No Regrets In Flourishing Tang

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The Great Wall is mainly used for defense, not for viewing, so when there is a need for defense, the ruler will be very keen to build the Great Wall, and when there is no need for defense, the ruler will not spend a lot of money Manpower and material resources to build the Great Wall, this principle is the easiest thing.

Early Stage was established in the Great Tang Empire, because the territory is still relatively small, and there are a lot of hostile forces around it, especially Liu Wuzhou from the north. This Liu Wuzhou, with the support of the Turks, captured Jinyang, the birthplace of the Great Tang, and captured it. In most parts of Hedong, the situation of intimidating customs was formed. Great Tang immediately took tough measures. On the one hand, it was natural to send Qin King Li Shimin to lead elite soldiers to resist Liu Wuzhou. On the other hand, it was to quickly build defensive facilities, that is, to build a Great Wall. It is used to resist the threat of Liu Wuzhou, and even block the Turkic cavalry who may go south at any time, and protect the safety of the new Great Tang regime.

This one started from Ping City and continued to the Great Wall of Lukou, which is the only one Great Wall built by the Great Tang Empire. After that, because the territory of the Great Tang Empire has been expanding, and finally after defeating the strong enemy Turke, When the territory was expanded far away in the north, all the Great Walls in the territory became internal defensive structures, and the military defensive role was lost, so it became less important.

In this case, the Great Tang dynasty did not continue to build the Great Wall. Even the maintenance of the original Great Wall was canceled. Some cities close to the Great Wall, in order to build the city wall, even the stones on the Great Wall were demolished, and Use these stones to build the city and the buildings in the city.

In the Great Tang era, there was a Great Wall but it was not used. In the Great Song Dynasty, there was simply no Great Wall. In the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a little Great Wall to rely on. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the territory ran along the Huaihe River, far away from the Great Wall. There is no longer a problem of repairing the Great Wall. It seems that the effect of using a natural river such as the Huai River for defense is quite good.

Although the Great Song did not need the Great Wall to be built, the Liao and Jin Kingdoms occupying the Central Plains continued to build the Great Wall, and it also took a lot of energy. Even the ethnic Mongolia on horseback, after the establishment of the Great Yuan Dynasty, also initiated repairs The cause of the Great Wall.

In the Ming Dynasty, because of the need to defend the Mongolian cavalry south, Daming Imperial Court once again carried out a large-scale construction of the Great Wall. Many tall and majestic Great Walls that were preserved in later generations were built during the Ming Dynasty. This The Great Wall built during the period is better and longer. It can even be said that the Ming Great Wall is the dynasty with the most built city walls among all dynasties.

After all, the time of the Qin Dynasty is very short, only for several decades. The length of the Great Wall that can be built is definitely not as great as that of the Great Ming Dynasty, because the Great Ming Dynasty has been in the past 200 years. The construction of the Great Wall has never stopped.

This is also related to the threats faced by the Great Ming Dynasty. After ousting the Mongolian forces, the unwilling Mongolian nobility, Valai and Tatar, often led the Ministry to harass south, which caused great harm to the border of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the Northeast The newly emerged Jurchens have also become stronger and stronger. These forces are relatively strong, and they all have strong cavalry. In order to deal with them, the Great Ming Dynasty had to spend huge manpower and material resources on the border. Built the Great Wall and used it to resist the threat of these nomadic peoples in the north.

By the time of the Qing dynasty, as the territory increased again, the northern border extended to uninhabited areas, and there were no more enemies in the north that could threaten the Qing dynasty, so the Great Wall was naturally ignored again, at least, the inherited The Ming Great Wall is enough, there is no need to continue to spend huge manpower and material resources to build a new Great Wall. In the late Qing Dynasty, the main enemies of the Qing dynasty came from the sea, and building a city wall on land became even more meaningless. Moreover, as the formidable power of firearms became larger and larger, the city wall built of stones and loess no longer existed. Too much of a substantial effect, a powerful artillery can easily open a thick stone city wall to a big mouth, so it is meaningless to continue to spend huge manpower and material resources to build the city wall.

According to the historical documents of later generations, the construction of the Great Wall exceeded ten thousand li, that is, the Qin, Han, and Ming dynasties. Qin Country built the ten thousand li Great Wall from the west to Lintao to the east, and the Hexi Corridor from the Han Dynasty to the west. , East to the ten thousand li Great Wall in Liaodong, while the Ming Dynasty built the ten thousand li Great Wall from Jiayuguan in the west to the Yalu River in the east.

