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1. The spring and autumn of the mystery

The long river of history is mighty, rolling forward, and how many romantic characters have been exhausted.

Looking at 5,000 years of civilization, there was a huge watershed more than 2,000 years ago, and that was the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Coincidentally, on almost overlapping timelines, the ancient Greek Aegean civilization also appeared in the Western world.

The Eight Wonders of the World, except for the Egyptian pyramids, the remaining seven wonders were all built during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

The paradox is that both Eastern myths and legends and the Western world of gods and goddesses appear before the entire timeline, and after this timeline, all myths and legends have become a swan song, and the immortal passage of this continent is like a seal.

What's even more paradoxical is that between this time zone, the great power of the Eastern and Western sages was born and appeared in a bunch, as if they had been enlightened and had an epiphany overnight, and each created a brilliant Chinese civilization and an Aegean civilization.

Hundreds of schools of thought in the East contended, and Confucianism, Mo, Taoism, Law, Yin and Yang, soldiers, farmers, etc., represented by Guiguzi, Laozi, Confucius and Mencius, Lao Zhuang, Mozi, etc.

In the West, famous thinkers such as Shakyamuni, Thales, Socrates, and Aristotle appeared.

What is even more amazing is that the ancient sages during this period had reached a height that transcended time and space.

I Ching, Tao Te Ching, Yellow Emperor Neijing, Diamond Sutra、......

Later generations have been absorbing, imitating, and minimally invasive, but they cannot surpass, (except for the development of science and technology) no matter how they are repaired, it is difficult to achieve or even less authentic than the original idea.

The sages had an enlightened epiphany overnight, but the question is, where did the source of their ideas come from?

The author speculates mysteriously that there are gods in this world, at least the existence of a creator.

For example, Shennong's knowledge of herbs can be said to have an accumulation process. In the bloodthirsty ancient times, can the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" be accumulated? It's completely out of nowhere!

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2. The accumulation of quantity ushered in a qualitative leap

The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period for more than 500 years can be divided into two stages:

The Spring and Autumn Period, from 770 BC to 476 BC, can be described as a world of great contention, with a hundred schools of thought contending, inclusiveness, and inclusiveness;

During the Warring States Period, from 475 BC to 221 BC, it was like a golden iron horse, a bloody Warring States period, a phoenix nirvana, and a rebirth from the fire.

Politics, economics, and ideology have been fused into one furnace in the past 500 years, and have been baptized by blood and fire, and repeatedly forged.

At the end of the Warring States Period, the Qin Emperor Yingzheng made a final decision, and finally ushered in a qualitative change of refining into steel. It is no longer a simple change of dynasty for princes, but the real meaning of pushing Chinese civilization to a higher level.

It's just that the leap span this time is too big, as if the original smooth gliding but suddenly pulled vertically, forming a trance-like strong push back feeling...

- Unification of the world: shouting Zhao Wei to play Qi Qin (Han Zhao Wei Chu Yan Qi Qin)

- Centralization: three princes and nine secretaries, county system;

- Governing the country according to law: following the Shang Dynasty to change the law and governing the country according to law;

- External expansion: attack the Xiongnu in the north and Baiyue in the south;

- Infrastructure Maniac: Great Wall, Straight Road, Lishan, Lingqu......

This also ushered in the reputation of a tyrant for Qin Shi Huang. The slander is even so shameless that the construction of a highway nearly 70 meters wide is for the convenience of travel?!

- Cultural heritage: a game of chess for a large country, the same book and the same text, the same track for the car, the unified currency, the unified weights and measures.

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After the unification of Qin, a rich and colorful Chinese culture was formed, such as the fire of the torch inheritance, the great river rushed, and continued continuously, opening the history of more than 2,000 years.

The Chinese civilization pioneered by Daqin is the world's leading in horizontal comparison.

The structure of the Great Qin civilization used by later generations has hardly made substantial progress except for the change of dynasties, the change of regime, and the redistribution of power.

If we don't talk about the development of science and technology, the history of 2,000 years is just a short dynasty, repeated and amplified for 2,000 years, and time is just piled up.

It can be seen that Qin's historical status is so high that it was unattainable until modern times.

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3. Was the demise of Great Qin inevitable or accidental?

Daqin rises like a comet and slides down like a meteor, and it is really embarrassing to die so early.

The demise of Great Qin had great chances, even if there was no accident of King Qin's violent death, there was also the inevitability of extinction, the inevitability of abnormal extinction.

The world was unified and entered the stage of great rule of the world, and Daqin did not have a reference and benchmarking template, so it opened the mode of indiscriminate warfare.

What is the source of the notoriety of Tyrannical Qin?

If you don't expand, don't build walls, don't build roads, don't build spiritual canals, is Daqin a tyrannical Qin? Can it generate overwhelming forced servitude taxes? Can Da Qin die so quickly?

Did Emperor Qin's brain twitch? Why do these thankless tasks?

Its root lies in the fact that the Shang Dynasty changed the law to establish a military merit system for ploughing and warfare, and the Qin law originated from the division of princes and rewarded ploughing and warfare, and its essence was the Qin law in wartime.

Before the unification of the world, the Qin Fa, with military merits as the core, was a peerless divine soldier.

After the unification of the world, it has been 138 years since Shang Ying changed the law, and the Qin rule of the world with the rule of law in the world is doomed to the tragedy of Great Qin.

As long as Qin's law remains unchanged, the Great Qin generals will be exhausted, either on the way to war, or preparing for war.

The Great Wall, galloping roads, and even opening canals to grow grain are all for the purpose of preparing for war, conquering Baiyue in the south and attacking the Xiongnu in the north are the embodiment of military exploits in farming warfare.

If there is no war, military merit will not flow, and the entire Great Qin is like a pool of stagnant water, full of contradictions.

And fighting a war will only be on the way to death, radical and furious.

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4. How to skip reading this book?

I realized that there is a kind of tragedy called lose-lose, which is written with great effort but is not pleasant.

From chapter 27 "Divide the counties." The Great Debate of the Imperial Court" until Chapter 41 "Three Strategies, Light Punishment, and Recuperation", and called the court's arguments, are all to solve the root problem of the inevitable demise of Great Qin.

This is the most golden opening part, the court discussion is too long, and the expression is a little obscure, and even out of the category of cool essays, readers may be tired, in fact, I am even more tired.

If you don't like it, from chapters 27 to 41, you can skip the whole paragraph, or skip to read it.

In the end, as long as you know this section and cure the root of Daqin's disease, Daqin will not die, and the foundation is extremely healthy.

When I see it later, it feels abrupt, and then I look back at it!

The second roll up, it's all easy. (✿◠‿◠) The reader reads it lightly and happily, and I also writes it easily, entering the cool text mode, which is a win-win situation!

The epic picture scroll finally kicked off.

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