XIAN JOY - Key Persons

In Qin Dyansty, the Prime Minister Zhao Gao absolutely controlled the authority upon the royal emperor and he was willing to insurgence all the time. He was afraid that his authority was not as influential as he thought, worried that the ministers would not follow him fully. So that once he tested the officers, he led along a head of deer but instead he said that he would give a horse to the emperor. The emperor said that it was deer but not horse. Then Zhao Gao asked other ministers what should it be. Some said horse as the emperor while some deer for being afraid of Zhao Gao. Afterwards, those who said as deer have been persecuted by him, from then on, all infear of him.