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.
Alas, 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:
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