Great Qin Shi Empress

==Meteorite==

After the ministers of the DPRK and China discussed the final result together, Li Si, Zhang Liang and others immediately sent people to print the mansion newspaper and various news newspapers, preparing to carry out the relevant decrees.

Because maternity leave and young men and women can go directly to the government to apply for a marriage certificate after seeing each other, and then change the marriage status of the two people on the household registration to married. If both parties want to, they can even transfer one of them to another Therefore, after Li Si and others printed the residence newspaper and the newspaper, they immediately notified their respective officials to prepare them for dealing with the dissatisfaction of the people.

After so many years of high-intensity work, the officials of the DPRK and China have already accumulated a lot of experience in dealing with emergencies. Although they expected that there might be a bloody storm in the future, everyone was not afraid.

After all, things are known in advance, as long as precautions are taken, there will be no major problems.

However, before the mansion newspaper and related newspapers were about to be shipped to all parts of the country and delivered to officials and common people, a major event suddenly happened in Dongjun——

First, when Fengchang watched the stars at night, he found that Yinghuo was close to Xinsu. After reporting it, some ministers in the court and central government were nervous and worried. Then, within a few days, Dongjun even reported that Yinghuo was close to Xinsu. At night, a "star" fell from the sky and turned into a stone when it fell to the ground.

Lin Qian knew that this was just a meteorite falling, and it was actually very common in the billions of years of life on the earth.

But for the common people, this phenomenon of stars falling from the sky and turning into stones is very surprising.

According to the governor of Dongjun County, because the meteorite did not fall in the urban area, the local people did not suffer casualties or property losses.

On the contrary, after learning about the incident, the local people ran to the meteorite to look around it. Many people regarded it as a kind of talking point. Obviously, the matter would spread rapidly in the next period of time, and the court could not stop it at all. live.

After Lin Qian learned of this, she was always worried.

Not because of the fact that the meteorite fell on the earth itself, but because of the series of events that occurred after the meteorite fell on the ground——

Lin Qian had mentioned to Ying Zheng before that there was a meteorite falling in Qin, and when the news spread, it was not only the meteorite falling to the earth that was known, but also the piece of meteorite that was spread. The "prophecy" of "the first emperor dies and the land is divided" is engraved on the meteorite.

Of course, later generations know that this is a "prophecy" artificially created by the local anti-Qin forces who are dissatisfied with Qin Shihuang himself or the county system after the meteorite fell on the earth.

But in history, this incident still had a very bad influence on Qin.

Panic is only the slightest consequence. The most terrifying thing is that after this "prophecy", more anti-Qin forces who were dissatisfied with Qin Shihuang seemed to have found an effective means to oppose Qin, and soon followed this "prophecy". In the same year, he concocted the "prophecy" that "the ancestor dragon will die this year".

Coincidentally, Qin Shihuang really disappeared within a year as predicted.

Lin Qian knew about this, how could she not be nervous?

She could hardly control herself and wanted to go to Ying Zheng's side immediately, but now that she was going to court, Lin Qian could only forcefully suppress the panic in her heart.

Ying Zheng grasped the key from Lin Qian's chaotic thoughts, and his face became calm.

Seeing this, the ministers of the DPRK and China all shut their mouths and did not dare to say another word.

After a while, Li Si took the initiative to speak: "Your Majesty, although the various decrees we discussed before are beneficial to the Qin State and the people, there will inevitably be some people who will be dissatisfied with them. It is not a very appropriate time to proceed with a highly controversial decree."

After a pause, he said, "My minister thinks that it would be better to delay the promotion of these decrees for a month or two, and wait until the matter subsides from the public before proceeding."

As soon as Li Si's words fell, many ministers echoed.

Ying Zheng paused, then turned to look at Li Si: "A month or two?"

Li Si was stunned for a moment and nodded blankly: "The development of Qin State is changing with each passing day. After the people have a lot of food and clothing, they have tossed out a lot of entertainment activities. The matter of the falling of the meteorite is almost replaced by other things. If it is really not possible, then please Zhang Ting Weiming's subordinate officer Qi Rong and others will shoot a few videos to attract the attention of the common people."

Ying Zheng didn't mean that: "Have you ever sent someone to see what the meteorite looks like?"

Li Si suddenly realized, and immediately said: "The county guard took people to the place where the meteorite fell immediately after the incident, and took a lot of photos with a camera."

As he spoke, he took out a paper bag from his cuff and handed it directly to the waiter.

After the servant took it, he walked quickly to Ying Zheng and handed it over to Ying Zheng.

Ying Zheng opened it and poured out a bunch of photos.

After carefully distinguishing it, he discovered that the sheriff of Dongjun had directly brought someone to take a 360-degree shot of the meteorite, even taking pictures of some unformed small debris, without missing a single bit.

Of course, what Ying Zheng cares more about is...

There is no prophecy above.

