The historical truth that cannot be read carefully: the mysterious prophecy that scared Qin Shihuang to death

Pingshu Road in Huayin County is deserted, like a forgotten road. The road was desolate, with late autumn leaves turning and falling all over the place. It was getting late, and the envoys who were envoys to Guandong were passing by in carriages. A chill spread down the spine and penetrated the chest. The further we went, the deserted the carriage became. Just as we were about to exit Pingshu Road, a stranger suddenly appeared in front of us and stopped the carriage.

The man held a piece of jade in his hand and quietly handed it to the envoy. The messenger took it suspiciously, but before he could say anything, the other party said something first: "This year the ancestor dragon will die"! Really loud.

The messenger was frightened. "This year the ancestor dragon died." Zu means the ancestor, the forefather of mankind; dragon means the symbol of the king. It means that Qin Shi Huang is going to die this year.

The stranger said these stone-cold words and walked away quickly with a face. The messenger came back to his senses and tried to find him again, but he had already disappeared.

He didn't even take a look at the coming person. He just felt that the matter was important and accelerated towards Xianyang, the capital of Qin State.

This day was in the late autumn of 211 BC, the thirty-sixth year of the First Emperor.

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The envoy returned to Xianyang and immediately reported to Qin Shihuang the strange events encountered on the way. Qin Shihuang was terrified! Although this was not the first time he had predicted such a curse, for an emperor who was superstitious to the extreme, this was undoubtedly a heart-piercing attack, and it was difficult for him not to recall the first time the curse appeared.

Speaking of it, it is more like a nursery rhyme - "A Fang, A Fang, the First Emperor died."

This popular rhyming ditty was circulated in the 26th year of the First Emperor. 221 BC. At that time, the common people were building the Epang Palace and the burden was heavy. This reactionary slogan is undoubtedly the voice of the people.

Ten years later, in the thirty-sixth year of the First Emperor, in 211 BC, a second curse appeared. This time it's even more mysterious - in Dongjun of the Qin State, a meteorite fell from the sky. Just drop it. It was just a stone. What was shocking was that the stone was engraved with six characters: "First Emperor" Death and division of the earth.”

This thing is strange. There are characters engraved on the meteorite. Could it be that the stone was engraved with characters and then fell from the sky? With the scientific knowledge we have now, this is simply a myth. Even in the era of Qin Shihuang, This is also difficult to fully convince.

Someone must be up to something!

This is not an ordinary case of disturbing social security. The sinister intention behind it is to curse the country’s leaders to death and overthrow the country’s power. The problem is extremely serious and it belongs to Criminal Investigation Case No. 1.

The censor was ordered to go to Qin Guodong County to thoroughly investigate the case. It's quite tricky. There is no clue and we can only rely on inference to find the suspect. There are two types of suspects identified. One type may be ordinary people. At that time, taxes were heavy, punishments were harsh, and the people were burdened with heavy burdens. Out of resentment, they used reactionary slogans to curse the country's leaders. This is Sima Qian's view. It makes sense. Another type of suspect may be the annexed nobles of the Six Nations or their descendants. They suffered a heavy blow in the war and hated Qin Shi Huang beyond measure. But they were unable to resist, let alone restore. They can only vent their personal anger, and they can definitely do it by carving reactionary slogans.

What troubles the censor is that he has no evidence. After many interrogations, no one dared to admit it. To admit it would be to seek death.

The censor felt a dilemma. He could not kill all the suspects, the real culprit could not be found, and he could not explain to Qin Shihuang.

The deadline to solve the case is approaching day by day. The censor was in a panic, and in desperation, he picked his scalp and figured out a countermeasure - "kill people and burn stones." Burn the offending stone to turn the curse on the stone to ashes; then, kill all the people around the place where the meteorite landed.

The massacre was so intense that I would rather kill three thousand by mistake than let one go. The heads of innocent people fell to the ground like leeks, corpses were piled on top of each other, and blood flowed into rivers.

Burning stones is a technical problem. Beheading does not even require skills and can be achieved with ruthlessness.

The censor returned to the palace and reported the results of the case to Qin Shihuang.

Qin Shihuang was expressionless, neither angry nor happy. He neither praised nor punished the censor for his incompetence. He knew that if the case continued to be investigated, it would remain an unsolved case and would have to be closed.

The plan has been finalized. Not long after, something happened that made Qin Shihuang even more unexpected and devastating - a mysterious figure appeared in Pingshu Road, Huayin County, leaving behind a piece of jade and a terrifying prophecy: "This year the ancestor dragon will die"!

