tian have been escorted to Buji by fast horses and are stranded on the other side of Yishui River. They are blocked by heavy rain and are waiting for the rain. Stop and enter Langya!"

There are eleven counties under Langya County, of which Langya County is the seat of the county, the east is the East China Sea, the west is connected with Buqi County, and the middle is bounded by Mengshan and Yishui.

Due to the rising water in Yi River, the bridge has been submerged. If you want to cross the river, you must pass through Bainidu.Because the First Emperor arrived in Langya County, Bainidu was blocked.

Because of the location of the palace, Mengshan was also blocked by the Weiwei army, so the two could only wait for the rain to stop.

"I know it." The first emperor was still calm, but his eyes were shining brightly.

Earlier, he sent Wang Ping to add [-] troops to Yunmeng County with Fusu Mengtian, and he taught Wang Ping face-to-face.

Although Wang Ping came with a horse to escort Su Mengtian and Su Mengtian, presumably Wang Ping's book was also in the hands of the soldiers escorting them, but the word "press" already explained too many problems.

Because what the First Emperor had taught Wang Ping was that if the two were obsessed with their obsession, he would take over his military power and escort them to Langya!

But the first emperor still didn't say anything, he was originally a majestic emperor.If it weren't for the trouble of the poison of the pill, and the shame of being deceived by the alchemist, he would rarely show his inner emotions.

"Langya Terrace's stone road supervisor, Qu Chizuo," the servant's voice was a little weird, "Langya Terrace yesterday had a god crossing a white snake to become a jiao, and then the spirit jiao spread rain to relieve the drought in Langya."

"Then the gods left the East China Sea and returned within ten days. The Lingjiao stayed on Langya Terrace."

His voice was slightly trembling: "Yesterday, Langya County came out in empty groups, and they all went to Langya Terrace to worship the immortal Lingjiao. But today, people from Jimo, Qianzou and other counties braved the rain to forcefully cross the Yishui River, wanting to go there. Langya Terrace worships him."

"Hmph!" An angry snort sounded, and Shi Huangdi still looked at the heavy rain with his hands behind his back, with the color of wind and thunder in his eyes.

He didn't know that the drought was so serious until he arrived in Langya County, the entire Langya East County had little rain for half a year, and Langya County didn't even drop a drop of rain.

Not the same, Jimo and Qianzou are also adjacent to Langya County, and this time they are also suffering from drought.

However, because of the Yishui River and Mengshan Mountain, and the lack of seawater erosion, even if the drought is severe, more wells can relieve it.It is only a foregone conclusion that severe production cuts will be made during the autumn harvest.

However, during the torrential rain in Langya County this time, there was not a single drop in other counties. It was actually bounded by Mengshan Mountain in Yishui. This fact is different.

Although I don't know what kind of thing the immortal Lingjiao is, it must be another story of alchemist fraud!
The villagers are ignorant, that's all.However, Qu Xu, the commander of the guard army, was responsible for hunting down the alchemists, but he said that he was a divine dragon. What does this mean?
Does Wei Wei Jie know the way to lead the army?
"What did Wei Wei Jie say?" He looked at the chamberlain with a cold look.

But the servant trembled all over, quickly found Wei Weijie's memorial from the desk, and spoke with a trembling voice.

"Nujie worshiped my lord and said, at noon yesterday, Jiede Langya County reported that the whole county went out in empty groups to worship Lingjiao at Langyatai. Because I didn't get my lord's order, I didn't dare to move lightly, so I hurriedly dispatched ten guards Go to Langya Terrace to check, but you don't see any gods, but you can see a five-foot-long white snake with horns on top and four legs on the bottom. According to Wei Wei, it may really be a dragon!"

The First Emperor was suddenly stunned.

Wei Weijie is also one of the Nine Qings, but his Nine Qings are different from the other Nine Qings.

He was born as a shepherd slave of the Qiang people. He was a domestic slave of the first emperor. He had no surname except Jie.

Jie is a ram, and it is brave in battle, so it is the first emperor's army.

Because he was a Qiang herdsman, the other nine ministers and even the officials were ashamed to sit with him.

Therefore, Jie Shi is a lonely minister. He still calls himself a slave and the First Emperor as his master, which shows his loyalty.

At this time, he was also talking about the spiritual dragon. Could it be that...

Is there really a so-called flood dragon on Langya Terrace?

Or is it that he is also deceiving me?