Whether it's because the governor of Dongjun took people to take pictures too early this time, so that the people who originally wanted to make trouble missed a great opportunity, or the people who originally wanted to make trouble have completely given up using meteorites to forge prophecies This is a good thing for Ying Zheng.

And this phenomenon undoubtedly proves from the side that the original historical prophecies were man-made, and the things about gods and ghosts are indeed all false.

Ying Zheng's originally gloomy mood eased, and he raised his head and nodded towards Lin Qian.

Lin Qian paused, and finally felt relieved.

Zhang Liang stood up at this time: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I feel that there is no need to reject the decree. Li Cheng and others are unwilling to carry out the decree according to the original plan. The reason is that the falling of the meteorite will make the people panic. Promoting the decree at this time may not only aggravate the panic in the hearts of the people, but may also directly draw the attention of the people to the decree, causing unnecessary trouble.”

Rumors are not only likely to kill people, but if the timing of spreading rumors is well chosen, subversion of a country is possible, and it must not be ignored.

Everyone knows the danger and doesn't want to take any risks.

But Zhang Liang proposed a solution from the opposite direction, "Since Li Cheng and others are worried that the whereabouts of Xingzi may have a bad influence on the people of Qin, why don't we seize the opportunity and directly blame Xingzi's fall?" How about getting better?"

Everyone looked at Zhang Liang in unison.

Ying Zheng also became interested: "What does Zhang Tingwei mean?"

Zhang Liang said with a smile: "Didn't the ancients live in times when prophecies were engraved on stones or cloth or even animals? Although what I said next may be disrespectful, I have always felt these things." Prophecy' is all man-made."

"If you think about it in this way, the fall of the star is actually a good thing for the decree to be issued by the imperial court."

Lin Qian reacted almost instantly: "Zhang Tingwei wants to make some 'prophecies' artificially?"

Zhang Liang nodded with a smile: "Weichen Mountain is high and the road is far away, so we can't do it ourselves, but we all work together to think of some prophecies, and then ask Dongjun Sheriff to use all kinds of interesting reactions recorded in the school's chemistry textbooks. It is quite feasible to add some writing on the stone that the star turned into after falling."

Lin Qian's eyes lit up immediately.

Ying Zheng also nodded with a smile: "That's a good idea."

That's it...

Ying Zheng's eyes fell on Zhang Liang, and he couldn't help wondering whether the person who made the prophecy in the history mentioned by Lin Qian was the person in front of him.

But, that has nothing to do with me.

Ying Zheng just glanced at Zhang Liang, and immediately turned his attention to the other ministers: "Zhang Tingwei's method is good. If it is used well, the people's resistance and opposition to the government's upcoming government orders will also be reduced. part."

Just like the falling of a star will make the local people panic, if some handwriting is written on the meteorite, it may also make the people look after it.

Although some officials were somewhat reluctant, more officials immediately racked their brains and began to think about how to convince the local people after forging the prophecy even though the local people had already seen the meteorite.

and also……

The text of this kind of prophecy must be concise enough and easy to understand so that it can be widely spread, and the content of the prophecy must naturally be cautious.

But this is not difficult for the ministers.

Soon they will think of a suitable prophecy—

"Those who follow Qin will prosper!"

Lin Qian looked at this prophecy with a strange expression.

But this "prophecy" is indeed easy to understand and concise enough. If it is published in newspapers, it will inevitably spread in Qin State within a very short period of time.

And the specific way of the prophecy also has the answer: because there has been no rain in Dongjun during this period, the common people have never seen the situation of the meteorite being wet by the rain, just mix some chemicals that will change color after reacting with water , can perfectly achieve this goal.

After the discussion was completed, Li Si immediately sent someone to write a letter to the Sheriff of Dongjun County.

After receiving the letter, the sheriff of Dongjun immediately took people to the place where the meteorite was located——

In order to prevent the people from secretly taking the meteorite away, the county guard had already ordered people to protect the surrounding area of ​​the meteorite, so as not to let other people approach easily, thinking that after the imperial court confirmed the whereabouts of the meteorite, they would decide whether to evacuate people.

Now, this is convenient for the sheriff of Dongjun.

He took the relevant chemicals according to the imperial court's order, and then went to the place where the meteorite was alone. Taking advantage of the time when the soldiers were changing shifts, he quickly used the chemicals to write the words "Those who follow the Qin Dynasty prosper" on the meteorite. .

It was also a beautiful day, and less than five days after the sheriff wrote the prophecy on the meteorite, it began to rain lightly.

Although the heavy rain does not affect the appearance of the text, it will not affect the retention of people taking pictures——

The sheriff deliberately left a camera around the meteorite, so that if the soldiers found any abnormalities, they should take pictures of them and hand them to him in time.

However, if the rain is too heavy, it is easy to wash away the chemicals on the meteorite in a very short period of time. The retention time may not be enough for the soldiers in charge of taking pictures to take pictures in time. It will be more difficult to forge predictions later. ;

The second is that when the rain is too heavy, even soldiers need to take shelter from the rain to rest. It is really not certain that someone will discover the text change on the meteorite in time.

