1, positive evaluation
Mao Zedong: Shang Yang is an outstanding politician who benefits the country and enriches the people. He is an idealist with religious sincerity and enthusiasm. Shang Yang's law punishes traitors, protects people's rights, cultivates and cultivates people's happiness, advocates military achievements, establishes national prestige, and kills greed, laziness and absolute consumption. This is a great policy that China has never had before.
Shang is known as the first truly thorough reformer in the history of China. His reform was not limited to that time, but also influenced China for thousands of years.
2. Negative evaluation
Book of the Old Tang Dynasty: Shang Yang enforced the law strictly, and once executed 700 prisoners a day by the Weihe River. The river turned red and the sound of mourning was earth-shattering. Shang Yang's strict law enforcement and torture caused widespread resentment. The virtuous literature of Emperor Zhao of Han Dynasty also thinks that Shang Yang's severe punishment and strict laws are the important reasons for the rapid demise of the Qin Dynasty, and he is also called a cruel official.
Extended data
Shang Yang is finally over.
Relying on Shang Yang's testimonies, Qin established an army of tigers and wolves, attacked the city slightly, expanded its territory, and gradually strengthened its national strength, which soon became the envy of eastern countries.
Shang Yang himself didn't know how to advance and retreat. Qin Xiaogong trusted him very much when he was in office. At the same time, he made great contributions and offended the nobles of Qin. In order to enforce the law well, he even cut off the nose of the prince's teacher and son Qian. Therefore, after Qin Xiaogong's death, Shang Yang was falsely accused of rebellion by his son Qian, and had to fight the loyalist who came to capture him. Finally, he died and his body was dragged back to pieces.
Although Shang Yang died, the system remained unchanged. Qin followed his line, so he finally unified the world with his policies. As for Zhang, the master of the Ming Dynasty seldom had a mother, and the authority of the country was in his own hands. Although he was a courtier, he exercised the power of the son of heaven. Rely on your own skills, pull the carriage of the Ming Dynasty out of the quagmire, return to the right track, and continue to live for decades. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to call him the first politician of the next generation in 300 years.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Shang Yang