@秦楚刊号
Qin Shi Huang is a controversial emperor in Chinese history, and he has outstanding achievements in politics, military, and culture. He unified the six countries by force, established a centralized system, implemented a county system and a bureaucratic system, and strengthened his control over the whole country. He also unified writing, weights and measures, and currency, strengthening the cultural unity of the country. He built large-scale projects such as the Great Wall, the Ling Canal, and the Afang Palace, which strengthened the country's defense and economic strength. Some people call him a tyrant, while others praise him as the number one hero of the Chinese nation. Qin Shi Huang never killed a loyal minister in his life, and even Lü Buwei committed suicide. None of the people who followed Qin Shi Huang were persecuted. Qin Shi Huang did not have a queen, nor did he have immorality.
He unified weights and measures, writing, and rails, and introduced the county system, which had a profound impact on Chinese history. The administrative system of today's China also inherited the system of the Qin Dynasty. In my opinion, all those who scolded Qin Shi Huang as a tyrant did so because they simply did not understand the truth of history. Qin Shi Huang is the first hero of the Chinese nation, and without Qin Shi Huang, there would be no Chinese territory today. At that time, the relationship between the seven countries was like that between the provinces of China. It is precisely because Qin Shi Huang unified China, the old Qin people died more than a million, and the 24 generations of Qin generals and Qin kings made unremitting efforts to unify the world, so that today's Chinese territory is born. It was no accident that Qin Shi Huang was able to dominate China. His pattern and vision are far beyond ordinary people. Chu and Qi were superpowers at the time, far surpassing Qin in terms of population, land area, and military strength. So, why was it the Qin State that finally unified the world?
In fact, it is the state of Chu that should unify the world the most, not the state of Qin. When Qin Shi Huang wanted to unify the world, Wang Jian swept all the way with hundreds of thousands of troops, leaving only Chu State unconquered. At this time, Qin Shi Huang asked Wang Qian: "General, how many men do you need to take the state of Chu?" Wang Jian replied: "Your Majesty, at least 600,000." When Qin Shi Huang heard this, he muttered in his heart: "Your 600,000 is all my horses, except for the 200,000 who guarded the Huns, you gave it all to you, and all the troops in the mainland were taken away by you, you said that you destroyed the Chu State, and you established yourself as the king of Chu, what are you doing against me?"
At this time, there was a general named Li Xin, who stood up and said: "The king only needs to give me 200,000 horses, and I will destroy the state of Chu in 7 days in an instant." Qin Shi Huang said, "Xingxing will give you 200,000." As a result, Li Xin led his troops and the whole army was annihilated.
At this time, Qin Shi Huang called Wang Jian over again and said, "General Wang, I still have to invite you to go this time, look at this time, you have destroyed the Chu State, how many men do you need?" Wang Jian said: "This time we need 800,000. "When Qin Shi Huang heard this, 800,000, you last time you were 600,000, why did it rise to 200,000? How do you say 800,000? It must be 800,000, otherwise you don't invite me, I'm old, I'm timid, I only have 800,000, I can do this job." "Qin Shi Huang has already told you that 800,000 yuan will be given to him, which is equivalent to all the troops of Qin State in the hands of Wang Qian. If Wang Jian establishes himself as the king of Chu and fights back, the world will be the king's family.
However, Wang Qian's approach was surprising. After he left with an army of 800,000, Qin Shi Huang began to worry, what if Wang Jian established himself as the king of Chu and attacked Qin in turn? However, Wang Jian did not reply, and only wrote a letter asking Qin Shi Huang how his house was built. Qin Shi Huang looked at it and thought that there should be no problem with this old horseman.
After some time, Qin Shi Huang began to mumble again, and wrote to Wang Jian again. Wang Jian wrote another letter, asking Qin Shi Huang if he could reward him with another 5,000 taels of silver. Wang Qian's son Wang Ben couldn't stand it anymore, and scolded his father and said, "Dad, you weren't like this before!"
In fact, Wang Qian's self-defilement was to reassure Qin Shi Huang and make him believe that he had no rebellious heart. In the end, Wang Jian succeeded in destroying the state of Chu and helped Qin Shi Huang unify the world. The 500,000 Qin troops never returned to the dynasty, and Qin Shi Huang personally came to southern China and found that there were hundreds of ethnic minorities and hundreds of countries here, and their language, writing, and behavior habits were different from those of the Chinese people. So, Qin Shi Huang decided to send 500,000 old Qin people from Guanzhong to South China, intermarry with the locals, and sinicize them.
Later, after the death of Qin Shi Huang, the world was full of heroes, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu'er led 20,000 horses to attack Xianyang, and the main force of the Qin army did not appear at the scene at all. Where did the Qin army, which had terrified the Six Kingdoms by the million-strong division of those years, go? 400,000 were guarding the frontier and 600,000 were stationed on the Great Wall to guard the Xiongnu. Because the Qin State can be destroyed, but the Chinese ethnic group cannot be destroyed. Meng Yi and Meng Tian's brothers, Wang Jian's old subordinates, saw that the Qin State was in trouble, and washed his face with tears every day, but he couldn't go back.
Until Liu Bang defeated Xiang Yu and established the Han Dynasty, the entire Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan that guarded southern China at that time belonged to the Nanyue Kingdom. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent a letter to the king of the Nanyue Kingdom, that is, Wang Jian's old department, so that he could establish a separate state, called the King of Nanyue, and only need to recognize the existence of the main body of the Han Dynasty. Zhao Tuo sent a secret edict to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, saying: "Your Majesty the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, a few decades ago, was entrusted by an old man to guard China's Nantianmen for the entire Chinese ethnic group. If I set myself up as the king of Nanyue, I will be treacherous. So today I don't need you to divide me as the king of Nanyue, and I don't need you to send troops to attack, I will surrender you. "The king of Nanyue surrendered, and this recital is still preserved in the Forbidden City Museum on the mainland, and the old man in this recital refers to Qin Shi Huang.
Qin Shi Huang not only did not selfishly consider his own interests, but also did not sacrifice the Chinese ethnic group for the interests of the Ying clan or the Qin state. What he has in mind is the entire Chinese ethnic group. If Qin Shi Huang hadn't swept away Liuhe, our China today might be similar to Europe today, driving less than half an hour to leave a country. It is precisely because of the unification of Qin Shi Huang that there is a powerful Chinese nation and a land area of 9.6 million square kilometers today.
Therefore, we should re-examine the historical status of Qin Shi Huang, who was not only a great emperor, but also a national hero with a vision and a broad mind.