At a glance at this title, everyone is already aware of a few points, this is the famous "deer for horses", "dune coup", "stab FuSu", and finally led to the demise of the Qin state - Zhao Gao. Today we will explore the story of this historical celebrity.
The Qing Dynasty historian Zhao Yi's "Yu Yu Cong Kao" pointed out that Zhao Gao was originally a prince of the State of Zhao, because he deplored that his country was destroyed by the State of Qin, he did not hesitate to mutilate his body and enter the Qin Palace after entering the Qin Palace, which triggered a series of internal struggles within the Qin Dynasty, killing the Qin Dynasty's clan and destroying the Qin Dynasty, Zhao Gao's actions were intended to take revenge, and pointed out that this paragraph of information comes from Sima Zhen's "History of Suoyin".
Zhao Gao's bumpy life
Zhao Gaoben was an estranged descendant of the Zhao state, and the family went into exile to the qin state. His mother was physically crippled after being sentenced for violating the crime, and was included in the hidden official set up by the Qin Dynasty government to take in people who had completed their sentences and released from prison, and the hidden officials were second-class citizens in the Qin state and were looked down upon everywhere, and the Zhao Gao brothers were all born in this background. Zhao Gao's heart has always been resentful of the destruction of the State of Zhao by the State of Qin, and the so-called hatred of the subjugation of the country and the hatred of breaking the family have long been fiercely rooted in Zhao Gao's heart.
Zhao Gao's way of promotion
After Zhao Gao became an adult, he knew very well that his goal was revenge, and he had to find a way to go to Qin Shi Huang's side first, and he needed to go through some diligent study and hard work. Zhao Gao grew up in the family of officials and eunuchs, and had a good understanding of the way of officials and eunuchs, the Qin state at that time was still a relatively fair and transparent country, if you want to succeed, you can either get from the army, the Qin state at that time was belligerent, and the soldiers had a high status, but Zhao Gao was afraid of death. The State of Qin was ruled by the idea of the rule of law, zhao gao decided that it should start from the grass-roots officials, just when the qin state executive court recruited people, Zhao Gao went to apply, just succeeded, coupled with Zhao Gao's own study and proficiency in legal science, quite familiar with the laws of Great Qin. The performance has always been excellent, and then he was promoted, and Every step of Zhao Gao's progress was planning the next step, when he would be able to hit Qin Shi Huang's side.
Through his persistent efforts and his ability to manage interpersonal relations, Zhao Gao's name often responded to Qin Shi Huang's ears, and he was pulled to his side by Qin Shi Huang as a close attendant, but on the condition that Zhao Gao became a eunuch, so Zhao Gao eventually entered the political center of the Qin State and became the Zhongche Fu Ling beside Qin Shi Huang. Sometimes when Qin Shi Huang was criticizing the folds, Zhao Gao could always provide some laws and suggestions, and was later cited by Qin Shi Huang as Hu Hai's teacher, although Zhao Gao's status was not improved, but Zhao Gao was beautiful in his heart, because as long as Hu Hai was there, the demise of the Qin state was just around the corner.
Dune coup
As we all know, after Qin Shi Huang was more than half a hundred years old, he was particularly afraid of death and went everywhere to ask for immortals and medicine.
In October of the thirty-seventh year of Qin Shi Huang (210 BC), the first emperor, who was more than half a hundred years old, fell ill on the fifth tour. Although he spent his life seeking the secret recipe for so-called immortality and "hated others to talk about death",
But it is still impossible to resist the natural operation of life. As his illness worsened day by day, Qin Shi Huang knew that his limit had arrived, and the most urgent thing was to quickly determine the matter of Li Chu. Eldest son
Fusu
Although he was often at odds with his own political views, he was "resolute and courageous, faithful and courageous", plus a general
Monty
The assistant will undoubtedly be a virtuous king. Moreover, according to
Primogeniture system
It should also be passed on to him. At the moment, the first emperor no longer hesitated, and summoned the emperor to take charge
Fu Xi
And Zhao Gao, who issued orders for everything, asked him to draw up an edict for his eldest son Fu Su.
Shi Fusu was supervising the army
Kamigori
(Present-day Shaanxi.)
Yulin
Southeast), the First Emperor ordered him to entrust the military to Meng Tian and rush back to Xianyang to preside over the funeral.
This has effectively confirmed the identity of his successor. After the edict was sealed, the First Emperor instructed Zhao Gao to quickly send emissaries to send out, and Zhao Gao pretended to promise, but because Crown Prince Fusu had never been compatible with himself, he was worried that after Crown Prince Fusu succeeded to the throne, his personal position would be unfavorable, and his younger son
Hu Hai
Faint and ignorant, if Hu Hai succeeds to the throne, it is easy to control. Therefore, secretly, he withheld the will.
