In 221 B.C., in our Land of China, a great and far-reaching event occurred, that is, Qin Yingzheng went along with the trend of society and unified the whole of Kyushu. From this time on, for the first time in our history, we had an emperor, and Qin Yingzheng actually still had a lot of ideas: Although the world was unified, what method should be used to govern in the face of this unprecedented great empire of the masses? It's really a very urgent thing. So a meeting was held, and the ministers proposed to implement the previous system, because the original Qi Yanzhao and other places were too far from the capital, it was not easy to manage, it was better to give it to the sons to manage, it was said that there were no outsiders, they were all fathers and sons, but only Li Si strongly opposed, Jean believed that in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was divided into sons, but later the relatives became more and more distant, so there would be wars. Zhou Tianzi could not stop it, it was difficult to unify, it must be easy to control, so that the world has no two hearts. Qin Shi Huang also believed that the reason for the continuous wars and chaos in the world was that the princes were divided and the princes were not easy to stabilize, and if they went to establish the princely states, it was equivalent to cultivating the roots of the war.
At that time, the two factions were very antagonistic, in fact, people were selfish, and those who insisted on the system of dividing the feudal system seemed to want to divide the land among the sons of Qin Shi Huang as the kings of the great powers, but in fact, they were playing their own calculations, and they could become princes of small countries. Because they are all so-called meritorious people, it is very promising to reward the marquis for meritorious deeds, and only Qin Shi Huang and Li Si insisted on implementing the county system and the system of centralizing the power of representatives. Put the power on one person.
So who is Lisi? Why did he vigorously promote the county system? It turned out that this person was a native of the Chu state during the Warring States period, and later defected to Yingzheng, which was very important and played a great role in unifying the world, and it can only be said that Li Si was very smart, could understand Qin Yingzheng's preferences, and knew that Qin Yingzheng was a person with a very great desire for power. He quickly formulated a complete set of plans, and explicitly made specific suggestions to the emperor to strictly enforce the law. Such a law came out: all the original weapons of the six countries were surrendered, and no private keeps were allowed, the rich and powerful families in various places moved to the capital, the dangerous places in the whole country, and all castles and fortifications of the original six countries were demolished. What they thought was that since the world was at peace, weapons had been confiscated, who could make trouble, who could move large households under their noses, who could collude with each other and level the castle and the border guards, who could still make trouble?
Qin Shi Huang transported all the weapons he had received to Xianyang, where they were all made of copper, all melted, and cast into twelve large bronze men, placed outside the door of the Xianyang Palace, symbolizing steel-like rule. But is it really impregnable? Now let's see if this county system was really that good at the time
In the eyes of many people, this is the achievement of Qin Shi Huang, because there were nearly a hundred generations of county systems that were practiced later, in fact, people's thinking at that time was still stuck in the previous system, and the conditions for implementing the new system were not mature. Due to the lack of decentralization, more than twenty children of Qin Yingzheng and all the heroes did not share the title, and when the central government of the Qin Dynasty was attacked, there were no princely kingdoms as wings to deal with the turmoil, and the country was soon destroyed. It was also because there was no point that Zhao Gao Huhai's usurpation of the throne was successful and successful, and it also made Hu Hai kill more than twenty of his brothers and sisters at once, and killed the important heroes who had made great contributions to the unification of the six countries of Qin. The Qin Dynasty was really destroyed by Qin himself.
Liu Bang was very clever, and the establishment of the Han regime accepted the lessons of the Qin Dynasty, and in the process of fighting the Jiangshan, he constantly crowned the king, using this as bait to attract more people to join his rebel army. Li Si only saw that the separation of powers could lead to war between the princely states, but did not consider the other side of the system that would lead to the quick overthrow of the Qin regime. It seems that the experience of the predecessors must also have a process, that is, step by step, no matter how great the authority, no matter how high the prestige, must recognize this article.