Lv Buwei, a rare commodity, is a great businessman in Yangzhai. He traveled from one place to another, buying at a low price and selling at a high price, so he accumulated wealth.
In 267 BC (forty years), Aigong died in Wei and was transported back to Xiangyang for burial. In 265 BC (forty-two years in Zhao Haoqi), he made his second son Guo Jun a prince. A Guo Jun has more than twenty sons. An Guojun has a very favorite concubine named Mrs. Huayang. Mrs. Huayang has no son. Ann Guo Jun has a middle-ranking son named Zi Chu, and Zi Chu's mother named The Last Month Of Summer, who is not favored. Zi Chu was sent to Zhao as a hostage of Qin. Qin attacked Zhao many times, and Zhao did not treat Chu with courtesy.
Zi Chu, the grandson of the Princess of Qin, was taken hostage in Zhao. He doesn't have rich chariots and horses and daily wealth, and he feels embarrassed and dissatisfied. Lv Buwei went to Handan to do business. After meeting Zi Chu, he liked it very much. He said, "Zi Chu is like a strange commodity that can be hoarded. To sell at a high price "(idiom" strange goods can live ").
So he went to visit Zi Chu and said to him, "I can expand your family." Zi Chu smiled and said, "You can form your own family first, and then mine!" Lv Buwei said, "You don't understand, my door will light up only when your door is lit up." Zi Chu knew what Lv Buwei meant, so he sat down and went further with him. Lv Buwei said, "The king of Qin is old, and Guo Jun is a prince. I heard privately that Ann Guo Jun dotes on Mrs. Huayang very much. Mrs. Huayang has no son, and only Mrs. Huayang can choose a prince. Now you have more than twenty brothers, and you are in the middle. You can't get the favor of the king of Qin and have been held hostage in Zhao for a long time. Even if the king of Qin dies and Ann Guo Jun succeeds, you can't expect to compete with your eldest brother and other brothers around the king of Qin for the position of Prince sooner or later. " Zi Chu said, "Yes, but what should we do?" Lv Buwei said, "You are poor and embarrassed, and you live here as a guest. You can't give anything to your parents or make friends. Although I am not rich now, I am willing to spend my daughter to lobby you to go west to the Qin State and serve Mrs. An and Huayang, so that they can make you a prince. " Zi Chu kowtowed and thanked him and said, "If your plan comes true, I am willing to share the land of Qin with you."
Lv Buwei, who helped Zi Chu, took out five hundred gold and gave it to Zi Chu for daily life and making friends. He also took out 500 gold to buy exotic toys and took the west to the state of Qin to lobby. For the first time, he met Mrs. Huayang's brother, Yang Quanjun, and his sister, and dedicated everything he brought to Mrs. Huayang. By the way, speaking of Zi Chu's intelligence, he has made friends with princes and guests all over the world. He often said: "I, Zi Chu, regard my wife as my own mother and cry for the prince and his wife day and night."
Madame is very happy. Lv Buwei took the opportunity to ask Mrs. Huayang's sister to persuade Mrs. Huayang to say, "I heard that once a beauty is used to serve others, her goodwill will decrease. Now, madam, you serve the prince. You are favored, but you have no son. If you don't neutral a talented and filial person among the sons of the prince earlier, let him be the heir and treat him like your own son, then your husband will be respected when he is alive, and his son will inherit the throne after his death, and he will not lose power in the end. This is what people say: eternal benefits can be obtained. If you don't set up a foundation when your appearance is beautiful, if you wait until your appearance is exhausted and your love is lost, is it possible to say a word to the prince? Now Zi Chu is virtuous. Knowing that she is in the middle, she can't be the heir in sequence, and her biological mother is not favored, so she will take the initiative to attach herself to her wife. If your wife can really promote him as an heir at this time, then your wife will honor Qin all her life. "
Mrs Huayang thought it was so, and when it was convenient for Ann, she euphemistically talked about Zi Chu, who was a hostage in Zhao State, being very talented, and everyone who came and went praised him. Then he cried and said, "I am lucky to fill the harem, but unfortunately I don't have a son." I hope I can make Zichu my heir, so that I can have someone to rely on in the future. " Ann Guo Jun agreed, and his wife carved a jade symbol, and decided to let Zichu be the heir. Ann Guo Jun and Mrs Huayang sent many gifts to Zi Chu and asked Lv Buwei to be his teacher. Therefore, Zi Chu became more and more famous among the governors. Lv Buwei chose a very beautiful Handan woman who is good at dancing to live with her until she got pregnant. Zi Chu once had a drink with Lv Buwei. After seeing this woman, she liked it very much. She stood up, toasted Lv Buwei, and asked to give her to him. Lv Buwei was very angry, but on second thought, he had spent a lot of money on Zi Chu's property so that he could catch the strange goods, so he gave it to this woman. Later, the girl became a son. So Zi Chu married Ji as his wife.
In 257 BC (the tenth year of Qin Zhao and Wu Wang), Wang T was sent to besiege Handan. The situation is very urgent, Zhao wants to kill. Zi Chu conspired with Lv Buwei, took out 600 Jin of gold and gave it to the guarding city officials, and was able to escape, fled to Qin Jun camp, and returned home smoothly. Zhao wants to kill his wife and son, and his wife is the daughter of Zhao's rich family, so she can hide, so the mother and son have to survive.
