Mention of Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng, basically two impressions, either think that he is a "book burning pit Confucian, superstitious alchemist" love to take medicine, love the beauty of the tyrant, or think that he is an emperor of the ages, can only look up, squint his eyes and feel the glare, in fact, to be fair, Qin Shi Huang is indeed heroic, but his pro-government and reunification road is not smooth, and even stumbling, killing the opportunity hidden, and the road to becoming a king of Yingzheng is accompanied by the rise and fall of zhao, Chu, and Han three foreign relatives.
- Zhao relatives:
The representative figure of Zhao's foreign relatives is Empress Zhao /Zhao Ji, who is also the biological mother of The Prince of Qin, and the core figures of Zhao's foreign relatives have Lü Buwei in front of them and Concubine Yi in the back. Mainly because of the beginning of the story, Lü Buwei was a staunch supporter of Empress Zhao, but as the date of the pro-government of Empress Dowager Zhao approached, Lü Buwei quietly withdrew from Empress Zhao's group and took the opportunity to push Consort Yi up, who was deeply loved by Empress Zhao because of some specialty, and became the top card and number one horse boy of Zhao's foreign relatives.
In fact, the three series of foreign relatives forces like men and women talking about friends, division and combination are normal operations, today's wine, tomorrow's knife, are normal, behind are the complex game of multi-party interests, the rise and fall of Zhao foreign relatives forces, we have to start from the birth of Yingzheng.
The name of Yingzheng at the beginning was Zhao Zheng, why was it called Zhao Zheng? Because his father Zi Chu was not welcomed, he was sent to Zhao Guo as a more decent hostage - "proton", Lü Buwei, as a businessman, keenly discovered the commercial value of Zi Chu, and used a very vivid word to describe him - "strange goods can be lived", which means that Zi Chu is definitely a potential stock, but it has not yet been discovered, it looks miserable, in fact, Zi Chu's body contains huge political value, political value means commercial value, Lü Buwei once chatted with his father, The core content is to cultivate the land, make ten times the profit, sell pearls and jade, make a hundred times the profit, support the monarch, and make "countless profits". Uncle Lü's guidance is very in place, but the "innumerable" understanding of the last one may be to obtain countless profits, or it may be that the risk is infinite, successful, fame and fame, in case it is not good, the life of the family can all be lost, but no matter how to understand, Lü Buwei still bet the treasure on Zi Chu.
Why was Lü Buwei so optimistic about the fallen Zi Chu?
Because Zi Chu has a huge profit gap hidden in him, who is Zi Chu? He was one of the sons of An Guojun, the heir of the King of Qin at that time, the reason why he said this is because An Guojun had one or two dozen sons, zi Chu ranked in the middle, no matter how counted, the throne could not fall on his head, but An Guojun's main room was called Lady Huayang (the representative of the Chu family's foreign relatives), the two were kind and loving, the only regret was that there was no son, which meant that An Guojun did not have the eldest son, and it also meant that if Empress Huayang could not give birth to a son, the prince would definitely choose from among the sons, the problem came? Who is the best fit? Who can ascend to the throne?
On this issue, Lady Huayang had absolute influence in deciding who would be the prince. Lü Buwei also saw the doorway, on the one hand, he used his own financial resources to help Zi Chu create a reputation, the name of the Xian Gongzi spread throughout the six countries, Lady Huayang also heard about it, and at the same time brought a huge amount of jewelry to the Qin Kingdom to find a person, that is, Lady Huayang's sister, through the sister's ear wind, Lady Huayang also paid attention to Zi Chu, every day in front of An Guojun's eyes to show Zi Chu's ID card, real name praise Zi Chu is handsome and filial piety, and talent, the young man's impression in An Guojun's heart is getting better and better, It also paved the way for the upper position in the back.
In fact, Lady Huayang chose Zi Chu, the core is that the interests of both sides reached an agreement and formed an alliance: after Zi Chu took the throne, he promised to continue to maintain the glory and wealth of the Chu foreign relatives headed by Lady Huayang, Zi Chu gambled and swore that he did not count if he spoke, and the lady expressed her satisfaction, and the young man had a good attitude.
