Zhao Ji was born in handan, the state of Zhao, the biological mother of Qin Shi Huang. She was originally a concubine of the merchant Lü Buwei, but later became the crown princess and empress dowager of the Qin state, and gave birth to Qin Shi Huang, who was called "the first emperor of the ages" by posterity. Her life experience cannot be described as tortuous and legendary.
Just because I looked at you more in the crowd
The beginning of her fate also began with the rich businessman Lü Buwei. At that time, Lü Buwei traveled among the nations in business and accumulated thousands of family wealth. During his stay in Handan, he took this woman who was "absolutely good at dancing" as a concubine. It is said that Zhao Ji's mother's family is a rich family in the Zhao Kingdom. At that time, the status of merchants was not high, and although Lü Buwei had money, his social status was not high. Zhao Ji's family is willing to marry her to a foreign businessman, and is not a proper wife, so it can be seen that Zhao Ji's family or her situation at home should not be very good.
If it were not for the businessman Lü Buwei who was too good at doing business, he locked his eyes on the Proton Alien of the Qin State who was a hostage in the Zhao Kingdom at that time, thinking that he was strange and livable, zhao Ji's life, perhaps there would not be so many fluctuations and twists, of course, there would not be so many wonderful and unexpected.
At that time, Lü Buwei accidentally met Yiren, the son of the Qin State An Guojun who was a hostage in the Zhao Kingdom, and the shrewd Lü Buwei realized that it was more profitable to bet the treasure on this Qin proton than to buy and sell jewelry. He always remembered what his father had said to him: invest in the fields, work hard all day, even if the harvest is good, you can only make ten times the profit; invest in jewelry, run around every day, even if you are lucky, you can only make a hundred times more profit; and investment in politics, help a person to settle the country, once successful, not only can enjoy a lifetime of glory, but also can bless future generations.
Lü Buwei felt that investing in inhumans was better than other transactions, even if the inhumans were now protons, they were still undesirable (at that time, people who were protons were generally either unloved by their mothers, or they were not prominent, and they did not have any sense of existence in the father's emperor), but with more care and operation, the opportunity for this potential stock to increase in value was still great.
Therefore, Lü Buwei, a businessman with a flexible mind, good at business and quite political vision, began to make career development plans and set life goals for yiren. He learned that his father An Guojun was very fond of Lady Huayang, so he spared no expense, brought treasures and toys, and first bought Lady Huayang's sister and Lady Huayang's brother.
Lady Huayang was the most favored concubine of An Guojun, but she had no heirs. Therefore, Lady Huayang's sister and brother tried to persuade Lady Huayang to adopt Yiren as a righteous son. Lady Huayang blew the wind on her pillow from time to time at her husband's place, saying how the stranger was filial and effective, and that he should be made a prince in the future. An Guojun agreed to Lady Huayang's request, so that the fate of the alien gradually changed, and Lü Buwei also took the first step well, and the investment was initially effective, and the harvest was just around the corner.
Lü Buwei not only spared no expense to pave the way for the political future of the stranger, but also was willing to listen to his inner distress, and he was also quite concerned about his life and life, and took good care of him. All this made this proton of the Qin state who was in a foreign country, unaccompanied, wandering and depressed, and worried about his life from time to time grateful, and vowed that if he became the king of Qin in the future, he would share the wealth with Lü Buwei. In this way, the two became increasingly close and became friends who talked about everything.
One day, at Lü Buwei's family banquet, the stranger saw Zhao Ji, who was "absolutely beautiful and good at dancing", and his heart fluttered for a moment, and he could not help himself. He then asked Lü Buwei for Zhao Ji, and although Lü Buwei was reluctant, he could not affect political investment and future earnings for a woman, so he agreed to the request of the stranger. In this way, Zhao Ji transformed into the wife of Qin Proton.
Sometimes, the various encounters of life may be in that glimpse, and they have never been able to be influenced by individuals. That occasional glimpse may have doomed this life.
The mother relied on her son to be expensive, and became the queen consort
Soon, a baby boy fell to the ground and was born in Handan, and this baby boy was the qin shi huang who later swept through the six kingdoms and unified the six kingdoms. And his mother, Zhao Ji's life, the greatest achievement, is to give birth to this "Emperor of the Ages".
At this time, the "Battle of Changping" between the Qin state and the Zhao state had just ended, and the Zhao state was defeated, losing more than 400,000 soldiers. Therefore, the people of the Zhao Kingdom hated the Proton family of the Qin State very much, so their family's life in the Zhao Kingdom was not good.