But this kind of animal fluff-like drizzle has no such problems——

First, this kind of light rain will not affect the soldiers on duty, they can find the changes on the meteorite in the shortest time; second, in this light rain environment, the chemical reaction is often slow and lasts longer, which can leave soldiers More photo time.

And so it is.

Almost as soon as it rained, someone immediately exclaimed when passing by the side where the sheriff had written: "What do you see? Why did the stone turn red—"

Everyone looked at it together.

As the light rain fell, some small red dots slowly appeared on the meteorite, and then from the dots to the surface, some faint strokes soon appeared.

Although it looks extraordinarily scribbled, it can indeed be seen that it is the writing of Qin State.

Everyone was dumbfounded, and immediately shouted, and quickly called all the soldiers responsible for protecting the meteorite.

At the same time, the soldier who was in charge of taking pictures of the meteorite's abnormal shape also appeared with a camera on his shoulders, and then took countless photos under the awe and surprise eyes of others.

Not long after the photo was taken, the rain suddenly intensified, and all the soldiers ran back to the place where they were stationed in a panic. When they looked back, they found that the words on the meteorite had long since disappeared, leaving only a bare stones.

But if it wasn't for the camera to retain the image, they would even wonder if they had seen it wrong before.

And just after these photos were sent to Xianyang, within a few days, relevant news and reports were published in major newspapers that had previously kept silent about Xingzi's fall.

This prophecy also spread to every corner of Qin in a very short period of time.

In fact, not many people believed this prophecy at first.

It's not that all the people in Qin State have become materialists within a few years, and they regard all these nagging things as superstitions, but because just before this prophecy was reported, the imperial court promulgated several articles in Qin State has aroused numerous controversies and opposing decrees.

In particular, young men and women can go to the government office to register as a husband and wife relationship if they are voluntary; and a decree to give paid maternity leave to women who are about to give birth and their husbands.

As soon as these two decrees were published in the newspaper, they aroused countless protests from all over the state of Qin.

They didn't dare to go directly to the government office to protest, so they wrote letters to the newspaper office. Although these decrees were officially promulgated by the imperial court after Yingzheng's approval, they did not use too violent and unsightly words, but they meant opposition. But it was conveyed to the person in charge of the newspaper office without hindrance.

Of course, people are not the only ones who oppose the two newly promulgated decrees.

Those female officials who have already entered the officialdom but are unwilling or afraid to marry and have children because of various concerns, but actually have considerable expectations for marriage and have children in their hearts, find that many people have written letters to the newspaper expressing their objections. Even after it was published by the newspaper, he did not hesitate to write to the newspaper his praise and approval of these decrees.

The two parties directly fought for their own interests in the newspapers.

In the past, everyone claimed to be a cultural person. Even if they knew that newspapers could publish letters from readers, the letters they sent were quite reserved and elegant. Even if they had different opinions, they would only explain their thoughts carefully and patiently.

quarrel?That's what rough people do.

But maybe this time it was too irritating, these people didn't care about their own image, and directly pointed and cursed Huai in the newspapers, and some people even sweared directly in the vernacular.

Moreover, this scolding war lasted for quite a long time, until the issue of the newspaper where the prophecy was published, there were still a small group of people who continued to write letters to the newspaper office to curse people.

Although as time goes by, there are fewer and fewer people like this——

After all, everyone has a real life, and there are very few people who can really write letters and swear every day.

And after the anger in their hearts was vented, everyone saw that the court allowed them to scold and fight but did not change the decree. They even created a new column in the newspapers to explain the details of the decree, so they knew the meaning of the court. , so they fell silent.

Then, the prophecy came out.

After seeing the prophecy, most of the people who were still dissatisfied chose to believe——

After all, the people of Qin State have indeed been living better and better under the leadership of Ying Zheng these years. The people already have full trust in Ying Zheng and even the entire court.

The remaining group of people are dubious.

But even if he had some doubts, after seeing the major newspapers reporting the matter, he knew what the court meant, and it was impossible to express his doubts.

Soon, the prophecy became a real prophecy, as if it had been finalized.

And the people who were still dissatisfied with the newly promulgated decree also died down.

Regardless of whether they are dissatisfied with the decree or not, at least they have never expressed their dissatisfaction in front of others, and they will not write to the newspaper to express their dissatisfaction with the decree.

Therefore, the decree that was just released was carried out so smoothly.

And one year later, after the imperial court discovered that the birth rate of newborns had increased compared to last year, it became even more active in implementing the decree——

Not only are there more female officials who are willing to marry and have children, but also many concubines, dancers and singers who were trapped in rich people's homes were released, married with suitable people, and conceived belong to their own children.

Of course, that was all a year later.

For Lin Qian today, the most important thing is——

Ying Zheng looked at Lin Qian, and asked in a bad mood: "If I remember correctly, next year...is the date of my death?"