Zhao Gao was pressed by the First Emperor in the first half of his life and couldn't do anything bad, and it can even be said that he has always served Yingzheng with trepidation, and he was afraid that a little transgressive behavior would provoke the tyrannical Yingzheng punishment, so he didn't have a big bad reputation except for greed for money.

Zhao Gao in the second half of his life, he participated in the plot of Dune in the original history.

The masterminds of the Dune plot were Zhao Gao and Li Si, who tampered with the first emperor's edict to succeed, forced the eldest son Fusu to commit suicide, imprisoned the Qin army general Meng Tian, and established Hu Hai as emperor.

Why did Zhao Gao and Li Si tamper with the edict? In fact, there are similar reasons. This reason is that the eldest son Fusu doesn't like Zhao Gao or Li Si, and it can even be said that Fusu is very disgusted with Zhao Gao and Li Si, and Fusu's dislike for them is the reason for the Dune scheme.

Fusu disgusted? If Fusu succeeds to the throne as emperor, it will definitely not be a good thing for Zhao Gao or Li Si.

Zhao Gao is the "eunuch" of the Qin Palace, in other words, the house slave of the Zhao family. At that time, the house slaves could be beaten and killed, and Zhao Gaoshen was afraid that after Fusu succeeded to the throne as emperor, not only would his own life be lost, but the whole family might also be wiped out. He didn't want to die, let alone the whole family to die, and when he found an opportunity, he naturally wanted to strike first, and then tamper with the edict to let his apprentice, that is, the eighteenth son of the first emperor, succeed him as emperor.

Li Si has a great reputation, and he was once famous because of "The Book of Exhortations", but to be honest, the official road has not been smooth along the way.

Li Si was originally a disciple of Lü Buwei, and once participated in the work of "Lü's Spring and Autumn", and then the Qin court changed color, and Qin Wang Yingzheng and Lü Buwei turned from mutual support to-for-tat, and Li Si was already one of Qin Wang Yingzheng's assistants at this time. Li Si was originally a guest of Lü Buwei, and he was the assistant of the King of Qin at the time, and he gradually fell silent because of the intention of getting out of the matter, but he was also alienated by Yingzheng because of this choice.

In order to regain the trust of King Yingzheng of Qin, Li Si found an opportunity to say to King Yingzheng of Qin: "Anyone who has done a good job. You have to seize the moment. In the past, although Qin Mugong was very strong, he failed to complete the great cause of reunification, because the time was not yet ripe. Since the filial piety of Qin, Zhou Tianzi has completely declined, and the vassal states have been in war for many years, and the Qin state has taken the opportunity to become stronger. Now that the Qin State is powerful and the king is virtuous, it is as easy as sweeping away the dust on the stove to eliminate the Six Kingdoms, and now is the best time to complete the imperial cause and unify the world. Don't miss it. ”

This was Li Si's first strategy for the Qin State to dominate the world, and it was the plan of the monarchs and ministers of various countries. Later, Li Si proposed the strategy of "destroying Han first and fearing other countries", and finally won the appreciation of King Yingzheng of Qin and won the position of long history. The two strategies were all adopted, Li Si of course continued to work hard, and then persuaded the king of Qin to send people with gold and jade to various countries to buy and bribe, and divide the monarchs and ministers of the six countries, and sure enough, it also had an effect. Because of this, he was named a guest secretary.

It has always been until the king of Qin issued the edict of "expelling guests", heartbroken and wanted to return to Chu State, and the more he thought about it on the way back, the more unwilling he became. After reading the "Book of Expulsion of Guests", King Yingzheng of Qin repented and withdrew the edict of expulsion. Li Si became famous all over the world because of this, and was also named a court lieutenant because Li Si had a study under Xunzi.

What kind of official position was Tingwei in the Qin State? Under the Qin State's system of three princes and nine secretaries, Tingwei was one of the nine secretaries and was in charge of judicial trials. Dune Conspiracy period. Li Si has been a court lieutenant for a long time, because of strict law enforcement, and because of several things, he refuted Fusu's face. In fact, Fusu has already been offended.

Li Si's ambition is to become an assistant to the emperor in handling government affairs, and at the same time be responsible for the prime minister of civil and military officials, but he has never been able to achieve his wish. The first emperor issued an edict to let Fusu inherit the throne, and Li Si actually felt bad, but he just felt bad, and there was no sense of crisis that caused the whole family.

Zhao Gao said this to Li Si, he said: "The eldest son Fusu hates us, once he succeeds to the throne, I will inevitably be wiped out, and your ambition to be prime minister will never have a chance, not only is it difficult to become a prime minister, but there will also be a result of dismissal and imprisonment." You offended so many people when you were a court lieutenant, they will definitely settle accounts with you, and I am afraid there is no chance of getting out of prison. ”

Li Si did offend a lot of people when he was a court lieutenant, and this is because the first emperor was strict in everything, and he naturally took a strict path when he was a court lieutenant, how could he not offend people?

