Was the First Emperor Ying Zheng a tyrant?
This was undoubtedly a good question.
What is violence?
This was different in the eyes of different people.
In the eyes of the common people, it was considered violence to use one person to seize the people.
In the eyes of the meritorious officials, killing them was considered violent.
In the eyes of the nobles of the Six Nations, destroying their country was considered violence!
In the eyes of the Confucian scholars, not following the Confucian Way was violence!
Then, was the First Emperor Ying Zheng fit to be violent?
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After Qin Shihuang unified the world, he recruited talents from all over the world and appointed them as doctors.
He intended to govern the world with literature and bring peace to the world.
"Qin Guan (doctor), master of ancient and modern. The salary is about 600 stones, and the number of officials is as many as dozens.”
"The First Emperor set up a banquet in Xianyang Palace to celebrate his birthday in front of seventy doctors.”
Moreover, in the twenty-eighth year of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, many Confucian scholars and doctors accompanied Mount Tai to offer sacrifices to heaven and earth.
"Seventy doctors were recruited from the children of Qilu.”
Among these doctors, there were Confucian scholars, alchemists, Taoists, and other scholars.
The appointment of professors was undoubtedly the first emperor's attempt to bring scholars into the Great Qin Empire after the unification. It was a cultural policy that was compatible with the unification.
From this, it could be seen that the First Emperor valued these Confucian scholars very much and had no intention of suppressing them.
Not only the Confucians, but the First Emperor also wanted to hear the words of the Hundred Schools of Thought.
Let them do their best to make the world more prosperous!
But unfortunately, they had disappointed Ying Zheng in the end.
Mount Tai Pilgrimage Ceremony was something that Ying Zheng wanted to show the world the orthodoxy of his position, and he attached great importance to it.
However, when the First Emperor asked the Confucian scholars about the ritual, they said that it was " complicated " and " difficult to use."
He wanted Qin Shi Huang to not use it exclusively for the ceremony of sealing things.
It was precisely because they did not cooperate, and deliberately proposed some complicated etiquette that could not be done at all, to deliberately make things difficult for Ying Zheng.
The reason was naturally because they did not recognize Ying Zheng's status.
Confucius advocated the restoration of Zhou rites, so that the Spring and Autumn Period, which had collapsed, could return to order.
This was naturally true in his era, although it was too idealistic.
And this also created another disadvantage of the scholarly faction.
The past was good, but the present was not as good as before.
And these Confucianists, who regarded Confucius as a saint, naturally had such thoughts.
They believed that Ying Zheng should follow the example of the Emperor of Zhou and implement the enfeoffment system.
It was not like now, where Legalism was put in an important position and counties were implemented.
But later on, there were also people from the scholarly faction who strongly advised the emperor not to enfeoffment without authorization.
Therefore, the essence of the Confucians was to only acknowledge things that were already effective, because they would always stand on the right side.
He would not stand under a dangerous wall.
Therefore, the term " rotten scholar " was not a new product of any era. It had existed since the death of Confucius.
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However, the First Emperor didn't argue with them. Since they weren't willing to help him, they could just stay here.
After that, the First Emperor held the Fengshan ceremony on his own.
He also carved his achievements on the stone, implying that he was one with heaven and earth.
However, during the entire process of the Pilgrimage Ceremony, there was a sudden downpour from the sky!
This natural weather phenomenon made the First Emperor's dragon robe wet, making him look quite miserable.
However, in the Confucian school of thought, this was why he, Ying Zheng, was not accepted by the heavens!
Therefore, he sneered and whispered, thinking that Ying Zheng deserved it!
Things had developed to this point. If the First Emperor was "violent", he should kill them all!
But Ying Zheng did not. Although he was also very depressed, he did not kill anyone because of this.
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After that, Ying Zheng held a banquet in Xianyang Palace, and seventy doctors who were present congratulated him on his birthday.
