Robbers in the martial arts world

Chapter 106 Is Qin Shihuang a Tyrant?

"Hmph, so Miss Huo thinks that Qin Shihuang is a wise emperor? Do you think he is right in burning books, burying scholars, building the Great Wall, and boys begging for medicine? How ridiculous!" Xi Zhicai looked at Huo Qingtong sharply. , said in a deep voice.

Huo Qingtong saw that Xi Zhicai reacted so strongly and fiercely, she couldn't help laughing at herself. Once upon a time, she also thought that Qin Shihuang was a bloody, cruel, and inhuman tyrant.

But after meeting Xiao Yun and listening to Xiao Yun's evaluation of Qin Shihuang, she realized that she had been misunderstood by history. Those survivors of the Six Kingdoms hated Qin Shihuang deeply, especially Confucianism.

After the demise of the Qin State, they publicized all kinds of bad things about Qin Shihuang, spread rumors, tampered with the historical truth, and forcibly discredited Qin Shihuang, the eternal emperor, as a tyrant, and turned a blind eye to his contributions. Qin Shihuang is like this , The same is true of Yang Guang in the Sui Dynasty!

In particular, "burning books and burying Confucianism" has always been evidence of Qin Shihuang's cruelty and violence. It has been reviled by scholars in later generations for more than 2000 years, so that some people still have a grudge when they think of this historical event. Cannot penetrate the time and space of more than 2000 years, and smash the bone and suck the marrow of Qin Shihuang. This kind of hatred is actually a collective fear in the subconscious of the adherents of the Six Kingdoms and Confucian disciples at that time, and it has been passed down from generation to generation.

The history of this world is the same today. Later generations tampered with history, ignored Qin Shihuang's achievements, fabricated a lot of history out of thin air, and discredited Qin Shihuang, causing future generations to think that Qin Shihuang was a cruel and cold-blooded tyrant.

Needless to say, Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai were also confused by history, thinking that Qin Shihuang was a tyrant!
"Mr. Guo, Mr. Xi, do you know that I thought the same way before, thinking that Qin Shihuang was a bloody, cruel, and inhuman tyrant, but until someone gave me a blow to the head, he revealed the truth of history for me. The truth, I realized that I was wrong, and it was a big mistake, Qin Shihuang is not only a wise emperor, but also his achievements can be called an emperor through the ages!" Huo Qingtong looked at Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai, and said earnestly.

"Absurd, really absurd. This is the first time I've heard people say that Qin Shihuang is a wise emperor, and his achievements can be called an emperor through the ages?" Xi Zhicai frowned, and said a little angrily.

"I don't know what Mr. Guo thinks? Do you have the same opinion as Mr. Xi?" Huo Qingtong looked at Guo Jia and asked.

"Well, almost, but I want to hear your opinion, Miss Huo!" Guo Jia said with a slight smile.

"Okay, then I'll tell you the achievements of Qin Shihuang one by one. If you feel wrong, you can point it out!" Huo Qingtong didn't care, and after being polite, he said slowly:

"During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a hundred schools of thought contended. Taoism, Confucianism, Legalism, Mohism, Farmers, Yin-Yang Schools, etc. were all academically and ideologically open, competing for beauty and quarreling with each other. Academic, disseminate their ideas.

"Among them, seven countries are the most powerful, namely Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei, and Qin. These seven countries have their own words and ideas, and have their own culture and inheritance. This is extremely dangerous. If it is not done well, there will be seven regimes on the land of China in the future, and they will never be unified. It will cause China to split into many small countries, and they will fight endlessly all year round.

"Until the emergence of Qin Shihuang Yingzheng, it was he who ended the hundreds of years of separatist regimes and melees in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, and established the first unified, multi-ethnic, and authoritarian centralized state in Chinese history. A solid foundation has been laid.

"The Great Wall was built to resist the invasion of the Huns and to draw a clear border with those nomads; the Chi Road was built to facilitate transportation, the Lingqu was built to communicate the water system, and the economic circulation between the north and the south was to strengthen the empire's relationship with the south. Control, these projects are all for the present and benefit for the future.

"Qin Shihuang also unified the writing, currency, weights and measures, and established the system of prefectures and counties. He attacked the Xiongnu in the north and conquered Baiyue in the south, greatly expanding the territory of China.

"His achievements can be said to be greater than Confucius. After all, Confucius was just a thinker, but Qin Shihuang was a man of action, but such an emperor would be written as a selfish and cruel tyrant by history. I don't know what to do. How can you say those literati who confuse black and white!" Huo Qingtong sighed meaningfully.

It has been ten days since she came to this world, and she also checked a lot of historical books, and found that most people in this world still regard Qin Shihuang's achievement of building the Great Wall with all the power of the whole country as a waste of people and money.

Of course, this is also the result of the history books exaggerating the casualties of Qin Shihuang's construction of the Great Wall several times, thus misleading future generations.

In fact, those who can say the phrase "labor the people and waste money" are either civil servants or scholars. Roughly summed up, they are all Confucianists. These people are really shameless in order to avenge Qin Shihuang!

In the north of China, there are often nomadic peoples such as the Huns staring at them. Not building the Great Wall means stationing a large number of troops in the north. There is an old saying: "Only a thousand days can be a thief, but there is no one who can guard against a thief for a thousand days."

At that time, the Great Qin Empire occupied the most fertile Central Plains in China. In the eyes of the nomads, it was just a piece of fat, and they took the initiative. They could not decide when to attack. Shipping is not a small sum.

