In August 307 BC, The Qin Wu King Yingdang led his army to Yiyang to join the main force of the Qin army led by Zuo Cheng Ganmao, and then went straight to Luoyi, the King of Zhou, not far from Yiyang City. After the Qin army forcibly entered Luoyi, King Wu of Qin, surrounded by qin generals, went to the Taimiao Temple where the Zhou royal family enshrined Jiuding.
Seeing the Jiuding that symbolized the world, the crazy factor of Kong Wu's belligerence in the bones of King Qin Wu became active, and he and Hercules Meng said that they were testing their strength, and the two of them tried to hold up the Yongzhou Ding (Longwen Chiding), which symbolized the Qin Kingdom, and as a result, when the King of Qin Wu was carrying the Ding, because the King of Qin Wu misestimated the weight of the Yongzhou Ding, he accidentally injured himself, and as a result, he died of a desperate body that night, only twenty-three years old.
In many film and television dramas, because King Wu of Qin was childless at the knee, he left a will before his death, choosing his younger brother Ying Ji, who was a hostage in the Yan kingdom, to return to China to inherit the throne and become the new king of the Qin kingdom.
After the death of King Wu of Qin, it was indeed his half-brother Ying Ji who became the new king of the Qin state, that is, the king of Qin Zhaoxiang who had left a strong mark in the history of the Qin state.
From the death of King Wu of Qin to the ascension of King Zhaoxiang of Qin to the throne, what happened during this period of time may not be clear to many students, and today I will take you to understand this period of history.
Let's first look at the statement that King Zhaoxiang of Qin's ascension to the throne is attributed to the will of King Wu of Qin, which is inconsistent with history. Why?
The answer is simple, because after King Zhaoxiang of Qin ascended the throne, there was a serious royal upheaval. This civil unrest occurred in the second year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, that is, in 305 BC.
The one who led this civil unrest was King Huiwen of Qin, Empress Huiwen (who died of illness as early as the time of King Wu of Qin), and Gongzizhuang, the eldest son of King Huiwen of Qin (the author repeats that Gongzizhuang was the son of King Huiwen of Qin, his own son, not the son of the Marquis of Guannei!). The main people involved in this rebellion were the sons of the Qin royal family, and after the rebellion was put down, the Qin royal family was almost slaughtered, so that after the death of Li Lizi, the Qin royal family no longer had the ability to shoulder the responsibility of auxiliary government.
I would like to ask, if King Qin Wu left a will before his death, could Gongzi Zhuang have such a great charm to gather most of the royal children and let them risk extinction to pull the new king down?
In the final analysis, it is because King Zhaoxiang of Qin is not right!
In the records of the historical books, after the death of King Wu of Qin, because he had no children under his knees and died violently, the Qin state failed to designate a new monarch for the qin state, and Huiwen Hou and Qi Bazi (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Empress Dowager Qin Xuan") respectively supported Gongzi Zhuang and Gongzi Fu as the King of Qin, and the two factions did not hesitate to tear their faces, almost fighting each other.
At this time, King Wuling of Zhao took back the Qin state of Yan Gongzi Yinji, and sent the Zhao army from the north to face the Qin state to form a threat, at this time The Qin Xuan faction had already won the internal strife in the Qin state, but because of the restraint of the Huiwen faction, The Empress Qin Xuan and others were unable to resist the menacing Zhao army for a while. When King Wuling of Zhao saw this, he threw out an olive branch, and the condition was to welcome the Prince of Yan as king.
Seeing that she was powerless to resist the Zhao army, Empress Xuan of Qin could only agree to the request of King Wuling of Zhao, welcomed back Gongzi Ji, and soon formally ascended the throne as King Zhaoxiang of Qin.
After Gongzi Ji ascended the throne, Empress Qin Xuan even more directly stepped forward herself—on the grounds that King Zhaoxiang of Qin was young, she took away the power in his hands and took control of the dynasty herself, so as to negotiate with King Wuling of Zhao and prevent King Wuling of Zhao from interfering in Qin's internal affairs through the hand of King Zhaoxiang of Qin. It should be known that the Qin state did not have a new monarch who was young, and the tradition of the empress dowager's reign was generally regent by the leading minister of the royal family, until the king reached the pro-government age, and the consular minister returned the power to the king, and king Huiwen of Qin, who took the throne at the age of nineteen, took over the power left by his father Qin Xiaogong.
It can be seen from this that King Zhaoxiang of Qin was able to become the new king of the Qin state not because of the edict of King Wu of Qin that did not exist, but because of the multi-party game between King Wuling of Zhao and Empress Dowager Qin Xuan.