Perhaps the most poignant episode of Chinese history was the fall of the Qin Dynasty.
The reason why it is sad is to think about a person who has been training for more than ten years and died just after winning the championship, think about a person who has worked hard for decades and died unexpectedly just after retiring, and then think about the feeling of a family business that has struggled for several generations and finally achieved great results but suddenly the leader died and the enterprise collapsed.
Such a mood will undoubtedly point to heartache.
The fall of the Qin Dynasty may have been like this.
From the time of their ancestor Feizi who was sealed in Qinyi for his meritorious work in raising horses, there were about 800 years, and dozens of generations of Qin people came step by step from the west, to Qin Xiangong to dominate Xirong, to Qin Xiaogong to ask Wei Ying to change the law, to form his own tiger and wolf division, to be constantly blocked by the six countries, to King Huiwen and King Zhaoxiang to shock the world, until Qin Wangzheng swept away Liuhe and the world was one, how difficult it should be.
Perhaps due to the abbreviation of the historical records, we always feel easier in the Shang Tang Dynasty, and it is a little difficult for the Wenwu King to conquer the Emperor, but with the Qin State for hundreds of years of savings, preparation, rising, being hit, then preparing, then accumulating, then rising, and then frustrating, until the next hundred years finally became stronger, it can be said that it is full of hardships and ups and downs, and every victory is not the old Qin people with blood in exchange, until the final victory.
Therefore, we have the deepest memory of the final success of the Qin State, not by luck, not by lip service, not by the planning of the Ming mastermind, but step by step, one battle after another, one country after another.
Therefore, the success of the Qin state was not easy to come by, so it was sad about the sudden demise of the Qin dynasty.
In particular, after the unification of the six countries, they quickly transformed the huge military vigorous destructive power into a political, economic and cultural construction power, bringing a small Qin state into an empire, attacking the Xiongnu in the north and subduing Lingnan in the south, opening the Ling Canal, building straight roads, building the Great Wall, writing the same text, driving on the same track, traveling in counties and counties, abolishing the law, burning books to unify ideas, going out to patrol the Quartet, carving stones and casting meritorious deeds, which can be regarded as doing many major events that have influenced future generations for thousands of years.
Should such a dynasty perish?Should such an emperor die suddenly?
We will think that it should not be, so we do not admit that the Qin Dynasty was destroyed by Qin Shi Huang.
The sudden demise of the Qin Dynasty seems to us only because of a disease that suddenly took the life of the emperor, because of a shocking conspiracy staged in the sand dunes, because of the sudden rise to power of a gang of traitors.
In our hearts, as long as Qin Shi Huang did not die suddenly, as long as Li Si prevented the change of the sand dunes, as long as he could pass on the throne to Fusu, as long as there was no Zhao Gao and Hu Hai, the Qin Dynasty would never have perished so quickly, just like the great dynasties of later generations, it would also be passed down for hundreds of years.
It seems that we feel that with the great creativity of the Qin Dynasty, if it can be passed down for hundreds of years, the Chinese civilization is really limitless.
Even if the Qin Dynasty had not suddenly perished, China would have appeared on the world stage in an even more powerful posture.
Therefore, we always feel a little uncomfortable in our hearts, especially with the evolution of history for 2,000 years, we have seen more absurd and cruel rule later, we have seen several reincarnations of history, and we have seen that the political, economic and cultural heritage left by the Qin Dynasty in a short period of time still plays a huge role in 2,000 years and constitutes a huge influence, and we have more regrets for the sudden demise of this dynasty with great creativity more than 2,000 years ago.
There is no doubt that if each dynasty is a human being, then the Qin Dynasty is undoubtedly a heroic image.
We have endless regret for the sudden arrival of this hero.
But why can the Zhou Dynasty die, hundreds of thousands of vassal states can die, and the Six Kingdoms can die, and we are full of regret for the demise of the Qin Dynasty?Why can't it perish?
Every dynasty comes with its mission, and when it is fulfilled, it will perish.
The Qin Dynasty was the same, the demise was only the mission had been completed, just like the common demise of the Six Kingdoms.
The mission of the Western Zhou Dynasty was to make ceremonies and divide the seals, and three hundred years later, this mission was completed, and the Western Zhou Dynasty perished.
The mission of the princes of the world is to form great creativity in the continuous struggle, so that the first great ** era will appear in China, and usher in the first great unification with their own destruction. Five hundred years later, their mission was accomplished, and they perished.
This kind of mission is to present a colorful international community in the midst of competition, mutual development, and mutual confrontation among hundreds of vassal states, and to stimulate all kinds of trends of thought, all kinds of creations, all kinds of inventions, all kinds of art of war, and all kinds of human nature, and usher in the first great explosion of civilization for China.
In this process, every country has contributed its own wisdom and civilization to Greater China, and the existence and demise of no country is meaningless, and no country is doomed to perish, destined to be only a supporting role.
Even every demise is a new birth.
After the wings of Quwo Dynasty, the Jin State was reborn, and only then did it have a century-long Jin hegemony, and only after the three families divided into the Jin Dynasty did they have the Wei Wushu and Zhao cavalry who broke into the international community, and only after the Tian Dynasty did the Qi Dynasty have the Eastern overlord when the Wei King was born, and even after the Dai family took the Song Dynasty, they could be vigorous. And the fall of the Six Kingdoms converged into the great creation of the First Emperor.
