Qin Official

In the midwinter month of the thirty-sixth year of Qin Shihuang (November of the lunar calendar), a large ship slowly sailed from the direction of Kuaiji County and docked at the outer port of Dongye City.

Hundreds of Qin soldiers and Minyue people who surrendered to Qin met at the pier. Everyone worked together and shouted slogans to lift the huge bronze artifacts from the building and transport them to the newly built "Snake King Temple" in the center of the city. Reassemble it.

Only then did the Yue shamans discover that this giant bronze statue was actually eight "big snakes" entwined with each other, arranged in pairs, facing four directions. Although the workmanship was not exquisite, it was majestic and majestic, far superior to the wood carvings of the Fujian people.

People also heard that this was the "snake god" worshiped by the Qin Dynasty generals, so they all shouted in worship.

"This is obviously a dragon."

Lu Jia glanced at it and muttered to himself, of course he knew what it was. After Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, in addition to collecting the weapons from all over the world and concentrating them in Xianyang to cast twelve golden men, they also collected the weapons one after another and concentrated them in nearby counties. Mansion, cast chime bells and place them in the palace. They are three feet high. Bells smaller than the bells are thousands of stones. There is one in Yuzhang County. Lu Jia saw it when he went to Nanchang with Hei Fu. There are also some in Kuaiji and Jiujiang.

The base of this chime is composed of several intertwined bronze dragons, which are quite similar to the treasure of the Shaanxi Provincial Museum in later generations.

Heifu actually sent a letter to Kuaiji County, asking for the base and stuffing it directly into the temple, saying that it was the "snake god" worshiped by the Qin people.

However, the Fujian people really believed it, because the dragons in the Qin Dynasty were different from those in later generations. The paintings on the bricks had claws, but this cast bronze dragon, I don’t know whether the craftsman was negligent or something, cut corners on the four legs, and only painted on the body. It has lines, so it looks more like a big snake.

Let’s take a look at Heifu’s flag: the red and uncultured Cross-Dragon Flag. Because it is an abstract cross-dragon pattern, it looks like two big snakes entwined with each other. For a while, many people believed Heifu’s lies. : "I also admire snakes."

“It’s normal for Fujian people to not be able to tell the difference between a dragon and a snake.”

Heifu smiled and said: "Don't talk about them, even we people from Nanjun can't tell the difference. In the "Rishu" of Anlu County, the twelve zodiac animals are mentioned as follows: Zi, rat, and ugly, ox. ; Yin means tiger; Mao means rabbit; Chen, Ji means insect..."

The rural people in Nanjun also confused these two things, so the Japanese who visited the countryside called them "worms" in their dialect.

Well, now, the intruders who were originally "pagans" suddenly transformed into the guardians of the faith. Heifu even made people make up the words "No disrespect to the snake god, so the snake cannot come out" and "The poisonous snake cannot come out". The story of the general who devoured Qin and then circled and danced for him.

He explained to his tribesmen: "The common belief can make these Fujian people feel at ease. At least I will not destroy their temples..."

Heifu paused for a moment, looked at Mei Rong, and said with a smile: "Maybe like the South Vietnamese, they stewed all the gods they worshiped to make snake soup."

This was Heifu's helpless move in order to allow the Qin army to gain a foothold in Dongye City, use it as a water base to attack South Vietnam, and at the same time prevent the Fujian people from continuing to resist.

Even if this incident spread to Xianyang, it would not be a big deal, because in the Qin Dynasty, the status of dragons was far inferior to that of later generations.

Heifu once heard Zhang Cang talk to him about dragons in ancient times. He heard that in the Xia Dynasty, the image of "dragon" mainly appeared on jade articles. Most of the dragon heads had no horns and had fat ears, which looked like the image of a pig's head. , but there are already dragon marks on the body. Although he has a strong pig color, he has already entered the threshold of dragon after all.

However, the status of "dragon" at that time was really not much different from that of pigs. During the reign of Kongjia, the Queen of Xia, it is said that two dragons flew to the capital of Xia, but they were not worshiped. Instead, they were raised and eventually killed and eaten. The meat, Xia Hou praised the delicious taste and asked if there was any more...

By the time of the Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, dragons finally got rid of their status as "meat animals" and were upgraded to "traveling animals". In various myths, they were mostly used by gods to pull carts. Qu Yuan wrote in "Nine Songs": "Dragon-driven animals" Come to the emperor's clothes, chat and travel around Zhouzhang."

The people of the Qin Dynasty used the image of dragons in two more places: placing ritual utensils, guarding gates, being pressed under heavy chimes, or being arranged left and right outside the palace, with functions similar to turtles and lions.

The emperor's robe is not a dragon robe, but a dragon robe. The dragon only plays an inconspicuous part.

Therefore, as a "prince", Heifu is qualified to hand over the dragon flag as a flag, and it will not be regarded as trespassing.

Although people among the people have begun to refer to Qin Shihuang as the "ancestral dragon", the emperor himself has never recognized this title.

"It doesn't matter if Qin Shihuang changes his mind and the dragon becomes the emperor's exclusive possession, or even the official totem of China."

