Gao Yao died in the end.
Gao Yao came to Xiaochuan with great joy and quietly told him that he had found the key to authority and wealth. Xiaochuan persuaded Gao Yao not to collude with him. Xiaochuan found Xiang Yu and asked him to secretly explore Zhao Gao's background. After learning that Zhao Gao was a villain who did all kinds of evil, Xiang Yu immediately handed over the evidence to Fusu and Mengtian and asked them to deal with it in accordance with the law.
When Zhao Gao heard that he was about to be torn apart by a car, he was so frightened that he committed suicide in prison. Gao Yao was extremely depressed and fell ill. Xiao Chuan came to visit him, but he received the decree of Emperor Qin, and his Majesty personally named Gao Yao "Zhao Gao". Gao Yao couldn't help being happy, and his illness was cured without treatment. He cooked a table of dishes with his own hands and wanted to have a drink with Xiaochuan, but Xiaochuan was in a depressed mood and refused to raise a toast. The two had a big fight.
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Zhao Gao (? - 207 BC), surnamed Ying, Zhao family. When the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty was the prime minister, Zhao Gao was originally a distant relative of the Qin clan. He served as the magistrate of the Zhongche Mansion and concurrently served as the Fu Xi Order, "in charge of affairs for more than twenty years." After the death of Qin Shihuang, Zhao Gao launched the Sand Dune Coup. He conspired with Prime Minister Li Si to forge an edict, forcing Qin Shihuang's eldest son Fusu to commit suicide, and appointed Hu Hai, the youngest son of Qin Shihuang, as emperor, the second emperor of Qin, and appointed himself Lang Zhongling.
During his tenure, he monopolized power, formed cliques for personal gain, made conscription more onerous, and administered more harshly. In 208 BC, he designed to kill Li Si, who became the prime minister of the Qin Dynasty. In the third year, he forced Qin II to commit suicide and made Ziying the king of Qin. Soon he was killed by Ziying, and the three Yi tribes were punished.
Zhao Gao started out as a eunuch and relied on the favor of Qin II Hu Hai to push the Qin Dynasty's tyrannical and sexual politics to its peak, thereby accelerating its demise.
So Lu Jia sighed: "Qin's criminal law remains unchanged, and the Zhao family is destroyed (referring to the demise of the Qin Dynasty)." Liu Xiang, the editor of "Warring States Policy", even bluntly said: "Qin and Xin have the same surname (that is, the clan) , here refers to Zhao Gao), when the king is in decline, it is not easy to have the same surname, and the country will perish. Therefore, the king's rule of the world depends on the conduct of the law, not on the belief of the same surname."
In addition, Zhao Gao was also a great calligrapher in the Qin and Han dynasties. Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty, "Shuowen Jie Zi Preface" said: "Zhao Gao wrote the "Yuan Li Pian", which was based on the large seal script of Shi Zeng, and may have been modified quite a bit." Wang Qing of the Northern Wei Dynasty, "Ancient and Modern Chinese Characters" "Materials" lists fifty-nine calligraphers from the Qin, Han, and Wu dynasties, among whom is Zhao Gao. Yang Xin of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties said that Zhao Gao was "good at seal script" in his "Ability to Write People's Names from Ancient Times".
The "Dazhuan" in Zhang Huaiguan's "Book Break" of the Tang Dynasty says: "Zhao Gao was good at seal script. He taught Hu Hai, the youngest son of the First Emperor, to calligraphy." He wrote six chapters of "Yanli Pian".