"Fu rate Zhen 3,000 men and 3,000 men and women entered the East China Sea Zuzhou...... Xu Fu entered the ancestral continent of the East China Sea and never returned. - "Xu Maogong's Family Tree"
Power is a poison that can be addictive, and when you get it, you want more. Look at those emperors who have become the supreme of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, those emperors of the ages who have made great achievements in the world, they are not satisfied with their names in history, and they still have to pursue more.
As the theme song of the TV series "Kangxi Dynasty" sings, "I really want to live another 500 years". Their desire to conquer is endless, and like Qin Shi Huang, when they feel the passage of time, they begin to pursue immortality, trying to achieve eternal life. After Xu Fu went to sea, why didn't he go back? Could it be that he really deceived Qin Shi Huang?
Qin Shi Huang was the first emperor of the feudal rule on the mainland, and he used force to create a unified China, building China into a unified country in the true sense of the word in all aspects, which is an immeasurable contribution in history. Under the high-pressure rule of the Qin Dynasty, many miracles were also created, such as the construction of the Great Wall.
It can be said that Qin Shi Huang was an emperor with outstanding achievements. is such an emperor, he is also afraid of death, these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are defeated, and he will die before he has time to enjoy it. This made Qin Shi Huang very unwilling, so he has been looking for a way to live forever, and all kinds of talented people have been recruited under his command.
Modern people know that immortality is just an illusion, not scientific. But in ancient times, technology and civilization were not developed, and people's worship of ghosts and gods was still very strong, which made them believe that there would be a way to make people immortal. Among these capable people, there is one person who is Xu Fu.
Xu Fu was born in today's Shandong Province, and some people in later generations believed that Xu Fu might have been a charlatan who was deceived and abducted. This is a misconception that before Xu Fu met Qin Shi Huang, he was already a high-ranking person who was proficient in medicine, astronomy, navigation, etc.
It is said that Xu Fu is very caring and enthusiastic about helping poor people. There was a local old man who was seriously ill and felt that he was about to die, so he asked Xu Fu to come home for consultation. Xu Fu hurriedly went to the uncle's house, and after some looks, Xu Fu quickly found out the cause of the disease, and wrote down the prescription, and asked the old man's family to go to the pharmacy to buy medicine, but the family was struggling, and there was no movement for a long time.
Xu Fu was a little strange, and after questioning, he learned that the family was very poor and had no money to get medicine. Xu Fu couldn't bear to see the old man die, so he took out money from his pocket and asked them to buy medicine. After the old man took the prescription prescribed by Xu Fu, he was really cured by the medicine and his condition was relieved. Xu Fu is very famous in the local area, and he is a well-known and very benevolent doctor.
Xu Fu lives by the sea, and the vast sea is at his doorstep. Most of the local people will fish to subsidize their families, so Xu Fu used his knowledge of the climate to tell the people which day is suitable for fishing and which day is not suitable for going to sea. Sometimes, when the weather is good, Xu Fu will go out to sea with the fishermen, and he also has superb sailing skills and fishing ability.
When Qin Shi Huang found Xu Fu, he asked Qin Shi Huang for a group of boys and girls, as well as enough food, to go to the sea to find the Three Immortals Mountain. Legend has it that there are gods living on the Three Immortals Mountain, and these gods must have an elixir of life. So, Xu Fu went to sea with the mission of Qin Shi Huang.
Qin Shi Huang had great expectations for Xu Fu's plan, and it can even be said that he was ecstatic, and Xu Fu embarked on the road of searching for medicine with such pressure. The days of sailing at sea were very difficult, the boat technology was still very backward, the children were very seasick, and it was very hard to vomit and discharge, and everyone was physically and mentally exhausted.
After several years of wandering overseas, Xu Fu returned to the Qin dynasty with news that had disappointed Qin Shi Huang. At this time, Qin Shi Huang was already very disappointed in the matter of immortality, so he did not cure Xu Fu's sin.
Before Qin Shi Huang died, Qin Shi Huang went to Mount Tai to seal Zen. After the ceremony ended, Qin Shi Huang still did not give up, and found Xu Fu, whose hometown was in Shandong, and wanted him to go to sea again to find the elixir of life.
At this time, Xu Fu was old and did not want to go to sea again, so he lied that there was a very large and man-eating fish on the sea, which often obstructed the team and made it difficult to sail. Qin Shi Huang sent someone to kill the fish, and Xu Fu was willing to go.
This was originally a prevarication rhetoric, but Qin Shi Huang really sent warriors to the sea to kill fish. Unexpectedly, he really killed a big fish and came back, Xu Fu had to embark on a journey to the vast sea again. It's just that Qin Shi Huang didn't wait for Xu Fu to return, so he died on this trip, and Xu Fu never returned, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead.
Some people say that Xu Fu deceived Qin Shi Huang. Actually, no, we later generations know that there are no gods in the world, but in the eyes of the ancients, this was not the case. What's more, Xu Fu lives by the sea, and mirages often occur on the sea. Facing the pavilions in the sky, those who have seen it must be more convinced of the existence of immortals, including Xu Fu.
Therefore, Xu Fu thought that it was possible to find the elixir of life. Moreover, if Xu Fu was deceiving Qin Shi Huang, then he would not risk his life to go back if he did not find the medicine the first time.
When the first search for medicine was fruitless, in the face of Qin Shi Huang's second request, Xu Fu did not think that he could find medicine, so his heart refused to go to sea. The reason why it never went back was because of the political chaos of the Qin Dynasty at that time, and Xu Fu went out to take refuge.
As for saying that Xu Fu went to Japan and established the Japanese state, this is nonsense. By the time Xu Fu arrived in Japan, there were already indigenous people. The temple they built to worship Xu Fu should be thanks to Xu Fu for the advanced technology he brought.
Later generations evaluated Qin Shi Huang, most of them were inseparable from the word "tyranny", as well as greed for immortality. But history is a process of trial and error, and human beings are not good, most of them are seeking short-term benefits, and have to face long-term failures before they know how to choose the right path. The matter of immortality can be regarded as Qin Shi Huang's use of the power of an emperor to prove to the ancient people that immortality is just a legend.