Who do you think is the most controversial person in history?

I think when it comes to the most controversial person in history, it should be Qin Shihuang, the first emperor in our history and a great man who completed our national reunification for the first time. Ying Zheng will be greatly disputed by later generations, and his tyranny, including many children, has a very bad influence on him. Even many middle and high schools have a deep resentment against the tyranny of Qin Huang after learning the article about Jing Ke stabbing Qin.

However, the real Qin Huang in history has not been handed down. There is no denying that he really squeezed the lives of the people at that time, including building palaces and so on. Just like the rumored Epang Palace burned by Xiang Yu, it seems to be a luxury now. At the same time, the Great Wall, which cost a lot of manpower and material resources to build, has paid countless lives for this project, but its great role is indeed a great achievement for the later dynasties to resist the infringement of ethnic minorities.

Nowadays, people will talk about Ying Zheng, and there are constant controversies about him. One of the most fundamental reasons is that the contradiction between his own merits and demerits completely makes it impossible for people to clearly define whether he is a tyrant or a wise king who has made great contributions to the nation. It is also recorded in the book that all the people he killed by burning books and burying Confucianism were charlatans, not the literati we thought.

Of course, in my opinion, Ying Zheng is definitely the most controversial figure in our history. No matter who he is, after he knows more about Qin, even his ego will doubt how to evaluate him.