Ancient fake "master" Lu Sheng: deceiving Qin Shihuang eventually led to the burning of books and the entrapment of Confucians

The burning of books and the entrapment of Confucians also started because of Lu Sheng. The liar was worried that he would die miserably when Qin Shi Huang came to his senses, so he ran away, mocking Qin Shi Huang before escaping. When Qin Shihuang found out, he was furious and interrogated his comrades among the Confucian scholars. After interrogation, 463 scholars pleaded guilty and were all cheated. The death of the Qin Dynasty in two generations was believed by later generations to have a lot to do with Lu Sheng, a great liar.

The master is very seductive. A master who can do calculations and can cure diseases to extend your life or even become immortal is even more attractive. There has been an endless supply of such masters from ancient times to the present. It can be said that there have been masters from generation to generation, and each has been in charge for decades.

Qin Shihuang was obsessed with the art of immortality and believed in destiny. Some strange and eccentric people, such as Lu Sheng, Han Zhong, Xu Fu and Hou Sheng, all came to seek refuge.

Xu Fu, a native of Langya, wrote to Qin Shihuang, saying that there were three sacred mountains in the sea. Qin Shihuang believed it to be true and sent him to lead three thousand boys and girls on a boat into the sea to seek immortal mountains. However, he ended up unknown. He may have been shipwrecked or drifted to an island to settle.

Lu Sheng was an alchemist who helped Qin Shi Huang visit overseas fairy mountains to seek the elixir of immortality. Once, Lu Sheng came back from overseas and brought back a book called "Lushu", which he said was a prophecy. The book said: The person who destroyed Qin was Hu Ye. Qin Shihuang took a look and believed that the biggest threat to Qin was the Hu people in the north - he did not expect it to be his son Hu Hai - so he ordered General Meng Tian to lead an army of 300,000 to attack the Xiongnu in the north, and built the Great Wall due to the terrain, which left a mark in history An infamy. The burning of books and the entrapment of Confucians also started because of Lu Sheng. The liar was worried that he would die miserably when Qin Shi Huang came to his senses, so he ran away, mocking Qin Shi Huang before escaping. When Qin Shihuang found out, he was furious and interrogated his comrades among the Confucian scholars. After interrogation, 463 scholars pleaded guilty and were all cheated. The death of the Qin Dynasty in two generations was believed by later generations to have a lot to do with Lu Sheng, a great liar.

Those who can cater to the emperor's dream of immortality are some alchemists. One of the meanings of Dan is granular or powdered traditional Chinese medicine made according to prescriptions. The elixir used in elixirs is a so-called elixir of immortality refined by Taoism. Its ingredients have been verified by modern technology and contain excessive amounts of mercury. It is indeed a short-lived and quick-death elixir. Therefore, in history, no one became immortal after taking the elixir, but there were many people who died quickly after taking the elixir. There is a long list of emperors who died due to taking elixirs, and many of them were talented and strategic people, such as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shaojun and Shaoweng were the two most famous alchemists during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Li Shaojun is known to be proficient in the art of worshiping the ancestral stove to bring blessings, abstaining from food, and the art of immortality. He conceals his age from the outside, saying that when he is 70 years old, he will stop at this age and will never grow old again. Li Shaojun had no wife and no children, and was just a bare-bones commander. Because of his boasting, the princes rushed to give him money, fashionable clothes, food and clothing as gifts. Ordinary people did not know the inside story and thought he was really a god. He was rich without any property. They worshiped him even more and rushed to get him first. serve him. One time, Li Shaojun went to a banquet at Hou Tiangui's house in Wu'an. There was an old man in his 90s present. Li Shaojun looked at him and said that he knew his grandfather and that he had gone hunting somewhere with his grandfather. The old man was shocked and said that he had been to this place with his grandfather when he was a child. The whole audience was shocked for a moment, looking up at Li Shaojun with eyes full of admiration and awe. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty summoned Li Shaojun and asked him to appreciate a bronze in his collection. After reading it, Li Shaojun said: This vessel was displayed on the cypress bed platform when Duke Huan of Qi was ten years old. After checking the inscriptions on the bronze vessels, it turned out that they were artifacts from the time of Duke Huan of Qi. So all the officials were horrified and thought that Li Shaojun was an immortal who was hundreds of years old. He told Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty: I once traveled to the sea and met An Qisheng, an immortal from the time of Qin Shihuang. An Qisheng was selling medicine by the seaside. Qin Shihuang talked with him for three days and nights. They were very speculative and gave him tens of millions of money. An Qisheng gave Qin Shihuang a pair of red jade horses in return and said: "Please ask me for help in the future." At the foot of Penglai Mountain. ’Akadama shoes are shoes made of red jade. After I had the honor to meet An Qisheng, he invited me to eat dates, which were as big as melons. However, the Immortal has a weird temperament. Those who agree with his personality will be welcomed, and those who do not agree with him will hide away. These words became the knot of Emperor Wu of Han's life.

