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149 With both merit and virtue, he is the emperor, and the jade seal of the country is now in the wo

"It's General Meng Tian and General Meng Yi. Come on, come in quickly." Lu Bu enthusiastically invited the Meng brothers into his mansion.

Meng Tian and Meng Yi shook off the snowflakes on their bodies, followed Lu Bu and walked into the house. After looking at the common flowers and plants around, Meng Tian asked with a smile: "Feng Xian is a general after all, why don't there even be someone to inform you?"

Lu Bu laughed: "I don't like so many people who are busy around me, so I took away most of the servants in the mansion as early as last year, leaving only a few old servants who bought some washing clothes at the mansion. Now at this time they are busy preparing lunch behind...

Meng Yi looked around and asked Lu Bu a little strangely: "Why didn't you see the two boys Lu Ze and Lu Shizhi? Haven't they been following you all the time? Why are they missing today?"

"We are all practicing martial arts in the backyard. I have taught them several more halberd techniques these days, and they have all their energy on it." Lu Bu replied with a smile.

The three of them walked to the hall and sat down next to the stove. Lu Bu brought a pot of warm wine from the table beside him and poured a cup of wine for the three of them. Then he asked, "The two generals came to Lu Bu's mansion today on a heavy snowy day. I guess there is something to say?"

"Fengxian, Fengxian, you say that we must have something to come to you as soon as we come. Can't we come to your house to talk to you without it?" Meng Tian has often had contacts with Lu Bu since Lu Bu supported Li Xin's coffin back to Guanzhong. Whether it was discussing strategies in his heart or discussing some policies in the court, Meng Yi and Lu Bu had their own opinions in private. These two have gotten along very well over the years. Meng Yi even brought Lu Bu as his confidant after drinking.

After Lu Bu respected Meng Yi and Meng Tian, ​​he chuckled and said, "If you have nothing to do, you will always call me to Mingyue Tower. I have never seen you go to my mansion to not talk about serious matters."

Meng Tian sipped the hot wine in his hand and smiled, "It's nothing big about visiting today. The world has just been pacified. The king is now trying to change the title of king, but he hasn't figured out which title to change to be the name of the first king in the world. So he asked the ministers to come to court to discuss what title should be chosen. Meng Yi and I think you have a lot of wonderful ideas in your heart, so we come together to ask for a pot of hot wine to warm your body. By the way, if you can come up with your mind, you can come to see if you can come up with a title that will satisfy the king."

The cold wind and cold that Lu Bu had not yet recovered a few days ago. Today, the court in the palace did not go. When he heard Meng Tian’s question, he suddenly realized that King Qin Ying Zheng had already begun to make up for his title. It seemed that the glorious title of "Emperor" was finally about to appear in the long river of history. However, this time the person who proposed this title was Lu Bu, the time traveler!

Lu Bu deliberately pretended to be thinking, and then he yelled with a punch and a brim, "How about letting the king change to the name of the emperor?"

"Emperor?" Meng Tian and Meng Yi looked at Lu Bu with a confused look on their faces. The Three Emperors and Five Emperors knew, but what does the emperor mean?

Lu Bu smiled slightly: "Tomorrow morning I will go to the palace with you to meet the king. Then we will present the title of emperor to the king. I believe the king will be satisfied."

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The next morning, the first thing King Qin did was to ask about the title that had not been resolved yesterday: "Is the matter I asked you to go back to discuss yesterday that was a result?"

Li Si stood up first in the civil servants, saluted the King of Qin before saying loudly: "Report to the King, I have read many records after returning to the mansion yesterday. There were Emperors, Emperors of Earth, and Emperors of Thailand in ancient times, among which Emperors of Thailand is the most noble. From the perspective of the ministers, the king can change the 'king' to the 'Tai Emperor'."

"Emperor of Thailand?" Ying Zheng was a little moved, but he felt that the title was not powerful enough, so he did not rush to make a conclusion. Instead, he continued to look at the Wencheng generals below, just to see if anyone had different opinions. The civil officials seemed to have no objection. Obviously, Li Si had discussed with these people and received their approval before he decided to speak out the title. However, the generals were noisy in the queue. Some even thought that the title of King Qin was already very good and there was no need to change to other titles.

Just when King Ying Zheng of Qin was a little disappointed, he found that Meng Tian and Meng Yi, who were standing in the queue of military generals, were looking back frequently. King Ying Zheng of Qin followed them and found that a young and handsome young general in the queue was standing there with a smile on his face. Isn’t it just Lu Bu, who had been cold a few days ago?

"Lu Qing's family, didn't you report the cold and cold some time ago? It's already well done now?" King Ying Zheng of Qin patted the Wang Case in front of him and signaled everyone below to calm down.

Lu Bu walked out of the queue after dressing and bowed to King Ying Zheng with both hands and replied respectfully: "I have been cured of the cold and cold, and it is no longer a problem."

King Ying Zheng of Qin nodded and asked again: "In the view of the Lu Qing family, what is the saying of the 'Thai Emperor' that the Li Qing family just mentioned?"