In 257 BC, the Qin army attacked Handan, and the State of Zhao decided to execute the Qin hostage Yiren and his entire family. The situation was extremely critical, and this time it was thanks to Lü Buwei who bribed zhao guo's guards with heavy money that he was able to get the stranger out of danger. However, Lü Buwei only hurriedly rescued the stranger, and no one else could take care of it! He escaped from Handan City with the strangers, found the Qin army camp, and was escorted back to Xianyang.
Zhao Ji and her three-year-old son Yin Zheng were left in handan city, where they were in a dangerous situation and were at risk of being killed many times. Fortunately, Zhao Ji was the daughter of a wealthy family, and the mother and son were able to survive, although they were spared death, but they were also placed under house arrest by the Zhao royal family.
With the passage of time, in this fearful life, Zhao Ji's personality has also become moody, and she can't help but lose her temper with her son. In her mother's anger from time to time, Xiao Yingzheng was afraid of her mother while she was particularly dependent on her mother.
Such a life finally had a turnaround, and a twist of fate appeared when Yingzheng was nine years old.
In 251 BC, Yingzheng's great-grandfather, Qin Zhaoxiang the Prince of Qin, died, and his grandfather An Guojun Yizhu took the throne as King Xiaowen of Qin, and his father Yin Yiren (who had been renamed Yingzi Chu) officially became the crown prince. The new king took the throne, and the hostile Qin-Zhao relationship eased somewhat, and as a signal of reconciliation, the Zhao State sent Zhao Ji and Yingzheng's mother and son back to the Qin State. In this way, the nine-year-old Yin Zheng and her mother set foot on the land of the Qin State for the first time.
The wheels of fate are still spinning forward. King Xiaowen of Qin was already more than fifty years old when he ascended the throne, his body was very weak, and he died only three days after his formal ascension to the throne, and the crown prince Chu took the throne as King Xiang of Qinzhuang. Therefore, Ren Lü Buwei was made a chancellor, Fengwen Xinhou, and 100,000 households in Luoyang. Zhao Ji was crowned queen.
King Xiang of Qinzhuang was also a short-lived monarch who died after three years on the throne. Therefore, the thirteen-year-old eldest son, Yingzheng, succeeded to the throne, which was the future famous Qin Shi Huang. Yingzheng's mother, Zhao Ji (赵姬), whose mother was a noble son, also became the supreme empress dowager.
In real history, the tradition of mothers relying on their sons has created a large number of women who climb to the peak of power by giving birth to sons, such as Empress Xuan and Empress Lü. In this regard, Zhao Ji is undoubtedly one of the best. It's just that she has the same heart as them, and she doesn't have the means they have.
After ascending to the peak of power, whether they can do something depends on their three views, abilities and patterns.
The sadness of being swallowed up by lust
The lofty status of a country may be a compensation for the changes and sufferings experienced by Zhao Ji, but it may not be what she wants. What she wants may be to have a lover by her side, so that she no longer feels lonely, and nothing else matters.
Therefore, she ignored her husband who was still cold, ignored her young and sensitive son, and became ambiguous and involved with the old man Lü Buwei. She didn't know the impact and hurt of doing so on her son, and she didn't know the harm it would do to her lover to go on like this, she just knew that she was lonely and she needed someone to accompany her.
As Yin Zheng grew up day by day, Lü Buwei realized that maintaining a lover relationship with the empress dowager would be harmful to him and not beneficial, but he did not dare to say goodbye to the empress dowager directly, so he could only turn his flexible head again.
Suddenly, there was an epiphany and a golden idea. Wouldn't it be nice to find another piece of better fresh meat for the empress dowager than herself! Sure enough, the empress dowager was very satisfied with and liked the small fresh meat, not only sending the house to the car to send the knighthood, but also desperately giving birth to two children for the small fresh meat!
It seems that this woman who loves the brain and lust is a woman who does not understand politics, and her little IQ is used in Qingqing and me, and she is in love with love. Believing that she is the queen consort, she does whatever she wants, not only making her lover rich, but also making her lover expensive. As a result, her lover Yan Yi became more and more arrogant and her desire for power was increasingly inflated, not only saying that she was the stepfather of The King of Qin, but also wanted to make her son the monarch of the Qin State after a hundred years of the reign of The Qin Dynasty. This completely angered Ying Zheng, and let people of non-Yin blood become the monarchs of the Qin State, which was to break the blood of the Qin royal family. This point was absolutely not allowed by the Qin King.
Yingzheng did not want to endure his mother's gossip and the behavior of private male pets. When the power of his mother's lover, Concubine Yi, continued to expand, and arrogant words reached his ears, the King of Qin, who was furious, began to kill. However, he had not yet acted first, and Yan Yi actually launched a coup d'état first.
