After Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, in order to clarify the next development direction of the empire, he gathered the civilian and military generals under his command to discuss what potential crises there were in the world as far as the eye could see, which would threaten the rule of the Qin Empire for thousands of generations.
At this time, there was a Lu Sheng who put forward the prophecy of "the dead Qin, Hu Ye"!
Who is this Lu Sheng? Which "Hu" of the dead Qin he was referring to?
The historical information about Lu Sheng is very limited, and the only words are from Sima Qian's "History of The First Emperor of Qin". The identity image of his appearance is quite similar to Xu Fu, who later searched for immortal medicine for Qin Shi Huang, and he exuded a smell of divine chatter.
And the "Hu" he said has always had two interpretations. One is said to be the Hu people in the desert steppe in the northern part of the Qin Empire, that is, the Xiongnu; the other version is full of religious cause and effect reincarnation, saying that this "Hu" is the Qin Ii Emperor "Hu Hai".
Dare to love is that Qin Shi Huang did not take his son's name well, so he gave it to the dead country!
However, in these two statements, Xiaobian is more inclined to Lu Sheng referring to the Xiongnu.
It is easy to reason, when Lu Sheng prophesied, Hu Hai, the younger son of Qin Shi Huang, was still a doll running all over the ground, and who could see that he would have the ability to die in the future? The reason why the bane of Qin's death was pushed onto Hu Hai was that it was estimated that the descendants of the Six Kingdoms, who had perished by the Qin State, justified a set of blind fabrications, just like the arrangement of Qin Shi Huang as a bastard of Lü Buweisheng, which at best was an obscene obsession.
The External Factors Threatening the Stability of the Qin Regime, the Xiongnu, were almost well-known situations on the table at that time.
From the founding of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the unification of the Qin Dynasty, the Rongdihu ethnic group, which was active in the northwestern Gobi and the desert grasslands, has always been a factor of instability in the Central Plains.
In the case of the Xiongnu, as early as the middle and late Warring States period, their cavalry often went south to plunder the grain, livestock, and population of the two northern countries of Yan and Zhao. As a result, in the area where Yan Zhao and the Hu people met, there were Great Wall fortifications aimed at resisting the Xiongnu.
Qin Shi Huang's annexation of Zhao and Yan was tantamount to pushing himself to the forefront of the war against the Xiongnu. Such an important change in the geopolitical environment had to make the Decision-making level of the Qin Dynasty begin to consider the Xiongnu issue.
From this perspective, Lu Sheng put forward the view of "Hu the Dead Qin", which not only fit the background of the qin empire's just reunification, but also quickly became the consensus of the entire decision-making level of the Qin court.
Because soon after, Qin Shi Huang launched a military operation of 300,000 Qin troops led by Meng Tian against Hungary, and also invested a lot of labor to build the subsequent Qin Straight Road, the Great Wall and other supporting military projects.
As for lu sheng's image of a "divine alchemist", if you stand in the atmosphere of the Qin and Han ideological environment, it is even easier to understand.
Qin Shi Huang, who fought all over the world, who is he afraid of under the heavens? It can be said that there is nothing in the world that deserves the awe of this emperor for thousands of years. So, what do the readers do to scare and restrain the supreme emperor?
If there is, it is thunder, lightning, fierce wind, and blizzard, all of which are not controlled by Qin Shi Huang!
This is also why the later Dong Zhongshu had to compile a set of theories of "heaven and man induction" to guide Emperor Wu of Han to worry about the truth of the face of the heavens when he was ruling in the world. In Dong Zhongshu's view, what kind of floods and droughts, it is the heavens warning the emperor that he did not manage the country well.
In the same way, Lu Sheng's move out of the immortals who were not under the rule of Qin Shi Huang was nothing more than to increase his persuasiveness to his strategic viewpoint of "Dead Qin Hu".
Ghosts, ghosts, gods, ancient ghosts and gods are often spoken together. Qin Shi Huang adopted the advice of The Alchemist Lu Sheng, that is, to recognize the immortals. He recognized the gods, that is, he believed in ghosts. Therefore, the conclusion can finally be drawn:
"Qin Shi Huang - I believe you are a ghost!"