So perdition is also being transformed into a kind of mission fulfillment.
And the Qin Kingdom, as the last vassal state, its mission is to unify and create.
A gang of brothers fight to the end, and there can only be one result, because there can only be one winner.
But none of the brothers felt that the one who won was providential.
Therefore, every country perishes with regret and helplessness, with unwillingness and unyielding. If every monarch who was destroyed by Qin could have predicted that more than ten years later, the Qin State would also hold the national seal, kill the office, kneel and beg to surrender, and they would have less helplessness and unwillingness, pain and regret when they left.
Because although Brother Qin can defeat me, he can't subdue me.
Therefore, the brothers who perished did not think that the unification of Qin was the end of history.
Destroying the Six Kingdoms and dominating the world is just to let the bullets fly forward for a while.
Fifteen years later, the brothers of the six countries waited for the belated Qin brothers.
The Warring States brothers have gathered, this is a kind of consummation, and no one should be left behind.
From the great closure of the Zhou Dynasty to the end of a period of history, it was the end of a period of history.
The fall of the Qin State was initiated by the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, and the decisive battle was fought against the Chu Army led by Xiang Yu, and the attack of everyone in the old part of the Six Kingdoms was also completed. Therefore, Qin is the one who destroys the Six Kingdoms, and the Six Kingdoms who destroy Qin are also, and finally a closed loop is formed.
Therefore, after the death of Qin, a large group of kings of the Six Kingdoms were divided, such as Chen Sheng, King of Chu, Xiangjiang, King of Qi, Tian Dan, King Wuchen of Zhao, Han Guang, King of Wei, King Wei of Wei, Zhao King Zhao Xie, King Jingju of Chu, King Qi Xin of Chu, King Han Cheng of Han, King Tian of Qi, Wang Tian Shi of Qi, King Wei Bao of Wei, Liu Bang of Han, etc., and the great commander was Xiang Yu, King of Western Chu.
There is no King of Qin.
At this point, the people of the six countries breathed a sigh of relief, and the people of the world breathed a sigh of relief, and the depression in their hearts was resolved.
And the reasons for the demise of the **, the reasons for the demise of the Qin State and other countries are basically the same, and they are also their own problems, such as the traitors in power, the ministers rebelling, the heirs competing for the throne, and the tyrannical rule of the authorities, all of which led to the destruction of other countries in the Qin State one by one, Han An held the national seal and surrendered, and Ziying also held the national seal and surrendered.
A man as great as Qin Shi Huang could not decide the virtue and foolishness of his sons, could not decide that the person he trusted the most would not betray, and could not decide his sudden death.
In fact, he could feel the knock of fate, and in 211 B.C., there were many unexplained events, and he was afraid that all he could do was to kill people, and he had no good way, so he heard the knock on the door at that time.
And think about it, why didn't he make a prince earlier, and why did he take Xiao'er Huhai with him on his last tour?
Speaking of the last tour, it can be seen from the three people he brought that Qin Shi Huang could not get out of the dead knot of fate.
One is the prime minister Li Si he relies on the most, the other is his most trusted secretary Zhao Gao, and the other is his son Hu Hai, who he doesn't think is too bad.
It was these three people who he considered the most reliable and closest to him that brought the great ship of the empire to an instant end.
But when it's over, it's over, and it's impossible to go back to the past.
The demise of the Qin State is just to let the people of the world and the people of the Six Kingdoms vent their grievances and sulkness in their hearts for a long time. And it does not herald a return to the Warring States again, and the princes once again stand side by side.
So who should unify the world again?
Think about how everyone is dissatisfied with the Qin Dynasty, which is the most capable of fighting, how can it be subordinated to the names of other Qi, Chu, Yan, Zhao, Han, and Wei?
Therefore, it is necessary to choose a new person to come out, to choose a person who is not a nobleman, and to choose a person who is not the king of the six kingdoms.
This person can only be Liu Bang, and he can only be a hooligan that the nobles can't look down on.
But it is precisely this scoundrel who bears the mandate of heaven and forms the greatest common divisor that everyone can accept.
Because he doesn't have any old grudges from the Six Kingdoms, no aristocratic baggage, and no regrets to lose.
So his Han became.
So a new dynasty called Han became the object of submission.
From now on, the Chinese people will be called Han people, and our nation will also be called Han people from now on.
At this point, all the efforts have the result, and all the destruction has meaning.
Therefore, after the fall of the Six Kingdoms, the Qin Dynasty was also going to perish.
Only when the Qin Dynasty fell, the end of this history could come.
So history doesn't stop at all.
Qin Wangzheng had just completed his historical mission, and after unification and creation, he suddenly died of a vicious disease.
The Qin Kingdom had just completed its historical mission, and it was rapidly perishing just as the Six Kingdoms that had completed their mission had perished.
Now the historical mission is in the hands of a dynasty called Han.
In this kind of big ups and downs, the light of the big ** era is still shining on this land.
Let's see what kind of historical creation this once had nothing will bring us?