Prince Chu of Qinzhuang, courtesy name Chu (嬴), courtesy name Qin or Zhao, courtesy name Chu, was born in 281 BC and died in 247 BC in Xianyang, Yongzhou (present-day Xianyang, Shaanxi). During the Warring States period, he was the prince of the State of Qin, the son of King Xiaowen of Qin, and the father of Qin Shi Huang.
In the early years, both sons and sons of Chu were not favored by An Guojun, and An Guojun had more than twenty sons, so he was sent to the Zhao kingdom of Handan as a proton. At that time, the relations between Qin and Zhao deteriorated, and wars broke out from time to time, and Zi Chu was treated coldly, and there was a lack of carriages and horses for travel and daily goods in the Zhao kingdom, and his life was embarrassing and very frustrated. But later he met the nobleman of his life, the Weiguo merchant Lü Buwei.
After Lü Buwei learned of Zi Chu's situation, he thought that he was "strange and liveable", and decided to make a political gamble, so he went to lobby Zi Chu, the content of the conversation between the two was very deep, and they also reached a political alliance, Zi Chu promised that if the plan was successful, he would divide the country as a thank you, and with the help of Lü Buwei, he would become the monarch of the Qin state.
Fifty years after King Zhaoxiang of Qin, the State of Qin sent the general Wang Yi to lead a division to besiege the capital of the State of Zhao, Handan, and in order to retaliate against the State of Qin, King Xiaocheng of Zhao wanted to kill the Zichu family to vent his anger. Zi Chu conspired with Lü Buwei to bribe the officials who guarded the city to escape from the Zhao state with six hundred pounds of gold, relying on the Qin army to return to the Qin state, but unfortunately, the wife and children could not escape the birth of the heavens, but the heavens also took care of the mother and son, and the mother and son were hidden and survived.
After returning to the Qin Kingdom, he followed Lü Buwei's suggestion to wear the Chu costume to meet Lady Huayang, and Lady Huayang was greatly moved, officially accepted as a righteous son, and changed her name to Zi Chu. Later, in the war to eliminate the remnants of the Zhou Dynasty' royal family, the State of Zhao threatened the lives of Zhao Ji's mother and son, and if the conditions for cutting off the city and losing the land were not modified, they would kill their mother and son, and Zi Chu responded domineeringly for the benefit of the Qin State: We cannot apologize to every general of Great Qin, and we cannot let the blood of the generals flow in vain, and if their mother and son are lost today, others will lead Great Qin iron hooves to flatten the State of Zhao, destroy its ancestral temple, and slaughter all its people to accompany them to the funeral. Therefore, Zhao Ji's mother and son were able to survive, and only then did they have the later Yingzheng annexation of the Six Kingdoms.
In the first year of King Xiaowen of Qin (250 BC), King Xiaowen suddenly became violent, Zi Chu took the throne, and in the first year of King Zhuangxiang (249 BC), he appointed Lü Buwei as Xiangbang, fengwen Xinhou, and ate 100,000 households in Luoyang, Henan, and also fulfilled the promise he had made to Lü Buwei in handan, the state of Zhao. In the same year, Duke Wen of Eastern Zhou conspired with the princes to attack the State of Qin, and King Xiang of Qin Zhuang learned that he ordered Lü Buwei to lead an army to attack the Eastern Zhou State, move the Eastern Zhou Duke to Yang Renju (present-day western Linru County, Henan Province), and give Zhou Jun the land of Yang people and worship him. At this point, the last remnants of the Zhou Dynasty were eradicated. Subsequently, the Qin army continued to encroach on the Three Jins and conquered a large area of land.
In May of the third year of King Zhuang Xiang's reign (247 BC), he died of illness at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve five, and his courtesy name was Zhuang Xiang. After his son Qin Shi Huang established the Qin Dynasty, he posthumously created Emperor Taishang.