Zhao Gao said that he only dared to harm this Fusu, why didn’t he dare to murder this Qin Shihuang? Is Zhao Gao very afraid of this Qin Shihuang?
Zhao Gao did not dare to murder this Qin Shihuang. After all, Qin Shihuang’s ability is still higher than Zhao Gao. If he dared to murder this Qin Shihuang, it would be a bit of a suicide. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that Zhao Gao is afraid of Qin Shihuang, and he should be afraid. But many people also say that Qin Shihuang's death was very strange. Maybe it was Zhao Gao's conspiracy. Why do you say that? Let's analyze it together!
The mystery of Qin Shihuang's death:
Regarding Qin Shihuang's death, there are many records about the death of Qin Shihuang, which are found in "Bilding of Qin Shihuang", "Biography of Li Si", "Biography of Meng Tian", etc. It seems that the cause of death has been clear and there is no doubt. However, if you read these words about Qin Shihuang's death carefully, you will find that there are interesting points. In the 37th year of the First Emperor (210 BC), Qin Shihuang made his fifth tour, mainly toured Yunmeng, Kuaiji and other places, Li Si, Hu Hai, Zhao Gao and others followed, and the Shangqing Meng Yi was also on the list. Meng Yi was Meng Tian's younger brother and was the emperor's confidant. However, when Qin Shihuang was seriously ill on the way, Meng Yi was sent to "return to pray to the mountains and rivers." This seems to be a higher plan. Because Meng Tian led 300,000 troops to garrison Shangjun with Prince Fusu, Meng Yi was sent away from Qin Shihuang, which means Fusu's eyes and ears were removed. In addition, Zhao Gao was sentenced to death by Meng Yi, and later because Qin Shihuang pardoned him, Zhao Gao was restored to his official title. Zhao Gao hated Meng Yi to the core and wanted to kill the Meng family. Zhao Gao was a eunuch who was in charge of the imperial chariots, seals and ink books of the palace. This time Qin Shihuang's tour was naturally indispensable for the affairs of the CRRC Mansion Order. Later, Zhao Gao also "dos and seals" and was in charge of conveying the emperor's orders and communicating troops. Of course, Zhao Gao followed. Qin Shihuang was exhausted all the way when he went on a tour, but he fell ill when he arrived in Pingyuanjin. Zhao Gao was ordered to write a suicide note to Fusu, the eldest son of Qin Shihuang who was ordered to supervise the army in Hetao: "I was buried with the death of Xianyang." Before the letter was sent away, Qin Shihuang lamented in the palace of Shaqiu (now north of Guangzong County, Hebei).
In order not to spread the news of Qin Shihuang's death and caused chaos, Prime Minister Li Si secretly refused to make funerals, and carried the body in a car, and asked for food as usual. While ordering the car to speed up the road, Zhao Gao asked people to send Qin Shihuang's will to Fusu as soon as possible. Zhao Gao was unwilling to let Fusu inherit the throne. Because Fusu is a decent person, he looks down on Zhao Gao, who is flattering. Qin Shihuang's son Hu Hai was a fool, and Zhao Gao was also ordered to teach Hu Hai to learn law, and the two of them were just as bad as each other. Zhao Gao wanted to make Hu Hai the emperor in order to realize his conspiracy to usurp power and disrupt government, so he violated Qin Shihuang's orders and confiscated the edict. By urging Hu Hai to threaten Li Si, the three of them made a conspiracy to fake the imperial edict of Qin Shihuang, and Hu Hai inherited the throne. At the same time, he also accused Fusu of being unfilial for being a son in the name of Qin Shihuang, accused Meng Tian of being an unfaithful minister, and asked them to commit suicide immediately and not to disobey. After receiving the edict, Fusu committed suicide in tears. Meng Tian didn't want to commit suicide so confusedly. He said that the emperor was traveling outside and ordered me to take 300,000 Xu borders. This is the important task of the world. How can I commit suicide when I see an envoy? Who knows if there is any fraud?" The envoy took him straight to prison and waited for treatment.
Hu Hai, Zhao Gao, and Li Si heard that Fusu had committed suicide, so he ordered the convoy to travel day and night and quickly return to Xianyang. In order to continue to deceive the subjects, he did not take a shortcut to return to Xianyang, but instead took a posture of continuing to patrol, from sand dunes to Jingxing, then to Taiyuan, and then back to Xianyang via straight road, and went around three or four thousand miles. In the heat of summer, Qin Shihuang's body had rotten and smelly. In order to cover people's eyes and ears, he bought many fish and put them on all the cars to mess up their stench and confuse everyone. After arriving in Xianyang, they immediately announced the news of Qin Shihuang's death and the funeral was held. Immediately after, Hu Hai ascended the throne and became emperor for Qin II. Zhao Gao was promoted to the yardstick, and Li Si was still the prime minister. After Zhao Gao succeeded in his conspiracy, he was arrogant and arrogant. He slandered Qin II, framed the brothers of the Meng family, killed the princes; set up a trap, and gradually forced Li Si to death. After Li Si discovered Zhao Gao's conspiracy, he wrote a letter to report to Zhao Gao.Qin II not only favored Zhao Gao, but also surrendered Li Si to prison and punished him, and finally beheaded Li Si in half in Xianyang.
From the above few steps of Zhao Gao usurping power and disrupting politics, we can see that Zhao Gao is a person with evil intentions and a vicious attitude. Therefore, it makes people have to suspect that Qin Shihuang's death was related to Zhao Gao.