Subsequently, he consulted with Li Si to suppress the news of the death of the first emperor, and concocted an edict to be sent to Shangjun, where he was given the charge of "disloyalty and filial piety" to Fu Su and Meng Tian to judge themselves. After Fu Su saw the edict, he was devastated, and although Meng Tian persuaded him to go back to Xianyang to distinguish the authenticity of the edict first, Fu Su was a big son and was deeply influenced by the way of Kong Meng, and the king had to die and wielded his sword to kill himself.
Massacres
Soon after Hu Hai ascended the throne, he began to pursue a life of poverty and luxury. In order to show the majesty of the emperor, in the spring of the first year of his reign (209 BC), he followed the pomp and circumstance of the first emperor and traveled along the eastern line until he reached the sea. He went south to huijiao, and finally returned from Liaodong.
In addition, he overhauled
Afang Palace
He recruited 50,000 elite soldiers to guard Xianyang and collected the world's strange flowers and plants, rare birds and beasts for their own amusement, so that "xianyang is not allowed to eat its valley within three hundred miles."
Zhao Gao was the first to open the knife to the Montessori brothers. Meng Tian and Meng Yi were highly valued during the lifetime of the First Emperor, repeatedly built Qigong, and were also highly respected in the court, so they were the most taboo people in Zhao Gaoping's life. He "destroyed Montessori day and night, asked for his sins, and impeached him." Zi Bao knew that Zhao Gao wanted to kill the Meng brothers, and hurried into the palace to dissuade the second,
He believed that the murder of loyal subjects was an act of subjugation of the country. However, Qin II only listened to Zhao Gao, and the Montessori brothers were forced to die. After getting rid of the Meng brothers, Zhao Gao turned the spearhead of the murder to the Qin royal family. According to historical records, Zhao Gao once killed 12 of Hu Hai's brothers in Xianyang and crushed 10 princesses to death
Du Post.
Powerful
Hu Hai entrusted the affairs of the government and the wilderness to Zhao Gao's agent, so he no longer went to the court, blindly seeking pleasure, and the power of the big tribe of decisions fell into Zhao Gao's hands. With the expansion of power, Zhao Gao's ambitions also continued to expand, turning his eyes to the position of the prime minister below one person and above ten thousand people. As a result, getting rid of Lisi seemed increasingly urgent in his mind.
At that time, the Qin Dynasty was already in crisis, and the tyranny since Qin Shi Huang had become even more intense in hu hai's world. "Those who are deep in taxation are wise officials" and "those who kill people are loyal subjects". Heavy servitude and taxes and cruel laws and criminal laws made the people miserable, and the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms also plotted day and night to restore the country. All kinds of complex contradictions intertwined, and finally the peasant leaders
Chen Sheng
、
Wu Guang
First of all
Osawa Township
(East of present-day Su County, Anhui.)
South Liu Village
The forces of the old nobles were also very active, and they recruited troops one after another in an attempt to use the power of the peasants to achieve the purpose of restoration; the petty officials of the Qin Dynasty such as
Liu
Others, dissatisfied with Qin's rule, also joined the ranks of the uprising.
Although they had different hearts, because their immediate interests were the same, they soon formed a powerful force, invincible, and greatly shook the foundation of the Qin Chamber.
Li Si visited the second emperor many times, but could not see him, and in July of the second year of the second year (208 BC), after a series of plots, Li Si's crime was finally woven by Zhao Gaoluo and could no longer be changed. Li Si, who rushed to the execution ground, was remorseful but too late. Before Li Si died, he had already seen the breath of Qin's death: "Now the rebel has half of the world, and the heart has not yet been yuya, and with Zhao Gao as the support, I will see Kou to Xianyang, and the elk swim in Chaoye." "The Qi of the Qin Dynasty, under the rule of Hu Hai and Zhao Gao, has been lost. After Li Si's death, Zhao Gao took the place as chancellor. After that, the affairs of the court, no matter how big or small, were decided by Zhao Gao, and the fingering of deer as horses also occurred at this time, Zhao Gao cleared a disguise for dissidents, a tragic era, such a chaotic world, how could it not perish
。 Li Si was actually remorseful at this time, if he could maintain his sanity at that time, stick to his own patriotic feelings, do not conspire with Zhao Gao, Fu Su did not die, history would be rewritten, and Li Si would not die so absurdly. But everything is history, and everyone has to pay for what they do. Such people have also been recorded in history and denounced by future generations.
Killed II
At this moment, outside xianyang city, a storm of death had been rolled up everywhere.
Chen Sheng and Wu Guang revolted
After failure,
Xiang Yu
The anti-Qin rebels led by him continued to fight with more rapid momentum. Qin II three years
Giant deer
(present-day southwest of Pingxiang County, Hebei) during the Battle of I,
Qin Jun
The main force was defeated by Xiang Yu, the elite was lost, and the general Wang Li was captured. Zhang Handan was unable to ask for help, fearing that the imperial court would surrender his crime, and led 200,000 troops to surrender.
