Why is Qin Shihuang, an eternal sinner who is generally regarded as "burning books", actually just a man with a back pot?

Qin Shihuang was indeed a latecomer to book burning. Although Qin Shihuang burned books in those days, most of them were useless books read by alchemists. Although Qin Shihuang also asked everyone in the world to turn over all the books, these books need to go through the hands of those doctors, and their own books don't need to be turned over, so the useful books will inevitably be taken away by those doctors first, so most of the books burned by Qin Shihuang are useless books or books of little significance.

Moreover, Qin Shihuang's burning of books can be said to be completely inferior to that of Xiang Yu later. When Xiang Yu entered Xianyang, he not only killed Zi Ying, the king of Qin who surrendered at that time, but also set fire to Xianyang in Qin Dou for a hundred years, and this torch also burned many books in the state treasury of Qin.

Even in the Qing Dynasty, some people said that burning books was not the crime of Reese, but the crime of Ji Xiang. It can be said that they also believe that Xiang Yu is responsible for burning books, not the king of Qin.

Because if Qin Shihuang really wanted to burn books, he didn't need to sort them out uselessly, just set them on fire. After all, isn't it troublesome to find someone to sort out the book after burning it? Moreover, before Qin Shihuang burned books at that time, there was a special order that doctors' books could not be turned over and burned, which was also very obvious. At that time, Qin Shihuang burned books mainly to concentrate his own sovereignty, while Xiang Yu burned books entirely out of his own selfish desires. Anyone who missed it can see it. Why blame Qin Shihuang and not Xiang Yu now? It's really interesting.