Some officials stood up and praised the system of prefectures and counties of the Qin Dynasty. Now, the world was peaceful, and the vast territory of the Great Qin Dynasty was unprecedented. They even said that this was all thanks to Ying Zheng.
Ying Zheng was quite happy to hear this. This was supposed to be a joyous occasion where the officials would flatter the Emperor and everyone would be happy.
However, the doctor Chunyu Yue said that the person was flattering him.
He also suggested that Ying Zheng re-implement the enfeoffment, thinking that "it is not heard of that things can last long without imitating the ancients".
Chunyu Yue's behavior was not right at all. He would turn the table when the emperor picked up food and spoil the emperor's mood.
To put it in a bigger way, it was attacking the Qin country's strategy of the prefecture and county system!
If Ying Zheng had been violent, he could have killed him again at this moment.
However, Ying Zheng still did not. Instead, everyone was still discussing whether the enfeoffment system was feasible.
This was equivalent to you suddenly jumping out and saying that your boss did something wrong on his birthday.
However, not only did the boss not get angry, he even stopped the birthday celebration and discussed your suggestion.
After that, Li Si stood out and refuted Chunyu Yue's words with the example of the emperor enfeoffing the vassals but the vassals were hostile to each other.
At that time, there were actually many ministers who advocated the implementation of enfeoffment. As for the reason, of course, it was because they also wanted to be dukes.
Only Li Si, who was a Tingwei, tried his best to implement the county system.
He believed that the times had changed, and the system should change accordingly.
Furthermore, Li Si believed that Chunyu Yue and the others had been deeply influenced by the academic thinking of the philosophers.
If they kept thinking about returning to the past, it would destroy the Great Qin Empire's rule over the world.
Therefore, he suggested to Qin Shihuang,"Only the history books of Qin should be kept. The history books of other countries should be burned." The Book of Songs, the Book of History, and the books of the various schools of thought could only be retained by the doctors, and the folk books could be handed over and burned within a time limit. Medicine, divination, agricultural books can be preserved among the people; Those who wanted to learn Qin's methods could take officials as their teachers.”
In the end, Li Si's plan was supported by Qin Shihuang.
And this was the burning of the books that the scholarly faction had blackened him for more than two thousand years.
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"F * ck! Was there such a good boss like Ying Zheng? Give me one too!"
"At that time, Ying Zheng gave the order to burn the books.”
"Of course it's wise! Can't you see that they're sticking to their own story?”
"It must have been an era where hundreds of schools of thought flourished. During the Warring States Period, they could each contribute to their own masters and compete with each other to develop continuously.”
"But now that the world has been unified, why do we need the Hundred Schools of Philosophy?”
"Actually, the State of Qin chose the Legalism School and unified the world. The result of the Hundred Schools of Philosophy's debate was already out, and that was the victory of the Legalism School!”
"But the loser was unwilling to admit defeat, so he could only sing a different tune!”
"In my opinion, this is just them bickering! Or rather, it's called Incompetent Rage!"
"In their current situation, there's no longer any distinction between right and wrong. It's simply a matter of standing!”
"Besides, Ying Zheng didn't burn all the books, did he? The wisdom of the other schools of thought were all retained. It was just that in order to unify their thinking, they did not allow so many people to read it.”
"If you want to do research, can't you just strive to be a doctor?”
"Furthermore, all the medical books and agricultural books were preserved. If you want to learn Qin techniques, there are places to learn them.”
"However, Ying Zheng still failed in the end, and Confucianism still dominated. Didn't Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty only respect Confucianism after that?”
"If you ask me, Ying Zheng is still too soft-hearted towards these Confucian scholars.”
"And didn't Xiang Yu burn down the Qin Imperial Palace? So there were so many books stored inside?”
"Don't tell me Ying Zheng will be the one to take the blame just like that?”
"It should be."
"What a miserable First Emperor…"
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Then, there was the " Concealing Confucians ".
In fact, there were two liars with the surnames of Hou and Lu, who deceived Qin Shihuang and Ying Zheng by saying,""We can find the elixir of immortality.”
