In 238 BC, King Qin Yingzheng held a crowning ceremony in Qinian Palace in Yongcheng. On the day of the crown ceremony, King Qin Yingzheng eliminated the Lao Ai rebellion and placed Empress Dowager Zhao who was interfering in politics in the harem under house arrest. The following year, he deposed the powerful minister Lu Buwei from the post of prime minister. At this point, Qin Wangzheng cleared all obstacles in the political arena, firmly held the power of the great Qin State in his own hands, and began the war to destroy the country that he had long wanted to start.
From the seventeenth year of Qin Wangzheng (230 BC) to the twenty-sixth year of Qin Wangzheng (221 BC), it lasted 10 years. The Qin Dynasty successively destroyed Han (230 BC), Zhao (228 BC), Wei (225 BC), Chu (223 BC), Yan (222 BC), and Qi (221 BC). The six countries unified the world.
Qin Shihuang launched a vigorous war of annihilation in 221 BC to unify the six countries and established the first centralized empire in China. It lasted for fifteen years until its demise in 207 BC. The life of a new empire was so short. Many people said that this was due to the tyranny of Qin.
Is this really the case? Not really.
Qin Shihuang still cherished his subjects very much, and he also showed some tolerance to the nobles of the six countries. Although built the Great Wall , repaired the Chi Road, garrisoned the Five Ridges, built the Epang Palace, built the Lishan Tomb, etc., millions of people were requisitioned, which was indeed a waste of people and money, but it had to be done at the time.
The road to the unification of the Qin State was very bloody. The soldiers and civilians of the Six Kingdoms suffered a lot. Almost every household had someone killed by the Qin army. The people of the Six Kingdoms only surrendered on the surface, but in their hearts they did not know how to scold the people of Qin. The people of the Six Kingdoms had not yet heard of it. After all, what those in power should think about is to appease the people of the six kingdoms and gradually make them accept Qin.
However, the reality is cruel. Although the Qin Empire destroyed the six countries and unified the world. But there are powerful Huns in the north of the empire. From time to time, they go south to harass the empire's borders. If we don't build the Great Wall and build Chidao, and leave the border troubles alone, we can only feed tigers and bring unpredictable consequences to the new empire. Danger. The barbarian tribes in the south did not obey the constraints of the Qin Empire and openly rebelled. The mountains here are densely forested and sparsely populated. If you want to completely control this area, you have to garrison the Five Ridges. The life span of ancient people was very short compared to today. Although Qin Shihuang was the only emperor in the ages and more than ten thousand people, he could not escape the death cycle of birth, old age, illness and death, so he had to build Afang Palace and Lishan Tomb.
Qin Shihuang knew that although Qin destroyed the six countries and unified the world. But if we want to achieve true unity, we must have the same text in books, the same track in cars, and unified weights and measures to achieve unified thought and unified culture. And abolish the enfeoffment system, replace it with the county system, implement the three gongs and nine ministers, and establish an authoritarian centralized system to prevent local expansion. These are major events that have never happened before, and each of them is closely related to the common people and the nobles of the six countries.
The six countries have just been unified, and they have not yet accepted the rule of Qin in terms of thoughts and actions. Because Qin's road to unification was very bloody, the soldiers and civilians of the six countries suffered varying degrees of damage. At this time, they even hated the Qin people.
Qin had just unified, but it was so impatient to implement the New Deal. The people's thinking and those in power were not on the same level, which was the fundamental reason for the demise of the Qin Empire. It's just that Qin Shihuang was the only emperor in history, and his subordinates were all talented, and had a huge army to support him, so the Qin Empire was safe and sound. But when Qin Shihuang died, Qin II ascended the throne. Qin II ignored the government affairs and lived a debauched life. He was a typical fatuous king. In addition, he executed and imprisoned a large number of talents left by Qin Shihuang. The army was also exhausted under his command. The New Deal he launched against Qin Shihuang was not carried out effectively, but was maliciously misinterpreted. Books with the same text, chariots with the same track, unified weights and measures are to unify the culture and make the people of the six countries forget their past integration into the Qin Empire. After Qin II came to power, it became a literary prison. If the people were slightly dissatisfied, Qin officials would not Instead of resolving disputes, they directly killed, which further alienated the people from Qin Ting.
If Qin Shihuang had not died, or if Qin Shihuang died, his successor would not be a faint king Hu Hai, but a wise king who understood the hearts and minds of the people and would integrate the people into the circle of the Qin Empire. Even if there is Dazexiang Uprising , and even if the nobles of the six countries attack together, the survivors of the six countries will not follow.
If the people in power in the Qin State know how to transform the minds of the survivors of the Six Kingdoms step by step, turn them into Qin people fundamentally, let them integrate into the Qin Empire, and make them feel that they are Qin people from the bottom of their hearts, then Qin Shihuang wants to pass it on to thousands of generations. I'm afraid it won't be a problem anymore.
