All historical information about Qin Shi Huang

Qin Shi Huang (259 BC - 210 BC), surnamed Ying, Zhao, and named Zheng, born in Handan, the capital of the State of Zhao, was the son of King Zhuangxiang of Qin, a renowned statesman and strategist in Chinese history, and the first monarch to be called emperor in ancient and modern times.

Ying Zheng took the throne in 247 BC. In 238 B.C., he held a coronation ceremony in his hometown of Yongcheng, and began to take charge of the government.

Between 230 and 221 BC, he conquered the six kingdoms of Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan and Qi, completing the unification of China and establishing the Qin Dynasty, a powerful, centralized state with Han Chinese as its main body, and laying down the boundaries of China itself.

Qin Shi Huang was the first monarch in Chinese history to use the title "emperor", calling himself "Shi Huangdi". At the central government level, there were three principal officials and nine ministers to manage state affairs.

At the local level, the feudal system was abolished and replaced by the county system; the books were written in the same language, the carts on the same track, and the weights and measures were standardized; externally, the Qin Emperor fought against the Xiong Nu (Huns) in the north and conquered the Hundred-Yue in the south, and built the Great Wall of China. In 210 B.C., Emperor Qin Shi Huang died in Xingtai Shachu on his way to the east.

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p>After Qin Shi Huang unified China, he unified writing, currency and weights and measures, and did make many moves that benefited history, but he also made many brutal policies and did many foolish things.

Qin Shi Huang not only built luxurious palaces, but also pruned even more opulent tombs for his death, which led to the grandiose Lishan Tomb, a project that he painstakingly worked on for several years. The manpower and material resources consumed in building these massive projects were quite staggering.

Qin Shi Huang in the unification of the six countries after the indulgence of pleasure, lust for wine and sex harem more than 10,000 people, his subordinates are naturally upward and downward, the landlord class of the nouveau riche, they are also the palace, horses, clothing gesture of its own good, the rapid decline of the Qin Dynasty.

In order to strengthen the authoritarian rule and ideological rule, Qin Shi Huang made the appalling burning of books and burying of scholars, he was afraid of people's words, although for a while it controlled the thinking of intellectuals, and stabilized the rule, but in the long run, it is not conducive to the country's long-term peace and security.

The first emperor of Qin Shi Huang, in his quest for immortality, sent many people to search for the medicine of immortality, from the beginning of Xufu crossing the sea, and later on to seek the medicine of immortality, which has become the way of some people's wealth. Qin Shihuang, for the sake of the medicine of immortality, can be said to have gone to great lengths to labor for money and hurt the people.

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