How to evaluate Qin dynasty

The Qin Dynasty can be said to be a "creation" in the history of China. First of all, the concept of complete unification was brought into China, and many laws and regulations that followed it can be said to continue to this day.

Even the later dynasties would criticize the Qin dynasty, but in fact they would honestly unify currency, writing and weights and measures. Implement the household registration system.

However, due to the reuse of legalists, the Qin Dynasty also brought the problem of tyranny. At that time, the population of the Qin Dynasty was about10 million, and there were more than 2 million people serving in the army, accounting for more than one-third of adult men. Moreover, these people do not include the labor force needed for national defense construction and civil construction. For the social structure that was still in the form of clan at that time, the old ideas were difficult and the effect of governing the country according to law was not obvious. On the contrary, it will cause many criminal problems. It can be said that tyranny and strict law became moths under the unstable foundation of the Qin Dynasty.