True History of Emperor Qin

Over the past two thousand years, the historical views of the Han Dynasty and the romances of later generations have been layered together, leaving Qin Shihuang trapped in the binary conclusion of "tyrant" and "sage king". The real Qin Dynasty and the emperor have always been obscured by rumors and prejudice. This book abandons time-travel and rebirth, magical transformation, whitewashing, and fabrication. It is based on first-hand cultural relics unearthed from Shuihudi, Liye, Yuelu Qin slips, and Qin Dynasty stone carvings. It combines two-way corrections of official historical records, peels off the filters of later generations over two thousand years, and restores the most authentic Qin Shihuang based on the dual evidence of historical materials and archaeology. From the humiliating survival of the hostage in Handan, to the patient observation of the situation by the young man in the palace, to the pro-government in Yongcheng, purging the traitors, and taking sole control of the power of the Qin Dynasty; from the ten-year journey to the east, conquering the six kingdoms and ending the five hundred years of chaos, to establishing the imperial system, establishing counties and counties, writing the same text, unifying weights and measures, and reshaping the foundation of Chinese civilization. The whole book adopts a dual-line narrative of the imperial ambitions and the people's livelihood at the grassroots level, and uses Qin's legal provisions, official documents of counties and counties, corvee and border guards, folk prisons, and various situations in Guizhou as real flesh and blood. It does not deliberately beautify the Qin government, nor blindly follow traditional derogatory comments. It objectively restores the separation between the written regulations of Qin law and its implementation among the people, as well as the burden of the people and the pain of the times behind the great cause of unification. He is a lonely system builder who ends the disputes in troubled times with his stern laws; he locks the unified pattern of China for thousands of years with his own courage. The merits are eternal, and the sins are contemporary. The merits and demerits of a lifetime are intertwined and contradictory. In his later years, he traveled all over the world, seeking immortality to consolidate his roots, and worrying about the foundation of his country, and finally fell into the eternal mystery of the sand dunes. Open this book, use the unearthed cultural relics as evidence, and get rid of the glitz and glamor of jokes, and get a glimpse of the most authentic, profound and real life of an emperor throughout the ages.