Qin Shi Huang was the first iron-fisted political figure in Chinese history to complete the unification of China, and the first feudal monarch to be called emperor at home and abroad, which had a profound impact on Chinese history and even world history, and was a well-deserved "Emperor of the Ages". Qin Shi Huang made great achievements, but the Qin Dynasty he established died until the second generation, and he enjoyed the country for only 14 years, and most of his children were killed.
Judging from the records of historical data, Qin Shi Huang has many concubines and children, and there are four famous in the history books, including the eldest son Fusu, the young son Hu Hai, Gongzi Gao, and Gongzi Jianglu, and the other 19 sons and 10 daughters who have no names, so Qin Shi Huang has a total of 33 children. After Hu Hai, the second emperor of Qin, seized power and ascended the throne with the help of Zhao Gao, fearing that his brothers and sisters would threaten his rule, he began to fight in the same room and go on a killing spree.
Fusu is the righteous crown prince, is the orthodox heir to the throne, so Hu Hai ascended the throne, the first person to kill, is the elder brother Fusu, do not kill Fusu, the throne is not stable, followed by other brothers, in the capital Xianyang, Hu Hai will be his twelve brothers in public execution, people are frightened, and later in Du You, Hu Hai and his six brothers and ten sisters all crushed to death, the image of a murderous emperor is undoubtedly revealed, the rest of the three people such as Lu, than the other brothers calm, Hu Hai can not find the crime framed, so they are locked in the palace, after a period of time forced them to commit suicide。 So far, only Hu Hai is left of Qin Shi Huang's 33 children.
Although there was no threat of brothers and sisters, but Hu Hai's throne did not sit for long, only three years later was forced by Zhao Gao to commit suicide, Zhao Gao wanted to ascend the throne himself, but was opposed by the ministers, so he set up Ziying as the king, that is, Qin III, at this time the uprisings in various places continued, Liu Bang to Ba Shang persuaded Ziying to surrender, Ziying agreed, and the Qin Dynasty officially ended. After Ziying surrendered, only a little more than a month later, after Xiang Yu led the army into Xianyang City, he immediately killed Ziying and carried out a bloodbath on the relatives of the Qin Dynasty.
Although judging from the records in the official history, it is very likely that they were "cut off from their children and grandchildren," but after all, the royal family and clan are noble and have people to follow, so it is extremely possible that in the chaos and under the desperate protection of loyal ministers, there is a blood line that survives incognito.
There is a saying that some of the descendants of Hu Hai and Fusu moved to Korea, and later moved to Japan, at this time most of them changed their surnames to "Qin", after arriving in Japan, someone was in charge of the cashier work of the Japanese court, and raised silkworms and woven silk for the emperor, the emperor gave the surname, and some of them changed their surnames to "Taiqin Gong", by the ninth century, the Japanese Qin family has branched into 15 surnames such as Taiqin Gong, Qin, Qin Guan, Hanoi Qin, Shancheng Qin, etc., and up to now, the Japanese Qin family has differentiated a total of 44 surnames.
Recently, some experts have put forward a theory after research: the four surnames of Qin, Yin, Yin, and Win are the descendants of Qin Shi Huang, and after the survivors of the Qin Shi Huang Dynasty fled to the people, in order to avoid being hunted down, but at the same time, in order to let future generations not forget their ancestors, they used the method of changing their surnames in close pronunciation. This argument has been accepted by many scholars, but experts have not been able to produce convincing evidence.
Time has passed a long time, and the history is full of fog, and whether Qin Shi Huang really left descendants should still be verified. Dear readers, do you want Qin Shi Huang to have descendants alive?