Later, Li Shaojun died of illness. Everyone did not believe that gods could die of illness, and they all said that he had transformed into an immortal and passed away.

The young man Zeng recommended himself and volunteered to attract the ghost of his beloved concubine, Mrs. Li, for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The young man lit up lights and candles in the palace at night, set up curtains, displayed wine and meat, and asked Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to sit in another curtain. As expected, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty saw Mrs. Li appear vividly in the curtain from a distance, sitting and moving around for a while. She was still young and beautiful, and she was still the person he had been sleeping with day and night. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty just wished he could come forward and hug him, and melancholy sang a love song: Is it evil or not? Standing and looking at it, it is so late! The record about the young man summoning souls in "Shiyi Ji" is more interesting and has richer details - but the book records the alchemist who summoned souls as Li Shaojun. Li Shaojun sent people to the opposing capital to get the Stone of Hidden Heroes. This stone is blue, as light as a feather, warm in winter and cold in summer. Carve a stone statue in Mrs. Li's likeness and place it in a gauze tent, as if she were alive. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was overjoyed and wanted to get closer to hug Mrs. Li and have some intimacy. Li Shaojun quickly stopped her, saying that the stone was poisonous and could only be viewed from a distance, not to be played with. Some people say that the Young Man's Soul Calling is the earliest origin of shadow puppetry, but I don't know whether it is true or not. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty expressed his longing for him and was very grateful to the young man. He named him General Wencheng and gave him generous rewards. He also asked the young man to invite the immortals to hold a conference of immortals and teach him the experience of becoming an immortal. The young man pretended to be a ghost and performed great rituals, but for more than a year, he failed to achieve his wish. The young man was afraid that people would say that his rituals were not effective, so he came up with a bad idea: write some strange words on silk books, mix them into the feed and feed them to the cows' bellies. Then he went around pretending to be unpredictable and told people that there was something strange in the cow's belly. After cutting open the abdomen, there was indeed a silk scroll with many mysterious words written on it. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty couldn't understand it and began to doubt the young man. He called a handwriting appraisal expert to identify it and found that it was actually written by the young man himself! Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was furious and killed the young man immediately. He was afraid that others would laugh at him and kept it secret, so no one knew how the young man died.

During the Republic of China, there was Liu Congyun, who was called an immortal. He was a native of Weiyuan County, Sichuan Province, and his nickname was Baihe. He was born in poverty. He studied for several years when he was young. Later he learned arithmetic and was smart. He is very skilled in reading words, fortune telling, fortune telling, and divination. He accepted disciples from all over the world, including those from all three religions and nine streams, and even befriended the great warlord Liu Xiang. In 1925, Liu Xiang became Liu Shenxian's disciple in Chongqing and was given the title Yuxian. Liu Xiang has always believed in magic and wanted to use it to ensure his power and position, and to continuously increase his fortune. In order to obtain a piece of ancestral feng shui treasure land to protect his fortune, he decided to move his ancestral tomb. Regarding this matter, I first hired a half-full Feng Shui master who was very dissatisfied, and then Liu Shenxian made a brilliant appearance.

Liu Xiang found Liu Congyun, and his dream became even loftier. Just being the chairman of Sichuan Province could no longer satisfy his appetite. To what extent does he follow the advice of the gods? He managed the army with magic, and Liu Congyun made the overall plan, and used divination and other magic to determine the battle plan. Every time there was a discussion in front of the army, Liu Xiang asked his subordinates to kneel down to the gods to listen to their instructions. In October 1933, the Red Army entered Sichuan. Liu Shenxian actually won the right to lead troops in the war from Liu Xiang. He announced that Guan Yunchang had appointed him, Liu Congyun, as the chairman of the Military Committee, and sent a telegram. Of course, Chairman Liu returned defeated. Liu Xiang died in 1938 at the age of 48. Liu Congyun was arrested in Chengdu in 1953. In December 1955, he was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve. In February 1957, he died of illness while on medical parole.