In the first month of 259 BC, in Handan, the capital of the Zhao Kingdom, a baby was born.
This infant was not a nobleman of the Zhao Kingdom, he was the great-grandson of King Ji of Qin. According to the rules of the pre-Qin name, we can call him "Gongzi Zheng". According to the rules of today's name, his name is "Yingzheng" - yes, it is the Qin Shi Huang that we are familiar with
Li Xuejian plays Qin Shi Huang
Eun Seol's father, named "Inhuman". The father of the Yiyi people is the Prince of Qin, Yinzhu.
But he was not the only son of the prince, nor was he the eldest son of the prince. He had more than twenty sons, but none of them were born to his wife.
The mother of the Yiyi people is not favored by the Yinzhu, and the Yiyi people are not the sons of the prince's favor. Therefore, the mother and son were selected and sent to Zhao Guo as hostages.
The Yi Yiren in "Great Qin Fu"
As hostages, living in an enemy country, and not being pampered, the situation of the mother and son in the Zhao Kingdom can be said to be quite bad. When the relations between Qin and Zhao were tense and the envoys were not in harmony, they even lived in poverty, and there were no meals.
The inhuman once felt that he might be like this for the rest of his life. Sooner or later, when the two countries are inseparable, they will be beheaded by King Zhao and sacrificed the flag.
But fate is always unpredictable. The fallen Prince of Qin, who lived in the Zhao Kingdom, actually met his own nobleman, the rich merchant Lü Buwei.
Lü Buwei was a Wei native and was born in Puyang (present-day Huaxian County). He did business among the nations, bought low and sold high, hoarded strange goods, and made a lot of money.
In this year, Lü Buwei met Yiyi in Handan.
After knowing the family situation of the Prince of Qin, Lü Buwei laughed and said, "Strangers are strange goods, and strange goods can be lived in!" ”
Why?
Prince Qin had no concubines, and more than twenty sons were all sons-in-law, and there was no son of a son for a long time. That is to say, more than two dozen people actually have opportunities, and naturally include inhumans.
Therefore, Lü Buwei gave the stranger a lot of money, let him make friends with the famous people of the world, borrowed the banquet between the famous people, and beat his reputation out.
The ancient celebrity banquet of the bell ringing
After that, Lü Buwei came to the Qin Kingdom.
The prince's favorite concubine was called "Lady Huayang". Lady Huayang was favored, but childless.
Lü Buwei spent a lot of money to open up the relationship, first met Lady Huayang's brother, and gave all the gold and silver treasures he brought to Lady Huayang, and asked people to send two sentences to Lady Huayang.
The first sentence: "In The Foreign Highness of the Zhao Kingdom, he regards his wife as his own mother, crying day and night and missing you and the prince."
The second sentence: "Madame is now deeply favored by the prince, but has no children." What if in the future you are old and your beauty is weakened? It is better to choose a filial and talented person in the prince's son as early as possible and treat him as his own son. There was no possibility of succession, and if you could elect him as the heir to the crown prince, he would be grateful to you. In this way, Madam, you will be rich for the rest of your life. “
Lady Huayang in "Great Qin Fu"
These two sentences speak to Mrs. Huayang's heart, which is exactly where Mrs. Huayang's pain point lies - getting older and older, but there is no son.
And the answer given by Lü Buwei is also quite the taste of Lady Zhonghua Yang: Yingyiren, a Yinyi person who has no foundation in the Qin Kingdom, no backer, and has no way out except to recognize himself as a stepmother.
Therefore, Lady Huayang performed a crying scene in front of the Prince of Qin, Yinzhu, and let Yinzhu set up a different person as the heir. At this time, the fame left by the inhuman's earlier friendship with the celebrity came into play.
Eun Seol dispels the concerns of the Inhumans' "incompetence" and is willing to make the Inhumans the heirs.
After Lü Buwei returned to Handan, he told the stranger that everything was going well. A group of maids were asked to come out and dance, led by Lü Buwei's "aunt wife", the daughter of another wealthy merchant.
Coincidentally, the stranger happened to have a crush on Lü Buwei's "aunt wife". Lü Buwei also pushed the boat along the water and married the "aunt wife" to The Yiyi, who was the mother of Qin Shi Huang, Zhao Ji. It was 260 BC, the first month of the second year, and Zhao Ji gave birth to Yingzheng in Handan.
Two years later, the King of Zhou gathered his princes to attack the State of Qin. King Ji of Qin directly sent troops to besiege Handan, preparing to subdue the State of Zhao first.
As the Yiyi people had judged their fate before, the King of Zhao prepared to kill the Yiyi people to sacrifice the flag.
In a hurry, Lü Buwei bribed the defenders of the city and fled with the strangers. Zhao Ji and Yin Zheng were trapped in the city. Thanks to Zhao Ji's father, who was also a wealthy businessman, it took great pains to save her mother and son.
On the other side, the strangers who had luckily escaped back to the Qin State were preparing to meet Lady Huayang.
Lady Huayang was a native of the Chu state, and the yiren followed Lü Buwei's advice and put on a Chu costume to see Lady Huayang.
This time, Lady Huayang officially adopted Yiren as her righteous son and asked him to change his name to "Zi Chu".
It was also this year that the Qin division disintegrated the attack of the Six Kingdoms, destroyed the Zhou, and moved the Jiuding to Qin.
Qin extinguished Zhou and moved to Jiuding
In 251 BC, King Ji of Qin died, and was known as King Zhaoxiang of Qin, and the crown prince Yingzhu succeeded to the throne as the King of Qin, and Lizi Chu was made crown prince.
In order to curry favor with the New Qin King and Crown Prince, Zhao Guo sent people to escort Zhao Ji and Yin Zheng back to China.
Qin Wangzhu held a coronation ceremony for King Zhaoxiang to keep filial piety for one year. However, only three days after his coronation, he died of a violent illness and was known as King Xiaowen of Qin.
In this way, Chu became the supreme King of Qin. And only nine years ago, he was still in the Zhao Kingdom as a fallen hostage prince.
After Zi Chu succeeded to the throne, he appointed Lü Buwei as the State of Xiangguo, enfeoffed Wen Xinhou, and made the rich Luoyang a fief of Lü Buwei.
Three years later, Zi Chu also died of illness. At the age of thirteen, Yingzheng became the monarch of the Qin state.
This is a situation that Lü Buwei never dreamed of, the Lord is less suspicious of the country, and the country is in power. The King of Qin worshiped Lü Buwei as the "Middle Father", and lü Buwei became the "uncrowned king" of the Qin state.
The British "Cambridge History of China" commented on Lü Buwei's "investment": "Lü Buwei is the only businessman in Chinese history who has reached such a prominent position. ”
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