If you want to count the most tragic princes in Chinese history, I think Fu Su, the eldest son of Qin Shi Huang, must be on the list. After Qin Shi Huang fell ill and died in the sand dunes, under the planning of Zhao Gao, Li Si, and Hu Hai, they corrected and passed the throne to Hu Hai, the younger son of Qin Shi Huang, who was later Qin II. The next step was to deal with Qin Shi Huang's appointment of the heir Fu Su and his confidants Meng Tian and Meng Yi. They wrote an edict detailing Fusu's sins and finally ordered him to cut himself off. He also committed suicide by killing himself.
At this time, Fu Su was still guarding the Great Wall in the northwestern Mengtian Mengyi Army to prevent attacks by the Xiongnu in the north. After seeing Qin Shi Huang's edict, Fu Su did not ask whether it was true or false, and raised his sword to commit suicide, which was very sad. Before Fu Su committed suicide, Meng Tian also went forward to dissuade him, doubting the authenticity of the edict, and proposed that Fu Su first return to Xianyang to verify it, but was resolutely rejected by Ren Xiao's Fu Su, and the father ordered the son to die, and the son had to die. Many people are very confused, Fu Su has 300,000 people and horses of the Mengtian Mengyi brothers, why did he cut himself without asking whether it was true or false? The answer I gave was character!
Compared with his fierce father Qin Shi Huang, Fu Su was completely two paths, Qin Shi Huang took the route of the Legalist family, misdemeanor and heavy punishment, and cruelty was incomparable, while Fu Su was full of benevolence and morality, and took the Confucian route. When Qin Shi Huang burned books to kill more than 400 Confucians, Fu Su strongly opposed it, which angered Qin Shi Huang and sent him to the frontier to guard the Northwest Great Wall. Moreover, Fu Su's mother was an aristocrat of the Chu State, and it should be known that there was a folk proverb circulating at that time, that is, although Chu had three households, qin would be chu when it died! Qin Shi Huang hated this eldest son in his bones. According to Sima Qian, Qin Shi Huang's will was to ask fu su, the eldest son who was in the field, to quickly return to Beijing for funerals, not to pass the throne to him. We can see that Zhao Zhengshu's statement is more reasonable. Qin Shi Huang naturally wanted to pass the throne to Hu Hai, who was beside him, rather than Fu Su, who was far away in the northwest. It is said that Zhao Gao's edict was made up by the later Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, the leader of the peasant rebel army, in order to make Qin II stink.
Fu Su, this man was too benevolent and righteous, and he did not want to rebel in the name of identifying the authenticity of the edict, further aggravating the fierce waters of the people of the Qin State and causing a tragic situation in which life was ruined. Weakness is the root of his tragedy. Moreover, although General Meng Tian under Fu Su managed 300,000 troops, he had no right to transfer troops at all, and the families of the generals were all imprisoned as hostages in Xianyang City, even if Meng Tian took the lead in rebellion, it is estimated that not many people responded, and what awaited him would be the following crimes, and the heads of people would fall to the ground.