Talk:Shi Huang Di/@comment-37308134-20181204150359/@comment-37687392-20181206210328

@Nep-nep,   he's painted like this, cuz during his reign,  a political group called 儒家 aka Confucianism, is not abiding his law and disrupting his rule cuz the group don't agree with his ideology. Emperor has a strong focus on law and military, yet the confucianism group think ppl should just develop manners and using peaceful negotiation as a tool and don't think the contury is on the right path so they openly oppose SHD. even one of assasinations attempt of the emperor has a bit tie with the faction. that's why he persecuted said faction, burned their books and killed their followers. not all knowledge. but after SHD passed away and dynasty passed, the confucianism gained power and become the top even  the only great political faction, since all scholars came after is studying and using confucianism as their code and ideology, SHD got villainized and depicted as the big bad guy in the history that burn all book, kill all scholars.