Later generations scolded him, saying that he was greedy for power, that he was greedy for gain, and that he had betrayed the entrustment of the late emperor.
But if you think about it from the perspective of a 70-year-old man - is he really afraid of losing his official position?
He is over 70 years old, how many more years can he live? How attractive is the position of prime minister to him?
What he fears is that what he has insisted on all his life will be proven wrong.
What he fears is that the building he built with his own hands will be demolished.
What he fears is that after he dies, his descendants will point to his tombstone and say, "This man did something wrong back then."
He persisted for fifty years, persisted until his hair was all white, persisted until his children and grandchildren were full, and persisted until he saw the unification of the world with his own eyes. He couldn't help but watch everything be overturned in the last few years.
So he chose Hu Hai instead of Fusu.
