The disaster of national subjugation is just around the corner, but Zhao Gao and Hu Hai are still living in their own world.

Since he became the prime minister, Zhao Gao felt that the road in front of him was getting brighter and brighter. Before that, under Zhao Gao's clever words, Hu Hai began not to meet directly with the ministers, hoping to establish a majestic image in this way.

The presentation of memorials and the communication of government orders all went through the hands of Zhao Gao, making it easy for Zhao Gao to deceive Hu Hai. Now that Zhao Gao has become the prime minister of the dynasty, with overwhelming power, he inevitably has the idea of ​​replacing him.

In order to verify his influence and further deceive Hu Hai, on this day, while Hu Hai was playing in the garden, Zhao Gao led a deer in and said, "Your Majesty, I have a good horse, and I have come here to offer it to you."

Here you go." Although Hu Hai was a confused person, he still knew the deer and the horse, so he immediately said: "Prime Minister, are you confused? This is obviously a deer, how can you say it is a horse?"

"Your Majesty, this is indeed a horse." Zhao Gao said with certainty.

Hu Hai was amused and said to his ministers: "The Prime Minister is really good at telling jokes. Tell me, is this a horse or a deer?"

Among these close ministers, some wanted to flatter Zhao Gao and hurriedly said "It's a horse"; some did not want to deceive the emperor but did not dare to offend Zhao Gao, so they remained silent; a few were loyal to Hu Hai and refused to agree with Zhao Gao, saying bluntly "It is a horse".

"Deer." Zhao Gao watched from the side, remembering the outspoken people one by one, and went back to find excuses, either jailing or beheading them, and dealt with them all.

Throughout Chinese history, it can be said that Zhao Gao is the only one who dares to tease the emperor in broad daylight. Not even the famous military, powerful and ambitious ministers in the past dynasties have ever done something similar to "calling a deer a horse"

This shows how arrogant Zhao Gao is.

When the officials saw that Zhao Gao was indeed cruel, if he offended him, he would be retaliated against. Everyone was in danger and to protect themselves, no one dared to confront Zhao Gao. From then on, no one around Hu Hai dared to speak of Zhao Gao.

No one dared to say anything bad about Gao Gao, and no one dared to say anything Zhao Gao didn't want Hu Hai to hear.

Just when Zhao Gao was having fun playing tricks on Hu Hai, Xiang Yu recruited Zhang Han and started to march towards Xianyang; Liu Bang was also on the way; Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan and Qi had all established themselves as kings.

The area east of Hangu Pass basically rebelled against the Qin Dynasty and responded to the feudal lords.

In order to prevent Hu Hai from coming out to manage the government in person, Zhao Gao kept coaxing Hu Hai and said: "There are no rebels, they are just thieves with no ability, and they can be wiped out quickly."

But now the rebel army is becoming more and more powerful. Especially Liu Bang has sent envoys to contact him secretly and encourage Zhao Gao to help him enter Xianyang. It can be seen that the anti-Qin situation in the world has reached the level of burning a prairie fire.

The paper could no longer contain the fire, and Zhao Gao was panicked. He was afraid that Hu Hai would know that the situation in the world was out of control, and he was afraid that Hu Hai would know that there were rebels.

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He came to instigate rebellion against him and was so frightened that he did not even dare to enter the palace and refused to go to court claiming that he was ill.

Hu Hai couldn't see Zhao Gao for several days, and he probably felt something was wrong in his heart. When he went to bed that night, he had a nightmare, dreaming that a tiger ate the horse that was pulling his cart.

The ancients were superstitious and believed that dreams were harbingers of good and bad luck. Hu Hai had such a nightmare and quickly called for a fortune teller to interpret the dream. The fortune teller made a calculation and said: "Your Majesty, you have violated the Jing River Water God, and the Jing River Water God is causing trouble.

, you are the one who had such a dream." Is it okay to bump into the water god? Hu Hai

He quickly moved to Wangyi Palace (its former address is between Eryang Village and Wufu Village, Jiangliu Township, Jingyang County, Shaanxi Province today) to fast, and sank all four white horses pulling his cart into the Jing River to worship the water god. What he meant was:

Don't you want to eat one of my horses? I'll give you all four horses, so don't come to me anymore.

Let me spread some geographical knowledge to everyone.

The Jing River is a major tributary of the Yellow River, and in the Qin Dynasty it was also equivalent to the river that protects the country. So, why is the god of the river that protects the country angry? Hu Hai analyzed it, probably because he blamed himself for not being able to clean up the recent ones.

Those thieves. So Hu Hai sent people to Zhao Gao's house to accuse Zhao Gao of not doing things well, which made the gods angry.

Hu Hai was so angry that he didn't care about the relationship between Zhao Gao and himself. He simply wanted to chase Zhao Gao away to appease the water god. When the emperor was angry, blood flowed like a river! Zhao Gao was even more frightened this time, so he quickly killed his younger brother Zhao Gao.

