Two days ago, "Ying Zheng Literature" became a hot search.

As an old pussy 2D, when I first saw this hot search, I thought it was the coquettish big slutty moth in FGO who had made a fool of himself.

(like two years ago)

Or the handsome middle school guy with strong S in "The End of Valkyrie" has a new side plot

Or what happened to the domestic animation that lasted longer than the Qin Dynasty

(Forget it, you'll die or forget it)

But when I didn't expect that this "Ying Zheng" is really that one.

And "Ying Zheng Literature" is a text that a large number of netizens cleared Ying Zheng's reputation, expressed respect, and was sincerely proud.

(It's a little shocking)

In the mouths of netizens, the Qin Dynasty was not the high-pressure regime in which the Qin people were full of prosperity and the people were cruel and cruel”, “killing people would be like being unable to be promoted, and punishing people would be like being unable to win”, but an open and gentle working-class country; Ying Zheng was no longer the tyrant who made the people of the world work hard and frightened.

But the handsome and handsome man, with a wise and magnanimous genius, ended the disputes in the world, and ruled the country according to law after unifying the six kings.

(My career is like my last name)

In fact, objectively speaking, if Qin Shihuang could really treat people's livelihood as well as they were in their words, reduce taxes and labor service, and work hard on this basis to complete many grand public facilities construction, without any suspicion of blood-killing, and the country was prosperous and the people were safe during his reign, then the Qin Dynasty became the white moonlight in the hearts of others, and the fat Ying Zheng became a new material for dreaming men and women.

How good you think, the laws are strict, the sea is peaceful, everyone has a job, everyone can be promoted, lead the Qin people to make great again, and life is hopeful at a glance.

The next step may be, "Brother is so good, all farmers with ulterior motives want to seize the fruits of founding the country."

It's a pity that there is no if.

In fact, the Qin simplified rules mentioned by netizens above all distort the original meaning in a very strange way, so it was said that "corps labor" was to pay wages. In "Yunmeng Sleeping Tigers Qin Bamboo", the original text is like this

"If you are guilty of redemption and owed debts to the government, you should be questioned on the date specified in the judgment. If you are unable to pay compensation, you will be allowed to pay the debts by labor from the date specified, and eight cents will be paid for each day of work; the government will give you food and six cents will be paid every day."

"Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger Land Qin Slips" Eighteen Qin Laws,Empty Law (Excerpt):

"If you have a guilty act, you will be punished and have a responsibility (debt) to the public. If you ask him about it every day, you will not be able to enter and pay (debt). If you ask him about it every day, you will be 8 yuan per day. If you eat someone, you will be 6 yuan per day."

Here, we need to re-emphasize the meaning of "corps service": a manifestation of feudal rulers exploiting the working people, which is a special manifestation of the state's universal personal slavery system for labor. In the academic community, corve service in the Qin and Han dynasties in a narrow sense (that is, not including military service), refers to compulsory unpaid labor.

If this is beautiful, then "996" may be a blessing.

Similar to this, the title system in the history of the Qin Dynasty, the comprehensive laws and the multiple population migrations were interpreted as low-energy and warm slogans for the people to be good and build a country. The Legalists' complete set of ideas and measures aimed at fooling the people and weak the people were explained as "the predecessor of modern law"

Yes, it's quite weird.

(Shang Yang: I've dealt with you like this, do you still love me?)

In fact, the so-called laws of the Qin Dynasty are completely different from those of today. This is a set of instructions tailor-made for the people, allowing people to work as a one-time tool to die without brains,

Specifically, the Legalists represented by Shang Yang suggested that the people's living standards should be controlled at the lowest level of food and clothing. A qualified Qin man could not master cultural qualities such as rituals and music, poetry and books, cultivation of goodness, filial piety, integrity, integrity, benevolence and righteousness, and non-military warfare. He should not have wealth and knowledge. His ideal state was that he would not starve to death before he was thirty years old, and he worked hard to farm and replenish the national treasury, and went to war when he was old, and then he would build a tomb for the First Emperor for free.

