The Death of the First Emperor
Li Si's suggestion was full of blood, but this murderous suggestion was supported by Yingzheng! The first emperor system said "may", with the emperor's "may" instructions, Li Si's suggestion was transformed into the emperor's order! With the violence of an authoritarian ruler, it has become a nationwide atrocity that destroys culture! This fire, coupled with the fire that Xiang Yu put after entering Xianyang 7 years later, almost destroyed the splendid cultural accumulation of the pre-Qin Dynasty! Only the hometown of Confucius in Qufu, by Fu Sheng and Confucius's descendant Kong Kun, dozens of books were hidden in their own compound walls. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Wait until Qin died and Han Xing did, and these suicide notes were finally rediscovered...
One can imagine how indignant a large number of readers were when they watched the cultural classics they read day and night turn to ashes. The burning of books separated the scholars from Qin Shi Huang. And this divorce will lead to an even greater tragedy the following year...
In 212 BC, in order to solve the problem of feeding the soldiers of the Great Wall in the north and resist the southward invasion of the Xiongnu in time, Qin Shi Huang ordered Meng Tian to build a straight road from Jiuyuan County to Yunyang County in the northwest of Xianyang, which was nearly 700 kilometers long...
In addition, Qin Shi Huang also built a large number of buildings in the capital of Xianyang, using 700,000 manpower to start the construction of the legendary and magnificent Afang Palace and the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in Lishan. At the same time, Qin Shi Huang also ordered the relocation of 30,000 households to Liyi and 50,000 households to Yunyang, all of which were exempted from 10 years of requisition. After that, he ordered people to go to the sea in Qu County, Donghai County, thinking that it was the east gate of the empire.
Later, in order to seek immortality, Qin Shi Huang listened to Lu Sheng's suggestion, ordered to call himself a "real person" instead of "me", and built a road to connect all 270 palaces within 200 miles of Xianyang, with curtains on the outside and bells and drums on the inside, all for one purpose: to cultivate immortals, and not to let anyone know where they are. And ordered all the attendants to dare to speak out about the whereabouts of real people, and immediately punished!
But one day, Qin Shi Huang marched to Liangshan Palace, climbed the mountain to overlook, but saw a team of chariots and horses passing under the mountain, which was very majestic. I couldn't help but wonder in my heart: Who is this? Left and right replied that this was Prime Minister Li Si's car. Qin Shi Huang was secretly angry in his heart, but he didn't say anything. But someone told Li Si about it. Li Si knew that he had touched the wrath of the First Emperor, so he ordered the derogation of the chariot. But when Qin Shi Huang saw it again, he became more and more suspicious, knowing that someone had vented his words. Of course, no one dared to admit it in front of the emperor. In the end, Qin Shi Huang was furious and ordered all the attendants who were in Liangshan Palace that day to be beheaded!
This incident directly made Lu Sheng shudder! Together with Hou Sheng, he left the last paragraph of history criticizing Qin Shi Huang, and then secretly fled and disappeared into the long river of history... Qin Shi Huang was furious and sent the imperial historian to interrogate all the Confucian scholars in Xianyang. Bury alive more than 460 Confucian students who have committed forbidden acts!
Ying Fusu, the eldest son of Qin Shi Huang, who had high hopes and was considered the best successor to the empire in the future, advised his father to 'pit Confucianism' behavior, which also angered Qin Shi Huang, and he was driven out of Xianyang and went to Shangjun, where Meng Tian was stationed, to serve as a supervisor...
The year 211 BC, this year is crucial for the Great Qin Empire! First, there was a great evil celestial phenomenon: Luminous Confusion and Guarding the Heart. Immediately afterwards, another meteorite fell in Dongjun. And there are inscriptions on this extraterrestrial stone. After careful identification, it was the seven words "the first emperor died and divided". Qin Shi Huang was shocked! Not only will he die soon, but the great empire he created will also be wiped out with his death! Qin Shi Huang urgently ordered the imperial history to investigate. When nothing could be found, Qin Shi Huang ordered all the residents near the meteorite to be killed and the meteorite to be burned!
This kind of cruel and unreasonable action just illustrates the shock caused by this incident in Ying Zheng's heart. He also ordered the doctors to compile "Immortal True Poems" for musicians all over the country to sing. Try to resist the will of heaven with these artificial efforts!
But providence seems to be irresistible! In the fall, an envoy returning from Kanto was stopped by a mysterious night visitor while passing through Huayin Pingshu Road. This person took out a piece of bi, asked the messenger to bring it to 'Zhuchi-kun', and said mysteriously, "The ancestral dragon died this year", and the messenger wanted to ask for an understanding, but this mysterious night guest suddenly disappeared! The envoy came back and reported the matter to Qin Shi Huang, and this piece of bi is the one that Qin Shi Huang crossed the river to Xiangshan Temple 8 years ago, and prayed for the wind in the river! Qin Shi Huang was silent for a long time...
