Chapter 141 The Eternal Emperor (Part 2)
However, it is said that Xu Fu did find Xianshan in modern archaeological research. What is so exciting is that it is Japan.
Depressed.
What was even more depressed came again. The so-called immortal medicine was likely to be wild kiwi fruit!
It is what Qin Shihuang is looking for with all his strength?!
Given that Qin Shihuang's hometown, the Qinling area in Shaanxi is one of the origins of wild kiwi fruit, I am afraid that the emperor often uses it to appetize this thing. No wonder Xu Fu found the "Immortal Medicine" and did not dare to return home.
Therefore, Xu Fu's drug-seeking incident is likely to be the biggest misunderstanding in history.
In 219 BC, Qin Shihuang led 70 civil and military ministers and Confucian scholars to Mount Tai to hold the Fengshan ceremony. Fengshan was a ceremony for ancient rulers to worship the heaven and earth. The so-called "Feng" refers to building a soil altar to worship the sky. The so-called "Zen" refers to worshipping the ground, that is, worshiping the ground on the flat ground at the hills under Mount Tai. Because such activities were not held for a long time, the ministers did not know how to carry out the ceremony, so Qin Shihuang summoned Confucian scholars to ask. There were many different opinions on the Confucian scholars. After hearing this, Qin Shihuang felt it was difficult to implement it, so he repelled the Confucian scholars, opened the lane according to his own ideas, erected the monument on the top of Mount Tai, and held the feudal ceremony. Then he went to nearby Liangfu Mountain to perform the Zen ceremony.
After that, many emperors or leaders in history went to Mount Tai for Fengshan, which was of great significance.
Ji Qing remembered that one of the more interesting things was that Liu Bei gave his two sons Liu Feng and Liu Chan, which had a very obvious meaning. Da Er Duo was also a very ambitious person.
None of the people who have achieved success in history are fools, and they have a very clear mind.
Ambitions are great, but unfortunately, the luck is not good.
As for the A Dou who can't be helped, it's a bit subjective in the fat man's opinion. Liu Chan's joy in Shu is probably because he protects himself and maintains the unity of the country. His misconduct with Brother Zhu does not necessarily mean that he has a bad mind. In short, history is very complicated.
Because Qin Shihuang promoted the Legalist theory of "ruling the country by law", and later Chinese rulers have promoted the Confucian theory with benevolence and doctrine of the mean as the core. Therefore, Qin Shihuang often appeared as a negative example in various prose and historical books, such as Jia Yi's "On the Over Qin" and so on.
"Records of the Grand Historian: The Basic Annals of Qin Shihuang" quotes Jia Yi's "On the Bishop of Qin": 1 The King of Qin has a greedy heart, practices his own wisdom, does not believe in meritorious officials, does not follow the scholars and the people, abolishes the king's way, establishes private rights, prohibits documents and tortures, first deceiving force, then be kind and righteous, and takes tyranny as the beginning of the world. 2 A man is in trouble and is killed in seven temples, and he is killed in his hands, and laughs at the world. Why is it that the attack and defense of the world without giving up benevolence and righteousness. Qin Shihuang is regarded by many historians as a tyrant, and he can do whatever he wants to do for power.
Implementing strict laws. What is strict laws? It is a relative concept in itself. If the United States does not whip, it accuses the Commonwealth country of Singapore for being cruel; if there is no death penalty in the Commonwealth, it accuses China of being cruel; if there is no religious law in China, it is said that Arab countries impose religious laws on thieves that "smash them to death with rocks" and thinks that Arab countries carry out torture.
The national philosophy that the empire believed at that time, the Legalist theory believed that "strict law to govern troubled times". The empire formulated strict laws compared to the six countries based on the national philosophy. The laws penetrated into every corner of the society like a spider web. Even each household had several knives (dual-use military and civilians) and made strict regulations. At the same time, relying on the Baojia system, the original community system was established, and the first national census in Chinese history was implemented through the joint positioning method. The Baojia joint positioning system ensured the reduction of social crimes and the stability of the basic unit of each empire. The simplest example is Liu Bang, the imperial pavilion chief at that time (equivalent to the current police station director or street office director) Liu Bang, who was responsible for recruiting military service at that time, but was drunk at work because of drinking, fearing crimes and uttered "great responsibility" to deceive the people into rebelling.
