He would continue to cultivate and strengthen himself so that the tragedy would not repeat itself. This life, he wanted to find out the truth and the one behind his murder in last life. Then he sacrificed all his cultivation without hesitation and returned to the day before he was to be released. After painstaking cultivation of three thousand years, he succeeded. Carrying the weight of his hatred, Chu Xun began to cultivate in hopes of becoming an Immortal Emperor, who could manipulate heaven and earth and travel through time. Even though he had escaped death many times, he still died from his cellmates’ fists the day before he was to be released.Īfter death, Chu Xun transmigrated to a different world of cultivation, where cultivation was the one true path. For three whole years, he suffered extraodinary torment from his cellmates every day. The nation’s first standing army, possibly consisting of millions, guarded the wall from northern invaders.A lifetime ago, Chu Xun was shackled and thrown in jail on false charges. The wall was roughly 1,500 miles long, and wide enough for six horses to gallop abreast along the top. Seven hundred thousand forced laborers were used in building the wall, and thousands of them were crushed beneath the massive gray rocks. The philosophy of Mohism in particular was completely wiped out.įinally, Qin Shi Huang began the building of the Great Wall of China, one of the greatest construction feats of all time, to protect the nation against barbarians. This burning of books and execution of philosophers marked the end of the Hundred Schools of Thought. In contrast, in line with his attempt to impose Legalism, Qin Shi Huang strongly discouraged philosophy (particularly Confucianism) and history-he buried 460 Confucian scholars alive and burned many of their philosophical texts, as well as many historical texts that were not about the Qin state.
He established elaborate postal and irrigation systems, and built great highways. He also standardized systems of currency, weights, and measures, and conducted a census of his people. Qin Shi Huang standardized writing, a crucial factor in the overcoming of cultural barriers between provinces, and unifying the empire. This canal helped send half a million Chinese troops to conquer the lands to the south. He built the Lingqu Canal, which joined the Yangtze River basin to the Canton area via the Li River. The First Emperor divided China into provinces, with civil and military officials in a hierarchy of ranks. This laid the foundation for the consolidation of the Chinese territories that we know today, and resulted in a very bureaucratic state with a large economy, capable of supporting an expanded military. With Qin Shi Huang’s standardization of society and unification of the states, for the first time in centuries, into the first Chinese empire, he enabled the Chinese to think of themselves as members of a single kingdom. The Qin Dynasty was one of the shortest in all of Chinese history, lasting only about 15 years, but it was also one of the most important. The nobility were stripped of control and authority so that the independent and disloyal nobility that had plagued the Zhou would not pose a problem.
He relied on brutal techniques and Legalist doctrine to consolidate and expand his power.
Today he is known as Qin Shi Huang, meaning First Qin Emperor. He renamed himself Shi Huangdi (First Emperor), a far grander title than King, establishing the way in which China would be ruled for the next two millennia. When the Qin state emerged victorious from the Warring States period in 221 BCE, the state’s leader, King Zheng, claimed the Mandate of Heaven and established the Qin Dynasty. Construction began during the Qin Dynasty, under Shi Huangdi. \)Īn ancient Chinese fortification, almost 4,000 miles long, originally designed to protect China from the Mongols.