General Qin

After the New Year, when the excitement caused by the triumph died down.

An edict from the Qin Palace surprised all the officials in Xianyang City.

Zhao Tuo, the Marquis of Zhenguo, was not worshiped as prime minister by the emperor as they had guessed. Instead, he once again became the Shaofu, one of the Nine Qings.

The original Shaofu Zhang Han was transferred to the post of General Shaofu, who was responsible for the construction of palaces and mausoleums. As for the previous General Shaofu, the emperor was sent to the south to serve as a county guard.

This change caused a lot of discussion.

After all, when Zhao Tuo went on an expedition five years ago, the emperor personally said in front of all the ministers that when Zhao Tuo returned from victory, he would rule the world.

Is this a denial of account?

Many people have secretly speculated on the reasons for this, and even hatched many conspiracy theories.

"The master of high power shocks! It must be the master of high power and shock!"

"Zhao Tuo first destroyed the six kingdoms, then defeated the Xiongnu, and now he has captured Baiyue in the south. His achievements have been unparalleled by anyone in Qin in the five hundred years since the Xianggong Kingdom. Such The emperor will definitely be very afraid of his achievements."

"If the emperor is in good health, he may still make Zhao Tuo the prime minister, because the emperor himself can suppress him. But the problem is that if the emperor has physical problems, then he will consider his posthumous affairs. It is impossible to let Zhao Tuo take over the power of the prime minister, or Let’s get him to use his strange skills.”

It's different from some people's secret jokes.

As Prime Minister Zuo, Li Si breathed a sigh of relief and felt that his position was saved, but he noticed a special point.

The Shaofu has the responsibility of manufacturing pottery tiles and mausoleum utensils.

The general responsible for the construction of the mausoleum was Shaofu Zhang Han, who was also an old subordinate of Zhao Tuo.

"The emperor has entrusted Zhao Tuo with his residence after his death. This kind of trust... Who in the Qin Dynasty can compare with him?"

Just as Li Si guessed.

After Zhao Tuo took over as the Shaofu for the third time, apart from interfering with engineering matters, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the imperial mausoleum project.

The ancients regarded death as life, and death as existence.

The matter of the imperial mausoleum was very important in the emperor's heart. It was the greatest trust that he entrusted Zhao Tuo with this matter.

Naturally, Zhao Tuo would not let down the emperor and would go all out for this.

The imperial mausoleum is located at the northern foot of Lishan Mountain and is adjacent to the Weishui River in the north.

This place was chosen by Lu Buwei.

Construction began when Qin Wangzheng came to the throne at the age of thirteen. This year is the 37th year of construction.

It's just that when it was first built, the mausoleum was not large in scale, and it could even be said to be shabby.

In addition to the fact that the emperor at that time was still the King of Qin, it was also because Lu Buwei, the person in power at the time, advocated the concept of frugal burial and firmly opposed thick burials.

Lu Buwei even criticized the royal tombs in Eastern countries for being "as tall as mountains and as tall as trees," saying that large-scale construction of tombs is a waste of resources.

Qin cannot learn from the Six Kingdoms.

After the fall of Lu Buwei, because the Qin State was at the height of its offensive against the six eastern kingdoms, most of its national power was spent on war. At that time, the Qin King was only thinking about how to unify the world. In addition, he was the leader of the Qin Dynasty at that time. When he was young and strong, he didn't pay much attention to the construction of the mausoleum, and he didn't change much the construction of the mausoleum decided by Lu Buwei for him.

It wasn't until the Qin Dynasty merged into one kingdom that he became the emperor of the world from the king of Qin.

The six kingdoms were destroyed and all the people bowed their heads.

The sudden rise in status made the First Emperor's mentality inflated, and he upgraded the former Qin King's Mausoleum to an Imperial Mausoleum with a wave of his hand.

Everything has to be rebuilt, redesigned, and constructed again. The entire mausoleum must be worthy of the emperor's status as the supreme emperor in the world.