Zhao Gao saw the panic on Li Si's face, and immediately struck the iron while it was hot, and said, "Since it is destined to have a tragic end, why don't you take the risk and fight?" Then took Li Si to the car of the First Emperor, Li Si went in and immediately smelled the unconcealable stench in the aroma, but Zhao Gao pointed to the corpse of the First Emperor: "Your Majesty has been dead for many days, and I have been covering up the news." Now there are only two choices left for you, we conspire to push Hu Hai to the throne of God, I will be my emperor, and you can be the prime minister; Or Fusu will succeed to the throne, and I will be filled with doors first, waiting for you underground for a while, and then come to be your companion. ”

It was not easy to guess what Li Si was in at that time, but it was estimated that he was scared half to death, surprised by Zhao Gao's boldness, and also afraid of acting rashly.

The fact is that when Zhao Gao invited Li Si into the carriage, there were also elite armor soldiers around him, and the reality was that once Li Si refused Zhao Gao's conspiracy, he would immediately die on the spot.

After the conspiracy may not succeed but can live for a longer period of time, refusing to be on the spot, and perhaps because the body of the First Emperor is found and causing a series of follow-up events, Li Si's heart must have been confused at that time.

Zhao Gao is a person who can speak well and observe words and feelings, he then talked about the country of Qin, saying that once there is any problem because of the succession, Qin's civil strife is a sure thing, and asked Li Si is willing to work hard and painstakingly to fall apart?

It is conceivable that it is clear that you want to conspire to do bad things is the same thing as doing something for the country, but the statement is different, whether it is self-hypnosis or self-deception, it is relatively easy to convince yourself in other words. There is no need to guess the result, everyone is afraid of death, and Li Si doesn't want to fabricate charges casually after being killed in the carriage, on the one hand, he will die immediately, and on the other hand, he will save Qin Guo and save himself, and he can also be the prime minister of his dreams, so he naturally has to fight.

Both of them are people who have followed the First Emperor for decades, and since they have made a decision, they must not pat their heads and do it immediately, but they must pull in more people, discuss and arrange again and again, and wait for the real certainty before taking action.

History records how Zhao Gao and Li Si acted are quite vague, from some words in the official history, and some arguments in the history of Heye, there must be many people involved in the plot of Dune. At that time, Qin's army was also mobilized quite frequently, and the army received orders from the First Emperor, but the person who really gave the order was definitely not the First Emperor, because the First Emperor had died.

When everything was ready, an edict from the dunes to the Great Wall was delivered. Historical records record that after receiving the edict, Fusu cried bitterly, and then raised his head and shouted three times to the sky, drawing his sword and killing himself. It was no more than half an hour from receiving the edict to committing suicide, and Fusu committed suicide, and he didn't even explain his last words to anyone.

No one knows what is written on the edict to Fusu, and even later Meng Tian lost control of the Great Wall Army to the point of being imprisoned Yang Zhou, a series of things not only seem strange but also full of confusion.

The people involved in the Dune scheme. Most of them are now in the hall, Zhao Gao is the first in line on the left side of Lu Zhe's throne, Li Si is in the second line on the right, Wang Ben's son is standing in the back, and some other people who benefited from Fusu's death and Meng Tian's imprisonment are basically present.

When people from all over the world come to Xianyang, they will follow the patrol team, and then the patrol team will go to Beidi County, go to the Great Wall section, and then enter the Hetao. Then take the Yunzhong route from Hetao, pass through Jiuyuan County, Yunzhong County, Dai County, and Merge County, and then go to Liaodong from Merge County.

The military generals of the northwestern border counties such as the Hetao, and the guards of the neighboring counties. They also came to Xianyang with permission, and they were in the temple.

No one knows their future, and no one knows that they have embarked on a different path from their original trajectory. After Lu Zhe said "dinner", each of them thanked him with a salute. This is followed by a meal.

Zhao Gao always had a smile on his face, and he naturally had a reason to be happy. At the beginning of Lu Zhe's rise, he contributed to help. Not only funding. When Lu Zhe was in urgent need of war horses, he took the lead in selling war horses to Lu Zhe in Longxi despite the pressure from the top and bottom of the Qin State, saying that it was for sale, but in fact it was a gift at all, and it was more than 30,000 horses as soon as he gave it, and he almost emptied his pasture at that time.

Zhao Wan can become the queen, because Lu Zhe and several important ministers don't want the princesses of the old countries to become queens, so the rest are Zhao Wan, Lu Pheasant, Wei Wen, Lu Pheasant and Wei Wen are from low backgrounds, so they don't get much support in the first place, and the extra thing is that Zhao Wan's family has contributed a lot in the rise of Lu Zhe, and Zhao Wan has always had a reputation for being a virtuous lady, so it is more appropriate for Zhao Wan to be the queen or queen.

