In 236 BC, Lü Buwei committed suicide by drinking a drink, and before he died, he shouted: "I let him enter the palace, and he stole the seal and plotted to rebel and was divided into five horses. After saying this, Lü Buwei was poisoned and killed.
Lü Buwei, born in Puyang, Weiguo, was originally a great merchant in Weiguo. He traveled to and from the various princes, bought low and sold high, and accumulated thousands of gold family property.
In 265 B.C., King Zhaoxiang of Qin made his second son Zhao Zhu the Prince of An Guojun, and at that time, When An Guojun's son Zhao Yiren was a hostage in the Zhao Kingdom, Lü Buwei met yiren in Handan and said: "An yiren is like a strange thing, which can be hoarded and sold at a high price."
Therefore, Lü Buwei visited the stranger and said to him: "The King of Qin is old, your father was made crown prince, and you are in the middle of the line, and your mother is not favored, after the death of the King of Qin, your father An Guojun succeeded to the throne as king... Once Qin Zhao went to war, Gongzi's life would be in danger. ”
When the stranger heard this, he asked, "That's right, but what should I do?"
Lü Buwei took out five hundred gold and handed it to Yiren, saying, "I heard that An Guojun is very fond of Lady Huayang, but Lady Huayang has no sons. I am also willing to give thousands of dollars to lobby for you, to serve An Guojun and Lady Huayang, and let them make you the crown prince. ”
The yiren hurriedly bowed his head and said, "If what you said is true, I am willing to share the land of the Qin Kingdom with you." Lü Buwei was very happy and presented his concubine Zhao Ji to Yiren, who made Zhao Ji his wife, and Zhao Ji gave birth to Zhao Zheng.
In 257 BC, Lady Huayang and An Guojun asked Zhao Guo to send the aliens back to Qin, but Zhao Guo refused to let them go, so Lü Buwei entered the palace and said to King Zhao: "The Great King imagines that if the Qin State really wants to send troops to attack the Zhao State, it will not delay the plan to destroy Zhao because of a prince..." Therefore, the King of Zhao planned to send the Yi people back to the Qin State.
However, soon after, on the way back to the Qin state, the Qin state sent Wang Gong to attack Handan, and the Zhao state wanted to kill the yiren, and Lü Buwei took out six hundred gold to bribe the officials who guarded the city, and the yiren were able to return to the Qin state.
After the Yiren returned to the Qin State, Lü Buwei asked him to wear Chu clothes to see Lady Huayang, so Lady Huayang was very happy and said to the Yiren, "I am a Chu national." So Lady Huayang recognized the stranger as her son and changed her name to Zi Chu.
In 251 BC, King Zhao of Qin died and King An Guojun succeeded him as King Xiaowen of Qin, and then Lady Huayang persuaded King Xiaowen of Qin to make him crown prince.
A year later, at the end of the one-year period of shouxiao, King Xiaowen of Qin, who had been crowned for three days, died suddenly, and yiren succeeded to the throne as King Xiang of Qinzhuang.
Later, King Xiang of Qin zhuang fulfilled his promise and made Lü Buwei the Marquis of Wenxin, taking 100,000 households in Luoyang as a food and worshipping him as a chancellor.
In 247 BC, King Xiang of Qin Zhuang died, and the thirteen-year-old King Zheng of Qin succeeded to the throne, and Lü Buwei was worshipped as Xiang Bang (相邦) and was also called Zhongfu by Qin Wang Zheng. Because Of Qin Wangzheng's young age, Empress Dowager Zhao Ji often had an affair with Lü Buwei.
Later, as The Qin Dynasty grew older, Lü Buwei was afraid that the affair with Zhao Ji would be revealed, and after hearing that Concubine Yi had a special ability, he took him into the palace and let him perform the art of reincarnation from time to time. After Zhao Ji heard about it, Lü Buwei went into the offering of Concubine Yi and secretly said to Zhao Ji: "Let Zhao Ji pretend to be tortured by the palace, and you can get him among the people serving in the palace."
Therefore, Lü Buwei conspired with Zhao Ji to pretend to punish Concubine Yi, pulled out his beard, and smoothly entered the palace as a eunuch to serve Zhao Ji, so that Zhao Ji was able to have an affair with him. Unexpectedly, during the adultery between Zhao Ji and Concubine Yi, she gave birth to two sons, and Yan Yi was also named the Marquis of Changxin because of Zhao Ji's favor letter.
In 238 BC, after drinking, Yan Yi lost her promise to claim to be the false father of the King of Qin, for which someone reported to the Qin King Zheng, who was greatly annoyed, and a check discovered the scandal that Yan Yi and Zhao Ji had secretly given birth to two sons. Therefore, after the matter was leaked, Yan Yi stole the empress dowager and the jade seal of the King of Qin to mobilize troops to rebel.
In the end, the yan yi army was defeated and divided by the five horses and was killed by the three tribes, two sons were also thrown to death, and Zhao Ji was expelled from Xianyang by order of the Qin dynasty. Lü Buwei was implicated, but King Zhengnian of Qin was not convicted of his intercourse with King Xiang of Qin zhuang and his guests.
A year later, lü Buwei was deposed, and the Qi people, Qian Jiao, entered the court and said, "Where is this reason for a son to imprison his mother?"
Qin Wangzheng had no choice but to take Zhao Ji back to Xianyang, but demoted Lü Buwei out of Xianyang and sent him to the fiefdom. However, after Lü Buwei arrived at the fiefdom, there were still thousands of guests to greet him, which made Qin Wangzheng very disgusted.
In 236 BC, The Qin Emperor demoted Lü Buwei and Menke to Shudi and wrote to him: "What credit do you have to the Qin state?" The State of Qin sealed you in Henan, eating 100,000 households. What is your blood relationship with the King of Qin? And known as the middle father. You and your family all moved to Shudi to live! ”
As a result, Lü Buwei committed suicide by drinking on the way, and after Lü Buwei's death, the Qin emperor moved the disciples who had been degraded to Shu to Xianyang. Although Lü Buwei is a businessman, he is also a strange man, he is crowned marquis and worships, but Lü Buwei's ending is hurried and awkward, which makes people sigh...
Reference: Chronicle of History
