After the unification of the Qin Dynasty, the world was in turmoil soon after. The descendants of the princes and kings who were originally destroyed by the Qin Dynasty raised troops to rebel. However, after the unification of the Han Dynasty, this situation did not occur, the Western Han Dynasty lasted for two hundred years, and the two Han Dynasty lasted for a total of four hundred years.
Why was the Qin Dynasty unified, so many people in the former six countries rebelled, and when the Han Dynasty was unified, no one rebelled?
1: The Qin Dynasty existed for a short time. Since the Qin Dynasty was only fifteen years old, many things had not been fully digested, especially the hatred left over from the countries. As the first unified dynasty, a lot of things change. In fact, only enough time could the Qin Dynasty eliminate the problems left over from the Warring States period. Among them, the nobles of various countries are a large group, and it will take more time to eliminate them. The Qin Dynasty had a large territory, and if it wanted to rule comprehensively, it would take more time and solve more problems. And this has given the descendants of the six countries a chance, and they are all plotting rebellion.
2: The establishment of the Han Dynasty. Compared with the Qin Dynasty, the establishment of the Han Dynasty was very different from that of the Qin Dynasty. The Qin Dynasty was established by destroying the other six countries, so the descendants of the six countries had great resentment. The Han Dynasty went through a peasant uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and then defeated Xiang Yu to gain the world when Chu and Han fought each other. The descendants of the Six Nations are either dead or have given up the desire to rebuild the country. The Han dynasty did not destroy them, and they will not overthrow the Han dynasty. And the Han Dynasty had a strong military force, and it was difficult for them to revolt even if they wanted to. After years of war and confrontation, the world needs to recuperate, the people are tired of the war years, and the descendants of the Six Nations have no heart or power.
3: It was not the Han Dynasty that wiped out the Six Kingdoms. If the descendants of the Six Kingdoms are still there, what they want is to overthrow the Qin Dynasty, not the Han Dynasty, after all, it was the Qin Dynasty that destroyed their country. When Chu and Han were fighting, Xiang Yu, as the descendant of the Chu nobles in the Six Kingdoms, represented the aristocratic forces, and Liu Bang, as the representative of the commoners, he had more followers. The contest between the two sides was also a contest between different classes, and in the end, Liu Bang's victory meant that the former aristocratic class collapsed and ushered in a new aristocratic class. Ending the situation of division and establishing a dynasty that unifies the world has also become the desire of the people, and it is the ordinary people who suffer from the long-term confrontation.
If you compare the two dynasties of the Qin and Han dynasties, they still have many differences. Therefore, the establishment of the two dynasties has been different in nature. For Liu Bang, the establishment of the Han Dynasty was to recuperate, develop the economy, and stabilize the society, and second, to prevent the invasion of the nomads from the north to the south, and finally stabilize the situation of the Han Dynasty. With the ruling experience of the Qin Dynasty, as well as the reasons for its demise, the Han Dynasty can be changed one by one to achieve a very good situation.
However, the Han Dynasty was not without rebellion, no matter which dynasty, it was inseparable from rebellion. During the Western Han Dynasty, during the period of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, there was a rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, but these rebels were not the descendants of the Six Kingdoms, but the Liu clan. In the early days of the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang was forced by the situation to adopt a division and seal some princes with different surnames. Later, the kings with different surnames were eliminated, and the Liu clan was assigned to manage the vast area of the Han Dynasty, which laid a hidden danger for the occurrence of the Later Seven Kingdoms Rebellion.
In fact, the willingness of the common people is very simple, that is, they want to live a good life, they oppose Qin because of the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty, they want to let themselves have food, clothing, and housing, these most basic survival rights must be guaranteed, and the people will not rebel, but after the Qin Dynasty, there is still no peace in the world, and the power is still in the hands of those nobles of the Six Kingdoms and the newly rising anti-Qin forces, and the people still have not received any improvement in their lives, and they still have to live in troubled times.
So the common people began to hate the war, when the two strongest Liu Bang and Xiang Yu competed, the vast majority of the people chose to support Liu Bang, not for anything else, just because Liu Bang was benevolent and righteous, entered the three chapters of the Xianyang Covenant, crusaded against Xiang Yu, who often slaughtered the city, and killed Xiang Yu, who was benevolent and who was brutal, it can be seen at a glance, of course the people chose Liu Bang to support, which is one of the reasons for Liu Bang's victory.
From Liu Bang's point of view, the same does not want to have another war, I hope that the Western Han Empire established by myself can last for a long time, although there are rebellions of princes and kings with different surnames, but they are all destroyed by Liu Bang because they do not have the support of the people, the general trend at that time is peace, the people are tired of war, the national strength is also seriously overdrawn, the population is greatly reduced, from the Qin unification of the world, to Liu Bang's establishment of the Western Han Dynasty, in a period of several decades, the loss of half of the personnel, the population from the early years of the Qin Dynasty 30 million to only about 15 million。
The original nobles of the six countries have been exhausted in the war, and the common people are unwilling to fight again, coupled with the Han Dynasty at the beginning of the implementation of recuperation, inaction and governance strategy, catering to the people's single-minded pursuit of stability, after more than 70 years of recuperation, the people have formed loyalty to the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the large-scale expansion of territory at the same time, enhance national self-confidence and cohesion, the formation of the Han nation's sense of belonging, after hundreds of years of development, and finally formed a continuation of four hundred years of the two Han rivers, the formation of culture deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so the people are also loyal and identity。