Qin Shi Huang was able to quickly destroy the Six Kingdoms and unify the world, a large reason is that he "Yu Lie of the Sixth Dynasty", that is, the six Qin monarchs before Qin Shi Huang made outstanding contributions to the strength and prosperity of the Qin State, especially Qin Shi Huang's great-grandfather Qin Zhaoxiang Wang, who basically laid the foundation for the destruction of the Six Kingdoms by relying on the diplomatic strategy of long-distance and close attack.
And Qin Shi Huang inherited the political legacy of King Qin Zhaoxiang, and then after stabilizing the situation in Qin State, he began to attack the Six Kingdoms, so the question comes, There are actually two Qin monarchs between King Qin Zhaoxiang and Qin Shi Huang, why don't they feel their existence? Or why didn't he inherit the political legacy of King Zhaoxiang of Qin and further develop the Qin state to destroy the Six Kingdoms?
The reason is that the reign of these two monarchs is really too short, the two add up to only three years, of which King Xiaowen of Qin only reigned for three days, and King Xiang of Qin Zhuang reigned for three years, basically they died before they had time to do anything during their reign, so Qin Shi Huang was basically the political legacy of his great-grandfather who was directly inherited.
In fact, if we look at the history of the Qin State, we will find that the transition of the qin state's political power is very stable, there will be very little civil unrest, and the development of the Qin state has been going up, a large part of the reason is that many of the monarchs of the Qin state have reigned for a long time, and some monarchs have reigned for a very short time, so each monarch will generally be able to smoothly complete his political ideals in the process of governing, and some of them have no time to realize.
Take the Qin state in the Warring States period, for example, there were three monarchs who reigned for a short time during the Warring States period, they were King Wu of Qin, King Xiaowen of Qin, and King Xiang of Qinzhuang. The rest of the monarchs, including Qin Xiaogong and Qin Huiwen, have reigned for more than twenty years, and Qin Zhaoxiang has reigned for more than half a century, in which case the reign of Qin Xiaowen and Qin Zhuangxiang, sandwiched between Qin Zhaoxiang and Qin Shi Huang, can be ignored.
They simply don't have time to show their ambitions. And King Xiaowen of Qin left a lot of speculation in the world for the death of only three days, for the death of a monarch, we rarely look at them with the eyes of ordinary people, always add some conspiracy flavor and beautiful color to look at their deaths. For example, King Xiaowen of Qin, there have always been different voices about his death. To sum up, there are nothing more than four:
One is that he was poisoned and killed by Lü Buwei. Lü Buwei had originally met Zi Chu who had come to Zhao as a proton in the Zhao Kingdom, and he thought that Zi Chu could live in strange goods, so he invested in Zi Chu with all his strength in order to abandon business and engage in politics. In 257 BC, the State of Qin attacked the State of Zhao, Lü Buwei and Zi Chu, who had become the concubines of The Prince of An, fled back to the State of Qin, at that time An Guojun was the crown prince, Lü Buwei and Zi Chu did not have any power in the State of Qin, until 251 BC, when King Zhaoxiang of Qin died, and then An Guojun succeeded to the throne, that is, King Xiaowen of Qin, and Zi Chu was made crown prince.
Lü Buwei did not leave a trace in the historical records during the time he followed Zi Chu back to the Qin state, as if he had disappeared, as long as Zi Chu did not succeed to the throne, Lü Buwei's political ideals would be difficult to realize, so it was not impossible for Lü Buwei to poison King Xiaowen of Qin and then succeed to the throne. After Zi Chu succeeded to the throne, Lü Buwei directly became Xiangguo. Feng Menglong also held this view in the Chronicle of the States of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, believing that Lü Buwei poisoned King Xiaowen of Qin.
The second is excessive indulgence. It is recorded in the "History of Lü Buwei's Biography" that after Lü Buwei met Zi Chu in the Zhao Kingdom, he wanted to invest in Zi Chu, and he said a passage to Zi Chu, one of which was: "There are more than twenty brothers in Jinzi, and the son is in the middle, and he is not very fortunate, and he is a long-quality prince." That is to say, An Guojun has more than twenty sons, and as for his daughters, it is not stated, but this is enough to show that An Guojun has many children, and naturally there are many wives and concubines, and the possibility of excessive indulgence and death is also there.
The third is overwork. King Zhaoxiang of Qin died in the autumn of 251 BC, probably in September, and King Xiaowen of Qin wanted to change the yuan to the throne in October, and there was a lot of work to be done in between, not only to arrange the funeral of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, but also to prepare for the work of succession, but also to be responsible for state affairs, in this time of only a month, King Xiaowen of Qin was likely to have no time to eat and sleep, in short, it was quite busy, so it was possible to suddenly die because of such an overloaded work that his body could not bear.
The fifth is illness and death. Excessive mental stress leads to illness, or it may be sick itself, and then die of illness. An Guojun was actually the original title of King Xiaowen of Qin, he was not originally a prince, the prince had someone else. King Zhaoxiang of Qin initially made his eldest son crown prince, later Prince Mo, who was a hostage in the State of Wei and died in the State of Wei. By 265 BC, Gongzizhu was also named Crown Prince an Guojun, and it is interesting that this time was actually the time when King Zhaoxiang of Qin was truly fully pro-government, Empress Xuan and the Four Nobles of the Qin State had fallen, and King Zhaoxiang of Qin really controlled the state affairs of the Qin State with the assistance of Fan Ju.
Before that, King Zhaoxiang of Qin has been a monarch for more than forty years, it can be said that he is very depressed, and after he is really pro-government, he naturally attaches great importance to the power in his hands, and An Guojun, who is the prince, will naturally be suppressed, the imperial family is not related to the family, the prince must be established, because this is related to the long-term development of the Qin state, but the establishment will make the emperor feel the threat of power, and naturally the two cannot be so harmonious.
In the nearly fifteen years of the prince's career, presumably An Guojun's life is not much better, mentally depressed, physically and mentally exhausted, and the partial Qin Zhaoxiang King is still a long-lived, has been a monarch for more than fifty years, and An Guojun is in the day by day of mental torture, so that the body is weak, and when Qin Zhaoxiang Wang dies, the pressure suddenly disintegrates, but can not adapt, directly followed by hanging, this is not impossible.
In fact, if we look at the above analysis, the poisoning of King Xiaowen of Qin by Lü Buwei is a possibility of death, and the other possibility is the death of illness, that is, caused by the joint action of the latter several. That is to say, in the first half of King Qin Xiaowen's life, he indulged excessively and spent every day trembling and trembling, and after a long time, he would naturally react to the body and make the body unbearable, and after the death of King Qin Zhaoxiang, he began high-intensity work, which made King Xiaowen of Qin, who was not very good in health, even worse, so he also died three days after he took off his clothes and ascended the throne, which cannot but be said to be a tragedy.
After nearly fifteen years as a prince, he waited until the death of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, but he did not expect to be blessed, but it was only three days after he really ascended the throne, and he died. After all, King Xiaowen of Qin was already fifty-three years old when he died, and his son King Xiang of Qinzhuang was really short-lived, but he died at the age of thirty-five.