歷代三寶紀 1.30

1.30

(Yi-mao) First year of First Emperor Zheng (son of Zhuangxiang; reigned thirty-seven years; Lü Buwei served as counselor-in-chief; 365 years since the Buddha entered nirvāṇa). (Bing-chen) Year 2. (Ding-si) Year 3. (Wu-wu) Year 4. (Ji-wei) Year 5. (Geng-shen) Year 6. (Xin-you) Year 7. (Ren-xu) Year 8 (enfeoffed Lao Ai as Marquis of Changxin). (Gui-hai) Year 9 (the capping year; executed Lao Ai and exiled his family to Shu). (Jia-zi) Year 10 (Lü Buwei dismissed as counselor-in-chief; moved the Queen Dowager to the Southern Palace; later Li Si was employed). (Yi-chou) Year 11 (exiled Lü Buwei to Henan). (Bing-yin) Year 12. (Ding-mao) Year 13. (Wu-chen) Year 14. (Ji-si) Year 15. (Geng-wu) Year 16. (Xin-wei) Year 17 (in this year Han was destroyed, and its territory was made Yingchuan Commandery). (Ren-shen) Year 18. (Gui-you) Year 19. (Jia-xu) Year 20. (Yi-hai) Year 21. (Bing-zi) Year 22 (in that year Wei was destroyed, and its territory was established as Liang Commandery). (Ding-chou) Year 23. (Wu-yin) Year 24 (in this year Chu was destroyed, Jiangdong was pacified, and Kuaiji Commandery was established). (Ji-mao) Year 25 (in this year Yan was destroyed, and Zhao was also destroyed). (Geng-chen) Year 26 (in this year Qi was destroyed; the six states were swallowed up into a single realm; he thereupon established himself as Emperor, revised the calendar, and took the hai-establishing month as the start of the year). (Xin-si) Year 27 (named the Yellow River the 'Virtuous Water'; named the common people the 'Black-Headed People'; divided the realm into thirty-six commanderies and unified writing and axle widths). (Ren-wu) Year 28 (toured eastward and ascended Mount Tai to perform the feng and shan sacrifices, carving stone to record achievements; encountered a great storm; dispatched the Xu clan to the sea to seek the three divine mountains; had a thousand men dive into the Si River seeking the Zhou tripods, but did not obtain them). (Gui-wei) Year 29. (Jia-shen) Year 30 (changed the la sacrifice to Jiaping; once went on an incognito night outing to Lan Pond, where he encountered bandits and was in dire peril; [his guard] Wuzi struck and killed them, and thus he escaped). (Yi-you) Year 31. (Bing-xu) Year 32 (dispatched Meng Tian leading two hundred thousand men north to strike the Hu, take the Ordos region, and construct the Great Wall). (Ding-hai) Year 33 (skirting the river up to the Yin Mountains, established forty-four counties, using the river as a barrier, stretching from Lintao to the Liao River). (Wu-zi) Year 34 (banished crooked prison officials to assist in constructing the Great Wall; Li Si memorialized to burn the various classics and records and bury the Confucian scholars alive). (Ji-chou) Year 35. (Geng-yin) Year 36. (Xin-mao) Year 37.