Evaluate Qin Shi Huang? Merits and faults?

The merit is to unify the six countries, and the past is to burn books and pit Confucianism.

1. The merits of Qin Shi Huang.

As the first emperor in Chinese history, he unified writing, weights and measures, unified laws, built the Great Wall to resist the Xiongnu, formulated the county system, built a straight road to the whole country, and included the Baiyue region in the ruling ......These policies left by Qin Shi Huang laid a solid foundation for the subsequent 2,500 years of China's unification history. It can be said that without Qin Shi Huang, there would have been no great unification of China.

Among the more than 400 emperors in Chinese history, some people can already be called wise masters if they can complete even one of Qin Shi Huang's exploits. And Qin Shi Huang was able to accomplish so many things, which can be said to be a veritable emperor of the ages. There are many European countries, many languages, and many nationalities, and the European Union has not been able to hold on for so many years, that is, it lacks an emperor with such a talented strategy as Qin Shi Huang.

Second, the shortcomings of Qin Shi Huang.

1. Qin Shi Huang's rule was brutal.

In fact, the six countries of the Central Plains said that the Qin Dynasty was brutal, which has historical origins. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Qin State relied on its geographical conditions on the border to eliminate the minority regimes in the west that led to the demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty. In the process, I naturally learned and blended some local ethnic styles.

For example, with the first-level meritorious service, the Battle of Changping buried 400,000 ...... of the Zhao army alive

After Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, when faced with assassin assassinations, he often used the act of killing all the people around the assassination site.

2. The law is cruel.

In people's impression, the Qin law is very severe, and it is beheaded and cracked at every turn, and Chen Sheng and Wu Guang revolted because they would be sentenced to death because they were late, so they would die if they advanced and retreated, and it was better to have a vigorous one. In the unearthed Sleeping Tiger Land Qin Jianzhong, it was found that the laws of the Qin Dynasty were not so cruel, according to the records, if Chen Sheng and Wu Guang really failed to arrive on time because of the heavy rain, they would not have been sentenced to death.

This is also a very interesting result of the legal research of the Qin Dynasty in recent years, and from this point of view, the claim that the law of the Qin Dynasty was cruel is actually not valid.

In the field of economic and cultural thought, he carried out a series of measures to consolidate the unified and centralized state. This further consolidates the situation of unity. (1) Economically, vigorously promote the policy of valuing agriculture and suppressing business, and support the development of private ownership of feudal land.

Decreed in the thirty-first year of the first emperor (216 BC)."Make the head of the Qianqian from the solid field"That is, as long as the landlords and yeoman farmers who occupy the land declare the amount of land to the first and pay taxes, their land ownership will be recognized and protected. (2) And the weights and measures formulated by Shang Yang as the standard to unify the national weights and measures system. The currencies of various countries in the Warring States period were abolished and the national currency system was unified.

3) In terms of culture and thought, the small seal was formulated on the basis of the common script of the Qin State, which was promulgated as a standard script throughout the country. Qin Shi Huang adopted a series of measures to maintain the unity and stability of the country's borders. (1) After Qin Shi Huang summoned the throne, he sent Meng Tian to lead his troops to attack the Xiongnu, recover Henan, and force them to retreat to the north of Yinshan; (2) In order to prevent further intrusion by its reputation chainmen, it also connected the Great Wall in the north of the three kingdoms of Qin, Zhao and Yan during the Warring States Period, and built the Great Wall of Qingzi Wanli from Lintao (now Minxian County, Gansu) in the west to Liaodong in the east.

3) After conquering the Baiyue region, Guilin, Xiangjun, Nanhai and other counties were set up. In the last years of the First Emperor, the number of Qin counties increased from 36 counties at the beginning of unification to more than 40 counties"East to Haiji Korea, west to Lintao, Qiangzhong, south to North Xianghu, north according to the river for the plug, and Yinshan to Liaodong"