Chapter 11 chapter Five

Now we should see what happened to Queen Mother Zhao Ji. Zhao Ji is a woman who pays great attention to sensuality and enjoyment. Ever since Lai Ai entered the palace, she had sex with him every day and lived a life like a fairy, so she gradually forgot about Lu Buwei.And this is exactly what Lu Buwei hoped for.However, something that Lu Buwei didn't expect, or something that was hard to control happened unexpectedly—the peace negotiation between Zhao Ji and Lai Ai inevitably had a "crystallization". After Zhao Ji found out that she was pregnant, she was very frightened. In order to avoid the eyes and ears, she said that there was evil in the palace, and the only way to avoid it was to hide in Yongcheng, the former capital of Qin State, two hundred miles away.Knowing that his mother was having an affair with Zhong's father, Ying Zheng naturally hoped that she would stay far away, while Lu Buwei hoped that Zhao Ji would stay away to avoid a scandal in the palace.So, Zhao Ji and her lover Lao Ai moved to the Dazheng Palace in Yongcheng smoothly.

When the eldest son was born, he built a secret room to raise him secretly.Soon, they made a second one.If there were no accidents, the two of them might make a long series one after another. As a woman of that era, it was impossible for Zhao Ji to have any pursuits and ideals. She was a typical pragmatist and a temperamental person who "followed her feelings".Lao Ai was kind to her and gave her a rare joy in life, so she transferred her deep love for Lu Buwei to Lao Ai, and begged her son Qin Wang Yingzheng and her former lover Lu Buwei to seal him a long letter. With the order of the Marquis, Lao Ai became rich overnight.Slowly, they began to raise servants and recruit servants, reaching as many as thousands.Lai Ai has no culture and no great abilities. His favor and power are mainly due to his handsome appearance and prominent penis.In the final analysis, he can only be regarded as a villain who is close to a rogue.And once the villain is successful, he will forget himself and don't know the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth.Therefore, he forgot the fact that he was favored by Lu Buwei's recommendation to make his fortune, and began to compete with him for power and wealth; He ordered to take advantage of Yingzheng's coronation ceremony to launch a sudden attack, trying to kill him, and then support him and the queen mother's son to ascend to the throne.

Although Lu Buwei, who is super intelligent, is old, he is definitely not so faint that he turns a blind eye to Zhao Ji and Lao Ai's series of abnormal behaviors, and does not do anything when he sees them.He already knew about the two hidden children in Dazheng Palace; what kind of woman Zhao Ji was, and how crazy she would be to Lai Ai, he naturally knew in his heart; what kind of methods they would use to deal with her Ying Zheng, he also knew it well.The reason why Lu Buwei hides is that he is looking for opportunities, and the other is that he has certain illusions about Zhao Ji.No matter what, Ying Zheng is also her biological son!Although she had persuaded him to seize the throne, he had always been confident in his heart that his position in Zhao Ji's heart must be higher than that of Lai Ai;However, he never thought that they would actually use force.Until the spies he had been with the Queen Mother for a long time told him the news, he was still skeptical and did not preemptively strike.Of course, being a scheming man, he also had an extra mind, and made first-hand preparations, that is, to quickly organize military forces and dispatch troops to ensure that his son's crowning ceremony can be held smoothly as scheduled.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Ji and Lao Ai really did it!After a short period of surprise, Lu Buwei began to counterattack methodically.When it comes to leading troops to fight, whether it is theory or practice, Lai Ai is far from him.Within a few rounds, the mob led by Lao Ai was completely defeated.Lu Buwei will definitely feel regret for a while, and feel that this battle is too unsatisfactory. According to relevant historical records, it was Lord Changping and Lord Changwen who commanded the counter-insurgency war, and Lu Buwei was not mentioned.However, we infer from the facts that the military commander behind the scenes must be Lu Buwei, the prime minister.At that time, military power was still in his hands, and without his participation in the planning, no one could mobilize a decent army.No matter who it is, as long as they covet and get their hands on the throne of his son Yingzheng, Lu Buwei will definitely suppress it with an iron fist without hesitation.

As a result, the rebels were wiped out.Ying Zheng was so angry that he ran into the secret room of Dazheng Palace, put the two half-brothers who were only five years old and three years old into skins, and uttered two words viciously and lightly—— kill!In an instant, the two living lives turned into two meat pies.Then, Lai Ai was arrested and punished by being torn apart, his corpse was exposed to the public, the nine clans were exterminated, and his followers were severely punished one by one.He still couldn't let go of his hatred, so he exiled his mother Zhao Ji and put him under house arrest.