This actually bought the foreshadowing for the later Yingzheng to become the prince, why? Because Yingzheng's mother, Zhao Ji, was a singer and dancer in Lü Buwei's family at the beginning, Zi Chu went to Lü Buwei's house to drink, addicted to beauty and could not extricate himself, Lü Buwei was also very discerning, and between pushes and pushes, Zi Chu smiled happily.
By the way, Sima Qian is actually in the history of Qin Shi Huang and Lü Buwei Lie' biography, the record of Yin Zheng's father is not the same, one is Zi Chu, the other is Lü Buwei, of course, the latter kind of talk is absolutely nonsense, why do you say so? Suppose you are Zhao Ji, you know that you have just become pregnant, your husband Lü Buwei pondered to give you to the King of Qin, so that the future Qin Kingdom will be the Lü family, if you are Zhao Ji, will you agree? Surely not, normal women, especially those who are ready to be mothers, who will agree to this kind of lack of heart and eyes, some people say that Zhao Ji and Lü Buwei are historical figures, not ordinary people, but all historical figures, must be ordinary people first, human commonality is far greater than personality, to believe in the power of common sense.
From Lü Buwei's point of view, Zhao Ji is pregnant, but she does not know men and women, in case it is not a son, the throne has absolutely nothing to do with their Lü family, even if it is a son, it is also a talent, capital, opportunity, etc. that can ascend to the throne, it is too little, not to mention, in case things are exposed? This risk is simply too big for Lü Buwei to imagine, he is a businessman, the profit is uncertain, the risk is infinitely high, such a deal, will you do it? Neither you nor I will, and since ordinary people can't, Lü Buwei will not.
The State of Qin from the shang martingale era, has been a strict rule of law country, involving the question of whether the royal bloodline is pure, absolutely impossible to play sloppy, and since the Warring States period, the knowledge of women's pregnancy and childbirth and menstrual cessation has been very complete, the first thing That Zhao Ji was sent to Zi Chu's home must be a close medical practitioner to check the physical condition, and the inspection results will be stored in the qin royal family archives, so, Yingzheng, can only be Zi Chu's son.
The joint efforts of the Chu foreign relatives represented by Lü Buwei and Lady Huayang have basically paved the way for Zi Chu to inherit the throne, but in the fifty years of King Qin Zhao, the Qin general Wang (Yaqi) once again surrounded Handan, and the Zhao state was about to be destroyed, in order to vent their hatred, the Zhao people sharpened their knives and prepared to kill the Zi Chu family, if Zi Chu was really killed, Lü Buwei's political investment was considered to have died prematurely, but fortunately, Lü Buwei learned the news in advance, bought the doorman with heavy money, and ran all the way to the Qin army camp, which returned to the Qin state without any danger.
In the fifty-sixth year of King Qin Zhao, a generation of male lords died, An Guojun ascended the throne, and Lady Huayang also turned right and was promoted to queen. In order to please the newly ascended King of Qin, Zhao Guo sent Zhao Ji's mother and son back from Handan with loud gongs and drums and firecrackers, so was Zhao Ji's mother and son grateful to Zhao Guo? Zhao Ji didn't know what she thought, but Yin Zheng's feelings for Zhao Guo had only one word--hate, why did she say so? Because after Ying Zheng destroyed the Zhao state, he personally ran to the Zhao state of Handan and killed all the enemies of that year, and it is also conceivable that after Zi Chu fled back to the Qin state, the Zhao state could only vent the hatred of the country's enemies on Zhao Ji's mother and son.
