Qin Shi Huang was a very controversial emperor in history, and Qin Shi Huang took the throne at the age of 13. In 238 BC, he quelled the rebellion of The Marquis of Changxin, and then removed the powerful minister Lü Buwei and began to govern pro-government. He also adopted Fan Ju's method of long-distance and close attack, and finally from 230 BC to 221 BC, he swept away the six kingdoms and completed the great cause of unifying the whole country for the first time.
Qin Shi Huang did not idle after unifying the Six Kingdoms, first of all, in terms of system, he abolished the sub-feudal system and replaced it with the county system, and at the same time wrote the same text, the car was on the same track, and the weights and measures were unified. At the same time, many large buildings were also built, such as the Afang Palace, which has the reputation of "the first palace in the world", but in the end it was burned by Xiang Yu's fire.
In addition, there is the Qin Zhidao, the "Book of Han Jia Shan Biography" said: "Qin wei Chi Dao in the world, the Eastern Poor Yan Qi, the Antarctic Wu Chu, above the rivers and lakes, the coastal view of the end." Fifty steps of Daoguang, three feet and trees, thick outside, hidden with golden vertebrae, trees with green pines. This means that the Chi Dao is extremely wide, running straight from north to south, running through east and west, in fact, in order to satisfy Qin Shi Huang's hobby of inspecting the land of all sides.
To say that among the large-scale projects built by Qin Shi Huang, the most famous is the Great Wall. In fact, the construction of the Great Wall was not the earliest Qin Shi Huang, and the earliest can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the great walls were often built to defend each other, but relatively speaking, these great walls were relatively short.
The title of the Great Wall began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the "History of the Chu Shijia" says: "King Xuan of Qi built the Great Wall on the top of the mountains, east to the sea, west to Jeju, more than a thousand miles, to prepare for Chu." However, the title of "Great Wall" was only dared to be used after Qin Shi Huang.
In 221 AD, Qin Shi Huang swept away the Six Kingdoms and established a unified Qin state. However, it was often invaded by the nomadic peoples in the north, and then Qin Shi Huang decided to build the Great Wall. And to build the longest Great Wall in history. According to historical records, Qin Shi Huang used nearly a million laborers to build the Great Wall, accounting for almost one-twentieth of the country's population.
The Great Wall, which stretches for more than 10,000 miles from Lintao in the west to Liaodong in the east, is the true sense of the "Great Wall". After more than 2,000 years of ups and downs, this Great Wall is still intact and stands in Shenzhou, China, becoming the first military project in ancient China.
Many people may wonder, there was no reinforced cement in ancient times, so what special materials did Qin Shi Huang add to it? According to relevant statistics, the construction of a one-meter Great Wall requires 6,000 bricks and 7 cubic meters of mud. The Great Wall, about 42 billion bricks.
It is obviously impossible to sustain such a large project with mud alone. I'm afraid it won't take many years to break. After careful research, it was found that the combination of glutinous rice soup and mud can significantly improve the adhesion, which has become a unique building material.
We know that glutinous rice is a precious ingredient, and in the social environment at that time, even people wanted to eat a meal, and Qin Shi Huang actually used glutinous rice juice to build the Great Wall, which is simply unimaginable. It can be said that every part of today's Great Wall is sacrificed by the ancient working people. It is precisely because of the Great Wall that it is better able to resist the invasion of foreign tribes. Today's Great Wall has long been an indispensable part of Chinese civilization.