In this way, Qin Shihuang believed them. He gave the two swindlers a lot of gold, silver, jewelry, and ships to let them go overseas to find immortal medicine.
Before these two swindlers escaped, they spread rumors everywhere, saying that Qin Shihuang was unjust.
Previously, when Xu Fu brought the boys and girls to look for the immortal medicine, they never returned. This had already angered Qin Shihuang.
Therefore, Ying Zheng, who felt that he had been cheated, went to look for the two swindlers 'peers.
Qin Shihuang thought that the two swindlers were not good people and buried them alive after finding them.
So who were these people that Qin Shihuang had captured?
He was a magician, not a scholar.
In the Qin Dynasty, Fang Shuoshi mainly did divination and witch medicine.
The first batch of alchemists who were caught had about 460 people and were buried alive.
The second batch was not buried alive but sent away. There were more or less Confucian scholars in the second batch.
However, the main target of the attack was still the Fang Warlocks, because the books had just been burned a year before the "Confucian Pit" incident. The books burned were all poetry and history.
In addition, at that time, they thought that scholars were all Confucian scholars, so they took it for granted that they would burn books and bury Confucian scholars.
In addition, the Confucians, who had a grudge against Ying Zheng, had spread the word for generations, so naturally, Ying Zheng was known as the " tyrant " who burned books and buried scholars.
As for whether or not this was actually violent, it was up to everyone.
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After talking about Qin Shihuang in the eyes of the Confucians, he talked about the eyes of the common people at that time.
Qin Shi Huang was greedy, despicable, headstrong, and abandoned benevolent government. He was cruel and cruel!
Epang Palace, the Great Wall!
If you are late for the corvee, you will be beheaded!
A tyrant!
But was this really the case?
In the dream Qin bamboo slips," Eighteen Laws of Qin "
"If you miss the deadline by three to five days, you'll lose money. After ten days, the property is a armour... Water rain, in addition to the rise.”
If the imperial court conscripted a husband and delayed the journey for 3 - 5 days without special circumstances, he should be reprimanded.
In other words, it was just criticism and education.
Those who arrived 6 - 0 days later would be penalized with a shield.
Those who have been in the game for more than 10 days will be punished with a set of armor.
If the date is delayed due to natural reasons such as rain or snow, there will be no punishment.
Tian Lv:
In spring and February, do not cut down trees, forests and rivers. Before summer, do not dare to burn the grass at night, take raw litchi, fish, turtle and other poisonous things.
In the spring of February, no one was allowed to cut down wood in the forest or block the waterways.
Before summer, they were not allowed to burn grass as fertilizer, and they were not allowed to pick newly sprouted plants.
It is not allowed to catch young animals and eggs, and it is not allowed to poison fish and turtles.
It was forbidden to set traps to catch birds and beasts. The ban could only be lifted in July.
Only those who needed to cut wood to make coffins due to death were not restricted by the season.
When the cubs were breeding, they were not allowed to bring the dogs out to hunt.
This is enough to show that the Qin Dynasty has a long-term plan!
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"Isn't this too thin?"
"And is this to protect the environment?”
"Great Qin is more than 2,000 years ahead of the world!”
"It's not just about protecting the environment, it's more than 2,000 years ahead of the world.”
"Great Qin's basic system of prefectures and counties is 2,000 years ahead of the rest of the world!”
"How long will the enfeoffment in Europe last?”
"F * ck! Can you not drag us into this?"
"Why don't we have such an Emperor!”
"Augustus! Did you see what he did? Watch and learn!"
"This is the real first emperor!”
"You are the fake first emperor!”
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Then came the corvee.
The Qin Dynasty's corvee was also one of the most criticized.
The fate of the conscripts was even more tragic. It was as if they woke up earlier than a chicken and slept later than a dog. You eat worse than a pig and do more than a donkey."
However, the real Qin corvee was like this.
