Chapter 258: Qin Shi Huang (Asking for Points, Pushing and Receiving Rewards)

Since Shang Ying changed the law in order to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys, he punished the original prince and later King Qin Huiwen on the grounds that "the prince violates the law and the common people are guilty of the same crime", so in the process of Wu Qi's change of law, did Wu Qi not punish the original prince Chu Mourning King after the king of Chu on the grounds of "the prince violates the law and the common people are guilty of the same crime"?

The naughty guy among the descendants of the emperor is definitely not the original prince and the later King Qin Huiwen.

In the same way, the smart people in the world are definitely not just Shang Ying.

Therefore, it can be completely believed that in the process of Wu Qi's change of law, in order to kill chickens and set an example for monkeys, Wu Qi also punished the original prince Chu after the king of Chu mourning on the grounds that "the prince violated the law and the common people were guilty of the same crime".

Otherwise, Wu Qi would not have been killed by arrows later, and his body would have been dismembered after his death.

What kind of thing is this?

If Wu Qi and the original prince Chu Mourning King and the King of Chu after the King of Chu did not have a deep hatred, the original prince and the King of Chu after the King of Chu Mourning could completely open the net.

"If everyone is dead, forget it. "The original prince Chu mourns the king and the king of Chu after the king said this, naturally it can be completely passed.

Compared with Shang Ying, Wu Qi was even more unlucky.

Because Shang Ying's change was only Shang Ying's personal failure and killing, but the change was still successful.

But what about Wu Qi's change of law?

Wu Qi changed the law, Wu Qi failed and was killed...... The reform also failed, and many regulations were simply repealed.

Facts have proved that it is very difficult for the Legalists to completely please the emperor!

After talking about the Legalist, he said the family.

The reason why Taoism was able to be favored by the emperor. Naturally, it is because of the Taoist way of "immortality".

For example, Qin Shi Huang.

Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng (259 BC - 210 BC), he was born in Handan, the capital of Zhao State, the son of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang,[1] inherited the throne at the age of thirteen, was proclaimed emperor at the age of thirty-nine, and reigned for thirty-seven years. A famous politician, strategist, and reformer in Chinese history, the first iron-fisted politician to complete the unification of China, built the first multi-ethnic centralized state, and used the title of "emperor" of the three emperors and the "emperor" of the five emperors to form the title of "emperor", and was the first feudal monarch to be called emperor in ancient and modern China and abroad. Qin Shi Huang created the imperial system in the center. Implement the three public and nine qing. Manage national affairs. Locally, the sub-feudal system was abolished and replaced by the county system, and at the same time, the book was the same and the train was on the same track. Uniform weights and measures. Attack the Xiongnu in the north. Southern expedition to Baiyue. Build the Great Wall, build the spiritual canal, and communicate the water system. It also pushed China into the era of great unification. He created a new situation for the establishment of an absolutist centralized system, had a profound impact on the history of China and the world, and laid the basic pattern of China's political system for more than 2,000 years.

Qin Shi Huang (January 27, 259 BC - 210 BC), is the middle son of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang, surnamed Ying, Zhao, name Zheng, so also known as Zhao Zheng. In 247 BC, King Xiang of Qin Zhuang died, and the 13-year-old Qin Shi Huang was made King of Qin. At this time, Lü Buwei was the prime minister, sealed 100,000 households, and was called Wenxin Hou, who was good at power. When he ascended the throne, due to his young age, the state affairs were controlled by Xiangbang Lü Buwei, and Lü Buwei was respected as his middle father. When Qin Shi Huang was 21 years old, in 239 BC, a fierce political struggle broke out in the Qin court. Lü Buwei not only controlled the imperial court, but also had an affair with the Empress Dowager (Zhao Ji). He saw that Qin Shi Huang was getting older, he was afraid of being discovered by him, and wanted to leave the Queen Mother, and he was afraid that the Queen Mother would be resentful, so he offered a fake eunuch to the Queen Mother, and Chang Yu pretended to be corrupted, and only plucked out his beard and eyebrows and entered the palace. Qin Shi Huang grew up, so they lied to Yingzheng, saying that the feng shui of the queen mother's bedroom was not good, and she should move out of here. Qin Shi Huang believed it, so they moved to the palace in Yongxian, and as a result, the empress dowager gave birth to two illegitimate sons,[14] and the fake eunuch Chang Yu also regarded himself as the fake father of the king of Qin, and with the help of the empress dowager, he was named the Marquis of Changxin, and received Shanyang, Taiyuan and other places, and collected his own henchmen. Chang Yu has been operating in Yongcheng for many years and has established a huge force, which is another powerful political force after Lü Buwei. Chang Yu inevitably got the villain's will, and after a drunken time, he reprimanded a minister: "I am the false father of the King of Qin, you dare to provoke me." The minister was very angry after hearing this, and secretly found an opportunity to tell Ying Zheng Chang Yu about the relationship between the queen mother, Qin Shi Huang was very angry when he learned about it, Chang Yu panicked, and prepared to rebel. In 238 B.C., Qin Shi Huang held a crown ceremony in the Yongcheng Qinian Palace. Chang Yu used the imperial seal of the king of Qin and the seal of the empress dowager to launch a rebellion and attack the palace of Qinian. Qin Shi Huang had already arranged 3,000 elite soldiers in the Qinian Palace to defeat the rebels. Chang Yu turned to Xianyang Palace, where there was already an army, Chang Yu fled alone, and was arrested not long after. Qin Shi Huang broke Chang Yu's car and exposed her body to the public, imprisoned her mother Zhao Ji in the Yongcheng Yang Palace, and killed the two illegitimate children born to Chang Yu and the Empress Dowager. Qin Shi Huang then dismissed Lü Buwei from his post and exiled Lü Buwei to Bashu. Lü Buwei knew that his relationship with Qin Shi Huang was irretrievable, and committed suicide by drinking poisoned wine. Later, although Qin Shi Huang listened to the words of the nobles of the Qin State and issued the "Book of Expulsion" to expel the diners of the Six Kingdoms, he was dissuaded by Li Si's "Book of Expulsion of Guests", and then he still reused Wei Yu, Li Si and others.

