"This is the description of Qin Shihuang in On Qin.
There are many film and television works that regard Qin Shihuang as a cruel and tyrannical villain.
Even the relatively objective historical records, in The Chen She Family, also reveal the aversion to Qin Shihuang's exploitation of the people and construction.
However, no matter how you describe his cruelty, you cannot deny that he is a very capable monarch.
Since ancient times, people have been arguing about whether Qin Shihuang was more successful or not.
At least in my heart, Qin Shihuang is more meritorious than ever.
When it comes to Qin Shihuang, many people will think of the word "burning books to bury Confucianism", and later scholars can't wait to dig him out and whip him.
However, this is almost an ironclad fact. Is it really the work of Qin Shihuang? Let me analyze them one by one.
The first is to burn books.
Burning books means burning historical books from all countries except Ji Qin, as well as poetry books that are not in the private collection of the Doctor's Museum.
It should be noted here that not all the books were burned. No matter what reason Qin Shihuang had, he still kept his poems and books today.
In Zhu's words, Qin burned books just to teach the world to burn them, and his court still keeps them.
This is much less than the books lost in the ten years of catastrophe.
As we all know, in the Qin Dynasty, a hundred schools of thought contended, and hundred schools of thought, such as Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism, Mohism, famous artists and Yin and Yang scholars contended, while the Qin Dynasty adopted Han Feizi's legalist thought.
Burning books is to unify the thoughts of the world, so as to truly unify a country.
This concept of rule of law continues in our society today.
As a talented ruler, it is absolutely necessary to unify thoughts.
The policy aim of "ousting a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone" in the Han Dynasty is exactly the same as that of Qin Shihuang, except that one is "hard violence" and the other is "soft violence".
And the evaluation is too different, I really want to complain for him.
As for "cheating Confucianism", the views are even more varied. First of all, I want to say that we can't explain any kind of ideological scholarship with absolute quality.
For thousands of years, people have involuntarily regarded Confucianism as a "good" school and an orthodox thought.
This makes people particularly disgusted with "cheating Confucianism."
In Historical Records, it was originally written as a "pit warlock", which was interpreted by later generations as a confusion between Confucian scholars and warlocks in the Qin Dynasty. The "warlock" here is a Confucian scholar.
In fact, every historical record is different, and some even don't mention deceiving Confucianism at all. This explanation is too arbitrary.
Another view is that this warlock is a "Jianghu warlock", which may refer to a warlock of Yin and Yang who observes celestial phenomena and divines divinations.
In short, no matter how you look at it, the historical facts recorded in Historical Records lack details, and many of them follow the trend.
The rumor of Shuo Yuan's rebellion is not completely credible.
Therefore, the record of "burning books to bury Confucianism" is not completely credible.
Moreover, the unification of the world is a historical trend, and even if "burning books and burying Confucianism" really exists, it is in line with the historical trend.
So you can't put all the labels on Qin Shihuang.
The word "Jian" is really appropriate for Qin Shihuang.
For example, the Great Wall, Epang Palace and Xianyang Palace.
There is a poem saying: "Qin Gong, Yanwangtai, high-rise buildings collapse into dust;" Thousands of years, who do you say has to start over? " When it comes to the Great Wall, we can't help but mention Meng Jiangnv who sent cold clothes thousands of miles away.
Slavery, cruelty and tyranny to the people ... if people put the Great Wall and Qin Shihuang together, they will definitely think of this word.
Linking the Great Wall with the working people will definitely be a "crystallization of wisdom" or something like that.
However, almost no monarch has never been interested in civil engineering.
The pyramids in Egypt and the hanging gardens in new Babylon are almost all designed to satisfy the selfish desires of the monarch, while Qin Changcheng, at least to defend its territory and prevent foreign enemies from attacking, has also become a symbol of China's strong will.
It's just that there is no Qin Huang.
The courtiers who remonstrated that "water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it" never imagined that the people's power could be so powerful that it almost overthrew the Qin Dynasty which he founded.
Besides, Epang Palace, even now, has no physical proof that it really existed, and there is no way to verify it at present.
As for work, not at all.