Shaking his head slightly, Shi Huang dismissed the idea.

"Pass my order to summon Tingwei Si to see you." He said coldly.

……

There is also a hall at the corner of the platform on the second floor of the palace. This is the west hall to which the front hall belongs, and it is where Hu Hai and other princes live.

The first emperor took only Hu Hai and his son with him on this tour, so this hall was used by Hu Hai alone.

But at this time, Hu Hai was not the only one sitting in the west hall, Zhao Gao was also there.

Besides Zhao Gao, there was another person with a square face and a beautiful beard and plump breasts, it was Li Si!
Hu Hai was sitting in the middle. Due to the heavy rain outside, the door of the palace was closed, and the palace was quite dark. Between the light and dark, Hu Hai's eyes shone coldly, like an eagle looking at a wolf.

He was the first to speak: "Does Prime Minister Zuo know what happened in Langya County yesterday?"

Li Siqing's position was Tingwei, and his official position was Zuo Prime Minister.When the First Emperor went on a tour, he was responsible for building the palace in advance and arranging food and accommodation for the army, so he had no free time.

There was a look of surprise on his face: "I don't know, what's going on in Langya County?"

"Prime Minister Zuo is diligent in the affairs of the king, and we deeply admire him."

It was Zhao Gao who spoke in a high-pitched voice: "Yesterday, there was a white spirit dragon in Langya County, who brought rain to Langya County to relieve the drought. At noon, Langya County came out from the empty county, braved the rain and went to Langya Terrace to worship the spirit dragon. .”

"To this day, Buqi County has also heard the news." He squinted his eyes and looked at Li Si, and said lightly.

Li Si was startled suddenly.

"Is this true?" he asked suspiciously.

"It's true!" Hu Hai said concisely.

At this time, Li Si had the urge to vomit blood.

He didn't doubt whether what Zhao Gao and Hu Hai said was true, there was no need for them to lie to him, because everyone was in the same boat.

Li Siben was a native of Chu. He studied under Xunzi and later defected to Qin. He was a disciple of Qin Prime Minister Lu Buwei. He was reused because he advised the First Emperor not to expel his disciples but to recruit talents from the six countries to strengthen Qin.

He is a virtuous person who works well and is the hero of the Great Qin who unified the six countries. However, he was born poor and loves wealth.

Li Si was the Prime Minister of the Left. When the First Emperor unified the six kingdoms and unified the world's coins, Li Si was responsible for this matter.

Li Si took this opportunity to make a lot of money.But somehow Zhao Gao and Hu Hai knew about it.

But Zhao Gao and Hu Hai didn't report it, on the contrary, they gave more gold and pearls here, and the three speculated on it.

However, he said it was a speculative contract, but Li Si knew that he was holding the handle for the two of them and had to do his best for their plans.

As for what the two of them were planning, Li Si also knew.

Big seat too!
Before the first emperor asked about the fairy mountain, Li Si accepted Zhao Gao's entrustment and tried to make the first emperor hate Fusu.

It never occurred to me that yesterday I was so convincing that everything about supernatural beings is absurd, and those with white skin are even more evil.

Suddenly today, a white spirit flood dragon ran out to spread rain for the people, and it stayed on the Langya Terrace fiercely, allowing all the people to worship!
Could it be that fleeting years are not good?

It's no wonder that Zhao Gao and Hu Hai suddenly invited me to come, presumably because they wanted me to give advice to the First Emperor.

However, how does this statement go?

Li Si had the urge to walk away, but he really didn't dare.

The First Emperor deeply hated those who lied to him, if he knew that he was enriching his own pockets while doing Qin Yuan's world affairs...

I am afraid that the whole family will not have a burial place!
"It's hard to do!" He sighed worriedly.

"Whatever is difficult must be done!"

Hu Hai's eyes were blazing: "Perhaps Prime Minister Zuo doesn't know that my eldest brother and General Meng Tian are in danger at this time! I heard that the two of them obtained a book of heaven in Yunmeng County and want to present it to the First Emperor!"

"Book from Heaven?" Li Si hesitated.

He has no personal grievances with Fusu, and it makes no difference to him whether Fusu or Hu Hai is the crown prince.He has reached Tingwei and is the prime minister, and there is no one to enter.

He even prefers Fusu, after all, Fusu's benevolence is well-known throughout the world.As a courtier, who wouldn't want to have a benevolent emperor?