Fortunately, Zhao Ji's family is a rich family of the Zhao Kingdom, under the cover of the family, the mother and son duo are afraid, hiding in Tibet, precarious, we can imagine violence, injury, vendetta, bloodshed, etc., the young YingZheng has been forced to experience, the young mind such a harsh environment, stronger and stronger, but also increasingly cold, the living environment of the early age will have a profound impact on children, this influence is good or bad, but it must last for life, but we ourselves do not know, It's like if Zhang San's father is a smoker, swallowing clouds and spitting fog at home all day, after Zhang San grew up, he either learned to smoke very early, or he didn't smoke himself, and he still hated the smell of smoke, Zhang San's growth environment because of the factor that his father smoked, resulting in Zhang San himself must have an attitude towards smoking, may like, may hate, but will not be completely indifferent.
A year after An Guojun ascended the throne, he hung up, Zi Chu ascended the throne, that is, the later King Xiang of Qinzhuang, chu, Han, and Zhao three factions of foreign relatives also began to take the stage, Zi Chu's biological mother Xia Ji, a Korean, promoted to Empress Xia, Zi Chu's mother Lady Huayang, a Chu national, was promoted to Empress Huayang, and Zhao Ji represented the gradually rising zhao foreign relatives.
Three years after King Zhuang Xiang ascended the throne, he also hung up, Yingzheng ascended to the throne, Lü Buwei became Xiangguo, Zhao Ji was promoted to Empress Zhao, historically, but all kings had short lives, especially like An Guojun and Zi Chu, who had two short lives, the country must be hiding huge turmoil, and many forces were fighting for the throne, and the undercurrent was surging, but Yingzheng was lucky, because at that time, among the three foreign relatives of Chu, Han, and Zhao, the Chu clan was the strongest, the Han clan was second, the Zhao clan was the weakest, and it just so happened that the Chu clan and the Zhao clan foreign relatives all supported Ying Zheng. However, the candidate valued by Empress Xia, The biological grandmother of Yingzheng, was not her own grandson Yingzheng, but another grandson, Chang'an Juncheng, but Empress Xia's opinion was no longer very important, and the joint efforts of the two foreign relatives of Zhao and Chu already had the power to "subdue people with virtue", and the ascension of Yingzheng to the throne was almost a foregone conclusion.
Lü Buwei was originally a member of the Zhao clan, especially after the death of King Xiang of Qinzhuang, and Empress Zhao's old feelings were revived, and the fight was fierce, but after Yingzheng became an adult, he would definitely have to be pro-government, and the past between Lü Buwei and Empress Zhao would definitely be known to the King of Qin, although the Qin State regarded the relationship between men and women relatively lightly, And The mother of King Qin Zhao, Empress Xuan, and the King of Yiqu also had two sons, but the emperor's family affairs were state affairs, and if the King of Yiqu was the same as Wei Ugly Fu, he only wanted to be a little third in peace, that would be okay, but the problem was, Lü Buwei was not Wei's ugly husband, he was not the King of Yiqu, and flirting with Empress Zhao was only his means, not his goal, what was Lü Buwei's purpose? It is the acquisition of political status and capital, the steady and sustained acquisition of political status and capital, and the stable and sustained acquisition of maximized political status and capital.
In Lü Buwei's view, before the pro-government of Yingzheng, his relationship with Empress Zhao will help him to quickly increase political capital and status, although there are risks, but the King of Qin is still young, the risk is controllable, but once the King of Qin comes of age, the date of pro-government is approaching, Lü Buwei's political gains are limited, but the political risks have increased sharply, for Lü Buwei at this time, it is the best choice to withdraw wisely, and the risk is transferred to Yan Yi, and he himself has become a relatively independent political force.
As we all know, because of her special professional skills, Yan Yi, famous as Zhen Xianyang, was disguised as a corrupt person by Lü Buwei and sent to the palace overnight, the empress dowager was happy, and the two even secretly hid in Yongcheng to be happy and happy, and secretly gave birth to two children, Yin Zheng Xi ti's second brother, all of this, Yin Zheng seemed to have no idea.