Zhao Gao's marriage of his daughter to Lu Zhe was not out of initiative, but because the Qin State needed to encircle Lu Zhe, who was entrenched in Nanjun at that time, which was actually a sacrifice at that time. No one could have predicted that Lu Zhe would quickly send troops to defeat Baiyue in Qianzhong and grow stronger after entrenching himself in Nanjun, and no one expected that Lu Zhe would easily obtain Hengshan County after occupying Qianzhong, and then Xiang Chu marched into Lujiang County and made Lu Zhe win the annexation of Huan Chu and became out of control.

As long as the rise of Lu Zhe is studied, there is actually nothing too clever, it is nothing more than to promise to share wealth and wealth, coerce or lure local feudal towns to take refuge, and rely on such means to continuously obtain Nanjun, Qianzhong County, Hengshan County, Lujiang County, Changsha County, Jiujiang County, in fact, at this stage, he has become one of the few princes in the world.

In response to a series of reforms in the army, the emergence of military salaries and the development of the granary in the south are the capital that allows Lu Zhe to compete in the world.

The meal in the main hall of Xingle Palace is not a formal banquet, and you can move around at will halfway through the meal, and several people form a small circle, and you can see a lot of information from the way they gather.

Li Si first found Zhao Gao, and when the two had a good conversation, Xu Yan joined, and then Wang Ben, and the four of them didn't need anyone to serve them, and they seemed harmonious when they drank and drank themselves.

Meng Tian, Zhang Han, Wang Juan, these three people also made up a pile, and Li Xin, Shejian, and Su Jiao were added later, and they all drank by themselves.

Some others also look relatively distinct, such as Gongwei and Wei Han, He Yi, Yan Pi and other people who followed Lu Zhe's rise to the end of Weimo, and a few other people like Cao Ji, Zhou Yin, Song Yi and other people from the Chu court after the annexation of the Chu State, Sima Ang, Li Zuoche, Zang Di, Chen Yu and others from the Shandong States, which seem to be quite distinct.

Lu Zhe actually had an idea in his heart when he saw all the ministers and workers getting together. It's not that he's worried about his ministers forming a faction, since ancient times, there have been factions everywhere, and there is no way to prohibit them at all. What he worries about is what the well-defined small circle will evolve into in the future, and healthy competition is naturally necessary, but if it is tilted against each other, it will be chaotic.

The time of the dinner was not long, and the fatigue along the way was really tiring, and after a while, Lu Zhe left first, and then the ministers also dispersed, as for where they were going to continue eating and drinking, the emperor couldn't control it so widely.

Not long after Lu Zhe left, and he hadn't even arrived at the place where the concubines were resting, he was disrupted by the arrival of ministers one after another on the way.

The first to ask to see was Zhao Gao, Zhao Gao had not yet come over and Zhang Liang also asked to see him, followed by Li Si, Gongwei, Meng Tian, Sima Ang, etc., a total of more than ten people.

Lu Zhe didn't have the opportunity to talk face-to-face with his father-in-law Zhao Gao, and he knew that Zhao Gao wanted to see him, but the people who asked to see him were a little surprising to Lu Zhe.

Originally, Lu Zhe, who wanted to find an opportunity to chat with Zhao Gao in private, ordered someone to prepare tea after a little thought, and chose an attic to meet Zhao Gao first.

When Zhao Gao saw Lu Zhe, he paid a big salute, and then said some common words, mostly thanking Lu Zhe for valuing the Zhao family and making Zhao Wan the queen. Later, the topic changed, saying that he wanted to give the pastures in Longxi County to his grandson Lu Yi, not only a few pastures in Longxi County, but even some fields in Neishi County, and the properties of other counties, all of which together amounted to at least three million yuan of assets, should be given to his grandson Lu Yi.

Lu Zhe didn't say yes or no, and asked, "Does the queen know?" ”

Zhao Gao said with a smile: "I have already communicated with the queen, saying that I want His Majesty's permission." ”

The grandfather gave assets to his grandson, considering that Zhao Gao had no other children except for Zhao Wan, the only daughter, he actually had some reason to do so.

"Do you have any plans for the future?" Lu Zhe did not agree, but mentioned other things.

"The Zhao family has been extremely glorified when the queen is born, and Weichen is already satisfied, thinking about giving the property to His Royal Highness, and then moving the family to the imperial capital, buying some real estate over there, and taking good care of Tiannian." Zhao Gao said with a satisfied face, and seeing Lu Zhe nodding constantly, he seemed to hesitate for a moment before continuing: "A few siblings...... They are interested in going to the Western Regions to do business......"

Lu Zhe was suddenly stunned for a moment, the envoys of Central Asian countries came, and there are many countries in the west that have been widely known, and it is not a secret that the empire entered the Western Regions to open up trade routes, Zhao Gao has such thoughts, and those who ask to see him are probably also coming to test their attitudes? (To be continued.) )