WRT the war machine: It's more than 秦始皇 pissed off the Confucian scholars, who still held a lot of sway over the major families etc. and legalism was...uh, also pissing people off. Now I'm beginning to think a huge push for wanting to erase the Han dynasty comes from domestic resentment of current ruling regime...
WRT Han dynasty in specific: The utter irony of it all being that the founding emperor of Han admired and looked up to the Qin political system, basically adopted it wholesale with the exception of elevating the Confucian scholars to a higher social standing, thus consolidating the Liu family's control in the centralized system - a thing that Qin couldn't succeed due to the heavy push back from the Confucian followers in positions of power. Of course, a lot of people also seem to ignore the 180 turn in Confucian scholars' attitude towards centralized governance during the Qin-to-Han upheaval, so...meh.
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WRT the war machine: It's more than 秦始皇 pissed off the Confucian scholars, who still held a lot of sway over the major families etc. and legalism was...uh, also pissing people off. Now I'm beginning to think a huge push for wanting to erase the Han dynasty comes from domestic resentment of current ruling regime...
WRT Han dynasty in specific: The utter irony of it all being that the founding emperor of Han admired and looked up to the Qin political system, basically adopted it wholesale with the exception of elevating the Confucian scholars to a higher social standing, thus consolidating the Liu family's control in the centralized system - a thing that Qin couldn't succeed due to the heavy push back from the Confucian followers in positions of power. Of course, a lot of people also seem to ignore the 180 turn in Confucian scholars' attitude towards centralized governance during the Qin-to-Han upheaval, so...meh.