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Why didn't Qin Shihuang give the throne to his eldest son Fu Su safely

From 230 BC to 221 BC, Wang Ying Zheng of Qin successively destroyed the six countries of Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan and Qi, completed the great cause of unification of China, and established the first unified feudal dynasty in history, the Qin Dynasty. Qin Shihuang thinks that his credit is far better than the former three emperors and five emperors. Then he adopts the title of "King", which is not enough to show his achievements. Therefore, he adopts the title of "emperor" of the three emperors, and the "emperor" of the five emperors constitutes the title of "emperor". Because Ying Zheng is the first monarch to use the title of "emperor", he calls himself "the beginning emperor". From then on to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the title was adopted by the rulers of previous dynasties in the feudal dynasty for more than 2000 years. But the hero I of the ancient emperor had problems in the key link of succession, which led to the disillusionment of the dream of emperor Wan Shi of Qin as king.

After winning the government of Qin and unifying China, he had to consider a very frightening problem after he took the position of God, that is death. Although he was powerful and rich all over the world at this time, he still couldn't avoid the problem of death. In order to make himself immortal, he constantly sent out the warlocks to seek the medicine of immortality for himself. However, until 210 BC, the first Emperor Qin was unable to wait for his medicine, and he had died on his way to the East tour. According to historical records, Qin Shihuang left an imperial edict before his death, and ordered the eldest son of the army, who had the prestige of benevolence and morality, to give military power to the general army Mengtian and return to Xianyang to preside over the funeral. This edict actually confirms the legitimacy of Fu Su's succession. Once issued, it should be no difficulty to succeed by virtue of the prestige of Fu Su and the imperial edict of the first emperor of Qin. However, the imperial edict of succession has not been issued, and Qin Shihuang has died. What is more, the edict established by Qinshihuang was known only by Li Si, zhaogao and Hu Hai who accompanied the emperor. Among them, Li Si and the Prime Minister of Qin Dynasty were not in line with the political views of Fu Su; Zhao Gao, the teacher of the emperor Hu Hai, was once believed by Fu Su. Meng Yi, the brother of general general Mengtian and the supreme Minister of the government, was sentenced to death by law, and then pardoned by the first emperor of Qin. Therefore, Zhao Gao had a grudge against his brother and Fusu. Hu Hai, let alone, Fu Su was a strong competitor to inherit the throne. Therefore, the three men were not in one mind with Fusu, but Meng Yi, who could prevent all the changes, was sent to the Huiji praying mountains and rivers when the Emperor Qin Shihuang was seriously ill, which brought great uncertainty to the succession.

In the matter of the national movement of the Empire, Qin Shihuang had several very big hidden dangers, which led to the failure of Fu Su to succeed successfully: first, the selection of Prince has not been clearly defined. Perhaps Qinshihuang is too conceited, thinks he can be rich and powerful, and even can be king for all ages, so he has never had a clear attitude towards the matter of succession, which makes the ministers helpless. After all, Qinshihuang has more than 20 princes, and Qin Dynasty has not determined the succession system of the first son of Zhou Dynasty; Second, after learning that his life was not long, Qinshihuang set up an edict, but he did not immediately issue the edict. Maybe he would not bow to fate and think he could survive this period and reigned. This provides the possibility for Zhao Gao and others to tamper with the imperial edict; thirdly, the first emperor of Qin has such a small person as Zhao Gao on his way to the tour. When Qinshihuang was alive, Zhao Gao had always worked with his tail in front of him. But as soon as he died, Zhao Gao immediately exposed his essence of small people. He knew that once he was in the position of the Soviet Union, his good days would surely come to an end. Therefore, he had the idea of tampering with the imperial edict for his own benefit. Similarly, Zhao Gao made Hu Hai and Li Hai and Li Hai with the benefit of emperor and phase Sto firmly dragged into his camp, it is said that the world is full of profits, the world bustle for the benefit.

The common interests made the three men plan a great plot to kill the eldest son Fu Su and general army Mengtian in the name of the first Emperor Qin, and changed huhai as the heir of the throne. At the same time, they massacred the people who threatened their status in the palace and the middle of the dynasty. So a bloody storm came to the middle of the Qin Dynasty which just ruled the whole world.

The result of this plot is that in the first year of Qin II, Chen Sheng Wu Guang, who called out "there is a kind of King Hou Xiangning", was launched in daze Township, which severely attacked the rule of the Qin Dynasty; in the second year of Qin, after Xiang Yan, the general of Chu, his nephew Xiangyu launched a Huiji uprising, and supported the descendants of the king of Chu Huai as king; In the third year of Qin II, Liu Bang led the rebel forces into Xianyang, the capital of Qin Dynasty, and destroyed the Qin Dynasty. The Qin Empire, which had been illusory to inherit for all ages, was annihilated in the long history.

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