The case was tried by Yushi, and then Qin Shihuang personally decided to put more than 460 warlocks to death. The execution method was buried alive. This was originally an ordinary case. According to the law of the Qin dynasty, the Qin dynasty has always been ruled by law and strictly enforced. Even if more than 460 warlocks are buried alive, it is still a legal trial. However, this case led Fu Xi, the eldest son of Qin Shihuang, to come forward. Fu Su admonished Qin Shihuang and said:
Fusu
The world has just been settled, and people in remote areas have not joined. Confucian scholars read books and imitate Confucius' remarks, but now your majesty deals with them with severe criminal law. I'm worried that the world will be unstable because of this. I hope your majesty can understand.
The Confucian Pit incident occurred in AD 2 12. It has been nine years since Qin Shihuang unified the world, three years since Qin Shihuang ordered Meng Tian to attack Xiongnu in the north, and two years since Qin Shihuang ordered Ren Tao and Zhao Tuo to pacify Baiyue. If Fu Su says that the world has just been pacified, it also refers to the Xiongnu border and the land of Baiyue, far away from the core area of China.
However, it should be noted that the incident of cheating Confucianism was entirely because the warlock could not extract the elixir of life and was afraid of being liquidated by Qin Shihuang. As a result, warlocks headed by Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng began to slander Qin Shihuang and divert their attention to cover up their embarrassment of not being able to extract the elixir for a long time. If he can't extract it for a long time, the warlock can't justify himself. In the end, he was a dead man, which is a crime of deceiving the monarch.
Qin Shi Huang
Therefore, it is reasonable for the warlock to cheat Qin Shihuang first and Qin Shihuang to punish the warlock at last. Can Qin Shihuang even tolerate warlocks deceiving themselves? Therefore, in fact, the whole incident of cheating Confucianism was caused by Fu Su. Therefore, Fu Su persuaded Qin Shihuang with Confucian theory and advised Qin Shihuang not to dispose of these magicians on the grounds of worrying about people's hearts. This caused the great anger of Qin Shihuang, and he demoted Fu Su to the Mengtian Army in the north as a supervisor.
This incident not only shows that Fuxi and Qin Shihuang have different political views, but also shows that Fuxi's political ability is far less than that of Qin Shihuang, which shows that the Qin Dynasty is actually Confucian. At least there is Confucianism in Fu Su's thoughts. Qin Shihuang didn't take it out on the Confucians, but Fu Su couldn't see the essence of the incident.
Dune change
Why did Qin Shihuang demote Fu Su to Meng Tianjun as a supervisor?
Mainly to let Fu Su see the border and experience it, knowing that Qin Shihuang's father was a hostage of Zhao, and Qin Shihuang himself spent his childhood as a hostage of Zhao. Being expelled from Beijing does not mean giving up. From the imperial edict of Fu Su before Qin Shihuang's death to the funeral service in Xianyang, we can see that Fu Su is the chosen heir in Qin Shihuang's mind. In fact, compared with other sons of Qin Shihuang, Fu Su is the best, but he also has weaknesses.
Only Zhao Gao, Hu Hai, Reese and several trusted eunuchs knew that the three men jointly staged a coup in the sand dunes, tampering with the imperial edict originally sent by Qin Shihuang to Fu Su, not the original one? Let Fu Su go to Xianyang to arrange the funeral? Change to? Give fu su the death penalty? Fu Su committed suicide immediately after reading this letter. Why did Fu Su commit suicide?
Fu Su and Meng Tian.
Because this imperial edict is the real imperial edict.
The imperial edict issued by Qin Shihuang was not written by himself. Part of them were written by Prime Minister Lisi and part by CZ Zhao Gao, because both of them were close ministers of Qin Shihuang and top calligraphers of the Qin Dynasty. After Qin Shihuang wrote the imperial edict, he took the imperial edict kept by Zhao Gao and stamped it, and then distributed it to Fu Su by a special messenger.
The present situation is that Zhao Gao, Li Si and Hu Hai all betrayed Qin Shihuang. Originally, Zhao Gao and Reese wrote the imperial edict, but now they wrote it. Originally Qin Shihuang stamped, now Zhao Gao stamped, and then all processes and correct processes are the same. Therefore, in the eyes of Fu Su and Meng Tian, this imperial edict is a real imperial edict, because all the processes of this imperial edict are originally correct. The difference is that Qin Shihuang is dead.
Qin Shi Huang
Therefore, although this imperial edict changed the meaning of Qin Shihuang's life, it was true. Fu Su was banished to the north as a prison army for offending Qin Shihuang. It was not until two years later that Fu Su clearly knew Qin Shihuang's anger towards him. He saw this imperial edict and thought that his father Qin Shihuang had given up his expectations, so Fu Su would commit suicide.
Fuxi is the eldest son of Qin Shihuang. If there is no special reason, Fu Su should be the second emperor of Daqin Empire. When Fu Su saw this letter, his first reaction was that Qin Shihuang didn't trust him. The second reaction is that he has no chance to succeed to the throne. The third reaction was that since his father would kill him for these things, Fu Su's self-confidence collapsed under the triple blow. Although Meng Tian reminded Fu Su that it was impossible to rely on an angel's letter, he would review it before making arrangements.
Fu Su committed suicide.
Because no one would have thought that this real imperial edict was forged! Just like I didn't expect Qin Shihuang to die so soon, no one thought that Zhao Gao, Reese and Hu Hai tampered with the contents of the letter and launched a coup. Of course, Fu Su and Meng Tian don't know. What Meng Tian did was to ask for a review, but one thing is certain, no one in Fu Su or Meng Tian dared to resist.
If Fu Su knew that this letter was false, would he commit suicide?
Of course not. If Fu Su knew that the imperial edict was false, he would surely lead 300,000 Great Wall Corps south to Xianyang with Meng Tian to compete for the throne. Fu Su is not a fool, just unlucky, and his political views are different from those of Qin Shihuang. But this imperial edict was really caught by Zhao Gao and others, which shows that Zhao Gao really has a set of methods to deal with people.