After doing all this in a frenzy, Ying Zheng began to calmly examine and deal with his second father, Lu Buwei.With the crown ceremony and his party, all the royal power will be handed over to Yingzheng. At this time, Lu Buwei is no longer the uncrowned king, but a prime minister under the throne.Although it doesn't matter if you are a minister, you are always a minister under the king. If the king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die.The situation has been reversed, and Ying Zheng no longer has to shrink back and bow his head to flatter him.He wanted to vent, to take revenge, and the time had finally come.However, it is necessary to find such a plausible excuse to give Qin officials and people an explanation.So, I made a fuss about the Lai Ai incident, checked and dug twice, and found that Lai Ai entered the palace to serve the Queen Mother after being recommended by Lu Buwei.For a normal man to pass off as an eunuch, what is it if it is not a crime of deceiving the emperor?

At this time, Qin Wang Yingzheng must have thought of killing Lu Buwei in his heart.However, no matter what, he was his biological father!Furthermore, Lu Buwei has indeed made great contributions to the Qin State in these years, and he also has a special and complicated feeling for him that is not clear.After thinking about it, human nature temporarily gained the upper hand, and the raised butcher knife was lowered again.Ying Zheng decided to keep his father Zhong, but he had to get rid of this annoying stumbling block.Therefore, an order was issued to remove Lu Buwei from the position of Xiangguo and relegate him to Luoyang, Henan Province.

After Lu Buwei was demoted to Luoyang, his prestige was still there. "The guests and envoys of the princes looked at each other in the Tao", and they came to visit, greet, and ask for instructions.Everyone knew about his special relationship with Qin Wangzheng, and predicted that he would come back sooner or later, but it was only a matter of time.If he didn't believe it, Ying Zheng demoted his mother Zhao Ji in a fit of rage, wouldn't he recall her soon?Of course, among these people, those who came out of admiration for Lu Buwei, or who came to repay his great kindness, were not excluded.The throng of people aroused the suspicion of his son Yingzheng. He was "fearful that he would change" and wanted to kick Lu Buwei further away, keeping him away from the Central Plains, away from the center of power, and it is best to stay away from this world.So, a year later, Qin Wang Yingzheng issued another decree, the original text is as follows according to "Historical Records Biography of Lu Buwei":

When Lu Buwei received the order, the last illusion in his heart could not help but be completely shattered like a soap bubble: Bashu has high mountains and mountains, the sky is far away, and the poisonous miasma is pervasive. How can an old man in his sixties deal with himself?Isn't this killing him alive?What's the difference from ordering death?For decades, he has struggled and fought hard, and achieved success that is difficult for ordinary people to reach. However, he did not expect that he was slipping into the abyss of failure step by step while he was reaching the top.Over the years, he always felt that there was a net waiting for him invisibly. He struggled, avoided, and resisted. In the end, he never thought that the person who cast the net would be his own son.It was his blood that flowed in his son's veins. He couldn't deal with his own blood, and unknowingly entered a vicious circle that was invisible to the naked eye.

So far in life, Lu Buwei has no other choice but to die in a dignified and noble manner. So, he found an exquisite wine barker, poured highly poisonous poisonous wine into it, and poured it full. At this moment, does Lu Buwei have any regrets about his life, Qin, and Yingzheng?Does he regret that he shouldn't give up Jewelry Win and turn to Yiren Win? Does he regret not following Zhao Ji's persuasion and taking the throne of Yingzheng? Does he regret not compiling "Lu Shi Chun Qiu"? Hand over power? ... For a moment, he must have thought a lot, but I thought he had absolutely no regrets.His life can be regarded as a pursuit, valuable and meaningful life. Except for regrets, it should be said that there are no regrets!Even if Yingzheng wanted his life, for the sake of his own son, it was a kind of willingness. Isn't his son's career and life a kind of continuation and special expression of his own life?Of course, he will definitely scold Ying Zheng for being so cruel that even his own father will not let him go, and he will worry about the future development of Qin State; I am gratified that the eternity of "...

