People at the time said: There are hundreds of rivers and mountains in Guanzhong, but Taihua and Zhongnan are the best. The victory of Huashan lies in the danger, while the victory of Zhongnan lies in the beauty. This mountain is steep and beautiful, like a brocade painting screen. It stands in the southwest of Xianyang and is famous for its rich production.
It is famous for its medicinal materials and rare birds and animals.
After the scholars from Guandang Province entered Qin in Qin Yihai, Han Zhong, Hou Sheng and others came to Zhongnan Mountain for inspection and reported back to Qin Shihuang, saying that when I traveled west to Qin, I ate dew and alchemy here, so I lived a long life.
It's easy to find medicinal materials nearby, so it's a good place to build an altar and refine elixirs.
Qin Shihuang was doubtful, but he still allocated funds for them to build a "feeding platform". Every year, a lot of cinnabar was transported from Bashu for this group of alchemists to toss.
On this day, Hou Sheng, the leader of the "Chizao Zhiwu Sect", was inspecting the dew and medicinal materials picked by his disciples from Zhongnan Mountain, but he heard that a guest was visiting...
When Hou Sheng came out and took a look, he saw the back of a man wearing a green robe and a head full of black hair. When he turned around, he was shocked to realize that this man was not young, he was at least fifty or sixty years old.
Hou Sheng suddenly laughed: "Who did I think it was? It turned out to be Mr. Lu."
The person who came was none other than Lu Ao from Yan, one of the leaders of the "Overseas Immortal Seeking Sect". According to him, he was nearly seventy years old.
Both of them are outstanding alchemists. Although they compete with each other, they are often familiar with each other. Hou Sheng invited Lu Ao into the room and poured the Zhongnan fruit wine he brewed to entertain him.
After sitting down, Hou Sheng joked: "Gong Lu didn't go to Jieshi to seek Xianmen, and the two immortals Gao Swear didn't seek Penglai either. Abbot, why did you come to Zhongnan Mountain? Isn't this the opposite."
Lu Ao did not feel dissatisfied, and gracefully raised his hands and said: "Don't mock me, Mr. Hou. We, the alchemists who seek immortality, have been living in Xianyang for these years and are not used by your majesty. How can we have the money and silk hands to go overseas to seek immortality?"
He looked at the Dan Temple occupied by Han Zhong and Hou Sheng, and said with a smile: "But it seems that Hou Gong is not much better. Your house and temple have not been repaired for a long time, and they are infested with termites."
"Mr. Lu has a good eye."
Hou Sheng did not deny it: "There were indeed a few termites in the second pillar on the left hand side after entering the door."
Lu Sheng smiled: "More than that, I heard that you and Han Zhong recently submitted a letter stating that they needed to collect rare medicinal materials from the border areas, but they were also rejected?"
The implication is that their overseas Immortal Seeking Sect is not doing well, while your Ancestral Zao Zhiwu Sect is doing just fine.
Hou Sheng's face was serious: "Did Mr. Lu come here today to ridicule me on purpose?"
"How dare you? How dare you."
Lu Sheng became serious: "Mr. Hou, although you and I have different opinions on how to achieve immortality, we both reach the same goal by different paths. You should know that I, Lu Ao, and even all the alchemists who advocate your Majesty's overseas pursuit of immortality, to you
, we are friends, not enemies, and we currently have a common enemy, Guanxi Wuzhu!"
This is what Hou Sheng is most dissatisfied with. After hundreds of years of inheritance, their magicians have formed a strict set of theories.
Use the ethereal and mysterious rhetoric in Laozhuang to package yourself, and borrow the Yin-Yang family's "Great Nine Provinces and Five Elements Theory" to complete it, making people believe it is true. In the past hundred years, it has also deceived many kings, Qi, Chu, and the traditions of the Central Plains
Wu Zhu is no match for them at all.
Therefore, when they first came to Xianyang, Hou Sheng and Lu Ao did not pay attention to Wu Zhu in Qin at all, and both regarded each other as their biggest competitor.
Unexpectedly, just when Warlock Fang was about to persuade Qin Shihuang to find immortals and refine elixirs, Wu Zhi from Chen Bao Temple stood up. This toothless old guy memorized half of the "Biography of Emperor Mu" and told some legends about the Queen Mother State of the West.
