For the excellent emperors of ancient times, people often evaluate with "one emperor in the ancient world", many emperors have been named "one emperor in the ancient world", but to say that there is no objection to the emperor, there is only the founder of the title of emperor Qin Shi Huang, the unification of the six kingdoms created the trend of ancient unification, and then it was the creation of the three dukes and nine secretaries system, the implementation of the county system, the unification of the text of the numismatic weights and measures, the construction of the Great Wall, which has a profound impact on the construction of political power in later generations, but it is such a great emperor, but there are many secrets hidden in it. For example, the mystery of the biological father has made posterity still argue endlessly, in fact, in addition to this mystery, there is another mystery that makes people suspicious, that is, why did Qin Shi Huang not establish an empress?
It can be said that Qin Shi Huang's harem beauties are definitely not in the minority, the Qin Dynasty unified the six kingdoms, and the beautiful women of the six kingdoms entered the harem, and there are more than twenty sons of Qin Shi Huang, which shows that the concubines must not be too few, so if you do not appoint an empress, you must have a deep thinking. In fact, Qin Shi Huang did not appoint an empress, mainly for the following reasons.
First, it is influenced by family factors.
There are two main aspects of this, one is The mother of Qin Shi Huang, Zhao Ji, which had a great influence on him, Zhao Ji was originally Lü Buwei's Ge Ji, and then Lü Buwei found that the stranger was a strange commodity to live in, so he gave Zhao Ji to the Yiren, that is, the father of Qin Shi Huang, but Zhao Ji's private life was very chaotic, it is said that he had an unclear relationship with Lü Buwei, and he actually gave birth to two children with the false eunuch Yan Yi, because he was loved by Zhao Ji, he was even named the Marquis of Changxin, and even called himself the "false father" of Yingzheng. Later, he was executed by Yingzheng because of the rebellion, which had a great impact on Yingzheng, and may have the psychology of hating women, so he hesitated on the issue of being crowned empress.
The second is that the ancestors of Yingzheng often have the problem of women controlling the government of the dynasty, the most familiar is the prototype of Empress Qin Xuan of Mi Yue, his son is the zhaoxiang king in the history of the Qin state, reigning for a total of 56 years, but the power has long been controlled by empress dowager Qin Xuan, up to 36 years, although it has also made a lot of contributions to the qin state, but the influence of the harem interference in the government is still hindering the development of the Qin Dynasty, and the problem of the queen's interference in the government often occurs in the history of the Qin state, so the first emperor of Qin is affected. It is expected that the empress will avoid the future succession of her son, and there will also be the problem of harem interference.
Second, the queen of Yingzheng should be the royal family of Chu.
Qin and Chu in the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, are not recognized by those princely states in the east, think that these two big countries are barbarians, so Qin and Chu two countries will carry out a long-term marriage, many Qin kings will marry the Chu royal family, such as the familiar Empress Qin Xuan, that is, the birth mother of Qin Zhaoxiang King, and he also married the daughter of King Chu Huai, after reading "Great Qin Empire" will know that the daughter of King Chu Huai also gave birth to a daughter for King Zhaoxiang, why can he deceive King Chu Huai to the Qin Kingdom? It was because the two sides had such a layer of intimate relationship, otherwise how could the King of Chu Huai easily get involved in danger.
In addition, there is Lady Huayang, who is favored by King Xiaowen of Qin, also from the Chu royal family, because she has no heirs, which allows Lü Buwei to operate, and the father of Qin Shi Huang, Zi Chu, is inherited to Lady Huayang, which helps Zi Chu stand out as the King of Qin, so Qin Shi Huang is likely to marry a chu royal family woman in order to maintain and consolidate power, but later Lady Huayang died, resulting in a heavy setback in the qin state and Chu foreign relatives, plus Qin Shi Huang destroyed the chu state, so for political considerations, it is not easy to establish Lady Chu as an empress. The eldest son, Fu Su, was also the son of this Lady of Chu, so he was delayed in being made crown prince and clearly became the heir.
There is another clue that can prove that this is correct, that is, the late Qin Chen Sheng Wu Guang uprising, they played the banner is the Gongzi Fusu and Xiang Yan, this group of Chu people under the banner of Xiang Yan is very understandable, Xiang Yan himself is a general of the Chu State, but in the name of Fu Su uprising, this is worth considering, from which it can be inferred that Fu Su must have a connection with the Chu State, the biggest possibility is that his birth mother is the Chu people, so that the use of Fu Su can also get the support of the Chu State and some Qin people at the same time.
Third, it may be related to Qin Shi Huang's superstition of immortality.
As the first emperor to establish a unified emperor, Qin Shi Huang was naturally complacent, and it could be seen from his self-belief that his merits exceeded that of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, so at this time Qin Shi Huang may think that no one in the world can be worthy of him, so the matter of the appointment of the empress was also delayed, and later because he was addicted to immortality, he let most of his thoughts go into it, and may even think that if he is immortal, he naturally has more time to consider this problem, and he did not pay too much attention to it, and he did not expect to die very suddenly Not even his chosen heir could inherit the throne, let alone the empress.
The last reason may be related to the selection of the crown prince, because there are too many women in the harem of Qin Shi Huang, and for a while I don't know who is better to set up the book, so at this time I can also rely on the mother to rely on the son gui, although the eldest son Fu Su is loved by Qin Shi Huang, but the two have different ideas, and finally they were sent to Meng Tian to guard the Great Wall, for who becomes the heir, Qin Shi Huang must have more consideration, maybe he thinks that after determining the candidate for the prince, he will then set up the prince's birth mother as an empress. It can also help the prince to establish his own foreign power, so that it will have the best of both worlds.
Therefore, Qin Shi Huang did not make an empress, mainly because of the influence of his mother and the women of the harem of the Qin State. He did not want his empress to affect the overall situation of the Qin Dynasty in the future, coupled with the excessive number of harem women, he was in political considerations, hoping that the question of the first choice of prince would be selected, and then according to who the prince would be, so that he could better maintain the status of the prince, so there was no empress, and finally died suddenly, leaving such a mystery.