The six eastern countries have already sent countless women to King Yingzheng of Qin, on the one hand, it is naturally to curry favor with King Yingzheng of Qin, and on the other hand, it is not to make King Yingzheng of Qin indulge in wine.

But the six eastern countries are destined to be disappointed, and King Yingzheng of Qin is not only eloquent, but also not good at women. Among them, the shadow left by the prodigal remains of Zhao Ji, the mother of King Qin, is naturally indispensable. We all know that King Yingzheng of Qin is the first emperor of the ages, and it stands to reason that there should be no unspeakable thing that happened to him for a person like him. However, the most unspeakable thing in the world happened to King Yingzheng of Qin.

This incident, which made Qin Wang Yingzheng unable to raise his head for the rest of his life, was related to his mother Zhao Ji.

It is undeniable that Zhao Ji is a beauty, and she can sing and dance. Such people, in ancient times, generally had a life that was different from others. The same is true for Zhao Ji, Zhao Ji's luck is that when she was in Zhao State, she met Lü Buwei and became Lü Buwei's concubine. In fact, Lü Buwei is also very fond of Zhao Ji, no matter what he does, Lü Buwei will take Zhao Ji with him. But we all know that Lü Buwei is a businessman, and one of the things he has done in his life that can make him the most famous through the ages is to get acquainted with the down-and-out son of Qin. This stranger is none other than the father of King Yingzheng of Qin. At that time, Yiren was not favored by the King of Qin, but was sent to Zhao as a hostage. It just so happened that Lü Buwei was a big businessman in Zhao State, and fate so ingeniously let these two unrelated people meet. When Lü Buwei knew the identity of the stranger, he felt that the stranger was a strange thing to live in. If he can help him inherit the throne of Qin, then he will go down in history and be rich enough to rival the country. We all know that Lü Buwei is rich, and in the evil old society, money can make ghosts grind. Therefore, after various activities, Lü Buwei finally pushed Yiren to the throne of King Qin. It's a complicated process, so we won't go into it here. During the period of pushing Yiren to the throne of King Qin, Yiren met Lü Buwei's concubine Zhao Ji. It can be said that he fell in love with Zhao Ji at first sight, so Yiren wanted Lu Buwei to give Zhao Ji to him.

Lu Buwei is a person who does great things, although he is unwilling, but later, he gritted his teeth and gave his favorite woman Zhao Ji to Yiren. After the two of them married in the Zhao State, they gave birth to the later Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng. Therefore, Yingzheng grew up in Zhao State, and when Yiren was made the prince of Qin, he was called from Zhao State to Qin State, and Yiren was only the king of Qin for three years in Qin State, and he died young.

It can be said that all the things that make Yingzheng unspeakable start with the death of his father Yiren.

Before Yiren died, Yingzheng was established as the king of Qin, Lü Buwei was the prime minister to assist Yingzheng, and Zhao Ji was the queen mother. Since then, for a long time, the big and small affairs of the Qin State have been finalized by the Empress Dowager Zhao Ji and Qin Prime Minister Lu Buwei. Originally, Zhao Ji used to be Lu Buwei's concubine, so after Yiren's death, the two of them lived together again.

This incident made Ying Zheng look at it, of course, it was very unhappy.

However, Lu Buwei also has self-knowledge, and when he felt that Yingzheng knew about men and women, he had the idea of leaving Zhao Ji.

After all, if you don't leave Zhao Ji, Yingzheng will grow up and take power in the future, and there will be no benefit to him.

However, he didn't dare to break up with Zhao Ji openly, because Zhao Ji was the queen mother, and if Lu Buwei angered Zhao Ji, Zhao Ji might be against him. However, Lü Buwei still thought of a way. He quietly chose a young and strong beautiful man to give to Zhao Ji, this beautiful man was called Chang Yu, and Lu Buwei sent him to the palace as a eunuch. When Zhao Ji and Chang Yu got along for a few days, she was very satisfied with Chang Yu and would never look for Lu Buwei again. In this way, Lü Buwei finally got out of the sea of suffering.

However, Chang Yu is very arrogant, he actually died and lived with Zhao Jiai, and he did not avoid people's eyes and ears at all. made the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty know what happened between them. The key is Chang Yu and Zhao Ji, the two of them even gave birth to two sons. You said that such a thing happened in front of Yingzheng's eyes, how could he endure this evil breath? As soon as Chang Yu heard that King Yingzheng of Qin was preparing to deal with him, he launched a rebellion. However, the rebellion launched by Chang Yu, who had no political wisdom or military experience, except for his physical strength, was quickly quelled.

After quelling the rebellion, the first thing Ying Zheng did was to arrest Chang Yu and then break the car. The two sons of Chang Yu and Zhao Ji were also executed by Yingzheng.

For this Zhao Ji, who made Ying Zheng unable to raise his head, Ying Zheng put him under house arrest. After she came out, she did something to disgrace her. Later, under the continuous persuasion of others, Qin Shi Huang let Zhao Ji return to Xianyang. Zhao Ji, who returned to Xianyang again, no longer had the majesty of the past, no longer had any power, and no longer had the happiness of the past. Ten years later, Zhao Ji, who was about forty years old, died of depression and finished her sad life. Looking at Zhao Ji's life, she was completely unable to control her own destiny at first, and when she was able to control her own destiny, she was willful and debauched, and finally buried the peace and wealth that should have been harvested.

