Is Qin Shihuang really that cruel?

Like everyone else, Qin Shihuang's personality is also very complicated. His cruelty was not a personal act, but the need of feudal autocracy at that time. But cruelty is Qin Shihuang's greatest shortcoming, which is related to his experiences and life experiences when he was young.

Personally, Qin Shihuang was not as cruel as he thought. Some things are really hidden. "Killing father and driving mother out" is not from his original intention. Taking care of kinship can only threaten his throne This incident just shows the great talent of Qin Shihuang.

Qin Shihuang was a man with a grudge. At that time, the young Qin Shihuang and his mother lived in seclusion in Zhao, hiding in Tibet, living under the fence, being bullied, despised and swallowed up. After more than twenty years, he became the king of Qin. Zhao's humiliating experience is a lingering shadow. This kind of revenge has been suppressed for more than 20 years, which is hard to see. When Qin Shihuang conquered Zhao and returned to Handan again, he arrested all the people who had enemies with his mother's family and buried them alive to vent their hatred. For the people of Zhao, it seems normal to see how former fugitives become masters of their own destiny today.

However, according to historians' research, when Ying Zheng attacked Handan, Zhao, he did bury some people who made enemies in Zhao, but the cruel scene of burying children alive on a large scale was somewhat exaggerated. "This does not mean that Qin Shihuang was narrow-minded. To say that he was narrow-minded, Xiang Yu attacked Xianyang and killed 100 thousand people. He also has revenge. "