Since ancient times, it is not unusual for there to be mercury in the imperial tomb, and the mercury content in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is even rarer in ancient times. According to the "Records of History" and the "Book of Han", the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang "used mercury as a hundred rivers and rivers and seas, machine phase instilling, astronomy on the top, geography on the bottom".
However, people have been skeptical of this claim until geologists have discovered that the mausoleum does contain "tribute", which is commonly known as mercury. And according to the researchers' analysis and calculations, a shocking value was obtained, and the mercury content in the mausoleum was about 1.2 billion cubic centimeters, which was as high as thousands of tons in terms of mass.
Considering that the mercury content is too high, and its own characteristics are extremely volatile, excavation, it is very likely to cause environmental pollution, endangering the safety of people around them, coupled with the vacuum environment in the tomb, the things in the tomb are easily oxidized by contact with the air, with the current scientific and technological means, it is still impossible to solve these problems, so the Mausoleum of The First Emperor of Qin dare not excavate.
So where did so much mercury in the tomb come from? This has to mention a widow named Ba Qing.
Ba widow Qing, who first got the Dan Cave, and was good at its profits for several lifetimes, and the family was not troubled. Qing, widows, can also keep their jobs, defend themselves with money, and do not see violations. The Qin Emperor thought that he was a virgin and a guest, and huaiqingtai for the sake of the daughter. Isn't it true that husbands despise people and pastors, widows in poor villages, resist all kinds of multiplications, and are famous in the world?
Judging from Sima Qian's records, Ba Qing was probably the largest supplier of mercury by Qin Shi Huang. Widow Qing's family has been engaged in the Dan cave industry for several generations, that is, mining dan sand, in the current people's parlance, the family has mines. Because Dansha belongs to the monopoly industry, widow Qing's financial strength can be imagined.
The history books record that Qin Shi Huang had a strong and stern personality, and his behavior was based on strict law and torture, which was not close to human feelings. However, he was an emperor who was a corporal of Li Xian, and the qin shi huang recorded in history did not kill a single hero after the unification of the six kingdoms, and it was even more important to face the people with lofty ideals in various countries, Li Si, Mao Jiao, Meng Tian and other people, whose ancestral home was not the Qin state.
As a wealthy mine owner, widow Qing was able to keep the family business, and must have raised a private armed army in her hands. However, later Qin Shi Huang strengthened the policy of centralization, so her armed forces were bound to be liquidated. However, people with craftsmanship will not starve to death, and the dansha industry monopolized by the widow Qing is also one of the needs of Qin Shi Huang.
As a result, Qin Shi Huang treated her very respectfully, admired her, and even valued her, and some gossip spread because of this. However, according to the pamphlet of the "Edict of the King's Staff" unearthed from the tomb of Wuwei Mozi Han in Gansu, the widow Qing was already over sixty years old when she met Qin Shi Huang, and the elder Qin Shi Huang was dozens of years old, and the scandal between the two people was pure nonsense.
Qin Shi Huang even gave the widow the name of a virgin because she never remarried in her lifetime.
In the main history, there are three women with identity records related to Qin Shi Huang, in addition to Qin Shi Huang's birth mother, that is, the Xiangshui Goddess and Ba Widow Qing, but Qin Shi Huang's attitude towards them is completely different. Qin Shi Huang's respect for the widow Qing and the fact that she handed over so much mercury were inseparable.
However, according to relevant records, Ba Qing died in 220 BC, that is, the second year of Qin Shi Huang's unification of the Six Kingdoms, did he plan to put mercury in the tomb early on?
The answer is yes, China at least in the Spring and Autumn Period has already had the process of refining mercury, according to relevant literature records, one of the five hegemons of Qi Huangong, his mausoleum put a pool of mercury. It can be seen that mercury is stored in the mausoleum, and Qin Shi Huang is not a precedent.
Since ancient times, Dansha mercury has the effect of maintaining the immortality of the corpse, so the mercury of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin in China, in addition to creating a geographical landscape, allows the corpse to survive in the world is also an important factor.
What are the secrets in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, we may not have the opportunity to know, perhaps in the future archaeological technology and scientific and technological progress, people will have the opportunity to see the honor!
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