In the evaluation system of some people today, the criterion for measuring success is not nothing more than being an official and getting rich, only those who are big officials and making a fortune deserve to be called successful, and those ordinary people are often looked down upon, and some selfless and noble behaviors are also scorned as "stupid". Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that we will not hesitate to strive for wealth and wealth by any means, endure humiliation and burden to protect wealth and wealth. The hundreds of thousands of white rebels who commanded the army were related to multiple subjective and objective factors.
In the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi lied about military information and made unauthorized claims, pit and killed prisoners of the Warring States, which not only embarrassed the emperor, but also put the Qin state in a cruel and ruthless situation, which had a considerable impact on the Plan of the Qin State to unify the Six Kingdoms. Moreover, he had high military merit, and in the Battle of Handan, he was reluctant to go to war after disagreeing with King Qin Zhao, resulting in defeat. At that time, the Qin army was in a dilemma, and the King of Qin repeatedly asked Bai Qi to go to war, but Bai Qi ignored it on the grounds of illness and refused to go to war.
The opportunity is this, once it is not held, it will not come again. Bai Qi analyzed to the King of Qin the reasons why it was not appropriate to attack. Believing that this battle was bound to lose, he refused to lead the troops. The enraged King of Qin did not heed the advice and sent other generals, all of which were fruitless and lost their troops. As a result, the King of Qin also went to ask Bai Qi to re-install the commander three times and twice. Bai caused illness and also refused several times. One after another, the previous unity of purpose between the monarchs and subjects, the mutual trust also dissipated, and the farther and farther away seemed like a strange road, and in the heart of the King of Qin, the anger and anger were also increasing day by day. In the end, he got up and left the city, and then gave him a sword to kill himself.
Bai Qi was not bound to die, and he chose to obey Qin Jun's instructions to cut himself, if he wanted not to die, with his prestige in the army, it was not impossible to maintain a glimmer of life for himself or abscond to another country. But Bai Qi did not do that, he chose to obey the arrangement, to be a loyal vassal rather than a traitor. Therefore, it may be said that From some point of view, Bai Qi has blood on his hands and is a true butcher, but from a political point of view, he is a loyal and patriotic minister.