Therefore, what Zhao Ji and Chang Yu did was one thing that made Qin Shihuang Yingzheng unable to raise his head.

In ancient China, it was monogamous and polygamous, and the status of concubines was lower than that of wives, and concubines could only be regarded as slaves. China's monogamy and polygamy began with the Yellow Emperor Yaoshun, in the slave society, the feudal society polygamy is mainly practiced in the emperor, princes, imperial doctors, in some ethnic groups also become a custom, the practice of polygamy in addition to to satisfying men's sexual desire, giving birth to children to increase labor, but also to improve social status. Polygamy in China's feudal society continued until the founding of the People's Republic of China, and was embodied in the coexistence of wives and concubines of the landlord class.

Starting from Zhou Chao, Zhou Tianzi can also marry wives and concubines in addition to the queen. There are a total of 120 people, including the imperial wife. These ladies, concubines, and royal wives are collectively referred to as concubines. In addition, there are maids and Ji with lower status, and there is a big gap in status. The status of the wife is naturally the highest, almost equal to that of the husband. The status of a concubine is much worse than that of a wife, but she can also be regarded as a minor lord in the court. A maid is a servant, usually a poor person with a clean net worth, and he has to sell himself as a servant. Ji is the lowest class, usually the offspring of sinners. Therefore, it is completely regarded as property, and can be bought and sold and exchanged at will.

In the Warring States period, ordinary princes were not allowed to take concubines. Therefore, there is a form of marriage instead of concubine, called concubine marriage. That is, marrying a wife will come with a group of dowries. These dowries are not ordinary maids, but wives and sisters of the same clan, so they are called concubines. The status of concubines is not low, second only to the wives of the princes.

The rank of the harem concubines of the Qin State is divided into eight grades: queen, lady, beauty, beloved, eight sons, seven sons, long envoys, and young envoys.

The princesses selected by the six eastern countries were all named beauties, and the sisters of the same clan who were married, such as the princess who came out of the concubine, were all named eight sons.

The princesses selected by the six eastern countries are self-righteous, and they think that they are the palaces of their own countries, and they can act recklessly with the favor of their fathers, but most of them are not loved by King Yingzheng of Qin, but the princesses from the six countries know how to observe words and feelings, are gentle and considerate, and a few of them are pregnant.

King Yingzheng of Qin was very happy and promised: No matter who it is, as long as he can give birth to the eldest son of Qin, he will be promoted to wife. For him, these women were merely tools to produce the heirs of the empire.

Qin State, Xianyang Palace Study.

There are only two people, Meng Yi and Qin Wang Yingzheng.

Meng Yi felt that the atmosphere today was very strange, because Qin Wang Yingzheng had been staring at his eyes. At the beginning, I still asked about the specific matters of the Western Expedition and the Northern Expedition, but later I got involved in some love between men and women, and inexplicably involved the heroine Dong Rou from Princess Lin Hu Yue to the heroine Dong Rou.

"Meng Yi, recruit the widow from the truth, does Rou'er take a fancy to you?" Qin Wang Yingzheng suddenly said a word, which frightened Meng Yi into a cold sweat.

"King, you can't talk nonsense, if the heroine Dong Rou knows, she will definitely treat me as the culprit when she is angry, and then she will be dismantled!" Meng Yi improvised, shifted the world, and changed the focus to the heroine Dong Rou.

"But the widow has repeatedly pursued the essentials, and you have not done anything, and you have let Rou'er revolve around you every day? You say, is there such a strange thing in the world? Seeing that Meng Yi was very afraid of the heroine Dong Rou, King Yingzheng of Qin didn't look like the two were happy, so he put his mind at ease.

"The king, Weichen has long said that Dong Rou is a heroine among women, yearning for freedom, plus she is from a wealthy background, and she will not covet the wealth of the palace at all, so your rich routine will not work." Meng Yi continued to explain, hoping that King Yingzheng of Qin would either change his strategy or give up altogether.

"Hey, the more you can't get it, the more unwilling the widow is!" Where does King Yingzheng of Qin still have the spirit of the lord of Qin at this moment, just like an ordinary man, trapped by love.

"Ask the world, what is love, and the direct religion promises life and death? There are double flyers in the south and the north, and the old wings have been cold and hot several times. Happy and fun, parting bitter, there are even more crazy children. You should have a saying:

Stratus clouds, thousands of mountains and twilight snow, to whom does the shadow go? Hengfen Road, lonely when the drums, the smoke is still flat. The soul is a little more groaning, and the mountain ghosts are crying in the wind. The sky is also jealous, and the warblers and swallows are all loess. Through the ages, in order to stay for the people, he sang and drank wildly, and visited Yanqiu. ”

At this moment, Meng Yi not only thought of Jin Daiyuan's inquiring nouns and sentences, but also thought of a more classic sentence in later generations: "A wife is not as good as a concubine, a concubine is not as good as stealing, and stealing is better than stealing." ”

What you can't get, it's always the best! People, it will always be this virtue, eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, but feeling that coarse tea and light rice will be sweeter. On the other hand, eating coarse tea and light rice, but yearning for the delicacies of the mountains and seas. There is no other reason, just because you can't get it, so you will yearn for it. When you look at the scenery from a distance, you tend to think that they are beautiful, and this is because there is a certain distance between you and them, and this distance makes your vision blurry, so you think they are beautiful. But when you walk up to it, you will find that the scenery is not different from what you have seen before, and even a little worse.

What you can't get, is always the best; And if you get it, you don't know how to cherish it.