Zhou Chang is a company executive in Jiangjin City, northern China, where he is responsible for negotiating with foreign counterparts.

Since I usually come into contact with many Westerners, businessmen, lawyers, and group CEOs ...... He found that the Chinese people were very different from them.

The difference in appearance is easy to see, but there are also many Chinese who have integrated into the West and become Westerners. In the process of communicating with them, it is still very easy to distinguish which is Chinese and which is Western. For example, if you sign a contract, if you have business dealings with Chinese friends, you can often save many details, and you can even finalize it in a few words at the dinner table.

Not for Westerners, all the terms must be clear and clear, and the rights and responsibilities must be clear.

Another example is the way of speaking, Chinese people have different hearts, and Westerners are relatively straightforward.

This is not to belittle the Chinese people, perhaps to take care of the other side.

For example, a woman is holding two people on the street, one Chinese and one Westerner.

Then ask them: Am I pretty?

Westerners, if they don't like it, might say: no, no, no, to be a little more polite, shake their heads and walk away. And the Chinese people will say: Ha, beauty, you are so beautiful, don't you even know it?

This woman was very happy, but she didn't know that what the Chinese people were thinking was not like this, but: Beautiful ghost, hurry home!

The huge difference between the two aroused Zhou Chang's interest, but he was not an expert in psychology and couldn't figure it out.

When encountering something they don't understand, whether the Chinese people are aware of it or not, they will unconsciously look for reasons from history.

This is the Chinese people's view of history, or the overall situation.

Just like the cabinet decision-making, the United States and Britain and other high-level leaders wonder why these people are willing to do it when it is obviously a loss?

The Chinese people have a long-term vision, because this land has a long history. What is not good at the moment may be able to be remedied in the future, as the saying goes: a dumb person eats dumplings and knows it in his heart.

The real idea is not enough to be humane with outsiders, introverted, and cold.

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Zhou Chang consciously went to history to find answers, and slowly fell in love with historical works.

However, Chinese historians are like little girls who are shy to answer, holding the opinions of their predecessors and talking about themselves.

Today's most open style of "Wen Shi Weekly" is no exception.

Zhou Chang had just finished a difficult negotiation, walking down the street with a briefcase, and a taxi came to solicit customers, but he waved him away.

He wanted to walk around, and there was a lot of pressure to survive in the business field, and he was exhausted every time he met with customers. I suddenly remembered that today seemed to be the day when the "Culture and History Weekly" was issued, and if I looked around, there was a newsstand two hundred meters away.

"Boss, let's have a copy of the "Literary and Historical Weekly" ......"

The middle-aged newsstand owner was squatting in a small space watching TV, and when he heard the words, he got up and rummaged, muttering: "Yes, I'm looking for ......"

"Well, here, this newspaper is relatively unpopular, ...... below"

"Culture and History Weekly" is a national newspaper, but the circulation is not very large, with an average of about 200,000 copies.

The sales ranking is considered to be in the middle and low, and because the readership is generally high in literacy and is very loyal, it has become the most well-known literary and historical reading book.

After paying, Zhou Chang took the newspaper and read it while walking.

"I don't know if there are any articles about drunkards in this issue, I haven't seen ...... last issue"

The drunkard's pen name "Reading History While Drunk", readers nicknamed him to show his affection, and he was known for his sharp and unusual views.

Of course, it is also often criticized by orthodox historical researchers.

Turning to the historical commentary section, Zhou Chang sighed in disappointment: "What's wrong with the drunkard recently, it's not as good as Jiang Lang's talent, so many historical materials can be used." ”

The first is an article that examines how many sons Emperor Kangxi had.

"Boring, these people who are engaged in history don't do their business all day long, does it matter how many sons Kangxi Lao'er has......?

Flipping through the next edition, it's boring, and I flip through it again.

Suddenly, Zhou Chang was attracted by a title.

"Reversing the Case for History - Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor of the Ages"

Zhou Chang's eyes lit up, and he said to himself: "Hey, this title is subversive enough, but I don't know what the level is...... Qin Shi Huang, the tyrant who burned books and pit Confucianism, can you also be whitewashed?"

Looking at the author's signature, he was stunned for a moment: "Is the owner of Peach Blossom Island a newcomer?"

"Let's see, maybe a newcomer can write a good article......"

……

Read the text with great interest.

A post caused infamy, but I didn't expect Mr. Li Xiang, as a well-known Chinese history author, to also pay attention to nobodies. I came to read the masterpiece "Qin Yan", read the cover volume, disagreed, and refuted it. ”

Zhou Chang was suddenly excited: "It's still a battle article!"

Read on.

For thousands of years, many people have made up one story after another around Qin Shi Huang, with mixed truths and falsehoods.

But when we turn the pages of Chinese history and go back to more than 2,000 years ago, we can clearly see that although the Qin Dynasty was short, its contribution to the development of Chinese dynasties was the greatest. If there was no Qin Shi Huang, our current China might not be a unified country, and it might be divided into many countries, and the historical contribution of unifying China alone will always be worthy of the respect of our Chinese people.

In just two paragraphs, Zhou Chang was aroused with a strong interest in reading.

In the study of Qin history, a figure that anyone can't avoid is Qin Shi Huang, and Mr. Li Xiang's book "Qin Yan" is no exception.

