Chang Yu, eat soft rice and hard, let Zhao Ji give birth to a son and usurp the throne
Qin Shi Huang was the first far-sighted monarch in Chinese history, and with the rich legacy left by his ancestors, he successfully developed the Qin state into a powerful and economically prosperous country, and finally realized the great dream of unifying the six countries and opening a new era of China, opening a new page in Chinese history.
However, the eunuch Chang Yu had an illicit relationship with Qin Shi Huang's mother, Zhao Ji, gave birth to two sons, and trumpeted that he was Qin Shi Huang's father in public, and even plotted a rebellion with the intention of usurping the throne and replacing Qin Shi Huang.
As Zhao Ji's favorite male pet, Chang Yu enjoys incomparable glory and wealth. For him, Zhao Ji did not hesitate to break the rules of the harem to save him from the pain of purification, and ignored the gossip and gave birth to an heir for him.
In order to please Chang Yu, Zhao Ji even named him the Marquis of Changxin, and gave him large areas of land such as Shanyang County, Hexi County, and Taiyuan County as fiefs. Although this inglorious history gradually disappeared into the long river of history after Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, it undoubtedly added a touch of color to Qin Shi Huang's great achievements, and it also reminds us that history is not all smooth sailing, and there are various challenges and crises in every era.
Because Chang Yu was overly favored, his ambitions were expanding day by day, and he wanted to secretly get rid of Qin Shi Huang and replace the throne with his own son. Zhao Ji, who is addicted to male sex, acquiesces and supports Chang Yu's plan.
After the East Window incident, Zhao Ji even interceded for Chang Yu and tried his best to prevent Qin Shi Huang from killing him. So, what made Zhao Ji so obsessed with Chang Yu? It all stems from the proton experience of Qin Shi Huang's father, Qin Guoan Guojun.
An Guojun ignored the stranger, and in order to make Qin express friendship, Zhao asked Qin to send a proton, and An Guojun sent Yiren to Handan without hesitation.
Ying Yiren has always been regarded as an insignificant figure, he was ignored when he was in the Qin State, and he was even more neglected in the Zhao State. In the war between Qin and Zhao, his situation was even more difficult, and he could only survive by eating the leftover food of the Zhao royal family every day, and he had to walk when he went out.
In this situation, Lü Buwei saw his value and began to give him gifts and take him to eat and drink. One day, when Yingyi was drinking in Lü Buwei's mansion, he took a fancy to a maiko Zhao Ji.
Lü Buwei pretended not to give Zhao Ji to him, but in the end he gave her to Ying Yiren half-pushed and half-on-the-spot. In the company of Zhao Ji, Ying Yiren spent many boring times in Zhao and eventually became her husband.
In order to help Yingyiren return to the Qin State**, Lü Buwei can be described as having a lot of effort. He found that An Guojun's favorite concubine, Mrs. Huayang, had no heirs, so he went to Qin with gifts and persuaded Mrs. Huayang's sister to tell Mrs. Huayang that Yiren missed his father and Mrs. Huayang day and night in Zhao Kingdom, and regarded Mrs. Huayang as his heaven.
Mrs. Huayang was deeply moved, so she asked An Guojun to appoint another person as his heir. An Guojun agreed, and carved a jade talisman with Mrs. Huayang as a basis. After the death of An Guojun, Yiren successfully ascended the throne with the help of Mrs. Huayang and became the king of a country.
However, happiness came too suddenly, and Inhuman died of illness just three years after taking charge of the country, leaving behind a poor orphan and widow. At that time, Zhao Ji was only in his twenties, and Lü Buwei was the minister of the court, with power all over the sky, and entering and leaving the palace was like entering a no-man's land.
Zhao Ji and Lu Buwei bowed their heads every day and didn't look up, and soon the old relationship rekindled, and there was a tendency to burn the prairies.
Lü Buwei and Zhao Ji: An Exchange of Power and Desire As Yingzheng grew older, Lü Buwei felt more and more pressure. He had a premonition that he was about to face a catastrophe and that he had to clear up his relationship with Zhao Ji as soon as possible.
Although Zhao Ji used to be his maiko, she is now the queen of the world. He knew that she had many secrets that could not be looked back on, and if he continued to entangle with her, he would definitely not end well in the future.
However, Zhao Ji pestered Lu Buwei every day, making him unable to separate. So Lu Buwei used his brains and wanted to find a male pet as a chess piece to steal the beam and replace himself.