This attracted Qin Shihuang.
In Hou Sheng's view, Wu Zhi's words had no technical content. Any of his apprentices could make up better than him. Warlock Fang felt deeply ashamed to lose to such a person!
Lu Ao stroked his beard and said, "I was once puzzled as to why we lost to Wu Zhi. Only recently did I understand..."
Hou Sheng knew that Lu Ao was knowledgeable and intelligent, so he bowed and said, "Please give me some advice from Mr. Lu."
Lu Ao said: "Housheng Sheng should know that Your Majesty is an impatient person. If any alchemist offers medicine and fails to achieve the desired effect, it will be regarded as deception and may lead to death!"
This is the sharp sword hanging over the head of the alchemist, so Hou Sheng and the others kept making requests to Qin Shihuang, saying that to refine the elixir of death, they need all kinds of rare medicinal materials. Some of them are far away in barbarian lands and only exist in legends. There are not many
After ten years, it is impossible to get it.
There is no other way. Only by exaggerating the difficulty of refining immortality can the alchemists waste time without failing to complete the task and all lose their heads.
Of course, Hou Sheng himself was convinced that he could turn stone into gold and refine the elixir.
"It just requires some rare materials and a lot of time... I heard that thousands of miles away in the south, there is Ganoderma lucidum that is half a man tall. If it can be harvested, it will definitely become a medicine!"
This has become his clever way to fend off Qin Shihuang.
Lu Ao pointed out the foolishness of this approach: "You have been refining medicine for five years, but you have always pushed back and forth, and no medicine has been produced. After a few times, your majesty will naturally be disappointed.
The money and silk became less and less."
After exposing Hou Sheng’s shortcomings, Lu Ao also exposed his own shortcomings:
"The same is true for those of us who seek immortality. Although there are Penglai, Abbot, and Yingzhou Sanshen Mountain outside the sea, there are immortals and the medicine of immortality. If people seek this medicine and take it, they can live forever. However, this theory was once criticized by Qi Wei
The King, King Xuan, and King Yan Zhao believed it and sent alchemists to the sea to seek it, but they couldn't find it. Of course, Your Majesty is still doubtful about it."
The most important thing is that these three kings do not live long, so it is difficult to be regarded as a model of success. Warlock Fang can only say that their "virtue" is insufficient, so they cannot find the fairy mountain.
The implication is that Your Majesty, your merits are greater than those of the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors. As long as you are sincere, you will definitely reach the Immortal Mountain and win the favor of the gods.
But even so, other than bragging that he had seen an immortal on the sea when he was a child and ate dates as big as melons given by the immortal, so that he was still full of black hair at the age of seventy, Lu Ao could not provide any more expectations.
"This is not the case with the Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West that Wu Zhi mentioned. The legend of the Kunlun Ruins is older than the overseas fairy mountains. It is also like Penglai. It is illusory and difficult to find traces. However, it is said that King Zhou Mu saw the Queen Mother of the West and received the gift from her.
Immortal medicine, longevity for a hundred years.”
There are no successful cases of seeking immortality overseas, but the opponent has, and Warlock Fang loses one point first.
"Furthermore, His Majesty's policy of westward expansion has lasted for more than four years. Whether it is the land of Shuofang just captured the year before last, or the conquest of the Yuezhi in Hexi this year, or the news returned by envoys from Wusun and Loulan, merchants from
Some strange products brought back from the Western Regions."
"In the past four years, almost every few months, His Majesty heard something new, which made him feel that what Emperor Mu wrote about the West was meaningful, and he felt that looking for the land of the Queen Mother of the West
Things are going on in an orderly manner..."
Warlock Fang could not produce anything practical, so he only knew how to delay and prevaricate, and kept asking for this and that. However, the process of finding the Queen Mother State of the West was accompanied by the expansion of territory, military victory, and the visit of Chief Hu, which made the emperor happy.
Coupled with the feedback that continues to come back, seeking immortality from the west seems to be more and more reliable.
"This is why he won and I lost!"
After Lu Ao made some analysis, Hou Sheng was sweating profusely. It turned out that what really made his side lose was not the quality of rhetoric, but a series of subsequent events.
He thought about it, and realized that it was impossible for him to provide the emperor with so many expectations and satisfaction, and his face suddenly turned pale: "What can I do?"
