The Secret History of Xuanmen

Chapter 246
Qin Changfeng said that when Yingzheng built the Great Wall, it was to resist the invasion of foreign enemies such as the Huns, but it was not people who wanted to resist.

I don't know why Qin Changfeng suddenly mentioned this matter that seems to have nothing to do with our Zhao family's situation, but I was still interested.

What the Great Wall resists is not people, so what is it?
Soon Qin Changfeng told me a story about Zulong Yingzheng. After listening to it, I finally understood why he mentioned the Great Wall. A series of seemingly irrelevant events had actually planted cause and effect long ago.

Speaking of Zulong Yingzheng, it is said that when he was born, the Ziwei star in the sky was as bright as day, which foretells that a real dragon that will shake the ancients and the present will emerge from the world.And Qin Shihuang was indeed born extraordinary, even when he was very young, he had hidden strategies in his chest.

He succeeded to the throne at the age of 13. Although he was young at the time, he already knew how to forbear.

After taking full power, it took him less than ten years to destroy Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan, and Qi successively, sweep Liuhe, and establish the Great Qin.

After the establishment of the capital Xianyang, Qin Shihuang was also full of vigor, with the prestige of a king who is the best in the world.He believed that he had the virtues of the three emperors and the merits and demerits of the five emperors, so he called himself emperor and started the feudal dynasty of Yanxia.

Before the First Emperor, the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period were the princes and kings, and the ruler of the Zhou Dynasty before the Seven Kingdoms was the Emperor Zhou.However, Yingzheng calls himself the emperor, which shows how talented and ambitious he is.

It stands to reason that Zulong has such lofty aspirations, and he is also vigorously promoting reforms, humanity will surely flourish under his power.But in fact, he had only been in charge of Qin for ten years, and Hu Hai, the second emperor of Qin, was even more cruel and vicious. In just a few years, the so-called Great Qin Dynasty collapsed.

So why did the Great Qin that was born out of nowhere, the unprecedented Zulong, just a flash in the pan, fall so quickly?

The official history records that Qin Shihuang fantasized about longevity in the later period of his reign, tyranny abused the people, strangled the wisdom of the people, and shook the foundation of the Great Qin Dynasty.However, Hu Hai, the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty, mutilated his brothers and feet, and was extravagant, which completely aroused the anger of the people.

The truth is this, but the transformation of Zulong from Jingtianweidi to a tyrant has always been controversial in history. It is hard to imagine why Yingzheng lost his original intention and became obsessed with longevity, which led to the collapse of the Great Qin Dynasty.

But here with Qin Changfeng, I got a different explanation.

As a descendant of the Ying family, Qin Changfeng may be a little beautified, but it did give me a new understanding of Zulong.

And it is strange to say that, coincidentally, the transformation of Zulong actually had a similar experience with Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin and Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and it also came from a dream.

A few years after Yingzheng established Daqin and claimed to be the first emperor, he began to have a strange dream at night.

In the dream, he was bound to Kunlun Mountain by nine iron chains, surrounded by darkness, and he was trapped in a boundless secluded area.

A voice full of majesty kept echoing in Yingzheng's ears: "Zhao Zheng, you are an ordinary man, how dare you call yourself emperor? Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the way, and the way follows nature. You are an ordinary person, how dare you escape from it?" Heaven and earth, stand on their own feet?"

At first Ying Zheng didn't know where the voice came from or what it meant, so he woke up from the dream immediately.

After waking up, he found that it was just a big dream, so he didn't take it seriously.

But every one or two months, he would have the same dream, only then did Ying Zheng realize that this seemed to be a hint from heaven to him.

At that time, Taoism had not yet formed a system, but there were also ancient Fengshui masters in the world, that is, alchemists, and there was also a skilled alchemist beside Yingzheng, that is Xu Fu, who is said to have traveled to Penglai in the Middle East.

Ying Zheng summoned Xu Fu and asked him to interpret his dream.

Xu Fu broke out in a cold sweat after hearing Ying Zheng's dream, and hesitated to speak.

Ying Zheng said angrily: "I am the emperor of the world, and everything in the world obeys my orders. If there is anything you dare not say, say it!"

Only then did Xu Fu nervously say: "I'm afraid that is a warning from heaven to His Majesty. Before the Qin Dynasty, the people lived on the land, and man's law on the land means that man takes the earth as his law, and the earth takes the sky as his law, and the sky follows the Tao." It is the law. Your Majesty overthrew the old system, and you called yourself the First Emperor, and everything in the world is respected by Your Majesty. This is the way to break away from the laws of heaven and earth, and establish yourself as the respect of humanity."

"Your Majesty's move is against the way of heaven, so he has been warned by heaven."

Ying Zheng was not angry and pretentious, and said, "Then how should we deal with it?"

Xu Fu said quietly: "I am afraid that your majesty cannot be called emperor. You need to follow the example of Zhou Tianzi and call yourself the son of heaven. Although your majesty is the emperor of the world, he manages the people for the sky. You must not stand on your own. There are still many places in the country to worship the heavens and respect the heavens." .”

After hearing Xu Fu's words, Yingzheng Longyan was furious. He slapped the table and said, "It's absurd, it's nonsense. I have made great achievements, and everything in the world will naturally respect me. I respect the sky, but I am not afraid."

After drinking Xu Fu away, Ying Zheng still called himself the First Emperor.

Soon he had that dream again. Facing the so-called voice from heaven, even though he was bound by iron chains, Ying Zheng still proudly said: "I am the emperor, who made a mistake here?"

(End of this chapter)