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I feel that the death of Qin Ershi is mainly caused by the lack of rich historical experience and lessons in both positive and negative aspects of establishing a unified empire, right?
No, there are two main reasons for the demise of the Qin Dynasty. On the one hand, there are political reasons. The Qin Dynasty could not be knighted without meritorious military service, and Shang Yang's political reform made Qin Jun the best in the world. But if there were no rivals and no military achievements in the world, what would happen to the Qin Dynasty? Of course, if that's all, you can adjust it slowly.

The key to the demise of the Qin Dynasty is Qin Shihuang. It is not that Qin Shihuang wasted people's money by repairing the Great Wall, the Mausoleum and the Epang Palace, but that Qin Shihuang thought too highly of himself and pursued immortality. In the end, Qin Shihuang never deliberately prepared or trained successors, and never prepared a set of backup leaders. You know what he wants is immortality, and no one needs to take over. As a result, once he died suddenly, there was a huge power vacuum in the ruling structure of the Qin Dynasty. This just gave Zhao Gao these people the opportunity to practise fraud. If it was before, it would be clear that the prince had his own team and the son of heaven was patrolling and supervising the country. Where will this happen?