Why did Fu su fail? Two reasons, first, he did not understand the layout of Qin Shi Huang. Second, he did not understand the game of court politics.
The large layout of Qin Shi Huang
Fu Su did not understand the layout of Qin Shi Huang until his death.
In the "History of Qin Shi Huang Benji", Fu Su dissuaded Qin Shi Huang several times, saying that "all beings recite the Fa Confucius", accusing Qin Shi Huang of "valuing the law and bringing it to justice", and he was worried about "the world is uneasy".
Qin Shi Huang listened to his eldest son Fu Su say these words, and no one knew what he thought at that time, but it was most likely extremely disappointing. After carefully reviewing the situation at that time, Sima Qian used a "anger" character when describing the state of Qin Shi Huang, which was a stroke of God, and the anger at this time was caused by disappointment: "Why is this stupid son so low in political sensitivity?" In order to save Su's life, Qin Shi Huang sent Fu Su to Shang county to "supervise Mengtian".
Sending Fu Su to Shangjun is the first step in the layout of Qin Shi Huang's great cause, what is the solution?
After hundreds of years of changing the law in the Qin Dynasty, there were only three types of people left in the imperial court: military nobles, legal officials, and law enforcement officials.
Relying on the legal family's military merit system, the military meritorious nobles rushed out one by one with their lives and climbed back from the corpse mountain and the sea of blood, so that they had their current status, and when they heard Confucianism ruling the country, they would kill, which was a natural reaction. Confucian rule naturally lowers the status of military aristocrats and deprives them of treatment, and they certainly do not agree.
Another legal official, the court up and down the law doctrine to govern the country, the officials are all from the legal family, their lives are tied to this set of theory, if they want to change the Confucian rule, they will inevitably abdicate and give way, and they will not agree.
Finally, the grass-roots governance of the Qin State relies on law enforcement officials, and their only skill is to act according to the rules, manage according to the law, and change the Confucian set, which is also to smash their rice bowl.
At this time, Fu Su interceded for Confucianism several times, and even claimed that he was a fan of Confucianism, which made people at the imperial court panic. Everyone accounts for the long term, when the crown prince is the enemy of everyone, his position as the crown prince is not guaranteed, rather than waiting for the crown prince to snub himself, it is better to unite to make the crown prince.
At this time, Qin Shi Huang sent Fu Su to Shangjun, in fact, not to snub him, but to protect him!
For the longer term. Qin Shi Huang had three purposes:
First of all, let Fu Su leave the land of right and wrong in Xianyang, leave the environment hostile to him, and save him from being framed by traitors. After all, the old interest group wanted to harm Fu Su, and the hand was not long enough to reach the Shangjun barracks.
This time, to let him supervise the army, in fact, gave him a talisman of 300,000 people, which was the strongest backing for him to control the imperial court in the future.
In the end, the name of the supervisor Meng Tian actually had a good relationship with Meng Tian and, on this basis, developed a set of his own team in the Great Wall garrison, where civilian subjects could be trained from young staff officers and military generals could be promoted from lower-level officers.
The defender of the Great Wall - the sword of the Qin Emperor
Speaking of the Great Wall Army, Zhao Guo's reliance on Li Mu's partial division was enough to shock the grasslands, and how could the stronger Qin State still need 300,000 people to defend? That doesn't make sense. Therefore, the purpose of Qin Shi Huang's establishment of the Great Wall Army was not for the Xiongnu, but to break up the military group formed in the process of destroying the Six Kingdoms and reorganize the army. The Great Wall Legion, with the Qin people as the backbone, is the absolute main force of the Qin State, and at the same time as the Great Wall Army, there is also the Expeditionary Legion of Qin to destroy Baiyue, this legion takes the soldiers of the former Six Kingdoms as the main force, and the southern conquest of Baiyue, to put it bluntly, is to let the soldiers of the former Six Kingdoms go to their deaths and eliminate the potential resistance forces.
The reason why Meng Tian was sent to command the Great Wall troops was to prepare for the successor. Who is Monty? After the war of the Six Kingdoms, the veteran generals were disarmed and returned to the field for self-protection, and Meng Tian became an intermediate force in the Qin army. The Meng family is a Shandong native, not a nobleman of the Qin state, so the only patron in the Qin state is the emperor, and Meng Tian has followed his father on the Eastern Expedition since birth, and has no time to have a relationship with the "old man" in the imperial court. It can be said that from Mengxiao, Mengwu, all the way to Mengtian, the three generations of Mengmen are the most convenient swords used by the emperor of the Qin State. When Qin Shi Huang sent Fu Su to Shangjun to supervise the army, he handed him the sword representing the orthodoxy of the Qin state and laid the foundation for his ascension to the throne.
However, Fu Su, as a person, is really not suitable to be a "cushion": he may be okay as a monarch who guards the Taiping, but to become an emperor who inherits the situation and changes the pattern, he does not have this innate condition.
Renjun is not a benevolent person
Fu Su is a benevolent person, not a benevolent king, so he is doomed to failure.
Good emperors are all benevolent kings, but not benevolent people, what is benevolence? Confucius said that the benevolent person loves others, the so-called benevolent king, that is, to love those who are useful to themselves, the so-called benevolent people, to love everyone without discrimination, including enemies.
Fu Su can't love someone who is useful to him, because he doesn't even love himself. This matter has to start with the death of Qin Shi Huang.
Qin Shi Huang died, regardless of whether there is a will to establish Fu Su as emperor, this is a historical mystery case, press not the table. Only from the analysis of the qin forces at that time, Fu Su forcibly succeeded to the throne, and no one could stop him. The Southern Legion's miscellaneous army, mired in the mud of South Vietnam, was unable to participate in the power change in the north; guanzhong's defenses were empty, otherwise when Zhou Wen hit Lintong a few years later, Zhang Handan could only send lishan prisoners to temporarily meet the battle. In the whole Qin state, only the Great Wall Army was the most powerful armed force, as long as he led his troops south and stationed in Xianyang, he was the Emperor of Qin.
However, Fu Su immediately committed suicide after receiving the false edicts from Zhao Gao and Li Si. Meng Tian couldn't bear to look at it, saying that Qin Shi Huang was "not a prince", let me lead 300,000 people to guard the border, let you come to supervise the army, what does this mean? This is what makes you emperor" This is the responsibility of this world. "Now that a summoned messenger has come, you have committed suicide, how do you know that it is not a hoax?" Ann knows what it's not? ”
Montien means "re-request", what is re-request? In a straightforward way, he led the soldiers into Guanzhong, and once again "requested" to see the original of Qin Shi Huang's holy will outside the Xianyang City Gate and directly ascended the throne. The indirect method was to send a working group to Xianyang, whether it was to bribe, intimidate, or draw a big cake, to win over public opinion, and to re-issue an edict to the imperial court asking Su to ascend the throne.
However, Fu Su did not listen to Meng Tian's advice, but directly committed suicide on the grounds that "the father gave the child to die" and "asked for something again". Meng Tian has completely turned to Fu Su over the years, cut off with the interest group, and now that Fu Su is dead, he does not have the legitimacy to continue to command the army, rather than being humiliated later, it is better to die, so Meng Tian also committed suicide.
To sum up, Fu Su's death lies in the fact that he did not see through the layout of Qin Shi Huang and stepped into the vortex of imperial politics with a naïve character, and finally could only end up in failure.