Qin Shihuang also decided to build the Great Wall after comprehensive consideration. After the completion of the Great Wall, the number of garrison troops was greatly reduced, and the lives and property safety of the people south of the Great Wall were guaranteed. Why not do it?
If the Great Wall is not repaired, the Xiongnu will go south with their knives to burn, kill and loot, at least millions of ordinary people will be killed and injured. Some people may not talk about Qin Shihuang, thinking that it is normal for the Huns to go south, but Qin Shihuang was exhausted to build the Great Wall. Thousands of people, even if they work hard and hurt the people, some people will scold him for nothing.

Some people will only remember that hundreds of thousands of people were killed or injured because of an order from Qin Shihuang, but they don’t think that it is because of the Great Wall that millions or tens of millions of people can live and work in peace and contentment, without worrying about the Huns’ invasion. Yes, this is human nature.

It is said that History is a girl who can be dressed up by others. In fact, most of the makeup artists are unqualified, and what's more, some people do it on purpose.

"Miss Huo only picked the good side of Qin Shihuang. Even if Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall for the sake of the people of the world, his merits will last for thousands of years, but what about his burning books and burying scholars? Isn't it a waste of money if he builds the Afang Palace and the Huangling Mausoleum? People?" Xi Zhicai stared at Huo Qingtong and asked again.

Huo Qingtong smiled slightly, he knew it would be difficult to change Xi Zhicai and Guo Jia's ideas and opinions, and then said slowly:
"After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, the country was initially unified, and the hearts of the people were scattered. In order to strengthen the ideological stability of the people, Prime Minister Li Si wrote a letter to Qin Shihuang requesting the destruction of the theory of a hundred schools of thought in order to break the thoughts of the six countries.

"Li Si studied under the Legalists, and although he did not use any means to achieve his goals, it was indeed the most effective method at the time. Qin Shihuang thought about it and agreed!
"Even though the burning of books is actually quite different from what is recorded in the current history books, it is not as serious and extreme as it is in the history books!

"The government decree requires that all classics that do not belong to the Qin State be burned, not all, and all books that are beneficial to the economic development of the empire such as medicine and agriculture are retained.

"After the book-burning incident, Qin Shihuang did not "dismiss all schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone" like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, killing all schools of thought except Confucianism, but instead recruited talents from various schools and learned from others.

"Let's talk about pitting Confucianism. There are many controversies about this point. It has been misunderstood by later generations. Some people think that Qin Shihuang was selfish and killed innocent people indiscriminately, destroying the inheritance of Confucianism. It was to retaliate against Confucianism for not supporting Qin. It is true. ?

"As an emperor, why did Qin Shihuang kill hundreds of thousands of Confucian scholars for no reason and destroy a large number of Confucian books and inheritance? I think there must be a reason! These real reasons are rarely recorded in historical books!

"I have checked some ancient books specifically. There is a saying that in the second year after Qin Shihuang burned the book, he summoned a group of alchemists and astrologers in order to obtain the elixir of life. However, the two leaders selected by Yingzheng , not only did not listen to the emperor's order to search seriously, but spread rumors that Yingzheng was not good among the people.

"At that time, because Confucianism did not receive the attention and support of Qin Shihuang, many civil servants and Confucian scholars were extremely dissatisfied with Yingzheng. Taking advantage of this opportunity, they took advantage of this opportunity to fish in troubled waters and organized Confucian disciples all over the world to spread rumors wantonly, trying to force Qin Shihuang to pay attention to Confucianism. The mainstream of the country, at that time, aroused a faint turmoil in the hearts of the people, and even other schools of thought and the remnants of the Six Kingdoms were about to move.

"The actions of Confucianism aroused the fury of Qin Shihuang. As an iron-blooded king, how could Qin Shihuang bow to Confucianism? As the saying goes, "The emperor is angry, and the blood is flat." According to statistics, Qin Shihuang's murderers at that time included Confucian scholars and magicians, all of whom were looking for immortals. The number of people who failed or provoked government orders is actually not a hundred thousand, but only tens of thousands. Those exaggerated numbers are all slander by later generations.

"At that time, there were more than a hundred thousand Confucian scholars in the world? Millions were few! And Qin Shihuang just killed some who made a lot of trouble! In the past dynasties, there were even thousands of emperors who had their heads killed. Quite a few, which one killed less than Qin Shihuang? So it is not Qin Shihuang's fault to say 'burning books and burying scholars'. Under the circumstances at that time, this approach was correct!

"As for Qin Shihuang's construction of the Afang Palace, the construction of the Huangling Mausoleum, and the boy asking for medicine, these are indeed not meritorious deeds, but we cannot deny his deeds just because of these.

"Which emperor in the past didn't build a representative garden for himself? Didn't he build the Huangling Mausoleum for himself? Moreover, at that time, the world was initially settled, and many survivors from the six kingdoms were still in grief and had nothing to do. They were extremely cruel to the old Qin people. Hatred, making troubles every day, Qin Shihuang also wanted to find something for these people to do, so that the world would not be chaotic again!
"As for the boy asking for medicine and refining the elixir of immortality, this is just human nature. As the overlord of the world, Qin Shihuang definitely didn't want to die early. It's no surprise to send people to find the elixir of longevity. Isn't this the case for all emperors?"

Huo Qingtong's opinion shocked Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai, and they realized that it was really the case!After all, history books are recorded by later generations, and it is normal for those Confucian literati to tamper with history. What is ridiculous is that the two of them are pretentious, but they still haven't escaped from this prison!
(End of this chapter)