To be the emperor...
The gentle autumn mountain breeze blew through the forest, and the dense branches and leaves around it swayed slightly.
Lu Liangsheng also knew that there was a difference between the Human Emperor and the emperors of the world, such as Fuxi, Huangdi, Dayu... He was really surprised that the First Emperor wanted to be the Human Emperor. He came to his senses, blew the mud off the mushrooms, and put them in the basket.
"Mother, why did the First Emperor fail in the end?"
As if she didn't hear the scholar's words, the old mother of Mount Li put a mushroom into the basket. Without any expression on her face, she stood up and walked a short distance to pick some wild vegetables.
"Ying Zheng's wish was to have a dynasty that would last forever. He never thought about the change of power, and he didn't want the gods to interfere in human affairs... He became the King of Qin at the age of thirteen, worked hard to govern the country, and at the age of thirty-nine, he swept across the world and unified the nine provinces of China. His talent was unmatched, and his ambition and arrogance were great."
Lu Liangsheng nodded: "The First Emperor is indeed rare in the world, otherwise how could he become the greatest emperor in history, but the Emperor of Man..."
"Since ancient times, the emperor of mankind has had the power to deify and rule over the nine provinces and four seas." The old mother of Mount Li picked some wild vegetables and put them in the basket, took a mushroom from Lu Liangsheng, covered the basket with a coarse cloth, and while holding the basket in her hand, she went to sit down on a stone by the roadside to rest.
"After the Shang Dynasty, the emperor no longer existed. Haotian established the way of gods and confiscated the power to confer gods. In the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, the son of the Red Emperor, took back a small part of the power and established the city gods in various places. People with great virtues and great achievements in the world became gods after their death and enjoyed incense."
Probably to explain the whole cause and effect to the scholar, the Old Mother of Mount Li spoke very slowly and her words were rather obscure. Perhaps the complexity of the words was not convenient to reveal, so she paused for a moment and then went back to the First Emperor.
"Ying Zheng unified the Nine Provinces and moved the Nine Cauldrons to Xianyang, intending to gather the luck of the Nine Provinces in one person. However, he was obstructed by the Sishui God on the way, and the Nine Cauldrons fell into the hands of this god. Ying Zheng was furious, but it was a pity that a mortal body could not compete. Even if he gathered countless soldiers, he could not affect the other party in the slightest."
The old mother of Mount Li looked at the few rays of sunlight cast through the gaps between the swaying branches and sighed, "He came to Mount Li to look for me several times, and I also told him implicitly that it was not feasible, but he was too ambitious... Later, he had a prime minister by his side, with the title of Tai Huang. Mount Tai is the most precious mountain, and Huang means the emperor among humans, that is, the Human Emperor. The Human Emperor can deify or demote a god with a single word."
"… The first emperor you mentioned had this thought, and he could no longer suppress it. After that, he came to Mount Li again and said in front of my temple that the throne of the emperor is the throne of the world, how can it be abandoned lightly? The power of deification is the most important power in the world, how can it be handed over to others? That was the last time he came to burn incense for me. Soon, Ying Zheng announced to the heavens on Mount Tai that he ascended the throne and became the King of Tai, saying that he would live as long as the heavens and be the king of the world…"
Lu Liangsheng listened quietly, never imagining that there were so many details in it. In his mind, he could not help but imagine a human emperor standing on the top of Mount Tai, holding the jade seal in his hand, and angrily scolding the heaven.
The sounds of wind, trees and birds were heard, mixed with the sigh of the Old Mother of Mount Li.
"If the emperor is not virtuous and has great achievements, he cannot succeed. It is not enough for Ying Zheng to unify the world, so he standardized the tracks of the carriages and the writing system, built the Great Wall, and built a dragon spine, turning himself into the dragon energy of the earth. He is called the ancestor dragon, and he vowed to fight against the sky! State Master, do you think he did the right thing?"
When his mother looked at him, Lu Liangsheng was stunned for a moment, clasped his hands, and spoke in a neither light nor heavy tone.
"Liang Sheng feels that the First Emperor is not wrong."
"Hmm?" The old lady of Mount Li picked up her cane and tapped the scholar's raised hand, pressing his hand down: "People in the world will naturally speak for the emperor of the world."
"Mother, Liangsheng does not agree with this."
