When Lady Li died, Emperor Wu of Han missed her, and Qi Ren Shaoweng begged to see her: "If the emperor wants to see the soul of the immortal person, I can summon him for you." ”
The young man had already found a woman who looked the same as Madame Li and warned her not to speak. In the faint candlelight and incense mist, she appeared behind the translucent drapery, and Emperor Wu believed it to be true, and tears welled up.
Emperor Wu of Han was very fond of immortals, and there was a Li Shaojun who came to see him, this Li Shaojun, who claimed to be able to plant grain and get gold and make people live longer. He often claimed that he was 70 years old, and he did not mention his place of origin and life, and he did not have a wife and children, so that only God knew about him, and the emperor was fascinated by him at once, and the common people, hearing that he had the art of immortality, all rushed to serve him, and gave him gifts one after another, and for a time money and goods were piled up like hills.
Li Shaojun was born with a love of fangshu and was good at guessing things with clever words. Once, when he was drinking with Wu Anhou, there was an old man with gray hair at the banquet, and Li Shaojun talked about hunting with his grandfather in a certain place. The old man had followed his grandfather to that place when he was a child, and this surprised the guests who did not know his immortal life. Another time, the emperor took out a bronze and asked him if he knew. Shaojun blurted out, "This bronze artifact was placed on the Bai Bedchamber by Duke Qi Huan for ten years." Emperor Wu then asked someone to examine the inscription on the bronze vessel, and sure enough, he answered Shao jun's words. The whole palace was amazed, and they were convinced that Li Shaojun was a god, hundreds of years old.
Li Shaojun said to the emperor, "I once roamed the sea and met the immortal An Qisheng. He took out dates for me to eat, and the dates were so big and big, like melons. An Jisheng lives in the Penglai Wonderland, and if you are in the same way as him, he will see you; if you can't get along, he will disappear. Emperor Wu listened intently and sent fangshi to the sea to look for immortals like An Qisheng.
After a long time, Li Shaojun fell ill and died. The Son of Heaven firmly believed that he had ascended to heaven in his incarnation, and had not died, but had deliberately left his flesh in the human world. So Emperor Wu not only did not wake up, but ordered the clerical official Kuan Shu to continue to study Li Shaojun's fangshu, and still sent people to find the Penglai immortal An Qisheng. After that, many alchemists in yan, Qi, and other areas who would make things up with their own mysteries also imitated Li Shaojun and came to talk about the affairs of the gods one after another.
Once, when Qi Ren Shaoweng asked to see the emperor, the emperor asked him what his specialty was, and he said, "If the emperor wants to see the soul of a dead person, I can summon him for you." At that time, when Lady Li died, Tianzi missed her a lot, so he ordered Shao Weng to act quickly so that he could meet with Lady Li.
The young man had already found a woman who looked the same as Madame Li and warned her not to speak. In the faint candlelight and the incense mist, she appeared behind the translucent drapery, and Emperor Wu believed it to be true, and tears welled up, singing:
At night candlelight flickering drapery low,
Your flower-like face finally appeared.
Is all this a dream or is it true?
Let me think left and right, what a pity.
I'm through the smoke-filled yarn tent,
But I can only see a rough figure.
What a beautiful person that makes me think about it,
Why don't you let me get close anymore?
After this meeting with Lady Li, Tianzi gave Shao Weng the title of General Wencheng and rewarded him with a lot of property. General Wencheng said, "If the emperor wants to see the immortals, he must make things like the palace rooms and quilts used by the gods." The immortals will no longer come because they hate their vulgarity. ”
Emperor Wu then made a sacred car painted with various colors of clouds, and drove away evil spirits on an auspicious day according to the principle of the five elements of xiangke. The Ganquan Palace was also specially built, and there was a terrace room in the palace, where the images of the gods of heaven, earth, and Taiyi were painted, and sacrifice tools were also provided to attract the gods
After more than a year, not a single immortal came, and General Wencheng himself panicked first. He wrote a book for the cow to swallow, but pretended not to know, stared at the cow with mysterious eyes, and then concluded that there was something strange in the cow's belly. Emperor Wu ordered people to kill the cattle and found the Book of Books, which was very strange. Someone recognized the handwriting of the book, and when he asked the man, he realized that it was general Wencheng who had forged it, so he killed general Wencheng and hid it.