, his son-in-law Yan Le came to discuss countermeasures. Of course he could not take the responsibility on himself, but put it all on Hu Hai. Zhao Gao

Said: "Hu Hai did not listen to loyal advice, which led to the current critical situation. But he actually wants to put all the responsibility on our family. We can't let him do this, it is a crime of genocide. I plan to kill Hu Hai and let

Ziying will be the emperor. Ziying is kind, thrifty and has high prestige. If we make him emperor, we will definitely get everyone’s support."

Zhao Gao was the one in charge in the Zhao family, and everyone else listened to him. When he said this, Zhao Cheng and Yan Le could not object. Immediately, Zhao Gao divided his troops and sent generals. Zhao Cheng was the Lang Zhongling at the time and was in charge of guarding the palace entrance.

, Zhao Gao asked him to be the internal correspondent; Yan Le was the order of Xianyang at the time and was in charge of many people, so Zhao Gao asked him to

He is responsible for breaking into the palace and killing people. Zhao Cheng is Zhao Gao's younger brother. Naturally, he and Zhao Gao are like grasshoppers on the same rope and cannot escape. The son-in-law is different and may not be of the same mind. In order to prevent Yan Le from being different

Thinking of this, Zhao Gao forcibly invited his mother-in-law to be a hostage, and ordered Yan Le to summon his men to the palace to kill people.

August of the third year of Qin II (207 BC) was the harvest season.

It's late at night, the moonlight is miserable.

It was dark inside Wangyi Palace.

"Catch the thief!"

Suddenly, a shout broke through the quiet night sky.

Xianyang ordered Yan Le to become murderous. He led more than a thousand people to the gate of Wangyi Palace and tied up the captain of the guard guarding the palace gate.

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, sternly asked the captain why he didn’t stop the thief.

The captain felt aggrieved and just replied, "There is one post every ten steps and one sentry every five steps in the palace. There is absolutely no possibility of a thief."

Yan Le just wanted an excuse to enter the palace. He didn't listen to the argument at all. He hacked the captain to death and led the team to rush into the palace while shooting arrows everywhere. Some of the eunuchs and guards on duty in the palace fled in all directions, and some

He took up weapons and fought to the death. Yan Le had many people and was fully prepared. He killed dozens of people along the way, but no one could withstand his attack. After a while, Yan Le rushed to Hu Hai's palace and broke in with Zhao Cheng.

Got in.

Hu Hai had already been awakened by the shouts of killing outside. When he heard someone coming in, he quickly turned over and sat up. Seeing this, Yan Le shot an arrow at Hu Hai's bedside to show off his power. When Hu Hai saw that it was Yan Le, he immediately understood that this must be the case.

It was Zhao Gao who ordered him. He was so angry that he shouted at the guards repeatedly and told people to take down Yan Le. Hu Hai shouted several times, and the guards in the room were too frightened to move.

They all hid far away. Only one young eunuch was loyal enough. Although he was also scared, he still served Hu Hai and could not bear to leave him and run for his life. Seeing this, Hu Hai sighed and said to the young eunuch: "Why didn't you come earlier?"

Tell me what kind of person Zhao Gao is! If you had told me earlier, how could I have ended up in this situation! How could I have let this old thief succeed!"

The young eunuch replied at that time: "I am alive today because I dare not tell the emperor. If I had told the emperor earlier, my bones would be rotten. How could I still be here to serve you?"

How could Yan Le allow Hu Hai to linger here? "Teng Teng Teng" stepped forward and wanted to kill Hu Hai.

Hu Hai did not want to die, so he knelt down and begged for mercy, wailed loudly, and hoped to see the prime minister.

But Yan Le was unwilling to do so and immediately ordered the soldiers to come forward, threatening to kill Hu Hai directly without taking action.

Hu Hai was desperate. He mustered up his last courage and took his own life at the age of twenty-four.

Hu Hai died. Zhao Gao summoned his ministers, announced his righteous deeds of "eliminating the tyrant", and announced his support for Ziying.

Zhao Gao said: "Qin was originally a country of vassals. The first emperor unified the world and was called the emperor. Now that the six kingdoms have been restored, Qin's territory is smaller than before. In this case, what will happen again?"

It is impractical and impossible to call oneself emperor, one can only call oneself king

." He made his own decision and buried Hu Hai in Dunan Yichun Garden (today's south bank of Qujiang Pool in the southeast of Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province) with the courtesy of a common people. He made Ziying the king of Qin and asked him to fast for five days in the Ancestral Temple to accept the seals of the princes and kings.

The feudal unified Qin Dynasty was declared destroyed.

What a tragedy!

Qin II died!

Sad and deplorable!
Chapter completed!