Although Ban Gu, a historian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, refuted Qin Shihuang's cruelty, he still affirmed some systems of Qin Shihuang and thought that "the enactment of laws is applicable to the empress. Cover the power of the sage, and the river god gives the picture. "
Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, said: "In modern times, only Qin Huang and Hanwu have leveled the world and expanded the frontier."
Liu Zongyuan, a thinker in the Tang Dynasty, pointed out in his masterpiece "On Feudalism" that it was in line with historical development that Qin Shihuang abolished the enfeoffment system and established the county system.
The objective and inevitable trend, the so-called "Qin has changed, it is a system, and the public is also big; The end of the public world began in the Qin Dynasty. The meaning of non-saints is also, and the situation is also. "
Zhang said, a famous reformer in the Ming Dynasty: "From the three generations to the Qin Dynasty, those who resumed the chaos were also established in order to survive to this day. History says that the king of Zhou is poor, and it is bound to become Qin, introducing the previous generation of literary system, killing it and sticking to the law alone. " The rule of the Western Han Dynasty was simple and strict, relying on expelling Qin. "
Zhang Taiyan, a thinker in the late Qing Dynasty, also praised Qin Shihuang in Qin Zhengji written by 19 13, saying, "Although there are four Huang San emperors and six or five emperors, they are not as good as dragons."
Xia Cengyou, another historical pioneer in the late Qing Dynasty, said: "If there is an emperor of the Han Dynasty, so will his great-grandfather;" China has a 24th dynasty emperor, so do Qin Huang and Hanwu. "
Liu Yimou, the pioneer of China's modern historiography, commented in the Cultural History of China: "The legal system in the era of the first emperor was really a great spirit. China, thousands of miles away from the rule of one government, is the evolution of solid state, which restrained the evolution of thought at that time. " "Beggar Qin Zheng said that the year of the emperor was the end of this two thousand years ago and the starting point of this two thousand years later. This is not the key to history. However, although Qin had the merit of unified management, it failed to do its best to unify planning. All the policies of the Qin Dynasty were made by the Han Dynasty. Qin people come back to life, but Han people have emotions. "
Lv Simian, a famous historian in modern China, commented in A General History of China: "Qin Shihuang always said that he was a tyrant, which wiped out his benefits. Actually, this is not right. His politics is really ideal. "
Even Mr. Lu Xun thought: "Qin Shihuang was really wronged. His loss is that he died in the second year, and a group of idlers spoke ill of him for his new master. Yes, Qin Shihuang burned books to unify his thoughts. But he didn't burn agricultural books and medical books; He recruited many "guest ministers" from other countries, not focusing on "Qin thought" but absorbing various ideas. "
On Qin, on Qin's transgressions. The original text is divided into three parts: upper, middle and lower. It is contained in the first volume of New Book and the fifty-first volume of Selected Works. It is also recorded in Historical Records of Qin Benji, Historical Records of Chen She Aristocratic Family and Hanshu. The full text focuses on analyzing the faults of the Qin Dynasty from all aspects, so it is named "On Qin". This paper aims to summarize the historical experience of Qin's sudden death and provide reference for the establishment of the system and the consolidation of the rule in the Han Dynasty. Author Jia Yi (200 BC-65438 BC+068 BC), known as Jia Taifu, Jia Changsha and Jia Sheng. Luoyang people. Political commentator and writer in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty.