Well, the color of blood is too unlucky on New Year’s Eve, so let’s use pink. (Baidu search: Although many people want to say that it is a pink orb, but the gradual expansion seems to render the huge main hall of Afang Palace into a pale color
The blood-colored orb gives people this feeling.
Although everyone is amazed by such an orb, they are definitely not too surprised.
Because many people, especially Meng Tian, Wei Liao and other senior ministers, knew that there was such a jewel in Da Qin.
However, the orb emits a faint white light, not the bloody light like the one presented by Princess Loulan. Historically, the orb once appeared in Li Si's "Book of Remonstrance and Expulsion"
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"The jade your Majesty sent to Kunshan today is the treasure of Sui, He, and the pearl that hangs the bright moon... Qin did not produce even one of these treasures. Why did your Majesty say so?"
The so-called Sui, the treasure of harmony, "He" is exactly the jade seal of the Emperor of Qin engraved with "Ordered by Heaven, and he will live forever"; as for "Sui", it is the Suihou Pearl.
Suihou Pearl, it is said that Suihou, the monarch of Sui Kingdom, saw an injured big snake lying on the roadside in great pain during a trip. Suihou felt pity for him, so he had the snake bandaged with medicine and released into the grass. After the big snake recovered, it held a pearl in its mouth.
Ye Mingzhu came to Suihou's residence and said: "I am the son of the Dragon King. I am grateful for your life-saving grace and I come here to repay you." This is the Suihou Pearl, which is known as the "Spirit Snake Pearl".
Of course, these are all myths and legends.
However, this peerless jewel, the Suihou Pearl, can be known from the "Book of Remonstrance and Expulsion" written by Li Si to the First Emperor, and it must exist.
Suihou's beads and He's jade were already unique treasures that were famous among the princes at that time.
In 706 BC, King Wu of Chu asked Suihou for the Suihou Pearl. This request was naturally rejected. Then King Wu of Chu began to attack Sui. After several tenacious resistances, Sui was finally defeated by the Chu State and Suihou perished.
Zhu naturally had to leave Chu State.
In 362 BC, Duke Xiang of Qin died, and Duke Xiao of Qin was 21 years old. There were six powerful states to the east of Qin's territory, Qi, Chu, Wei, Yan, Han, and Zhao. There were still ten small states between Huaibei and Sishang.
However, the Qin State is still remote in Yongzhou, bullied by Wei in the east and supported by Chu in the south. Qin is not valued by other countries, and even the Emperor of Zhou, whose power has been emptied out, is unwilling to deal with Qin and cannot participate in the alliance of the Central Plains princes.
Duke Xiao of Qin angrily shouted: "The princes despise Qin, and there is no greater ugliness." In this year, Duke Xiao of Qin issued the "Order to Seek Talents." It was at this time that Wei Renyang came to Qin and was quickly valued by Duke Xiao of Qin.
Qin Xiaogong began to use Wei Yang to carry out reforms in Qin. Qin's national power began to grow rapidly.
In 342 BC, King Xuan of Chu led an army of 300,000 to march eastward to Huaibei. King Wei of Qi led an army of 200,000 to go south to Sishang. The Marquis of Yue led an army of 200,000 to leave Guangling (Yangzhou) and march north to Huaibei. Song Junyan
He also led an army of 100,000 people to march eastward to Xuzhou. The armies of the four countries fought fiercely to compete for the sacred land of Huaibei and Sishang. In the end, the battle for Huaibei and Sishang ended with the complete victory of the Chu army. Except for a few small countries in Shandong,
In Huaibei, more than a dozen small countries in Si were included in the territory of Chu.
Just as King Xuan of Chu was fighting against the armies of Qi, Yue and Song in Huaibei, Wei Yang led 200,000 Qin troops out of Languan (Lantian Pass) and divided them into two groups. One group went east out of Luonan, one group east went out on Shangluo Ancient Road, and the other group
The Qin army gathered in Shangzhou and drove away hundreds of Chu troops in the Danjiang area southwest of Shangzhou. Then they sent their troops eastward to seize Danfeng and Shaoxi Pass (Wuguan), which were guarded by thousands of Chu troops. They also sent a large army
Stationed at Shangluo, Danfeng and Shaoxi Pass. The north of Danjiang River and the west of Shaoxi Pass (Wuguan), together with the entire ancient Shangluo Road, were incorporated into the territory of Qin.
