Speaking of tyrants, the words "Qin Shi Huang" will immediately flash in our minds, but Zhang Taiyan praised Qin Shi Huang and said: "Although the four and three emperors and the six and five emperors were not enough. Lu Simian said: "Qin Shi Huang has always said that he is a tyrant and wiped out his benefits, but in fact, this is wronged. He really had a great ideal in politics. Even Lu Xun said: "Qin Shi Huang was really wronged, his loss was died in the second generation, and a group of gangsters went to speak ill of him for the new master......And Qin Shi Huang once said: Heroes can't retreat with their whole body, how can Yingzheng stand in the world! These 16 words made the founding emperors of later generations ashamed! Is Qin Shi Huang, who said such things, really a tyrant? 
The construction of the Great Wall, not that he wanted to enslave the people Speaking of Qin Shi Huang, the first thing we think of is the story of "Meng Jiangnu crying on the Great Wall", she traveled thousands of miles to find her husband, but learned that her husband Fan Qiliang had died because of the construction of the Great Wall, and she was so grief-stricken that she cried under the Great Wall, and the Great Wall collapsed. Look, how brutal Qin Shi Huang is, the newlywed Yan'er, took Meng Jiangnu's husband away, and died of exhaustion, in fact: the story of Meng Jiangnu crying the Great Wall first appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period (about 549 BC), she was the wife of Qi Liang, a military general of Qi, when the story appeared, the Great Wall of Qin had not yet been built. According to historical records, the western section of the Great Wall of Qi was completed before 557 BC, and it can be seen that Meng Jiangnu cried down the Great Wall of Qi. However, as the times and customs of the past dynasties continued to change, the story eventually evolved into Meng Jiangnu crying down the Great Wall of Qin. Qin Shi Huang became a real backstabber by mistake. In addition, about the construction of the Great Wall, some people have always been puzzled: since Qin Shi Huang was able to unify the six countries, why did he not capture the Xiongnu in one fell swoop, but instead spent money and money to build the Great Wall? In fact, Qin Shi Huang wanted to capture the Xiongnu. It is recorded in the "Book of Advice to the Huns" by the master father: "The former Qin Emperor let the power of victory, encroach on the world, annex the Warring States, and the sea is one, and the merit is three generations." Desperate to win, want to attack the Huns. It is said that Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, was full of ambition, and wanted to capture the Xiongnu in one fell swoop and solve the hidden dangers of the frontier. So, Qin Shi Huang sent Meng Tian to lead his troops to attack the Xiongnu, "the violent soldiers have been exposed for more than ten years, and the dead are innumerable, and they will not be able to cross the river to the north." "Let the army fight outside for more than ten years, and countless people died, but in the end they could not cross the river and attack the Xiongnu in the north. Qin Shi Huang was very anxious in his heart: the army not only suffered countless casualties and consumed grain and grass and other materials for a long time, but also suffered serious internal friction and delayed progress. After weighing the pros and cons, the casualties of building the Great Wall were minimal, so Qin Shi Huang decided to build the Great Wall to defend against the offense of the Xiongnu and build a solid barrier for future generations. 
Book burning and pit Confucianism, not that he was brutal by nature, and people thought that after the unification of the Six Kingdoms, Qin Shi Huang would be able to rest easy. But in fact, the problem after reunification is even more thorny. At the beginning of the world, different countries have different scripts, different amounts of money in circulation, different social rules followed, and different historical books and poems learned, making it difficult to communicate with each other. It is said that Qin Shi Huang issued an edict to the south (the former land of Chu), but the officials there could not understand the content of the edict, which directly affected the transmission of the ** order. It's like when we go abroad and speak Mandarin, foreigners who have learned it can still understand a little, and those who haven't learned it are confused. Qin Shi Huang realized that if this development continued, it would inevitably cause all kinds of chaos. Therefore, Qin Shi Huang came to unify the text, so that everyone's letters and articles use the same language, so that everyone can understand the meaning of each other. But this only solves the superficial problem, and the most fundamental problem is ideological unity. At that time, a hundred schools of thought contended, and some scholars were even more ignorant of the past and the present, making indiscriminate discussions on national affairs, deliberately creating chaos among the people, and the people read less, which was easily affected. If it is not prohibited, it can easily affect the prestige of the imperial court. So what to do? It is imperative to unify thinking. So at the suggestion of the minister Li Si, Qin Shi Huang ordered that all the histories not written by the Qin Dynasty be burned. "Historical Records: The Biography of Li Si" contains: "The first emperor can discuss and accept poems, books, and the words of a hundred schools of thought to fool the people. It means that Qin Shi Huang agreed with Li Si's suggestion and ordered to take away the folk poetry books and the books of the hundred schools of thought, so that the people thought that they were all taken and burned. But in fact, the poetry books and the books of the hundred schools of thought were not burned, but were collected by the ** regime of the Qin Dynasty and the corresponding ***. There is a record in "Historical Records: Xiao Xiangguo's Family" that can also prove that Qin Shi Huang did not burn all such books: "He Du first entered the ...... of the Qin Prime Minister, the Imperial History Decree, and the Book Collection."Therefore, the king of Han knew the congestion of the world, the number of household registrations, the strengths and weaknesses, and the sufferings of the people, so how could he have Qin books. This passage says that after Liu Bang's army captured Xianyang City, Xiao He first confiscated the laws and books stored by the prime minister and imperial history of the Qin Dynasty. Later, Liu Bang obtained from these books the fortress of the world, the number of household registrations, the strengths and weaknesses, and the sufferings of the people, which made him very happy. If Qin Shi Huang had really burned all those classics, Liu Bang would not have been able to obtain this important information at all. 
