Odd question, but ok…
On the plus side:
- Unified China.
- Extensive public works.
- Impressive economic and administrative reforms.
On the negative side:
- The suppression of the Hundred Schools of Thought through the burying alive of scholars and the burning of books en masse is one of the most terrible acts of cultural and intellectual destruction in world history.
- Killed a lot of people when you add up wars, penal labor, etc.
- Towards the end, went very very crazy.
- Completely failed to manage the succession due to never making a will because he wanted to live forever.
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