The first emperor wrote a letter to LV Buwei, who committed suicide by drinking poison after reading the letter. In fact, before this, a failed palace coup was also the reason for LV Buwei’s suicide.
The abortive palace coup still started with the relationship between LV Buwei and Empress Dowager Zhao Ji. LV Buwei gave Zhao Ji to Zichu, who died after only three years as king of Qin. At that time, Zhao Ji was only about 30 years old and became a widow at a young age, which was very cruel to her.
It is reasonable to say that as an old lover of Zhao Ji, LV Buwei can enter the palace at the right time to keep warm with her, use adultery to maintain her feelings many years ago, and increase the insurance coefficient of her power. But the court system was strict, which was one of them; Second, LV Buwei was in his old age, and his energy was poor. His heart was surplus but his strength was insufficient. It was probably at Zhao Ji’s request that LV Buwei recommended him to the sexually active empress dowager.
According to the records of the historian, he has a huge and strong penis. It is said that it can be used to move the wheels to make the car move forward. This exaggerated description shows that he has a strong sexual ability and is fully capable of comforting the young empress dowager in the widowed harem. Getting along day and night and frequent sexual intercourse made the woman who was still in her prime pregnant.
Of course, he came to serve Zhao Ji as a eunuch. Historical data show that not all court eunuchs from the pre Qin Dynasty to the Western Han Dynasty were eunuchs. Only from the Eastern Han Dynasty did all eunuchs be used. But even so, the widowed empress dowager’s pregnancy is a Royal Scandal. Zhao Ji then lied to her son Ying Zheng that she had occupied a divination and was not suitable to stay in the palace. She should move to the palace. She wanted to live in another place to avoid disaster. Ying Zheng agreed to the Empress Dowager’s request and asked her to move with her to Yong county.
The Empress Dowager who eloped with her lover gave birth to two sons one after another in the palace of Yong county.
He also received many rewards for his meritorious service to the Empress Dowager. It is said that there are thousands of servants and servants, and there are also more than a thousand guests who have gone to seek official positions. Later, he was granted the title of marquis Changxin, with Shanyang (now the southeast of Jiaozuo, Henan Province) as his residence and Hexi and Taiyuan counties as his farmland. As for all the local affairs in Yong County, the only thing to do was to listen. For a time, it was powerful and shocked the government and the people. The weight of internal servants was a taboo of emperors in all dynasties. What’s more, he called himself the “false father” of the first emperor. A “Zhongfu” had already made the first emperor angry. Unexpectedly, another “fake father” appeared. He was also a eunuch, and the killing was imminent.
In 238 B.C. (the ninth year of the first emperor), someone reported that he was a fake eunuch who had an affair with the Empress Dowager and had two sons. He plotted with the Empress Dowager that “if the emperor died, our son would be the emperor”. The subtext can be understood as that if the emperor died early, his son would be the emperor early; Ying Zheng was twenty-two years old at that time. The so-called “conspiracy” was like a curse. It seemed that regicide and usurpation were also very likely to occur. The first emperor was so angry at the news that he immediately sent people to investigate. It was true. It was also learned that “false father” Pang was actually introduced by “Zhong Fu” Lv Buwei.
After he was granted the title of long letter Marquis, he was granted the title of Yi state by Taiyuan County in Hexi. He wantonly enjoyed the palace, horses, carriages, clothes and gardens, and lived a rich life as a prince. How could he be caught and killed? So he plotted with Zhao Ji and decided to strike first. Moreover, the timing was extremely good. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In April of that year, the first emperor went to the Qinian palace in Yongcheng to perform the coronation ceremony (that is, the Adulthood Ceremony, which was generally set at the age of 20 in later generations, but the first emperor only performed the coronation ceremony at the age of 22). It was delivered to the door.
Therefore, he stole the imperial seal of the king of Qin and the Empress Dowager’s seal, mobilized County soldiers and official guards to attack the Qi Nian palace where Ying Zheng’s coronation ceremony was being held. The first emperor had already made preparations. He knew that there were tigers in the mountain, and they would lead the snake out of the cave and attack the enemy later.
The first emperor ordered the prime ministers Changping and Changwen to lead Xianyang soldiers to quell the rebellion. The two armies fought in Xianyang. The king of Qin ordered: “all those who have made meritorious service in the war will be rewarded by the grand duke, and those eunuchs who participated in the war will also be rewarded by the grand duke.” There are many people who work hard to serve the country. Hundreds of rebels were killed, and his army was defeated. He fled in a hurry.
The Qin emperor then issued a wanted order: “a million yuan will be given to those who captured him alive, and a half million yuan to those who killed him.” there must be a brave man under the heavy reward. He and his close associates were soon captured alive. Ying Zheng’s chariot broke up and destroyed its three clans. Twenty of his best friends, Wei Weijie, NEISHI Si, Zuo Gejie, and Chinese doctor Ling Qi, were led by the owl. The guests who follow him give up their lives. Those who have committed minor crimes are the paymasters of the ancestral temple – Ghost salaries; More than 4000 people who had committed serious crimes took their titles and moved to Shu. After three years of migration, most of them died in exile.
The first emperor was extremely cruel to his two half brothers, namely the Empress Dowager and his two sons. The two children were “killed in sacks” together, that is, they were put into sacks and fell to death alive.
The Empress Dowager Zhaoji was saved from death, but was driven out of Xianyang and moved to the cold palace outside the city. Ying Zheng also announced that he would cut off the mother child relationship and vowed never to see her again. It’s easy to think of the famous story of “Zheng Burke Duan Yu Yan” in Zuo Zhuan. In that story, Zheng Bo also vowed to “be inferior to the yellow spring and never see each other” with the Empress Dowager Jiang. However, after uncle Ying Kao’s advice, Zheng Bo ordered people to dig the tunnel. After seeing the underground water (yellow spring), his mother and son enjoyed their family in the tunnel. As the saying goes, digging tunnels is really a good way. It shows both honesty and filial piety.
The courtiers of the first emperor must also have thought of this beautiful talk about filial piety and no joking, and suggested that the first emperor learn from Zheng Bo and the mother and son of Empress Dowager Zhaoji. It is a pity that the first emperor not only did not listen, but also explicitly ordered those who dared to advise the Empress Dowager on matters, “kill them, and tribulus their backs.”. But this still did not deter those courtiers who tried to rebuild moral order in the new dynasty. They were righteous, impassioned, fearless, and did not worry that the emperor would actually kill them. However, they did not know enough about Ying Zheng, who had just turned 22. A total of 27 ministers who had been remonstrating were brutally executed for this matter, and their bodies were hung on the palace wall for public display. Since then, no one in the world dare to speak.
How can the “false father” survive when the “false father” is destroyed? Moreover, the two “fathers” who had violated the taboo of the first emperor had a certain degree of complicity. LV Buwei’s Jiujiu was actually poured and put there by himself as early as when he contributed Zhao Ji to other people. This is his only miscalculation as a businessman.