After hearing the news, King Xuan of Chu immediately led his troops back to his division and sent an envoy to question Duke Xiao.
Prior to this, for more than a hundred years, Qin and Chu had been married for generations and joined forces to resist the southern and western invasions of Wei and Qi, the two great powers at that time.
In the year of Xiangong, the father of Xiaogong (365 BC), the overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period, King Wei Hui, united with Zhao and Han to send troops to attack Qin at the same time. Qin State fought with Wei State and Zhao State in the land of northern Shaanxi and Hexi (the Yellow River Luo River in the east of Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province)
The area between the rivers), fought with Wei and South Korea in Luonan, the three countries joined forces to defeat the Qin army and retreated steadily. Wei soon captured Huayin, Xiaohan Ancient Road and ancient Tongguan County in Hexi, and Zhao captured Yuguan in Shanxi for later generations.
, Yan'an and Yan'an, Han took Lingbao to Tongguan.
By this time, most of Qin's territory had been lost, and its capital, Yueyang, had been directly exposed to the military fronts of the three kingdoms of Wei, Zhao and Han. Qin was actually facing the crisis of national subjugation.
King Xuan of Chu heard the news and raised 100,000 troops, passed through Shaoxi Pass (Wuguan), Shangyi (Danfeng) to Shangzhou, and fought against the combined forces of Han and Wei. The next year, 180,000 combined troops of Chu and Qin arrived at Danyang, Shangzhou
Defeated the attack of the 200,000-strong coalition of Wei and Han, and in the same year defeated the Wei and Han coalition forces in Luonan. The Wei army was defeated and retreated to Tongguan and Anyi, and the Korean army was defeated and retreated to Sanchuan in Luodi.
The disaster of Qin's subjugation has begun to be resolved!
And here, when Qin Xiaogong was questioned by the envoy of King Xuan of Chu, on the one hand he tried his best to argue that Wei Yang led an army of 200,000 to make his own decisions, on the other hand he sent an envoy to inform the people stationed at Shaoxi Pass (Wuguan) and Shangyi
Wei Yang said that King Xuan of Chu wanted Qin to hand over Wei Yang and would soon launch an army to attack Shang Yi and Shaoxi. The Qin State was invincible, so he granted the land of Shangzhou, Luonan and Shang Yi 700 miles to Wei Yang, and
Confessed Wei Yang as Marquis of Shang.
Wei Yang immediately called himself Shangjun and changed his name to Shang Yang. He cut off the ancient Shangzhou road from Shangluo to Shangnan, raised the height and strengthened Shaoxi Pass (Wuguan), and stationed a hundred thousand troops in Shangyi. Shaoxi, stationed a hundred thousand troops
Shangzhou and Luonan, and recruited troops and horses, expanded the army and prepared for war, preparing for the crusade of King Xuan of Chu.
In anger, King Xuan of Chu was about to send troops to attack Shang Yang and punish the ignorant junior Qin Xiaogong. King Wei of Qi and King Hui of Wei simultaneously sent troops south to attack Chu, so they had to return to defend themselves. When the Qi and Wei coalition forces saw Chu
King Xuan was prepared, so he had to retreat angrily.
In 340 BC, King Xuan of Chu fell to bed because of the betrayal of Qin Xiaogong and Shang Yang. He couldn't get up from illness. Even until his death, he still remembered Shangzhou and Shaoxiguan, who were tricked by Qin Xiaogong and Shang Yang.
From then on, Qin and Chu began to have bad relations, turning from generations of in-laws to enemies. However, at this time, the Qin State had already changed its strength after Shang Yang's reforms. The most important thing was that Qin Xiaogong obtained the Shaoxi Pass (Wuguan Pass).
