Lü Buwei's Secret Legacy

Author: Guo Jianhua
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Main Content: What kind of person can buy a country? Today, this seems unimaginable, but over 2,000 years ago, one person not only did it but did it exceptionally well. He is the great merchant Lü Buwei, known as the "state-buying tycoon." Historically, Lü Buwei was born in Yangdi, Korea, and was a wealthy merchant who could rival the state. In ancient China, Lü Buwei possessed both vision and cunning. To make Zi Chu the ruler of Qin and use him as a stepping stone for his vast family, he implemented several highly effective sequential public relations strategies, using money to package Zi Chu as a wise and virtuous person. At the same time, he also planned a brilliant future for his unborn son—in accordance with the records in Records of the Grand Historian, the future First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, was actually Lü Buwei's son.