After the Qin army captured Tunliu, Cheng Chan's subordinates were all beheaded and executed for sitting together, and the people of Tunliu were exiled to Lintao (present-day Minxian County, Gansu Province). After Cheng surrendered to Zhao, he was enshrined in Rao (now northeast of Raoyang County, Hebei Province) by King Zhao Mourning Xiang.

Since the death of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang, the relationship between Lü Buwei and the Empress Dowager Zhao Ji (Ying Zheng's mother) has been severed, but this indecent relationship seems to have been unilaterally launched by Zhao Ji on his own initiative.

As Yingzheng grew older, Lü Buwei was afraid that the matter would be revealed and disaster would befall him, so he secretly sought a person with a particularly big penis, Chang Yu, as a guest, and took the opportunity to let Chang Yu perform the trick of driving the paulownia wheel to turn in a grand banquet, which was deliberately passed on to the ears of the Empress Dowager Zhao Ji.

As Lü Buwei expected, the Queen Mother was really interested in Chang Yu, so Lü Buwei pretended not to know and brought Chang Yu into the palace, and found someone to falsely accuse Chang Yu of committing corruption.

On the other hand, Lü Buwei secretly instigated the empress dowager to arrange for Chang Yu to stay in the palace with the position of "in the middle of the matter". The Queen Mother thought so, and secretly bribed the servants who carried out the corrupt execution, and did not carry out the corrupt punishment on Chang Yu, but asked them to declare to the public that Chang Yu had been punished, and plucked Chang Yu's beard. In this way, Chang Yu became a eunuch serving the Empress Dowager Zhao Ji.

The Queen Mother was completely crazy about Chang Yu's "giant yin", and she became pregnant unexpectedly during this time. In order to avoid people's eyes, the Queen Mother and Chang Yu fabricated divination, pointing out that living in Xianyang was unfavorable, and both moved to the old capital of Qin (now Fengxiang County, Shaanxi Province), during which the Queen Mother and Chang Yu had two sons.

In 239 B.C. (the eighth year of the reign of King Qin), Chang Yu was awarded the title of Marquis of Changxin. Shanyang County (now southeast of Jiaozuo City, Henan) is its food town, and Hexi, Taiyuan and other counties are its fields. At most, there are thousands of servants under the Chang Yu family, and there are more than 1,000 people who want to be officials and voluntarily become Chang Yumen's guests.

However, according to the rules of the Qin State, it is quite difficult to be a marquis, for example, before Wang Jian destroyed Chu, he mentioned to Ying Zheng that he had been a general for many years, but he had not yet received the reward of the marquis, and Wang Jian had already eliminated the Zhao State and severely damaged the Yan State at that time. Surprisingly. The "Historical Records" also does not mention the reason for the marquis of Chang Yu.

Some scholars speculate. It was in the same year that Chang Yu was the marquis, Cheng Yu and Pu Bao launched a rebellion in Tunliu, and it may be that Chang Yu had a merit in pacifying the rebellion of Cheng Yu. Only then did he have the qualifications to be a marquis.

238 BC (the ninth year of the reign of King Qin). The 22-year-old Ying Zheng went to Yong, the old capital of Qin, to hold a crown ceremony according to custom. During this period, some people reported to Yingzheng that Chang Yu was a fake eunuch, and had adultery with the Empress Dowager Zhao Ji, and even tried to make the son born to him and the Empress Dowager the King of Qin. Ying Zheng ordered a thorough investigation.

Determined to make a desperate gamble and strike preemptively, Chang Yu forged the seal letters of the King of Qin and the Empress Dowager, and led his child servants and a small number of deceived troops to stage a coup d'état and attack the Qi Nian Palace.

Ying Zheng ordered Xiangguo Lü Buwei and the brothers Changping Jun and Chang Wenjun, who had the background of Chu relatives, to lead troops to quell the rebellion. The Chang Yu army was originally a rabble, vulnerable to a single attack, and unpopular, so it was quickly defeated.

Under the heavy reward of millions of red copper coins, Chang Yu was captured alive and sent to Xianyang, where he was sentenced to car splitting, "Yi Three Clans", and the two sons born to him and the Queen Mother were also killed, and his child servants and disciples were exiled to Shu, and the Queen Mother Zhao Ji was imprisoned in Yongdu.

However, at that time, imprisoning his mother was always contrary to filial piety, and Yingzheng's anger was not gone, and he ordered anyone who interceded for the queen mother to be beaten with tribulus terrestris first, and then killed, for which 27 admonishers were killed.

At this time, Mao Jiao, a native of Qi State, persuaded Ying Zheng, pointing out that the seclusion of his mother would damage Ying Zheng's reputation and make it difficult to convince the people of the world; killing the ministers who offered their advice would chill the hearts of the talents of the world, and would not be conducive to buying the hearts of the people of the six countries and unifying the world.