), this southern pass that is crucial to the Qin Dynasty, no longer has to worry about the Chu State sending troops north to attack the Qin State's capital at any time.
In the following ten years, as Pang Juan was defeated by Sun Bin, Wei gradually fell from its position as a powerful country in the world and failed to recover. Later, Qin captured Hangu Pass from Wei, and the land of Qin's inner circle was finally stable.
After the First Emperor destroyed Chu, the Suihe Erbao and the collections of the Chu royal families became the spoils of Qin.
The Heshi Bi became the imperial seal of the Qin Emperor, while the Suihou Pearl was buried in the mausoleum with the First Emperor.
Yao Jia, Dun Ruo, Hu Wujing, Feng Quji and others who presided over the funeral of the First Emperor all knew about this matter.
The national treasure of the Loulan Kingdom in front of me is three-thirds larger than the Suihou Pearl that was buried in the tomb of the First Emperor and was used as a lighting tool. It can indeed be called a peerless treasure.
But why was there no such thing in the list of gifts presented to His Majesty the Emperor before? It seems that this small country in the Western Regions just doesn’t understand etiquette. Although it is still presented to His Majesty the Emperor at this time, I am afraid it will only make the Emperor and all the important ministers feel unhappy.
grudge.
However, for some reason, Wei Liao, Meng Tian and others sitting in the front row always felt a little bit weird when they saw the hazy pink and even faint blood-colored light emitted by the orb.
"Does this orb have a name?" Hu Hai naturally also saw the strange orb placed about ten feet away in front of his bronze case. The faint blood-colored light made him feel uncomfortable wherever he looked, and he waved
He waved his hand to the guards of the Longwei Mansion who were still observing the orb and were standing to the left and right of the orb to put the orb away.
The Qin Dynasty destroyed the six kingdoms and the Zhou Dynasty, which ruled the land of China for hundreds of years, was naturally rich in treasures. Not to mention how many were buried in the tomb of the First Emperor, let’s talk about how many rare treasures there are in the emperor’s inner treasury today. Hu Hai
He never had an accurate concept in his mind, because it seemed that he had never seen the inner treasury specially used to store various treasures for the emperor.
As the dark gold box engraved with various exotic animals, flowers and birds was covered, the faint blood-colored light that filled the entire hall disappeared in an instant.
I don't know why, but all the ministers in the hall suddenly felt much more comfortable without the bloody light. They no longer felt as heavy as before.
"Your Majesty, this orb is called the Meteor Jade Bead. In the past, our ancestors once saved a stranger. In order to thank our ancestors for saving his life, that stranger gave this object to our Loulan royal family, saying that if this orb is worn all year round, it will
Having it by your side can not only prolong your life but also make your appearance last forever. This thing is a national treasure of our country, Loulan, and even Iya’s brother and father have never told me about it.”
Seeing that Hu Hai didn't seem to be tempted by the orb at all, he just glanced at it and ordered someone to close the lid. A ripple finally flashed in Iya's calm blue eyes, and then she opened her red lips and said.
Iya understated
Things were a little unexpected.
Below the main hall, Zou Hong stared at the giant red headless three-legged bird on the side of the dark golden treasure box with the lid closed, muttering to himself.
"Oh? Does this thing have such magical effects?" Hu Hai was a little surprised when he heard what Iya said.
China has a history of five thousand years, and the history before the pre-Qin period accounts for more than half of the glorious and splendid civilization of these five years ago. Because there were not many documents left at that time, and Xiang Yu, a prodigal, would include Afang Palace in one fell swoop.
, many palaces including Xianyang Palace and the books in the treasury were burned completely, so many secrets before the pre-Qin Dynasty have actually become unsolved mysteries for later generations.
The only way to understand the history of the pre-Qin Dynasty is through the "Historical Records" compiled by Sima Qian.
However, the historical records can only record a few words, and most of them are documents from more than a hundred years before the Qin Dynasty.
If there is such a treasure, it is indeed not impossible.
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