The wind is cold and the water is cold, and the hero will not return once he is gone. With the defeat of Jing Ke's assassination of Qin, the process of unifying the six kingdoms of Qin became faster and faster. Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan, and Qi perished in turn, and in the first two or two years of the park, the Qin Dynasty was established, the first year of the First Emperor, which ushered in the era of centralized absolutism in China for more than two thousand years. At this time, the West was the period of Roman Rule.
As everyone knows, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period before the founding of the Qin Dynasty were the most open-minded and active era in Chinese history, when a hundred schools of thought competed and blossomed, and various schools and factions wrote books and propagandized their own political ideas. It can be said that China's humanistic ethical norms and inner cultivation methods for thousands of years have all originated from that era, and the Confucian teachings and the birth preaching have remained unchanged for thousands of years. It was not until the last years of the Qing Dynasty, when the West slammed open the gates of ancient China with its ships and cannons, that China woke up like a dream, and the world was different.
Qin Shi Huang burned books to pit Confucianism, and Emperor Wu of Han respected Confucianism alone. This seems to be the opposite of behavior, but the essence is the same, that is, the intervention and suppression of moral power by the regime. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, scholars had considerable personality independence, so most of the monarchs of various countries were very courteous to readers, and even honored famous people as teachers. King Hui of Liang called Mencius a teacher, and Mencius accepted it with great enthusiasm. It can be seen how revered the status of intellectuals was at that time.
In the Qin and Han dynasties, the intellectuals of the unification period could not escape the control of the monarch under any circumstances, and in addition, the Qin Dynasty originally started with a legal family, reusing Shang Martingale, Li Si and other criminal name magic people. Therefore, after the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, the intellectuals were also governed by legalist ideas, and of course there would be appalling incidents of book burning and Confucianism.
With the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, intellectuals could no longer leave without saying a word as before. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the flow of personnel was frequent, and there was no grandfather left here. Intellectuals often have a decisive influence on the strength and weakness of a country, that is to say, the talented person wins the world. But after the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, the rulers did not need talents, and at this time, talents were a threat.
Therefore, Jia Yi's "On Passing the Qin Dynasty" has the famous city of Kuiming and killing Hao Jiezhi, which is the fool's trick of Qin Shi Huang, and he wants to achieve the purpose of making the Qin Dynasty long-term peace and stability and passing it down from generation to generation by making the people of the whole country his slaves. Such sinister intentions echoed the Manchu rulers. The beginning and the end of the feudal dynasty happen to be the two best representatives.
Therefore, Qin Shi Huang unified China, resulting in people's thinking imprisonment, in the case of the fragmentation of the West, countries in order to be strong, have recruited talents, the Russian Empire Peter the Great often sent heroic posts to the advanced countries of Western Europe. In such a competitive environment, how can talent not emerge everywhere?