The Great Wall, which can be seen and known by later generations, is the Great Wall built by the Great Ming Dynasty, such as the famous 8 Daling Great Wall, which is the essence of the Ming Great Wall.

Li An leaned down casually and squeezed a handful of them to pinch down a large piece of loess on the Great Wall of Qin. After all, the city wall here has been in disrepair for a long time. Under the intense sunlight, the loess It has become very loose, at least the exposed top layer of loess is indeed very loose, and it will shatter with just a pinch.

“Let’s see! The Great Wall here was originally able to resist the attack of swords, but now, as long as you gently squeeze it with your hands, it will break. It is no wonder that it is almost 1000 years old, and the loess has weathered.”

Li An sighed.

“In recent years, at the request of elder sister, I have also read a lot of history books of the Central Plains. The Great Qin dynasty unified the world and made a great contribution to the prosperity of the whole world. It is very good to build the ten thousand li Great Wall. The protection of the 100 surnames in the Central Plains is a good thing that benefits 1000 autumns and 10000 generations, but the Qin Emperor has carried too many infamy. “

Li Hanlu sighed.

“Yes! Qin Emperor did bear too many infamy, but he was not wronged at all. Who made him so happy and did not leave room to do things, he forced 1000000 people to build the Great Wall, and died a lot of people, he made The harsh policies of the future made the future generations feel terrified when they heard it, and it was normal to be scolded. “

Li An said.

Qin Shihuang unified the 6 countries, built the ten thousand li Great Wall, the same car, the same book, and made great contributions to the development of Chinese civilization, but he was too impatient to do everything in a short time. This situation naturally increases the burden of the old 100 surnames, makes the old 100 surnames miserable, and then sends out the cry of suffering from the world.

“Yeah! Emperor Qin is too anxious, and many people died in order to repair the Great Wall? I heard that as long as there are civilians tired, then the body will be buried in the Great Wall. Is this true? If it is true? Then it is too terrifying. “

Li Hanlu said.

Li An nodded and said: “This nature is true, or if we start digging now, maybe we can find some dead bodies from this City Wall section ruin?”

“Forget it! Don’t dig anymore.”

Li Hanlu is courageous and not afraid of seeing dead people, but digging the Great Wall to find the body is not fun. She is unwilling to do such boring things.

“By the way, I heard that there is a woman named Meng Jiangnv. She can cry the Great Wall. I do n’t know if it is true. If it is true, it is too evil.”

Li Hanlu continued to ask.

Li An question, I do n’t know how to answer it. This kind of thing is obviously unlikely to be true. How can the Great Wall collapse because a woman is crying, unless it is encountered by an earthquake, or the quality of the building is in question.

However, Meng Jiangnv crying about the Great Wall is quite interesting.

According to legend, in the ancient times, Meng This Old Man and Jiang This Old Man were neighbors to each other, only separated by a wall. In the spring of one year, Meng This Old Man planted a bottle gourd seed in his own yard. After careful cultivation by watering and fertilization, the bottle gourd seedlings grew fat and tall, crawling from the wall to the courtyard of this Old Man ginger A large bottle gourd was formed, weighing several tens of pounds. After the bottle gourd was cooked, Ginger This Old Man took a knife to cut it, and suddenly saw a white, fat, and very cute female doll lying inside. Ginger This Old Man was overjoyed and rushed to tell each other. Came to watch this new thing, but Meng and Jiang 2 This Old Man had contradictions because of this, they were too quarrelsome. Meng This Old Man said very firmly: “This bottle gourd was planted by me personally, the fat girl should belong to me.” Jiang This Old Man said stubbornly: “This bottle gourd is tied in my yard, this baby girl It ’s mine. ”After 3 days and 3 nights of quarrel, it ’s difficult to understand, and no result. Afterwards, the villagers mediated as: The female doll belonged to two families. first name.

Time is like an arrow, and the sun and the moon are like a shuttle. More than ten years later, Meng Jiangnv has grown up. One day, when picking bottle gourd, Meng Jiangnv found that there was a person hidden behind the bottle gourd. Meng Jiangnv just covered her mouth when she wanted to call someone. Later, the man told Meng Jiangnu that her name was Fan Xiliang, and she was hiding behind the bottle gourd in order to avoid officers and soldiers from catching people and repairing the Great Wall. After that, Fan Xiliang moved into Meng Jiangnv’s house. The so-called family breeds fondness, Fan Xiliang married Meng Jiangnv with the consent of Meng Jiang 2 parents. Unexpectedly, the day of the marriage, the groom was taken away by several bureaucrats. Fan Xiliang was dispatched to serve as a husband of the Great Wall. After a year passed, Fan Xiliang had no news. She was so anxious that Meng Jiang couldn’t eat rice and couldn’t sleep. She didn’t know what to do. After consulting with the two elderly people, she decided to go to her husband and vowed that she would never go home if she could not find her husband.

