Qin Shi Huang established the earliest unified feudal dynasty in China, although it was only a few decades, but it left a lot of reference monuments to history. For example, the Great Wall, as well as the ancient imperial mausoleum Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum and the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, are unprecedented miracles in Chinese history, and their fame is resounding throughout ancient and modern China and abroad.
To say that this Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin was a very great project, from the technical conditions at that time, it was also very difficult to build such a huge project, and at that time, I did not know how much financial, material and manpower was consumed. Looking at the tombs of later emperors, none of them can surpass the mausoleum of The First Emperor of Qin, which is also its charm. So far, the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang has also been partially excavated, and then the state has stopped excavation in order to protect the national treasure, and thousands of years later, no thieves have dared to steal the mausoleum.
Although the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum restricted excavations, many of the funerary tombs around it were constantly discovered, and a total of 99 tombs were discovered just northwest of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, and after archaeological research, all the owners of all the tombs were women, which inevitably reminds us of Sima Qian's actions recorded in the historical records of Qin II. At the instigation of Zhao Gao, Qin II killed his brother Fu Su to ascend to the throne, and then killed almost all of the harem concubines of the First Emperor as his father and martyred them.
The women buried in these tombs are completely beyond the confines of an emperor's harem, and according to archaeologists, many of these women were women who were snatched back from the Six Kingdoms after conquering the Six Kingdoms, and the number should be tens of thousands, and palaces such as the Afang Palace were built at that time to accommodate the women and treasures looted back from the Six Kingdoms.
Qin II was a brutal monarch, and with the guidance of the eunuch Zhao Gao at the time, Hu Hai killed Fu Su after the death of the First Emperor. Among the compatriots, not only Fu Su, but almost all the harems and descendants of the First Emperor were killed. Most of these slain people were buried around the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and from later archaeological discoveries, it can be confirmed that the brutal acts of Qin II recorded by Sima Qian at that time did indeed conform to the real situation at that time, and he did not exaggerate the facts.
The great Qin Empire in history was incomparably powerful in the hands of Qin Shi Huang, and he put a lot of effort and sweat into establishing the Qin Dynasty, but in the hands of Qin II, it was three years to turn this newly rising empire into soot.