Those who are guilty and sentenced to a fine, or those who owe debts to the government and are unable to repay them, and those who pay off their debts with corvee, will be converted into eight coins for each day of labor.
Those who needed food provided by the government would receive six coins for each day of labor.
According to the law, the government provided food for men to serve corvee. Men received one-third of a bucket a day, and women received one-quarter of a bucket a day.
The wages of the corvee could also be converted into food.
During the period of corvee, the government would distribute "work uniforms".
All those who participate in the work of pounding rice in the city will be given food and clothing according to the standard.
Chengdan pound was a kind of punishment in the Qin and Han Dynasties of the Dragon Country. It was considered imprisonment.
In the morning, when the city is facing the male offender, it means to build a city. Pouring rice against female prisoners means pounding rice.
Conscripts who have wives and concubines and are free people should bring their own clothes.
Slaves who were detained to work in the city were lent food and clothing by the government.
If he dies before the time limit for labor is up, his food and clothing will be cancelled and he will not have to pay back.
Each household is not allowed to recruit two people to serve at the same time
If the county magistrate, county captain, and officials in charge of this matter bent the law for personal gain and conscripted two people to serve corvee at the same time, they would be fined two yuan, which was the money for two pieces of armor.
The prisoners who were involved in the pounding of the rice and the craftsmen who made the tools had their workload reduced in winter. They only needed to complete the workload of two days in summer in three days.
Prisoners were given 40 days of leave to pay off their debts with corvee.
They even had holidays.
Those who were sentenced to a fine for committing a crime and repaid it with corvee were required to take 20 days off to return home to farm during the sowing and management seasons.
Infants and young children who followed their mothers to do odd jobs were given rations.
Infants without mothers were given half a stone of grain a month.
Although there was a mother, those who were engaged in scattered chores in the government and had no one to take care of their infants and children were given half a stone of grain every month.
Women do what they're good at and get paid the same as men
During the corvee, men's wages were 25% higher than women's.
However, when doing work that women specialized in, such as knitting, they were paid the same as men every working day.
In summary, the Qin law clearly stipulated that the government must ensure that the people had food and clothing, and that there were appropriate benefits. At least it was not a hell on earth.
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"Why do I feel that the people of the Qin Dynasty lived well?”
"That's not just good, it's pretty good!”
"The laws of the Qin Dynasty created by the Legalism School are both detailed and reasonable. In that era, other than Great Qin, which other country in the world could do this?”
"And with such a foundation, the First Emperor was able to complete so many projects. If not, there would have been chaos!”
"Why would the nobles of the six dynasties wait until he's gone before they dare to raise their heads?”
"Wasn't it because the environment at that time didn't allow it?”
"You're absolutely right!"
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So, was Ying Zheng still cruel to the people?
The Great Wall was not built only by Ying Zheng.
Ying Zheng was merely connecting the original Great Wall of the Warring States Period.
Moreover, it wasn't like the world would be destroyed tomorrow if it couldn't be repaired today.
As for not stopping even if he was exhausted to death?
Ying Zheng didn't even kill those Confucian scholars who laughed at him, and the other six dynasties had been revived so quickly at the end of the Qin Dynasty.
Even Xiang Yu, the grandson of Xiang Yan, who was still resisting, was still alive and kicking.
Would Ying Zheng be so cruel to his own people?
And what was the significance of the Great Wall in that era, and how much capital could it save for garrisoning troops on the border?
There was no need to say anything more.
Needless to say, Epang Palace was just a foundation.
There was also the mausoleum, which was indeed unnecessary.
And it was very big.
However, there should not be a situation where Ying Zheng would rather have people die of exhaustion than send people to whip them while asking them to continue working for him.
As for the other crimes, they were definitely slandered by the scholarly faction.
Moreover, he was so mean that he didn't make sense of what he said.
He said,"The King of Qin is a man of accurate observation, long eyes, a bird's chest, a jackal's voice, and a heart of tigers and wolves."”
