Chapter 47 6. Final negotiations

Regarding the issue of Zhao Gao's son-in-law, we have to go back to the original text of "Historical Records": Zhao Gao, all Zhao Shuyuan belonged to him.Several of Zhao Gaokun's younger brothers were born in the hidden palace, and their mother was tortured and killed.The king of Qin heard that Gao Qiang was familiar with the prison law, and he thought it was the order of the CRRC government.Gao Ji's private affairs son Hu Hai, Yu Zhi sentenced to prison.He committed a serious crime, and the King of Qin ordered Meng Yi to rule it by law.If you dare not be a Fa, you will die for a high crime and get rid of your eunuch status.The emperor was honest with others with high standards, pardoned him, and restored his official rank. ("Historical Records: The Twenty-eighth Biography of Meng Tian")

All about Zhao Gao's life experience is in this text.It is said here that Zhao Gao is a relatively distant relative in the Zhao royal family.The brothers in his family were all born in the hidden palace, while his mother was punished and became a lowly servant for generations.And when Qin Wang Yingzheng asked Meng Yi to sentence Zhao Gao to death and deliberately instigated the two to quarrel, there was another item in Meng Yi's sentence: cutting off Zhao Gao's eunuch status. Therefore, around this simple text, three major schools in the history of Qin and Han Dynasties are drawn:

The first faction is called the normal faction.People in this school believe that the eunuchs in Qin Shihuang's era were not eunuchs, but tutors.Look at this eunuch character, which is the pictographic character for a courtier at home.Just imagine, if the eunuch is a eunuch, can this thing be cut off?Only the registration qualification of tutors may be cancelled.People in this school also believe that the so-called hidden palace is just a mistake in the stable palace, and that the stable palace is the torture room in the imperial palace. Zhao Gao's mother was sent to work in the torture room and gave birth to Zhao Gao after being raped.So Zhao Gao is not a eunuch at all, not a eunuch, of course he can have a daughter.

The second faction is called the abnormal faction.People in this school believe that the eunuchs in Qin Shihuang's era were eunuchs.The hidden palace is the hidden palace, not a stable palace, but a cruel place where men are castrated and castrated.Zhao Gao was born in such a weird place, after his mother was raped by others.But Zhao Gao himself was unusually not castrated, so he entered the court as an official.So of course he can have a daughter. The third faction is called the abnormal faction.This faction believes that Zhao Gao was eunuched and fell into the hands of Qin Shihuang, how could he survive?It would be too abnormal not to be castrated!But eunuchs return to eunuchs. Although it is impossible to have another child after eunuchs, he can adopt a goddaughter.Now that she has a goddaughter and a son-in-law, she has changed from abnormal to normal.

In short, everyone talked about it, and although their opinions were ever-changing, the final result was that everyone admitted that Zhao Gao had a daughter—whether it was his own or adopted.No one dared to touch this conclusion. If they did, there would be no way to explain Zhao Gao's family secret meeting. The situation at that time was like this, Zhao Gao took advantage of Qin Er Shi's lack of understanding, not in Xianyang, far away from the power center, called his son-in-law Yan Le and his younger brother Zhao Cheng, and discussed, "Look at this Qin Er Shi, he is really not a joke. , make a country like this. There is no way, Qin Ershi must bear the historical responsibility for the status quo of the country, let him get out of class, don't let him continue to toss. , as the leader of the new term, all of you are very supportive of my suggestion, right?"

Zhao Gao suddenly pushed out Ziying, which caught the historians by surprise and made a mess.Regarding this Ziying, there are also three schools of thought in the academic world.The most powerful is the Sun Tzu faction. People in this faction believe that Ziying is the son of Fusu, the eldest son of Qin Shihuang, and the grandson of Qin Shihuang, so it is called the Sun Tzu faction.At present, this view has become the mainstream of academic circles. But there are also two branches, one branch is called the younger brother faction, and it is said that Ziying is the younger brother of Qin Shihuang.There is also a youth faction who believes that Ziying is the son of Qin Shihuang, an elder brother who was neglected to be killed by Qin Ershi.These two tributaries are not without basis, both sides have solid historical evidence.

In short, Zhao Gao's normal faction, abnormal faction, abnormal faction, and Ziying's grandson faction, younger brother faction, youth faction, are all side issues. The important thing is that the Great Qin Empire is really about to change its leadership under Zhao Gao's auspices. Judging from the situation at the time, Zhao Gao, the son-in-law, was very weak and uncooperative.So at the beginning of the operation, Zhao Gao sent people to kill his son-in-law Yan Le's house first, and arrested Yan Le's mother, who was also Zhao Gao's mother-in-law. Take this opportunity to fulfill your wish.

His mother was taken hostage by his old father-in-law, Yan Le felt that the family was in chaos.In desperation, he had no choice but to bring more than a thousand officials and soldiers to Wangyi Palace. First, he arrested the guard servant who was in charge of Qin II's safety, and reprimanded him: "Do you know that you are in trouble? There are thieves Entering the palace, why didn't you stop it?" Wei Lingpushe was very surprised, and explained: "How is it possible? The surrounding soldiers are patrolling very tightly, and I haven't received a police call. How could there be thieves breaking into the palace?"

Yan Le reprimanded: "The situation is so critical, you are still here to argue with me, telling you to argue, telling you to lift, you lift, lift... You can't help but shoot the guard to death." Then Yan Le entered the palace and ordered the soldiers to draw their bows and arrows, aim at the eunuchs and guards in the palace, and shoot them one by one.The eunuchs in the palace panicked, some ran away, some fought with Yan Le, and dozens of them died in an instant. Yan Le came to Qin Ershi's bedroom and shot arrows at the curtain where Qin Ershi was sitting.Qin Ershi was very angry and ordered the guards to fight back, but the guards were all frightened and no one dared to step forward.Only then did Qin Ershi wake up. Looking left and right, he saw an eunuch who had been by his side for many years, and complained: "It's your fault, it's all your fault, the matter has reached such a serious point, why do you Didn't you tell me earlier?"

The eunuch replied: "Please brother, I am alive today because I dare not speak out. You have killed everyone who told you the truth before." "This... is all your fault anyway!" When Qin Ershi was indignant, Yan Le had already strode forward with a sword, walked up to him, and reprimanded him: "Hu Hai, you careless bastard, you are arrogant!" Acting recklessly, killing innocent people indiscriminately, rebelling against the law, and the whole world is rebelling, now you should kill yourself!" Qin Ershi said calmly: "Don't worry, can I see the prime minister and we can talk again?"

Yan Le said: "Stop dreaming, hurry up and do it yourself." Qin Ershi smiled and said: "How about this, just give me a county and let me be king." Yan Le said: "What are you thinking about? No way!" Qin Ershi smiled and said: "Otherwise, then give me the taxes of 10,000 households. It's quite easy to be a Marquis." Yan Le said: "This is also impossible." Qin Ershi said again: "Then I will take a step back and let my wife and I be kind and honest people." Yan Le said: "Why are you so troublesome? I came here under the order of the prime minister to kill you for the people of the world. No matter how much you try to argue, you can't save your old life. You should hurry up and do it yourself." Qin Ershi sighed: "Why bother, why do you say this is necessary?" Qin II was forced to commit suicide and withdrew from the stage of history.He has only been in office for three years, and historians commented that it is rare that he did not do a decent thing in three years.