We have all heard the story of "pointing deer as a horse", the great eunuch Zhao Gao became the prime minister, in a high position, misbehaved, and the courtiers were not convinced, so he came up with a poisonous plan, deliberately instructed others to sacrifice a deer to Huhai in the early dynasty, and said unashamedly that the sacrifice was: "BMW." Although Hu Hai was stupid, he was not stupid, and he couldn't help laughing: "Hahaha, Prime Minister, you must be mistaken, right?" How do you say a deer is a horse? ”
Refers to deer as horses
Seeing that Zhao Gao was silent, Hu Hai asked his subordinates left and right whether it was a deer or a horse, and as a result, in the court, some people said that it was a horse, and some people even said that it was a deer. Hu Hai also felt strange, but as soon as the dynasty, the wine and beautiful women served, this matter was forgotten. However, the minister, who said that he was a deer at the time, was soon reckoned with the accounts and punished one by one on various charges. From then on, no one dared to say that Zhao Gao was not.
"Referring to deer as horses" has become a well-known idiom, with metaphors turning black and white upside down and confusing right and wrong.
Refers to deer as horses
This story is not only Chinese familiar, but also spread throughout the Greater China cultural circle, and the Japanese say that fools are "red deer", which is based on this story.
Many historians throughout the ages are very skeptical of this story, and feel that there has really been such a farce that sounds mentally retarded?
Portrait of Zhao Gao in the mausoleum of Qin II
However, after collecting various historical materials and sketching the multifaceted portrait of Zhao Gao, it was found that Sima Qian may not have added oil and vinegar.
First of all, Zhao Gao is an out-and-out all-round talent in culture and martial arts, passing layers of strict national talent selection examinations and entering the Qin Palace, because each is the first place in the results, it is not an exaggeration to say that Zhao Gao is the first place in the national examination of Daqin civil servants.
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It is impossible for such a talent not to be appreciated by Qin Shi Huang. Don't look at a rootless man, he is also proficient in law, his writing is flying, his writing is also very good, he is very strategic, he speaks beautifully, and he is also tall and handsome, very all-rounded. When Qin Shi Huang was there, he was obedient like a dog, and he also trusted him, and many famous reforms, such as unifying the languages of various countries with small seals, Zhao Gaona was indispensable, and many characters in the same text were also initiated by him.
In short, he has a multi-task, deep political trust, and has become a confidant. and was designated as Hu Hai's teacher. Hu Hai was deliberately guided by Hu Hai when he was a child, and he respected and obeyed the teacher. The small sapling was gradually planted by Zhao Gao.
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Dune Qin Shi Huang suddenly fell seriously ill, Zhao Gao tampered with the edict, forced the recovery to commit suicide, and helped the twenty-year-old Hu Hai to the emperor. Immediately afterwards, he pampered Hu Hai, known as his name, forever maintained the imperial throne, beheaded the car and cut his waist, and brutally executed all of Hu Hai's brothers and sisters, leaving Qin Shi Huang with only Hu Hai. In the name of "investigating the remnants of the sins" and "chasing the same party," he wantonly arrested the officials and people of the neighboring ethnic groups and wiped them out.
Zhao Gao did not shake the foundation of the Qin Dynasty, and soon killed Li Si and other former courtiers, and then made a big move, and strictly investigated the Qin Dynasty's past civil and military officials inside and outside the court, and countless soldiers and generals of the Great Qin loyalists were secretly killed for the crime of "conspiring against the enemy".
"The Legend of Chu and Han" Xu Wenguang Zhao Gao
This set of actions was tantamount to self-destruction of the Great Wall, causing the Qin Dynasty to lose a large number of military generals and accelerate its demise, but Zhao Gao seemed to be not satisfied, and implemented many of the most brutal tyranny since Qin Shi Huang, the levy and taxation became very heavy, the government and criminal law, and the participation in shares were extreme, resulting in the people really unable to survive, and various complex contradictions were intertwined, which forced Chen Sheng, Wu Guang and others to rise up and launch the Dazexiang Uprising. The empire was in turmoil, the nobles of the six countries were restored, and the world was in chaos.
Soon, the uprising was raging, and Liu Bang took the opportunity to break through the Hangu Pass and kill Guanzhong . Xianyang City was originally a city with high food and sufficient food, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but Zhao Gao did not hold on, while secretly sending people to talk about peace, he launched a coup d'état and attacked Wangyi Palace to force the second emperor to commit suicide.
Gongzi Fusu
Although Zhao Gao supported the Qin prince baby, and wanted to continue to take chips, but unexpectedly was killed by the infant, but all this was too late, and the Qin Dynasty, which had unified the world for a few years, was about to die.
As a result, Zhao Gao was also designated as the crown of traitors.
However, such scum, throughout his life, always feel strange, when Qin Shi Huang was there, for the sake of Daqin, after Qin Shi Huang died, it was not the same for the good of Daqin, it was simply the gravedigger of Daqin, what was the reason for him to be one hundred and eighty degrees, the contrast was so big?
Battle of Changping
Later generations pondered, there is a point of view that seems to be able to explain everything, which was the mystery of Zhao Gao's life at that time. "Shiji Meng Tian Lie" said: "Zhao Gao, Zhu Zhao Shu is also subordinate." Zhao Gaokun's younger brothers were all born in the Hidden Palace, and their mothers were tortured and humbled in the world. "That is to say, Zhao Gao's paternal line is the Shu family of the Zhao royal family, no wonder Zhao Gao's surname is Zhao, and King Zhao's family is surnamed Zhao.
Zhao Yi, a famous historian of the Qing Dynasty, once said that Zhao Gao belonged to the Zhao state and entered the Qin palace from the palace in revenge. What revenge? Later generations speculated that it must have been the battle of Changping in which hundreds of thousands of Zhao troops were killed, and every household in the Zhao country held a funeral banquet and cried continuously, and the state of Zhao was destroyed by the state of Qin.
Dune Palace ruins
If it is not good, Zhao Gao's father and Zhao Gao's brother died in the war with the Qin state, and after Zhao's death, Zhao Gao's mother was captured to Xianyang, and the royal family became lowly slaves and suffered humiliation, and since then, the seeds of deep revenge have been planted in Zhao Gao's young heart.
Such a statement actually completely makes sense, Zhao Gao's series of "abnormal" actions to destroy Qin.
"Mythology" Zhang Shi plays Zhao Gao
If viewed from the perspective of the restoration of the Six Kingdoms, or even from the perspective of Liu Bang, who made a revolution under the banner of the King of Chu, Zhao Gao is all his own person, and if he is viewed from the perspective of Zhao Guo, he is a patriot worthy of praise for a thousand years.
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