嬴高 / Ying Gao
嬴高 / Ying Gao enters the wiki through Qinji 128-1 as a Qin prince who chooses ritualized self-sacrifice during 胡亥 / 秦二世’s purge of royal kin. The source says he initially wants to flee, but fears that flight will implicate his family.
His solution is to petition for burial with 秦始皇 at 骊山. He frames the request as loyalty and filiality: Qin Shi Huang treated him generously, and failing to follow the dead emperor would be unfilial as a son and disloyal as a minister. Hu Hai is pleased by the petition, shows it to 赵高, and grants the request with funeral money.
For the wiki, Ying Gao shows how the purge reshapes agency. He appears to choose death, but the meaningful choice is between death that may preserve his household and flight that may expose them to collective punishment.
Key Claims
- Ying Gao is presented as a Qin prince and son of Qin Shi Huang.
- He considers escape but fears his family will be punished.
- He petitions to die and be buried with Qin Shi Huang, recasting coerced death as filial loyalty.
- Hu Hai is pleased by the request because it removes a possible rival without open resistance.
- Zhao Gao interprets the princes’ fear as evidence that they have no time or room to rebel.