Chapter 132: A Witness to the Decline of the Empire
For other ministers, Hu Hai, at the instigation of Zhao Gao, also went on a killing spree. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info right Prime Minister Feng to disease and general
In order to avoid being humiliated and dying, Jun Feng Zheng chose to commit suicide. While killing the minister, Zhao Gao will be his own pro
The letters were inserted one by one, his brother Zhao Cheng made the CRRC government order, and his son-in-law made the capital Xianyang
The county orders are all important positions, and other important positions in the court are also all over Zhao Gao's henchmen. Hu Hai only knows that he enjoys
Le, defenseless against Zhao Gao's conspiracy moves, and finally died at the hands of Zhao Gao.
After killing many ministers in the court, Zhao Gao was not satisfied, and looked for an opportunity to instigate Hu Hai to the local officials
also poisoned. In the second year of Hu Hai's reign, at the beginning of 209 BC, Hu Hai followed his father's example
Pro-Qin Shi Huang, also toured the world. To the south to Huiji (now Suzhou), and to the north to Jieshi (now Changli, Hebei).
north), and finally returned to Xianyang from Liaodong (now Liaoyang, Liaoning). During the parade, Zhao Gao sinisterly confronted
Hu Hai said: "Your Majesty should take the opportunity to establish his prestige on this tour of the world and take those officials who do not obey
Kill the officials, so that you can have supreme authority. Hu Hai didn't ask about it, and ordered him to be punished again and again
Killing dissidents made the ministers panic. Zhao Gao actually regarded the young and inactive Hu Hai as one
A tool to expand one's own power.
For Li Si, the original ally, Zhao Gao did not let go, and got rid of this pair with the help of Hu Hai
Hand. Zhao Gao designed to make Hu Hai dissatisfied with Li Si, and then found an opportunity to frame Li Si for three crimes to Hu Hai
Name: First, Li Si originally participated in supporting Hu Hai to the throne, but he always complained that he was not reused and wanted to make peace with Hu Hai
Divide the land and be king. The second is that Li Si's son Li You was the guard of Sanchuan County, and when Chen Sheng made a rebellion through Sanchuan County, Li
He did not actively suppress it, because he and Chen Sheng were fellow villagers in neighboring counties. I heard that Li Si and Chen Sheng are also connected
over the message. The third is that Li Si, as the prime minister, has too much power and surpasses the emperor, but he is not satisfied, it seems that there is
Heterocentric.
Hu Hai listened to Zhao Gao's words and wanted to arrest Li Si, but there was no real evidence, so he sent someone to monitor Li Si first.
When Li Si heard the news, he wrote to expose Zhao Gao's bad deeds. Hu Hai refused to believe it, and instead sent the letter to Zhao
Look high. Zhao Gao knew that it was a life-and-death struggle with Li Si, so he further fabricated charges to frame Li Si.
Hu Hai arrested Li Si and handed it over to Zhao Gao to be in charge of the trial. Zhao Gao naturally refused to let go of this rare opportunity,
He used all the torture to force him to confess. Li Si could not endure the torture, so he had to bend and turn into a trick.
Zhao Gao took Li Si's confession and reported it to Hu Hai, and finally, Li Si was in 208 BC, that is, Hu Hai's accession to the throne
In the second year, he was sentenced to death: first stabbing the face (that is, tattooing words on the face, which was a kind of humiliation in the Qin Dynasty), and then slashing
(i.e., cutting off the nose, which is also a kind of torture in Qin), cutting off the left and right toes (that is, cutting off the left and right feet), and cutting off the waist (blocking
Cut off at the waist), and finally the 醢 (音海, i.e., chopped into meat sauce), which was the most brutal type of execution at the time
It is called "five punishments", that is, the death penalty is carried out with five punishments. Lees's family was also killed at the same time. Lees as
The important ministers who assisted Qin Shi Huang in unifying the world ended up with five punishments because of his confusion for a while, which shows how he is a man
You have to be cautious at all times.
From these things, it can be seen that although the Great Qin Empire still has a million troops on the surface, it still rules six
country, but in just three years after Hu Hai succeeded to the throne, all the ministers of Great Qin were completely destroyed. at
In the poem describing Qin's unification of the six kingdoms, Li Shangyin wrote, "Since the emperor of heaven was drunk at that time, it was not about Qin's land and mountains
River! "The unification of the six kingdoms by the Qin State turned out to be just a mistake made by the Emperor of Heaven when he was drunk, and one day, heaven
The emperor woke up and sent Hu Hai out to take back all the loyal ministers and generals of the Qin State to unify the six countries, and give them death
Kill the over-killing Qin Shi Huang and leave all the bloodline! The royal bloodline is gone!!
Whether the Emperor of Heaven was drunk or something, in fact, we can't know for sure. But one thing is for sure, no matter what
What a powerful empire, if you don't pay attention to education, if you don't pay attention to the question of the next generation of heirs, even if it is
Rich and powerful, all this may be wiped out in an instant! From a certain point of view,
It was not the army of princes who rose up to wipe out the Great Qin Empire, but Hu Hai himself and Zhao Gao
Fueled the fire, and dug the tomb of the empire with his own hands.
Great Qin, from a small prince in a remote area, gradually became the most powerful of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States
In the end, the imperial dynasty that annexed the six countries to achieve the great unification of Chinese history has experienced a total of about 600 years
time, the family inheritance system is very sound, and the royal bloodline has easily resolved several crises. But this
Once, Hu Hai's misdeeds and Zhao Gao's finger deer as a horse once again pushed the empire into the depths of no return
Deep pool. "Prosperity and decline" has become a historical motto, and the last moments of the Great Qin Empire clearly witnessed all this.