In the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, due to the decline of the Zhou royal family, the princely states became independent. For a time, the land of China was divided and entered the Spring and Autumn Warring States period in history. In this period, the "Hundred Schools of Thought" presented the grandeur of literary scholarship and guided the advent of the new system.
Like the European Enlightenment Revolution, every revolution of thought ushered in earth-shaking changes. The controversy of a hundred schools also led China from a slave society in the Xia Shang Zhou to a feudal society. As we all know, the Qin Dynasty was the first unified feudal state in China's history, but do you know how it entered the feudal era?
This brings us to an important figure. Shang Martin, originally a defender of the country, later lobbied around until he arrived in the Qin kingdom and was appreciated by Qin Xiaogong. With its support, one of the most important changes in history, the "Martingale Transformation Method", was initiated. This reform made the weak Qin state become the hegemon of the Central Plains, the first to enter the feudal era, and finally unified the whole country under the efforts of various generations of rulers.
This change of law is extremely significant in history, because it declares that Our country has entered a feudal society thousands of years earlier than the Western world. To a certain extent, let the East lead the world in the next 2000 years. But everything is a double-edged sword, there is a good side and a bad side, and this change has also created a system of brutal torture and heavy agriculture and suppression of business. It also has a deep influence on future generations.
These ideas were also brought all the way to the Qing Dynasty, forming deep-rooted ideas for the Chinese people. As a result, in modern times Chinese generally closed in thought and invaded by the Western world. Therefore, Shang Martingale can also be said to be a "great sinner" in Chinese history to some extent.
It is the same as today's exploration of the socialist road in our country. The feudal system, no one knows what it should be, or how it should be done, is the result of people's experimentation step by step. And if Shang Martin had not emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce and implemented brutal criminal laws such as sitting together, China's feudal era may have been another situation.