In 238 BC (the ninth year of the reign of The King of Qin), one day in April, Yingzheng came to Yongcheng to hold a ceremony of coming of age, and Yan Yi took the opportunity to steal the Imperial Seal and the Empress Dowager Seal of the King of Qin and mobilize officers and soldiers to attack the Palace of The Yearen. The coup failed, and Yingzheng Che split the three clans, exterminated the three clans, and ordered the death of the two sons of the empress dowager and Concubine Yi, and said that he would sever the mother-son relationship with the empress dowager and never see him again.
At this time, Zhao Ji was completely dumbfounded, seeing her meek son in the past kill the ring, she regretted it, but it was too late. This selfish and greedy empress dowager only then truly realized the harm her actions had caused to this son. To tell the truth, Yan Yi was able to successfully obtain the Empress Dowager Seal and the Imperial Seal of the King of Qin, and she was inseparable. Zhao Ji disregarded the safety of her son Yingzheng and stood in line with Yan Yi, doomed to no good results.
She seemed to want to defend herself: to say that the empress dowager of Great Qin, raising lovers, and giving birth to lovers, is not without precedent, and Empress Xuan is one of them! She didn't feel that this could not be tolerated, she was the empress dowager, liked a man, and it was not a matter of having two children at all!
And Qin Wang Yingzheng said: She is not worthy of being compared with Empress Xuan.
Indeed, if Zhao Ji had half of Empress Xuan, perhaps The Qin King Yingzheng would have been able to unify the world long ago, let alone have such a mother-son separation.
Confused people, confused things
After that, the King of Qin ordered that the empress dowager should not be intercessed, otherwise she would be executed immediately. But there were still twenty-seven ministers who were brutally executed. It can be seen how much Yin Zheng resents his mother. It was not until the twenty-eighth courtier, Mao Jiao, on the grounds that "if the King of Qin wants to unify the world, he needs to take filial piety as the first" that he finally impressed the King of Qin and took his mother Zhao Ji back to Xianyang.
After Zhao Ji was taken back to Xianyang, she spent her life in the palace. Yingzheng was also filial to her and let her enjoy her old age in peace. Before dying, Zhao Ji also said why she would support Yan Yi's rebellion. She was the empress dowager of Great Qin, hoping that like Empress Xuan, she could control the government of the dynasty, and when Yan Yi proposed a rebellion, she had been in the position of empress dowager for many years, and even if she did not win the government, she could support her younger son to ascend to the throne. It is the feelings that are blinded, the desire for profit is smoked, and finally embarks on a road of no return.
After Yin Zheng learned the truth, she couldn't help but cry bitterly, obviously compared to Yan Yi's rebellion, her mother's betrayal made her sad and angry. He and his mother had been hostages in Handan for many years, and it was not easy for them to return to China again and enjoy the glory and wealth, but their mother was greedy for the private feelings in front of her, which put the whole Great Qin in trouble! If you were a bystander, I am afraid that I would have lost my life long ago!
After Zhao Ji's death, Yin Zheng still ordered her to be buried with her father. It can be seen that his love for his family is still deeply buried in his heart. And his mother Zhao Ji also had a huge impact on his temperament, he had many concubines, but he never became an empress in his life. It can be seen that the influence of his mother Zhao Ji on him is accompanied by a lifetime!
Zhao Ji is dead, what about one of his lovers, Lü Buwei? Implicated, he finally committed suicide by drinking. Zhao Ji may not understand until she dies, why did Yingzheng have to kill her man and two children? But Lü Buwei knew the reason, not that Yingzheng was too ruthless, but that Zhao Ji was really miserable!
To tell the truth, as the empress, raising male pets is indeed not a big problem that cannot be forgiven. But is Zhao Ji Empress Xuan? Is Zhao Ji's son the son of Empress Xuan? Everyone's perception and acceptance of things is different. Empress Xuan's son was pure in blood, pure In qin royal blood, no one doubted this, and Yingzheng, his bloodline and lineage, were controversial from the moment he returned to Qin. In this case, even if it is for her son, Zhao Ji should be cautious in her words and deeds, maintain her own reputation, and not let herself become an excuse for others to attack her son. But she didn't, she not only raised a male pet, but also gave birth to two children for the male pet!
Today's Yingzheng is already the supreme king of Great Qin, and some can only be of noble Qin royal blood. And Zhao Ji may not realize this, she not only does not think about her son Yingzheng and restrains herself, but also describes the two children she gave birth to as the brothers of the King of Qin. What does this mean? For Zhao Ji, these children were all born to herself, and they were naturally brothers. However, for outsiders, for those who are ambitious and dissatisfied with the king of Qin, these are the best "evidence" to doubt whether he is the bloodline of the Qin royal family!
Why did Yin Zheng have to kill Zhao Ji's two children? That is to prove to people that they are the flesh and bones of the previous kings, the bloodline of the Great Qin royal family, and the royal bloodline should not be confused.
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