Zhao Gao was smart and studious since he was a child, and he liked reading. It is rumored that he is also good-looking and has high martial arts. At the age of 23, Zhao Gao entered the palace as a senior minister and was the right-hand man around the emperor.
In addition, Zhao Gao is also proficient in calligraphy, the level of calligraphy is first-class, and he is the leader of many ministers who died in the country in history. Therefore, it was appreciated by Ying Zheng, the king of Qin, and was appointed as the order of CRRC. In the impression of many people, Zhao Gao is a sinister image, but Zhao Gao was a rare talent in Qin Gong at that time.
Zhao Gao started as a eunuch, relying on the favor of Qin Ershi and Hu Hai, and pushed the tyrannical politics of the Qin Dynasty to the peak, thus accelerating its demise. Therefore, Lu Jia lamented that "the criminal law of Qin people remained unchanged, and Zhao died" (referring to the demise of Qin dynasty).
Liu Xiang, editor of the Warring States Policy, even bluntly said: "The surname Wang, when it declines, is not easy to share the same surname, but the country dies, so the rule of the monarch lies in the law, not in the letter of the same surname."
Personal works:
After the Qin dynasty unified the world, the script was unified with the small seal script, so Li Si wrote seven chapters of Cang Xie, Zhao Gao wrote six chapters of Calendar, and a surname asked Hu Wujing to write seven chapters of erudition as the national standard copybook, all of which were based on the fifteenth chapter of the History of Big Seal Script in Zhou Xuanwang period. During the Western Han Dynasty, Lu Li, a calligrapher, combined three sixty-word articles into one chapter, which became Cang Xie with 55 chapters.
In the Western Han Dynasty, they were also called "Cang Xie", "Ji Li" and "erudite", but for various reasons, most of the characters in Cang Xie were lost.
In the history of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Zhao Gaoyou appeared in the 107th "To Jing Ke's Noisy Graph Theory, Wang Jian and Li Xin". In the panic of Jing Ke stabbing Qin Wang, Zhao Gao, as a junior minister, reminded Qin Wang to draw his sword and slay Jing Ke. After Jing Ke's death, Zhao Gao was paid 100 yuan for his work.
Chapter one hundred and eight "Counties and counties established by the emperor after the six countries mixed a map number". After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he named Zhao Gao as a doctor.