And this male pet is the protagonist of our story. Chang Yu was from a humble background, he was a street ruffian, fighting was his strength, he was burly and dignified.
In addition, he also had a special function that attracted Lu Buwei's attention, and he felt that Zhao Ji must like a masculine and handsome man like him. Lü Buwei found Chang Yu, gave him gold and silver treasures, and accepted him as a guest.
However, Lu Buwei couldn't directly give Chang Yu to Zhao Ji, he needed to let Zhao Ji ask for it himself. This is an exchange of power and desire between Lü Buwei and Zhao Ji.
In order to raise Chang Yu's prestige, Lü Buwei hosted a banquet at his home to entertain the guests and invited their family members to participate. During the banquet, Chang Yu performed his unique skills. According to the "Historical Records", he would walk on the Yinguan Tong wheel, which made the Empress Dowager Zhao Ji have a strong interest in it after hearing about it.
Sima Qian's record inadvertently reveals the reason for Chang Yu's favor. The news spread quickly and soon reached Zhao Ji's ears. Zhao Ji curiously asked Lü Buwei about Chang Yu's situation, and Lü Buwei took the opportunity to praise Chang Yu's many advantages, which made Zhao Ji even more excited, so she decided to let Lü Buwei arrange Chang Yu to her bedroom.
In order to get Chang Yu to enter the palace justifiably, Lü Buwei racked his brains and finally came up with a plan. He arranged for Chang Yu to pretend to molest women on the street, and then asked the officers and soldiers to arrest him, but Chang Yu was sentenced to rot and became a fake eunuch.
Then, Lü Buwei asked Chang Yu to imitate the eunuch's every move at home, and asked him not to grow a beard in the future. After a month of preparation, Chang Yu successfully entered Zhao Ji's side in the name of hard work.
Zhao Ji fell in love with Chang Yu's handsomeness at first sight, and the two fornicated and became pregnant. All this is recorded in detail in the "Historical Records". However, Zhao Ji, as the mother of King Qin, has an affair with another man in private, and once discovered, she will definitely be ruined.
In order to conceal the truth, Zhao Ji pretended that the recent divination was not good, and moved to the remote Yongcheng with Chang Yu. Soon after arriving in Yongcheng, Chang Yu began to get carried away, behaved indulgently, and was arrogant and arrogant in his mentality, and gradually no longer satisfied with just standing behind Zhao Ji to enjoy happiness, but wanted to grasp greater power.
So, he lobbied Zhao Ji day and night, and Zhao Ji was obsessed with his charm and obeyed his arrangement. In the end, Zhao Ji found Lü Buwei and said that he couldn't do without Chang Yu and hoped that he could be named Hou.
Lü Buwei was surprised by this, thinking that the eunuch feudal marquis violated the ancestral system, but after Zhao Ji's soft grinding and hard bubbles, Lü Buwei still decided to intercede with Yingzheng for him. Under the joint promotion of the two, Chang Yu successfully obtained the title of Marquis of Changxin and obtained the residence of Shanyang County.
Soon after, he got Taiyuan County again, and even renamed it Chang Yu Country, which is the origin of Taiyuan's ancient name "Yu Country".
After Chang Yu was named a prince, he was ambitious and began to recruit heroes from all over the world and expand his power. Talents defected to him one after another, and he gradually became a powerful minister, and the relationship with Lü Buwei also changed, from a master-servant relationship to a competitive relationship.
At that time, the state of Qin gradually became stronger under the leadership of Yingzheng, and many small states sent gifts to the king of Qin through Lü Buwei to sue for peace. However, Chang Yu's power was greater than that of Lü Buwei, and the envoys of various countries gave him gifts, and even the prince of Yan gave him a piece of beautiful jade that only an emperor was entitled to have.
Chang Yu is in the limelight, and Lu Buwei also wants to give him three points. However, Lü Buwei was not discouraged by this, he was convinced that the Empress Dowager Zhao behind Chang Yu was the real force, and Chang Yu was just a skin.
Sure enough, not long after, Chang Yu drank and had fun with the noble ministers in the mansion, but ended up arguing and fighting because of gambling. The drunken and hazy Chang Yu threatened to be the false father of Qin Shi Huang, and the matter was reported to Qin Shi Huang by the aristocratic ministers, and the adultery between Chang Yu and the Empress Dowager Zhao soon spread throughout the court.
When everyone was talking about how to deal with Chang Yu, Qin Shi Huang had long known about his affair with Zhao Ji, but he didn't expect him to be so bold. When he heard his ministers privately talk about his mother's adultery with other men, Qin Shi Huang's anger erupted like thunder.
