In 221 BC, King Qin Yingzheng wiped out the six kingdoms and ruled the world. However, the foundation of this huge empire was crumbling in the fierce collision between Legalist power and Confucian benevolence, in the bottomless whirlpool of power in Xianyang Palace, and in the unquenched flame of restoration by the survivors of the Six Kingdoms.
This book takes the rise and fall of the Qin Dynasty as its latitude and longitude, and uses Shang Yang, Lu Buwei, Li Si, Han Fei, Zhao Gao, Fusu, Hu Hai, Zhang Han and other historical figures as chess pieces. It lays out a magnificent imperial epic in a million words. The whole book takes the ideological conflict between "Legalist governance" and "Confucian kingship" as the main line, and "power alienates human nature" as the undercurrent. It searches for "possible plots" between the lines of history, allowing the cold history books to regain their warmth.
The First Emperor was tyrannical and the world was at odds; Chen She raised his pole and all the heroes rose up; Julu fought bloody battles and Xianyang was torched. When Liu Bang's army invaded Xianyang, and when Xiang Yu's fire burned for three months, the empire that once "dominated the world" finally turned into a sigh of history.
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