The poorer and weaker the people will be, the more obedient, the more afraid they will be, and the easier it will be to use them. "If the people are foolish, it is easy to govern" is implemented in "Book of Shangjun", which reflects the cruel history of crazy competition in the late Warring States Period.

The other side of this method is extremely strict control over the people.

In fact, just like the content in the Qin bamboo slips above, the rewards and so-called titles obtained by military service will not be simply promoted or made money, and it will never be difficult to become a real aristocrat. Instead, it is used to redeem the punishment for the law. People in lower-level titles will often fall back from the status of a people who are not as good as death because of a small mistake. It is difficult to rise and fall. Just like your company uses the last-place elimination system to save employment costs, telling workers that "if you do well, you can get promoted" and thinking about "a few more layoffs this month."

(The difference is that Jack Ma really can give money)

This is also a microcosm of Qin Fa. I don’t know when it might be that I picked up a leaf on the roadside and gave a child who was about to starve to death at the neighbor’s house. Or if I say two more words, the person would commit a crime. Qin Fa encouraged each other to report each other, and even advocated that the relatives and neighbors would be held together after the law were violated, so that the crime could be implicated.

The Qin State's laws were not to punish evil and promote good, but to create a large number of free labor as much as possible to meet its own military needs.

On another level, because the people of Qin State have extremely low education levels, the complex and detailed legal provisions are equivalent to a huge knowledge barrier for the Qin people. Moreover, the Qin Dynasty (state) regime did not have an independent supervision system from top to bottom, and could not restrict Qin officials from using laws to govern the Qin people fairly, and the Qin people could not seek independent legal aid like modern people. Therefore, the more complicated and detailed the legal provisions of the Qin Dynasty (country) were (even if each article was literally close to the truth and human feelings), the more likely the Qin people would fall into the dilemma of touching the law at any time.

(The situation in history is just the opposite)

In fact, the laws of several countries outside Qin State are not friendly to the people, and growing like grass is the most basic fate of every people two thousand years ago.

This is basically a consensus among modern civilizations, and the same is true for foreign countries. Pre-modern history is often made of darkness and flesh and blood. Modern life without worries about food and clothing is very short and rare. If you didn’t watch TV series and lose your mind, it would be hard to understand this point.

In fact, in the mouths of another group of people, Qin Shihuang's contribution lies in the Qin Dynasty's system and the first complete unification. The former is the most effective government system in China in thousands of years in various versions of the narrative, while the latter coincides with today's main theme.

This is actually a kind of striking. The history of the formation and development of the country is not just a supplement and expansion of the autocratic monarchy. Today's national unity is completely different from the unity in the feudal period. From institutions, ideas to combination forms, and then to universal human rights, modern civilization should not be roughly assimilated into a narrative with the political system that was thousands of years ago.

The "cars and books are the same as the same track" can be passed down because it has become a production need in the long-term labor of the people. Qin designed it just for its own rule convenience. What really made it work for a long time is the silent majority in history, and it is also the "million-income refugees" in history books.

Yes, history is not the creation of a genius of a certain individual. The contributions and records you see in the history books are created by short-lived, unknown, and casual people in labor. Today, instead of discussing the bloody persecution brought by a feudal government to the people, we also want to summon souls and ask God to create an all-powerful idol, so that all this can be blocked again.

It can be said that in the era where Qin Shihuang lived, we can give objective evaluations, and of course we should also analyze or care based on specific material reality, that is, the specific geographical environment, production conditions, class divisions, as well as its administrative structure and national policy,

But it does not mean that the position of modern civilization and feudal civilization has changed, nor does it mean thatIt means that a modern person needs to sing the civil and military achievements of feudal emperors as enthusiastically as a literati who is eager to seek officialdom. History is not a martial arts field for some geniuses, but a million refugees, millions of dead, and millions of silent individuals. Before modern times, Marx regarded all history as prehistoric history. Lu Xun said that every page of the Twenty-Four Histories said that cannibalism was written on every page, but in fact it was all about one thing, that is, the affairs of most people who were plundered, consumed, and bullied, and all civilizations and history were the creations of the people.