I see this article online. LOL. It's true?
In 219 BC, Qin Shihuang had been visiting around the Shandong Peninsula, where he has been lingering for three months, where he heard in the Bohai Bay there are three mountains, called Penglai, abbot, Ying Chau. In the three mountains living on three immortals, who have longevity medicine. It is the very person who called Xu Fu Tell the emperor of the magic story, he is a local alchemist, it has been told that he had witnessed the three mountains. Qin Shi Huang was very happy to hear about the story, so he send Xu Fu led thousands of boys and girls into the sea to find longevity medicine. Xu Fu led the vast fleet and departure, but he drifted at sea for a long time without finding what he said about the mountain, not to mention longevity medicine. Qin Shi Huang is a tyrant, Xu Fu, not complete the task, will be shackled according to Qin Shi Huang's temper, so he took the thousands of young boys and girls along the sea drifting to a secluded village. Where is the so called longevity village, And later they notified Qin Shihuang and Qin Shihuang sent to investigate it but no fruit, until the death of Qin Shihuang, only occasionally found that their longevity is because he village people has been drinking black tea every day.
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Later in his life, Qin Shi Huang feared death and desperately sought the fabled elixir of life , which would supposedly allow him to live forever. He was obsessed with acquiring immortality and fell prey to many who offered him supposed elixirs. [69] He visited Zhifu Island three times in order to achieve immortality. [70]
In one case he sent Xu Fu , a Zhifu islander, with ships carrying hundreds of young men and women in search of the mystical Penglai mountain . [62] They were sent to find Anqi Sheng , a 1,000-year-old magician whom Qin Shi Huang had supposedly met in his travels and who had invited him to seek him there. [71] These people never returned, perhaps because they knew that if they returned without the promised elixir, they would surely be executed. Legends claim that they reached Japan and colonized it. [69] It is also possible that the book burning, a purge on what could be seen as wasteful and useless literature, was, in part, an attempt to focus the minds of the Emperor's best scholars on the alchemical quest. Some of the executed scholars were those who had been unable to offer any evidence of their supernatural schemes. This may have been the ultimate means of testing their abilities: if any of them had magic powers, then they would surely come back to life when they were let out again. [72] Since the great emperor was afraid of death and "evil spirits", he had workers build a series of tunnels and passageways to each of his palaces (he owned over 200), because traveling unseen would supposedly keep him safe from the evil spirits. Qin Shi Huangdi was said to have died by drinking mercury, believing it to be an elixir of immortality.
So I guess it is kind of true.
I'd venture to say that it's probably as true as this: