The ancients paid attention to fighting, and the peasant rebels naturally had their reasons. In order to attract more people, peasant insurgents often refine the reasons, purposes and interests of the uprising into an easy-to-understand sentence, which is the slogan of the uprising. In Guangwu, the slogan of Chen Sheng Uprising is "A prince would rather have a seed" and "If there is no way to cut Qin, he will be severely punished".
The first one is "princes and princes would rather have seeds", which means that those who are princes and princes are born with expensive seeds. To call on poor farmers. The second is "cutting without morality, violently attacking the Qin Dynasty", which is the slogan that Chen Sheng and Guangwu shouted in order to violently resist the Qin Dynasty during the uprising, meaning to punish the inhuman (ruler) and the cruel Qin Dynasty.
The Historical Background of Guangwu Uprising in Chen Sheng
In order to resist the Huns, Qin Shihuang sent people to build the Great Wall, sent 300,000 troops and collected hundreds of thousands of civilian workers. In order to develop the south, 300,000 soldiers and civilians were mobilized. He also used 700,000 prisoners to start building a huge and luxurious Epang Palace.
When he ascended the throne for the second time, he recruited hundreds of thousands of prisoners and civilian workers from all over the country and built the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor on a large scale. This tomb is very large and deep, melting a lot of copper and pouring it on the foundation, which is covered with stone chambers, tombs and tombs. II also asked craftsmen to dig rivers, lakes and oceans in the tombs and fill them with mercury. And then buried Qin Shihuang there. After burial, in order to prevent future grave robbers, craftsmen were also required to install killing equipment in the tomb. Finally, all the craftsmen who built the tomb were brutally buried in the tomb, and no one was allowed to come out.
Before the completion of the tomb, II and Zhao Gao continued to build Epang Palace. At that time, the population of China was only 20 million, not including women and children. Almost two or three million people were sent back and forth to build the Great Wall, defend Lingnan, repair Epang Palace and build graves. I don't know how much manpower and financial resources have been spent, which has driven the people to complain.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Bobby Chen