Upon hearing the King of Qin's question, all the civil and military officials in the palace turned their attention to Lu Bu, a young general who had won many contributions in the battle against Chu State in the south. They wanted to see how this young man would answer.

Lu Bu bowed to King Ying Zheng of Qin again: "In my humble opinion, although the saying of 'Tai Emperor' is good, it may not be suitable for the king."

"Oh? Then what title do you think should be suitable for me?" King Ying Zheng of Qin looked at the uproar of civil and military officials besides Meng Tian and Meng Yi brothers, and asked Lu Bu seriously in front of him.

"I think that the king is a virtue of the Three Emperors, and his unparalleled achievements in unifying the world and pacifying troubled times surpass the Five Emperors. Therefore..." Lu Bu stopped here and looked up at King Ying Zheng, who was sitting on the throne above.

"How about this?" King Ying Zheng of Qin had already opened his eyes wide, his face was excited but he didn't know what he was thinking in his heart.

Lu Bu suddenly raised his voice and shouted loudly: "The great king is also the virtue of the three emperors and the five emperors, so the great king should change the 'king' to 'emperor'!!"

Lu Bu shouted loudly, and the palace was silent. After a moment, the laughter of King Ying Zheng of Qin interrupted the calm: "Hahaha, the virtues and the three emperors are the merits and demerits of the Five Emperors! The words of the Lu Qing family are very meaningful, and I should be the name of the 'emperor'!!"

The civil and military officials then reacted. King Ying Zheng of Qin rejected the "Emperor of Thailand" that Li Si had worked hard all night, but happily adopted the "Emperor" proposed by Lu Bu, who had recovered from a serious illness, just went to court today. This made the eyes of the civil and military officials in the palace look at Lu Bu mixed with admiration, envy and even jealousy. As the directly rejected by King Ying Zheng of Qin, Li Si also looked back and looked at Lu Bu deeply but did not reveal any visible emotions.

The emergence of the title of "Emperor" is not only a simple change of name, but also reflects the emergence of a new concept of domination. In ancient times, "Emperor" had the meaning of "big", and people sometimes called "Emperor" to their ancestors and some other gods. "Emperor" was the highest god who dominated all things in the ancients.

The combination of the two words "emperor" and "emperor" shows that Ying Zheng's supreme status and authority were given by God, that is, "the power of the king"; the second is that King Zheng of Qin is not satisfied with being the ruler of the world, and he still has to be a god. It can be seen that the title of "emperor" is a title that suits the heart of King Ying Zheng of Qin. When Lu Bu put forward the title of "emperor" here, he naturally won the readily adopted by King Ying Zheng of Qin in one fell swoop.

At this point, King Ying Zheng of Qin became the undisputed first "emperor" in Chinese history. King Ying Zheng of Qin decided to call himself "First Emperor". After that, Ying Zheng announced the regulations to the civil and military officials below: when the throne was passed to his descendants after his death, his successors would be called Emperor II of Qin, Emperor III of Qin, and Emperor III of Qin, and even for thousands of years.

"Make it spread infinitely" King Qin, no, should be changed to Qin Shihuang. When Qin Shihuang said this, the 'aura of domineering' made Lu Bu below sigh that this is the spirit of the emperor of the age!

In order to sacred the status of his "emperor", Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng took a series of measures to "respecte the king":

The posthumous law was abolished. The posthumous law started in the early Zhou Dynasty. After the death of the king, he was given a title of evaluation based on his life and deeds. However, Qin Shihuang believed that "the son discussed his father and the ministers discussed his king" was too unreasonable and meaningless. He announced the abolition of the posthumous law and did not allow future ministers to evaluate him.

The emperor called himself "Zhi". The meaning of the word "Zhi" is the same as "I". In the past, most people could use it, but Qin Shihuang limited only the emperor to call himself "Zhi". The emperor's order is called "Zhi" or "Zhi". The emperor's name is not allowed to be mentioned in any text, so it should be avoided. Whenever there are words such as "Emperor" and "First Emperor" in the document, a line must be written in a top line to show respect. (There are so many rules~)

In addition, when it comes to the seal carved with jade only, only jade can be called a "seal". Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng handed over the rare treasure jade Heshi Bi seized from Zhao State to Prime Minister Li Si, and asked Li Si to carve a jade seal for him.

Li Si returned home with the rare treasure jade Heshi Bi. After three days and three nights, he summoned many skilled craftsmen to his mansion. Li Si personally wrote eight insect and bird seal characters "Actually be in heaven, and I will live forever" and carved them by Sun Shou, the imperial jade craftsman of the palace. On the day of this jade seal made from the Heshi Bi, colorful rays of light came down from the sky, and even the sound of dragon roars faintly came from many wells in Xianyang City. After Qin Shihuang got the jade seal, he was overjoyed and issued an order to designate the jade seal as the imperial seal on the spot, but he did not know that the real owner of the imperial seal was not the next king he had worked hard to cultivate...

If you want to know what happens next, you will see that you will not be able to tear down again~~~~~
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