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The extreme similarities between the Qin Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty and their successors - Careful consideration of the third cycle of history

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In the history of the mainland, there have been many coincidental events, which make people think about it with great fear, and such coincidences make people wonder whether there is really reincarnation in the underworld, and whether there are really gods arranging the fate of human beings. If you look closely at history, you will find that the Qin Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty have many similarities. First, both dynasties ended centuries of division and established unified empires, and secondly, both dynasties died in the second dynasty, and the kings of the dead kingdoms were killed by favored vassals. The new political systems created by the two dynasties were followed by subsequent dynasties.

The Qin Dynasty was the first unified feudal dynasty in Chinese history that developed from the State of Qin during the Warring States period. After the heroic King of Qin took the throne, he annexed the other six kingdoms one by one, ending the chaos of more than 500 years since the Spring and Autumn Period, and in 221 BC, he was declared emperor and historically known as "Qin Shi Huang". The Qin Dynasty set up three princes and nine secretaries in the central government, abolished the system of division and sealing at the local level, and implemented the same text, the same track, and unified weights and measures. Attack the Xiongnu in the north, march south to the hundred yue, build the Great Wall to ward off foreign enemies, and dig the Lingqu to open the water system.

The extreme similarities between the Qin Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty and their successors - Careful consideration of the third cycle of history

In 210 BC, Qin Shi Huang died of illness in the sand dunes during his cruise. Before Qin Shi Huang died, he personally wrote an edict ordering Fusu, the eldest son of Meng Tian's army far away from the Great Wall, to return to Xianyang to inherit the throne. However, his other son Hu Hai, who accompanied Qin Shi Huang on his travels, and Li Si, the prime minister of Zuocheng, and Zhao Gao and others planned a conspiracy in which they tampered with Qin Shi Huang's edict and forced his son Fusu to commit suicide and support Hu Hai to the throne. The second emperor of Qin, Hu Hai, was extremely extravagant, and he and Zhao Gao and Li Si each had ghosts, which caused the corruption of the imperial government and the resentment of the people. In 206 BC, Xianyang, the capital of the Qin Dynasty, was attacked by the rebel army led by Liu Bang, and the Qin Dynasty, which lasted for fifteen years, collapsed, and the great achievements of the first emperor were ruined by the second Huhai.

In addition, in the Sui Dynasty, in 581 AD, Yang Jian, who was the prime minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, took the Northern Zhou by way of Zen position, and later Yang Jian, who had great ambitions, ended the division of hundreds of years since the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty and established the unified Sui Dynasty after a crusade to the east and the west. After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, it paid attention to the people's livelihood, lightly endowed the thin, the national strength of the Sui Dynasty increased, and the national treasury was quite rich. The Sui Dynasty developed the famous Kaihuang Law, a landmark code of law, which was largely inherited by later Tang dynasties.

The extreme similarities between the Qin Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty and their successors - Careful consideration of the third cycle of history

Yang Jian's eldest son Yang Yong was supposed to inherit the throne, but Yang Jian's other son Yang Guang was better at favoring his father and the emperor, coupled with Yang Guang's overt and covert behavior against his brother Yang Yong in front of Yang Jian, he finally waited for the opportunity to launch a mutiny, killing all those who opposed him, including his seriously ill father, and finally succeeded in ascending the throne. Yang Guang set out for personal amusement and built the Grand Canal, and finally the Great Sui Dynasty came to an end in a revolt under his desolation and brutality, and existed for 37 years.

The successors of the Qin Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty are also extremely similar dynasties, they are both powerful dynasties established through war on the basis of the unification of the previous dynasty, a strong Han, a flourishing Tang, leaving a glorious chapter in the history of the Chinese nation. The Han Dynasty was divided by the Wang Mangxin Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty was interrupted by the Wu Zetian Zhou Dynasty. Moreover, these two dynasties produced two powerful women, Lü Hen and Wu Shu, respectively. The resemblance of Qin and Sui reminds us of the Republic of China, which has existed for 37 years, which has experienced two world wars and stood on the world stage as a victorious country, and the successor of the Republic of China is now walking on a new journey of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The extreme similarities between the Qin Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty and their successors - Careful consideration of the third cycle of history

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