If Concubine Yi is Wei Ugly Husband, then he and Empress Zhao can actually continue to love, white head to old age, but Concubine Yi is not Wei Ugly Husband, he is not willing to be only Wei Ugly Husband, Empress Zhao is not Empress Xuan, from the historical record, Zhao Ji still has a colorful castle in her heart, the castle lives a pink maiden, even if she is promoted to Empress Dowager, even if her son is the King of Qin, she still does not have much political wisdom, unlike Empress Xuan, killing and deciding, hanging the curtain to listen to the government, supporting the new king, domineering side leakage, Empress Zhao could not do this, in her eyes, Yan Yi may no longer be a lover, but a husband, the father of her two sons, since this is the case, the empress dowager can not endure the low status of Concubine Yi, he wants to give him identity, give him status, give him political status, but in the Qin kingdom that advocates military merit, how easy is it to obtain a knighthood?
Such an opportunity is indeed not easy, but after waiting for a long time, the opportunity has finally come.
In the eighth year of the reign of the King of Qin, Consort Yi was enfeoffed as the Marquis of Changxin.
This is officially recorded in the "Records of History", and it is also the record of the official archives of the Qin State, we should not think that it is easy to be a marquis, as the "pet" of Empress Zhao, it is very easy to give the courtyard, to the jewelry, to the servants, but the marquis can be exchanged for practical military merits, and after the Qin general Wang Qi, who is equally famous with Bai, destroyed the two countries of Yan and Zhao, he has not yet been crowned marquis, until after the destruction of the Chu state, he was awarded the title, And Yan Yi did not destroy any country, but his merits were definitely not lower than Wang Qi, at least according to the Qin state system.
The opportunity that Yan Yi seized was to quell the rebellion.
So, who rebelled? Chang'an Juncheng toad
So, who is Chang'an Juncheng? Younger brother of King Yingzheng of Qin.
To add, he is the half-brother of Eun Seol.
The two of them had a pleasant time in the Qin Kingdom City when they were young, and spent a rare happy time, when Yin Zheng's father was still there, and the years outside the Jinge Iron Horse were sweet and warm.
So, why did Chang'an Juncheng rebel?
Because he and Yin Zheng are not the same mother.
This is not a nonsense, although it is not known who Cheng Yu's mother's surname is, but it can be determined that his mother is from Korea, and it was arranged for her son by Zi Chu's biological mother, Empress Xia, and the time is probably before Zi Chu fled back to qin and before Yingzheng's mother and son returned to Qin.
Obviously, Chang'an Juncheng was a foreign force of Korean origin, represented by Empress Xia, and both Yin Zheng and Cheng Yu were her own grandsons, but Empress Xia preferred Cheng Yu because her mother was from Korea, Empress Xia's home country.
The Foreign Relatives of the Han Clan naturally cannot be compared with the Foreign Relatives of the Chu Clan and the Foreign Relatives of the Zhao Clan, but Empress Xia, after all, is the grandmother of Yingzheng, after all, she is also the Empress Dowager, she is not fighting for herself alone, behind her is the Han Foreign Relatives, if she instigates, the Han Foreign Relatives will completely fall, and the purpose of Empress Xia's introduction of the Korean daughter-in-law is naturally to strengthen the power of her own faction.
However, Empress Xia did not know that her own real enemy was time.
In the seventh year of the reign of the Qin Dynasty, Empress Xia died.
The Korean relatives who had lost their protective umbrellas were like candles in the wind, crumbling.
The Zhao clan foreign relatives launched a great purge against the Han clan foreign relatives, washed meticulously, washed conscientiously, cheng yu at this time led the army outside, forced to surrender to the Zhao state.
Korean relatives have since declined.
Zhao's foreign relatives rose rapidly.
So what does this matter have to do with Yan Yi?
The stakes are great.
Because Yan Yi has made great contributions in suppressing rebellion and purging neutrality, it is definitely not decent, after all, it is stepping on the bones of others, but it is absolutely effective, after all, it is stepping on the bones of others, climbing higher, going farther, and easier, why not enjoy it?
After the Cheng yu incident, the power of Yan Yi expanded rapidly, and the power of Zhao's foreign relatives also reached its peak.
