Among the many emperors in China, some of them are known to posterity for their cruelty, such as Qin Shi Huang, which we are going to talk about today. As for how ferocious he was, we will see how he treated his relatives: he forced his father to die, and then beat his birth mother into the cold palace, and then brutally killed all his brothers, which is the fate of his relatives.
This is still true of those closest to oneself, let alone the people? At that time, he and his ministers formulated strict laws, and although on the surface it seemed that the people were afraid to do anything, but secretly they gave birth to many seeds of instability. He treated the people harshly, which eventually led to the short life of the Planned Qin Dynasty.
However, as the historical materials become more and more perfect, people's views on history are gradually diversified, and we cannot blindly grasp his brutal characteristics and ignore his talents. Indeed, he also made a lot of contributions to the people of that time, and even to the people of later generations, and the measures of unifying writing and measuring and measuring alone benefited the people a lot. It should be said that many of his strategies influenced the entire feudal society of Later China.
From the time Qin Shi Huang first ascended to the Ninth Five-Year Plan, he did not delay at all in preparing for himself, and at that time, he was only 13 years old. If according to today's view, it may feel very taboo - a child, why build a mausoleum for himself early? That's because people at the time viewed death differently than we do today, and they didn't think of death as an end, but as another beginning.
Therefore, when they can still control the power, they will prepare themselves for their death early. It is also because of this understanding that the dignitaries at that time will be buried with great luxury, and many of the things buried with them are very precious at that time, because they want to continue to enjoy the rich life of their lives.
And these cultural relics to this day, after thousands of years of erosion, are even more precious, for our study of the ancients, has a very important significance. Unfortunately, it is precisely because of the abundance of funerary items that it has attracted the formation of an industry that is not lacking in the times - tomb robbers.
In order to prevent his tomb from being stolen, Qin Shi Huang thought of many ideas. He ordered people to cover his mausoleum with mercury, which had already penetrated into the tomb over the years, so that the excavators often had not yet touched the key places, and various poisoning phenomena would occur.
In addition, Qin Shi Huang, who had been fighting all his life, also had very high requirements for the tomb wall. As we all know, the laws of the Qin Dynasty were very strict, and when a person committed a crime, he could not move at any moment, and there were various means of torturing people during the trial and execution. When the tomb wall was built, it was a mixture of mud and glutinous rice as raw materials, and the workers and overseers were clearly identified in each section of the construction.
After it was built, he ordered people to shoot arrows at the wall a hundred meters below the wall, and if the arrow hit the wall and dust fell, then the workers and overseers in this section would be beaten and then pushed to rebuild; if the arrow hit the wall, and the wall was damaged and there were traces, the workers and overseers could only be beheaded. There were many similar assessment methods, and the number of people who built the mausoleum for him at that time was close to 800,000, and everyone worked in such fear every day, until 37 years to complete this huge project, and many key people involved in the design were subsequently forced to be martyred.
Until today, despite scientific and technological progress, we still can't use the existing science to solve the problem of the rapid oxidation of the Chinese of the Shi Huang Mausoleum, which is why this excavation work has not been able to continue. However, experts have been working on this for many years, and there are still many results during the period. For example, a hooked weapon that was unearthed once amazed the experts.
This weapon is curved hook-shaped, the sharpness is needless to say, the key is that there are small character notes on it, translated we learned that this line of small print records the creator, the age of creation, the user and other information of this weapon, it is conceivable that the role of these notes is that if there is any problem when using it, it is convenient to track the responsible person, and the management system is quite advanced.
There is also an unearthed piece of armor, which is not an ordinary suit. The experts used a microscope to observe themselves, only to find that it was covered with fine silk threads, which were almost indistinguishable with the naked eye. It turns out that this piece of armor is composed of more than 800 pieces of armor, connected by these silk threads, it is really impossible to imagine how this technology was achieved at that time, and even in today's modernity, this ultimate process is difficult to surpass.
Now we can see these artifacts in the museum, while marveling at the original masterpiece, I don't know how many people's efforts were spent at that time?