"Great Qin Fu" continues to be popular, and I have always felt that the character of Qin Shi Huang in the play is too elegant and conservative. He is the emperor of the six kingdoms, his body is flowing with the blood of both good and evil, the hero is him, the violent and obscene intentions are also him, not to mention that he can domineeringly build a mausoleum for himself that is still unique in the world, it is certain that this person must have a flamboyant side, but also has a calm that is different from ordinary people.
Zhao Zheng, which was given the name of the future Qin Shi Huang by his father Yiren (later renamed Zi Chu, known in history as King Xiang of Qinzhuang), this name is somewhat ironic, and also shows the embarrassing situation of King Xiang of Qinzhuang at that time. The child was born in the first month, took the name Zheng, was born in the Zhao kingdom, took the Zhao clan (the surname was different in the pre-Qin period, the woman was called the surname, the man was called the surname), so the history of Qin Shi Huang called the winning surname Zhao, so Zhao Zheng was also. But the history of the Qin royal family has always been the Qin Yin tribe, and without the Zhao family, this is not a bit ironic.
What is even more ironic is that because the yiren was detained in the Zhao Kingdom as a proton at that time, the First Emperor also followed his proton father in Handan after the birth of the Zhao Kingdom, and grew up to be nine years old, compared with the Qin Kingdom, the Zhao Kingdom was more like his hometown, and finally died on the former Zhao Guo homeland, is this the soul destined by heaven to return to his hometown?
Coupled with the relationship between Zhao Ji, the birth mother of the First Emperor, and Lü Buwei, the question of whose child Qin Shi Huang really was was, from the Warring States to the 21st century, it was still in continuous debate.
He seems to be born with a hot search physique, from his origin to his deeds, he is frequently criticized or praised by future generations, and always runs on both ends of the good and evil. There may be only one truth about this phenomenon, that is, Qin Shi Huang himself is a person who combines violence and wisdom.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the beginning of the Qin family's Tianzi: walking on the edge of good and evil</h1>
For the childhood of Qin Shi Huang, there is almost no record in the historical records, the Spring and Autumn Warring States were chaotic for five hundred years, benevolent people and heroes, no one will pay attention to a proton child, but they are very concerned about the life of this child.
In the fiftieth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin (257 BC), the Qin army launched a major attack on the State of Zhao. Zhao Guo hated the Qin people to the bone, and the Qin protons in the Zhao Kingdom became the punching bag of the Zhao Kingdom. During the Warring States period, there was a habit among the princely states, that is, they often sent their own sons as hostages, which was called protons. Being a proton is honorable and is seen as a manifestation of national merit when countries are allied. Once the two countries turn their faces, the first to suffer is the proton, which becomes the preferred target for venting anger.
During the era of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, the enemy army of the Qin State "beheaded" in the war reached more than 900,000, thus attracting the notoriety of "the country of tigers and wolves". There were frequent wars between Qin and Zhao, so the inhumans had always been in the living environment of "the knife on the neck". Like his father Yiren, Qin Shi Huang also became the preferred object of the Zhao Kingdom's sacrificial sword after his birth.
It can be seen from this that in the childhood of Qin Shi Huang, his pure heart was already covered with terrifying shadows. The infancy of childhood is an important period of character formation, and character has a major impact on a person's destiny. The instability of the family environment and the restlessness of the parents, this tension and restlessness will naturally pass on to the young Qin Shi Huang. This also caused two sides of his personality, one side from the hatred of the outside world, the other side from the love of his parents, his life basically oscillated between the two extremes of evil and good.
What's more, with the help of Lü Buwei, the yiren fled back to the Qin state early, leaving Qin Shi Huang and his mother Zhao Ji alone in the Zhao kingdom to live in hiding in Tibet, and the "History of Lü Buwei Lie" records that "Zhao wanted to kill his son Chu's wife, son, Zi Chu's wife, Zi Chu's wife, and Zhao Hao's daughter, and had to hide, so that the mother and son had to live", zhao Ji and her son Shi Huang hid, and only then were they able to survive. A "hidden" word and a "jing" word show how difficult the childhood period spent by Qin Shi Huang in the Zhao Kingdom was.
According to the "History of Qin Shi Huang Benji", after Qin destroyed the Zhao state, Qin Shi Huang went to Handan and killed those people he once hated. It is enough to see how influential the shadow of his childhood has been in his life. From this, it can also be inferred that Qin Shi Huang in his youth must have been a young and old man, tenacious, and vicious as a vendetta. Zhao Guo gave birth to him and planted a seed of hatred in his heart.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > wise to walk with violence</h1>
Qin Shi Huang, while doing whatever it takes to achieve himself, is also engaged in self-destruction. In his life, his mother Zhao Ji, his father Lü Buwei, the chancellor Li Si, and the true eunuch Zhao Gao, these relatives and cronies who had accompanied him, played an important role in achieving him, but also betrayed him.
