In the ninth year of the reign of the King of Qin (238 BC), Qin Shi Huang executed the eunuch 嫪毐 [lào ǎi] because he had an affair with the empress dowager and had two sons. So how did the commoner-born concubine become China's earliest "soft rice king" step by step? Things have to start with Prime Minister Lu Buwei.
It is said that Lu Buwei has been fornicating with Empress Dowager Zhao Ji. And when Qin Wang Zheng grew up, Zhao Ji was still promiscuous. Lu Buwei was afraid that he would get into trouble if he continued, so he came up with a trick to get rid of the golden cicada.
There is a capable person next to him who is known as the "Great Yin Man", and this person is Concubine. Famous and knowledgeable, this concubine is very talented. According to the "Feng Menglong Eastern Zhou Lieguozhi", it is recorded: "Wen Shi people are big, their ** is famous, and the adulteress in the middle of the dispute are arguing. The Qin language calls the people who have no warriors to know the evil, because they are called concubines. "What do you mean? That is to say, Qiu Da was originally a commoner, but he had this ability, so he was called Concubine, and therefore he was admitted to the palace by Lu Buwei as a doorman. Concubine was often asked by Lu Buwei to perform in music: he walked with his own ** hanging paulownia wheels.
Lü Buwei spread the news that Concubine Yi had this ability to Empress Dowager Zhao on purpose. When Empress Dowager Zhao heard about this, she really hit the plot and wanted to take possession of her concubine in private.
Whoops
How to handle this matter so that Qin Shi Huang does not know? Lü Buwei also devised a trick to steal the beam and change the column: under the pretense that Concubine Yi was accused of committing the crime of being sentenced to the palace, Lü Buwei secretly said to Empress Dowager Zhao: "You can let Concubine pretend to have been tortured by the palace, and you can get him among the servants in the palace." Subsequently, Empress Dowager Zhao privately rewarded the official who presided over the palace execution, and asked him to pretend to punish the concubine. As a result, Concubine Yi only had her beard pulled off and entered the palace as a eunuch, where she was able to serve the Empress Dowager in private, and his ability was indeed greatly loved by Empress Dowager Zhao.
At this point, the commoner-born concubine has successfully hugged her thighs and reached the peak of her life just around the corner. So will things really go so well? How did Qin Shi Huang finally learn about this?
Empress Dowager Zhao
Shortly thereafter, Empress Dowager Zhao became pregnant. Empress Dowager Zhao was afraid that others would know that she pretended to be unlucky and needed to change the environment to avoid it, so she took her concubine and moved to live in the palace in Yongdi.
In the harem, Concubine was deeply favored by Empress Dowager Zhao, so the rewards she received were also abundant, and even the major affairs of the imperial court were made by Concubine Yi. He was also given the title Marquis of Changxin and given Shanyang as his residence. Enjoying the glory and wealth of the Qin Kingdom, there were thousands of child servants in the family, and there were more than 1,000 guests who went to seek official service. The harem is big or small, and it is up to the concubine to decide. Even, Taiyuan County in Hexi was renamed "Taiyuan Country".
嫪毐 & Zhao Ji
As the saying goes, paper can't contain fire after all.
He can dictate state affairs, which makes him arrogant. One day, Qiu Yi and a noble minister were drinking and having fun, because they were drunk, the two sides had a language dispute, and Qiu Yi angrily rebuked: "I am the false father of the King of Qin, and a lowly person like you dares to confront me!" The man who fought with Concubine immediately ran to the palace of the King of Qin and denounced Concubine to the Prince of Qin, saying that Concubine was not actually a eunuch, and often engaged in "private turmoil between men and women" with Empress Dowager Zhao, and hid the two children born secretly and plotted to succeed to the throne.
Ying Zheng brought the sword to Yongdi to perform the royal salute, but actually investigated the matter of Concubine. Fearing that her crime would be revealed, she conspired with her henchmen to steal the imperial seal of the Empress Dowager, mobilized the county pawns and palace guards, and staged a coup d'état in the Hu Nian Palace, where the King of Qin lived, known in history as the "Change of the Hu Nian Palace". In the end, he was defeated, and he was sentenced to "car cracking". After his death, King Huanzheng of Qin put his two younger brothers (born of Zhao Ji) in a sack and fell alive.
Victory
A commoner-born concubine has reached the peak of her life by relying on soft rice, and the surface scenery is actually sad. Not to mention that his final ending was so tragic, in fact, in this whole process, he was just Lu Buwei's pawn, a doll of Empress Dowager Zhao. Does he really control his own destiny, there is no such opportunity, the fate of the little people under the rule of the feudal dynasty is not in his own hands after all. What do the officials think? Leave your comments.