Saddle-nose, chicken breasts, and tracheitis.
Ying Zheng's mother was Lady Zhao!
She was a dumb beauty, but it was because of her beauty that Lu Buwei and the mutant had taken a liking to her!
How could Ying Zheng be an ugly monster?
Not to mention that this was the appearance of a king, Ying Zheng could not possibly be ugly!
Although Ying Zheng was a man of great talent and great strategy, he had done too many things at the same time.
It was a bit of a squeeze on the national strength.
However, he was at most comparable to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che.
Since Emperor Wu Liu Che was not known as a tyrant, Ying Zheng should not be either.
Moreover, he had never killed a single hero.
Whether it was Wang Jian and his son, or Meng Wu and his son.
They all ended well.
Li Si was the same.
At least in his hands.
Therefore, such a person should not be called a tyrant.
Although she was destined not to be with Renjun.
However, one could say that he was engaging in militarism, or that he was building a large scale of construction.
However, he could not be called a tyrant.
He didn't abuse the people or his subjects.
It was just that he did not use the scholarly faction.
Moreover, Qin II was too useless!
Therefore, there were a bunch of idle people who could slander him after his death!
If Ying Zheng was really violent, why would he let them live until then?
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"The First Emperor should have been the most tired person at that time, right?”
"Not only does he have so many things he wants to do, but there are also so many people who oppose him.”
"Moreover, in order to show that he treats everyone equally, he has never really attacked them!”
"It's just that they were exiled a little. Those who mix with liars are also liars, and they shouted that they were scammers!”
"We should let Emperor Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang, deal with them!”
"They are really lucky to have met the First Emperor, Ying Zheng!”
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As for the nobles of the six dynasties, no matter what Ying Zheng did, they would never be satisfied.
Everyone's attitude towards Xiang Yu had already made it clear.
And Zhang Liang was a Daoist, right?
Just now, it was said that Ying Zheng had recruited all the Hundred Clans.
Taoism advocated the way of Huang Lao's inaction.
However, it was only because Zhang Liang was the descendant of the Six Nations.
And so, he did something like setting up an ambush and killing Ying Zheng halfway.
But Ying Zheng didn't exterminate the entire Han royal family, did he?
Otherwise, where did Han Wangxin come from?
However, even an extremely intelligent person like Zhang Liang.
He still couldn't understand what the First Emperor had done.
It could be seen how lonely Ying Zheng was.
Perhaps only Li Si, the representative of Legalism and someone who shared the same interests as him, could really talk to him.
But even Li Si could not understand Ying Zheng completely.
As a man with a long-term vision, Ying Zheng had set his sights on the Xiongnu in the north after he had cleaned up everything in the Nine Regions.
Li Si advised him that the Xiongnu migrated without compensation and had no fixed city walls. Moreover, they could not cultivate the land they obtained, so it was useless to attack them.
Ying Zheng was almost convinced by him as well, but the aftermath proved that it would not be good to beat them up, but if he did not beat them up, it would definitely be worse!
And at this moment, a strange stone appeared with the words: The words "Hu who destroyed Qin"!
Therefore, Ying Zheng could not bear it any longer and decided to attack the Xiongnu!
But this was obviously the necromancers 'doing.
There couldn't really be a stone with these words.
Therefore, the story of meteorites falling from the sky and Ying Zheng turning the surrounding area into scorched earth was not true.
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"Xiongnu again!"
"It's the Qin before the Han! Of course there will be Xiongnu."
"The second and first place of the ten human emperors have both fought against the Xiongnu. Is the Xiongnu the standard of an outstanding emperor?”
"They should be proud of themselves!"
"It means that Ying Zheng did not completely eliminate the threat of the Xiongnu. Otherwise, Liu Che would not have happened.”
"Nonsense, if they can't beat them, they can retreat to the north of the desert? Ying Zheng had done so many things at once, so how could he chase them all the way to the north of the desert like Liu Che?”
"Just beat them into submission!"
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