Qin Shihuang's motorcade passed through Jimo and went north to Yeyi. It did not stop at these two cities, but continued eastward. After a few days, it arrived at Huang County in the northeastern part of the Jiaodong Peninsula.
At this point, the First Emperor stopped for a rare moment.
He needs to do something important to Qin here.
After the continuous rush, Zhao Tuo had some time to rest.
At dusk, Zhao Tuo and Ziying made an appointment to go to the city head of Huang County to enjoy the breeze, so as to dispel the fatigue after the long journey.
The First Emperor was addicted to work. As soon as he entered the city and took a short rest, he just immersed himself in reviewing documents.
He may have disliked Hu Hai's presence, which would affect his work, so he sent Hu Hai to Zhao Tuo and Ziying.
Zhao Tuo was Hu Hai's elder sister-in-law, and Zi Ying was Hu Hai's uncle. They were both elders, so it seemed reasonable to help the emperor with his children.
In fact, Zhao Tuo is still Ziying's junior, so he has to be called uncle like Hu Hai.
However, Ziying was a kind-hearted person. Seeing that Zhao Tuo was about the same age as himself, he also admired Zhao Tuo's glorious achievements.
After being called "uncle" by Zhao Tuo for the first time, Ziying waved his hand and said that the two were about the same age, and Zhao Tuo held the title of Marquis Lun, so it was better to refer to each other as "gongzi" and "junhou".
This is probably why Zhao Tuo is willing to make friends with Ziying.
If he had to call Ziying uncle every time he saw him, Zhao Tuo would probably not want to have too much contact with him.
At this moment, the three of them were standing at the head of Huang County City. The dim sunlight fell above their heads, and they could vaguely see a mountain peak on the south side.
"Uncle, brother-in-law. My father said that tomorrow he will go to Laishan to worship the moon Lord, and then he sets off for Zhifu Island. But I heard that this moon Lord is the god of Qi people. Why does my father want to come to worship these gods of Qi people?
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Hu Hai pointed to the mountain shadow in the distance and asked Zhao Tuo and Ziying.
Ziying thought for a while and said: "Probably to appease the hearts of the Qi people. Our great Qin Jian destroyed the six kingdoms, and the Qi Kingdom surrendered directly after a great war. Its national power was not greatly damaged. In addition, after
The emperor's move of the fields into Guanzhong may have caused dissatisfaction among many Qi people, so the emperor visited the east and worshiped the Eight God Lords of the Qi people along the way, in order to show his compassion."
After saying that, Ziying looked at Zhao Tuo and said with a smile: "Junhou, am I right?"
Zhao Tuo nodded and said: "Young master is right. In addition to appeasing the hearts of the people of Qi, I think the emperor may want to let the originally conflicting culture of Qin and the culture of the six eastern countries merge with each other, so that the world will eventually become one family."
"Cultural integration?"
Ziying was a little surprised, with a thoughtful look on his face.
Hu Hai opened his eyes, seeming to understand.
Zhao Tuo smiled and looked at Laishan in the distance at dusk, as if he could see the Yuezhu Temple on the mountain through the dim light.
He originally thought that the reason why the First Emperor was eager to visit the east was because he was bewitched by Confucian scholars and alchemists, and he only wanted to come here to enshrine Zen and seek immortality for the elixir of death.
But as the eastward tour progressed, Zhao Tuo discovered that the emperor's eastward tour actually had a certain positive significance.
One is that the emperor took the opportunity to inspect the eastern border to understand the situation in the hometown of the princes, and used the emperor's power to deter those with evil intentions to achieve the purpose of stabilizing the territory.
Secondly, they enshrined the Zen to promote the destiny, carved stones and erected monuments to praise Qin's merits and virtues, seized the commanding heights of public opinion, and mentally brainwashed the scholars of the Six Kingdoms, making them gradually accept the rule of Qin.
During his tour to the east, the First Emperor also offered sacrifices to the Eight Gods of Qi, and announced that they would be included in Qin's sacrificial system. In addition to caring for the people of Qi as mentioned by Ziying, I am afraid that the two different cultures have gradually interacted with each other.
Integration plan.
As we all know, in this ancient era, national affairs revolved around sacrifice and military affairs.
Among the seven heroes of the Warring States Period in the past, except for Zhao, Wei, and Han, who were relatively similar in culture, most of the other countries had their own unique systems of worshiping gods.
Qin has God, Chen Bao, Nu Te, Feng Nu, Du Zhu, Sanshe Master, etc.
In Chu, there was Taiyi, Da Si Ming, Shao Si Ming, Xiang Jun, Xiang Lady, etc.