Qin Shihuang looked at the jade carefully and called officials to inspect it carefully. The results of the investigation almost made Qin Shihuang choke to death. This jade does not belong to anyone else, but to Qin Shihuang himself. In the twenty-eighth year of the First Emperor, in 219 BC, when he was on a southern tour, he passed by the Yangtze River and accidentally left this jade in the river. After a few years, it miraculously returned to the hands of Qin Shihuang. Is it an arrangement by the gods? Did the gods predict that he would die this year? Qin Shihuang's spirit felt as if he had been hit by a heavy fist. He was instantly exhausted. His body weighed a thousand kilograms, but his feet were like When I step on cotton, my heart beats violently and my pulse becomes weak. In fact, Qin Shihuang's health had long since expired. From the twenty-seventh year of the First Emperor (220 BC) to the thirty-sixth year of the First Emperor (211 BC), Qin Shihuang's health deteriorated. He made a "jackal sound" when he spoke, which was the sound of a jackal. From a contemporary medical perspective, it was a symptom of bronchial disease. This disease was a serious and persistent disease at that time.

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In this situation, what is the purpose of attacking Qin Shihuang’s spirit and psychology? Who is the mysterious figure of Ping Shudao?

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"This year the ancestor dragon dies"! Whether it's a curse or a prophecy, they all convey a message to Qin Shi Huang: you will die within a few months.

First of all, civilians can be excluded as suspects in this case. From the analysis of the jade bis as evidence, salvaging jade bis from the river is not a simple task, it requires a huge amount of material resources, and it is completely impossible for the people's economic strength to reach it. Therefore, the common people can be excluded.

Secondly, the original nobles of the Six Kingdoms and their descendants can also be excluded. Although they have certain financial strength, they still need huge expenses. First, a lot of manpower and material resources had to be spent to salvage the jade, and then all the way to Pingshu Road, Huayin County, at the foot of Huashan Mountain, where they would wait for the envoy to arrive before delivering the jade. It would be nonsense to go to such great lengths just to scare Qin Shihuang. What's more, how did they know that Qin Shihuang would definitely be panicked and suffer a mental blow?

The only people who are likely to commit crimes are the senior members of the Qin Empire's ruling group who have financial and human resources. Moreover, they were familiar with the movements of the envoys and were able to calculate the time when the envoys arrived at Pingshu Road in Huayin County; in addition, in the thirty-fifth year of the First Emperor's reign, a warlock named Lu Sheng told him: "It is mentioned in the immortal's alchemy, The monarch should always patrol in disguise to avoid the evil spirits and the real person coming. I hope that the palace where the monarch lives will not be known, so that he can obtain the medicine of immortality."

"I envy you. Those real people." Qin Shihuang said to himself sincerely. Therefore, he called himself "Zhenren" instead of "I".

He listened to Lu Sheng's words and ordered that the abdominal passages and corridors of the 270 palaces within 200 miles of Xianyang be connected and filled with curtains, bells, drums and beauties. Wherever he went, anyone who dared to tell where he lived was immediately punished with death.

When he visited the Liangshan Palace, Qin Shihuang saw the prime minister's chariots and horses from the mountain. He was furious and cursed: "This is the eunuch who leaked my words!"

So, The eunuchs were interrogated, but no one dared to admit it. Qin Shihuang ordered them all to be executed. From then on, no one knew his whereabouts. When the ministers had to ask Qin Shihuang to decide something, they all gathered in Xianyang Palace to wait for the decree. Only those closest to him could understand his mental and physical condition. If Qin Shihuang saw this clearly, he would shudder.

He will also definitely investigate the favored ministers around him one by one. However, this curse was like a colorful poisonous python, tightly entangled and tightening Qin Shihuang's neck, making him breathless, making him panic and chest tight, leaving him at a loss.

His bronchitis became more severe. His only way to escape is divination, and he longs to find relief in this way.

The sorcerer's hexagram says: "Your Majesty, you must travel or migrate to save your life." This is like some fortune tellers who tell people that within a hundred days you will suffer a bloody disaster. If you want to be safe and sound, you have to go out and hide.

Poor Qin Shihuang, a generation of kings, experienced many storms and waves, but in the end he fell down to the little tricks of the sorcerers. He was very worried. I am the emperor, how can I move at will? If I move, it will be equivalent to moving the capital. As early as Shang Yang's reform, the State of Qin moved its capital from Yueyang to Xianyang, but it couldn't be moved back again.

If migration fails, then travel. As for migration, let others do it for you.

So Qin Shihuang ordered 30,000 families to move to Beihe Yuzhong, which is adjacent to the Xiongnu. These people traveled long distances with their families in tow, enduring wind, frost and bitter cold. Many of the old, weak, sick and disabled died on the way.

In the thirty-seventh year of the First Emperor, 210 BC, in winter, October, Guichou, Qin Shihuang began his fifth trip as emperor, which was also his last trip.