More importantly, the first emperor was a man of great talent and strategy, a generation of heroes, and he was by no means a generation who was easily deceived by others.

If I was not careful about what I did to deceive Hu Hai, then Emperor Shi Huang would find out about it.

"I heard that the eldest son supported Su in Chu, treated Confucian scholars well, and even drank wine and talked about Confucianism with Confucian scholars in Chu."

Zhao Gao spoke again, and he said meaningfully: "Among the more than [-] people killed by the eldest son, none of them are Confucian scholars!"

Li Si is terrified!

Although he studied under Xunzi, he is a legalist disciple!

Ever since Confucius executed Shaozhengmao for being "rebellious in mind", that is, he might have thought of treason in his heart, Legalism and Confucianism have become incompatible.Nowadays, the Legalists are very powerful in the court. When the First Emperor killed the alchemists, he also killed the Confucian scholars. This may not be the result of Legalist disciples.

And Zhao Gao immediately pointed out the Achilles heel of Legalism. The eldest son, Fu Su, liked Confucianism!
How could a monarch who loves Confucianism have a Legalist prime minister?
And if Confucianism makes a comeback, I am afraid that I, the legalist benchmark above the court, will not be able to get the whole body!

"Thank you for the CRRC government order!" He saluted Zhao Gao solemnly, and Zhao Gao returned the salute solemnly.

"Presumably at this time, Emperor Shi Huang is calling me, since that's the case, I'll go see you first!" He stood up gracefully, with a flash of light in his eyes.

"I send Prime Minister Zuo off." Hu Hai also stood up and saluted solemnly.

Seeing Li Si's figure disappear behind the palace gate, a ruthless look flashed in Hu Hai's eyes.

"Ling Gao," he said in an unruly voice, "Is there really a god or spirit dragon in this world?"

"I don't know." Zhao Gao's voice was still high-pitched and soft.

Hu Hai turned his head and glanced at Zhao Gao, and said dissatisfiedly: "Why does Ling Gao not know what he said?"

The first emperor asked Zhao Gao to be Hu Hai's teacher, so the fate of the two has naturally been bound together.

Since Fusu is now looking for the immortal, the two of them are naturally an anti-immortal alliance.

The anti-immortal alliance naturally doesn’t believe in immortals, so how can they say they don’t know?

"Whether there are gods or not in this world," Zhao Gao said leisurely, "does it matter?"

"This matter is not important. What is important?" Hu Hai was slightly stunned.

He always felt that Zhao Gao was a little different today.

In the past, he always had a sense of indifference as if he stayed out of everything, but today he suddenly cared so much that he even did not hesitate to plan with Li Si in front of his own face.

This move obviously has deep meaning, after all, as the youngest son of the First Emperor, there is a big difference between being present and not being present.

"Erxi doesn't want gods to exist in the world, that's what matters!"

Zhao Gao's voice was still leisurely, but Hu Hai was dumbfounded.

Although he was regarded by the first emperor as a man of great ambition and talent, he was not a fool.

The first emperor believed in alchemists and wanted to find immortals because he wanted to obtain the medicine of immortality.

Hu Hai hated the alchemists and the like because the alchemists deceived the First Emperor!

Although he may not think so, he must say this to the outside world!

This is the tacit understanding between Hu Hai and Zhao Gao.

However, at this moment, Zhao Gao directly exposed the matter.

Hu Hai hated the alchemists, is it really because the alchemists deceived the first emperor?
No, it's because the alchemists are immortals and may be able to refine the elixir of immortality for the First Emperor!

He looked at Zhao Gao with dumbfounded eyes, and Zhao Gao suddenly stood up.

"You only know that the eldest son Fusu and the general Meng Tian turned against each other with the heavenly book, but you don't know that even if the general Meng Tian was put in a cart, he would never stop bearing stones!"

He looked at Hu Hai with burning eyes, and Hu Hai looked puzzled.

"Negative stone? What stone?"

"A mountain rock is said to be left by a heavenly being."

Zhao Gao stared at Hu Hai's face, and said word by word: "There is a small seal script on it, saying, Hu Ye, who died in Qin Dynasty!"

With a "boom", Hu Hai's body suddenly bounced, knocking over the bookcase.

He looked at Zhao Gao in disbelief.

Fu Su came back from Yunmeng Mountain, bearing the stone left by heaven and man, Hu Ye who said that Qin would perish?
This is what the picture shows!
(End of this chapter)