Chapter 13 Chapter two

In 251 BC, King Zhaoxiang of Qin died and King An came to the throne.Yingzheng's father and son, Chu Li, became the prince, and his status as the prince of Qin was clearly established.At this time, the relationship between Qin and Zhao improved, so Zichu sent special envoys to welcome Yingzheng's mother and son back to Qin. This year, Ying Zheng was nine years old, and it was also the first time in his life that he left Handan and the land of Zhao State. As soon as Yingzheng arrived in Qin, the situation changed fundamentally.They ate delicacies from mountains and seas, wore silks, satins and silks, lived in majestic palaces, received systematic education, and were intoxicated by compliments all day long...Compared with the remoteness, shabbyness, and humiliation of Zhao State, it is really like heaven and earth. do not.For Ying Zheng, there was also a sense of a world away, and his self-esteem was initially satisfied.However, the bit by bit of accumulated hatred in his heart has no way to retaliate, and he can only vent it on those servants who serve him; The path of working hard to seek compensation: he gets up as soon as the cock crows, and dances with swords all day long, hoping to exercise his strong body and extraordinary skills, not only to overcome childhood ugliness, but also to conquer and avenge by force in the future Revenge lays a solid foundation.

At this time, Lu Buwei was the only one who often came to ask a little bit and care about him.Zhao Ji didn't have a "cold" with him at first, and when she entered the Qin Palace, she cared even less; Zi Chu became the crown prince, and soon took the throne. I don't bother to ask about state affairs, let alone Yingzheng; although Yingzheng is ugly, he is extremely intelligent, and he is Lu Buwei's actual biological son. Zhongfu, therefore, Lu Buwei often went to the Taiwo Palace to ask questions about Yingzheng's situation.If you pay more attention, in addition to praise and encouragement, you will inevitably have persuasion, advice, and even reprimand and scolding.And this is something Ying Zheng can't accept, who am I?The future king of Qin, the Ninety-Five Supreme, is high above you, how dare you control me and scold me?The faint hatred in childhood is deepening day by day.

Lu Buwei's persuasion and education are nothing more than the following aspects: 1. He is required to live in the Qin State, with a broad mind and "see the world", and he should have great talents and general ideas since he was a child.This is what Yingzheng is willing to accept. He wants to fulfill the oath he made since he was a child by eliminating Zhao Guo and owning the whole world. Second, he hoped that Ying Zheng would study hard.There is no problem with this, the key is that he only pays attention to martial arts, only worships force, and only believes in swords and blood to solve fundamental problems.However, Lu Buwei asked him to study more, because force can calm the world but cannot govern it, and he also warned him that water can carry a boat or overturn it, and that the people of the world should be the foundation to stabilize the rule.Ying Zheng couldn't beat Zhong Fu, so he had to obey his arrangement.

3. The thoughts and ideas in Yingzheng's mind are becoming more and more terrifying. They are simply cruel, brutal, and vicious copies. Lu Buwei wants him to stay away from the Legalists, and specially invites masters with strong skills in Taoism, Confucianism, and Mohism to pass them on. Explain to him and teach him to recite, so as to change and shape him according to the pattern in Lu Buwei's heart.However, Yingzheng has no interest in Taoism, Confucianism, and Mohism at all. Based on his childhood life experience, he believes that Confucianism's benevolence, justice, and rule of law, and Mohism's non-aggression and love are either naive nonsense or hypocritical lies; Taoism, on the other hand, emphasizes no desires and no thoughts, and acts as a self-consolation for the few people in a small country. It is completely a "happy excursion" to escape reality, and Ying Zheng naturally does not have a good impression of it.On the surface, he has to study and recite the classics of Confucianism, Mohism, and Taoism, but in his heart he rejects and loathes them.And when he first came into contact with Legalism's theory, he had a feeling that he hit it off and hated seeing each other later.Those propositions of harsh punishments and laws, autocratic centralization, etc. are simply his aspirations.Even when he read Han Fei's "Lonely Wrath" and "Say Difficulty" for the first time after succeeding the Queen of Qin, he couldn't help being overwhelmed, and sighed loudly: "If I can meet the author of the article, I will die without regret. "Once they found out that Han Fei was in South Korea, they did not hesitate to use force to attack South Korea, and they wanted to get Han Fei and then return it.South Korea was weak and irresistible. After learning of Qin Jun's true intentions, he had to send Han Fei to Qin. Ying Zheng then ordered Qin Jun to retreat.From this we can see the extent to which he believed in Legalism, as well as the attitudes and differences, contradictions and conflicts between him and Lu Buwei in dealing with various schools of thought.

If the minor disputes and frictions can be overcome and resolved, then this involves principled issues of ideology and world outlook, as well as the outline of country building and governance. Lu Buwei and Ying Zheng will not make concessions. The contradictions between the two sides cannot be reconciled and compromised, and they are bound to develop To the point where fire and water are incompatible. After Zi Chu's death, Ying Zheng became the King of Qin, but he was just a typical puppet.Not even a puppet, a puppet can still act on the stage, and Lu Buwei sometimes directly comes forward, not only in charge of Qin State's power, but also giving orders with aloofness and majesty.What should have been done by the king of Qin, but Zhong's father replaced him, of course, Ying Zheng couldn't bear it.And he had to endure it.In Zhao country, he had already learned the strategy of forbearance, and forbearance was nothing to him.