The old nobles of the Six Kingdoms saw the opportunity to establish themselves as kings and marched westward. Liu Bang detoured with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses into Wuguan (武關, in present-day Shangluo County, Shaanxi, on the north bank of the Danjiang River).
In order to conquer Xianyang as soon as possible, he sent people to secretly contact Zhao Gao, hoping that Zhao Gao would be able to respond internally. Zhao Gao was worried that Hu Hai would harm him after he knew it, so he said that he was ill and could not go to the court, and secretly plotted to take advantage of the chaos to seize the throne.
Zhao Gao conspired with his younger brother Zhao Cheng and son-in-law Yan Le to launch a coup d'état in the palace disguised as thieves, and led more than a thousand people to come to Wangyi Palace in the name of chasing thieves. Beheading the guards and forcing them into the palace, Hu Hai was stunned to see this, until Zhao Cheng and Yan Le walked in. Only to understand what is going on. Hu Hai urgently summoned the left and right escorts, how to expect that the attendants had already slipped away, and only one eunuch was standing by his side.
He grabbed the eunuch's shirt and shouted hysterically, "Why didn't you tell me earlier, now that it's like this, what should I do?"
The eunuch plucked up his courage and said, "It is precisely because the slaves usually do not dare to speak that they can live to this day." Otherwise, he would have been killed by the emperor long ago.
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Yan Le rushed to Hu Hai, who said, "True Dragon Heavenly Son, you dare to kill the King!" Yan Le was furious: "You, a lawless tyrant, have plundered the people's anointing and harmed the innocent, and everyone in the world has been cursed." What else can you say?
Hu Hai asked, "Can I meet the Prime Minister?" Yan Le refused, "No! ”
Hu Hai was still not dead-hearted, crying and pleading with a sad face: "So, can you give me a county king?" Ten thousand households can also do it. Yan Le shook his head. Hu Hai cried out in despair: "As long as I save my life, I would rather be a commoner.
Yan Le said, "I am on the order of the Prime Minister to eradicate the tyrant for the whole world, and it is useless for you to say more, so let's cut ourselves quickly!"
At this time, Hu Hai, helpless, pulled out his long sword, ending his pitiful and hateful life.
Death of Zhao Gao
Zhao Gao was ready to announce his ascension to the throne, but all the civil and military officials bowed their heads and shattered his dream of emperor with silent resistance.
Zhao Gaodun felt that the heavens were spinning, and he felt that his sins had reached the level of "Heavenly Buddha, Qunchen Fu and", so he had to temporarily change his mind and pass the jade seal to the royal family members. Because Qin's power had been greatly weakened, Zi Bao had to cancel the imperial title and restore himself as the King of Qin.
As early as when He was a prince, Zi Bao had already heard and witnessed Zhao Gao's various crimes. Pushed to the throne by Zhao Gao, he knew that he was just a puppet. Unwilling to repeat Hu Hai's mistakes, Zi Bao agreed with his personal eunuch Han Tan on a plan to kill Zhao Gao.
It turned out that Zhao Gao wanted his son to officially take the throne after five days of fasting. When the deadline arrived, Zhao Gao sent someone to ask Zi Bao to accept the royal seal and officially ascend the throne. But the baby said that he was sick and refused to go. Zhao Gao had no choice but to personally invite him. Wait for Zhao Gaoyi to arrive, eunuch
Korean talks
His eyes were fast, and he was hacked to death with a knife. Zi Bao then summoned his courtiers into the palace, counted Zhao Gao's sins, and destroyed his three clans (father, mother, and wife).
Follow-up reading
Qin Shi Huang could never have imagined that Zhao Gao, whom he had always trusted, would be the one who would kill his descendants and destroy him. As we all know, the Qin state from a small xirong small country to an empire that unified the six countries was after decades of efforts of hundreds of years, and it was not expected that his glory would exist for only fifteen years before it came to an end. And from the Great Qin Empire to the King of Qin, the old saying often says that it is easy to fight the Jiangshan, it is not easy to defend the Jiangshan, when we walk into the Terracotta Warriors, we can also experience the glory and majesty of the Qin State at that time, the replacement of a dynasty will be so rapid, the subsequent emperors will also draw valuable experience from which dynasty, the emperor's home, the heirs to the throne, has always been the most important thing, the emperor will not trust a person for a reason, as an emperor, really "widow", because there can be no friends, can not have a wife, can not have affection, love, All human common sense is undesirable to the emperor.
History never exists ifs, there is no reversal, in fact, you think about how similar to the fate of each of us, what you do may never be what you think or you don't want, just do it, just happen. A person from the beginning to the end of their own goals, hide their hearts, how the heart is strong and conspiracy power to achieve, thinking of this, in fact, quite admired Zhao Gao, this person is actually a very good and persevering person, worthy of the literary and martial all-rounders. Is there something in him that is worth learning from our future generations?
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