What kind of character is Lees? Why did the Qin Dynasty fall so quickly after Li Si was killed?
In the long history of China, there is a very surprising figure: Li Si. He was the founder of the Qin Dynasty and the deposed monarch of the Qin Dynasty.
His reform policies transformed the Qin state from weak to strong, eventually unifying the Six Kingdoms, and becoming one of the greatest statesmen in Chinese history.
However, the book-burning pit he carried out during his reign also brought a thousand-year-old curse. His death was a turning point in the Qin Dynasty. After his death, the Qin dynasty quickly fell.
So, what kind of person is Lees? Why did he burn books and pit Confucianism? What did his death mean for the Qin Dynasty? Let's take a look at this history.
The beginning of the political career of Li Si, a talented man of the Warring States period.
Li Si was born in the middle of the Warring States period and came from a poor background. According to records, his father was a bourgeoisie and his mother was an unknown woman. In other words, Lees was born without a prominent family background and fame.
However, Lees has shown exceptional talent and ambition from an early age. This was extremely rare in the social environment of the time.
According to historical records, Li Si also studied the doctrine of "Chun Yu Ignorance", which was famous among the hundreds of sons at that time, and Li Si drew nourishment from it, further enriching his own knowledge and laying the foundation for his later great achievements.
With his wealth of knowledge and excellent political analysis skills, the young Li Si soon attracted the attention of the academic circles of the time. After discussions with many well-known scholars, Lees gradually gained a certain popularity and was recognized as a promising and prominent politician.
Qin Wangzheng discovered Li Si's extraordinary talent and recruited him as a strategist and right-hand man. This undoubtedly allowed Li Si, who came from a humble background, to realize his ambitions and achieve a brilliant life.
Li Si, the prime minister of the Qin Dynasty, helped the Qin Dynasty become a powerful country.
Under the influence of Li Xi, the Qin state adopted a series of positive and enlightened reform measures, which greatly increased the national strength.
Li Si is well aware of the practical value of law and advocates that the state should be based on strict and scientific laws to restrain the people. Under his suggestion, Qin's legal system became more and more sound, and violators were severely punished regardless of their position, ensuring social stability and order.
In addition, Li Xi also implemented a series of favorable economic policies. He encouraged the people to reclaim land on a large scale, actively expand the territory of Qin, increase agricultural production, and quickly restore Qin's fragile national strength. Li Si also planned, designed, and built a large number of water conservancy projects, making the Qin State increasingly prosperous and powerful.
During the reign of Li Si, the powerful and well-trained Qin army became more sophisticated, completely standardized, and became an unrivaled fighting machine. At the same time, Qin's financial strength was strengthened, and the treasury revenue increased exponentially, accumulating enough capital for the later destruction of the Six Kingdoms.
With the help of Li Si, King Yingzheng of Qin abolished the Six Kingdoms and completed the unification of the Qin Dynasty. With his help, the Qin Dynasty eventually became the most powerful empire in the world at the time, and prospered for a long time, becoming a monument at the time.
Qin Shi Huang recognized Li Si's great contribution and appointed him as the most powerful member of the empire - Zuo Cheng Minister. After Li Si was appointed as Prime Minister of Zuo, he initiated a series of reforms and innovations that he was proud of.
Controversy over book burning and law amendments.
In the early years of the Qin Dynasty, Li Si was very dissatisfied with the conservative Confucian culture of ancient China. He believes that China's old educational thinking is too rigid and seriously hinders social progress and the development of productive forces.
As a result, Qin Shi Huang strongly recommended to Huang Lao the radical policy of burning books and pit Confucianism. Li Si was extremely enterprising, and he believed that the great revival of the Qin state in his mind required an ideological revolution and a sweep of the original culture.
At his behest and under his rule, the Qin dynasty began a nationwide mass burning of ancient books and strictly banned and criticized the teachings of Confucius. For a time, intellectuals were severely affected, and many independent-minded scholars were beaten to death by Qin.
This made Li Si a representative of infamy in later generations. However, for Li Si at the time, the purpose of these attempts was to completely destroy the old Chinese ideology and culture and lay the ideological foundation for the new Qin dynasty.
After the book burning, Li Xi implemented a series of radical social changes. He abolished the dress system of princes and kings, and implemented the simple dress system of commoners throughout the empire; He completely abolished the traditional festivals of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, and ordered the whole country to worship only the King of Qin and celebrate his birthday.
As soon as the prime minister died, the Qin Dynasty perished.
But all the changes that Lee Hee has implemented during his time in power have also created many political opponents. Some conservative ministers hated his radical approach and formed secret political parties to oppose Li Xi's ** rule.
In 210 BC, shortly after Qin II's accession to the throne, Li Si was falsely accused by the court's powerful ministers"Rebellion"was sentenced to death by Qin II on trumped-up charges. This happened 20 years after the establishment of the Qin Dynasty.
The death of Li Si was undoubtedly an important turning point in the Qin Dynasty. Since then, the Qin Dynasty has been declining, the political situation has become increasingly chaotic, and internal and external troubles have become increasingly serious. Just three years after Lees' death, the once-powerful empire collapsed under the blows of rebels and foreign enemies.
Li Si's death directly caused the Qin Dynasty to lose its core and lose the brain to effectively control the situation. As the supreme ruler of the Qin Dynasty, Li Si implemented a series of changes that played a key role in laying the foundation of the Qin Dynasty.
After Li Si's death, Qin II, who was only 13 years old, was unable to control the situation, and the Qin Dynasty's top brass soon fell into chaos. Some of Li Si's policies during his lifetime caused great dissatisfaction among the people, and the foundations of the Qin Dynasty were already in tatters, which provided good fodder for various peasant uprisings.
Soon after Li Si's sudden death, the Qin Dynasty was lost to the dust of history due to internal and external troubles caused by uprisings and foreign enemies.
Controversial figures throughout the ages.
Li Si was the founding hero of the Qin Dynasty, and his political talent, power, and vision are unquestionable. It was he who single-handedly created this immortal building.
However, the implementation of book burning and other social changes led to thousands of curses, making him one of the most controversial figures in Chinese history. This seems to be a historical paradox.
But Li Xi's death undoubtedly marked the beginning of the fall of this powerful empire. After the sudden death of this founding hero, the Qin Dynasty quickly fell and went down in history. This seems to warn future generations that the rise and fall of a dynasty is not only related to the establishment of institutions, but also to the sudden death of key figures.
So, how should we evaluate this historical giant, which has both good and bad qualities? Controversy will always exist, but Li Xi's rational spirit of keeping pace with the times may still be worth learning and encouraging. After all, only when a nation dares to reform and conforms to the trend of the times can it overcome the shackles of fate and stand tall in the long river of history.
Lees is a highly controversial historical figure. His innovations laid the foundation for the Qin Dynasty. However, some of his actions, such as the burning of books and the pit of Confucianism, also harbored dangers.
His death was an important turning point in the Qin dynasty. After his death, the Qin dynasty declined rapidly. Li Xi's connection with the Qin dynasty also seems to remind us that the change of power is an inevitable law of historical development.
Why did he burn books and pit Confucianism? What did his death mean for the Qin Dynasty? Although the smokescreen of history has been lifted, the mystery remains unsolved. I believe that as history progresses, we will eventually find these hidden answers.