Two Thousand Years of the Qin System: The Rules of Power for Feudal Emperors

The author shows the evolution of the Qin system over two thousand years through 16 historical cross-sections. I especially like the story about the Book of Various Scholars and the "Tai Shi Gong Shu" in the book. The reason behind Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty's refusal to grant the book made me think deeply. This book gave me a new understanding of history, and I recommend it to you!

It is quoted from classics and is authentic and reliable. It makes people feel serious when reading it, and makes people feel like they are reading a well-documented report document. There must be some historical foundation to make it look good. I happened to read Wang Mang's biography and Li Si's biography before reading this book, so I was more interested in this period of history.

When people have nothing to do, they will be arrogant and carefree, while when they work hard, they will be easy to use. This is from a piece of advice by Wei Zheng, not by Li Shimin himself.

From then on, I saw that everything in this world was nothing but Confucianism and Dharma.

Unique perspective, strong thinking, and thought-provoking! Great book! Good review! Watch it again when you have time.

To the point and clearly without being cryptic

Violent groups do two things: extract and control