Qin Shi Huang was praised by the Ming Dynasty thinker Li Zhen as "an emperor through the ages". In people's minds, Qin Shi Huang is a lofty existence that cannot be questioned or criticized. However, any great man has experienced all kinds of painful torments before he succeeds, and the more painful he is, the more likely he is to become a great instrument in the future.
Shi Huang ascended the throne at the age of 13, but he had no real power. Lü Buwei used his own heavenly merits to support King Xiang of Qinzhuang (嬴政他父, son of Chu who was a proton in the Zhao kingdom), and had great power to monopolize the control of the dynasty. Empress Dowager Zhao's mother, Empress Dowager Zhao, was also controlled by Lü Buwei's male favorite, Concubine Yi, and fornicated with the harem.
At this time, Yingzheng was a puppet emperor, but what was different from the puppet emperors of the fallen countries in history was that he deeply knew the environment he was in, and he began to curry favor with Lü Buwei and pretend to be crazy and stupid, hoping that in this way, Lü Buwei would let down his guard and not pose a threat to himself.
In the hidden forbearance of Yingzheng, Lü Buwei they are also more and more unscrupulous, Lü Buwei provides more than three thousand diners, and compiles Lü Shi's Spring and Autumn claims to change a word to Qianjin, which can be described as the power of the world. Empress Dowager Zhao Ji also became more and more absurd, giving birth to children in the harem and Concubine Yi, and raising children in the harem, which can be said to have disgraced the imperial family of the Qin Kingdom and slipped the world.
Finally, Yingzheng survived until he performed the crown ceremony (that is, the meaning of adulthood, adulthood can take power, Lü Buwei has been looking for excuses to say that he is not underage and cannot hold power), Yingzheng began to gradually grasp the real power of the state. In fact, Yin Zheng already knew about his mother and Concubine Yi, and the fact that they raised children in the harem. Yin Zheng deliberately made excuses to say that someone had reported that Yan Yi was a fake eunuch and demanded a thorough investigation of Yan Yi, but in fact, this was just an excuse, and the purpose was to get rid of Yan Yi. You may say, why don't you directly engage Lü Buwei, you don't understand, the power struggle has to knock the mountain and shake the tiger, you don't clean the thugs around him first, directly hit the biggest, the people hug the group but destroy you, even if you are superior in strength and directly harden the entire interest group of the family is also very unwise. So we have to start with the fake eunuch. Yan Yi knew that if she did not resist, she would die without a place to bury, so as Expected by Yingzheng, Yan Yi raised troops into the palace to prepare to kill the child born to Yingzheng and Zhao Ji as the King of Qin.
However, all this was in the hands of the King of Qin, and the palace had already arranged for the forbidden army to be among the soldiers, so he waited for Concubine Yi to throw himself into the net, and finally the entire army of the Concubine Yi group was destroyed, and Concubine Yi surrendered. As an emperor, in the face of many potential assassinations, in the face of rebellion, it is absolutely not tolerated. It is better to kill by mistake than to let it go.
When the matter of Concubine Yi was handled, the most difficult thing for Yingzheng was how to seize Lü Buwei's power, and there was no room for error; in dealing with Lü Buwei's issue, Yingzheng adopted a strategy of inching forward, first borrowing the matter of Concubine Yi to remove Lü Buwei from his official position, but this could not completely weaken Lü Buwei's influence. At this time, if you change into an ordinary person, you may immediately get rid of Lü Buwei immediately after getting rid of Yan Yi, but in fact, he can't do this, because Lü Buwei's foundation is still there, and forcing him will cause him to lose himself eight hundred or even be killed. It was not until two years after Lü Buwei's dismissal that he issued an edict for Lü Buwei to leave Xianyang. Lü Buwei knew that sooner or later Yingzheng would kill himself, so it was better to cut himself off, after all, his general trend had gone, and he was powerless to return to heaven than to complete Yingzheng to block the yo-yo mouth of the people of the world. (It is rumored that Yingzheng is the illegitimate son of Lü Buwei and Zhao Ji, which I think is nonsense and sensationalism.) If this were the case, Zi Chu would not know whose child Zhao Ji was pregnant with. Zi Chu as Zhao Ji's husband he did not know? As long as he had the slightest doubt, he could not pass the throne to Yingzheng, and it was impossible to doubt at all, so since he could pass the throne to Yingzheng, it showed that he knew very well that this child was his own.)
At this point, Yingzheng began to grasp the power of the country, began his great plan to annex the six countries and unify the world, and he hoped to establish a unified country. He hoped to end the war once and for all, so that the whole country would be free from foreign enemies, so he built the Great Wall in the north and marched south to Baiyue. All of this stemmed from inner obsessions, and eventually because of these obsessions, he perished. Therefore, the steps are big and easy to pull.