Zhao Ji gave him life, but also gave him a controversy. She was Lü Buwei's former concubine, but she was also the empress of King Xiang of Qinzhuang, who gave birth to Qin Shi Huang at a special time. Whose child he is, not only our modern people are talking about, but also rumors in the Warring States period. The first emperor's younger brother Cheng Yu was one of the victims.
The 17-year-old Chang'an Juncheng and Fan Yu were ordered by Qin Shi Huang to cut down Zhao and did not want to be rebelled by them. Cheng Yu was seduced by Fan Yuqi, saying that the First Emperor was Lü Buwei's illegitimate son, and that he was the only true son of the Qin State, which caused Cheng Yu's rebellion. And Qin Shi Huang was not at ease with this half-brother, and sending his younger brother on the expedition was itself full of murderous spirit. Cheng Yu did this, just by throwing himself into the net, and was finally forced to commit suicide.
Zhao Ji still did not know the inspection point, "The first emperor is strong, and the empress dowager is not obscene." After the death of King Xiang of Qinzhuang, he not only rekindled his old love with Lü Buwei, but also with the help of Lü, he received the "Great Yin Ren Yan Yi" and thought that he was happy. This music added two younger brothers to the First Emperor, which was too annoying for Qin Shi Huang.
However, what was even more annoying was that after Yan Yi won the favor of the empress dowager with her erotic pleasures, her ambitions were extremely inflated, and she also started the idea of Qin Guo. After he was given the title of Changxin Hou, he was given a fief, made friends with officials, recruited henchmen, and became a prominent magnate in the Qin state. According to the Warring States Policy, the influence of the Yan clique had spread throughout the Qin realm, and its strength was enough to compete with Xiangguo Lü Buwei.
In the face of such a mother, Qin Shi Huang's body and mind must be doubly devastated, love and hate. The first major event after he pro-government was to suppress the Yan Yi clique, capture her raw, recast her, and parade naked in the city to extinguish the rumors of adultery of the empress dowager, and finally send her to be punished by the car split. After Yan Yi's death, the First Emperor destroyed his three clans, and even the two half-brothers were not spared, and they were beaten to death. For the direct perpetrator of this matter, zhao ji, the first emperor also imprisoned her in the Qingyang Palace in Yongcheng.
Imprisoning the birth mother and killing half-siblings with sticks is crazy. As for those who advised him, the behavior of the first emperor was even more crazy, and it was said that 27 people were killed, but in the end Mao Jiao was persuaded to succeed. Mao Jiao compared him to Jie and Yi, such a tyrant may be difficult to unify the world, a word to wake up the dreamer, the King of Qin personally took back the empress, and worshiped Mao Jiao as a taifu, conferred the title of Qing.
Qin Shi Huang had an unspeakable love and hatred for his mother. He did not become an empress in his lifetime, and the historical record of him in terms of women is that he was an adulterer. The lack of ability to marry and the lack of self-confidence are somewhat influenced by her mother Zhao Ji.
Lü Buwei, who also had a great influence on him, was also a heavyweight figure that he could not avoid in his life. After the death of King Xiang of Qinzhuang, the most proud person was Lü Buwei, and the time had finally come for him to show his skills in the Qin Kingdom. According to the official system of the State of Qin, there can be two xiangxiang, but Xiangguo can only have one person, and the status of Xiangguo is obviously higher than that of Xiangxiang.
Lü Buwei also lived up to expectations, taking advantage of his relationship with the empress dowager to gain a firm foothold in the country, widely collecting customers and network magnates. He has also done a lot of great things abroad, expanding his territory, laying the foundation for the unification of the six kingdoms of the Qin state, and also making himself a powerful faction that cannot be ignored in the political arena of the Qin state.
However, what he did not expect was that he put Yan Yi and Zhao Ji, originally only to satisfy his personal selfish desires, but he did not expect that Zhao Ji would completely regard Yan Yi as his other half and give him a green light in the political arena, until Yan Yi became a political enemy on a par with himself.
Yan Yi was Zhao Ji's ecstasy and Lü Buwei's poison, and the collapse of the Yan Yi clique eventually led to Lü Buwei's downfall. These changes were also a re-acquaintance of Vanity Fair for the young King of Qin. His letter to Lü Buwei was only 30 words short, but it was full of hatred, and Lü Buwei's credit, Qin Shi Huang knew it all, but he was obliterated by his three words.
