Which dynasty was the next in Zhou dynasty?

The next dynasty of the Zhou Dynasty was the Qin Dynasty.

The Qin Dynasty (22 1-206) was the first imperial country in the history of China.

At the end of the Warring States period, Qiang Qin wiped out the other six countries by force and unified the whole country. In the twenty-sixth year of Ying Zheng (the first 22 years1year), the king of Qin changed the former feudal system into a centralized system, with "Huang San" as the emperor and "Five Emperors" as the emperor, claiming to be the first emperor, with Xianyang as its capital, and Qin Shihuang as the first emperor. The first emperor divided the world into 36 counties, and the officials were appointed by the court, and the hereditary system was no longer adopted. In North Korea, there are about prime ministers, ambassadors, doctors, generals, Ting Wei and other official positions. He also ordered the unification of the scripts and weights and measures of the six countries, taking Qin Zhuan (Xiao Zhuan) revised by Li Si in Qin Dynasty as the national unified font. After large-scale immigration, the obstacles in dialects were eliminated. In 22 1 year, Qin Shihuang issued unified measurement's imperial edict, which stipulated various orders such as monetary system, farmland system and railway system.

In order to reduce the threat of the northern minorities of the Huns, the first emperor sent general Meng Tian to attack the northern Huns with 300,000 troops, and connected and repaired the original walls of the six countries, and gradually built the Great Wall of Wan Li. In China, the first emperor sent a large number of civilian workers to build huge palaces and tombs for him, of which Abang Palace was the most important. It is said that Xiang Yu burned down Abang Palace after the Qin Dynasty was destroyed, and it took three months for the fire to gradually extinguish.

During the twelve years of the reign of the first emperor, he traveled around the world many times. In the first 220 years, I traveled to Longxi and Beidi counties. In 2 19, I traveled to Zou Yishan for the second time. In 2 18, I visited Zhifu mountain for the third time to carve stones; In 2 15, he traveled eastward for the fourth time to carve stone carvings in Jieshishan; In 2 10, the fifth southern tour went to Jiuyi Mountain. By touring the world, the first emperor prayed for the blessing of heaven and earth on the one hand, and showed the majesty of the emperor to the world on the other. In order to live forever, he sent Xu Fu out to sea to seek immortality, and Xu Fu never came back.

During the five tours, the first emperor died, and Prime Minister Reese and eunuch Zhao Gao conspired to make Hu Hai, the 18th son of the first emperor, the emperor of Qin Ershi. Zhao Gao and Reese forged the testamentary edict of the first emperor and killed Prince Fu Su and General Meng Tian for personal benefit. Soon Zhao Gao killed Reese again, and the regime of the Qin Dynasty completely fell into the hands of Hu Hai and Zhao Gao. However, Qin Ershi was ignorant and listened to the words of the treacherous court official Zhao Gao, which aroused people's dissatisfaction, and all localities rose up to resist. In the first 209 years, Chen Sheng and Guangwu uprising; 207 years ago, Xiang Yu, Liu Bang and others rose up against Qin one after another, which led to the rapid disintegration of the Qin Empire. 206 years ago, Zhao Gao forced Hu Hai II to commit suicide and made Zi Ying emperor. At this time, Liu Bang had captured Xianyang, and Zi Ying killed Zhao Gao and then went out of the city to surrender, ending the rule of the Qin Dynasty.

Politically, the Qin Dynasty broke the feudal system dominated by hereditary system in the past, liberated slaves to civilians, and the central government directly appointed and dismissed officials, thus strengthening the centralized rule of the emperor over the country. 1922, in order to consolidate its new political system, Qin Shihuang, following the advice of Prime Minister Li Si, ordered the burning of all private books except Qin historical books, medical books, agricultural books and divination books, and later buried more than 460 Confucian scholars alive, which was later called "burning books to bury Confucianism". By suppressing Confucianism, Qin Shihuang, to a certain extent, eliminated the call of Confucianism to restore the ancient system and further stabilized the new system. However, after the first emperor ascended the throne, the corvee was greatly improved. At that time, the population of the Qin Dynasty was about 20 million, of which1500,000 built the imperial tomb. Keep five mountains and five hundred thousand; Use Montaigne to defend the Huns by 300,000; 500,000 yuan to build the Great Wall; Together with others, the total population is no less than 3 million, accounting for nearly 15% of the total population, and the human resources are exhausted, which leads to the shortage of manpower in other economic activities such as agriculture and the normal development, which leads to the lack of great economic development in Qin State.

The state of Qin lasted only fifteen years from the founding of the first emperor (22 1 year ago) to Zi Ying (206 years ago).