According to "Records of the Grand Historian", Qin Shihuang had illness since childhood, so he was weak in physique. He was stubborn and had to make decisions on everything in detail. He reviewed 120 kilograms of documents every day and was extremely tired from work. In addition, the high temperature in July during the tour was caused by the above factors, which prompted him to get sick on the way, but whether Qin Shihuang died was still doubtful.
Guo Moruo once wrote a historical novel "The Death of Qin Shihuang", which describes the epilepsy when he helped Qin Shihuang cross the Yellow River in Pingyuanjin. His back of his head hit the bronze ice curtain, which aggravated the meningitis and the person was in a coma. When the car arrived at the sand dune, he stayed overnight. The next day, Zhao Gao and Li Si discovered that Qin Shihuang was dead, with black blood flowing from his right ear and an inch-long iron nail in his right ear hole. This novel reflects that some people have long suspected that Qin Shihuang's death was an abnormal death. As for who is the murderer? It is believed that it is Hu Hai in the novel. In fact, Zhao Gao's possibility of murdering the pearl was greater than Hu Hai, because the edict and jade seal were both in the hands of Zhao Gao, and the decision to inherit the throne was also in the hands of him and Li Si. Even if Hu Hai killed his father, if he did not receive the cooperation of Zhao Gao and Li Si, he would not only not be able to obtain the throne, but would instead suffer from the death. Zhao Gao often stayed with the emperor and took the opportunity to act without revealing traces, which was much more convenient than Hu Hai.
If you want to ask why Zhao Gao wanted to murder Qin Shihuang? The answer is that Zhao Gao was afraid that Fusu would inherit the throne. As mentioned earlier, he told Li Si: "The eldest son is strong and brave, trusting people and striving for men, and Meng Tian must be the prime minister." Zhao Gao hated Meng Tian and Meng Yi to the core, so how could he be favored by the Meng family? Therefore, Fusu must be prevented from ascending the throne. Qin Shihuang was stubborn and must not do his best to do his best to achieve his goals. Only by ending the life of this tyrant can he be appointed as the eighteenth son Hu Hai. Qin Shihuang usually lives in the deep palace and is very cautious and cannot start. Now he is ill during the journey. This is a good opportunity for heaven. As Zhao Gao said to Hu Hai: "If you hesitate, you will regret it later. If you dare to do it, you will dare to act. If you ghosts and gods avoid it, you will succeed later." Therefore, he bravely attacked Qin Shihuang, who was seriously ill, so that he could end his life early. This is completely possible.
So, does Zhao Gao dare to do this regicide? His words and deeds have given the best answer. He told Hu Hai, "I heard that Tang and Wu killed their lords, and they were justified in the following way, and it was not unfaithful. The king of Wei killed his father, and the Wei Kingdom carried him there, and Confucius told him that he was not unfilial." Zhao Gao not only had the above discussion on the lord killing, but also had public actions to killing the lord later. Shortly after Qin II appointed Zhao Gao as the prime minister, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in Daze Township rose up and ignited the fire of peasant struggle. At this time, Zhao Gao believed that the world was in chaos and the time was ripe, and wanted to usurp the throne and become emperor. He was afraid that the ministers would not accept it, but he wanted to try it out to see how many people obeyed him. So, the farce of "referring to a deer as a horse" was directed. One day, Zhao Gao led a deer into the Xianyang Palace and presented it to Qin II, saying that it was a horse. When Qin Ershi heard this, he burst into laughter and said, "Prime Minister, you are wrong, why do you call a deer a horse?" As he said that, he immediately asked the officials around him whether it was a deer or a horse. Among them, some were afraid of offending Zhao Gao and did not dare to tell the truth, so they had to remain silent; some were pleased by Zhao Gao, and followed by lies, and insisted on being a horse; some respected the facts and said bluntly. Afterwards, Zhao Gao believed that those who said frankly were those who opposed him, so he assassinated them one by one. And those who express silence in the face of facts, especially those clowns who deliberately tell lies and flatter themselves, became the target of Zhao Gaosuo. Zhao Gao found out the details of public opinion, and soon sent his son-in-law Xianyang to order Yan Le to lead more than a thousand soldiers, pretending to be lies and break into the Wangyi Palace. Qin Ershi was shocked. After Yan Le counted Hu Hai's crimes, he forced him to commit suicide. Hu Hai was desperate to escape, and Yan Le said arrogantly: "I was ordered by the Prime Minister and I am the best in the world." As he said that, he commanded the soldiers to possess Xiang Hu Hai, and Hu Hai had to commit suicide.At this time, Zhao Gao put the jade seal on his body and came to the hall, wanting to proclaim himself emperor, but the ministers refused to obey. He had no choice but to make Brother Hu Hai's son Ziying the king. From this act of forcing the palace to force the palace, we can see that it is not surprising that Zhao Gao is a cruel and ruthless person. However, Zhao Gao, who had committed many evil deeds, ended up taking the consequences of being assassinated by Ziying.
It is not difficult to see that Qin Shihuang's death was essentially a court coup, and the missiles in this coup were Zhao Gao. He always wanted to dominate his destiny and others in everything, and Fusu, Meng Tian, Meng Yi, Li Si, Hu Hai and others were the victims who were dominated by him. However, if Zhao Gao wants to dominate others, he must first dominate Qin Shihuang. Only by leveraging Qin Shihuang can he realize his own conspiracy; he cannot dominate the living Qin Shihuang, so he can only pass on the will after killing him. As for how Zhao Gao caused Qin Shihuang to die, this is a shortage in history. Therefore, there is no conclusion on Qin Shihuang's death. Is it a death or a murder? Therefore, this "Sand Dune Suspicion" should be doubted.