"Why did Jun owe it to Qin?" Qin Fengjun Henan, eating 100,000 households. Why is Jun he pro-Qin? Known as the middle father. He and his family moved to Shu! ”
Zhao Ji and Lü Buwei both had two sides to Qin Shi Huang, and while they were dependent on him, they were also thinking about how to control him. Qin Shi Huang's situation had only two choices, either to erupt in silence or to die in silence. In order to survive, Qin Shi Huang chose the former, which was a wise warrior move, but along with this, he guarded the power in his hands with the cruel means of violence against violence, which also aggravated his negative color.
Qin Shi Huang shouldered the legacy of his ancestors to unify the world, and for this reason he spared no effort to use his talents. After Lü Buwei's death, Li Si took over the baton and became another powerful faction in the political arena of the Qin State. In the historical records of the Qin Dynasty, Li Si is also a high-frequency name. He was a student of the Great Confucian Xun and had his own set of "rat philosophies".
The rats in the toilet are as thin as wood, the rats in the granary are fat and large, the same rats, and different regions determine the difference in fate. So Li Si obtained the magic weapon of life from the mouse, if he wanted to get ahead and get rich and prosperous, he had to find ways to improve his social status and rise to the top of society.
Although he studied under the Confucian masters, he had a strong Fa-rectification thought, which was because there was a difference between Xun Quan and Kong Meng's thought, Kong Meng believed that "at the beginning of man, nature is inherently good", while Xun Guan believed that "at the beginning of man, nature is inherently evil", And Kong Meng emphasized etiquette, while Xun Guan believed that both etiquette and Law were very important. Xun Zi's idea of attaching equal importance to rituals and virtues was exactly the "imperial art" that the rulers needed at that time, which was also the real talent and practical learning that Li Si learned.
Li Si's idea of both Confucianism and law was fully applied in the Qin state, and the strategic concept of "destroying the princes, becoming an emperor, and unifying the world" closely linked Li Si and Qin Shi Huang. A "Letter of Expulsion" even inserted wings for his life and laid the foundation for becoming a confidant of Qin Shi Huang in the future.
He contributed to the unification of the Six Kingdoms by the Qin State and the establishment and consolidation of a unified authoritarian centralized feudal state, but on the other hand, do not forget his "mouse philosophy", and it is his nature to be profit-oriented. In order to win the favor, he did not hesitate to harm his former classmate- the greatest achiever of pre-Qin jurisprudence: Han Fei. In order to maintain the wealth and honor of his family, he did not hesitate to collude with the eunuch Zhao Gao and falsify history.
Qin Shi Huang loved talent, and even an official eunuch like Zhao Gao, as long as he had talent, he not only made him his "confidential secretary", but also let him teach his son Hu Hai's calligraphy and legal knowledge, and became a matchmaker for Zhao Gao and Hu Hai's collusion. What is even more fatal is that Qin Shi Huang favored Zhao Gao's astuteness and ability, and even spared him the death penalty.
As he lay dying, he was flanked by a death row prisoner, a more despicable politician than Lü Buwei, and an incompetent son. I don't know if he was too confident in himself, so conceited that he made a mistake and gave up a great river and mountain to a bunch of villains, which was a big mistake he made.
To sum up, judging from Qin Shi Huang's attitude toward his relatives and close subjects, he was always capricious and extremely emotional. In a fit of rage, he could put his mother under house arrest, take her back to the palace after persuasion, and give a generous burial to those who came to advise him to die because of this. He was called Zhongfu when he needed Lü Buwei, and devalued him to nothing when he didn't. As for the "Zheng Guoqu incident", he insisted that this was an act of espionage, so he issued an "eviction order" to Keqing, and as soon as Li Si wrote a letter, he moved with affection and understood the reason, and Qin Shi Huang quickly sent someone to take him back and enshrine him as a guest. For a eunuch, it can also be so appreciated, but his connivance lays hidden dangers for the fall of the Qin Dynasty.
Qin Shi Huang's own violent spirit is undeniable, as soon as his temper rises, some people will fall to the ground, but his wise move of knowing that he is wrong and correcting it is also worthy of recognition. As the king of a country, in his body, there is a bit of gangsterism, a little bit of the righteousness of a ming jun, and a little bit of personal will. Therefore, it is not impossible to say that his own brutality and wisdom have made him an emperor who has been controversial for thousands of years, both good and evil.