Because the state of Qin kept advancing and conquered one country after another, the people were also eager to establish military exploits and get greater returns. Even if the king of Qin squeezed the people's power to the extreme, he could still maintain the situation. After all, Qin people have long been dealing with Xirong and other ethnic minorities, and they also have the habit of being brave and aggressive.
Then the king of Qin unified the world, and all six countries belonged to Qin. When the Qin Dynasty was established, the King of Qin became the first emperor.
With the unification of the world, what ordinary people naturally need is to recuperate. There is nothing to argue about. It is better to go home and farm and live a quiet life. Not only the Qin people think so, but also the people of the six countries think so.
However, the first emperor's trust in Legalism reached a superstitious level. Although the country was peaceful, the oppression of the people, especially the people of the six countries, by the Qin Dynasty was even more extreme.
After unifying the world, the first emperor did these things:
Repairing the Great Wall, robbing tombs, cruising around, attacking Xiongnu in the north, conquering the south hundreds of times and so on. Only the construction of Epang Palace and the repair of Lishan Tomb consumed more than 700,000 civilian workers. At that time, the population of the Qin Dynasty was only 20 million, and more than 2 million able-bodied men were doing military service, fighting and hard labor for the Qin Dynasty, accounting for almost one-third of the young men at that time. For a long time, not only Qin people, but also Qin people.
Qin Shihuang also vigorously built post roads, established county system and unified measurement, and fully implemented the laws of Qin State.
Look at Qin Shihuang. In 10 years, he has done so many super-large projects and made so many earth-shaking reforms. Throughout the later generations, there is no one.
Behind this is the extreme consumption of people's resources, and after more than ten years of unified war, the people's resources of Qin and six countries have long been exhausted.
Every year, any ordinary people in the Qin Dynasty served for the imperial court for a long period of time, and they also had hard labor, not only the time of service, but also the time of various trips. Being late is a capital crime, such as Guangwu Uprising, Chen Sheng. That adult man spends only a few months at home every year, and only a few men and some old, weak, women and children are engaged in farm work. But the taxes in the Qin dynasty are very heavy, so you have to pay them. If you don't pay them, you will be subjected to all kinds of corporal punishment. Any corporal punishment will turn adults into disabled people.
This legalist school ruled the country, imposed severe punishment on the law, stressed the corvee, and extremely overdrawn the people's strength, eventually pushing them back. In 209 BC, Guangwu and Chen Sheng launched an uprising. Is there no way to punish Qin without asking for trouble? For the slogan, the establishment of Zhang Chu regime. The old nobles of six countries took the opportunity to respond. Later, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu continued to encircle Qin, and Qin perished two years later.
Of course, Qin Shihuang's contribution to later generations was extremely great, and his achievements even exceeded those of the dynasties of more than 200 years. He started the imperial era of more than 2000 years. It's a pity that he was too ambitious, almost blossoming on all fronts, and it was a huge project, which overdrawn the strength of the people and was finally abandoned by the people of the whole country in despair. This is a combination of greatness and cruelty.