In 207 BC, Qin Shihuang was seriously ill. He ordered his eldest son Fusu to go to Xianyang to preside over the funeral and succeed to the throne.
Qin Shihuang's letter was detained by the eunuch Zhao Gao. After First Emperor died, Zhao Gao decided not to send a funeral secretly and tamper with the will.
Zhao Gao found Qin Shihuang’s youngest son Hu Hai . He wanted to push Hu Hai to the throne so that he could dictate his own authority.
Zhao Gao found Prime Minister Li Si again, and threatened and tempted Li Si agreed to get rid of Fusu and change to Hu Hai.
So Hu Hai, Zhao Gao and Li Si plotted to change the will and sentence Fusu and Meng Tian to death.
Seeing the edict, Fusu immediately committed suicide. Meng Tian died if he refused and was detained. Yangzhou .
Zhao Gao and Li Si were overjoyed when they heard the news and immediately mourned the First Emperor and supported Hu Hai as the emperor, which was for Qin II .
The second generation ascended the throne by conspiracy, and the throne was unstable. He asked Zhao Gao worriedly: "The ministers are not convinced, and the princes must fight with me. What should I do if I do?"
In order to seize power in chaos, Zhao Gao asked the second generation to fabricate crimes and killed ministers such as Meng Yi and Meng Tian who were of great contribution to the First Emperor.
At Zhao Gao's instigation, the second generation turned the butcher's knife to the princes of the royal family and executed twelve princes and ten princesses.
The young master imprisoned the three brothers, and the second generation forced him to commit suicide. The three shouted in grief and anger, "I am not guilty" and drew their swords and committed suicide.
Qin II followed Zhao Gao's words and went out to tour the country, and charged local officials with abuses and killed them, which was ruined by the hearts of the whole world.
In order to prevent the craftsmen who built the tomb from leaking the secrets in the tomb, he ordered them to be kept in the tomb.
The people can no longer bear the brutal rule. In 209 BC, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rose up.
In order to be dictatorial, Zhao Gao decided to cut off the contact between the second generation and the outside world. He said to the second generation sweetly: "If Your Majesty is not doing things properly, he will be despised by the ministers. It is better to live in simplicity."
Second generation indeed no longer went to court to meet the ministers, and was completely undermined by Zhao Gao, who monopolized the power.
As the prime minister, Li Si was extremely dissatisfied with Zhao Gao. Zhao Gao set up a trap and specifically asked Li Si to report to the palace when he was having fun.
II believed Zhao Gao's false accusation and beheaded Li Si in half in Xianyang.
The world is in chaos, and thieves are rising, only Qin Ershi doesn't know. Occasionally, he hears a little news. Gui asks Zhao Gao, and Zhao Gao hides it.
Seeing that Second Emperor was suspicious of him, Zhao Gao launched a court coup and forced Qin II to commit suicide.
Qin Ershi was violent and stupid, and was played with by treacherous villains, which eventually led to a different end. Qin Dynasty also quickly perished.