However, the First Emperor is the First Emperor after all, and he will not give in easily, let alone show weakness in front of others! Therefore, although the words 'silent for a long time' have written the shock of the first emperor's heart. But on the surface, he still pretended not to care, saying that "the mountain ghost does not know a year old", and said that the mystery man was a 'ghost' rather than a 'god', as if this would reduce the possibility of this prediction coming true? Looking at it now, it is entirely possible that this incident was manipought, created by those who hated Qin Shi Huang to curse him. It is not a forecast of future facts, but only an expression of deep desire. If this is the case, how hard it will take those who hate Qin Shi Huang to create this incident! And how deep is their hatred!
It is impossible to prove what the truth is. What we can know for sure: it was this incident that had a great impact on the psychology of Qin Shi Huang! He repeatedly asked people to divinate the "hexagram to get the good fortune", so Qin Shi Huang decided to travel again, in order to avoid this prophecy! And this just proves that he has acquiesced in this prophecy!
Qin Shi Huang gave 30,000 households in the interior a knighthood, moved to Beihe, Yuzhong, in October, ordered the right prime minister Feng Qujian to stay in the capital, the 49-year-old Qin Shi Huang traveled for the fifth and last time. The ghost made the gods, and on this trip he brought Li Si, the prime minister of Zuo, Zhao Gao, the commander of the CRRC government, and the 18th son he liked very much, 20-year-old Ying Huhai. This doomed him to lose not only his life, but also his empire!
In November, Qin Shi Huang traveled to Yunmeng in Changsha County, looked to the south, and paid tribute to the legendary Shun Emperor who was buried in Jiuyi Mountain, and then went east along the Yangtze River all the way to "view Ke and cross the sea Zhu" in 210 BC, passing Danyang, to Qiantang, and Linzhejiang. It coincided with the high tide of the Qiantang River, so it made a detour of nearly 50 kilometers to the west and crossed the river from the gorge. After that, go south to Huiji Mountain, pay tribute to the legendary Dayu buried here, and set up the last stone tablet in the history of Daqin.
In Huiji, 23-year-old Xiang Yu and his uncle Xiang Liang were mixed in the crowd and saw Qin Shi Huang's extraordinary pomp and circumstance from afar. This tragic hero of the ages issued a bold statement, "He can take his place", and Xiang Yu's lifelong enemy, the future Han Gaozu Liu Bang, also saw the aura of this emperor of the ages when he went to Xianyang to serve in the army, and also issued such a sentence: "Huh! The big husband should be like this."
After that, Qin Shi Huang went north to Langxi County, summoned Fang Shi Xu City, and asked if the immortal medicine had come? Xu Shi came to see Qin Shi Huang and lied that because there were big mackerel in the sea, the minister could not get close to Xianshan. Now please choose a crossbowman to go with your courtiers, shoot the mackerel first, and then the elixir will be obtained! It happened that Qin Shi Huang had dreamed of fighting with the sea god not long ago, and he was even more eager to seek medicine, so he immediately ordered to set off from Langxie to the north to Rongcheng Mountain in Jiaodong County, and did not see a big mackerel all the way. Continue north to Zhifu Mountain, and sure enough, there are huge fish looming in the sea. The excited Qin Shi Huang personally supervised the shooting, and the big mackerel was shot in unison. Qin Shi Huang immediately ordered Xu Shi to go to sea, and then ask for medicine, and the real person is here waiting for you to come back!
Xu Shi agreed and asked the First Emperor for 3,000 boys and girls, grain seeds and farm tools, more than 100 skilled craftsmen, and thousands of troops to sail away... I went and never came back! Gradually, Xu Shi (Xu Fu) Dongdu became a myth, a legend, thousands of years of different opinions, but there is no real answer! The most mainstream view is that Xu Fu went to Japan and became the founding king of Japan, Emperor Jimmu (Xu Fuku's two eastward voyages to the sea were in BC219 and BC210, and the legend of Japan's first Emperor Jimmu is located on February 1, 660 BC, so how did Xu Fu become the legendary Emperor Jimmu?). How will the time difference of 450 years be explained)
After all, Qin Shi Huang did not wait for Xu Shi and the elixir of life, and embarked on the last part of his life to return to his hometown with an unknown feeling. When he came to the crossing of the Yellow River called Pingyuan on the border of Jibei County and Julu County, Qin Shi Huang began to fall ill. But the emperor was taboo to say death, so none of the ministers dared to mention the words of arranging the future, so they hurried west...
In the end, in the land of the sand dunes where King Zhao Wuling, the Ming monarch of the Warring States Period, starved to death, Qin Shi Huang finally couldn't stand it! He began to admit death, but it was too late! Qin Shi Huang wrote his last letter, intending to summon his eldest son Yingfusu, who had been driven to Shangjun by himself two years earlier due to the 'Confucianism' incident, to return to Xianyang to preside over his funeral. Qin Shi Huang did not appoint a crown prince during his lifetime, and this arrangement before his death was obviously to choose Ying Fusu as his heir. However, because this letter is not an ordinary family letter, but an official document of the imperial court, the "seal book", it needs to be ordered by the CRRC government to order Zhao Gao to "line the seal of the seal", that is, to be stamped with the official seal of the imperial court before it can be issued. And yet it was at this point that a palace conspiracy was staged!
