Da Qin: One World

This is a book about how China was born. Restore the complete life of Ying Zheng from the hostage of Handan to the emperor through the ages: he was ambitious, forbearing, strategic, good at management, good at using people, and caring for the world. Qin was just a dynasty; what he wanted was a China that would last forever. The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were in chaos for five hundred years, with endless wars and devastation. The suffering of the world lies in division; the difficulty of the world lies in the lack of a common master; the danger of the world lies in the lack of recognition. Ying Zheng, with one man's vision and one dynasty's hard work, accomplished two thousand years of great things for the Chinese nation: The war was ended by sweeping Liuhe, order was established by centralizing power in counties and counties, cultural identity was forged by the same text, chariots and weights, and weights and measures were unified. The foundation of the territory was established by attacking the Huns in the north and conquering Baiyue in the south. The pattern of today's China was completed with a secret edict and the abandonment of Qin to protect the territory. What this book really wants to say is: Qin Shihuang was not a tyrant, he was the chief architect of Chinese civilization. Qin can be destroyed, but China cannot be destroyed; Xianyang can be destroyed, but the territory of China cannot be destroyed; He exchanged the short life of a dynasty for two thousand years of Chinese civilization to be continuous, undivided, and undispersed. The characters, territories, unified concepts, and cultural identity we use today are all the millennium dividends left by the Qin Dynasty. At the same time, the source is cleared up: The purpose of building the Great Wall is to protect the country, facilitate farming, and reduce the scourge of war for a hundred years, not to waste people and money; Expanding territory is to create space for China's survival, not to engage in militarism; Burning books and harassing Confucianism is to set the rules in troubled times, unify thinking, and attack restoration, but it is by no means a blind destruction of culture; What he believes in is not empty ghosts and gods, but order, system, strength, unity and people's livelihood - this is the source of the Chinese spirit.