April of the twenty-sixth year of the First Emperor.
"Sir, when I entered the palace just now, I saw Lang Wei transporting golden men into the palace. He said it was to commemorate the twelve Yi Di giants who appeared in Lintao at the beginning of the year. I heard that those giants were very tall, at least So tall!" In the Qin Palace, a man over four feet tall was standing on tiptoes, trying hard to stretch his short hands upward, trying to compare with the height of the golden man.
But he was too short, so this action, combined with his strange appearance, made it even more ridiculous.
Hu Hai smiled when he saw it and said: "The Golden Man? Then I have to go and see it. Youzhan take me there!" The young master immediately got up from the couch and shouted to the dwarf in front of him to lead him forward. Go see the Twelve Golden People.
"Okay!" Youzhan chuckled, turned around, and ran out of the house on his short legs. Although Hu Hai was young, he was a head taller than the dwarf, surpassing Youzhan in just a few steps.
He turned around and said: "The dwarf's legs are slow in sprinting, so I'll take you there, giggle..." Hu Hai laughed while running, especially when he saw the dwarf behind him using his short legs to chase him with difficulty. More and more happy.
Faced with the teasing of the young master Hu Hai, Youzhan was not ashamed. Instead, he acted more funny from time to time, making Hu Hai laugh.
Youzhan is an advocate. Advocates are the jugglers of this era. He had no other talent except that he could tell a good joke and put on funny performances to entertain people.
Youzhan's performance was very funny and he was very fond of Qin Shihuang. He often let him come in and out of the palace to play with his youngest son Hu Hai for fun.
Hu Hai and Youzhan, the two dwarfs, soon passed through the palace and arrived at the square outside Xianyang Palace. After a long distance, they saw the golden man standing in front of them.
"Didn't you say there are twelve Jin people? Why is there only one here? Why are all those people kneeling before the Jin people?"
"And this golden man doesn't look tall either. I feel like he stands about the same as my father?" Hu Hai muttered, with confusion on his face.
From his perspective, he could see a tall figure standing in the Xianyang Palace Square in the distance, and around him, there were more than ten people kneeling on the ground.
Youzhan twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "Master, the one standing is the emperor, and those golden men are kneeling around him."
"Ah?" Hu Hai blinked, and when he got closer, he saw that the tall figure standing in the middle was Qin Shihuang.
As for the more than ten people kneeling on the ground next to them, they were dressed in Yi Di costumes and made of gold and iron. They knelt on the ground in different postures, making surrender and submission gestures.
However, these golden figures were made according to the height of real people. Now kneeling on the ground, their height is only about six feet.
He was only one head taller than Hu Hai, and he was completely different from the giant he imagined. Twelve golden people, that’s it?
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"This is my golden man?" The First Emperor stood in the middle of the square, looking at the twelve golden men kneeling to him around him, with a bit of confusion in his eyes.
When he ascended the throne as emperor, twelve Yi Di giants appeared in Lintao, bowed their heads in the direction of Xianyang, and then disappeared.
The Yin Yang family says that this is a sign from heaven and a good thing. Therefore, the First Emperor wanted to use the soldiers gathered from all over the world to create twelve golden figures to commemorate this auspicious event.
In the emperor's imagination, these twelve golden men should be tall and majestic, built according to the height of five feet, standing in front of Xianyang Palace.
When the sun shines on the golden man, it will cast a huge shadow on the square in front of the palace. When people walk on the road in front of Xianyang Palace and see these twelve huge golden figures, they will definitely be shocked and frightened by their majestic figures, which highlights the majesty of the imperial power.
What a spectacular, thrilling scene it was! Just thinking about it in his mind, the First Emperor felt the blood all over his body surging.
Magnificent! Spectacular! Shocking! However, when the First Emperor opened his eyes wide and looked at the golden man kneeling in front of him, the expression on his face was very complicated.
These golden figures have different expressions and postures, and are divided into men and women. They wear Yi Di costumes. The appearance of each golden figure is very agile, lifelike, and very exquisitely made.
This shows that you put your heart into it, and you can’t say it was not done well. But when the First Emperor saw his youngest son Hu Hai and the dwarf Youzhan running here on short legs, he could no longer calm down.
The eight-foot golden man kneels on the ground, which is only about six feet tall and can only reach his waist. Compared with Hu Hai and Youzhan, he is only one head taller than them.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty." Youzhan rushed over and bowed to the First Emperor. Because he ran too fast and his legs were too short, he accidentally rolled on the ground.
Youzhan took advantage of the situation and made a bow salute on the ground. He raised his head and looked at the golden people around him, and then laughed: "When I heard that the young master sent the golden people to the palace, they wanted to come and pay their respects. Unexpectedly, these golden people It’s so funny that people look tall and big, but are as timid as a short guy like me.”
"Hey, how do you see that these golden people are timid?" Hu Hai blinked and looked at the twelve golden people in front of him, but he couldn't see how these golden people were timid.
The First Emperor also looked over, wanting to know what the dwarf had to say. Then Youzhan chuckled and said, "If these Jin people are not timid, how could they make their knees weak like I, Youzhan, and kneel on the ground to surrender to Your Majesty as soon as they see His Majesty?"
"Giggle, it turns out these golden men were so frightened by their father that they knelt down." Hu Hai laughed at Youzhan's flattery.
The First Emperor was expressionless. If it were normal, he would probably laugh at the dwarf's funny words.
But today, I listened to the other party's flattery, looked at the golden men around me who were only a head taller than Hu Hai and Youzhan, and then thought about the magnificent scene in my imagination.
The First Emperor was in a very bad mood. He didn't want to get angry with his favorite youngest son and a dwarf.
just casually
He said "Yeah" and said, "Since you want to see the golden man, take a good look at it. You won't be able to see it again." With that, the First Emperor turned and left.
Only Hu Hai, who looked confused, and Youzhan, who was thoughtful, stayed where they were with the golden man.
"Your Majesty." Zhao Gao, who was waiting not far away, saw the First Emperor approaching and hurriedly bowed and saluted.
"This golden man is very good. Send someone to bring Zhao Tuo back." The First Emperor looked back at the twelve little golden men not far away, and something seemed to be broken in his heart.
"Melt them and make farm tools." The First Emperor whispered. His dream of becoming a golden man was shattered. He didn't want to see these golden men anymore, and he didn't want to create them again.
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"The emperor said that the Jin people were very good, and then asked me to melt them and cast them into farm tools?" In the Shaofu official office, when Zhao Tuo received the order from the palace, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
The emperor knows the general picture! Knowing that the Qin State was in dire straits and that agricultural production required a large number of farm tools, he was only satisfied with it and asked him to melt the golden man and cast it into farm tools.
Although casting gold figures consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, melting them and casting them into farm tools is ultimately more beneficial to the country than throwing them away in the palace as a collection of figurines.
"It's really touching that the emperor is dedicated to the country. My baby is about to be born, so it's just a surprise for him!" Zhao Tuo felt quite happy.
Because after a busy month, not only was the matter of destroying weapons and using them for coining coins and agricultural tools on track, he no longer needed to worry about it.
More importantly, the task that Zhao Tuo gave to Ling Zhanghan of the examination room finally produced the first batch of results!
Paper, coming soon!
