Before Qin Shihuang unify the world, Qin Dynasty was just a small Qin State . In that turbulent era, there would always be people who seized the opportunity and leaped from the bottom of society to appear on the stage of history.
Lv Buwei , Zhao Ji , Lao Ai and others appear in "The Great Qin Dynasty". Among them, this "male favorite" Lao Ai may be a special existence.
Changxinhou Who is Lao Ai? What is his extraordinary nature? He can make the biological mother of 公公 obsessed with him, obey him in everything, and even give birth to two children for him? Sima Qian reveals the reason.
Lu Buwei's "Preview"
When it comes to the history of the Qin Dynasty, we must start with Lu Buwei. This is a businessman who has a "significant influence" on the Qin Dynasty and understands the importance of power.
Lu Buwei was originally a wealthy businessman. At that time, even the wealthy businessman was at the lower level in society. Lu Buwei's yearning for power did not allow him to fall under others, so he began to look for candidates and prepare to make "investment".
After several considerations and observations, Lu Buwei decided to bet on the potential stock Yiren. At this time, Yi Ren was acting as a hostage in Zhao State. After many twists and turns, Lu Buwei met Yi Ren.
Lu Buwei spared no expense to "package" Yiren, and took him to make friends with celebrities and patriots in the upper class, and expanded Yiren's circle of friends and interpersonal network. Make full preparations for Yi Ren to return to China to compete for the throne in the future.
When Yiren went to Lu Buwei's house to attend the banquet, he fell in love with Lu Buwei's concubine, Zhao Ji, at first sight, and asked Lu Buwei for someone. Lu Buwei acted extremely reluctant on the surface, but he could only bear the pain of giving up and "give" Zhao Ji to Yi Ren.
However, this move was a plan by Lu Buwei. Zhao Ji and Yi Ren's "love at first sight" was also designed by Lu Buwei to use this "beauty plan" to firmly connect himself with Yi Ren.
Ying Zheng was born
Zhao Ji followed Yi Ren and gave birth to a child soon. Yi Ren named the child Ying Zheng, the First Emperor, and was born in Zhao State.
When Qin attacked Zhao, there was chaos. Lu Buwei tried hard to rescue the trapped Yiren while he took advantage of the chaos and sent him back to Qin.
But Zhao Ji and his son did not follow Yi Ren back to Qin State. From then on, the mother and son lived in the country of Zhao and hid in Tibet.
The Yiren who returned to Qin State was renamed Zi Chu and inherited the throne of Qin State. After a few years, he tried his best to bring Zhao Ji and Ying Zheng, who were living in foreign countries, back to Qin State. Lu Buwei also followed Qin and opened his own new world.
Zi Chu, known in history as Qin Zhuangxiang King , died of overwork and illness after reigning for several years. Ying Zheng succeeded to the throne, but the young Ying Zheng did not gain real power. The control of major events in the court was controlled by Zhao Ji and Lu Buwei. The "young emperor" Ying Zheng called Lu Buwei "Zhongfu".
In order to control the right to win, Lu Buwei must obtain the support of the emperor's biological mother and Zhao Ji. Zhao Ji was originally a romantic person, and he had an old relationship with Lu Buwei, and the two of them rekindled their old relationship.
A "Zhongfu" and an empress dowager. The two of them have the power in their hands, so they have had a private meeting for a while.
As Ying Zheng grew up and became more and more sensible, Lu Buwei began to worry that his affairs with Empress Dowager Zhao would be discovered by Ying Zheng, which would cause death. As a businessman, you will never do anything that harms your own interests.
He was sober that if he continued, it would only have all kinds of harm but no benefits. But in order to let Empress Dowager Zhao "put his own code", he began to find a replacement and offered it to Empress Dowager Zhao.
Lu Buwei is rich and powerful, and he has many disciples under his sect. Lao Ai is one of them. Among the many disciples, Lao Ai, who is handsome, was discovered by Lu Buwei.
Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" records: " The Great Yin man Lao Ai thought he was a sacrificer, and he always advocated joy, so that he could use his Yinguan Tong wheel to walk ." What makes Lao Ai different from ordinary people is that he can turn the wheel with his body.
" Let the Empress Dowager hear it and eat the Empress Dowager ." Lu Buwei deliberately spread this matter so that the Empress Dowager knew and aroused the interest of Empress Dowager Zhao.
"Unwilling to be lonely" Queen Mother Zhao
" Queen Mother heard that she wanted to get it privately ." After hearing about Lao Ai's extraordinary features, Queen Mother Zhao was really interested. She took the initiative to find Lu Buwei to ask for someone, and wanted to meet this "unusual" character, and even acted a little impatient.
Lao Ai was recommended by Lu Buwei and got the opportunity to enter Empress Dowager Zhao. Lu Buwei took this to get out perfectly. Empress Dowager Zhao, who is "love-brained", is obsessed with Lao Ai.
In order to successfully send Lao Ai to Queen Mother Zhao and not arouse suspicion, Lu Buwei came up with a plan. He convicted Lao Ai of a false crime and sentenced him to "castration". He bribed the criminal officer in advance and only pulled out Lao Ai's beard, which was considered to have been "castrated".
"Fake eunuch" Lao Ai was naturally sent to Empress Dowager Zhao. From then on, there were inseparable "fake eunuch male favorites" around Empress Dowager Zhao, which became a well-known "secret".
Lao Ai's chaos
When Lao Ai joined Lu Buwei's disciple, his identity was equivalent to the "little hooligan" in today's society, and he had no talent. Now, with the physical advantage, the Empress Dowager has been sobbed out of her mind. As long as the Empress Dowager does not violate the laws of the time, the Empress Dowager will allow everything.
Lao Ai turned over. Because of Empress Dowager Zhao, he was named Changxin Hou and had his own fiefdom. Many ministers and disciples joined his disciples one after another.
Lao Ai was blinded by power. He persuaded Empress Dowager Zhao to give birth to two children for him. He felt that his strength could compete with Ying Zheng.
At the banquet in the fief, he actually said nonsense, called himself the emperor's "fake father" and revealed the fact that he had given birth to a son with the queen mother. He completely put Lu Buwei's hard advice behind him.
This truthful statement after drinking was heard by someone who was interested in Ying Zheng. Ying Zheng became suspicious and found out the truth. Seeing that the situation was not good, Lao Ai wanted to rebel and forced Ying Zheng to retreat with force.
How could Qin Shihuang, who unified the world, take such a despicable person seriously?
just took advantage of the situation and set up an ambush early, just waiting for Lao to fall into the trap. In the end, Lao Ai had to end up being dismembered by five horses, and his two illegitimate sons of Empress Dowager Zhao were also thrown to death.
"Pun and kill it, and the back of the thorns is thorny." From this we can see that the First Emperor was also heartbroken about his biological mother, so he had this decisive way of dealing with it. Even the opportunity to plead for mercy is not allowed to appear.
Since then, Empress Dowager Zhao has fallen from the clouds to the bottom, Lu Buwei, Lao Ai and others have withdrawn from the historical stage, and the "Qinian Palace Change" in history has come to an end.
Conclusion
Lao Ai is a civilian. With his own advantages, Empress Dowager Zhao is so obsessed with that she is even willing to give birth to two children for him. If you can climb from the bottom of society to the top, Lao Ai naturally has his own little wisdom.
Maybe it is a right " gradually fascinating ". He broke free from Lu Buwei's control and could not listen to the advice of the people around him. Such an arrogant, mindless "fool" still has to challenge authority, and he will have to end up with a crushing defeat.
