Ziying was not prepared to be a puppet and put Zhao Gao to death, but surrendered to Xiang Yu’s subordinate Liu Bang in late 207 BCE, marking the end of the Qin dynasty. In 206 BCE, Xiang Yu ...

Zhao Gao, a high-ranking official of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.), gifted the emperor with a deer, insisting it was a horse. Laughing, the amused emperor asked his entourage what they thought.