A large number of prisoners of war and prisoners from the Six Nations were escorted to Lishan Mountain, where they worked day and night to build the most magnificent mausoleum in history for the emperor.

What Zhao Tuo saw now at the northern foot of Lishan Mountain was a very majestic and majestic cemetery.

"The Lord knows that there are three springs under the underground palace. As for the extreme, the materials used are all the three-component soil that the Lord said, and the waterproof effect is very good. Coupled with various drainage and water-blocking facilities, there is no risk in terms of safety.

Zhang Han informed Zhao Tuo about the status of the imperial mausoleum project.

Zhao Tuo nodded and went down to Sanquan, which means that when digging underground, he passed through three layers of spring water, which is extremely deep.

Once you reach this place, you are easily susceptible to groundwater erosion.

When Zhao Tuo worked for the Shaofu a few years ago, he produced a large amount of Sanhe soil and provided it to the general responsible for the construction. Nowadays, the underground palace materials of the imperial mausoleum are basically made of Sanhe soil, which has a very good waterproof effect.

Because the time has reached the thirty-seventh year of Qin Shihuang, the entire imperial mausoleum project has actually come to an end, and the underground palace is basically completed.

There are dense defense facilities inside, and there are machine crossbows made by craftsmen. Once anyone approaches, they will be shot on the spot.

At the same time, a large amount of mercury has also been transported there, and will be instilled according to the distribution of hundreds of rivers and seas, so that this underground palace can be astronomical and geographical.

In addition, there are candles made of mermaid paste sent from Binhai County, which can last forever after being lit.

Coupled with a large number of treasures and treasures, this imperial mausoleum will become the most luxurious mausoleum in the world.

But Zhao Tuo felt that this underground palace should store more precious things.

He reviewed the classics sent by the Yushifu to be stored in the underground palace, and his eyebrows immediately wrinkled.

All are paper versions.

"That's it?"

"The emperor loves reading the most. How can such a small amount of books be enough? I have informed the imperial censor that all the classics and documents in the world must be backed up and sent here. In addition to the paper books, a copy of the bamboo slips must also be prepared, just in case the emperor wants to What should I do if I want to read the bamboo slips?"

Faced with Zhao Tuo's request, the imperial censor Feng Quji felt very difficult to handle.

All the classics in the world must be backed up and put into the underground palace. How big a project is that?

Paper books are okay, they have printing.

But to make a simplified version, I don’t know how many people would be tired.

It’s difficult to do, but I dare not not do it.

The Marquis of Zhenguo is right.

If the emperor in the underground thinks you have few books and wants to read other books, or suddenly doesn’t want to read paper books and wants to read bamboo slips, who will send them down?

Of course, everything must be prepared just in case.

What Zhao Tuo said was politically correct. After hearing this, the emperor had to praise him: "The Marquis of Zhenguo has thought carefully and knows my heart."

Feng Quji could only keep a dark face. In addition to handling government affairs every day, he kept urging his subordinates to work overtime every day and copy books.

Zhao Tuo was very satisfied with this.

Qin Shihuang's underground palace, in its original history, was still not dug up even after more than two thousand years. After being detected using scientific methods, the contents inside remained intact.

This shows that the imperial mausoleum built by Zhao Tuo now will be the best storage room in the world.

Therefore, Zhao Tuo wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to stuff all the ancient books and documents in the world, such as "Lianshan", "Gui Zang", "Huangdi Wai Jing", history books of the Six Kingdoms, and hundreds of schools of thought.

In this way, even if war breaks out again in the land of China in the future, and military disasters occur one after another, causing damage to classics and documents.

There is at least one treasure in Qin Shihuang's imperial mausoleum.

All the literature and classics that can be found in the pre-Qin era are here.

The First Emperor's underground palace will be safer than all libraries.

Zhao Tuo was afraid that the paper would not be durable for storage, so he thoughtfully prepared an extra copy of the bamboo slips so that even if one copy was damaged, they could be compared and verified.

"This is the contribution I, Zhao Tuo, have made to China!"

