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Ying Zheng, the first emperor of Qin who unified the six kingdoms, and Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Empire, seem to be two founding monarchs from different generations. In fact, they are only three years apart. They are both from the same generation who came out of the decline of the Warring States Period. When the First Emperor of Qin passed away, Liu Bang was forty-seven years old. He took up the post of chief of the Sishui Pavilion and launched an army to rebel against the Qin Dynasty, starting his legendary career. This book starts by pointing out people's historical illusions, and uses the most fascinating way for historians to tell the story of the collapse of the Qin Empire and the rise of heroes such as Liu Bang and Xiang Yu.

Sima Qian's "Historical Records" wrote the eternal masterpiece of the Chu-Han conflict. In that era where heroes emerged in large numbers, it only took eight years from the time when Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rose up to fight for supremacy among the nations, and then to the unification of the Han Dynasty. Xiang Yu was twenty-four when he joined his uncle Xiang Liang in Kuaiji, but he committed suicide in Wujiang when he was only thirty-one. In the past eight years, scenes of historical drama have been filled with songs and tears, and they have experienced a series of major turning points such as the collapse of Qin, the fall of Chu, and the rise of Han. Finally, more than five hundred years of melee and conquest have stabilized, and Chinese history has ushered in the heyday of the Western Han Dynasty.

The Qin Dynasty has a history of more than 2,000 years. Most of the historical materials have been lost, and many historical facts cannot be verified. But in "Qin Mystery: Rediscovering the First Emperor of Qin", Professor Li Kaiyuan is based on field surveys, unearthed cultural relics and archaeological discoveries, and combines the perspectives of history, archaeology, medicine and law. He uses criminal investigation techniques such as hanging wire tracking and mixed shuffling to boldly speculate and carefully verify, through the millennium of fog, to detect everything you are curious about about the First Emperor of Qin. It resurrects the history of the Qin Dynasty that has been seriously misunderstood, restores the Qin Shihuang who was demonized by history, and gives a comprehensive outline of the life experience, background, stance, political activities of Qin Shihuang and the characters around him, as well as the political network of the Qin Dynasty court, thus making the enigmatic history of the Qin Dynasty interesting and clear to the readers.

This is a top-level historical reasoning work that solves the mystery of Qin Shihuang. Qin Shihuang's short 49-year life was full of mist. Qin Shihuang's father is Lu Buwei? What kind of dual identity does Lord Changping have? How did Qin Shihuang's cousin become the last king of Chu? Why did Qin Shihuang's harem collectively lose its capacity? Is Qin Shihuang the scapegoat for cheating Confucians for thousands of years? Li Kaiyuan, Sherlock Holmes in the field of history, returned to the historical site of Qin to salvage historical fragments based on field surveys, unearthed cultural relics and excavations of tombs. He combined the perspectives of history, archaeology, medicine and law, and used criminal investigation techniques such as hanging wire tracking and mixed shuffling to boldly speculate and carefully verify. He resurrected the history of Qin that had been seriously misunderstood, restored Qin Shihuang who was demonized by history, and deeply deciphered the truth about the lost history of Qin. "Qin Mystery: Rediscovering Qin Shihuang" collects all the strange cases of Qin Shihuang over the past two thousand years, starting from the perspective that everyone is curious about, trying to use gossip to decipher the secrets hidden deep in history, and giving a new and reasonable answer to the controversial topic in the historians. Professor Li Kaiyuan will let you know the truth that is not recorded in history books.