Of course, with the great talent and strategy of Qin Shi Huang, the main factor affecting his policy towards Hungary will certainly not be Lu Sheng's identity as a god spokesman. Or that Qin Shi Huang took advantage of the superstitious psychology of the ancients on ghosts and gods, and launched Lu Sheng, a figure with a god background, to increase the motivation to unite the consensus of the people for his military action against Hungary.
In fact, the war at the level of unifying the Six Kingdoms was far from enough for Qin Shi Huang to put the brakes on the war machine, and he wanted to eliminate all potential hidden dangers that interfered with the long-term peace and stability of the Qin Empire, and the most direct military decision was to attack the Xiongnu in the north and serve the Baiyue in the south.
And the Baiyue and xiongnu, obviously scattered on the border line of thousands of miles in the north, made Qin Shi Huang feel that the threat of war was imminent.
As early as the end of the Warring States period, the Xiongnu took advantage of the emptiness of the northern border defense and planted tents and sheep in the Yellow River Loop area.
For the Xiongnu, the Hetao grassland was not only able to store more tribes and cattle and sheep, but also obtained a forward base that was more convenient for plundering to the south.
In other words, the military initiative between the Qin state and the Xiongnu was in the hands of the Xiongnu cavalry. The Xiongnu wanted to fight the Qin kingdom, and from the Hetao grassland, they carried a beef jerky and rode on a horse, so they ran to Xianyang, the capital of your country. If the State of Qin wanted to counterattack the Xiongnu Shan Yu's court, it must first plan to take the Hetao region, because the other side had a strategic buffer zone!
Is this kind of nest of qi that the indomitable Qin Shi Huang was willing to endure?
Therefore, the military operation of sending troops to attack the Xiongnu has become an inevitable move. Coupled with Lu Sheng's long-established theory of the threat of the "Qin died in Hu" war, MengTian's 300,000 tiger and wolf division not only left the Xiongnu for more than 700 miles in one breath, but also pushed the front line of the battle north to the territory of the Xiongnu, using the two national projects of the Qin Straight Road and the Great Wall of Ten Thousand Miles to firmly resist the enemy outside the national gate.
However, the Qin Straight Road and the Great Wall of Ten Thousand Miles have exposed the passive thinking of Qin Shi Huang's strategic defense, and in the end, they cannot break the bane of "Hu the Qin Who Died".
However, "Hu" changed from Xiongnu to Xianbei, Rouran, Turkic, and Khitan, and "Qin" changed dynasties to Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang, until finally the Southern Song Dynasty died at the hands of Kublai Khan of Mongolia.
Compare and observe the qin empire's completely different policies towards the southern Baiyue and northern Xiongnu. To the Xiongnu, the Qin simply shut them out. For Baiyue, Qin Shi Huang migrated a large number of people to the newly occupied areas, coupled with the continuous development of the south by later dynasties, until the formation of the Jiangnan Agricultural Area, known as the land of fish and rice.
Got the magic in mind, right? The han people's means of expanding their territory and dealing with foreign ethnic groups are as simple as two words - farming!
Suitable for the development of agricultural areas, the Central Plains Dynasty was often able to transplant the agricultural economy through perseverance, and within a few generations, the newly opened territory barren mountains could be turned into tea gardens and ravines into fertile fields, and even the Wu and Yue people with broken hair tattoos could be taught to be honest hoe-carrying peasants.
However, in the steppe Gobi region of the north, where the nomadic economy is predominant, transplant farming practices do not work.
Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty spent his whole life fighting the Xiongnu and opening up the western regions, but he only gained a firm foothold in the Hexi Corridor area of Gansu Province, which was suitable for farming, and when the national strength was strong, he could also take the initiative to attack and knock on the nomadic ethnic groups, and once the national strength declined, there would be a passive situation of five chaotic Hua and Jing Kang changes.
The final solution to this problem was the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which itself ruled China as a "Hu".
The boss of this polyhedronous regime was both the emperor of the Han chinese, the great khan of the Manchu and Mongolian tribes, and the protector of Tibetan Buddhism. The multiple identities maintained by strong force have completely broken the dynasty curse of "Dead Qin Hu"!