Heifu was full of confidence. He first deceived the Fujian people, and after they accepted the setting that "Qin and Fujian both worship snakes", when the time was right, he would come up with the saying "snake transformed into a dragon", so that the people of Fujian and Yue would also Becoming a "descendant of the dragon" is not difficult.

Only a qualified politician can deceive and lie without changing his expression.

After stabilizing Dongye City, it was already early November. Thirty thousand troops on land and water gathered in Dongye. They only waited for Wei Yang and others to explore the South China Sea with Min people as their guides and find a safe channel. Then the army could take a sea ship. , went straight to Panyu, and attacked from the north and south with the new army that had switched defenses from Wuchang, catching the South Vietnamese by surprise!

However, just as Heifu held a banquet and celebrated his victory with the soldiers, Ji Ying, who was responsible for conveying military information throughout the Southern Military Region, sent Heifu a letter from Xianyang.

"It's a letter from Zhang Cang."

Heifu hadn't contacted Fatty for a long time, so he asked everyone to drink slowly while he went to the side to unpack it.

Everyone who was drinking heavily heard a loud noise. It was Hei Fu who knocked down the lampstand candle while retreating. He quickly ran over and stepped on it, and then looked at Hei Fu with surprised eyes.

How could the Marquis of Changnan, who was not surprised when Mount Tai collapsed in front of him, be so out of his mind? They were all very nervous, thinking something big had happened.

"Could it be that the emperor died?" Lu Jia's heart pounded.

"Could it be that Madam was imprisoned?" Dongmen Bao gritted his teeth and Li Cang clenched his fists.

"Could it be that these two young gentlemen were seriously ill and died?" Xiao Tao felt sad because his eldest son also died at a young age.

"Drunk, drunk."

But Hei Fu just shook the letter and said with a gentle smile: "It's not a big deal. Zhang Cang told me that the Queen Mother of the West has been found. Your Majesty has hope of eternal life. Two or three sons, please take another drink to congratulate Your Majesty!"

Behind the smile, there was surprise and anger.

"The Queen Mother of the West is Athena? Are you kidding me!"

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Things have completely deviated from expectations and are running wildly towards unknown distances. This is how Heifu feels.

On the ship heading to the South China Sea, Heifu read Zhang Cang's letter again and sighed like this:

"It's really unintentional to insert a willow into the shadow..."

Queen Mother of the West, it was twenty-seven years ago. He conspired with the frustrated witch of Chen Bao Temple, and used the long-standing legends in the Central Plains and the strange dreams of Qin Shihuang to pull out the story.

The original intention was to prevent Qin Shihuang from investing in other warlocks, so that these wasted human and financial resources could be used to hollow out the Western Region and connect with distant civilized countries, so that the Chinese could realize the bigness of the world early. Regardless of the quality of Eastern and Western civilizations, stones from other mountains can be used to attack jade. I hope that China can join the local area network in the future instead of staying in East Asia and playing single-player.

At that time, Heifu thought happily that the people in the Central Plains didn't even understand where the Kunlun Mountains were anyway. I was afraid that they would have nothing by the time Qin Shihuang died, but he could not prove it.

Heifu's original intention was basically achieved. Zhang Cang described to Heifu the sensation caused by the Bactrian envoys entering Xianyang. Judging from their clothes, maybe they were the Hellenistic countries that stayed in the east after Alexander's expedition?

The first dialogue between East and West was realized. Zhang Cang even discussed astrological knowledge with the other party. There will definitely be more in-depth exchanges in the future.

This is a good thing, but what makes Heifu toothache is that the people of Daxia did not know what they had in mind. They actually said that the "Queen Mother of the West" the Qin Dynasty envoy was looking for was Athena, and even sent a statue of the god.

What's even more ridiculous is that Qin Shihuang readily agreed to this setting for some unknown purpose.

Heifu couldn't help but murmured: "Is it possible that your Majesty's taste has changed after reading all the Six Kingdoms Fendai, like trying Ocean Horse?"

This process is really absurd and bizarre.

This is the butterfly effect. Whether Heful likes it or not, a huge storm has gathered in the distance. It will bring profound and permanent changes to this era...

"I'm just giving the empire a little nudge, just a little push."

Standing on the building boat, looking at the vast blue South China Sea, Heifu explained feebly.

After all, he underestimated the effect of time travellers. Not to mention pushing, even a slight touch would cause endless waves...

For example, even if Heifu was beaten to death, he would not have thought that his joke "I also worship snakes" would actually lead to him becoming a Fujianese snake god thousands of years later. The right guardian of the snake god parading in the street: "Black Snake Man"!

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ps: "Rishu: The Thief Chapter": Zi means rat; Chou means cow; Yin means tiger; Mao means rabbit; Chen; Ji means insect; Wu means deer (the idiom "referring to a deer as a horse" may be related to it) ) also; Wei, horse; Shen, ring (pronounced 猨, i.e. ape); You, water (pronounced pheasant, i.e. pheasant); Xu, old sheep; Hai, pig (pig).

Chapter 2 at night.