Xu Fudong didn't come back and stood Qin Shihuang up. Was it planned in advance?

Xu Fudong didn't return, "he won the plain and wide ze, but Wang didn't come" (Historical Records, Biography of Hengshan Mountain in Huainan). It means to go to a rich and vast place and claim to be king. ) led to speculation about Xu Fu's motivation to cross the sea to the east, and also led to Xu Fu's derogatory behavior. This is precisely because of the limitations of historical materials and cultural relics, as well as the records collected by Sima Qian from generation to generation, which was described by one of the eight sons of Liu An, the king of Huainan. Therefore, by Sima Qian's time, the Chui Fu Du Dong incident had become an oral or limited historical record. It is inevitable that some people subjectively evaluate this incident with additional assumptions and speculations such as avoiding disasters, seeking immortality, emigrating, overseas exploration, etc. Some Korean scholars think that Xu Fu is revenging Qi. Perhaps all these statements can make sense, because Chuifu's second expedition to the East not only brought children and men, but also brought all kinds of crops, which seemed to be premeditated in advance.

However, some people think that it is his ideal and his dream for Xu Fu to interpret Du Dongzhi as a matter of state affairs, and he certainly won't have this original intention in advance. Moreover, a country that spends so much money and material resources should also ask for instructions like our modern people's "plan" or "task report", and the country should also examine and approve it, otherwise, Reese and his colleagues who wrote down the famous "exhortation and expulsion" will just eat it for nothing. It is unconvincing that Qin Shihuang's "going to the sea to seek the elixir of life" can rise to the national level as a national decision-making act. Although Qin Shihuang was overbearing, he just unified himself, with a hundred flowers blooming and high spirits. His first tour was also to show the great Qin Mingde, so he wanted to explore the overseas world in the name of a fairy.