If the emperor did not believe in them, he would not have money or silk to invest, and the elixir that Hou Sheng believed in would never be refined. His dream of immortality for himself and his family would become empty talk.
Lu Ao encouraged: "Now that things have happened, the two factions of magicians will survive if they unite, and die if they separate!"
Hou Sheng avoided the table and said, "How to combine?"
Lu Ao said: "First of all, we need to unify the purposes of the two schools. Let's say that the temple and stove can bring about things, and the cinnabar can be turned into gold. When gold is turned into eating utensils, life will be long. Life will be long, and the immortal Penglai in the sea can be seen. See
Those who have achieved great merit will be given elixir, and then use the elixir to refine it in a refining vessel, so that they can eat it and become immortal..."
In this way, they can take ordinary gold objects, pretend to be made of stone cinnabar, and then use some tricks to blind others, so that they can deceive others and let the emperor see that the alchemist finally has
Point results.
At the same time, they need to endorse each other so that the theories of the two schools can be closely integrated. Those who refine alchemy need those who seek immortality, and those who seek immortality also need those who refine alchemy.
Lu Ao will also continue to improve Eastern legends such as Fusangmu, Tanggu, Kunpeng, etc., and even compile some apocryphal books...
"You can let people who are good at speaking, imitating ancient bronze inscriptions and seal scripts, write a "Peng Zu Sutra" and describe Peng Zu as the beginning of the magicians. He took pills and made elixirs. He lived from the time of Yao and Shun to the Yin and Shang Dynasties, and became immortal at the age of eight hundred.
Ascend to immortality!”
Hou Sheng held up his palm and said, "It's very good. I'll write it myself right now!"
There is something Lu Ao didn't say. In addition, he can also make up some ambiguous prophecies to confuse the audience...
After summing up, he encouraged Hou Sheng: "These books and rumors must be compiled as soon as possible, because this year is probably our best and last chance to convince His Majesty!"
Hou Sheng was also well-informed and lowered his voice: "Could it be..."
Lu Ao nodded: "However, there is news that the Qiongmen in the south have surrendered, and the Yuezhi in the west have been wiped out by Li Xin. The captives from the two places will be escorted back to Xianyang in three days to be presented to His Majesty."
"The west and south are all level, and your majesty has many achievements to boast about. After the prisoner sacrifice is over, he will start his eastward tour!"
Unfortunately, because of Heifu, Qin Shihuang canceled his twenty-eight-year plan to patrol the east, and concentrated on defeating the Xiongnu and Yuezhi first. The warlocks and Confucian scholars took turns to persuade them for several years, and their words were worn out. This has been delayed for a long time.
The journey is finally about to begin!
"Although I don't know the itinerary of the Eastern Tour, Your Majesty will first go to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen, and then tour the seaside, Jiaodong, and Langya. I will definitely visit it."
Over the years, whenever Lu Ao was summoned by Qin Shihuang, he would intentionally or unintentionally talk about what he had seen and experienced at the seaside. This made Qin Shihuang, who had never seen the sea, very interested and kept making plans to go and have a look.
Or maybe this also indirectly caused Qin Shihuang to pay special attention to Jiaodong and send Heifu to govern the county?
Lu Ao regretted this incident, but now, no matter who is there, they can only bite the bullet and said:
"I have also contacted two people. They are both local sorcerers from Qi. They are waiting in Linzi and Langya respectively. These two people will endorse our theory and lobby your Majesty together!"
Hou Sheng could almost guess it: "One is Langya Xushi, who is the other one?"
Lu Ao smiled mysteriously: "You will know when the time comes. There are three hundred people who refine alchemy and star energy in the world. This time we must work together to promote this matter, and we must complete their achievements in one battle!"
Hou Sheng nodded: "I will definitely seize the opportunity and ask your majesty to let me accompany you. I think your majesty will be yearning for it when he sees the misty waves of the sea. On Zhifu Island, speaking in front of the Eight Gods, you will get twice the result with half the effort!"
"It should be so, but..."
Lu Ao looked troubled: "Our biggest opportunity lies in Jiaodong, and our biggest obstacle is also in Jiaodong!"
Hou Sheng concentrated: "Could it be that what Lu Gong said is..."
He dipped it in wine and wrote the word "dog" on the table!
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