But for Yan Yi, it was not only his power that swelled, but also his ambitions, so much so that Yan Yi once openly declared himself the dry father of the King of Qin in a joke.
No pole Tai lai, prosperous and declining, but the peak of Yan Yi came quickly and went quickly.
The purge of the forces of the Foreign Relatives of the Korean Clan, Empress Huayang said that she was very pleased, she did not have to do it, she had one less opponent, but after the decline of the Foreign Relatives of the Han Clan, the forces of the Foreign Relatives of the Zhao Clan became increasingly powerful, and The Empress Dowager Huayang was very uneasy, looking at Empress Zhao was unhappy with the face, the effect of the force was mutual, Empress Zhao and Empress Dowager Yi looked at Empress Huayang also had the same feeling, quite unhappy, since both sides were not happy, and both had the strength to be unhappy, then the outbreak of the conflict was inevitable, just to see the time sooner or later, and who shot first.
Zhao's relatives couldn't wait and took the lead in pulling out the knife.
In the ninth year of the reign of the Qin Dynasty, Yingzheng came to Yongcheng to prepare for the crown ceremony.
The capital, Xianyang, looks empty.
Yan Yi started to work in Xianyang, holding the seals of the King of Qin and the Empress Dowager to mobilize the army to prepare for trouble.
Who is Yan Yi's target? Definitely not the King of Qin.
Yan Yi was a loyal iron fan of zhao's relatives, and the King of Qin was empress dowager's son, and there was only one target for zhao's relatives, that is, the same grinning Chu relatives.
Yan Yi was ready to carry out another large-scale purge and put an end to the chu foreign forces in one fell swoop.
But the result? The soldiers were defeated and killed, and Empress Zhao was placed under house arrest in Yongcheng.
The forces of the Zhao clan fell from the clouds, completely losing the capital to compete with the Chu clan's foreign relatives.
Why didn't this rebellion go as smoothly as it did before to purge Korean relatives?
Because when the Korean relatives were purged before, the King of Qin and the Zhao relatives stood together, and the Chu relatives were equal to the Zhao relatives out of schadenfreude.
But this time, the King of Qin was already an adult, and when he was crowned, Yan Yi also took the lead in doing things in Xianyang, did he think that the King of Qin was too young, or was he overestimating himself? Empress Zhao is the mother of the King of Qin, but the king has no family affairs, only politics, political interests are always the first, if family affection hinders the realization of political will, then family affection can be left aside.
What's more, at this time, Yingzheng seemed to be standing behind the chu relatives.
Why? Because Yingzheng's pro-government needs the support of the Chu foreign relatives, and it is necessary to need their support.
The main palace of Yingzheng should be a Chu woman, who assisted Yingzheng in quelling the rebellion of Yan Yi, except for Xiangguo Lü Buwei, that is, Changping Jun and Chang Wenjun, these two, are the chu royal family, and are inextricably linked with Empress Huayang, at this time Empress Huayang is still alive, from the inside to the outside, it was decided that Yingzheng had to hold hands with chu relatives and go on together.
Empress Zhao was later taken back to the royal city by Yingzheng, and the foreign relatives of the Zhao clan seemed to be resurrected, but only dead ashes, and the main purpose of Yingzheng was not filial piety, but to contain the foreign relatives of the Chu clan, worried that the family would sit on the big, the tail would not fall, and balance and containment were the key to ensuring the stability of the royal power.
- Korean relatives:
The representative figure of the Han foreign relatives is Empress Xia, and the relationship between the Han foreign relatives and the Chu foreign relatives is divided into two stages, the first stage is the reign of King Zhuang Xiang, and the second stage is before and after the ascension of the Qin king Yingzheng to the throne.
In the first stage, the Han relatives firmly stood with the Chu relatives, hand in hand, because Empress Xia was the biological mother of Zhuang Xiang Wang, and Yingyi was also a political agent favored by Empress Huayang, and even in order to please Empress Huayang, Yinyi changed her name to "Zi Chu", because Empress Huayang was a Chu national, and the interests of the foreign relatives of Han and Chu were the same, and the two sides spent a short and not very sweet honeymoon period.
