In the last year of the Warring States, the seven kingdoms competed for hegemony, and the various countries fought with each other, and finally the Qin state won and unified the world, ending China's continuous conquest for four or five hundred years and achieving reunification, which was also in line with the general trend of history at that time.
But unfortunately, the great unified empire, after only a dozen years, perished, and future generations will always say that the Qin law is tyrannical when summarizing the reasons for the demise of the Qin Dynasty.
The Qin law mentioned here refers to the Shang martingale transformation law of the Qin state since the beginning of Qin Xiaogong, since the implementation of this set of reforms of the Shang martingale in China, the national strength has increased rapidly, and finally unified the whole country step by step, and in the first few decades of the unification of the country, the national strength of the Qin state has already overwhelmed the other six countries, leaving them far behind.
But the strange thing is that it is said that qin law is tyrannical, so why did it take such a long time from the beginning of Qin Xiaogong to the unification of the six kingdoms by Qin Shi Huang, but it has been running very well, and there has been no peasant uprising?
The reason why such a strange phenomenon occurs is mainly due to the following three reasons.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > the entire legal purpose is invalid</h1>
The Shang martingale transformation method of the Qin State has completely turned the Qin State into a cultivating war country, and the so-called farming war refers to the fact that the people of the whole country only do two things, farming land and fighting wars, and all the institutional design is centered around these two things.
This is of course very effective when the Qin State is not unified, especially the hierarchical knighthood system implemented by the Qin State, how many people are killed, how many titles are there, so that the system with clear goals can completely stimulate people's active offensive awareness.
However, when the whole country was unified, the entire Qin Fa system failed, and the Qin Fa, which aimed at cultivating the war, completely lost the momentum to move forward.
In the previous wars around this kind of land and war, the efficiency of the Qin state up and down was very high, such as after today's pacification, the country's goals did not change, which is very dangerous.
Because the Qin State unified the Six Kingdoms, the Qin Law that was cited could be applied to the world in the same way, but what he did not expect was that the reason why the Qin Law could be carried out effectively was because there were enemies outside that could be fought, and with this big goal, the cultivation battle naturally seemed very necessary and full of enthusiasm.
However, China's mountains and rivers are very different, and the means and methods of rule required are very different, and at the imperial court meeting that year, some people suggested that in the newly conquered lands such as the State of Qi and the State of Chu, a system of sub-feudalism could be implemented, so that the people there could still follow the original way of life.
However, Li Si rejected this proposal, the whole country implemented the county system, the book was the same as the book and the car on the same track, and the whole country had to maintain unity, and the Qin Law at this time, it was seen that it showed his shortcomings, and it was on the territory of the original six eastern countries that many irrationalities began.
After this purpose is lost, the cultivation system will inevitably have problems, which is the inevitable result, but the hard-won victory has blinded the mind, thinking that the Qin Law is the best law, and nothing in this world is the best, only the right is the best.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" > the war dividend disappeared</h1>
In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a situation of a hundred schools of thought in China, the so-called hundred schools of thought that the world was in trouble, and they gave solutions one after another, with the purpose of winning victory in the cruel international competition.
The purpose of these propositions is the same, that is, to prescribe medicine to the state, and Confucius and Mencius have traveled everywhere to sell their own doctrines.
As a result, they all failed, and the most successful was Shang Martin, who was a complete legalist doctrine, advocating severe punishment and harsh laws to make the country run.
Facts have proved that this method quickly made the Qin state rich and strong, but the reason why the Qin law was successful was because there were huge war dividends.
The Qin Law turned the people of the whole country into only two things, farming and fighting, such a harsh life, there must be corresponding achievements, otherwise no one can stand it for a long time.
As a result, the victory and plunder of the Qin state in foreign wars again and again have allowed the people of the Qin state to really gain benefits from the war, we say that the war is cruel, but for the victorious side, it can get rich returns.
The State of Qin often launched wars against the outside world, and victory was to obtain land cuts and indemnities, in this mode, all the people up and down the State of Qin could get benefits, no one cared whether the law was too severe, as long as there were spoils of war that could continue to be divided, this kind of plunder of the six eastern countries like cutting leeks would always let the Qin law of the Qin State run.
But with the end of the unification war, the end of the six countries that had previously been to the East, the end of the war dividend, meant that the benefits of the war were reduced, and when most people could not profit from this mode of farming, the harsh ills began to emerge.
The Fa did not advocate benevolence and righteousness like Confucianism, and when there was a huge dividend, everyone could bear it, and at that time, after there was no dividend at all, people naturally could not stand the harsh Qin Law, especially the original Six Eastern Kingdoms, which was not good for them at all.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" > third, the territory is too large</h1>
The territory is too large, itself is a problem, the original law, suitable for the area of the Qin State, you have now expanded the area so much at once, you will inevitably have to face the problem of too large area.
It turns out that conscription and servitude, no matter what you do, will not take too long on the road, but when the area is suddenly larger, it will take longer on the road, and the longer the time, the more uncertainty there will be.
The figure who launched the anti-Qin defense, Chen Sheng Wu Guang's uprising, was because he could not reach the location, although later from the excavated cultural relics, we found that in fact, Chen Sheng Wu Guang lied, delaying the arrival of the period, it will not kill the head, but the corresponding punishment is definitely there.
Chen Sheng Wuguang, who did not want to be punished, made up lies, in fact, the purpose is the same, that is, he feels that there is no hope for living, he must change his way of life, as long as any organization has a big word, even the simplest problem will become complicated.
After the territory was expanded, there were new territories in the north and south that needed to be defended, so a large number of troops and civilians were needed to garrison in the past, and the Great Wall had to be built in the north, which intensified the exploitation of the people's strength.
In the last time of great chaos, the hundreds of thousands of qin forces stationed in the south did not come back to participate in the war of the Qin Dynasty, which was the problem caused by the excessive territory.
On the whole, the Qin law is suitable for the original Qin state, but with the disappearance of the war and the expansion of the territory, if you stubbornly adhere to the original law, it will definitely be a problem.
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