Therefore, the Empire punished officials for misunderstandings due to drunkenness in their work (in contrast, officials in a certain county must drink alcohol if they want to do things). It can be said that the imperial laws are rigorous and their implementation is strict, which means that "there are laws to follow, and violations must be followed, and the law must be punished and the law must be strictly enforced." Nowadays, people are often confused by the imperfection of the law and judicial corruption, and have always advocated the fairness and rigor of the law. So how can we accuse China of the first emperor who advocated the perfect judicial system to govern the country 2,000 years ago? Should we be ashamed while accusing him?
Qin Shihuang's emphasis on agriculture and suppression of commerce was also criticized.
Leaders of the new China have collectively emphasized the "three rural issues". Looking back on history, Chinese emperors also emphasized agricultural issues. Beijing's Temple of Heaven and Earth Hall are the places where emperors pray for agricultural prosperity. The head of the Qin Empire is of course no exception. Some people say that the Qin Empire is not right to pay attention to "farming and fighting", and this accusation is ridiculous. In ancient times, "farming" was the lifeline of the country's economy, and "farming" was the military guarantee for national stability. Moreover, "farming" was placed before "farming", which is enough to show the empire's importance to the national economy.
After hundreds of years of melee between the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the empire's greatest guarantee for the people was that everyone had food to eat, which was also a guarantee of the most basic human rights. However, when national strength was limited, we would inevitably choose "farming" rather than "business".
From the perspective of social structure, "farming" is more enough to allow people to avoid survival crises and live with peace of mind; advocating "business" is to allow people to take risks for possible interests and increase social instability factors.
From a institutional perspective, "cultivation" is a kind of settlement, which allows the people to stay under their own land, rather than running around like "commerce". The purpose of the Qin Empire to promote agriculture and suppress commerce is to maximize the stability of the empire and maintain the steady development of society.
We cannot criticize the economic policies of the Qin Empire because of some scholars' criticism of China's "land complex" from the social situation in the past 2000 years. On the contrary, we should be grateful to the empire for its emphasis on agriculture and land policies, so that the great Chinese nation will gradually emerge, the vast territory, and the vibrant Chinese culture to this day.
The biggest "proof" of the Qin Empire's military military power was the unification of force, the northern expedition of the Huns and the southern expedition of Guangdong and Guangxi. However, is all this a tenable? The answer is no.
The choice of unifying China by force is inevitable. At that time, the six countries were clearly unwilling to merge with Qin. Just like the current Taiwan authorities refuse to reunify peacefully, then any Chinese people would choose to unify by force. In the northern expedition of the Huns, in the late Warring States period, the threat of the northern nomadic people to the Central Plains was unimaginable today. Perhaps only in the 1960s, the situation in the Sino-Mongolia border was comparable to that of the Soviet Union. At that time, the Huns' strength range had reached the south bank of the Yellow River. Today, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Ningxia, Shanxi and Hebei were all the spheres of influence of the Huns. Then for the safety of the country, the empire would inevitably go to war with the Huns.
The empire attached great importance to the war against the Huns and appointed the empire's most outstanding army commander Meng Tian and Prince Fusu to command the war against the Huns. The result of the war was to drive the Huns to the north of the desert, and the imperial army stationed the Great Wall defense line. Judging from the results of the war alone, it can be asserted that the war against the Huns was not an expansion war, but a war to maintain national unity. Otherwise, how could 300,000 troops stationed the Great Wall defense line after the victory?
As for the war to fight against Guangdong and Guangxi in the south, it was a continuation of the united war. The Chu State was the strongest among the six countries at that time, and its sphere of influence included the current Henan, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guizhou and other regions. After the fall of Chu, some of the troops pointed out that Lingnan had resisted stubbornly. After the imperial army pursued and defeated it, they found that the threat of the South Vietnamese natives to the southern border was no less than that of the Huns. Therefore, the empire launched a unified war against Guangdong and Guangxi. After the completion of Lingqu, the 400,000 troops were quickly supplied and defeated the enemy. At this point, the Qin Empire's territory was completely formed and it also established the prototype of the territory of China in later generations.
Yangyang Empire, the Great Qin world. Some people may ask, since Qin Shihuang is so wise, how could it lead to the rapid demise of the empire?
