Qin Dynasty (221 B.C. - 206 B.C.)
In 230 B.C., The King of Qin begin to unify the whole country, in nine years, Qin Dynasty eliminate Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan, Qi,6 country successively and unified the whole China in 221 B.C.. The division situation of 600 years-long in China was over, Qin Dynasty’s governance formal begin.
Qin Dynasty was the first autocratic monarchy country in China history. The Qin Dynasty having broken the enfeoff system in political system, release slaves, each government official is appointed and removed directly by the central government, has strengthened the emperor’s centralization. In 221 B.C., in order to intensify the new political system, the first emperor of Qin Dynasty commanded that burn private books, and then bury more than 460 alive Confucian scholars. It was called that “burn book and bury Confucianism”. Through suppressing to Confucianism, the first emperor of Qin Dynasty has dispelled the Confucianism, further steady the new country system. But the first emperor of Qin dynasty implements the tyranny, go in for force the whole country people to build the Great Wall and his mausoleum, Cause human resources consume totally, cause agriculture and other economic activity manpower not enough, can’t develop normally. So, there was not economic development in Qin Dynasty.
The first emperor of Qin dynasty established the Qin Dynasty in 221, to Ziying Qin (the first emperor of Qin dynasty’s son) (206 B.C.) over, only go through 15 years from beginning to end.
The foundation of Qin Dynasty, have epoch-making meanings in China’s history. Though the time that it exists is very short, but its political and economic systems have extremely far-reaching influence on the feudal society of China.
