During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were constant wars between countries. The Qin State, which was originally weak and weak in its sense of existence, has been accumulating energy when other countries are busy with war. With continuous reform, the Qin state gradually rose, and Qin Shi Huang finally unified the six kingdoms and became the hegemon of the world!
Qin Shi Huang established the first unified dynasty in the history of the mainland, and before that, the growth history of the Qin king Yingzheng is also worthy of attention. In particular, who was the father of the First Emperor, some said to be King Zhuang Xiang, and some said that lü Buwei was. Today, let's talk about Qin Shi Huang.
Young Emperor Shi
It is said that The Zhuang Xiang King Yiren initially worked as a proton in the Zhao Kingdom, and later entered Lü Buwei's "trap" and fell in love with Lü Buwei's concubine Zhao Ji. Zhao Ji was clever and beautiful, and immediately captured the heart of King Zhuang Xiang, and soon after, Zhao Ji gave birth to Yingzheng.
Some wild histories say that Zhao Ji was actually pregnant when she was with Lü Buwei, and later in order not to arouse suspicion, she took drugs that made the fetus born later. However, there should be no such drugs in modern medicine, let alone at that time, and it is impossible to know whether it is true or false.
Yin Zheng had been living in the Zhao Kingdom since his birth, and Lü Buwei first helped King Zhuang Xiang escape from the Zhao Kingdom, leaving Zhao Ji and Ying Zheng's mother and son in the Zhao Kingdom. Soon after returning to the Qin Kingdom, King Zhuang Xiang became the monarch of the Qin State and lived a dashing life, and under Lü Buwei's repeated reminders, he remembered that he still had his wife and son stranded in the Zhao Kingdom.
In the end, Zhao Ji and Yin Zheng returned to the Qin Kingdom, and Zhao Ji became the queen, and Yin Zheng became the crown prince. King Zhuang Xiang died and Yingzheng took over the throne, but during this period, the main Lü Buwei dictatorship, Yingzheng was still accumulating strength.
Lü Buwei, who had originally covered the sky with one hand, found an opponent for himself, and this person was Yan Yi. Yan Yi is Zhao Ji's male favorite, and as a false eunuch, he has a happy life with Zhao Ji in the harem.
Zhao Ji was also pregnant with Zhao Ji's child, and Zhao Ji wanted to take the child away, but Yan Yi's ambition led him to feed Zhao Ji a placenta pill. Finally unable to hide it, Zhao Ji asked her to live outside the palace, and during this period, Yan Yi was also recruiting troops to expand her power.
Just when Yin Zheng was 22 years old and carried out the coronation ceremony, the struggle between lü Buwei and Yan Yi had reached a white-hot stage. As a result, the affair between Concubine Yi and Empress Zhao was exposed, and in desperation, he launched a coup d'état.
Yin Zheng also immediately made a decision, immediately suppressed Yan Yi, and cut the grass and roots, and exterminated them all, and Empress Dowager Zhao Ji was not imprisoned. At the same time, Lü Buwei was exiled to the border shortly after and eventually forced to commit suicide. In this way, the government cleared the obstacles and began to govern.
The hegemony of Qin Shi Huang
After Yingzheng formally came to power, he accelerated the pace of annexing the six countries. When it comes to qin shi huang's hegemony, I have to mention one person, and this person is Li Si. Li Si was a student of Xun Zi, a famous representative of the Confucian school, who was originally from the Chu state and joined the Qin state at the end of the Warring States period.
At first, he worked under Lü Buwei, and after Lü Buwei's recommendation, he was appreciated by Yingzheng. Li Si was the key figure in Qin Shi Huang's hegemony, and at his suggestion, Yingzheng finally made up his mind to quickly annex the Six Kingdoms.
After all, the conditions at that time were already ripe, and the other six countries were very weak, only the Qin state was strong. Moreover, the other six countries adopted a strategy of joint connivance, that is, to attack the Qin state together, and if the Qin state did not take measures, it might be passively beaten.
