Qin Shihuang was born in Handan, Zhao in the first month of forty-eight years. He was born to Wang Xiang and concubines of Qin Zhuang, so some people say that Qin Shihuang is his son. After birth, the surname is Zhao. In 247 BC, King Zhuang Xiang died, and Ying Zheng became king of Qin at the age of 13. Prime Minister Lv Buwei holds the real power.
In 238 BC, the 22-year-old Wang Zheng was proclaimed King of Qin. This year, the eunuch staged a palace coup, and Qin Shihuang sent Chang Pingjun and Chang Wenjun to lead the troops to encircle the poison of Changhou, and offered a reward: "If there is life, I will give millions of silver money; Kill it, 500 thousand. " (Historical Records of Qin Shihuang). Will wipe out the rebels. In the second year, he took advantage of the poisoning incident to remove Lv Buwei from the post of prime minister, and took state affairs back into his own hands. And listen to Reese's proposal, continue to reuse the guest ministers, set a general plan of combining gold and silk with military strikes, and accelerate the pace of the war of annexing six countries (see "The War of Qin Destroying Six Countries").
In the 11th year of the King of Qin (236 BC), taking advantage of Zhao's attack on Yan, he sent troops to attack Zhao in the north and south, and seized a large area of Zhao's land. In the 13th year, Huan Kun attacked Zhao Pingyang, killed general Zhao and beheaded 654.38 million. In fourteen years, he attacked Pingyang, took Yi 'an, defeated Zhao Jun and killed Zhao Jiang. Huan Kun decided Pingyang and Wucheng. In seventeen years, Songshi destroyed Korea and captured An (see the Battle of Qin Dynasty to Destroy Korea). Set Korea as Yingchuan County.
In eighteen years, Zhao Guojun and his subjects were alienated by conspiracy, and Li Mu, the general of Zhao Guoliang who defeated Qin Jun twice, was removed from his post. /kloc-in March of 0/9, Wang Jianjun stormed, defeated Zhao, killed and occupied Dongyang (the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain). Yanju dare not escape. 10, Wang Jian and Qiang Yi army attacked Handan and captured Wang Zhao. Zhao Gongzi Jia led hundreds of clan members to flee from generation to generation (now north of Yuxian County, Hebei Province) and became king on his own. However, at this time, Zhao had existed in name only, and Qin established Handan County in Zhao. Zhao and Yan were stationed in ancient Yishui (now northwest of Huailai County, Hebei Province) in an attempt to stop going north. Twenty-one years (before 227) was defeated by Qin Jun, and twenty-five years (before 222), after Wang Ben led the army to attack and destroy the remnants, he destroyed the generation, but Wang Jia and Zhao were captured alive and completely destroyed (see the battle of Qin destroying Zhao).
In twenty years, Yan Taizi Dan made Jing Ke stab the king of Qin. Discovered by the king of Qin, Jing Ke was liberated. The king of Qin sent Wang Jian and Xin Sheng to attack the State of Yan. Yan and Dai sent troops to attack and break the Yan army west of Xiao. In twenty-one years, Wang Ben attacked Hebei (now southwest of Beijing), defeated the army of the Prince of Yan and seized the city of Hebei. Yan and Taizi Dan led the guards to flee to Liaodong (now Liaoyang, Liaoning). Li Xin, the general of the Qin Dynasty, led his troops to pursue Yanshui (now Hunhe, Liaoning Province), then defeated the Taizi Dan army and wiped out the main force of the Yan army. The prince killed Taizi Dan and asked Qin for peace, but Qin refused. However, in view of the shortage of the remnants of Yan and Zhao, in order to concentrate on attacking Wei and Chu, the attack was suspended (see the battle of Qin destroying Yan).
In twenty-two years, the king of Qin sent Wang Ben to attack Wei, and Wei Jun relied on the Yugoslav capital fortifications to defend his position. Qin Jun's storming was ineffective, so it led to the gap between the Yellow River and the irrigation city. Three months later, Daliangcheng was broken, Wei came out and Wei died. The Qin dynasty set up a party county in the east of Wei (see the battle between Qin and Wei).
In the same year, Qin generals Li Xin and Wu Meng were defeated by Chu generals Xiang Yan and suffered heavy losses. In the twenty-third year, the king of Qin personally thanked the famous Wang Jian and invited him to war. Wang Jian and Wu Meng led 600,000 troops to attack Chu again, defeated Chu army in Qinan (now southeast of Suzhou, Anhui) and killed Chu general Xiang Yan. Qin Jun took advantage of the situation and captured many cities in Chu. Twenty-four years ago (223 BC), Wang Jian and Wu Meng led Qin Jun to continue to attack the Chu State in depth, and broke through Shouchun, the capital of Chu State (now southwest of Shouxian County, Anhui Province), captured the king of Chu State, and the Chu State perished. Wang Jian continued to March to the south of the Yangtze River and occupied all the land of Chu. Qin established Chu County in Chu, which was soon divided into Jiujiang County, Changhe County and Huiji County (see the Battle of Qin Destroying Chu).
In the same year, after the destruction of Chu and Wei, the king of Qin sent Wang Ben to attack Liaodong, and the prince was captured and died. Qin is located in Yuyang County, with Peiping County, Liaoxi County and Liaodong County on the right.