Ying Zheng suddenly opened his mouth, adopted Mao Jiao's suggestion, buried the slain minister, and personally led the convoy to Yongdi to take the queen mother back to Xianyang, and returned to Ganquan Palace, and the relationship between mother and son was restored. Mao Jiao was honored as a secretary because of this matter.

However, some scholars believe that Mao Jiao's words were not enough to make Ying Zheng change his original intention, and what really worried Ying Zheng was that the power of Zhao's foreign relatives almost disappeared in the Chang Yu Rebellion, so that the Chu relatives led by Mrs. Huayang became the ultimate victors.

In 229 BC (the nineteenth year of the reign of King Qin), the Empress Dowager Zhao Ji died, and she was called the Empress Dowager, and was buried in Chiyang with King Zhuangxiang.

The rebellion eventually implicated Lü Buwei of the Xiangguo, and Yingzheng planned to kill Lü Buwei, but Lü Buwei allowed Yingzheng's father to ascend to the throne of the King of Qin after all, and there were many Lü Buwei's disciples who interceded, so he dispelled the idea of sentencing Lü Buwei to death.

In 237 BC (the tenth year of the reign of King Qin), Yingzheng dismissed Lü Buwei from his position as minister for dereliction of duty and exiled Lü Buwei to his territory.

However, a year later, Lü Buwei was still famous, and many guest envoys from various vassal states made a special trip to visit Lü Buwei, which made Yingzheng deeply uneasy. Fearing that Lü Buwei would launch a rebellion, Ying Zheng sent him an edict in 235 BC (the 12th year of the reign of King Qin) accusing him, which roughly read: "The king owes him to Qin." Qin Fengjun Henan, eating 100,000 households. Jun He is close to Qin. Known as the middle father. He and his family migrated to Shu!-"Historical Records of Lü Buweilie"

Lü Buwei was edicted to order him and his people to move to Shudi, thinking that Yingzheng would not let him go, but he committed suicide by taking poisoned wine, and his body was secretly buried in Luoyi Beibi Mountain by his diners.

Ying Zheng took the following measures against Lü Buwei's old subordinates and the guests attending Lü Buwei's funeral: All Lü Buwei's disciples from the Six Kingdoms were expelled from the country. For the officials of the Qin State who had more than 600 stones, they were deprived of their titles and exiled to Fangling. For Qin officials with a salary of less than 500 stones, if they did not participate in Lü Buwei's funeral, they were also exiled to Fangling, but they were not deprived of their titles.

After the death of Chang Yu and Lü Buwei one after another, Ying Zheng was a little angry, so he let the Chang Yu men who had been exiled to Shu return to the capital Xianyang, and warned his subordinates that if they dared to follow the right path to handle state affairs like Lü Buwei, Chang Yu and others, they would be deprived of their official positions and their families would be enslaved.

At this point, Ying Zheng completely cleared the factors that threatened his throne, seized the power alone, and became the monarch of the Qin State in name only.

Although Ying Zheng was still young in the early years of his reign, the Qin army under his command did not stop the pace of expansion, such as the Qin general Meng Wei captured 13 cities of Korea in the third year of the reign of Qin (244 BC) and 20 cities of Wei in the fifth year of the reign of Qin (243 BC), and set up Dongjun in the area.

Construction began in 246 B.C. (the first year of the reign of King Qin) and was located in the area of Shangran Village, Jingyang County, Shaanxi Province, China. The proposer is Jung Kook, a water conservancy expert from South Korea, whose real identity is a Korean detail.

At that time, South Korea, one of the three Jin Dynasty, heard that Qin liked to build a large number of buildings, so he wanted to build a canal to consume Qin's national strength, so that Qin could not use troops to the east, so South Korea asked the hydraulic engineer Zheng Guo to find an opportunity to lobby Qin, let Qin dig Tongjing water, build a canal from the west of Zhongshan to Gukou, and flow more than 300 miles long from Beishan to Luoshui to the east, which is used to irrigate farmland.

During the construction process, Zheng Guo's conspiracy is discovered, and Ying Zheng plans to kill Zheng Guo. Zheng Guo pointed out that although he came to do fine work for Korea, the construction of the canal will not continue much for South Korea, and after the canal is completed, it will indeed be of great benefit to the Qin State.

In fact, with the strength of the Qin state, it was inevitable to be threatened by natural disasters, and the huge locust plague that occurred in the fourth year of the reign of Qin Wangzheng (243 BC) led to a plague epidemic, and even forced Ying Zheng to issue an edict to encourage the common people to accept the lordship, which to a certain extent explained the necessity of building a canal in the Guanzhong area to resist natural disasters, so Ying Zheng finally ordered Zheng Guo to continue to build the canal.

Since the canal was formed, the silted and turbid Jing River water was diverted to the low-lying salt and alkaline land on both sides of the irrigation bank, with an area of more than 40,000 hectares and a yield of six stones and four buckets per mu. Since then, Guanzhong has become a fertile field, and there are no famine years, laying a solid foundation for the annexation of the six countries, so the canal was named "Zhengguo Canal". (To be continued......)