Shang Yang

Author: Zhang Wenbin
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Publish Date: 2001-12-05
Features: Shang Yang, a famous statesman during the Warring States period. This book, with concise text and vivid illustrations, showcases Shang Yang's achievements in reforming the state of Qin by following the historical trend: rewarding military merit; encouraging agriculture and weaving, raising grain prices; conducting population censuses, establishing administrative systems; abolishing the well-field system; abolishing the feudal system, establishing a county system, centralizing power under the king; unifying weights and measures; moving the capital to Xianyang, strengthening control over various regions, making the state of Qin increasingly powerful and laying the foundation for later unifying the empire. In military affairs, he designed a strategy to capture Prince Ao of Wei, decisively defeating the Wei army. For his merits, he was enfeoffed. After the death of King Xiaohong of Qin, he was betrayed and executed by the nobles who opposed the reforms.
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Shang Yang, a famous statesman during the Warring States period, is featured in this book, which, with concise text and vivid illustrations, showcases Shang Yang's achievements in reforming the state of Qin by following the historical trend: rewarding military merit; encouraging agriculture and weaving, raising grain prices; conducting population censuses, establishing administrative systems, abolishing the well-field system, establishing a county system, centralizing power under the king, unifying weights and measures; moving the capital to Xianyang, strengthening control over various regions, making the state of Qin increasingly powerful and laying the foundation for later unifying the empire. In military affairs, he designed a strategy to capture Prince Ao of Wei, decisively defeating the Wei army. For his merits, he was enfeoffed. After the death of King Xiaohong of Qin, he was betrayed and executed by the nobles who opposed the reforms.