Chapter 2: Dune's Scheme
"The world has been suffering for a long time!" , This was the most intuitive feeling of the common people to the Qin Dynasty at that time, and God couldn't bear the accumulated scolding and complaining, and began to prepare a tomb for the Great Qin Empire, and at the same time brewed a long list of gravediggers.
In July 210 B.C., Qin Shi Huang returned from his tour to the plains and fell ill, and traveled to the sand dunes (now Guangzong, Hebei), where he fell ill and died.
Qin Shi Huang, the young enthronement, inherited the will of the ancestors, swallowed two weeks, destroyed the six countries, he used his life's energy to create an unprecedentedly powerful empire, but this empire was only three years after his death, like a white horse passing through the gap, who would have thought that such a powerful empire would collapse in a short period of time! can't help but make people sigh infinitely: the wall is down, everyone pushes it, and the drum is broken and ten thousand people hammer.
This can't be blamed on Mr. Shi Huang, people are not as good as heaven, and Lord Yama never greets people when they ask for their lives.
The person who should not be enthroned is enthroned, and this person's enthronement is all due to one person, and this person is Zhao Gao.
Below is Zhao Gao's resume.
Origin: Zhao nobleman.
Official positions: Successively served as a history student, a history student, a history of the order, a history of the Shangshu, a commander of the CRRC government, a commander of the Lang Zhongling, and a prime minister.
Specialty: proficient in law, observant of words and feelings, flattery, conspiracy and trickery.
Qin Shi Huang was eloquent and had read countless people in his life, but he looked away at this person. Even if Zhao Gao committed a serious crime, Qin Shi Huang pardoned him and reinstated him as an official. It can be seen that Zhao Gao's ability has won the selfless trust of Qin Shi Huang. If Qin Shi Huang had been ruthless and slaughtered him with a knife, the later history books would have to be written like this: On a certain day, a certain year, a certain month, the first emperor died, Fusu ascended the throne, granted amnesty to the world, abolished the harsh punishment and strict laws, imposed heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and rested with the people.
Then when we fill in the nationality column of the resume, we have to write the Qin nationality. But history has no ifs.
Historically, traitors and faint kings have always been good partners. Zhao Gao was lucky, he found his good partner - Dujun won Hu Hai.
Among the sons of the first emperor, Ying Huhai ranked eighteenth, and this person was proficient in eating, drinking, and having fun, and the only thing he was not proficient in was governing the country.
Zhao Gao spared no effort to put Hu Hai on the throne, not because of how iron his relationship with Hu Hai was, how deep his feelings were, what he fancied was the huge power behind the emperor's throne, if Fusu ascended the throne, the future would be bleak, and there would be only one fate waiting for him.
Zhao Gao also has his ideals, he has lived in the palace since he was a child, and he has seen too much of the arrogance of those princes and nobles, but he can only tremble and crawl on the ground, he is unwilling, he is also a person, why is there such a big gap in life?
He is unwilling, so he has to be patient, he has to wait, now, he has waited for such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, how can he let it go?
Zhao Gao wanted Hu Hai to ascend the throne smoothly, and it was impossible to complete it smoothly without the joining of another person. This person was the powerful Prime Minister Li Si at that time.
Li Si is known as a famous person.
In the Qin Dynasty, the power of the prime minister was very great, and tampering with the last order of the first emperor was very likely to die without the participation of the prime minister.
Therefore, after the death of the First Emperor, Zhao Gao found Li Si and said: "Your talent, strategy, merit, and Fusu's trust in you, how is it compared to Meng Tian?" β
Li Si replied: "Not as good as him!" β
Zhao Gao said: "Then the eldest son Fusu will take the throne, and he will definitely use Meng Tian as the prime minister." Obviously, you won't be able to return home with the official seal in the end. And Hu Hai is more benevolent and can inherit the throne. You can do it! β
Li Si has been vigorous for decades, from an ambitious young man to a slow old man, his age has changed, his appearance has changed, and his voice has changed, but his greed for power has not changed at all. Therefore, the result of Zhao Gao's lobbying is, "The prime minister thinks so, but he conspires."
At the instigation of Zhao Gao, Li Si decided to once again use his scheming methods to support Hu Hai in the throne.
Decades of ups and downs in officialdom have made him extremely confident in his opinion, no matter who becomes the emperor, he can firmly control the general trend of the country, he has this self-confidence, and he also has this qualification. When he was just a small official with an uncertain future, he could reverse the national strategy with a single stroke, and when he was in a high position, he assisted in winning the government and destroying the princes outside the country, and governing the country internally. The Great Qin Empire can have today's cultural and martial arts, which one can leave him? He always believed that as long as he was still alive, the Great Qin Empire would still be thriving and changing with each passing day.
In his heart, he is the prime minister of Great Qin who will never change as a matter of course, whoever wants to snatch his prime minister's position will fight with that person, and he will let that person die without a place to be buried, even if that person is Meng Tian, or even Gongzi Fusu!
The elderly Lees's obsession with power has reached the point where there is no distinction between good and bad. For the sake of power, he has disregarded the safety of the country, let alone the great trust of Yingzheng during his lifetime.
In this way, two men with different hearts entered into a conspiracy partnership for the same thing called power.
Under the planning of Zhao Gao and Li Si, Great Qin, this once incomparably brilliant empire, deviated from its original course in an instant, and this deviation never looked back.
As with all tragedies of the country, the righteous and wise heir was killed, the son of the gentleman was put on the throne, and the country began to decay rapidly.
Li Si never thought that his conspiracy would not only wipe out the Qin Empire, but also make himself a different place.
This famous politician, writer, and thinker had at least two great failures in his life.
He was jealous of killing Han Fei, the representative of the Legalists, and the consequence was to ruin a giant thinker.
He participated in the Dune Coup d'Γ©tat, which ruined a powerful empire.
Mr. Lees's late childhood is a pity.
In the change of the sand dunes, Zhao Gao became the final winner. After Fusu's suicide, the playboy Hu Hai ascended to the throne and was called Qin II according to his father's regulations.
As soon as he ascended the throne, he began to squander the country that more than 30 monarchs of the Qin State had worked so hard to establish, and the last straw of the Qin Empire would soon come.