The Spring and Autumn Warring States is a chaotic era of the division of princes, and he also created a cultural prosperity of a hundred schools of thought, and finally under the efforts of the monarchs of the Qin State, the six kingdoms were unified, from the geographical location of the initial Qin State, they were in the northwest, the conditions were closed, the land was barren, and there was harassment by the Xiongnu in the north, why could the Qin State stand out in the Warring States and become the most powerful existence in the world? In 350 and 356 BC, Qin Xiaogong accepted the strategy of the Wei people Shang martingale, and twice implemented the policy of "abolishing well fields, opening up the mounds, implementing the county system, rewarding cultivation and fighting, and implementing the method of sitting together".
After the Shang martingale transformation method, the economy of the Qin state was further developed, the capital was concentrated, and thus developed into the strongest country in the late Warring States period, but the end of the Qin hero Shang Martingale was tragic, after the death of Qin Xiaogong, Shang Martin hurriedly fled to the fiefdom, was attacked by Qin Huiwenjun led by the army, and as a result, Shang Martin was defeated and died, King Hui of Qin did not let go of his body, but took it back to show the public, why did Shang Martin and qin state develop to such an intolerable point?
In 356 BC, Shang Martin was appointed as the chief of the Zuo Shu and implemented the first change of law in the Qin state, which included increasing the system of sitting together, abolishing the old Shi Qing Shilu system, rewarding military merit, prohibiting private fighting, promulgating the system of twenty knights according to military merit, emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce, rewarding farming and weaving, and specially rewarding reclamation.
This expanded the sources of state taxes and military service, and laid a solid foundation for the economic and military strength of the Qin state, but undermined the basic interests of the Qin nobles. Because of these practices, the Qin state is changing from a sub-feudal state to a county system.
At first glance, there seems to be nothing wrong with it, but in the past, the Spring and Autumn Warring States were actually jointly ruled by nobles, such as the famous Four Princes of the Warring States, the MengTianjun Pingyuan Jun, and others, who also had a status no less than that of the princes, but the Qin State became the territory of the Qin Monarch alone, and the power to kill was all in the Qin King.
In the early days of the Shang martingale reform law, he also received the support of the common people, but after a while, it was more of a complaint against the Shang martingale, and the Book of Shang Jun once clearly mentioned the theory of Shang martingale governing the country: the people are weak and the country is strong, and the country is strong and the people are weak. Therefore, the state of the way is in the weak people.
What does that mean? Shang Martin believes that if a country wants to dominate the world and defeat a strong enemy, then it is necessary to let the people be honest, and it is best for them to be afraid of the law and obey the monarch like a livestock, so that the country will be easy to govern and the king's position will be solid.
To this end, the "Book of ShangJun" advocates heavy punishment and light reward, he believes that if the punishment is increased and the reward is reduced, the monarch loves the people, and the people will desperately compete for the reward; increasing the reward and reducing the punishment is that the monarch does not love the people, and the people will not fight for the reward.
To this end, Shang Martin not only formulated severe and harsh punitive measures within the Qin State, but also restored the cruel punishments such as corporal punishment that had long been abolished in the Qin State, and he enforced the law harshly, once executing 700 prisoners in one day by the Wei River, so that the river turned red and the cries were earth-shattering. For this reason, Shang Martingale was also widely resented by the people. The Zizhi Tongjian records that Shang Martingale "was ten years old, and many people complained about it." ”
In fact, the martingale system seriously destroyed the deliberate graceful development of scar cream. Historically, there are also negative evaluations of Shang Martin's operations, the Old Book of Tang openly declares that he is a cool official, Jia Yi believes that "Shang Jun violated etiquette, abandoned ethics, and was determined to make progress, and he was two years old, and Qin customs were defeated", and Sima Qian also mentioned "Shang Jun, whose talent is mean and mean." Traces want to do filial piety to the emperor, and hold the floating theory hostage, not its quality... Notorious for Qin, there is YiYefu! Sima Qian's meaning was very clear, Shang Martin did evil, and finally fell into a notoriety of rebellion in Qin, which was deserved!
All of the above, it is not difficult to understand why so many people want to kill Shang Martin, and the reform method has been achieved, Qin Huiwang naturally needs a back pot man to absorb contradictions for himself, Shang Martin is just a tool to exploit the people in the hands of the ruling class, so his death has become inevitable.