"Why do I feel like I am the will of the world now?" Liu Xu said to himself with a wry smile as he felt all kinds of information that could fill his head.
At this time, Liu Xu was looking down at his own world, the world of Qin and Han, from the perspective of a god.
As mentioned before, the time ratio between the Qin and Han world and the real world is also 10:1, so at this time, the First Emperor was on his fifth tour, which was the tour that ultimately killed Qin Shihuang in history.
Liu Xu has always been paying attention to the development of this world. After he released a large number of "Yue Nu Sword", the history of the entire world began to become different.
First of all, the time for the fifth tour of the First Emperor was advanced. Originally, the First Emperor would start the fifth tour two years after sending Fusu to the Great Wall.
As a result, because of the appearance of Ah Qing, a god descended from heaven, the First Emperor believed that this was the god Ah Qing hinting to him, asking him to go to Wu to find Ah Qing. As long as he found him, he would be immortal.
So the First Emperor couldn't wait to start his fifth tour, and changed his original plan of touring the eastern countries to a new tour of southern regions like Wu.
This change is a very critical change, not to mention that Liu Bang and Xiang Yu both lived in the border area of Wu and Chu. It is just that if the First Emperor stayed in the southern region with a mild climate, his lifespan might be extended.
Liu Xu is looking forward to seeing how the world of Qin and Han will change next, whether the First Emperor can discover the two rebels Liu Bang and Xiang Yu in advance, and then kill them both.
But these are not the point. The point is that Liu Xu now finds that his degree of control over the Qin and Han world is completely different.
What Liu Xu could do before was to take things out of this world, and then put some things in, etc. He was more like a tangible hand in this world. He seemed very powerful, but in fact it was just like that. Can truly control the entire world.
But this time, Liu Xu found that the situation was completely different.
First of all, there were the sounds of various prayers that almost made Liu Xu's head explode.
All of these sounds are offering sacrifices to one god, that is, the Original Heavenly King, and at the same time praying to the Original Heavenly King to bless him.
Yuanshi Tianwang is the highest deity worshiped by the Qin Dynasty.
Different from the mythology system that we are currently familiar with, the mythology system of the Qin Dynasty was simpler. At least, the mythology system of the Qin Dynasty did not have a complete ruling institution like the Heavenly Court.
The most basic of the Qin Dynasty's mythology system are various local gods, such as Qu Yuan, Mrs. Xiang, Chi You, etc. These gods were originally human beings. Due to various reasons, they were believed by later generations and were named local gods.
However, these gods are not righteous gods, and the officials never offer sacrifices to these things. Since their behavior is called obscene sacrifice, it is illegal and is an illegal act suppressed by the Qin Dynasty officials.
Only the righteous gods really enjoy official sacrifices, which are the gods of various well-known mountains, rivers and rivers. These are the second level of the god system.
Further up are the Five Emperors, namely the White Emperor, the Green Emperor, the Red Emperor, the Yellow Emperor, and the Black Emperor.
The Five Emperors here are completely different from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors in later generations. These Five Emperors actually correspond to the controllers of the five elements. Among them, the White Emperor is gold, the Green Emperor is wood, the Red Emperor is fire, the Yellow Emperor is earth, and the Black Emperor is water.
And this also includes the Five Virtues theory that looks at the entire history of China. According to this theory, the unified dynasties in the world actually come from one of the Five Elements.
For example, the Qin Dynasty enshrined the Black Emperor, which is the virtue of water, but the five elements are mutually reinforcing and restraining each other, water restrains fire, fire restrains metal, metal restrains wood, wood restrains earth, and earth restrains water.
"Zou Zi" says: "The five virtues are second to none, so they are Yu Tu, Xia Mu, Yin Jin, and Zhou Huo."
You see, this Zhou Dynasty has the virtue of fire, and water controls fire. It is a matter of course that the Qin Dynasty, which belongs to the virtue of water, destroys the virtue of fire.
Because the Qin Dynasty sacrificed the Black Emperor earlier than the Five Virtues, there is no theory that the Qin people shamelessly added water virtues to themselves in the later period. After Zou Yan died, the Qin State began to destroy the Six Kingdoms.
Therefore, there is a high probability that the relationship between the two is a coincidence, but it also adds a layer of destiny to the Qin State. Because of the Five Virtues, Qin State began to worship the Black Emperor hundreds of years ago and belongs to the Shui De State. , destroying the six kingdoms and inheriting the virtue of fire, the Zhou Dynasty, is a matter of course and in line with destiny.
Therefore, the Qin Dynasty always highly sought after the Five Virtues and listed it as a national policy. Later, the sacrifices to the Five Emperors were even more grand.
But above the five emperors, there is another god, and this god is the Yuanshi Heavenly King.
Legend has it that in the hazy period when the yin and yang were not separated, the universe was chaotic, and the heaven, earth, sun and moon were not formed, Pangu Zhenren was born from the essence of yin and yang of heaven and earth. He was named Yuanshi Heavenly King and floated in the chaos of the universe. After four calamities, he formed a huge The sky is like a cover.
After four more kalpas, yin and yang separated, and the water under the sky flowed out of the stone. The water gave birth to primitive insects, and when it was pulled by the beach, its rigid whiskers gave birth to dragons. Meanwhile, the Yuanshi Heavenly King lived in the center of heaven, in his palace on Yujing Mountain.
The palace was built of gold and marble. The Heavenly King of the First Yuan Dynasty drank the air of heaven and the spring of earth and lived forever. In this way, after two calamities, the Taiyuan Jade Girl in human form was born from the water flowing out of the cracks in the rocks. The Jade Girl of Taiyuan wanders between heaven and earth, drinking the air of heaven, and is called the Holy Mother of Taiyuan. When King Yuanshi saw its wonderful figure, he communicated with it and called it back to his palace in Yujing Mountain.
After another catastrophe, Taiyuan Jade Girl first gave birth to the Emperor, and then gave birth to Emperor Fusang, Dongwang Gong, and Jiuguang Xuannv, who was named Taizhen Queen Mother of the West. After 36,000 years, the Emperor of Heaven gave birth to the Emperor of Earth, and the Emperor of Earth gave birth to the Emperor of Humans. Since then, many saints and real people have appeared one after another to receive the mysteries of preaching.
This is a popular mythological allusion throughout the Qin Dynasty.
To put it bluntly, the original king of heaven was Pangu, but the Pangu here did not use an ax to create the world. He was simply the first to live between heaven and earth. After countless years, many gods and humans were born, so the highest god worshiped by humans at that time was The First Heavenly King.
However, with the rapid development of Taoism later, in order to add its own gods to the original mythology system, various deletions and additions to the original mythology began. Starting from the third saint of Taoism, Liu An, King of Huainan, the original cultural system became It started to gradually become what it is now.
The title of Original Heavenly King was taken out separately and changed to Yuanshi Tianzun. Together with Taishang Laojun and Lingbao Tianzun, it is called one of the three pure states of Taoism.
But now, the highest god worshiped by all the people of the Qin Dynasty is still our Yuanshi Heavenly King!
(End of chapter)
