Post-Conquest Disarmament / 统一后收兵器

Post-conquest disarmament / 统一后收兵器 is the control mechanism 《资治通鉴·秦纪》120-4｜并六国后 秦始皇教你如何守江山 attaches to 嬴政 / 秦始皇’s first imperial rule after 秦国 destroys the six states. The episode says that after the thirty-six-commandery order is established, Qin collects weapons from across the realm, transports them to 咸阳, melts them down, and casts them into twelve large metal figures.

The concept captures both sides of the act. Practically, removing weapons reduces the immediate capacity of conquered regions to organize armed resistance. Symbolically, turning those weapons into palace objects converts the military capacity of the defeated world into an imperial display at the center.

This sits between 郡县制反分封定局 and 帝国符号标准化. Direct administration defines who governs territory; disarmament changes what local society can do if it rejects that order; the twelve figures make coercion visible as imperial possession.

Key Claims

• Disarmament is a post-victory operation, not a battlefield tactic.
• Weapon seizure matters because conquered local societies may still have personnel, memory, and resentment even after their states are gone.
• Melting weapons into palace figures turns military control into political theater.
• The measure makes sense beside 豪杰迁徙控制: both reduce the practical basis for regional rebellion.
• The episode treats the measure as part of the same “守江山” problem as measurement standards, commandery-county rule, and capital construction.

Connections

• 嬴政 / 秦始皇, 秦国, and 咸阳 - ruler, state, and capital named in the source’s disarmament sequence.
• 郡县制反分封定局 - direct-rule settlement whose security disarmament supports.
• 帝国符号标准化 - symbolic counterpart to turning confiscated weapons into visible imperial objects.
• 豪杰迁徙控制 and 帝国整齐划一 - adjacent control mechanisms from the same source.