There are thousands of years of feudal period in the mainland, there have been dozens of emperors, there are many ancient emperors, and there are also many notorious faint tyrants, but if you want to talk about the most famous of these emperors, it is Qin Shi Huang.
Qin Shi Huang's achievements are very great, and his contribution to history cannot be summed up in words. He created the first great unified dynasty in history, which not only unified the country, but also had a great influence on the thinking of future generations.
Qin Shi Huang created the emperor system in the central government, implemented the three princes and nine secretaries, managed national affairs, abolished the feudal system at the local level, replaced it with the county system, and at the same time wrote the same book and the same track, unified weights and measures.
Externally, Qin Shi Huang fought in the south and the north, and built the Great Wall, which led to the era of great unification in China, laying the basic pattern of China's political rule for more than 2,000 years, and was known as the "Emperor of the Ages".
Qin Shi Huang's exploits are obvious to all, but why is such a famous first emperor called "the first tyrant in the world"?
In fact, there are many reasons, the first point is the abuse of people's power, such as the construction of the Great Wall tired many ordinary people, but from the perspective of later generations, the construction of the Great Wall is a matter of benefiting the country and the people.
Another example is the terracotta warriors and horses of Qin Shi Huang, which are also world treasures in modern times, so from different perspectives, these so-called atrocities of Qin Shi Huang may not be all atrocities.
But Qin Shi Huang has a shortcoming, which everyone has criticized since ancient times, that is, he is obsessed with asking for immortals. He was obsessed with the art of immortality, and recruited many crooked warlocks. For Qin Shi Huang's behavior, there were many loyal ministers who advised him, but it was of little use.
Qin Shi Huang felt deeply deceived by the reuse of a number of warlocks to find medicine, so he ordered the imperial history case to ask all the living beings, exposing each other and implicating more than 460 people, Qin Shi Huang ordered these warlocks to be buried alive, this is the so-called "pit Confucianism", burning books and pit Confucianism is the biggest misunderstanding of Qin Shi Huang.
Of course, this is all a later story, Qin Shi Huang's obsession with pills made the people and ministers very dissatisfied, and sometimes even because of the search for immortals and medicine, the ministers would have to worry about their lives, such as an incident about Gan Mao.
Gan Mao was a famous general of the Qin State in the middle of the Warring States Period, the left prime minister of the Qin State, and he studied in history and learned the theory of a hundred schools. He used to be a native of Chu, and as a native of Chu, he was able to become the prime minister of Qin, and his ability can be seen.
Gan Mao was a virtuous minister of the Qin State and one of the highest rulers of the Qin State, and was very highly regarded by Qin Shi Huang. Once, Qin Shi Huang was seriously ill and asked a warlock to treat him, but the warlock pretended to be a ghost and deliberately said: You have to eat the eggs laid by the rooster to be cured.
How is it possible for this rooster to lay eggs? Qin Shi Huang naturally knew it, but he was even more convinced of what the warlock said, so he gave an order to the ministers, pinning his hopes on them, and let the ministers come to find the rooster that lays eggs, otherwise the official position and the life of the whole family may not be guaranteed.
This task finally fell to Gan Mao, but no matter how capable Gan Mao was, he couldn't find the male egg, so he was at a loss and asked other ministers, and everyone looked at each other, and there was nothing they could do.
At this time, Gan Mao's grandson, 10-year-old Gan Luo, volunteered that he could solve problems for his grandfather, and he asked his grandfather to stay at home for three days without going to court.
Qin Shi Huang hurriedly sent someone to inquire, and Gan Luo came to receive him, and he said: "My grandfather gave birth at home!" Qin Shi Huang was furious: "Nonsense, how can a man have a child." ”
Gan Luo was not afraid at all: "Since men can't have children, how can a rooster lay eggs?" ”
After hearing this, Qin Shi Huang also knew that he was unreasonable, so this matter was over, and this matter that made the ministers helpless was solved by a ten-year-old child, which shows that this child will be extraordinary in the future.
Indeed, Gan Luo was a politician during the Warring States Period, and at the age of twelve, he sent an envoy to Zhao State, using stratagems to help Qin obtain more than a dozen cities, and was rewarded by Qin Shi Huang and awarded to the Emperor.
Many people see Qin Shi Huang's "crime" and rate him as a faint king, which is really unfair, the emperor is not perfect, you can't evaluate a person one-sidedly, maybe from another point of view, you will get a completely different answer.
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