Lu Liangsheng was no longer a young scholar, so he naturally had a different opinion on what the First Emperor did: "Since the power to confer gods has been in the possession of the emperor since ancient times, why didn't Haotian give it to him? In Liangsheng's cognition, the gods should be free and easy, playing in the world, and stay away from fireworks. The First Emperor is just a dragon and phoenix among humans, and he is also a mortal. It is reasonable for mortals to have desires. It is reasonable to want to take back things that belong to the human world. What's more, the human world is governed by the emperor. It is too overbearing for the gods to intervene, right? Could it be that the gods also imitated the princes of the human world to be overbearing and fight for power and profit
When people die, they become gods, and when their flesh bodies become immortals, all gods and immortals come from the human world. They just need to enjoy the incense and worship. Are they fighting for power and profit just to stand in the clouds and overlook the world, and be above everyone else? "
Lu Liangsheng spoke calmly, and his words were consistent with his current status, so they did not seem out of place. The old woman opposite seemed to know that he would say this, and nodded with a smile, slowly stood up with the help of her crutches, told the scholar to pick up the basket, and continued to move forward.
"I have long known about the National Master's ability in speaking. Hearing it with my own ears today is a completely different experience."
As he spoke, he smiled, looked at the quiet forest ahead, and continued with what he had said before:
"Perhaps, Ying Zheng thought the same way as you did... The spirit of not submitting to Haotian rose up, and no one could stop him. He summoned all the Taoists in the world to serve him, and confiscated all the soldiers in the world. He cast twelve golden men, summoned the souls of ancient giants to attach to them, concealed his tracks, dug up the emperor's tomb, and cast millions of terracotta warriors under Mount Li. He opened a market to use the terracotta warriors as bodies to exchange with the Yin soldiers and drive them for him."
Right at the foot of Mount Li, there are millions of stone figurines of evil soldiers
Lu Liangsheng walked and subconsciously stepped on the ground twice, his eyes were a little surprised. If there were more than a hundred ghosts, it would only take some effort for him to deal with them. However, if there were millions of them, that would be endless. Even if he exhausted all his magic power, he might not be able to eliminate even two ten-thousandths of them.
What's more, when fighting against gods, there must be things to defend against magic and divine power.
In that case, even ten Lu Liangshengs would be drowned in the "ocean" of millions in an instant. If the twelve golden men and the Qin army on earth were to accompany them, their power would be even more terrifying.
"You are truly worthy of being called the greatest emperor of all time. You truly have the courage that ordinary people cannot match."
"If Ying Zheng doesn't rush things so much and takes his time, he may be able to regain the power to confer the title of God."
In front, the old mother of Mount Li was walking slowly with a cane. The breeze blowing through the woods blew the old woman's gray hair.
"Unfortunately, he got impatient. In order to keep an eye on his twelve golden men and stone figurines, he took out the sun-fixing needle and fixed the sun in the sky, preventing day and night from alternating. As a result, countless craftsmen who were building the 'Dragon Ridge' day and night were killed or injured, which hurt Tianhe and angered the heavens, which broke his Ancestral Dragon Seal and released the five dragon souls...
After this incident, Ying Zheng also realized that it was difficult for a mortal body to fight against the enemy, so he asked an alchemist to go overseas to seek elixir to maintain his aging body... On the one hand, he sent people to Sishui to take back the Nine Cauldrons and stabilize the luck of the Nine Provinces. On the other hand, he was worried that if the elixir was not obtained, the twelve golden men and the million stone figurines would be used by others after his death, so he killed all the alchemists who knew about this. "
When they reached the road outside where Lu Liangsheng came from, the Old Mother of Mount Li stopped, turned her head, and looked at the scholar in front of her kindly.
"Later, Ying Zheng died, and everything he did in his lifetime also stopped. However, some things are missing. You can know these things today, I think it is also due to fate. I will not point it out. Everything is in your heart. Go, the obsession with the past has not ended yet, and everything today may happen again."
The obsession of the greatest emperor in history? Will it happen again
Lu Liangsheng wanted to ask more, but there was no one around him. He was the only one standing on the mountain path. After listening to the Emperor Qin Shihuang's secret stories of the past, his mind became a little dull. He went down the mountain in a daze and returned to the Wanshou Temple in the city. Seeing that his master was still sleeping, he did not disturb him and took the Qilin cloak in his hand again to look at it.
"Could it be that the secret hidden by Lu Yuan is just that the First Emperor wants to compete with Haotian for the right to confer the title of God?"
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Suddenly I remembered that my book "Boundless Mountains and Seas" seemed to have been obtained and compiled by Lu Yuan's master Qin Xu, and Lu Yuan left it to me...
Is the story of the First Emperor related to this book, The Boundless Mountains and Seas
Just as he was thinking, the hand that was stroking the Qilin cloak suddenly felt something strange, and a black thing fell out from the cuff of the cloak.
With a few clangs, it fell to the ground, bounced and turned, and lay quietly at the scholar's feet.
It was a pitch-black token, with a green-faced, fang-toothed evil ghost's face engraved on the front, as well as a bronze-linked iron whip engraved with talismans.