Background significance:
1. Corvee, heavy burden of military service
The taxes in the Qin dynasty were very heavy, and farmers had to give two-thirds of their crops to the state.
The criminal law of the Qin Dynasty was cruel, and the working people were brutally suppressed with a little resistance.
4. After Qin Ershi ascended the throne, his rule was more brutal than his father's, and the tyranny of Qin was the root cause of the peasant war in the late Qin Dynasty.
The demise of the Qin dynasty:
After the failure of Guangwu Chen Sheng Uprising, the anti-Qin struggle continued everywhere, with the strongest forces being Liu Bang and Xiang Yu. In this struggle, Xiang Yu eliminated Qin Jun's main force through the Battle of Julu. In 206 BC, the rulers of the Qin Dynasty surrendered to Liu Bang, and the Qin Dynasty, which existed only for 15 years, was overthrown by the peasant war at the end of the Qin Dynasty.
In fact, the main reasons for the demise of the Qin Dynasty are as follows:
1. mistakes in political strategy. The reason why Qin was able to win among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States and finally unify the world was mainly because he adopted the legalist way of governing the country and served the people with brutal means. According to historical records, the political environment of the Qin dynasty at that time was that "all the people were afraid of private fighting and dared to fight in public." At that time, he didn't dare to be a traitor, because according to the laws of the country, stealing requires not only beheading, but also letting his family sit together.
2. The supreme ruler's inner desire and cruel oppression of the people. After Qin Shihuang destroyed the six countries, he not only transported all the wealth of the six countries to the Qin Dynasty, but also built a large number of buildings and expanded the harem. All these require a lot of money and wealth to maintain. Therefore, the Qin dynasty also imposed heavy taxes and shake-ups on the people, but because the forces at the beginning of the Qin dynasty were still relatively strong, the people did not really arm themselves to resist.
3. The mistake of the successor, after the death of the first emperor, originally intended to let his son Fu Su succeed to the throne, but Fu Su was killed by Zhao Gao and Li Si. Qin Ershi, who succeeded to the throne, was more cruel than the original emperor. The moment of chaos finally came. The town of osawa rose up, and the Qin Dynasty was destroyed in less than five years. Isn't this the truth that "benevolence and righteousness are not applied, and the offensive and defensive trends are different"?