After Qin Shi Huang came to power, he appointed Wei Yi and Li Si and others to actively pursue the strategy of unification. In 236 BC, a war broke out between Zhao and Yan. Zhao sent troops to attack Yan, and Qin sent Wang Jian and other generals to attack Zhao in the name of saving Yan, and successively captured Zhao's Yanhe, Yiyangyi (northwest of Nanyang, Henan), Hejianyi (southeast of Xian County, Hebei Province), Anyangyi (southeast of Yangyuan County, Hebei) and other places, and the Zhangshui Valley was occupied by Qin. In 234 BC, Qin attacked Zhao again and established Yanmen County and Yunzhong County with the Zhao land they had taken. In 231 BCE, Wei was forced to give part of its land to Qin, and Korea was forced to give up the land of Nanyang to Qin. Qin sent Shi Teng to be the fake guard of Nanyang. In 230 BC, the Qin faction Nei Shi Teng attacked Han, captured Han Wang'an, and established Yingchuan County with Han land, and Korea was destroyed. At this time, there was a great drought in Zhao State. The Qin general Wang Jian led his territorial troops directly to Jingcheng (west of Jingcheng County, Hebei Province), and the Qin general Yang Duanhe led the Hanoi troops into the siege of Handan, the capital of Zhao. Zhao sent Li Mu and Sima Shang to lead the army to resist. Guo Kai, a favored minister of the king of Zhao, accepted bribes from the Qin State and spread rumors that Li Mu and Sima Shang had rebelled. Therefore, King Zhao switched to Zhao Cong and Yan Ju to replace Li Mu and Sima Shang, and killed Li Mu. In 229 BC, Wang Jian defeated the Zhao army and killed Zhao Cong. Captured the king of Zhao. Zhao Gongzijia led hundreds of people from his clan to flee to Zhao's Dai County and set himself up as acting king. Qin established Handan County in the area of Handan, the capital of Zhao. In 227 BC, Qin Shi Huang sent Wang Jian and Xin Sheng to attack Yan. Yan and Dai sent troops to resist, but were defeated by the Qin army west of Yishui. The following year, the Qin army captured Jicheng, the capital of Yan. King Yan moved his capital to Liaodong. Qin general Li Xin led his troops to pursue, and Yan Wangxi listened to Dai Wangjia's strategy, killed Prince Dan, and offered Prince Dan's head to Qin for peace. In 226 BC, there was a rebellion in the capital of Korea, and Qin took the opportunity to send troops to quell Han's rebellion and executed Han Wang'an. 225 BC. Qin Shi Huang sent the general Wang Ben to attack Wei. Besieged the Wei capital Daliang (Kaifeng City, Henan), led the Yellow River water to irrigate the city, three months Daliang City was broken, and the King of Wei surrendered. The state of Wei perished. Qin established Dangjun in the eastern region of Wei. Same. Qin sent Li Xin and Meng Wu to attack Chu with an army of 200,000. Li Xin attacked Pingyu of Chu (north of Pingyu County, Henan Province). Mengwu attacked Chu's bed (Linquan County, Anhui) and achieved a preliminary victory. The two armies of Qin and Chu met at Chengfuyi (present-day Chengfuji, southeast of Boxian County, Anhui Province), and Chu took advantage of Qin's unpreparedness to launch a counteroffensive. Defeat of the Qin army. The Qin monarchy sent Wang Jian to lead an army of 600,000 to defeat the Chu army in Yuqi (southeast of present-day Suxian County, Anhui), forcing the Chu general Xiang Yan to commit suicide. Then the Qin army invaded the Chu capital Shouchun and captured the king of Chu. Qin set up Jiujiang County (Shou County, Anhui) and Changsha County (Changsha City, Hunan) in Chu. In 222 BC, Wang Jian pacified the southern part of the Chu River, subdued the Yue Jun, set up Huiji County, and the Chu State was destroyed. While destroying Chu, Qin continued to expand eastward, successively set up counties, and captured Qi land to set up Xue County (Qufu County, Shandong). In 222 BC, Qin Shi Huang sent Wang Ben to attack Yan's Liaodong, captured Yan Wang Xi, and destroyed the Yan Kingdom. Then he returned to the division to attack the dynasty, captured Wang Jia, and established Dai County (southwest of Wei County, Hebei) and Liaodong County (the old city of Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province). In 221 BC, the Qin general Wang Ben went south from Yan to attack Qi, captured Qi Wang Jian, destroyed Qi State, and established Qi County (northeast of Zibo City, Shandong) and Langxi County (Xiahe City, southwest of Jiaonan County, Shandong) in the old land of Qi. From 230 B.C. to the end of the Qi Dynasty, the Qin State successively annexed the Six Kingdoms and set up counties in the occupied areas, which directly belonged to the Qin kings, thus ending the kingdom era of the dictatorship of the nobles and princes and entering the imperial era of absolute monarchy.