She brought dry food and special warm clothes for her husband on the road. Along the way, the wind and rain, the sun and the wind, the hunger and the cold, and the difficulty of walking. After trekking through 1000 thousand and 10000 dangerous ten thousand li, she finally found a place to repair the Great Wall. After a few inquiries, she realized that many people died for the Great Wall. Her husband Fan Xiliang was exhausted long ago, and was buried under the Great Wall, and his bones could not be found. The news was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and Meng Jiangnu burst into tears sadly, tears like springs, thunderous thunder, crying heaven-shaking, earth-shattering, murky heavens dark earth, watching the Great Wall collapse a little bit, wherever she cried Where it collapsed, it was 800 miles long. This time the engineering director was in a hurry, and I hurriedly reported to Qin Shihuang who was here to inspect the progress of the project. Qin Shihuang hurried to see Meng Jiangnv to find out the root cause. After seeing it, she was fascinated by her beauty, and she had to be called “Harem Leader Lady”. Although Meng Jiangnun was full of anger, she still suppressed her hatred and moved her mind, beating somebody at their own game. Qin Shihuang had to promise her 3 conditions in order to be a “Harem Leader Lady”. One is to find the body of her husband Fan Xiliang; 2 to hold a state funeral for her husband; 3 to ask Qin Shihuang to put Fan Xiliang on Ma Daixiao and mourn. Qin Shihuang listened to the three conditions mentioned by Meng Jiangnv and thought about it for a moment. In order to get the most beautiful Meng Jiangnv, she agreed to brace oneself. Meng Jiangnun wore filial piety to Fan Xiliang ’s tomb for the fortification. The Bohai Sea made a leap and committed suicide.

This Story is fake, but it also reflects the anger and resistance of Qin Shihuang to force 100 labor to build the Great Wall, and the person who compiled this Story is also a person who opposes Qin Shihuang’s tyranny and sympathizes. 1000000 old people.

This Story is very popular for the bottom 100 old surnames, which reflects the voice of the bottom 100 old surnames. When I think of the great wall built by Qin Shihuang with a lot of manpower and material resources, Qin Shihuang was played by Meng Jiang female and heard The old 100 surname of this Story will feel very happy in his heart, and he will feel a lot more comfortable.

As far as the Great Wall itself is concerned, it is unlikely to collapse, because the Great Wall is very thick and thick, with a thickness of 50-60 meters. Among them, the narrowest at the top is 5 meters, and the widest is 8 meters. In the case of high ten meters or so, a city wall with such a width can be said to have extremely high stability. As long as there is no strong earthquake, it is absolutely impossible and easily collapses.

The width of the upper surface of the city wall is enough to walk 2 heavy carriages. The wall is composed of an outer eaves wall and an inner eaves wall, filled with soil and gravel. The outer eaves wall refers to the side of the outer skin wall outside the city. When constructing, there are obvious points. The point is generally 100% of the wall height 20 5. The point of the wall can increase the width of the lower part of the wall, enhance the stability of the wall, strengthen its defensive performance, and make the outside The wall is majestic. The inner eaves wall refers to the inner side of the outer skin wall. It is generally constructed without obvious points, and is constructed as a vertical wall. The thickness of the outer eaves wall is generally based on the thickness of the wall at the “stack mouth”. The thickness is generally half a brick wide. According to the ratio of points received, the thicker the lower, the brick building method is mainly flat.

“Meng Jiangnv crying The Great Wall is a Story. Of course it is impossible. How could Wife believe a little Story? Do you still need to ask this?”

Li An explained.

“This is also true, the person who edits this Story is really interesting.”

Li Hanlu said.

“Look, where is the beacon over here?”

Li An and Li Hanlu walked a few steps above, and reached the position of a beacon, which was wider and the ground was flatter.

“This beacon is well preserved, and the traces of the female wall are still there.”

Li Hanlu said.

“Does Wife know the role of the beacon?”

Li An asked.

Li Hanlu replied: “I know, of course understood, the beacon is designed to convey the enemy’s situation. When it encounters the enemy, it releases smoke during the day and raises the fire at night.”