After all, the actual portrayal of the First Emperor is far too despicable...
This cannot be blamed on Eunuch Sima. The blame lies with the circumstances he was in. Of course, after he had a part of himself cut off, he wrote extensively about Liu Bang.
It's true that Liu Bang was a rogue and a scoundrel, but at least he wasn't despicable. However, the Liu Bang depicted in the Records of the Grand Historian gives off a rather despicable and petty vibe.
Therefore, later historians generally believe that the First Emperor died of illness, and the reason for this inference is based on Sima Qian's description of the First Emperor's appearance in the Records of the Grand Historian.
But when Li Lin arrived here, he discovered...
The First Emperor had a full forehead, a broad face, a striking beard, and a strong and tall physique. He didn't look like a sick man at all.
This made Li Lin think that something was off about Eunuch Sima.
Then I considered the second reason: he died from poisoning by elixirs.
This is very likely.
One theory about Li Shimin's death is that he was poisoned by elixirs, and the same theory was held by the later Emperor Taizong.
Based on this, Li Lin tailored a special package for the First Emperor.
By focusing on fitness and health preservation, supplemented by dietary therapy, and adding daily foot massages, the First Emperor could be freed from the symptoms of severe poisoning and have his life extended by a few years.
This is feasible in practice.
After all, the human body has the ability to recover automatically.
While a broken bone or tendon can be repaired in a hundred days, heavy metal poisoning doesn't show any results in just a hundred days.
As expected.
After more than half a year of effort, the First Emperor finally achieved remarkable results.
Of course, to avoid being poisoned by someone else's elixir of immortality again, Li Lin has been busy tinkering with elixir of immortality during his vacation, even though it doesn't have much effect.
It was better to give the First Emperor some psychological comfort than to suffer from heavy metal poisoning.
"Alright, Manyin, I'll have someone make a copy of the imperial edict, and then send a messenger eunuch to announce it to the Prime Minister's residence in a grand manner. Now, you should be satisfied, right?"
"Thank you, Father! You are too good to me!"
"Hahaha, go down. I'm busy with state affairs. That little brat Fusu is still too green. He can't even handle a simple declaration of war from the Xiongnu. It seems I have to take action myself!"
"Haha, how could my writing skills compare to yours, brother?"
"Heh, that's true. What kind of article did that little beast Fusu write? It's all plain language. Even I wanted to laugh when I read it. He has no dignity of the Great Qin Dynasty at all. It's a waste that he has read so many Confucian books. He has disgraced me!"
The First Emperor shook his head, bent down, and began to personally write the declaration of war. In fact, it didn't need to be so complicated to wage war against the Xiongnu.
We could have just started a war, but the Xiongnu of today are no longer the same as the Xiongnu under Touman Chanyu.
It was Maodun!
An extremely powerful young man murdered his father to seize the throne, swept across the Donghu, and in just half a year, he had unified the Xiongnu tribes. The current power of the Xiongnu has become so great that it is comparable to that of the Qin Empire.
Faced with such a powerful force, the only course of action would be a war between nations, sending envoys to declare war, which would then lead to a major war.
In a war of annihilation, it's either you die or I perish.
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