In 210 BC, Qin Shi Huang completed his fifty-year life course and was buried in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang at the foot of Lishan Mountain on the outskirts of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province.
Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum is the first grand design and perfect imperial mausoleum in Chinese history, and it is also one of the largest and most peculiar imperial beds in the world, which has experienced two thousand years of wind and rain erosion and man-made destruction, let's interpret how the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum was built and how many secrets there are.
China's successive emperors have built imperial tombs, as long as the emperor is not dead, it cannot be considered repaired, which is a taboo in ancient times, and it cannot be said that the emperor is buried after the repair is finished, so it must be after death to repair the mausoleum.
Therefore, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang was built when Qin Shi Huang first succeeded to the throne, that is, it was built from 247 BC, and Qin Shi Huang actually died in 210 BC, which is 37 years of repair.
However, according to the "Historical Records", when Qin Shi Huang died, the mausoleum was not repaired, and at that time, Qin II asked the workers who repaired the Afang Palace to repair the mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin first, and then come back to build the Afang Palace after the completion.
However, there are now two theories about the number of years for the repair of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, the first of which is that the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum was recorded in the First Year of Qin II, and this year also said that the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum was repaired for a total of 38 years.
The second theory is another record of the Qin Shi Huang Benji that in July of the first year of Qin II, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang revolted, and in the following year, one of Chen Sheng's subordinates led troops into Guanzhong, and Qin II adopted Zhang Handan's advice to pardon hundreds of thousands of Lishan disciples and give them weapons to follow Zhang Handan to quell the rebellion and enter Guanzhong.
That is to say, the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang was not fully repaired in the first year of the second century, and these people were still doing the final funeral work of the imperial tomb, and they were transferred to fight when they were doing it.
Now look at the Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shi Huang, the First Pit No. 2 Pit No. 3 has Qin Figurines, and the No. 4 Pit is dug well but there is nothing, indicating that the No. 4 Pit was originally also a funerary pit, but an emergency occurred, resulting in the No. 4 pit not putting Qin figurines.
So it is said that because it should be consistent with the above record, the rebels invaded the Kwantung and these Lishan disciples did not have time to go to the Qin figurines to accompany the funeral, and hurriedly filled in the fourth pit, and then went to fight against the Kwantung rebel army.
Then if the second year of Qin II has not been completed, then the Mausoleum of The First Qin Emperor should have been repaired for 39 years, so how much manpower was used to repair the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor in these 39 years.
There are three records in the "History Book" that there were originally more than 700,000 people, half of whom went to repair the imperial tomb and half to repair the Afang Palace, while the other record is that after Qin Shi Huang annexed the world, more than 700,000 people went to repair the Qin Imperial Mausoleum, and the third record is from the "Han Old Yi" that the minister Li Si took 720,000 people to repair the imperial tomb.
I think that before Qin Shi Huang annexed the world, he needed manpower to prepare for the annexation war, one country to fight the six kingdoms This is the time when people are most needed, it is impossible to get 700,000 people to repair the mausoleum, and after the unification of the world, Qin Shi Huang began to repair the chi road, which is equivalent to building a highway to various countries, and it was very difficult to build roads without machines in ancient times.
Moreover, this is related to whether Qin Shi Huang can sit in Xianyang and command the world, so it is impossible to send 700,000 people to repair the mausoleum at this time.
Then, when Qin Shi Huang was forty-five years old, he sent the general Meng Tian to lead 300,000 troops to garrison the Xiongnu, and at the same time used a lot of civilian power to build the Great Wall.
The next year, another 500,000 troops were sent to the south to conquer South Vietnam, this battle was fought for 4 years, when the South Vietnamese War was not finished in the second year, Qin Shi Huang had a sudden desire to build the Afang Palace, in summary, there was no opportunity to send 700,000 people to build the imperial tomb.
So why record 700,000, only it may be that Qin Shi Huang suddenly fell ill and died in the dunes, Qin II did not mourn for the usurpation, when he returned to Xianyang, the body was seriously decomposed, and it was possible to mobilize a large number of manpower to build the mausoleum in a hurry to bury, 700,000 people because it was this time, the above are all personal views.