After the death of King Xiang of Qinzhuang, the two sides gradually drifted apart, and the undercurrent surged forward.
Because the foreign relatives of the Han and Chu factions had different opinions on the selection of the King of Qin.
Empress Huayang was naturally inclined to win the government, but the candidate in Empress Xia's mind was Cheng Yu.
Cheng Yu was Yin Zheng's half-brother, in other words, their fathers were all Zi Chu, but Yin Zheng's mother was Zhao Ji, and at this time, the Zhao clan's foreign relatives had not yet sprouted, and they were attached to Lady Huayang. Cheng Yu's mother was Korean, when Zi Chu fled from Handan back to the Qin State, Zhao Ji's mother and son stranded in the Zhao Kingdom, not dead and uncertain, taking advantage of this gap period, Empress Xia found a Korean daughter-in-law for her son and gave birth to Cheng Yu.
With the support of powerful Chu relatives, Yin Zheng was the only heir to the King of Qin.
But Cheng Yu was still there, Empress Xia was still there, and the Foreign Forces of the Korean clan were also there, and At this time, Cheng Yu was Yingzheng's brother, but he was even more a political enemy, even if Yingzheng was on the throne, he was still a potential enemy politically.
In order to accumulate political capital for her grandson Cheng Yu and win fiefs and titles, Empress Xia especially carefully arranged for her grandson Cheng Yu to send an envoy to a foreign country. In Korea, what is surprising is that the young Cheng Yu is very good at "subduing people with virtue", and actually makes Korea happily take out a hundred miles of land to contribute to the Qin State, the sword soldiers do not move, and Cheng Yu is also awarded the title of "Chang'an Jun".
In the seventh year of the reign of the Qin Dynasty, Empress Xia died, and the foreign relatives of the Han clan were purged by the foreign relatives of the Zhao clan, and Cheng Yu led the troops outside and surrendered to the State of Zhao, and the foreign relatives of the Han clan declined.
- Chu relatives:
After the decline of the Han and Zhao relatives, can the Yin Zheng and Chu relatives continue to play happily together? The answer is no, why not? Because Yingzheng is a very rare wise monarch in history, Yingzheng's life and various actions run through two basic logics: first, the internal concentration of royal power, absolutely do not allow anyone or any force to divide the power, the second is, the external unification of the six kingdoms, this dream, the Qin Zhaowang almost realized, but today, Yingzheng must personally end this turbulent era, this is his fate, but also the fate of the Qin State.
Chu foreign relatives were deeply rooted in the Qin state and were difficult to move.
The wife of King Hui of Qin, that is, the mother of King Zhao of Qin, Empress Xuan, was a native of the State of Chu.
King Qin Zhao's wife, Tang Bazi, was also a native of the Chu state.
An Guojun's favorite wife, Lady Huayang, was also a Chu national.
Zi Chu's wife, Zhao Ji, was a zhao state, but the person who helped Zi Chu to the throne along the way was Empress Huayang and the Chu relatives behind her.
Yin Zheng became the heir to the throne, which was also the result of the alliance between the Chu relatives and the Zhao clan foreign relatives under the mediation of Lü Buwei, but we can say that without the support of Empress Huayang, Yin Zheng could not have taken the throne, and the power of the Chu foreign relatives was large enough to decide who would sit on the throne.
Even if Yingzheng became the King of Qin, there was still a huge shadow behind Empress Huayang.
The foreign relatives who stand firm to the end are the most difficult to deal with.
Why?
First of all, Empress Huayang is still alive, her body is great, eating Ma Ma Xiang, she is in, the main heart of the Chu family's foreign relatives is there.
Secondly, the empress dowager was likely to be a woman of the Chu royal family.
