In 2005, the movie "Myth" starring Jackie Chan and Kim Hee-sun was a hit, and the concubine who waited for a thousand years for a promise in the film interpreted an unforgettable love.
Princess Li was originally a Princess Yushu of Joseon, and after entering the territory of the Qin Dynasty, she was named a concubine by Qin Shi Huang, but in fact, these two titles are fictional in the movie, and there is no record of marriage with Jizi Joseon in the history of the Qin Dynasty, let alone the rank of "concubine".
However, the title of the word "Li" has quite a origin.
According to the "Records of History", since the day when Yingzheng succeeded to the throne of Qin at the age of 13, he began to select a mausoleum for himself, because Lishan "has more yin and more gold, and its yang is more jade", so Yinzheng chose to build a mausoleum at the northern foot of Lishan Mountain, called "Lishan" (that is, the area where the mausoleum is located).
Because the historical Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang did not leave a name (such as the mausoleum of Han Gaozu called Changling, the tomb of Emperor Wu of Han was called Maoling, etc.), so later generations often used "Lishan" (Tongli Mountain) to refer to qin shi huang mausoleum. In the movie, Li Fei's ending is that she is forced to be buried in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, which forms a metaphor for her title.
Of course, the movies are all fictional. However, when the Shaanxi Archaeological Research Institute excavated the ancient tomb group in the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum area, it really found a large number of ancient tombs engraved with the word "Li" funerary pottery (hereinafter referred to as the Lizi Tomb), the number is conservatively estimated to be thousands, and among the 50 tombs that have been excavated, the level of the tomb owner is not high, but they all adopt the method of bending the limbs and bones.
Obviously, these lizi tombs are all subordinate to the same region or serve a certain tomb owner. Since Lishan is only the location of the mausoleum area, the word "Li" on the pottery does not refer to Lishan. So some netizens speculated in a big way: Could it be that they really dug up Lifei?
In fact, the word "Li" in these ancient tomb groups refers to LiYi. According to the "History of Qin Shi Huang Benji", "The more than 700,000 prisoners in the palace (of the Qin Dynasty) were divided into Afang Palace or Lishan. The First Emperor enjoyed thirty-seven years of the kingdom and buried Liyi".
That is to say, there are hundreds of thousands of people who repaired the mausoleum for Qin Shi Huang in Lishan. In order to manage these huge groups, in the sixteenth year of the Reign of the Qin Dynasty (231 BC), the Qin State set up Liyi (called Li County) east of the Qin Tombs, with residential areas, artisan areas, production areas, and military areas, which were no different from ordinary counties under the County System of the Qin Dynasty. Obviously, Liyi was a separate city for the purpose of repairing the tomb, for the living of the laborers. These thousands of Lizi tombs were all labored for qin shi huang to repair the mausoleum.
Although The Tomb of Li zi has nothing to do with Li Fei, it accidentally unveils a mystery case in the last years of the Qin Dynasty.
In the second year of Qin II (208 BC), Chen Shengbu led Hundreds of thousands of rebels led by Zhou Wen into Xishui (present-day Lintong, Shaanxi), approaching the capital of the Qin Dynasty, Xianyang, and because it was too late to recruit the Qin army in the county, Qin II was greatly horrified, and the Shaofu Zhang Handan offered a plan: "Lishan has many disciples, please forgive it, and give troops to attack it." ”
This army of Lishan criminals, known in the history books as "human slaves and children", quickly formed a super combat effectiveness in a short period of time, not only defeating Zhou Wen's army and destroying Chen Sheng's Zhang Chu regime, but also killing Xiang Liang, who commanded the regular army, in Dingtao.
However, the fate of the prisoner army was also extremely tragic, because of Zhao Gao's power, Zhang Handan led 200,000 prisoners to surrender to Chu, but when the combined forces of the princes arrived in Xin'an, there was a situation where "the princes and pawns took advantage of the victory over many slaves and gently insulted the Qin officials", and the Hearts of the Qin soldiers were floating, and just in case, Xiang Yu ordered that the 200,000 Qin troops be killed.
This brings up a mystery: if these 200,000 Qin troops are really prisoners and human slaves from Lishan, why would this group of hard laborers from the Six Kingdoms be willing to fight for the Qin Dynasty until they are killed, and why would the combined forces of the princes take the opportunity to insult these bitter people from their homeland?
As mentioned above, there are thousands of Lizi tombs roughly estimated, and the 50 that have been excavated without exception have adopted the method of curved limb burial, the so-called curved limb burial, that is, digging a pit, digging a hole in the pit, bending the lower legs of the tomb owner, and burying it in a cave in a curled manner, which belongs to the typical Qin burial method.
This also means that the so-called Lishan prisoners, in fact, a large part of them are Qin people, and the word "Li" on the funeral pottery also confirms that their main job is to work for the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in Liyi, and zhang Handan's 200,000 troops account for the majority.
So is there any evidence in the history books? Yes. The "History of Xiang Yu Benji" records that on the eve of Xin'an's killing, the prisoner army privately talked about "the princes are subordinate to me and the east, and Qin will do his best to curse my parents and wives", which shows that these people are from Guanzhong, which is also the main reason why the prisoner army can exert extremely strong combat effectiveness.