The following is a discussion on some of the points in the book, based on the "Historical Records of Qin Shi Huang Benji".

The first is the system created by Qin Shi Huang.

Prime Minister Wan and others said: "The princes are first broken, Yan, Qi, and Jing are far away, not for the king, and there is no need to fill it." Please set up all the sons, only the best will appoint you. ”

Tingwei Li Si said: "Today, the gods and spirits of Lai Xi à in the sea are all counties, and the meritorious heroes of the sons are rewarded with public taxes, which is very easy to make. If there is no disagreement in the world, so is the art of tranquility. Inconvenience to the princes. ”

The first emperor said: "The world is fighting endlessly, so that there is a prince." Lai Zongmiao, the world was initially decided, and the country was restored, and it was a tree soldier, and it was not difficult to ask for its peace! ”

From the above records, it can be seen that the prime minister Wang Juan advocated the feudal system, and the court captain Li Si advocated the county system.

So what did Qin Shi Huang say: It is precisely because of the feudal princes that the civil war in the country does not stop, and just after the unification is completed, and the vassal states are engaged in again, it is to provoke a war again, Li Si is right, Wang Juan get out!

Therefore, the Qin Dynasty implemented the county system.

It is this system, no matter how drastic the changes in later generations, Huaxia will always be finally unified!

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The article wrote: "Do you think that Qin Shi Huang is still very good at talking, not the image of a tyrant in Mr. Li Xiang's book." ”

A smile appeared on the corner of Zhou Chang's mouth, he didn't expect that history could also be expressed in the form of a conversation, which was quite interesting.

At the very least, it immediately changed his stereotype of Qin Shi Huang.

The above is from the institutional point of view, so what is Qin Shi Huang's biggest notoriety?

Mr. Li Xiang also said in his book - burning books and pit Confucianism, since the Han Dynasty, most Chinese people have held this view.

Destroying miè culture, this is definitely a big bad guy, is that true?

The author's point of view is doubtful, and the following is still based on historical evidence.

Hou Sheng Lu Shengxiang and Mou said: "The first emperor is a human being, and he is rigid and self-serving, starting from the princes and the world, and he wants to obey, thinking that he has nothing to do with himself since ancient times." ”

When the first emperor heard of the death, he was furious and said: "I have collected all the books in the world and those who are not useful." There are many literary magicians, who want to prosper the peace, and the monks want to practice to seek miraculous medicines. Today, I heard that Han Zhong did not report it, and Xu Shi and others spent a huge amount of money, and they could not be treated in the end, and they told each other about the profits in vain. Lu Sheng and others have been very generous to me, and now they are slandering me, so as to value my immorality. Those who are born in Xianyang, I make people incorruptible, or make trouble for the sake of words. ”

In the above two paragraphs, to put it simply, Qin Shi Huang begged for immortality and reused Hou Sheng Lu Sheng, but they scolded behind their backs, and Qin Shi Huang was angry.

The emperor was angry, and the blood flowed thousands of miles, not to mention that he was still the first emperor, and the following is his way to deal with it.

So he made the imperial history know about the case and asked all the senders, and all the sentient beings told each other, that is, since the more than 460 people who violated the prohibition were eliminated, all of them were Xianyang, so that the world knew about them, and punished them.

In order to punish future generations, after questioning, these warlocks rushed to expose it, and Qin Shi Huang killed more than 460 people.

This is the whole process of so-called pit Confucianism.

Zhou Chang took his eyes off the newspaper, shook his head and said, "So that's the case, the person who killed turned out to be a liar like a warlock?"

"Besides, at that time, killing a few hundred people was a matter?"

Then I can't wait to read it again.

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Let's look at the crime of cultural ruin.

The prime minister's words are ambiguous: If you are not a doctor, you dare to have Tibetan poems, books, and hundreds of languages in the world. There are those who dare to say poetry and books to abandon the market. The ancient is not the present. Whoever sees that he does not raise the line is guilty of the same crime. The order is not to burn for 30 days, and it is a city. Those who do not go, the book of medicine divination and tree planting. If you want to learn the law, take the officials as teachers. ”

He said, "Yes." ”

Li Sijian burned the book of a hundred schools of thought in the folk circulation, only the doctor in charge of the rules and regulations can collect the books, and if you want to learn, you can take the officials as teachers.

Qin Shi Huang agreed to Li Si's Jianyi, controlled the circulation of books, and burned folk books.

We can see that there is no cultural ruin.

Zhou Chang slapped his thigh, only to find that he didn't know when he started squatting on the side of the road, and the pedestrians were all surprised.

"Unexpectedly, this Peach Blossom Island Lord's article is bolder than that of a drunkard, although there are still doubts, but it is a part of the ...... whitewashed"

Looking at the following article, I found that the author of Peach Blossom Island counted several major achievements of Qin Shi Huang, such as the unification of the six countries, such as the unification of writing, and the same track. It was too late, and he was ready to go home and read it carefully.

When he returned home, Zhou Chang immediately turned on the computer and entered the talk group and shared the article with his friends.

At the same time, with the new issue of "Literature and History Weekly", Shen Zhe's patchwork article spread all over China.

Some readers are stammering, and some open the history books to verify them, and they will be skeptical.

However, there was one person who was so angry that his nostrils smoked.