Soon, Lu Buwei's affair with Zhao Ji pushed his mother, who had few flesh-and-blood relatives, to the opposite of him-it's too outrageous for a queen mother to be known as the mother of the country to fornicate the palace. On the eve of Yingzheng's pro-government, Lu Buwei lost no time in throwing out "Lu's Spring and Autumn", and the contradiction between father and son reached a critical state. The quelling of Lai Ai's rebellion and the severe punishment are just a fuse for Yingzheng to ignite the flames of rectifying Lu Buwei, a rare and justifiable excuse.

He took over the government himself, took back all the military and political power in the hands of Zhongfu and Xiangguo, his wings were hardened, and he no longer had to look at Lu Buwei's face to live and ask for a living, so he sacrificed the sharp sword in his hand without hesitation.At this time, the nature described by Wei Liaozi as "a tiger with a wolf's heart for little kindness" and "a man who can eat others when he is successful" is more exposed.He began to take revenge crazily, with dazzling blood on his hands: he culled and killed two young half-brothers; On Zhao Ji—don't you like that Yongdu has been hiding there for several years?Then, let you officially move from Xianyang, the capital, to the Forbidden City of Yongdu, and swear never to meet her.Then, as if inadvertently kicked Lu Buwei lightly, he was dismissed from his position and drove him to Luoyang, Henan.

No one thought that after holding the crown ceremony and taking power, King Yingzheng of Qin would take his mother Zhao Ji and his second father Lu Buwei under the knife, and pour all the hatred accumulated in childhood on his closest relatives. People opened their sleepy eyes as if awakened from a dream, and looked at the young Qin King Yingzheng in surprise, oh, that little guy who used to be silent, withdrawn, and ugly, would do such a thing, It's unbelievable that there is such a heart of stone and cruelty!Even my closest relatives dare to do this, what terrible things can't be done?As a result, no one dared to look sideways at him anymore, and everyone in the state of Qin could only bow their heads and ears, with sincerity and fear.Blood belly and cruelty, tyranny and blood seem to suddenly pervade the sky over Qin State overnight, and people have to succumb to the power and shiver under the butcher's knife.

And this is also Qin Wang Yingzheng showing his attitude and determination to the six countries and the world. However, he was more than that. Zhao Ji was expelled. In a society based on the patriarchal clan system of blood, this move was regarded as treasonous and immoral. It not only damaged the dignity of the king, but also made Qin appear lawless, disloyal and unfilial in the eyes of the world, thus losing the foundation of the country. .Ministers couldn't help admonishing Ying Zheng's behavior that had all kinds of disadvantages but no benefits.Ying Zheng was furious, and killed twenty-seven of those who dared to come forward to persuade him.Twenty-seven heads rolling bloody underground did not stop those subsequent loyal ministers who advised and advised them. Seeing that the head of the twenty-eighth minister, Mao Jiao, was about to hit the ground again, at this time, the respected Huayang The Empress Dowager—the lady of Huayang who made another man the crown prince with all her promises—showed up, reprimanded Ying Zheng and showed righteousness, so he had to restrain the violent emotions in his heart a little bit, let go Mao Jiao, "welcome the Empress Dowager to enter Xianyang in Yong, and return to Ganquan Palace".

As for Lu Buwei, although he is Ying Zheng's biological father, he is only his second father in name and an old minister in the past. He can vent out and rectify without any scruples and unceremoniousness.Therefore, after a year of exile, Lu Buwei seemed restless in his duties, and "the envoys of the princes and guests looked at each other", "a dead camel is bigger than a horse", and the remaining prestige is still there.At this time, Yingzheng, regardless of whether his biological father was his biological father or not, devoted all his feelings of helplessness towards his mother to this unlucky and poor second father—go further away, to the desolate land Shu land, go to the distant kingdom of heaven!

"Judging life is the essence of a sage; judging death is the culmination of a sage." Lu Buwei recited this famous philosophical line about life and death that he wrote in "Lu's Spring and Autumn Festival Funeral", trembling. He raised the wine cup full of poisonous wine, stared at it for a long time, and then drank it all in one gulp. People think that Lu Buwei is Ying Zheng's biological father, and they will welcome him back to Xianyang to continue to be prime minister like his mother Zhao Ji.However, they never expected that King Qin would be so mean and ungrateful.So far, those who still have a benevolent illusion about Ying Zheng are completely desperate. Did Ying Zheng ever have any thoughts of regret for treating his biological father Lu Buwei so cruelly? We can know from the way he "stolenly buried" Lu Buwei's disciples or exiled or relocated or dismissed him, and from the desolate situation of Lu Buwei's death with only a pile of barren tombs without a decent tombstone. He has never regretted it. Pass!Perhaps, he also feels complacent about kicking a stumbling block that has been lying in front of him, cheering for expelling the shadow that has always been in his heart, and admiring himself for the ruthless decisive decision-making and the overturning tactics endlessly.