Yingzheng launched a series of vigorous actions, mainly to break the unity between the six countries, he first attacked from the outside, and sent troops to destroy the cooperative relationship between South Korea and Wei first. Then, from the inside, he attacked, using a large amount of gold to bribe important ministers of other countries.
A trick to divide the internal division, let the internal division of other countries slowly, it took ten years, Yingzheng finally achieved the purpose of unifying the six countries, Li Si in this one of the greatest, so after the unification of the world, Yingzheng named him a minister.
However, because of the unification of the First Emperor, the interests of many nobles in the other six countries were destroyed, and the remaining nobles of the Six Kingdoms did not give up the assassination of the First Emperor. For example, during the reign of Yingzheng, there were five parades during the eleventh year.
Once, during a trip, Yin Zheng wanted to go to Penglai Immortal Mountain to look for the elixir of immortality, but he did not find it. During this period, Yingzheng also mainly used horse-drawn carriages as the main means of transportation, and many interesting things happened.
It is well known that Yingzheng often encountered Assassins, three of which were famous, and once during a parade. This assassin's name was Zhang Liang, and he was an important adviser to Liu Bang later.
Zhang Liang is Korean, and Yingzheng has destroyed Korea, so Zhang Liang has a hatred for Yingzheng to destroy the country. So he lurked for many years, recruited troops and horses, and specially ambushed on the road of Yingzheng's outing, preparing to throw stones from a high place, but it was not the carriage of the First Emperor who was smashed.
As mentioned above, Yingzheng began to build his own mausoleum shortly after he took the throne, and according to statistics, at least 700,000 people participated in the construction of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, which took nearly forty years. Such a huge project must have produced a very time-consuming and laborious item.
Among them, there are the Qin Terracotta Warriors that we are familiar with, these terracotta warriors are each one meter and eight meters, from the hairstyle to the expression, from the expression to the clothing, it can be seen that it is carefully manufactured. The craftsmen first kneaded the prototype out of the loess, then carved it in detail, and finally fired it at a high temperature. The terracotta warriors that come out of this are very realistic.
At the same time, among the cultural relics now unearthed are the bronze carriage known as the "crown of bronze", the main body of the carriage is square, and the umbrella on the carriage is round, which is in line with the traditional Chinese aesthetic - the heavenly circle place.
The copper carriage is only one-half of the normal carriage, mainly made into a real carriage, the amount of work is really huge. However, its configuration is exactly the same as the real carriage, especially the vertical umbrella, which is actually hidden.
This umbrella is a flexible component that can be removed, and this umbrella contains the umbrella cover, the handle and the parasembly seat. The base is divided into two parts, and underneath is a groove with four legs so that the handle can be inserted.
There is also a pole fixed on the top of the umbrella seat, which can be fixed with the base to fix the umbrella handle. There is also a part on the handle to stabilize the canopy. Overall, the stability of this umbrella is very good, but also flexible.
The handle of the umbrella into the umbrella seat is not only very stable, but also can be rotated, the data shows that the handle can be rotated sixty degrees, so that it can be used as a parasol when traveling. At the same time, this umbrella can also be taken out, and in the event of war, this bronze umbrella can be used as a shield to resist enemy attacks.
In general, this umbrella looks like a sunshade, there is no use, but in fact, its wonderful uses are many, belonging to a thing that is "looked down", like the current version of the bulletproof car.
Looking back at the life of Qin Shi Huang, he had a unique political and military strategy, so that he could establish the first unified state in Chinese history, and since then he has begun to centralize the dictatorship, which is the inevitable development of history.
His vision of the world behind him was that his children and grandchildren would rule the country forever, but in the end it would be destroyed by Qin II, which was sad and lamentable. In addition, the First Emperor also wanted to rule the world under the Yellow Springs by establishing his own funeral tomb, which was also an unrealistic idea.
The imperial tombs he built are indeed very exquisite, but they are the painstaking efforts of the people and craftsmen, who have made unimaginable efforts, but all this is to satisfy the selfish desires of the rulers, which shows how cruel the ancient feudal dynasty period was. What do you think about that?