To say that Qin Yingzheng, the first emperor of the mainland, had too many things on him. But the impression from the depths of memory is that cruel book burning pit Confucian incident, as a monarch, is it really cruel to such an extent, that there is such a great hatred for the readers and the books? We don't think so now
In the Warring States period when small countries were in war and strife, the area of the fields was different, the width and narrowness of vehicles and roads were different, the laws of various princely states were different, the clothes, hats, languages and writing were very different, and chaos was not the same; after Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms, he did a good thing of immeasurable merit, that is, in addition to taking unified measures in politics and economy, he also paid great attention to ideology and culture. He ordered the unification of the language and abolished the ancient and variant scripts used in other countries. This is the Qin Wen Xiaohuan that we saw later. He also sent someone to write a small seal book, which stipulated that it was a compulsory textbook for schoolchildren. Moreover, at that time, if you wanted to become an official, you had to pass the selection to serve as a junior minor official. It can be seen from this that he still respects education and likes to read people, so why are there any statements? In fact, the bad thing is that it is bad in the unity of his ideology and culture.
Of course, to become a country, of course, there must be a corresponding unified system. Qin Shi Huang also formulated a system, but his system is a system of honoring the king and degrading the subjects, it is conceivable that after defeating the Six Kingdoms, his pride must be increasing day by day, and the mood of solipsism is also unprecedentedly inflated, and it is at this time of complacency that he established the title of emperor. Ancient legend has it that there are three emperors, the biggest and most honorable is the Thai Emperor, he retained the imperial character in it, coupled with the emperor character of the celestial god honorific title, created the emperor, a new word that has never been used before to call himself, and he is still the first emperor.
In order to publicize the prestige of his emperor and sweep away the remaining forces of the Six Kingdoms, he often traveled the world in order to bring the majesty of the emperor and the courage of the empire to all the places along the way, it can be said that in ancient China, which was a good measure to achieve the concentration of power in many illiterate ancient China. His lifelong pursuit of centralization is also centralized. In the society at that time, the common people could not talk about laws and regulations casually, and if they talked about themselves, they would be exiled to the border areas. So that at that time, for the national decrees, not only could not be said to be bad, but even good could not be said casually, because at the same time as saying good, it was possible to say bad.
In fact, this is a whole set of policy of ignorance. In the late period, it is even more prominent, that is, the large burial of the living in various opinions. In 213 BC, at a banquet, a person proposed that the previous system of dividing the feudal titles should be implemented, but he was refuted by the chancellor at the time, believing that the county system initiated by the emperor was a great measure, and where could these rigid scholars understand, the students should have only studied the laws of the government, and the common people should specialize in production. However, the readers are not good at reading, but they talk nonsense about the laws and regulations of the government, and it is not good to go on like this. Therefore, Xiang Xiang proposed a specific method, except for the historical records of the Qin State, all other history books were burned, and the previous books of various countries in various places had to be handed over to the officials for unified destruction. Approve and do so. At that time, books such as agricultural books, medical science and technology could be preserved, in fact, to put it bluntly, it was not allowed to have remarks that were different from those of the government.
In 212 BC, the two people who gave Qin Shi Huang alchemy felt that the immortal medicine could not be had, the deception would always be exposed, and the left and right were also dead, so they counted the faults of Qin Shi Huang and said that such a person could not take the immortal medicine and slipped away. The deceived emperor was furious, saying that the man had taken a lot of his money and slander him, so he ordered the arrest of the two Confucians. As a result, the Confucians were in chaos, exposing each other's evil words and confusing the public, and more than 400 people were buried alive in the then capital Xianyang, as a warning to future generations that knowing that the eldest son of Qin Shi Huang had come forward to intercede, it was only when it was over. It can be seen from this that the books he burned are history books outside the Qin State, and those people he pits are some jianghu warlocks, what do you think