Qin Shi Huang established the country as emperor, continued to implement the Legalist policy of Shang Yang since the filial piety of the prince, strengthened the absolute monarchy, weakened the power of the old aristocracy, and promoted the nobles who rose from military merits. The land ownership system of the Qin Empire basically maintained the "king-owned" land system of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and changed "king-owned" to "state-owned". In 216 BC, Qin Shi Huang ordered the peasants of the whole country to report the actual amount of land they possessed in order to collect taxes. It is also practiced that even civilians can be granted land and titles as long as they have military merits. Although the Qin State implemented the "land grant system" during the Shang Dynasty reform, and the peasants' land was nominally owned by the state and privately cultivated, this move allowed the people of the whole country to actually occupy the land that was originally "owned by the king", and soon evolved into a situation where farmers and officials could buy and sell land freely, so the Qin Dynasty's Shang Dynasty Reform eventually facilitated the development of private land. After Qin Shi Huang abolished the feudal system, he established a set of county and county systems and bureaucratic systems from the central to the local level. At first, the country was divided into 36 counties, and later increased to 46 counties with the expansion of land, and Xianyang (Qindu District, Xianyang City, Shaanxi) was the capital. The highest bureaucrats in the central government are the Prime Minister, the Imperial Historian, and the Taiwei, also known as the "Three Princes". The magistrate of the local county shall be the guard, and the magistrate of the county shall be the order. The county system initially broke the patriarchal system of blood relations, and the feudal system and bureaucracy replaced the hereditary system of the aristocracy. In order to consolidate his power, Qin Shi Huang also implemented a series of policies, mainly: unifying currency and weights and measures, unifying the written language, building the Great Wall, Chi Road and Straight Road, and forcibly relocating the rich people and civilians of the Six Kingdoms. After Qin unified the Six Kingdoms, in order to prevent the nobles of the Six Kingdoms from "resurrecting" by relying on their clans, they were forced to move to Xianyang, asking them to take care of the imperial tombs, or to migrate to the remote areas of the southwest. In 215 BC, the Qin general Meng Tian seized Jiuyuan Henan, set up 34 counties, and established Jiuyuan County (located in the northwest of Baotou City, Inner Mongolia). Before Qin Shi Huang became emperor, there were many Legalists who entered Qin from Jin and other eastern countries. The First Emperor once issued the famous "Expulsion Order" to expel the people of the Six Kingdoms in the Qin State. In 239 BC, the first emperor stopped this order because of Li Si's letter of advice. After the unification of the Six Kingdoms, all kinds of schools and talents who were strongly opposed to the Shang Dynasty during the Shang Dynasty Reform came to Qin State to serve, and it may be that Qin Shi Huang adopted the "Shang Dynasty Reform Law with Qin State Characteristics", which caused various superstitions to prevail in the Qin Empire. Among them, Huang Lao Taoism, Yin and Yang, they synthesized the doctrines of Confucianism, law and Taoism, and put forward the so-called "Five Virtues and Beginning Theory", especially won the trust of the first emperor, the first emperor then thought that Qin is the virtue of water, Zhou is the virtue of fire, and water can overcome fire, so Qin has the world. The Confucian scholars from Qi Yan also made a makeover and modification of the Confucian "Zen Seal", and it is rumored that the emperors from ancient times did not hold a Zen sealing ceremony.

