Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 282 The Mystery of the Imperial Mausoleum
"At the beginning of the first emperor's accession to the throne, he ruled Lishan Mountain and unified the world. The world sent more than [-] people to pass through three springs, and put copper into the outer coffin. All the palace officials, rare artifacts and treasures were moved to Zangman. Let the craftsman make a machine The arrow shoots at those who pass through it. Use mercury as the source of hundreds of rivers, rivers, and seas, and instill them with the machine, with astronomy on the top and geography on the bottom. Mermaid ointment is used as a candle, and those who are immortal will last for a long time."

This paragraph is the record of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor by Sima Qian in the "Historical Records". Not excavated.

It can be said that this is the first time Ziying, who has been a human for two generations, stepped into the scope of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor.

Ziying walked slowly in front, accompanied by Zuo Shaofu'an and several master craftsmen responsible for the specific construction of the First Emperor's Mausoleum, and was ready to answer Ziying's questions at any time.

As he walked and asked, Ziying finally had a general understanding of the situation of the First Emperor's Mausoleum.

When I was studying history in my previous life, I read that a total of 70 people were conscripted to build a mausoleum. Ziying felt a little unbelievable back then.

There are also many people on the Internet who think that Tai Shigong's records are a bit exaggerated.

Now that I understand it in detail, Ziying knows that it is a miracle that such a project can be completed by [-] people during the years when the First Emperor was in power.

Let's put it this way, according to An's explanation, the Mausoleum of the First Emperor was built completely according to the regulations of a large-scale underground city, and it is even no worse than today's Xianyang palace complex.

The entire imperial mausoleum is divided into two areas, inside and outside, imitating the city system of Xianyang. The underground palace of the first emperor's mausoleum is located in the south of the inner city.

Between the inner city area and the inner and outer cities, a large number of palace buildings were built in the shape of Xianyang, the capital of Qin Dynasty, and hundreds of burial pits were being excavated underground at the same time. The Eighth Wonder of the World "Pit of Terracotta Army"

But now the terracotta warriors and horses pit is nothing more than an ordinary burial pit.

There are also some more important burial pits that are planned to be buried with armor, weapons, jewelry, jade and other valuable materials, as well as pits for rare birds, pits for exotic animals, pits for horses, and pits for human sacrifices.

Almost everything that can be found today will be specially sorted and prepared for burial.

Such a huge amount of treasures can be said to be the accumulation of several generations of emperors in the entire Qin Kingdom, and there are even treasures looted from the treasury of the Six Kingdoms after Qin eliminated the Six Kingdoms.

Seeing these babies even felt like taking the entire Qin Empire to bury them.

In comparison, it is just some clay sculptures of terracotta warriors and horses, but it is just a very common item.

Thinking about what happened to the Mausoleum of the First Emperor recorded in the later history books, Ziying couldn't help feeling that so much wealth was buried deep underground, which brought peace in another world.

It should be said that there are endless disturbances.

If Ziying remembers correctly, there are only records of tomb robbery by the army in later generations, and the Mausoleum of the First Emperor has encountered no less than several times, and the number of tomb robbers is even more uncountable.

All the valuable treasures in the sacrificial pit outside have been snatched up by waves of tomb robbers.

Only some stone figurines, stone armor, broken bronzes and other items that are worthless in the eyes of tomb robbers are left.

According to Ziying's thinking, it is better to save such a huge amount of supplies to deal with possible turmoil in the future.

Even if it is successfully exempted, so much wealth and the manpower, material and financial resources consumed, it is best to be able to use it for people's livelihood.

The people are at peace, and the world is at peace.Chinese working people can be said to be the most simple type of people. As long as they can eat enough, they will never have other thoughts.

If such a huge wealth is used to improve people's livelihood, it will definitely play a very good role in stabilizing the hearts of the people in the world.

If everyone in the world has food to eat, and everyone has clothes to wear, it would be nice to let others call out princes, princes and generals!Shouted his throat.

And who would put their head in their waists and abandon their homes to rebel?
Thinking of this, Ziying suddenly thought of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang who yelled this sentence first.

These two should be nothing more than ordinary people with flat heads now, should we eliminate the hidden dangers in advance.

But after thinking about it, Ziying still resisted to give up this very tempting idea.

If the Qin regime continues like this, if Chen Sheng and Wu Guang do not rebel, there will definitely be Zhang Sheng and Li Guang who will rise up.

This is simply unavoidable.

From the source point of view, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising was just to survive, and the root cause was caused by the Qin Empire itself.

The most important point is that although the actions of the two can be described as shocking, their resourcefulness and courage are really lackluster.

It was nothing more than a group of armed ordinary people. It was useless for Qin's regular army to be completely wiped out by a group of servants and prisoners led by Zhang Han.

It was just a leadership role.

If these two people were dealt with in advance, and replaced by a ruthless person like Liu Bang Xiangliang who was the first to wave his arms, the difficulty of calming down would increase geometrically.

You must know that the first one to raise his arms in that situation will definitely accumulate the most power gathered from all directions.

After thinking about it, let's keep these two...

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As he walked, Ziying kept asking questions like a curious baby.

Although the autumn wind was picking up and the weather was getting cooler, there was still a burst of cold sweat on Ann's back.

It's really that Ziying asked too detailed questions about all aspects, from the price of materials to the construction of earthworks, even the life of the servants had to be asked clearly.

If I hadn't called several master craftsmen who were in charge of the construction to accompany me just now, I would really be unable to cope with this meeting.

The most unbelievable thing for An is that in some civil engineering institutions, Ziying can even discuss with his most proficient master craftsmen.

——The final result turned out to be that the master craftsman bowed his head and surrendered.

It could be seen that the master craftsman under him, who was originally proud and arrogant, was convinced by defeat.

This made An feel a little more in awe of Ziying.

He didn't even have the guts to fool Ziying.

Walking and walking, most of the day passed quickly, and Ziying also had a general understanding of the situation of the entire Mausoleum of the First Emperor.

Who would have thought that under the current productivity conditions, the scale of a mere imperial mausoleum could be so huge.

However, just as Ziying was about to end today's trip and prepare to return, Ziying noticed a very strange scene among the crowd who were busy transporting stone cubes under the supervision of the supervisor.

Among the transported crowd was a child who looked no more than eight or nine years old.

Because of his lack of strength, the supervisor's whip greeted him frequently, but after the child was whipped, he just didn't cry out a word of pain, and just looked at Qin's supervisor with hatred.

(End of this chapter)