preface
Qin Shi Huang's great cause of ruling the world has a pivotal position in the history of the mainland, and it is precisely because he unified the six countries that there was a situation of later China's unification.
Qin Shi Huang is a well-deserved emperor of the ages, and his achievements are also rare and unmatched. However, it was such a hero that the Great Qin Dynasty he founded perished in just two generations. So why did it perish? Does it have anything to do with the tyranny of Qin Shi Huang?
However, the brutal rule of Qin Shi Huang was not necessarily related to the fall of the Qin dynasty. In fact, after the death of Qin Shi Huang, his successor to the actions of the second emperor Qin, the demise of the Qin Dynasty had a lot to do with what he did.
The exploits of Qin Shi Huang
Qin Shi Huang's greatest achievement was to unify the language, scale, and script of all ethnic groups in China, so that the union between various ethnic groups was greatly strengthened, so that the Qin State could unify the six countries without the tendency to fall apart.
Moreover, he not only completed the reunification of China, but also completed the construction of the Great Wall.
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First of all, he founded the first feudal empire in Chinese history, because at the end of the Warring States period, the national strength of the Qin state had reached the strongest point in the world, so he began to formulate a plan to dominate the world, and from 230 to 221 BC, he wiped out six countries including Han, Wei, Chu, Yan, Zhao, and Qi! In the history of China, the first multi-ethnic dictatorship was established!
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The absolute monarchy established by Qin Shi Huang continued to exist during the Qing Dynasty. It shows how much credit it has! And the honorific title of Qin Shi Huang is to show his achievements in dominating the world, so he called himself "First Emperor"!
Even, he also let his descendants call the second generation, the third generation, and so on! Moreover, he also established the county system and established a series of official systems!
Moreover, it also integrates the law of the six countries and the law of the Qin state! Implement a new legal system! Due to the inconvenience of transportation in China, he formulated a plan based on "car on the same track" and opened up most of the area!
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In order to allow future generations to rule the world, he unified everything and burned all the classics such as "Poems" and "Books" to ashes, so that future generations could only know his history, and Qin Shi Huang made Xiaoxiao the lingua franca of the Qin state. Moreover, every commoner has his own land, and as long as he pays a certain tax, he can get the protection of the state!
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In order to consolidate his rule, Qin Shi Huang took the following steps! First, he sent the general Meng Tian to Henan and recaptured the Xiongnu. Forcing the Huns to retreat to the north of Yin Mountain! He built the Great Wall just so that no one would disturb him! To protect yourself! Later, he conquered most of the countries except the Six Kingdoms, and incorporated all the countries he conquered into his territory, so that there is the majestic land of China today!
Although Qin Shi Huang has made great achievements, his way of governing the country is a huge flaw. And the most criticized is his dictatorship and cruelty, Qin Shi Huang advocated Legalism at that time, Legalism emphasized the rule of law for the people, so the punishment of the people was also quite severe.
Secondly, Qin Shi Huang began to pursue immortality in the later period, taking all the money from the treasury to the deficit! Therefore, Qin Shi Huang's obsession with immortal life was one of the reasons for the decline of the Qin Dynasty, so this led to the economic and political chaos of the Qin Dynasty!
The incompetence of Qin II
Qin Shi Huang's most important eldest prince Fusu, for him, is not only a child, but he has also put a lot of effort into it. In the court, Fusu had considerable prestige, and Qin Shi Huang had heard a lot of advice to him.
Although Qin Shi Huang sent Fusu and Meng Tian to the frontier, this did not mean that Qin Shi Huang had given up hope of cultivating his eldest son, but in order to strengthen his military strength.
However, the world is impermanent, and after the death of Qin Shi Huang, his second son Hu Hai took away the throne of Fusu State. And in order to ensure that he would not be taken from the throne by Fusu in the future, Hu Hai even used an insidious method to kill Fusu!
After Fusu died, his heart was still faintly uneasy, so he killed all the children of Qin Shi Huang! This also includes Qin Shi Huang's concubines!
In this way, he became a loner, and there was no one of his relatives in the world! And Hu Hai's move pushed Daqin's future into the dark abyss. This series of massacres led to the severance of the descendants of Qin Shi Huang's family, and the Qin dynasty eventually went to extinction. Hu Hai's autocracy was only one of the reasons for Qin's demise.
But the rule of the second Qin dynasty was not only cruel and selfish. His inaction and excessive trust in Zhao Gao were the main reasons for Qin's demise. After Hu Hai ascended the throne, Li Si feared that he would not be reused, and seeing that Hu Hai had a violent temperament, he wrote an article bitterly expounding his tyrannical ways in order to win Hu Hai's favor. Therefore, a major reason for the demise of the Qin Dynasty was because of the tyrannical plan written by Li Si in order to curry favor with Qin II!
In addition, he also recruited peasants from all over the country, built Afang Palace and Lishan, forced them to work as coolies for free, and increased taxes, making life very difficult for peasants, hence the "Daze Township Rebellion".
Sima Qian's "Chen Shijia" clearly records that at the beginning of Hu Hai's accession to the throne, he ordered to recruit a large army and stationed in Yuyang, and Chen Sheng and they set out from Daze Township, because of heavy rain, it was impossible to arrive on time, so according to the Qin law at that time, they would definitely be cut off their heads. Therefore, in this critical situation, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang launched a peasant uprising.
Therefore, the collapse of the Qin state, the brutal rule of Qin II is one of the primary reasons, and the brutal rule of Qin Shi Huang is made up by the orders of later emperors. If Qin II is not held up to the sky, it will only make the descendants look ordinary, let alone make people think that he subverted Daqin.
In addition, during the reign of Qin Shi Huang, in order to crack down on those Fangshi who deceived the world and stole his name, Qin Shi Huang carried out a baptism of "burning books and pit Confucianism", and later generations were worried about this and smeared him in various ways.
epilogue
So the reason why the Qin Dynasty died was because Qin II could not grasp the rights given to him by Qin Shi Huang, and he himself did not have the ability to manage the country, but because of his greed, he killed his eldest brother and all his relatives! This also led to the fact that when he was later uprising, he could only wait for the demise of the Qin Dynasty alone!
Qin Shi Huang is the first emperor of the ages, but his descendants are selfish ghosts, do not have the long-term vision of Qin Shi Huang, and only know how to enjoy the happiness brought by the current power! So it led to the Great Qin Empire becoming history!