In twenty-six years, the King of Qin refused to let the envoys of the State of Qin visit Qi, so he avoided the western part of Qi and ordered Wang Ben to attack the capital of Qi from the south of Yan (now northern Hebei) to the south (now northern Linzi, Zibo, Shandong). The morale of the Qi army was low, and he was caught off guard when he suddenly attacked from the north. Rapidly falling apart. Qin Jun captured Linzi, captured Qi, and mutually assured destruction. The king of Qin was in Qi County and Langxie County (see the battle of Qin destroying Qi).
The King of Qin destroyed the six countries and unified the world, ending the long-term feud between princes since the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty and establishing the first highly centralized feudal country in the history of China. The king of Qin claimed to be the emperor, and chased Zhuangxiang as the emperor's father.
After Qin Shihuang proclaimed himself emperor, he frequently used troops to expand his territory. From 26 to 33, hundreds of thousands of people were mobilized to attack Lingnan and occupy Baiyue (now Guangdong, Guangxi and northern Vietnam). Meng Tian, a general, led 300,000 troops to attack the Xiongnu in the north (see Qin's Battle against Xiongnu), and recovered the land occupied by the Xiongnu (now in Yikezhao League area south of Hetao, Inner Mongolia), forcing the Xiongnu to retreat to the north of Yinshan Mountain. In order to prevent the Huns from invading, he restored the Great Wall built by Qin, Zhao and Yan, and connected it with the Great Wall of Wan Li, starting from Lintao in Gansu in the west and east to Liaodong. Qin Shihuang also fought in the north and set up four counties in central Fujian, Nanhai, Guilin and Xiang Jun, and established a multi-ethnic feudal autocratic empire with the Han nationality as the main body. The territory is "East to the sea and Korea, west to Lintao and Zhong Qiang, south to Beihu, north to rivers, and (alongside) Yinshan to Liaodong". He made an important contribution to the development of China's history.
In order to strengthen his power, Qin Shihuang adopted a centralized political system, denied the idea of restoring the enfeoffment system put forward by Prime Minister Wang Wan, and implemented the county system, which divided the world into 36 counties and then increased it to more than 40 counties. The county has a county magistrate and a county magistrate, and the central government has set up "three public officials and nine ministers" to assist the emperor in handling political, military and economic affairs. This political system strengthened the emperor's control over the political power and created the centralization of absolutism, which was followed by later feudal dynasties.
In order to consolidate the central rule, Qin Shihuang ordered the collection of weapons from all over the world, and moved the six countries10.2 million rich aristocrats to Xianyang and Sichuan for control. At the same time, with Xianyang as the center, two equator were built: one east to the seaside; A south into Wu Chu, so that in the event of rebellion, quickly mobilize the army to suppress. Qin Shihuang also traveled to many places to "conquer the sea".
Economically, in 2 16 BC, Qin Shihuang issued the order of "making the first place in Guizhou a real field", confirmed the private ownership of land, ordered the unification of currency and weights and measures, and strengthened economic exchanges between regions.
In the ideological field, in order to crack down on Confucian scholars' remarks against the county system such as Chun, stabilize the people's hearts, and safeguard the authority of the emperor, Qin Shihuang adopted Lisi's suggestion and ordered the burning of all books except medical, divination, planting (referring to agriculture) books, Qin history books, poems, books and hundred-character works collected by doctoral officers. The following year, because the alchemist Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng disobeyed orders and defected, Qin Shihuang ordered the alchemist and Confucian scholars to be investigated for their crimes. As a result, more than 400 Confucian scholars were buried alive, creating the first incident of "burning books to bury Confucianism" in history.
After Qin Shihuang unified the whole country, a large number of buildings, palaces and tombs were built. The Epang Palace and Lishan Tomb alone used more than 700,000 manpower, which brought heavy labor and hunger and cold to the working people, aroused people's resistance and laid a curse for the rapid demise of the Qin Dynasty.
In the thirty-seventh year of Qin Shihuang (2 10 BC), Qin Shihuang fell ill during the fifth cruise and died on the dune platform (now northeast of Pingxiang, Hebei) in July. After his death, a large-scale peasant uprising war broke out (see Chen Sheng, peasant uprising war).
Comments: Qin Shihuang was the first monarch in the history of China, and his extraordinary achievements were comparable to those of Chinese emperors. Although he built great buildings in his later years, which brought heavy disasters to the people, his contribution to the history of China far outweighed his mistakes. As Sima Qian commented in Historical Records: "As for the king of Qin, after VI, he continued to be fierce and made a long-term plan to conquer the palace and swallow the princes who died two weeks ago, taking the supreme position to make Liuhe, whip the world and inspire the world. Take the land of Baiyue in the south, think that Guilin, the king of Baiyue, has tightened his neck and appointed officials. So Meng Tian built the Great Wall in the north and guarded the fence, but the Huns were more than 700 miles away. The conference semifinals dare not go south to herd horses, and the scholars dare not bow to their knees. So Wang Zhidao was abolished and the words of a hundred schools of thought were burned. Capture the famous city, kill Hao Jun, take Xianyang, the land where soldiers gather all over the world, and sell the front to cast a lot of money, thinking that the Golden Man is twelve, so as to weaken the people first. Cut Warwick City again, because the river is Tianjin, according to the city of 100 million feet, unexpectedly solid. A good general will guard the key points with a strong crossbow, and a loyal minister will be Chen Libing. Who is who? It depends on the world. The heart of the king of Qin thinks that Guanzhong is solid, Jincheng is thousands of miles away, and the descendants of emperors are also eternal. " (Biography of Qin Shihuang)
However, Qin only died in the second year, and the historical lessons are enough to warn future generations and take lessons from them.