Shang Yang, formerly known as Wei Yang, was a representative figure of Legalism. In the five thousand years of Chinese history, there are not many people like him who are both thinkers and practitioners, who can even lead troops to fight in both civil and military fields. To this day, "Shang Yang's Reform" is not only a cultural allusion, but also a genetic fragment engraved deep in the national memory.
However, has this person who was rated as "mean and ungrateful" by Sima Qian really always been so serious and unkind? He met Duke Xiao of Qin three times. The first two times he was almost ignored, but the last time he met Duke Xiao of Qin. The last time he met Qin Xiaogong - what happened in between? Has such a cold-blooded person ever had tender feelings? His ending, history books say that "the Yi tribe" and "the car broke apart", what kind of tragic truth is it? And will those written records cover up another historical trajectory?
This book will start from these questions and strive to restore a more three-dimensional Wei Yang and explore his true ending. Perhaps, this dusty past can also bring us a different kind of touch in this noisy world.
