Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the ages, searched all over the history books, and there were only a few ancient emperors who could surpass Qin Shi Huang's exploits. However, no one is perfect, although there are great achievements such as building the Great Wall, building water canals, and unifying weights and measures, but there are also natural principles such as levying forced labor, burning books, and pit Confucianism.
Some people say that the reason for burning books and pit Confucianism is that Qin Shi Huang wanted to unify his thoughts and control the six countries. And the book burning pit Confucianism is mainly aimed at Confucianism, so in the later Han Dynasty, Confucianism respected Confucianism, and after Confucianism gained power, Qin Shi Huang belittled him as worthless, and also said that the book burning pit Confucianism was a shocking massacre, but history tells us that these are not the truth.
The burning of books in the book burning pit is a suggestion put forward by Li Si, Qin Shi Huang adopted it and ordered to burn the historical records of various countries other than the "Qin Ji", not allowed to talk about "poems" and "books", and not to borrow the past and not the present, and those who found it were all executed; and the pit Confucianism was mainly because Qin Shi Huang wanted to live forever, so he ordered Fang Shi to refine the elixir of life, Fang Shi could not refine it, lest Qin Shi Huang blame it and flee with a huge amount of money, Qin Shi Huang blamed Fang Shi after he knew it, and ordered the whole city to search and interrogate, and a total of 460 people were captured and buried alive. In fact, although the methods of burning books and pit Confucianism were cruel, it was only a normal punishment, not a cruel and unkind punishment as recorded in history.
Qin Shi Huang's son, Gongzi Fusu, also angered Qin Shi Huang because of his opposition to Qin Shi Huang's movement to burn books and pit Confucianism, and was sent to the frontier by Qin Shi Huang to assist the general Meng Tian in building the Great Wall. In fact, Qin Shi Huang was not angry with Fusu because of Fusu's opposition to book burning and Confucianism, but he loved Fusu even more, and the frontier was just to train Fusu, but who would have expected that fate would make a big joke and destroy the Great Qin Empire.
Qin Shi Huang believed that as long as the people no longer blindly believed in authority, they could rule them for a long time, but because the means were too tough, not only useless but harmful.
The movement of burning books and pit Confucianism brought Qin Shi Huang a lifetime of infamy, but in reality it was only a means to strengthen the rule of the monarchy, and I wonder if any emperor in the past dynasties did not carry out torture. When Sima Qian compiled the "Historical Records", he justified the name of Qin Shi Huang, recorded the "book burning" and "Confucianism" separately, objectively told the impact of this incident, and restored the historical truth.
Although Qin Shi Huang is known for his brutality, but in fact there are very few people who die in the book burning pit Confucianism, to talk about the biggest killing god of the Great Qin Empire is Wu Anjun Bai Qi, the Battle of Changping pit killed 400,000 soldiers of Zhao State, which can be called the largest massacre campaign in history!