At the same time, the Confucian scholars who came from Qi Yan also said that there were three islands on the sea, Penglai, Abbot, and Yingzhou, which were where the gods lived, and there was a "medicine of immortality", and after taking it, they could "live forever". The first emperor was very moved when he heard this, and fantasized about becoming an immortal who "lives forever". In the twenty-eighth year, Xu Fu of Qi and others wrote about the fairyland on the sea, and the first emperor sent him to levy thousands of boys and women to go into the sea to seek immortals. Qin Shi Huang from 28 to 31 years (219 ~ 215 BC) continued to the eastern coast, the Jianghuai River valley and the north and other places to cruise, everywhere he went, all carved stones to praise his merits. In the thirty-second year, the first emperor made Yan people Lu Sheng seek the traces of immortals such as Xianmen and Gao Oath, and later made Han Tong, Hou Gong, and Shi Sheng ask for immortal medicine. For the first emperor's behavior, there are also Confucian scholars who admonished, and the doctor Qi Ren Chun Yuyue suggested that the first emperor still implement the policy of dividing his own children as princes, and the first emperor handed it over to his subordinates for discussion. Prime Minister Li Si objected. Li Si's recital prompted Qin Shi Huang to order the burning and banning of books, stipulating that all historical books should be burned unless they were in the Qin Dynasty; those who did not hold the position of a doctor and an official should dare to have a collection of "poems", "books", and "treatises" of a hundred schools of thought. 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. Quasi-depositor, the book of medicine divination and tree planting. If you want to learn the law, then take the officials as your teacher. At this time, Xu Fu went into the sea to seek immortals, and spent a lot of money, but he couldn't get the medicine. The first emperor already felt deceived in his heart, so he ordered the imperial history case to ask all the living beings, exposing each other and implicating more than 460 people, and the first emperor ordered them to be buried alive in Xianyang. This is the famous "pit Confucian". Some people believe that the "Records of the Historians" records that Qin Shi Huang killed a warlock [, not a Confucian scholar, but according to the "Records of the Historians of Qin Shi Huang", it is recorded that the people killed by Qin Shi Huang "all recited Confucius". Seven years after the reunification, the construction of the well-known Afang Palace (also known as the Chao Palace, Afang is the name of its former palace) began on the south bank of the Wei River, employing more than 700,000 migrant workers every year. At that time, the total population of the country was only 20 million. The palace can accommodate 100,000 people, and it is necessary to use cars and horses to transport wine and food in it, and the area of only one front hall has reached 693 meters long from east to west, 116 meters wide from north to south, and the pedestal is as high as 11.65 meters, and tens of thousands of people can sit on it. However, the archaeological team of Afang Palace, jointly composed of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Xi'an Institute of Cultural Relics Protection and Archaeology, found that the Afang Palace was not built in the first place, and the palace in the Qin Dynasty only completed the foundation.

In the thirty-seventh year of Qin Shi Huang (210 BC), Qin Shi Huang died during his fifth eastern tour. After the death of Qin Shi Huang, Zhao Gao adopted the method of persuading Hu Hai to threaten Li Si, and the two conspired to fake Qin Shi Huang to issue an edict and Hu Hai to inherit the throne. At the same time, in the name of Qin Shi Huang, he also accused Fusu of being unfilial to his son and Meng Tian of being disloyal to his ministers, and made them commit suicide and not disobey. After receiving the exact news of Fusu's suicide, Hu Hai, Zhao Gao, and Li Si ordered the convoy to travel day and night and quickly return to Xianyang. In order to continue to deceive the subjects, the convoy did not dare to take a shortcut back to Xianyang, but put on a posture of continuing to patrol and made a detour back to Xianyang. Due to the high temperature of the summer, Qin Shi Huang's body was already rotting and stinking. In order to cover people's eyes and ears, Hu Hai and his entourage ordered people to buy a lot of abalone and put it in the car, and the smell of abalone covered up the rancid smell of the corpse and confused everyone. After arriving in Xianyang, Hu Hai succeeded to the throne for Qin II, Zhao Gao was appointed as the lieutenant commander, and Li Si was still the prime minister, but the power of the imperial court actually fell to Zhao Gao. After Zhao Gao's conspiracy succeeded, he began to poison the people around him. He laid a trap and gradually forced Li Si to a dead end, and after Li Si found out about Zhao Gao's conspiracy, he wrote a letter to denounce Zhao Gao. Qin II Hu Hai not only favored Zhao Gao, but also punished Li Si, and finally beheaded Li Si in Xianyang. Zhao Gao was promoted to prime minister, and because he could enter and leave the palace, he was specially called "the prime minister". (To be continued......)