As for the state of Qi, there are eight gods, named Lord of Heaven, Lord of Land, Lord of War, Lord of Yin, Lord of Yang, Lord of Moon, Lord of Sun, and Lord of Four Seasons.
The different systems of worshiping gods also represent differences in culture and thought.
For believers, pagans are always the most hateful enemies.
Qin Shihuang seemed to know this too. While he was pursuing the unification of government orders and requiring all counties and counties in the world to have one word, one currency, and one weights and measures.
In terms of belief, he chose to be inclusive and did not force the princes to give up the gods they believed in. Instead, he selectively incorporated the god systems of other princes into Qin's sacrifices.
Among them, Qi Di Yashen is the most important.
Previously, the emperor offered sacrifices to the sky and Liang Fu to the earth at Mount Tai, and now he is planning to perform sacrifices at Laishan, where the people of Qi worship the Lord of the Moon. This is to express an attitude.
The eight gods of Qi are now also the true gods of Qin. The gods that you Qi people worship are the gods of our great Qin.
This reminded Zhao Tuo of the Roman Empire, which also absorbed the other's gods into its own system of gods after conquering a region and nation.
The two great empires in the East and the West all chose this method invariably.
I conquer you and will not destroy your gods, but I will make your gods my gods.
Doing so can not only eliminate the resistance of the conquered people due to their beliefs, but also accelerate the rapid integration of two originally different cultures.
What the First Emperor is doing now is probably another unification of ideas after unifying writing, currency, and weights and measures.
While Zhao Tuo lamented the "unified thought" of the First Emperor, he once again became wary of Lu Sheng and other alchemists.
"Lu Sheng is really well prepared and leaves no loopholes in his work. It is obvious that the overseas islands in the northeast of Huang County are closer and there are often mirages, but they still gave up and deliberately led the emperor to Zhifu Island.
, I’m afraid it’s because of this reason.”
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Going northeast in Huang County, you will find the Penglai District of Yantai City in later generations. Its geographical location is close to the sea. It is said that some people have seen the appearance of fairyland there. After going to the sea for a distance from there, you can also come to what later generations called Changchun.
There are dozens of islands in the mountain chain, which are full of water vapor and are a good place to watch the sea.
But Lu Sheng and the others gave up here and chose Zhifu Island, which was farther away.
"Although mirages often appear on the seaside in summer, they have never been regular. It is a matter of fate. Sometimes you may not be able to see them even if you wait for several years. Lu Sheng probably knew this. If the emperor was allowed to visit Huang County
They waited for the mirage on the seaside or overseas islands, and if it did not appear in the end, the emperor would probably be furious or even angry with them."
"But Zhifu Island is different. It is where the people of Qi worship Yang Lord, one of the eight gods. The emperor wanted to worship the eight gods of Qi, so he had to go there. Even if the mirage did not appear in the end, the emperor would not be as angry as in other places.
.The Sacrifice of the Eight Gods is probably an escape route that Lu Sheng found for himself. This old guy is really a smart man."
Zhao Tuo secretly sighed. He only thought of this after knowing that the emperor was going to Laishan to worship the Moon Lord. He felt more and more that Lu Sheng was a talent, much smarter than Hou Si who made medicine in Xianyang.
"It's a pity that he strayed into the path of immortality. I don't know how slim the road to finding immortality is. I would like to see how these alchemists would end up if there were no mirages on Zhifu Island."
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"Mr. Lu, the letter has arrived. Xu Shi has successfully captured the strange beast in the sea and is now waiting on Zhifu Island. He will only wait for the emperor to arrive before he can present it to the emperor."
At the same time, Han Zhong happily took a letter and reported to Lu Sheng.
"This is very good. Things in the fairyland are elusive and unpredictable. No one knows when they will appear. If the emperor goes to Zhifu Island and does not see the fairyland, although there is a temple of the Yang Lord to offset his sin, it is not safe after all. Now.
Xu Shi came to capture the strange beasts in the sea, which can prove the overseas theory. In this way, even if the fairyland does not appear, the emperor will not be disappointed and blame us."
Lu Sheng stroked his white beard and smiled.
The emperor's eastward tour is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the alchemists. They want to take this opportunity to show the emperor the mysteries of overseas affairs, prove the existence of immortals, and ask the emperor to give money to people to support them in going to sea to search for immortals.
However, it would be unsafe to rely solely on chance encounters for such a major event. That was not Lu Sheng's style, so when he was in Xianyang, he had already contacted the famous alchemist in Qi.