Lu Buwei slowly raised the cup of wine, stared at it for a long time, then suddenly raised his neck and gulped it down. "Wuxie Getai, the wind is always blown away by the rain." Lu Buwei's life came to an end in a tragic moment.All the disciples were grateful for Lu Buwei's kindness, risked their lives to avoid King Qin's eyeliner and stole the body, and then buried it at the foot of Mount Mang. "Long live the name of Qianqiu, what happens after a lonely death." Lu Buwei, who was so beautiful in the past, only left a pile of barren mounds, not even a tombstone.The decaying grass, the wind blowing, and the slanting light are really touching. For thousands of years, Lu Buwei's image and reputation in official history books and folklore are not very good, and he is considered to be conspiratorial, dishonest, honest, open and upright.I am afraid that this is closely related to Lu Buwei's humble businessman background, his drilling strategy, unscrupulous methods, and the insoluble mysteries we listed above.However, what would happen if Lu Buwei simply kicked off Yingzheng during his long ten years as the uncrowned king and sat on the throne in a grand and serious manner?The winner is the prince and the loser is the Kou. Chinese history and tradition only worship those successful heroes and emperors.In this way, the evaluation of Lu Buwei by later generations is of course another situation.Perhaps, the historical facts and legends about Lu Buwei we have seen today will be covered with a dazzling halo, and those so-called unethical strategies will be rewritten to become upright, bright, and praised by others.Then, not only the history of Qin will be rewritten, but the entire history of China will also be greatly changed: Qin will still wipe out the six kingdoms and rule the world, but there will never be a tyrant and authoritarian centralization like Qin Shihuang.Therefore, China's today should be a different scene, right? It should be said that history is too unfair and unfair to Lu Buwei.In fact, his mistake was that he didn't do one thing thoroughly.And this is precisely the unchangeable businessman nature that harmed him.What businessmen value most is actual profit, but they don't know that Chinese tradition and society pay more attention to name.Confucius said long ago that if the name is not right, the words will not be right.Lu Buwei, who has a unique research on Confucianism, seems not to have a deep understanding of this sentence, which means turning a blind eye and seeing it but not doing it.He conspired and pretended not to do so; he became an uncrowned king, but he didn't wear the king's crown for a day; he changed the bloodline of Qin's surname Ying, but pretended to remain unchanged... He is too materialistic, and he pays too much attention to things like personality, humanity, and dignity.The support and foundation of Chinese feudal politics is hypocrisy, and Lu Buwei probably didn't realize it until the moment before his death. However, Lu Buwei's changes to history are huge.This kind of change and influence is not so superficial and direct to a large extent, but a deep undercurrent.When Lu Buwei was alive, his changes were implemented step by step by the hands of others; after his death, it was his son Yingzheng who overbearingly rewritten the country and squandered imperial power; It affects people's moral and aesthetic concepts... We have to admit that Lu Buwei has greatly changed China's historical process and development trend. If he hadn't given up on his own initiative, he could have done more and made more profound and thorough changes.However, when Chinese history developed to the end of Lu Buwei’s Warring States period, some concepts had become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and evolved into a pattern; many things were bound and restricted by China’s local geographical climate, living environment, traditional accumulation, etc., but they could not be changed. no. For example, the concept of emphasizing agriculture over business.Lu Buwei ascended to the pinnacle of power as a businessman. It is said that a series of corresponding policies should be formulated to provide freedom for business, get rid of the humble symbols of businessmen, improve the political status of businessmen, and encourage people to do business... However, as recorded in history books, He doesn't seem to have done any of this.On the contrary, some of his meritorious deeds are based on agriculture, such as the construction of the Zhengguo Canal.In the book "Lushi Chunqiu", what he advocated was also to put agriculture first and regard commerce as the last branch.This is China's tradition and national conditions, facts and inertia, which we have discussed above, and cannot be influenced or changed by individual power. For example, the solidification of philosophical thoughts.The contention of a hundred schools of thought was coming to an end by the time of Lu Buwei, and the philosophy of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods was the most glorious golden age in Chinese history.A special era of fierce competition and turbulence has stimulated people's life potential and activated the internal mechanism of society. The original philosophical thoughts born in China are like flowers competing for beauty. Spectacular.However, since then, Chinese philosophy has gradually shrunk. There is no evolution and transcendence, only changes and repairs.It was not until the "May 4th" new trend of thought at the beginning of this century attracted foreign "kindling seeds" and transplanted and grafted that there were some essential breakthroughs and changes. Unfortunately, this enlightening trend of thought was destroyed by the overwhelming revolutionary movement for national salvation. Obstacles, delays, incomplete completion.At the time of Lu Buwei, the various schools of thought had already been finalized, and when they were fixed, they tended to stagnate. Even with his extraordinary wisdom and the extraordinary performance, operation, and performance of his disciples, he could only abandon the short-term of the various schools of thought and integrate the ideas of the various schools of thought. Long, and can not create a new philosophical thought with original nature. ... Let the future generations tell about the long history. For more than two thousand years, there have been too many comments about Lu Buwei - positive and negative, praise and derogation, vicious and kind, and there is no need for us to repeat and nag here.At the end of this article, I just want to say that the most rare thing about Lu Buwei is his humanity that shines from time to time.Running in the shopping malls where profit is pursued, his humanity has not been obliterated by the smell of money; in the center of the vortex of power struggle, he always maintains a sober and independent personality; The way of the end of life—suicide is actually a unique and unique defense of the dignity of life... No matter what stage of his life, from beginning to end, we can see the preciousness of humanity in Lu Buwei.Even if you misunderstand him, deny him, slander him and curse him, you have to admit that at least he can be regarded as a real capitalized person! In the thousands of years of distorted, abnormal, closed and alienated Chinese feudal society, how many people can truly be worthy of the noble title of human beings!