Qin Shihuang killed many people at that time, and he was very cruel. He spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build the Terracotta Warriors and the Great Wall. The scale was huge and many people died.
Use a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to repair the Great Wall, build Epang Palace and build the tomb of Mount Li. There are also "burning books to bury Confucianism" that damage culture, and increasing taxes to aggravate corvee.
However, Qin Shihuang was cruel, and the taxes in the Qin Dynasty were very heavy, and farmers had to give two-thirds of their crops to the state. Qin Shihuang also built a large-scale project year after year and used soldiers. A large number of farmers have been out of production for a long time to serve or fight. The social economy has been severely damaged, and people's lives have become more and more painful. The criminal law of the Qin dynasty was very harsh, and the laws of "clan punishment" and "sitting together" were also implemented. People are easily punished by severe criminal law. It is difficult for people to survive in such a social environment. In the early Qin dynasty, books were also burned to bury Confucianism, which seriously hindered the development and spread of culture. These are too people.
It is said that in 2 13 AD, a Confucian scholar criticized Qin Shihuang's practice of setting up a county at a banquet, and some Confucian scholars kept talking about their dissatisfaction with Qin Shihuang's policies. Prime Minister Reese was afraid that those who opposed him would endanger the rule of the country or his position, and put forward the suggestion of burning books:
History books Except Ji Qin, the history books of the six countries were burned; Poems, Books and Hundred Words are all collected in the county except those collected by doctors and burned under the supervision of county magistrate and commandant. Books such as medicine, divination and tree planting are not prohibited;
As a result, the burning of books and slips raged all over the country, and the achievements of hundreds of theories accumulated gradually in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty were destroyed, and many of them were lost.
What needs to be pointed out here is not only the loss of these academic achievements. The situation of a hundred schools of thought contending during the Warring States Period was very beneficial to the development of various theories, which was the golden age of China's ancient academic development and the premise of the emergence of modern western science in China. If it weren't for the book burning incident, a hundred schools of thought would continue to contend. It is very likely that in the near future, someone will shout out the grandiloquence that "knowledge is power" in China, leading to the emergence of philosophers like Bacon and modern experimental science in China.
Unfortunately, there has never been such a good academic research atmosphere for thousands of years. Therefore, since then, China's academic research has only been developed and consolidated on the basis of the sages, and there are few new academic ideas.
After the unification of the six countries, Qin Shihuang built the luxurious Epang Palace and Lishan Mausoleum, and made five large-scale cruises to carve stones in the famous mountain resort to show off his prestige. In order to live forever, he sent alchemist Xu (that is, Xu Fu) to lead thousands of boys and girls to the East China Sea to seek immortality. It has consumed huge financial and human resources and deepened people's suffering. In thirty-seven years, Qin Shihuang returned to the plain and died of illness. So he wrote a book and ordered his eldest son Fu Su to be buried and succeeded by him. Going to the sand dunes (now northwest of Guangzong, Hebei Province), Qin Shihuang died of illness. Zhao Gao colluded with Hu Hai and Reese, the youngest sons of the first emperor, forged a testamentary edict, made Hu Hai a prince, and gave Fu Su the death penalty. Shortly after Qin Ershi Hu Hai ascended the throne, a peasant uprising led by Chen Sheng and Guangwu broke out. The demise of the Qin dynasty
After the unification of the six countries, Qin Shihuang built the luxurious Epang Palace and Lishan Mausoleum, and made five large-scale cruises to carve stones in the famous mountain resort to show off his prestige. In order to live forever, he sent alchemist Xu (that is, Xu Fu) to lead thousands of boys and girls to the East China Sea to seek immortality. It has consumed huge financial and human resources and deepened people's suffering. In thirty-seven years, Qin Shihuang returned to the plain and died of illness. So he wrote a book and ordered his eldest son Fu Su to be buried and succeeded by him. Going to the sand dunes (now northwest of Guangzong, Hebei Province), Qin Shihuang died of illness. Zhao Gao colluded with Hu Hai and Reese, the youngest sons of the first emperor, forged a testamentary edict, made Hu Hai a prince, and gave Fu Su the death penalty. Shortly after Qin Ershi Hu Hai ascended the throne, a peasant uprising led by Chen Sheng and Guangwu broke out. The demise of the Qin dynasty