There was once a TV series about the transformation of Shang Martingale called "The Fission of the Great Qin Empire", in which the artistic image of Shang Martingale is enough to surpass Zhuge Liang, Yue Fei, Wang Meng and others. But this is not the case with Shang Martingale in history, when learning history, Shang Martingale changed the law as the most important thing, Shang Martingale as a representative figure of Legalism and a pioneer of ruling the country, left a strong mark in the entire ancient history of China.
But in fact, after the death of Shang Martingale, the people of the Qin State did not feel pity at all, and even some gloating, "History" used "Qin people do not pity" to record the people's reaction to Shang Martingale being cracked by the car, what did Shang Martingale do to make it so unpopular? The Shang Martingale Law first violated the interests of the old aristocracy. The first condition for changing the law was to break the existing rules and redistribute part of the land of the nobility, which made the nobles represented by Gan Long and Du Zhi gnash their teeth at Shang Martingale.
In order to implement the law change, Shang Martingale advocated severe punishment and invented a large number of tortures, and the people of the Qin State suffered greatly from it, even if it was an innocuous act such as spitting phlegm and throwing a piece of garbage, the punishment was also a piece of meat. "Qin Jian" records that on the streets of Xianyang, the capital of the state at that time, countless people had their hands and feet cut off due to torture, often blocked the streets due to mobility difficulties, and even innocent people were affected by joint sitting, and the people were like pins and needles under Qin Law.
What is even more outrageous is that Shang Martingale implemented the five techniques of taming the people, that is, the people, the weak, the tired, the humiliated, and the poor, putting the people on the opposite side of the ruler. One people is the idea of unifying the people, and changing the law advocates that the people only engage in farming and warfare to obtain knighthoods; The weak people are to nationalize most of the wealth and industries of the people and nobles, so as to achieve the effect of strengthening the country and making the people weak; The tired people use the knighthood system to let the people engage in farming and warfare for a long time, and have no free time to think and do other things; To humiliate the people is to enslave the people so that they dare not resist the ruler; The poor are the people who do not have enough to eat and starve, and they are exhausted every day for the most basic food and clothing.
But on the other hand, as the promoter of the law change, Shang Martingale is actually the biggest beneficiary of the law change. Qin Xiaogong saw that Dacheng was hiding behind the scenes, and Shang Martin even became the de facto ruler of the Qin State at that time. In the successive Qin states, most of them showed themselves as close to the people, such as Baili Xi inspecting the people, usually dressed plainly, but Shang Martingale was mean and could not enjoy with the people. The merchant martingale must be hugged before and after, and the waiters and guards are mighty and extremely luxurious.
The deeper reason is that Shang Martingale has always opposed the state and the people, and regarded the people as the "enemy" of the state and the monarch, and many policies and decrees extended from this are around how to rectify, control, and enslave the people. Although the Shang Martingale Law laid the foundation for Qin's annihilation of the Six Kingdoms, the people under Qin's rule of law suffered greatly from it. The people could eat but did not have enough to eat, and they were engaged in cultivation and warfare for a long time for the extremely difficult to obtain knighthood, but they always rushed to make ends meet, and over time they became slaves of the martingale law, the screws on the national war machine, lost their spirit and soul, and only their bodies were left to work non-stop.
Finally, after the death of Duke Xiaogong of Qin, Shang Martin became the target of everyone, and was framed by the old nobles for rebellion, and Shang Martin had to rise up against the Yi army, died at the hands of the new army of the Qin State that he personally created, and his body was transported to Xianyang to crack. Although Shang Martingale was killed, the law was not abolished and was used for more than 2,000 years. Although Emperor Wudi of Han later claimed to be "Confucianism", in fact, Shang Martin's strategy of governing the country has been implemented. Ancient readers took Confucian classics as compulsory subjects, but nobles and rulers used Legalist classics such as "Shang Junshu" and "Han Feizi" as their strategy for governing the country for a long time, using "external Confucianism and internal law", and declaring Legalist books to the people as forbidden books. It is precisely because of this, so the wind evaluation of the martingale transformation method can only get worse and worse!