Set things right?
Speaking of this, Zhao Cheng was speechless.
In the original course of history, during the First Emperor's final eastern inspection, his body—long burdened by the crushing weight of governance—finally gave out, and he passed away during the journey.
Zhao Gao seized the moment, suppressed the imperial decree summoning Fusu from Shangjun, and persuaded Li Si to forge a decree ordering Fusu to commit suicide, subsequently installing Hu Hai on the throne.
When the pedantic Fusu received the forged decree, he ignored Meng Tian's advice and committed suicide on the spot, leaving Meng Tian with nowhere to turn, eventually leading to his own persecution and death at the hands of Zhao Gao.
Meng Yi was also persecuted to death by Zhao Gao in succession.
Without the two pillars of the state, Meng Tian and Meng Yi, coupled with Hu Hai's incompetence and indulgence, and Zhao Gao's tyranny of "pointing at a deer and calling it a horse," the people were plunged into misery. Rebellions erupted everywhere, and the vast Great Qin began to crumble shortly thereafter.
The unification of the world, achieved through the accumulated strength of six generations of the Qin State, collapsed as if it were child's play.
The root cause was that Fusu never truly matured. Not only was he unable to suppress the court officials and awe the world like the First Emperor, but he was also constantly manipulated by a group of Confucian scholars. Clinging to a pedantic sense of benevolence and righteousness, he repeatedly clashed with the First Emperor, which led to his exile to the army to assist the great general Meng Tian in building the Great Wall and defending against the Xiongnu.
Because he held so rigidly to Confucianism without knowing how to adapt, when he received the fake imperial