Before I read the history of the Qin Dynasty, I always had a doubt, Yin Zheng did not seem to be very satisfied with Fu Su, but why in his old age, there was no formal edict to crown the crown prince? No matter how bad Fu su is, it can also ensure the stable handover of royal power and avoid serious turmoil. If you don't show your attitude, every prince and every force feels that they have hope to fight, after all, the throne is still fragrant after all.
The stability of the heir is such a simple question, I can think of it, how can YingZheng not understand it?
Obviously, there are some words in the history books that are not explicitly stated, but they influence the judgment of Yingzheng, making him wander back and forth and hesitate.
This hidden factor is that empress Dowager Yingzheng, Fu Su's mother, was born in the royal family of the Chu state and had a very close relationship with the Foreign Relatives of the Chu clan.
This is not my casual nonsense Ha, Li Kaiyuan's "Qin Mystery" series is written very interestingly, the wall crack recommended.
If Fu Su were to ascend the throne as the King of Qin, wouldn't one Empress Huayang fall and thousands of Empress Huayang stand up again? What's more, Fu Su's personality is not as strong and decisive as Yingzheng's, and the problems of foreign relatives are not solved by themselves, leaving them for Fu Su to solve, even more unrealistic, and it is not good, and Fu Su himself has also been solved by foreign relatives.
Third, when yingzheng was pro-government, the powerful ministers around him were basically Chu foreign relatives.
At the time of the Rebellion, there were two main people who handled the rebellion on behalf of the King of Qin—Lü Buwei and Changping Jun.
Lü Buwei was a member of the Zhao clan in the early days, but later turned to the arms of Empress Huayang, and can be regarded as an ally of the Chu clan's foreign relatives.
And who is ChangPingjun?
Changping Jun's name was Xiong Qi, and when Xiong Yuan, the king of Chu Kaolie, was a proton in the Qin kingdom, he married the daughter of King Qin Zhao, and according to the generational division, Yingzheng also had to shout a cousin to Changping Jun, and Changping Jun also had to call out to Empress Huayang as an uncle.
The logic of the Chu foreign relatives is very direct, the heir to the throne and the auxiliary to the throne must be their own people, around the royal power, all kinds of relations and forces are like underground vines, thousands of turns, can not be involved, you have me, I have you, so it is best, it is difficult to move, if you move, you will have pain, if you are afraid of pain, we are safe.
Yin Zheng first allied with the Chu and Zhao clans, cleaned up the Han clan foreign relatives, and also eliminated the potential threat to his own throne, chang'an Juncheng.
Then he joined hands with the Foreign Relatives of the Chu Clan and clarified the forces of the Zhao Clan represented by Consort Yi and Empress Zhao.
By the way, Lü Buwei was moved to Shudi, originally did not want to kill, but I heard that Lü Xiangguo was bustling with traffic in front of the gate, very lively, there was no retired old cadre's attitude to life, wrote a letter, around the bend to scold him for being incompetent, no character and still in a high position, Lü Buwei seconds to understand, he drank a cup of poisonous wine, walked decently, Lü Buwei understood, if he did not want to be decent, the King of Qin would come to help him decent, it would not be a cup of poisonous wine.
Twenty years after the reign of the Qin Dynasty, Korea, the Zhao Kingdom, and the Yan Kingdom were destroyed, and the next target was the Chu State.
Empress Huayang has died, Changping Jun has served as the chancellor of the Qin State for a long time, and the King of Chu is his brother, the Chu State is his mother country, leading the Qin army to destroy his motherland and kill his brothers and sisters, this kind of thing is very embarrassing to think, Huayang Jun is not Ding Xiu in "Embroidery Spring Knife", these beloved relatives and friends, plus money is not enough.
Yin Zheng knew that Changping Jun was very embarrassed, and he was not embarrassed, and the chu-chu conference did not call him to participate at all, and also bought a ticket and sent him to the chu state's hometown of Ying Chen, first, to let Changping jun deal with the Xinzheng rebellion, and more importantly, it was equivalent to directly kicking him out of the decision-making center of the Qin state.
