Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were both army officers who were ordered to lead their bands of commoner soldiers north to participate in the defense of Yuyang (simplified Chinese: 渔阳; traditional Chinese: 漁陽). However, they were stopped halfway in present-day Anhui province by flooding from a severe rainstorm. The harsh Qin laws mandated execution for those who showed up late for government jobs, regardless of the nature of the delay. Figuring that they would rather fight than accept execution, Chen and Wu organized a band of 900 villagers to rebel against the government.
>fuck up at work >stuff happens >found new dynastyAlas, they didn’t win, but their rebellion did mark the beginning of the end of the Qin Dynasty and paved the way for Liu Bang, the peasant who founded the Han Dynasty. He had a similar story:
Liu was responsible for escorting a group of penal laborers to the construction site of the First Emperor’s mausoleum at Mount Li. During the journey, some prisoners escaped; under Qin law, allowing prisoners to escape was punishable by death. Rather than face punishment, Liu freed the remaining prisoners and fled. Liu was joined by some of the grateful ex-prisoners, and he became their leader.
So this basically happened a bunch of times. I would imagine future emperors saw the outcome and did away with the we kill you for being late to work thing
