Qin Shihuang destroyed six countries and unified China. In the history of China, a truly unified country emerged. Qin Shihuang thought that he had made great contributions to Huang San and was famous for his five emperors, so he was named the first emperor. However, since Qin Shihuang claimed to be emperor, he always thought that he was unified and healthy, so he didn't take the matter of establishing a prince to heart.
At that time, there were two powerful political groups in the palace, on the one hand, the eldest sons Fu Su and Meng Tian, on the other hand, the youngest sons Hu Hai and Zhao Gao. Fu Su, the eldest son, is a decent man with high personal prestige. Qin Shihuang was also very optimistic about him, so he sent him to the northern line of the famous Meng Tian to supervise the army and exercise his ability.
The second son, Hu Hai, is spoiled on weekdays. He hides in his comfort zone all day and knows how to eat, drink and be merry. He is domineering and very cruel. In 2 10 BC, Qin Shihuang was assassinated and frightened during his southern tour. He just fell ill again in the plain and Tianjin, and then he couldn't get sick. At this time, Qin Shihuang had a premonition that he was going to die. He immediately called the prime minister Reese to secretly make Fu a prince.
Zhao Gao is responsible for drafting the imperial edict and taking charge of it. Ambitious Zhao Gao deliberately withheld the imperial edict at this time, stalling for time and waiting for the opportunity, because he was afraid that after Qin Shihuang's death, he would stand on Hu Hai's side, and Fu Su's accession to the throne would be detrimental to himself. A few days later, Qin Shihuang really died, and Reese didn't want the court to be turbulent.
I want to wait until the prince comes back to announce the death of Qin Shihuang. At this time, Zhao Gao specially found Reese. He said to Reese: The imperial edict is still here, and you and I can decide who to make the prince. If Fu Su succeeds to the throne as emperor, Meng Tian will be reused. At that time, you and I may not be able to sit still.
Reese felt reasonable, so he conspired to make a fake rescript, sentenced Fu to death and killed Montaigne. In this way, Zhao Gao used the third-rate means of stealing bait to help Hu Hai, a gluttonous man, make a Qin Ershi, which paved the way for himself to take power in the future and accelerated the demise of the Qin Dynasty.
According to this incident, later generations summed up the idiom "stealing the beam to replace the column", which is used to describe those who play tricks and change objects in the fields.