In the twenty-second year of the reign of the Qin Dynasty, Qin suppressed Li Xinmengwu's army and prepared to capture shouchun, the capital of the Chu state, and destroy Chu in one fell swoop.
But the strange thing is that when Li Xinbing was sharp, he suffered an enemy in his belly and back, and returned with a big defeat.
The reason is that Changping Jun rebelled against Qin and wanted to protect his homeland.
The ending of the story is not complicated, the King of Qin reactivated the veteran general Wang Qi, the victory and defeat are not suspenseful, the Chu state is destroyed, and Changping Jun is killed.
At this point, the foreign relatives of the Chu clan also fell from the peak and went into decline.
Yin Zheng personally ended the foreign relatives of Zhao, Han, and Chu, and the process of the concentration of royal power was also accompanied by the process of unification of the six kingdoms.
- Foreign Relatives VS Kingship:
To sum up, if there is no support from the Chu and Zhao foreign relatives, Zi Chu and Yingzheng cannot ascend to the throne, the support of powerful foreign relatives is very important to Yingzheng, but there is no foreign relative, it is more important for Yingzheng, the enemy of Zhao's foreign relatives is actually not Empress Xia, the enemy of Chu foreign relatives, in fact, is not Empress Zhao, the real enemy of foreign relatives is The Qin King Yingzheng, from the bottom of his heart want to kill all foreign relatives is also Yingzheng, but this seems to be a paradox, the king can have no foreign relatives, but the foreign relatives must have a king, there is no king, there is no king, The existence of foreign relatives loses its fundamental basis, so the purpose of foreign relations is never to eliminate the king, but to support a king who is easier to control, and to ensure that their interests are stable and lastingly maximized.
So what kind of kings are easily controlled? The answer is small age, the younger the better, the poorer the body, the worse the better, it is best to go with the flow before adulthood "died of illness", you can replace the next one, a hidden BUG of the stability of the king is the king's health or not, longevity or not, sons or not, the king's short life, halfway premature death, the high probability will be demon wind, open a bloody and bloody cruel struggle.
It is a pity that the three foreign relatives just happened to meet a king like Yingzheng, the life of Yingzheng, two logics run through the whole process, the internal concentration of royal power, the external unification of the six kingdoms, it can be said that the former is the cause, the latter is the effect, the process of unifying the six kingdoms is the process of centralizing the royal power, any force that hinders his concentration of royal power can only be eliminated, the wise king, does not necessarily love money, does not necessarily love women, but he must love power, the king who does not love power is not a good king.
Wang Qi led an army of 600,000 people to destroy Chu, and just after he was on the road, he kept writing letters, asking the King of Qin for a beautiful mansion near Xianyang, and also asking the King of Qin to swear to fulfill the curse immediately, and his generals could not see it, thinking that the old king had lost his money in his eyes, but the old king smiled and squinted, saying that the king of Qin almost entrusted all the soldiers who had fallen to the country to himself, how could he be assured, and mention more material requirements, just to show that he had no political ambitions, suggesting that the king of Qin should not worry.
Yin Zheng is not worried, I don't know, but I can be clear, if I am the King of Qin, I still will not be assured, Wang Zhai's little trick, how can Yin Zheng not understand? Wang Qi wrote 100 letters, and this fear remained, because the 600,000-strong army was firmly in Wang Qi's hands, and this fact would persist for many months until the end of the war against Chu.
The famous general Bai Qi during the Qin ZhaoWang period was given to die in Du You in his later years, why? Because the King of Qin has made it impossible to summon Bai Qi, repeatedly came to the door to ask Bai Qi to besiege Handan, Bai Qi politely refused, well, if Bai Qi is compared to a knife, then he is undoubtedly the sharpest one of that era, in the eyes of King Qin Zhao, the knife is a good knife, if he can't move, then this knife has no need to exist, so as not to be used by others in the future, hurt his own hand, so it is difficult for the famous general to die well, the powerful minister is also difficult to end well, and even the strongest foreign relatives, when they encounter the male lord and famous king like Yingzheng, the fall and demise are almost the only fate.