There is also the matter of pit Confucianism, which first appeared in the "Preface to Shangshu" of Kong Anguo at the end of the Western Han Dynasty: "And Qin Shi Huang destroyed the classics of the previous dynasties, burned books and pit Confucianism, and the world's scholars fled and disbanded." It means that Qin Shi Huang burned books and pit Confucianism, making enemies of cultural people, so that cultural people have no place to stand. "Historical Records: The Records of Qin Shi Huang" records that Qin Shi Huang was obsessed with seeking immortals, and after the failure of Fang Shi Huang Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng to ask for medicine for Qin Shi Huang, they privately discussed his personality and fled with huge sums of money. Qin Shi Huang was furious, so he ordered a search and interrogation in the capital, and captured more than 460 monks and buried them alive, which is recorded in the "Historical Records of Confucianism": "When it came to the season of Qin, he burned poetry and books, and pitted warlocks. From this, it can be seen that the person killed by Qin Shi Huang was a "warlock" and not a Confucian scholar. In addition, there is actually another hidden truth in this matter. Since the Warring States period, people have been keen on the pursuit of immortality, believing that by doing more good deeds, they can become immortals, which is also the strategy of the emperors to promote the people to do good deeds in order to achieve national peace and security. Fang Shi, on the other hand, took advantage of people's desire to seek immortals, swaggered and deceived everywhere, selling the so-called "alchemy of immortals", advocating the miraculous effects of the elixir, and shaking people's will. Moreover, most of these pills are poisonous, especially affecting physical health, and even fatal. This is completely contrary to the original intention of a manager like Qin Shi Huang. With Qin Shi Huang's resolute and resolute methods, of course, those who shake the foundation of the country must be severely punished, so as to deter the world. From this point of view, from beginning to end, no matter whether Qin Shi Huang burned books or killed scholars, his ultimate goal was to bring peace to the world and the people to live and work in peace and contentment. 
Repair Afang Palace, not he is greedy for pleasure, the world says that after Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, he was greedy for pleasure, and the "first palace in the world" Afang Palace is the most powerful proof. The Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu's "A Fang Gong Fu" also described that "concubines and concubines, princes and grandsons, resignation from the palace and the palace, come from Qin, sing the night strings, and ...... for the people of the Qin Palace."Dingdang jade, gold nuggets and beads, discarded and thrown, the Qin people regard it, and they do not regret it." The poem vividly describes the poor and luxurious life of Qin Shi Huang in the Afang Palace, and most of the misunderstandings about his greed for pleasure come from here. But archaeologists later discovered that the palace was actually only the foundation. Moreover, the reason why Qin Shi Huang repaired the Afang Palace is not for the pleasure we imagined, but for a woman we love. When he was young, Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng and his parents lived an extremely aggrieved hostage life in Handan, the capital of Zhao State, and were bullied by the nobles of Zhao State, but he was lonely and helpless, and he could only swallow his anger and often ran to the outskirts of Handan City alone to cry bitterly. Later, a woman from Zhao who lived in the suburbs saw that he was covered in wounds and felt pity, so she boiled medicine for him to heal his wounds. In this Zhao woman, Qin Shi Huang felt the unprecedented warmth in the world, and he felt that this Zhao woman was arranged by fate to accompany him. In the continuous relationship, the two have feelings for each other, and a beautiful love story has begun. People who love each other want to stay together, but when Qin Shi Huang unified the world and wanted to make the woman of Zhao as the queen, he was unanimously opposed by the ministers. The beautiful and kind woman of Zhao learned that Qin Shi Huang was in a dilemma, so she chose to commit suicide and died. Grief-stricken, Qin Shi Huang ordered the construction of the Afang Palace in memory of the woman he loved so much. Therefore, later generations also called this Zhao woman "A Fang Girl". It turns out that Qin Shi Huang, who was once withdrawn, selfish and violent in our eyes, is also a flesh-and-blood person. It turns out that the so-called "burning books and pit Confucianism" and "enslaving the people" also have another hidden meaning, and sometimes the truth is indeed in the hands of a few people, and sometimes our cognition may be contrary to the truth of the matter. It turns out that our misunderstanding of a man can be so deep that most people are willing to believe that he is a tyrant and ignore his great deeds. Qin Shi Huang, the man who carried the pot, is really a once-in-a-millennium encounter!