There are more than four hundred emperors in ancient China, of course, this is from the beginning of Qin Shi Huang, it is he who really created the great unification in history, the record of unifying the six kingdoms is really brilliant and great, but after the founding of the country, the existence of the dynasty is the shortest in history, the political measures he issued were good and bad, soon the world was in turmoil, the new dynasty took its place, he himself had great talent, but at the same time he would be proud of his achievements, which made him a controversial emperor.
When the State of Qin was still one of the Seven Kingdoms at that time, after the efforts of successive Qin kings, the State of Qin became the most powerful country, there was no one, and when Yingzheng became the monarch at the age of thirteen, the power of the state was not controlled by him, but fell into the hands of Lü Xiang, and nine years later he personally took power, but politically, he had not yet mastered the power, there were still many forces to hold, but these days became his stepping stones, and gradually let him grow into a qualified emperor.
The imperial tomb of Qin Shi Huang is a miracle in the world, his life is also a historical mystery, his biological father is not clear, which is naturally related to his mother, and later historians have also speculated that his mother Zhao Ji left a psychological shadow on him. At that time, Zhao Ji was only a singer of lü Buwei's family, and had a close relationship with her master, but later in order to please the yiren, she was given to the yiren, and then Zhao Ji gave birth to a son, which was Yingzheng.
The relationship between Lü Xiang and the empress dowager was indeed ambiguous, but when Yingzheng ascended the throne, he was worried about what would happen, so he wanted to break the relationship between the two, but at this time, Zhao Ji, who became the empress dowager, still wanted to be dissatisfied and did not want to break off the relationship with Lü Buwei, so Lü Buwei gave Concubine Yi to the empress. The two discussed dressing up as a eunuch so that he could enter the palace, secretly in fact, she was the empress dowager's lover, and it should be said that concubine was also capable, and even coaxed the empress dowager to turn around, the two had illegitimate children, and also let the empress dowager promote his position, after which Yan Yi's power in the imperial court and harem became more and more powerful, and later he was named a marquis, and he attracted many available people.
With the power of Yan Yi was very arrogant, and even dared to claim to be the emperor's stepfather, flaunting his martial prowess in the name of his stepfather, dominating the palace, when drunk, even angrily cursing the ministers, after such a rampant behavior was known to the emperor, the emperor who could not tolerate sand in his eyes naturally would not let him go. Yan Yi was not easy to deal with, he had eyeliner in the palace, and knew that the emperor would do something to him, so he thought of starting to be strong and wanted to rebel, but as soon as he started to move, he was besieged by the emperor's forces, in fact, the emperor was also developing his own forces early, and he was completely able to dispose of the villain.
After Yan Yi was sentenced to capital punishment, Nian, for the sake of the empress dowager's biological mother, only imprisoned her, but his two half-brothers were thrown to death by his own hands, and the orthodox emperor could not tolerate the blood of others to defile the royal family. This fierce move made Lü Xiang very afraid, the former little emperor grew into a cold emperor, and the people who had been hated by him would be picked up one by one sooner or later, so Lü Xiang retracted a lot, but soon after he still committed suicide by drinking poison.
The emperor began drastic reforms in the country, strengthened the centralized system, suppressed the power of the nobility, added military plans, implemented the system of military merit, expanded the territory, expanded the territory, injected a large number of fresh blood into the imperial court, managed the country with new talents, set up three dukes to assist, promulgated new laws, promoted private ownership, unified weights and measures, and opened up the county system, which abolished the aristocratic hereditary system, but brought about a bureaucratic atmosphere.
In this way, it seems that his series of reforms is of great benefit to the country, but it cannot change the mistakes he brought about in decision-making, enslaving the people, increasing taxes, the people are not happy about life, when he is old, he wants to pursue immortality, superstitious Taoists, thinking that he can live forever by means of alchemy and cultivation, and also believes that there are immortals on the other side of the sea, and he does not hesitate to spend the state's money, and he looks for young children who meet the conditions, and takes a boat on the sea to find immortals to seek medicine, so that the behavior of laboring the people and hurting the money makes the people unhappy. When the emperor woke up, he ordered a thorough investigation of the alchemists, but the final result was that the alchemists were killed, and the damage that had been caused was irreparable.
After that, he wanted to build a unique Afang Palace, once again spending the country's manpower, Wulihe financial resources, labor and wealth, it is rumored that this palace is very luxurious and luxurious, but according to research, this palace was not built, just imagined, but at this time the decline of the Qin Dynasty is real. However, if the second monarch was for the Ming Emperor, he might be able to stop the fate of the decline of the dynasty in time and put the country on the right path, but the minister of the imperial government, Zhao Gaolisi, and others set up others as puppet emperors, and they should have been Fu Su to inherit the throne, but they changed their will, let the new emperor become a puppet, and let Fu Su commit suicide to accompany the funeral.
In this way, Qin II could not change the fate of the country, the power of the state was in the hands of the minister, but the minister only knew that he was greedy for pleasure, absurd, did not care about the fate of the country at all, the people's life became more and more difficult, the people broke out a peasant uprising, and then the world fell into turmoil again.
Even if the Qin Dynasty only existed for a short time, its influence on subsequent dynasties was indelible, and thus the monarchy began, and subsequent dynasties only perfected this framework.
Resources:
【History of the Qin Emperor Benji" and "Book of Han"】