History accidentally led to the destruction of the empire. If Qin Shihuang could live for a few more years, history would definitely be rewritten. From the above analysis, it can be seen that Qin Shihuang's heroic talent and strategy are no match for ancient and modern times. It not only completed the unity of China, but also carried out large-scale reforms to China in terms of ideology, culture, politics and laws, economic systems, military construction, etc. Military unification and reform will inevitably mobilize the interests of some conservative vested interest groups, and its rebound will inevitably occur.
Qin Shihuang made a decision and carried out a severe crackdown on reactionary forces on the one hand, and promoted economic and cultural development in various places on the other hand. He also knew the huge difficulties he faced, and even his life was in danger. Did Zhang Liang, a son of the remnants of the six countries, soon created the "Bolang Cone" incident in Bolang and attempt to murder Qin Shihuang?
Faced with the dangerous situation, Qin Shihuang responded and arranged for Prince Fusu to participate in the war against the Huns to increase Fusu's prestige in the army, and asked the Qin army's spiritual leader Meng Tian and the Meng family to be loyal to Fusu (this is also the reason why Hu Hai succeeded to the throne and refused to be loyal to the empire); at the same time, he ordered Meng Tian and Fusu to implement the strategy of garrisoning the Great Wall after the victory of the Huns War, not pursuing, but instead deterring the Central Plains and supporting Guanzhong by mobile support.
Perhaps in Qin Shihuang's strategy, the future empire was an empire with strict laws, strong military strength, prosperous national strength, advanced science, and prosperous administration. But when he was carrying out his ideal construction, his life ended. What Qin Shihuang didn't expect was that under the conspiracy of Zhao Gao and Li Si, Hu Hai succeeded to the throne and forced Fusu and Meng Tian to death. The empire was in chaos and the army refused to be loyal. Alas, the Empire State Building collapsed.
From the above family's perspective, Qin Shihuang was not a cruel monarch, but a great man with wise and powerful ambitions. His current stigma is purely the fact that some scholars with ulterior motives in later generations have false intentions and politicians have.
The heroic figures of thousands of ages still look at the present day.
Taizu commented on Qin Shihuang:
1. Qin Shihuang is an expert who is generous to the present and the past
2. Once, he told Zhang Shizhao: You said that the Communist Party is equal to Qin Shihuang, it is wrong, more than one hundred times.
3. Confucius and Mencius are idealism, Xunzi is materialism, and a left-wing Confucianism. Confucius represents slave owners and nobles. Xunzi represents landlord class. He also said: In Chinese history, the one who really did something was Qin Shihuang, who only spoke empty words. For thousands of years, it was Confucius in form, but in fact he did things according to Qin Shihuang. Qin Shihuang used Li Si, who was a Legalist and a student of Xunzi.
4. Confucius had some benefits, but it was not very good. We should say justice. Qin Shihuang was much greater than Confucius. Confucius spoke empty words. Qin Shihuang was the first person to unify China. Not only did he unified China politically, but he also unified Chinese writing. Various Chinese systems, such as weights and measures, were used later. China's past feudal monarch was not the second one who surpassed him, but he was scolded for thousands of years.
5. I advise you to scold Qin Shihuang for being young, and to discuss the cause of burning pits. The soul of the ancestor dragon is still alive, and Confucius's name is high and real. Qin's politics and law are practiced for all generations, and "Ten Batches" are not a good article. If you read the "Fethical Theory" of the Tang people, don't return to King Wen. Those who have achieved success in all politicians in the past dynasties were all Legalists. These people advocate the rule of law, and they will be beheaded if they violate the law, and advocate favoring the present and the past. Confucians are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and they are full of thieves and prostitution, and they all advocate favoring the past and the present.
6. Qin Shihuang was the first famous emperor in Chinese feudal society. I was also Qin Shihuang. Lin Biao called me Qin Shihuang. China has always been divided into two factions, one is saying that Qin Shihuang is good, and the other is saying that Qin Shihuang is bad. I agree with Qin Shihuang and do not agree with Confucius. Because Qin Shihuang was the first to unify China, unify writing, build a broad road, and do not engage in a country in the country, but use a centralized system, and the central government sends people to various places, changing it for a few years, without the hereditary system.
Qin Emperor and Han Wu, slightly lost their literary talent - Mao Zedong also believed that Qin Shihuang lacked literary talent...
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