After sobering up, Chang Yu was deeply frightened, knowing that saying the wrong thing might lead to death, but he was irreparable, and there was no way out, only a dead end. So, he decided to strike first, plotted to rebel with his close disciples, killed the king, and allowed himself and Zhao Ji's son to ascend the throne, thinking that with Zhao Ji's sole favor, he could cover the sky with one hand.
However, he forgot that the Qin State was still Yingzheng's world, and the Qin State was full of Yingzheng's eyeliner, and any wind and grass would be known by Yingzheng clearly. In 238 BC, the ministers officially exposed his crimes to Ying Zheng ** Chang Yu, and Qin Shi Huang learned that Chang Yu was not a eunuch, but a fake eunuch arranged by Lü Buwei to enter the palace.
In addition, he also heard that Zhao Ji gave birth to two younger brothers for him, and what made him even more unbearable was that Chang Yu actually had the idea of killing the monarch and usurping the throne.
When Qin Shi Huang learned of this, he immediately sent personnel to conduct an in-depth investigation, conducted a thorough investigation of Chang Yu and his family, and also grasped his improper relationship with Zhao Ji.
In order to further verify this information, Qin Shi Huang went to Yongcheng to carry out a secret investigation under the pretext of marching inspection. Knowing that Ying Zheng had left the capital, Chang Yu decided to take advantage of the opportunity to gather an army to take control of Xianyang City, and then destroy Ying Zheng when he returned to the capital.
The night before the operation, Chang Yu flattered Zhao Ji to the fullest, and while she was asleep, she stole the jade seal of the Queen Mother in an attempt to transfer troops. He had thousands of disciples and used the jade seal to mobilize 3,000 servants, claiming that this was the will of the Empress Dowager, and led these four or five thousand non-professional armed men to the road of rebellion.
Although Qin Shi Huang was young and much younger than Chang Yu, his wisdom clearly surpassed that of Chang Yu. Before going to Yongcheng, Qin Shi Huang had already preset a plan, instructing his cronies Chang Pingjun and Chang Wenjun to gather troops outside Xianyang City, and take immediate action once Chang Yu's rebellion was discovered.
At the same time, Qin Shi Huang drafted an edict in advance, announcing that "those who capture the concubines alive will be rewarded with millions of dollars; Whoever stabs to death will be rewarded with 500,000 yuan." The high bounty will inevitably arouse the fighting spirit of the Qin soldiers.
In general, Qin Shi Huang, after learning the truth, took decisive measures to seek to protect the interests of the country and the people. Through rigorous investigation and meticulous deployment, he was ready to thwart Chang Yu's conspiracy and protect the peace of the country and the people.
In the palace coup, Chang Yu, who was kept in the dark, fell into passivity because of his cleverness. His army was defeated by the fierce attacks of Chang Pingjun and Chang Wenjun, and the Qin ** team showed the might of a tiger and easily resolved the coup d'état of the unarmed men.
The Qin ** team opened the way with bows and arrows, and the 10,000 arrows made Chang Yu fearful, and then sprinted with swords, and Chang Yu's army instantly fell into chaos and lost its combat effectiveness. Seeing that his troops had turned into a rabble, Chang Yu realized that the tide had turned, and tried to escape.
However, the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister, even if Chang Yu has great skills, it is difficult to escape the fate of being captured. At this time, Ying Zheng was not idle, he took the opportunity of Chang Yu's rebellion to carry out a big purge, and all those who had correspondence with Chang Yu, regardless of whether they knew about Chang Yu's rebellion, were dealt with as crimes.
After a quick trial, Chang Yu was finally sentenced to the punishment of car splitting and exterminated his three clans. In addition, more than 20 dignitaries and nobles who had contact with Chang Yu were also punished by death, and more than 4,000 people were stripped of their titles and assigned to the land of Bashu because of their involvement.
Although Qin Shi Huang took extreme measures against Zhao Ji and Chang Yusheng's two younger brothers, this did not affect his control of Qin. For Chang Yu's life and death, it is just his punishment for disloyal ministers as a monarch.
From the perspective of the Qin state, the contribution of Chang Yu's death to the Qin state was immeasurable, he eliminated the disloyal ministers in the court, suppressed Lü Buwei's position, enabled Qin Shi Huang to control all the military power, and laid a good domestic political foundation for the unification of China.
This is the true portrayal of "the most ruthless imperial family".