On July 210, Bingyin Day, on the sand dune platform of Julu County, the 50-year-old Emperor Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng died! And the Great Qin Empire is about to retire from the stage of history along with its founder...
Prime Minister Li Si was afraid that the emperor's death would cause turmoil in the empire, so he decided not to mourn secretly, and temporarily buried the emperor in a cool car. Eat and drink as usual, and let the hundred officials perform as before, except that the eunuchs pretend to be the emperor in the car to accept the recital. At the same time, Li Si ordered Zhao Gao to quickly issue a seal letter and recall Gongzi Fusu to preside over the overall situation.
Zhao Gao thus stepped onto the turbulent historical stage at the end of the Qin Dynasty! He is a eunuch, but there is a record in the "Historical Records of Meng Tianlie" that Zhao Gao was born in the royal family of the Yuanzhi branch of Zhao State, so some experts have verified that Zhao Gao's behavior is completely to avenge his homeland, he is a real hero and a strange man! Is that so?
In fact, Zhao Gao's ascension to the throne was entirely the result of Qin Shi Huang's preference for Legalism. It is said that the laws of the Qin State are complicated, but this Zhao Gao can be like a treasure. Qin Shi Huang promoted him to be the prison law teacher of the CRRC government order and Hu Hai, and Hu Hai obeyed him. But the First Emperor is the First Emperor after all! Although he favored Hu Hai, Zhao Gao and others, he also knew that what he needed to govern the country was a great talent like Li Si and Meng Tian. Especially Mengshi, Meng Tian fought abroad, and his brother Meng Yi was named Shangqing by Qin Shi Huang. Tian is responsible for foreign affairs and perseverance for internal planning, and the brothers are faithful, so although the generals dare not compete with them...
Sure enough, once Zhao Gao committed a crime, Qin Shi Huang ordered Meng Yi to interrogate. Meng Yi condemned Zhao Gao to death. It's a pity that in the end, Qin Shi Huang, who has always killed people without blinking, moved his compassion this time, not only spared Zhao Gao's death, but also let him continue to serve as the commander of CRRC.
Due to the close relationship with Ying Huhai's teachers and students, and the grudge with the Meng family, Zhao Gao finally decided: to establish Ying Huhai as Qin II, and in the name of Qin Shi Huang, to force Meng Tian and Ying Fusu, the orthodox heir of the empire who has always been good friends with Meng Tian!
So Zhao Gao withheld the seal book and discussed the matter with Ying Huhai first. Hu Hai initially disagreed, but obeyed under Zhao Gao's persuasion. Then Zhao Gao must convince a key person - Prime Minister Li Si. At Li Si's place, Zhao Gao took a lot of time. It was the benefit of knowing the disadvantages, the temptation of wealth and nobility, and the intimidation of power at the same time, which finally made Li Si agree to participate in the conspiracy in the complex state of mind of "looking up to the sky and sighing, weeping too much".
Li Si and Zhao Gao jointly forged two things: one was the edict of Qin Shi Huang to make Hu Hai the crown prince. The second is the letter from Qin Shi Huang to his eldest son Fusu and the general Meng Tian.
After receiving the letter, Fusu immediately prepared to commit suicide. Meng Tian didn't want to die in such an unknown way, but Hu Hai's cronies who came to deliver the letter repeatedly urged, and Fusu finally drew his sword and killed himself. Meng Tian was unwilling to commit suicide, and was imprisoned in Yangzhou County in Shang County by the envoy in the name of Ying Huhai. The 300,000 troops in the north were handed over to Wang Li, the grandson of Wang Jian and the son of Wang Ben, and the deputy general Wang Li.
When the news came back, Hu Hai, Zhao Gao, and Li Si were overjoyed and began to go out of Jingchengguan to Jiuyuan County, and then take the straight road back to Xianyang. This is the seventh and eighth day of the lunar calendar, and the corpse of Qin Shi Huang has already emitted a stench. In order to cover up the smell of corpses, Li Si and Zhao Gao specially asked each car in the convoy to carry a stone of abalone, wanting to use this method to cover up the smell of corpses. It's just that what I don't understand is that the sand dunes are the original inland land of Zhao, far from the sea. Where can I get so much raw abalone? So some conspiracy theorists concluded: this first emperor in Chinese history died of a murder! It was a shocking conspiracy that Ying Huhai and Zhao Gao had agreed on before this trip! That's why they let Qin Shi Huang go around in such a big circle in the empire, the purpose is to secretly go to the beach to get so many abalone...
Fusu had committed suicide, and Ying Huhai's position was stable, so he wanted to pardon Meng Tian. However, Zhao Gao's hatred for Meng Yi is as deep as the sea. At this time, Meng Yi happened to complete the imperial order of Qin Shi Huang to ask him to pray for mountains and rivers and returned. Zhao Gao said to Hu Hai: "The first emperor actually wanted to make you the crown prince for a long time, but this Meng Yi repeatedly admonished and thought it was impossible, so he is your enemy!" If you don't punish him", so Hu Hai ordered Meng Yi to be locked up in Daidi.