Qin Shi Huang: Without him, China would not be today

Qin Shi Huang was the first person in Chinese history to claim to be an emperor, and Qin Shi Huang's ministers believed that he was both the third emperor and had meritorious service to the five emperors, and suggested that he take the word emperor, which is the origin of the title of emperor.

In the long history of more than two thousand years, the image of Qin Shi Huang in our minds has hardly been positive, and we all think that he is a tyrant, why? Because of the death of Qin Li II, the later Han Dynasty had to smear the Qin Dynasty for the legitimacy of its own regime to prove that its overthrow of the Qin Dynasty was in line with the will of heaven and the will of the people.

But you know what? If there is no Qin Dynasty, there would be no China today, if there is no Qin Dynasty, Shandong people and Shanxi people are not the Chinese nation, but independent small countries like Europe, you will find yourself driving a private car hundreds of kilometers to go abroad, you Dalian people want to eat Shaanxi cold skin and meat dumplings but also exchange the currency of the Qin State to trade, you Xi'an people want to eat a Lu cuisine, Chongqing hot pot also have to exchange other kinds of currency to trade, foodies say this is not troublesome?

It was Qin Shi Huang who ended the division and sealing system, established the county system, realized the same text of the entire Chinese land book at that time, the same track, unified currency, weights and measures, and completed the great unification of the Chinese land for the first time, that is, from that time, the idea of the great unification of the Chinese ethnic group was engraved into our marrow. Although we have often had civil strife, been harassed by northern nomads, and even been colonized by Western powers for a hundred years in modern times, Chinese have never given up our belief and determination to unify our country. In this alone, no emperor is comparable to him.

Some people say that Qin Shi Huang burned books and pit Confucianism, and built the Great Wall to work for the people and lose money, and these were all his faults. But do friends know that although Qin Shi Huang ruled the country by pursuing Legalist thought, and the book burning pit Confucianism is not necessarily a true Confucianism, it may be a warlock under the guise of Confucianism. Everyone knows that Qin Shi Huang once pursued immortality, he was deceived by countless warlocks, the books burned in the book pit are witch books, not Analects, and Confucianism is likely to be those liars who sell counterfeit medicine.

As for the construction of the Great Wall, this is a real historical event, but friends, do you know how much the Huaxia people relied on the Great Wall to resist the northern nomads? The farming civilization in the Central Plains and the fighting power of the nomads in the north are not at all in the same grade, and it is much easier for people to beat us than for us to beat others. The Han Dynasty scolded Qin Shi Huang every day for being cruel, but he was enjoying the Great Wall left by others, which shows that the Great Wall has a great effect. What is this called, called sin in the modern era, and the merit covers the ages.

Qin Shi Huang had one million troops, swept away the Liuhe, swept the eight wilderness, attacked invincible, invincible, Wang Yi led 500,000 troops to the south to march to the hundred yue, Meng Yi Meng Tian brothers led 500,000 troops to attack the Xiongnu in the north. Without the southern expedition to the Hundred Yue, today's China would not have had the territories of Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi. When Wang Yi took the Baiyue Kingdom, he wrote to Qin Shi Huang requesting that 500,000 Qin people be sent from Guanzhong to the Baiyue Kingdom to intermarry with the locals, which is called assimilating them, and only by integrating them with our culture will he never split from Daqin. If you leave after the fight, Baiyue Guo says that independence will be independent. Qin Shihuang didn't say a word, and immediately agreed.

However, Wang Yi and Zhao Tuo and other generals of the Southern Expedition found that the Qin Dynasty's domestic forces were empty, why? Half of the million-strong army is in the south, half in the north, and the young people from the native Qin State have been transferred to the Baiyue Country to integrate with the local people, once the Qin State is in trouble, what to do?

Qin Shi Huang said: Once the Qin state is in trouble, you must not abandon the south, central and northern Qin kings. Wang Yi and Zhao Tuo did not understand, and they cried bitterly: Your Majesty, we are all old Qin people, the country is in difficulty, how can we turn a blind eye? Qin Shi Huang said: For the sake of the entire Chinese ethnic group, sacrificing a country, sacrificing my Qin clan people, compared with the inheritance of Huaxia, what is my Qin clan people? The Qin state can be destroyed, but the Chinese ethnic group cannot be destroyed, and Er and others are not allowed to return without an edict.

So everyone understands why Xiang Yu and Liu Bang destroyed the Qin Dynasty so easily, right? Because the million-strong division of the Qin Dynasty did not participate in the battle at all, who were Xiang Yu and Liu Bang fighting? It is the torture army that repaired the mausoleum for Qin Shi Huang in Lishan, what is the prison army? It's some prisoners who kill and set fire! Why didn't that million-strong army come back to King Qin? Just because Qin Shi Huang told him before his death: Qin can die, but China cannot be destroyed. Now have you been shocked by Qin Shi Huang's pattern? When the other six countries in the Warring States Period were still considering their own interests, Qin Shi Huang had the world in his heart, the entire Chinese ethnic group. He doesn't succeed, he doesn't unify the world, he can't be reasonable.

Xiang Yu and Liu Bang attacked Xianyang, and the Qin people guarding the Great Wall in southern China and north beat their chests and burst into tears, but they could not go back, because they knew that once they left, these places would be separated from China forever. They could only look in the direction of Xianyang and cry blood and bow down.

By the time of Emperor Wudi of Han, the national strength of the Han Dynasty was unprecedentedly strong, but he still did not have the courage to invade the southern China where Wang Chui's old army was stationed, and the leader of southern China at this time was Zhao Tuo, this old thief could live, he was Wang Chui's deputy general from the beginning of the attack on southern China, and he had not yet swallowed his breath in the era of Emperor Wudi of Han. Everyone knows that Emperor Wudi of Han has never served anyone, and he sent a letter to Zhao Tuo, the content of which was probably to allow Zhao Tuo to establish a state and claim to be the king of Nanyue, but on the condition that you recognize the legitimacy of my Han regime. And Zhao Tuo's reply to Emperor Wudi of Han can move all Chinese people, and this reply letter has not been lost and is still preserved in the National Museum.

The content of the letter probably said: Your Majesty the Emperor of the Great Han, I once promised an old man to defend South China for the entire Huaxia clan, and for the sake of the entire Huaxia tribe and the Huaxia inheritance, I don't want to build a country, nor do I want to be the king of Nanyue, I will unconditionally surrender you. In this way, Emperor Wudi of Han recovered the state of Nanyue without bloodshed. Qin Shi Huang died for so many years, Zhao Tuo was the boss in South Vietnam for so many years, and he was still willing to follow Qin Shi Huang's instructions to unconditionally return to the Han Dynasty for the sake of the entire Chinese ethnic group not splitting.

Isn't Zhao Tuo's pattern and his recognition that he and the whole of southern China are part of the Chinese ethnic group worth learning from the Chinese people in some places?

Therefore, without Qin Shi Huang, there would be no China today, it is no exaggeration, he is a person who truly deserves the title of an ancient emperor. But it is such an emperor with the entire Huaxia clan in his heart, you say that he is cruel, but he has never killed a hero in his life, even if Lu Buwei, who has bullied him for many years, you say that he is absurd, and he has not even established an empress. To this day, he has been held up as a tyrant for more than two thousand years, and many people have the ability to travel through most of China, looking at the great mountains and rivers of the motherland, do you still mean to call this old man a comatose prince and a tyrant?