Ray Huang’s book 1587: A Year of No Significance

The title of Huang Yuxi's "1587: Meaningless Year: The Age of the Ming Dynasty" does hardly indicate that this book is based on a one-year work. In fact, however, Huang Yuxi's research on the case in 1587 shows the complex manipulation of the leaders during the decline of Ming Dynasty, and the reader has to understand social structure, government processes, and systematic mistakes To get a deeper understanding of. To seemingly unavoidable decline.

I noticed that the emperor might not be as strong as I thought until I read Lei Huang's "1587, meaningless year". The emperor can succeed the throne, but his power is not originally given by his men. Working with people is complicated and it does not exclude him from complexity as an emperor. In some cases, the mature government function is like an automated machine, the emperor's men are not to interfere with real political issues, but to be a symbol of a quiet and abstract "will of God" I hope. As Ray Huang wrote in the book, Emperor Wanli is only a prisoner of the Forbidden City.

Qin Shihuang was the first emperor in China. He unified China and built the Great Wall. Qin Shihuang left many heritage and made China into today's appearance. "In his 35-year reign he succeeded in creating a magnificent and enormous architectural project, he also brought incredible cultural and intellectual growth, and massive destruction in China "(About.com) He is good at unifying China, but he did a lot of things that are considered unacceptable to those of the day. He killed many scholars because they were afraid that they would overtake him. At the same time, many slaves were sacrificed during the construction of the Great Wall. Many people think that Qin Shishou ignores the contribution to China and is a cruel emperor. But his contribution goes far beyond his ruthless behavior; Qin Shihuang is a noble emperor

In fact, the construction of the emperor's grave began long before Qin Shihuang became the first Chinese emperor. When Qin Shihuang was 13, he got into the Qin's throne and soon began establishing his eternal resting place. But in 221 BC, when Qin Shihuang successfully unified China, it started to comprehensively build, as he ordered 700,000 people from across the country. The tomb is located in Linyi County, Shaanxi province, completed in 38 years, completed in just a few years after his death.