Short video: Shocking the world

He who wins the hearts of the people wins the world, and he who accumulates great virtue wins the world.

Because of the different times, people have different thoughts.

Some people deeply agree with these two sentences, while others are disdainful.

Liu Bang said with deep conviction: "Thinking back then, I was a commoner, and I was able to establish the Han Dynasty by relying on the hearts of the people."

"As the saying goes, those who are righteous will have many supporters, while those who are unrighteous will have few supporters. Only those who have both virtue and morality can truly win the world." The person who said this was Mencius, who proposed that the emperor should be light and the people should be heavy.

The people in troubled times have become numb in their hearts, their lives are cheaper than grass, and they have never seen an emperor who cares about them.

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The plane of Ming Taizu.

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed: "I started from the grass, and I know the suffering of the people very well, so I can govern the country with benevolence and win the hearts of the people of the world."

The officials around Zhu Yuanzhang twitched their eyes.

He who wins the hearts of the people wins the world, is it appropriate for you, the Zhu family, to say this?

Why don't you tell me how your sons abused and killed people in their fiefdoms.

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The plane of Emperor Chengzu of Ming Dynasty.

"My Ming Dynasty perished due to internal and external difficulties. The external enemy was the Jurchens, so what was the internal trouble?" Emperor Yongle Zhu Di pondered, "There have always been external troubles. It depends on who will cause the internal troubles first. People in later generations are right!"

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[Was the demise of the Qin Dynasty really due to tyranny? #Qin Dynasty#Ying Zheng]

"For two thousand years, who doesn't know that Qin Shihuang was a tyrant?"

"I want to see how people in later generations evaluate Ying Zheng."

"The tyranny of Qin II ended, and this is the retribution for destroying my country!"

"Even if there are only three households in Chu, Chu will destroy Qin!"

"Wait! Wait until we kill Ying Zheng, divide Qin, and restore our homeland. Liu Bang and his Han Dynasty should not appear in history!"

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The plane of Emperor Qin Shihuang.

Ying Zheng asked curiously, "I died as the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty. How will the history books of later generations record me? How will people evaluate me more than 2,000 years later?"

At this time, Ying Zheng had already felt that the history books would not have any good records about him.

["Ying Zheng, what do you think of when you hear this name? Is it the emperor who swept across the six kingdoms and unified China? Or is it the totalitarian tyrant who burned books and buried scholars and imposed harsh laws?"]

["Whenever the demise of the Qin Dynasty is discussed, the mainstream view has always been that it was due to tyranny."]

["Until 1975, more than 1,100 Qin festivals unearthed in Shuihudi, Hubei Province, simply overturned people's cognition. The 200,000 words on it clearly recorded the humane laws of the Qin Dynasty. When serving corvée, those who were less than 1.3 meters tall did not have to join the army. Being late for three or five days was only a verbal criticism. If the military period was delayed due to heavy rain, the punishment could even be exempted. This was contrary to the statement of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang that those who delayed the military period would be beheaded. Who was spreading rumors? Lie?"]

"Chen Sheng and Wu Guang lied?"

"Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian is not written like this!"

"Sima Qian was a historian of the Han Dynasty. It is normal for him to smear the Qin Dynasty in his Records of the Grand Historian! What's more, he never saw Qin Shihuang in person and didn't live in the Qin Dynasty. What does he know about Qin law?"

"Rebellion requires a reason. If the current emperor is not a tyrant, then what reason is there to rebel?"

"The Han Dynasty replaced the Qin Dynasty. No matter how the Han Dynasty came to power, the emperor of the Han Dynasty would not help Qin Shihuang clarify it. It is a good thing that he did not increase his efforts to smear Qin Shihuang!"

"Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, right? I remember it!"

Chen Sheng and Wu Guang both looked gloomy. They became famous in this way.

【"In addition to military laws, there are even forest protection laws, such as not being able to cut trees in the mountains in February every year, not being able to hunt certain birds, etc."】

【"Since then, more people have begun to think about problems from the perspective of history at that time, and the Qin King's views on tyranny have become increasingly weak. So, has the eternal infamy left by the burning of books and burying of scholars wronged him?"】

Qin Shihuang looked at the sky and frowned slightly.

Some laws were not implemented by him, but were the credit of the older generation of Qin Kings. People in later generations attributed it to him, which is certainly a good thing, which can improve the reputation of the Qin Dynasty and unite the people. But there is also a suspicion of usurping the credit of the previous king.

【“In fact, this infamy is not because he buried alive hundreds of fraudulent alchemists, most of whom were not even Confucian scholars, but because he banned private schools and burned historical books of countries other than Qin, causing a great decline in the cultural field and seriously stifling the progress of social thought.”】

【“In the eyes of most people, the act of burning books is more serious than burying Confucian scholars.”】

【“Therefore, the term burning books and burying Confucian scholars has entered today’s history textbooks.”】

“Fake! All fake!”

“Burning books and burying Confucian scholars is fake? The victims were fraudulent alchemists, not Confucian scholars? What did Sima Qian write in the Records of the Grand Historian!”

“His Records of the Grand Historian has no basis at all! It’s all made up!”

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Qin ShiEmperor's plane.

"I killed the alchemists, not the Confucianists. The sorcerer Xu Fu cheated me of my money, failed to find the elixir, and spread rumors everywhere. How could I forgive him! As for the burning of books, I only ordered the burning of the "Book of Songs" and "Book of Documents" collected by the people, and kept the official collection of books. The history books of later generations..." Ying Zheng looked at the sky and couldn't say anything.

The people who wrote history in later generations wrote completely based on unofficial history.

Li Si said: "Your Majesty burned books because he wanted to unify the text and thought as soon as possible. The people of the original six countries did not understand, and the people of later generations did not understand it even more."

["Ying Zheng was angry at the remaining power of the six generations. He destroyed the six countries, pacified the Baiyue, built the Great Wall, and defeated the Xiongnu. After the six kings were over and the world was unified, he abolished the feudal system and established counties to achieve the unprecedented unification of the same writing and the same track. He was a human being, but he did things beyond human beings. It is not an exaggeration to call him a 'god'."]

"Good! Good!" Ying Zheng laughed.

Being called a ‘god’, Ying Zheng’s previous unhappiness disappeared.

The civil and military officials of the Qin Dynasty congratulated their own emperor.

This evaluation is too high!

Ying Zheng was happy, but many people were unhappy.

The nobles of the original six kingdoms, and the emperors after the Qin Dynasty.

They are all emperors, why are you the only one called a ‘god’?

"Is it too much to call Ying Zheng a god?"

"What benefit did the people of later generations receive from that tyrant? Why are you speaking for him like this!"

["It is precisely because he pushed the empire to a new height that the empire exists because of him alone. This also means that once Ying Zheng dies, the world will surely be in chaos, so he will pursue the illusory immortality."]

["Ying Zheng is the true founder of our country's national territory. No matter how talented and wise he is in later generations, including the feudal lords of various vassal states during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, he is just wandering around in the territory drawn by Qin Shihuang. His great contribution to Chinese civilization is worthy of being remembered forever by our descendants."]

[History books are written by the victors.]

[More than 200 countries on the same earth, isn't that a betrayal of Mr. Ying?]