After Qin Shi Huang unified China, he began to become tyrannical, and in the process of destroying the Six Kingdoms, he offended many people, and there were many avengers in these countries, such as Zhang Liang, who once assassinated Qin Shi Huang, but did not succeed, Qin Shi Huang had become arrogant and lavish in the later period, and he could not listen to the anti-ear advice proposed by his subordinates, but he liked to listen to what Zhao Gao and other people said.
Where did Zhao Gao come from, the historical data is still inconclusive, and it is said that Zhao Gao's mother was physically disabled because of a mistake, working in prison, Zhao Gao was born in such a place, of course, there is a saying, It is said that Zhao Gao was once a nobleman of the Zhao State, but the Zhao State was destroyed by the Qin State, zhao Gao in order to avenge himself from the palace, came to Qin Shi Huang's side to do damage.
No matter where Zhao Gao came from, anyway, the State of Qin was indeed dying under his tricks, and Qin Shi Huang was very fond of Zhao Gao in his later years, so Zhao Gao's power became more and more powerful, and in 210 BC, when Qin Shi Huang went out to play, he unfortunately died on the way, and before he died, he asked Zhao Gao to help him draw up his will and asked for the prince Fu Su to be transferred back to succeed him as emperor.
At the beginning, Gongzi Fusu was sent to the frontier to build the Great Wall with Meng Tian because he advised his father to do less labor and hurt the wealth, but Qin Shi Huang still liked this son more in his heart, and he also planned to pass the throne to Gongzi Fusu, but Zhao Gao deliberately wrote that Hefu Su committed suicide when he helped Qin Shi Huang to draw up his will, and when Gongzi Fusu was willed by his father, he committed suicide for a while.
In this way, Gongzi Fusu was killed by Zhao Gao, and Li Si, the minister of the cunning edict, also participated, and later the two of them jointly pushed Hu Hai, the fool of Qin Shi Huang, to the emperor's throne, Hu Hai, as a fool, was not much stronger than the later Liu Chan, and listened to Zhao Gao in everything, and later Li Si was not accustomed to Zhao Gao's misdeeds, and as a result, he was also killed by Zhao Gao, which was Zhao Gao's hand covering the sky.
Hu Hai did not care how Zhao Gao controlled the government, he was only bent on pleasure, collecting a large number of beautiful women, treasures and other property, making the people of the world unhappy, and Zhao Gao never told him about these people's troubles, even if he heard it, he pretended not to hear, and finally Zhao Gao forced Hu Hai to die, planning to claim the title of emperor of his own rank, but unfortunately when he wanted to ascend the throne, suddenly the earthquake came, and Zhao Gao finally failed to become emperor.
Zhao Gao may feel that this is Providence not to let himself be the emperor, so he can only find another heir of the Yin family to be the emperor, this is the child baby, that is, Qin III, the child is a scheming person, he knows that at that time the whole country broke out of the uprising, when Zhao Gao proposed to let the child go to worship the ancestors, he will calculate the plan, saying that the illness can not be out, when Zhao Gao personally came to invite, he directly let the assassin kill Zhao Gao.
Zhao Gao spent his whole life playing with power techniques, Qin Shi Huang was also played by him, he killed Gongzi Fusu, he also murdered Li Si, and finally pointed out deer as horses in the court, and also killed Hu Hai, these "achievements" sound very good, but the baby easily killed him, it was really stronger and stronger, Zhao Gao finally died.
However, who is Zi Bao, although he killed Zhao Gao, but his own life is a historical mystery, so far historians have not figured out what Zi Bao is a book, some people say that he is the younger brother of Qin Shi Huang, some people say that he is Hu Hai's brother, and some people say that he is Hu Hai's nephew, in short, no one can find out who he really is.
References: "General History of China", "Historical Records", "Warring States Policy", "Qin Shi Huang Emperor Mausoleum Museum", etc
History Two: Before the change of Xuanwumen, Li Shimin's power was obviously inferior to that of the crown prince Li Jiancheng, how he won
The two sons of the Li family are very outstanding, and can be called "the dragon and phoenix among the people". Because history is written by the victors, Li Jiancheng has few traces in history, as if he is really an incompetent prince who will only assassinate the prestigious Li Shimin.
In fact, this is not the case, Li Jiancheng has also done many things for Datang.
Li Jiancheng was the eldest son of the Li family, and Li Yuan relied heavily on him. Before the army, Li Yuan stayed in Taiyuan, Li Shimin was in Taiyuan with him, and Li Jiancheng lived in Hedong with the Li family. No matter how li shimin, Liu Wenjing, Pei Huan, and others persuaded him, Li Yuan hesitated and did not make up his mind to rebel.
It wasn't until Li Jiancheng arrived in Taiyuan and persuaded him to rebel that he agreed. It can be seen that Li Jiancheng's influence on Li Yuan is very large, if Li Jiancheng is not reliable, Li Yuan will not value him so much.
When Jinyang raised an army, Li Yuan sent Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin to recruit volunteer soldiers, with Li Jiancheng as the main force and Li Shimin as the supplement. Li Jiancheng lived up to his father's expectations, recruited many volunteers, and straightened out military discipline to train new recruits, which was extremely effective.
Li Shimin's military merits were outstanding, and Li Jiancheng was also extremely capable of military ability. At that time, Xihe County's Gao Deru refused to surrender to the Li family, and Li Jiancheng only took 9 days to pacify the West River, and these 9 days also included round-trip time.
Conquering Chang'an, repelling the Turkic invasion many times, capturing Liu Heimin, and pacifying Shandong were all li jiancheng's achievements, but later Li Yuan was proclaimed emperor and Li Jiancheng was made crown prince, and he believed that the prince was the prince of the country and should no longer go to the front line, so Li Jiancheng turned from military to politics.
In terms of politics, Li Jiancheng is even more skilled, and it can be said that many policies in the early years of the Tang Dynasty have his shadow and are extremely supported by ministers. Although Li Shimin was already the King of Qin at this time and had a high prestige in the army, in the middle of the dynasty, the courtiers recognized Li Jiancheng.
As for Li Yuan, he regarded Li Jiancheng as his heir from the beginning, and although he loved Li Shimin, he was better to Li Jiancheng.
This is also the reason why Li Shimin launched the Xuanwumen Rebellion, because politically and in his father's favor, he had no chance of winning, and could only physically eliminate Li Jiancheng through a military coup.
The success of xuanwumen's change lies in its surprise. Whether it was Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji or Li Yuan, they could not imagine that Li Shimin would do such a thing, so they had no defense. Simply put, it was an accident.
References: General History of China, Historical Records, Old Book of Tang, etc