Politically: centralization, local counties.
As the first emperor in the ancient history of China, Ying Zheng, the First Qin Emperor, established centralization without any reference, and established a set of political institutions, including the Prime Minister, Qiu, imperial envoys and ministers in charge of specific government affairs, which improved administrative efficiency and laid the basic pattern of China's political system for more than 2,000 years, showing great vitality.
Although the county system was not initiated by Qin Shihuang, it was beautifully changed. Qin Shihuang divided the whole country into 36 counties (later increased to 465,438+0 counties), set up county-level administrative agencies, and the central government appointed and removed its main officials, completely breaking the traditional aristocratic enfeoffment system, which was a sign that China was moving from aristocratic feudalism to feudal autocracy.
Militarily: sweeping the six countries, crossing the country in the south and conquering the Xiongnu in the north.
Although it was an achievement of the times to annex the six countries and realize reunification, Qin Shihuang undoubtedly contributed a lot to the accumulation of achievements of Qin Xiaogong and Shang Yang since the political reform. From 234 BC to 22 BC1year, it took him more than ten years to destroy the six countries of Korea, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan and Qi, with an average of more than two years to destroy one country, which led to the unprecedented reunification of the Central Plains. Later, the Southern Expedition conquered Baiyue in three years, bringing the whole Lingnan area into the territory of the Qin Dynasty. In 2 14 BC, Meng Tian, a general sent by Qin Shihuang, pointed his sword at the Huns. Received Henan land? , so that today's vast areas inside and outside the Hetao, north and south of the river, got rid of the disaster of long-term war.
Economically: same education, same money, same car.
During Shang Yang's political reform, the State of Qin made unified regulations on the standards of weights and measures. After Qin Shihuang unified the whole country, on the basis of the past, he ordered unified measurement, engraved the imperial edict on the weights and measures formulated by the government, and sent it to the whole country as a standard instrument. Coinage is unified by the state, and private casting is severely punished. The right to make money is firmly in the hands of the state. Qin Shihuang also stipulated that the width of vehicles should be six feet, so that one car could pass through the whole country, avoiding the waste of resources. This series of measures has promoted economic development.
Culturally: write in the same language and open a spiritual canal.
Before the Qin Dynasty unified the six countries, the vassal states were fragmented and the written forms were very confusing, which seriously affected the implementation of policies and decrees and hindered the economic and cultural exchanges between different places. Qin Shihuang took unified writing as the top priority, and let Prime Minister Li Si and others sort out the writing, taking Xiao Zhuan as the standard writing and Li Shu as the daily writing, which greatly improved the writing efficiency and effectively promoted the development of culture. In addition, Qin Shihuang dug canals to connect Lishui and Hunan, connecting the Yangtze River system with the Pearl River system, which played an important role in the popularization of Central Plains culture in the Pearl River basin.