When Zhao Tuo was proud, he did not forget to fill in some private work.

For example, "Physics" written by himself.

"It's not enough, I want to write more."

Zhao Tuo became addicted to collecting books in the underground palace. In his spare time after work every day, he began to compile his own book "Zhao Zi".

A lifetime of military skills.

He is familiar with mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, geography, astronomy...

There are even a wide variety of doctrines. As long as Zhao Tuo can think of it, they are all stuffed into it.

"Zhao Zi"

This is an ancient and strange book that was born out of "Gongshu Fragments" and contains everything.

After writing this, he still had some unfinished thoughts.

"While the emperor is studying underground, he can also read novels to soothe his mood, right?"

Zhao Tuo followed this idea and started writing novels to relieve the emperor's fatigue.

From "The Adventures of Monkeys", "The Story of 105 Men and 3 Women" to "Thirty Years in Hedong, Thirty Years in Hexi", "One Hand Covers the Sky", "Supreme Bone and Double Eyes" to "The Lord God" and Ten Thousand Worlds" and other strange things were written by Zhao Tuo, and then they were kept in boxes and stuffed into the underground palace.

Anyway, he is the commander-in-chief, and he stuffs things into the underground palace in the name of doing good for the emperor. Others don't dare to look at it, and they don't dare to ask questions.

After doing this, Zhao Tuo did not stop. He moved his eyes away from the underground palace and put them elsewhere.

In addition to the underground palace where the emperor was buried, the imperial mausoleum also has above-ground buildings and a large number of burial pits.

The above-ground building is a rectangular park running north to south, surrounded by two layers of walls, divided into an inner city and an outer city. The overall building is in the shape of a "back", with a length of 2,400 steps from north to south and a width of 1,200 steps from east to west.

There are various mausoleum buildings between the inner city and the outer city.

For example, the ancestral temples, palaces, large and small courtyards for sacrifices all correspond one-to-one with the real-life sleeping buildings.

According to the etiquette and laws established by Feng Chang, after the emperor's death, everything in the above-ground palace in the emperor's mausoleum must be consistent with what was done during his lifetime.

The emperor's meals, fresh fruits and vegetables were placed in the palace four times a day at fixed times.

The attendants and maids living in the building must fold and spread the bedding on time, place clean water for washing, and various utensils commonly used by the First Emperor. In short, everything must be operated according to the emperor's presence, day after day. As long as the Qin Dynasty is here, it will always be like this.

Because the mausoleum building was over-planned, it was difficult for Zhao Tuo to intervene, and there was no need to intervene.

His eyes turned to the burial pits outside the mausoleum building.

What about the pit of terracotta warriors and horses, the pit of bronze chariots and horses, the pit of bronze birds, the pit of stone armor, the pit of buried horses, the pit of rare birds and animals...

Zhao Tuo's goals were the Baixi Terracotta Warriors pit and a specially designed tomb beast pit.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Shaofu was in charge of firing pottery figurines, Zhao Tuo stuffed a lot of private goods inside.

He came from a military background and did not want to destroy the terracotta warriors and horses.

But these two pitfalls can be completely played freely.

The people in the pit of terracotta warriors were holding all kinds of strange long-barreled fire-breathing weapons, which made the people of Qin look confused.

As for the tomb beast pit created by Zhao Tuo, it is even more incredible.

The sharp-edged steel warrior, the big-headed man with crossed hands and gems on his chest, the exotic woman with snake hair, the warship with the word "Star Destroyer" engraved on it...

They will serve as tomb-suppressing beasts and guard around the imperial mausoleum.

Of course, compared to the concealment and safety of the underground palace, this peripheral burial pit is easier to be dug out.

Zhao Tuo was naturally prepared when he was burying it.

He was even looking forward to it. What would future generations look like if they dug out these things?

"I'm really worried about this imperial mausoleum."

Zhao Tuo sighed quietly.

It took nearly a year since he plunged headlong into this big project.

It was not until August of the thirty-seventh year of Qin Shihuang that the emperor's condition changed.