What kind of person was Qin Shihuang?

When it comes to Qin Shihuang, in many people's minds, he is a tyrant. The reason is that Qin Shihuang's brutal rule and strict laws forced the people to build the Great Wall, burn books to bury Confucianism and refine the elixir of life. ...

Although the Qin Dynasty unified the six countries, the same characters, the same cars on the track, and unified measurement, it laid the foundation for the feudal unified dynasty in China for thousands of years. However, Qin Shihuang's reputation among the people far outweighed his achievements.

Is this really the case with Qin Shihuang in history? Today we will briefly talk about the merits and demerits of Qin Shihuang.

First of all, the contribution of Qin Shihuang.

As the 1 th emperor in China's history, he unified the writing, unified the weights and measures and laws, built the Great Wall to resist the Huns, formulated the county system, built the road leading to the whole country, and brought Baiyue area into the rule. ...

These policies left by Qin Shihuang laid a solid foundation for China's unified history of more than 2,500 years. It can be said that without Qin Shihuang, there would be no reunification of China.

Among the more than 400 emperors in the history of China, some people can be regarded as wise masters even if they can achieve a feat of Qin Shihuang. And Qin Shihuang can accomplish so many things, which can be said to be a veritable emperor.

Today, there are many European countries, many languages and many nationalities. The EU has been unable to persist for so many years, but it lacks an emperor like Qin Shihuang.

Next, I will talk about the shortcomings of Qin Shihuang.

1, the brutal rule of Qin Shihuang

In fact, the six Central Plains countries said that the Qin Dynasty was cruel, which had a historical origin. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the State of Qin, by virtue of its geographical location in the frontier, eliminated the western minority regime that led to the demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty. In this process, I naturally learned and integrated some local ethnic styles.

For example, 400,000 Zhao troops were buried alive with their first-class meritorious deeds and the battle of Changping. ...

After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he often killed all the people around the assassination site in the face of assassins' assassination.

It is no exaggeration to say that he is cruel from the present point of view.

The law is cruel.

In people's impression, Qin law is very strict, and it is always beheaded and cracked. ...

The uprisings of Chen Sheng and Guangwu were sentenced to death because they came late, so it is better to have a vigorous uprising.

Interestingly, however, the Qin bamboo slips unearthed in recent years found that the laws of the Qin Dynasty were not so cruel. According to records, if Chen Guang really failed to arrive on time due to heavy rain, he would not be sentenced to death.

This is also a very interesting result of legal research in Qin Dynasty in recent years. From this point of view, the view that Qin law is cruel is actually not very tenable.

3. Burn books to bury Confucianism

Burning books and burying Confucianism can be regarded as synonymous with Qin Shihuang's brutal rule. However, according to Records of the Historian, the alchemists, represented by Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng, first boasted to Qin Shihuang that they could get the elixir of life, but he couldn't get it, so they told Qin Shihuang: There are too many people around you who know you. If the immortal doesn't come, just hide yourself so that everyone doesn't know where you are, and the immortal will naturally come. ...

Master alive, ministers know, is harmful to god. Real people, into the water, into the fire, not Ruo, Lingyun gas, and heaven and earth for a long time. Today, the rule of the world has not calmed down. The palace where I used to live was unknown, and then the medicine for immortality was almost available. -"Historical Records-Biography of Qin Shihuang"

So Qin Shihuang didn't call me, but claimed to be a real person, not letting people know where he was, waiting for the immortal to give himself the elixir of life.

But after a while, there was still nothing. According to the Qin law, breaking promises is the death penalty.

Lu Sheng began to panic, and then a total with a few accomplices, simply ran away. But simply escaping is not enough to prove that you are a liar. Therefore, these people can't directly spread Qin Shihuang to the outside world. They are greedy for power and cruel. It's not that you can't have fairy medicine, but you don't want it.

Qin Shihuang was furious and sent people to catch these liars and their accomplices. A total of more than 460 people, all buried alive.

On the one hand, these old people were just so-called alchemists or doctors who were proficient in Mozambique, but later scholars mastered the right to speak, which made Qin Shihuang bear the stigma of cheating Confucianism.

But it was Reese's idea to burn books, because the rebels in the six countries were rampant at that time. Li Si suggested burning all books except the history books of Qin State, leaving only books on medical divination and tree planting and books on law.

I asked historians to burn all the records of the Qin Dynasty. Those who dare to have poems, books and hundreds of languages in the world without being doctors will carefully preserve and burn them. Some people who dare to talk about poetry and books have abandoned the market. Think of the past as a family that is not the present. Those officials are all guilty of the same crime if they don't mention it. If it doesn't burn for the next 30 days, it will be a city. Those who don't go, the book of planting trees. If you want to study law, you should take an official as your teacher. "The system said," Yes. " -"Historical Records-Biography of Qin Shihuang"

Burning books can be said to be the black spot of Qin Shihuang, but why is the influence of defrauding 400 fraudsters so great compared with the war cases of beheading hundreds of thousands?

Step 4 repair the great wall

The Great Wall was built during the Warring States Period and was still under construction until the Ming Dynasty. This is not the black spot of Qin Shihuang.

The construction of Qin Zhi Road was an expressway at that time, which was very beneficial to the rule of the central government, and it was also a good thing for the present and the future.

The construction of Epang Palace and Qin Mausoleum is a big project, but the palaces and mausoleums in Han, Tang, Ming and Qing Dynasties are also bigger than one. Why do people only scold Qin Shihuang?

Step 5 live a long life

Seeking immortality, soaring and becoming immortal ... This can be said to be the same gene in China culture for thousands of years.

How many emperors, from Qin Shihuang to countless emperors, died suddenly during the alchemy?

Far away, the recent red pill case in Ming Dynasty and the sudden death of Yong Zhengdi in Qing Dynasty are inextricably linked with the pursuit of longevity. Why did Qin Shihuang take the blame alone?

So to sum up, the merits and demerits of Qin Shihuang can be said to be obvious. Part of Qin Shihuang's black spots are his own problems, but some of them were deliberately smeared by later generations for the legitimacy of his successors or for the later emperors to learn the lessons of Qin Ershi's death.

Taking history as a mirror, Qin Shihuang was a flawed emperor, but he was definitely a rare emperor in the history of China.

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