In 25 1 year BC (56 years), Zhao Haoqi, the king of Qin, died, and Prince Ann Guo Jun succeeded to the throne, and Mrs Huayang was the queen and the prince. Zhao also escorted his wife and son back to Qin.
Ann Guo Jun died of sudden illness only three days after she became king of Qin, and posthumous title was king of filial piety. Zi Chu succeeded to the throne. He was the King of Qin Zhuang Xiang. Queen Huayang, regarded by King Xiang Zhuang as her mother, is the Queen Huayang, and her biological mother is the Queen Xia.
In 249 BC (the first year of King Zhuangxiang), Lv Buwei became prime minister and was named Wen Xin Hou, with 100,000 households in Luoyang, Henan as the food city.
King Zhuang Xiang died three years after he ascended the throne, and Prince Zhao Zheng succeeded to the throne, honoring Lv Buwei as Prime Minister and calling him "Guan Zhong". The King of Qin is still young, and the Queen Mother often has an affair with Lv Buwei. The Lv Buwei family has 10,000 slaves.
At that time, Wei Xin, Chu Xin, Zhao Xin and Qi Xin. They are called "four children". They all made friends and became famous all over the world. In this respect, we must strive for a high and low level. Lv Buwei thought that Qin was so powerful, he was the Guanzhong, the Prime Minister and the King of Qin, so he should not be compared with them, so he also recruited a bachelor of arts and gave them generous treatment, with as many as 3,000 diners. At that time, talented people from various vassal States came forth in large numbers, such as Xun Qing and his colleagues, who wrote books and made statements, which were popular all over the world. Lv Buwei ordered his diners to write down what they saw and heard, and put them together to form Eight Views, Six Theories and Twelve Dynasties, totaling more than 200,000 words. I think it contains the facts of the universe through the ages, so it is called Lv Chunqiu. He also wrote the contents of the book on cloth, published it in the city gate of Xianyang, rewarded 1000 yuan to hang on it, and invited tourists from various vassal countries. Anyone who can add or delete a word will be rewarded with 1000 yuan. But in the end, no one can do it.
The trouble in the palace is getting bigger and bigger, but the queen mother Zhao has * * *. Lv Buwei, afraid that things would come out, secretly found a * * * particularly big person to cheat the public. From time to time, he let the actors sing and dance for fun, and ordered Pi Meng's * * * to wear on the wheels of the paulownia tree to make it turn, and tried to let Empress Dowager Zhao know about it, so as to seduce her. When the queen mother heard about it, she really wanted to possess him in the dark. Lv Buwei put forward bail and pretended to let people report that he had committed a crime and should be imprisoned. Lv Buwei also secretly said to Queen Zhao, "You can punish Bemba, and you can get him among the people who work in the palace." Empress Zhao secretly handed many things to the officials who presided over the castration, pretending to punish Bao Ba's beard and pretending to be a eunuch, so that she could serve Queen Zhao. Queen Zhao secretly committed adultery with him and loved him very much. Later, Empress Dowager Zhao became pregnant, and I was afraid that others would know that false predictions were unlucky and needed a change of environment to escape, so I moved to Yongdi Palace. Empress Zhao was rewarded with a large sum of money, and the Empress Dowager was rewarded with thousands of people, hoping to be an official and volunteer as a pump thief.
In 240 BC (the seventh year of King Qin), the mother of King Xiang of Zhuang died. Empress Xiaowen was named Queen Huayang and buried with King Xiaowen in Shouling. The son of Empress Xia, King Zhuang Xiang, was buried in Zhiyang, so Empress Xia was buried alone in the east, saying, "You can see my son in the east and my husband in the west. A hundred years later, there will be a city of thousands of households next to it. "
In 238 BC (the ninth year of the King of Qin), it was said that Duke Lu, the pen holder, often had an affair with Queen Zhao and gave birth to two sons, both of whom were anonymous. He also conspired with Empress Zhao: "If the King of Qin dies, he will let this son inherit the throne." So the king of Qin ordered the judge to investigate the matter and find out the whole truth, which implicated Prime Minister Lv Buwei. In September of this year, he killed all the people who ran the pancreas, killed the two sons born to the Queen Mother, and moved the Queen Mother Zhao to live in Yongdi.
The king of Qin wanted to kill Lv Buwei, the prime minister. However, due to the great contribution made by Wang Li before Lv Buwei served, and many guests interceded for him, the king of Qin could not bear to punish Lv Buwei.
In October 237 BC (the tenth year of the Qin Dynasty), Lv Buwei was dismissed from his post as prime minister. When Jiao persuaded the King of Qin, the King of Qin lived in harmony with Queen Zhao and asked her to return to Xianyang, but he sent her out of the capital and went to the fief in Henan.
More than a year later, guests and envoys from various vassal states came to meet Lv Buwei in an endless stream. The king of Qin was afraid that he would launch a rebellion, so he wrote to Lv Buwei and said, "What contribution have you made to the State of Qin? Qin granted you 100,000 households in Henan. What is your blood relationship with the king of Qin? It is called Guanzhong. You and your family are moving to Shu! " Lv Buwei thought he had been persecuted gradually and was afraid of being killed in the future, so he drank G wine and committed suicide. The King of Qin hated the Beijia Rock Gallery, and let the water pump that migrated to Shu lie down and throw thistle grass at them.