Text] Chapter 372 Burning books and burying scholars

? "The Confucian scholars who burned books and buried scholars back then were not those who buried them," I reached out to point out, "but those Taoist priests below."

"Why do you need to bury the Taoist priest?" King Kong Pao reached out to light the fire for me. This guy didn't care whether the historical records were wrong. He could only be curious why Qin Shihuang treated these Taoist people like this.

"It's a long story," I turned my head and looked around, found a clean place and sat down, and then I said what I saw on the tomb wall. The original text is too difficult to describe, and the following is the translation.

As we all know, after Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms and settled down, he began to look for ways to live forever. In fact, the first thing he did was not to look for fairy herbs and medicines everywhere, but to raise a large number of Taoist priests to refine so-called immortal pills. At that time, internal alchemy had not yet been developed. What is popular in society was external alchemy, which was to use a furnace to refine some pellet pills. The so-called immortal pills contained a large amount of mercury and cinnabar and other toxic ingredients. It would be good if they could not kill people. Naturally, they could not make people live forever.

But Qin Shihuang didn't think so. He had always believed that those alchemy Taoists could refine real immortal pills. Therefore, he not only gave those Taoists extremely high courtesy and treatment, but also collected all kinds of precious medicinal materials for their alchemy use. Unfortunately, those Taoists had been refining for eight years but had not refined any immortal pills. At this time, Qin Shihuang, whose health was already in trouble, began to worry. He patted the table and gave the ultimatum to the alchemy Taoists. If they could not refine immortal pills within three years, they would beheaded.

These Taoist priests have not succeeded after eight years of practice, so they naturally have a clear idea. They know that they will definitely not be able to refine any elixirs within three years, and it seems that their heads cannot be saved, so the group of people gathered together to discuss countermeasures and finally decided to escape for fear of crime.

It would be fine if he ran away secretly. Before running away, these Taoist priests did something stupid, which was to find a open and upright reason for themselves to fail to refine the elixir and push the mistake to their master Qin Shihuang, saying that the reason why they did not refine the elixir was not because of their poor level, but because Qin Shihuang was guilty of the heavens, so they failed to refine the elixir. They also woven three false crimes for Qin Shihuang. The first was debauchery, saying that he had to sleep with ten yellow-flowered daughters in one night. The second was cruel and violent, unifying the six kingdoms and killing 30 million people. The third was to burn books from various countries and destroy the intangible cultural heritage.

"Is Qin Shihuang a donkey sleeping ten times a night?" King Kongpao couldn't help but grin and scold.

"The total population during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was only about 30 million. If those Taoist priests said it was reliable, Qin Shihuang would have become the commander of the bare hands." I frowned and shook my head. Naturally, these Taoist priests could not be accurate in their nonsense. Among them, there was some basis for the last one, because the year before their defection, Qin Shihuang did burn a large number of books, mainly the Book of Songs and the Book of Documents, and the social influence was indeed very bad.

After laughing, King Kong Pao stopped talking, but I threw away the cigarette butt and continued.

The group of Taoist priests did run away, but they were quickly captured. It is conceivable that the whole country was liberated, and where could they run? After they were captured, Qin Shihuang naturally could not spare them easily. He cut off his limbs and sealed his soul and buried it here. The reason why he claimed to be buried alive was for the sake of face. History was created by those in power and was passed down by them. They wanted historians to write whatever they wanted, and if they were not obedient, they would cut them down.

You head. In fact, according to Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian", Qin Shihuang did have the act of burning "Poetry and Books" and slaughtering sorcerers, but it is not scholars but stolen sorcerers in the martial arts world. As for the word "burning books and slaughtering scholars", it comes from the preface of a fake book. To put it bluntly, the vocabulary in the preface of a fake book has become the truth in the textbook and has been taught to thousands of students. Haha, let's not comment on the rigor of history, but the book is back to the original.

In addition, there were more than 400 Taoist priests who were caught at the beginning, and they were buried in seven places based on the anti-Beidou location. Different poisonous insects were used to cover the breath of the corpse. One was to make outsiders afraid to avoid it, and the other was to use its yin energy to transform into zombies.

"These things were buried in those three locations?" After hearing what I said, King Kong Pao hurriedly asked.

"Yes, it turns out that there are seven places, and the other three places should be in a single shape in the west." I nodded and said.

"Okay, let's withdraw your troops and return to the court." The King Kong Pao immediately looked happy when he heard this.

"What kind of soldiers should be taken away and what kind of court should I return to?" I looked at the King Kong Cannon with dissatisfaction.

"Since everyone knows what's inside, why are you going to dig it?" King Kong Cannon looked at me in confusion.

"If you know what it is, you have to dig it out and see it for the headquarters." I said seriously. The mobilized people came. After staying for a few days, they ran back to the headquarters and would definitely not agree.

"I can't even dig out the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang even if I dig it out until the year of the Monkey and Horses Month." King Kong Cannon frowned.

"Let's do it, let's dig another place, change the target after digging. Zhongnan Mountain is so big and Feng Shui is so good, there will definitely be graves of princes, princes, generals and ministers, dig out some valuable burial objects to go back to hand in the office." I said with a slight inspiration. As the saying goes, "The general is outside, and the king will not be given any orders." Since our strong team has come out, we should just sweep it from the mountain. Anyway, all the income is handed over, and we will only enjoy the excuse of corruption and crime. In addition, we can avoid losing face when we are empty-handed.

"What should we do with the positioning device on our body?" King Kong Pao raised his hand and shook his wrist. He also knew that our whereabouts and location were all under the control of the headquarters.

"There are always errors in the map. As long as you don't run too far, I will hold on if there is something." I thought about it and said.

"This matter is done. Why don't we divide the troops into two groups? You go to those places underwater. I will take people to find other ancient tombs and pick up the big ones." The King Kong Cannon was very curious, and when he heard that there was a treasure, he immediately became interested.

"Don't worry, go out to explore the next place together." I interrupted the words of the King Kong Cannon. Zhongnan Mountain is not an ordinary place. Although our group of people have their own strengths, it is not enough to split the two groups and fight each other.

Even so, King Kong Cannon was still very happy and turned to everyone to convey my meaning. Everyone was happy when they heard this. Someone was in the wrong way. Anyone would be willing to do this.

"Hey, who?" When everyone was happy, King Kong Pao's cell phone rang, and King Kong Pao smiled and took out the phone.

"When did you lose it?" After feeding the King Kong Cannon, he suddenly raised his tone.

"Call the police, Jiaozuo is not big, let the police help find it. If it really doesn't work, I'll transfer the army to you." King Kong Pao was almost shouting.

"What's the situation?" I walked over in confusion. It seemed that our Ziyang Temple had lost something when he heard the words of King Kong Cannon.

"It's lost." King Kong Cannon took the time to answer.

"What's lost?" King Kongpao's nervousness made me nervous too.

"Your big-headed apprentice lost..."
Chapter completed!