Zhao is the alias of Qin Shihuang.
Qin Shihuang was born in Handan, Zhao State, in 259 BC. His surname was Ying, Zhao family, and his name was Zheng. He was also known as Zhao Zheng, Qin Zheng, or Zulong. In 247 BC, Qin Shihuang ascended the throne when he was 13 years old.
In 238 BC, at the age of 22, the adult coronation ceremony of the king was held in the old capital Yongcheng. He began to personally manage the government affairs, getting rid of Lu Buwei, Lao Ai and others, and re-employing Li Si and Wei Liao.
From 230 BC to 221 BC, the six kingdoms of Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan, and Qi were successively destroyed. At the age of 39, they completed the great cause of unifying China and established a unified central government with the Han nationality as the main body. The Qin Dynasty, a powerful centralized state, established the territory of China's mainland.
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In the thirty-first year of the First Emperor's reign, the emperor ordered that landlords and farmers who occupy land should declare the amount of land to the government and pay taxes, and their land ownership will be recognized and protected by the government. , and unified the national weights and measures system based on the weights and measures formulated by Shang Yang.
Unify the national currency system, develop national water and land transportation, and implement the same track for vehicles and trains, and build a Chi Road from Xianyang to the Yanqi and Wuchu areas, as well as a straight road from Xianyang to Jiuyuan via Yunyang; Five-foot roads were built in the southwest and the Ling Canal was excavated to connect the Xiangjiang River and the Lijiang River.
In terms of cultural and ideological aspects, Xiaozhuan was formulated based on the characters popular in the Qin State and issued throughout the country. And using the five virtues of the Yin and Yang family in the Warring States Period, the Qin Dynasty got the virtue of water, and the color of the water was black, and the number of the end was six.
Therefore, it is stipulated that all clothes, banners and festival flags should be black, and the system of Fu Chuan, Dharma Crown, Yu Cheng and other systems all use six as the number. Water governs yin, and yin represents punishment and death, so this is used as a basis to increase the implementation of severe torture laws.
In the thirty-fourth year of the First Emperor's reign, he ordered the destruction of folk collections of "Poems", "Books" and Baijiayu, and prohibited private study. Later, Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng, who were seeking immortal medicine, fled, implicating more than 400 Confucian scholars and alchemists, and all of them were killed in Xianyang.
After Qin Shihuang ascended the throne, he sent Meng Tian to lead troops to attack the Xiongnu. He also connected the Great Walls in the north of Qin, Zhao, and Yan during the Warring States Period, and built the Great Wall from Lintao in the west to Liaodong in the east.
After conquering the Baiyue area, Guilin, Xiangjun, Nanhai and other counties were established. At the end of the First Emperor's reign, the number of Qin's counties increased from 36 at the beginning of unification to more than 40. Its territory extended from Haiji and Korea in the east, to Lintao and Qiangzhong in the west, to Xianghu in the south, to the north by the river, and from Yinshan to Liaodong. . ?
After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he built the luxurious Epang Palace and Lishan Tomb. He conducted five large-scale parades, carved stones in famous mountain resorts to commemorate his achievements, and showed off his prestige.
In order to seek the elixir of immortality, they also sent the alchemist Xu and thousands of boys and girls to the East China Sea to pray for immortals, etc., which consumed huge financial and manpower and deepened the people's suffering.
Baidu Encyclopedia—Qin Shihuang