Speaking of "Qin Shi Huang", he is not only the first true emperor in Chinese history, but also a rare "tyrant" in history; not to mention the killing of 400,000 Zhao troops, the construction of the Great Wall and the exhaustion of tens of thousands of people, etc., there are hundreds of thousands of people in his mausoleum alone. Since the discovery of the "Terracotta Warriors", the world's spit on Qin Shi Huang has re-emerged, and the focus of the debate is that the Terracotta Warriors and Horses were actually made of living people; as soon as this news came out, the whole world was shocked, but experts said: Qin Shi Huang was wronged, and it was also his son who blamed him.
If the "Terracotta Warriors" were really made of living people, it would undoubtedly be a more brutal way of "human martyrdom"; but if you think about it carefully, this possibility is almost non-existent, and the reason is very simple, if Qin Shi Huang used "human martyrdom", why would he paste these people with a layer of mud and burn them into clay figurines? Regarding "human martyrdom", it was not an exclusive invention of Qin Shi Huang, but a bad habit derived from the ancient slave society on the mainland; when the Shang Dynasty destroyed Zhou Xing, the Zhou Emperor promoted "benevolent government", so the bad habit of martyrdom of the living was abolished, but the slave owners still existed, and the martyrs of these slave owners became pottery figurines or straw people.
To be fair, the replacement of "human martyrdom" by "figurine martyrdom" is certainly a major progress in human society; this is also one of the important reasons why Confucius in later generations respected the "Zhou Li". Unfortunately, although the Zhou Dynasty abolished "human martyrdom" and promoted the development of human civilization, after 460 years, it was destroyed by the ancestors of "Qin Shi Huang", not only using "living martyrdom" again, but also to a greater extent than the ancients. According to the "History of Qin Benji", "Twenty years ago (678 BC), Wu Gong died and buried Yongpingyang. At the beginning, people died, from the sixty-six people of the dead" it is written very clearly here, and it is not Qin Shi Huang who restarted the "martyrdom of people", but his ancestor "Qin Wugong"; then the question is, this "Qin Wugong" knows that restarting the burial of living people will be scolded by the world, but why does he have to drive back the wheel of history?
Originally, when the old Qin king "Ning Gong" was alive, Qin Wugong was already a legal "prince", but then he was forced to abdicate by the powerful ministers, and instead supported others as monarchs; 6 years later, this powerful minister repeated the same trick again, and killed the current monarch, once again pushing the "Duke of Qin Wu" to the throne of the monarch. Speaking of which, the purpose of this traitor's repeated resignation as monarch was only for his own interests; but the "Duke Wu of Qin" was very capable, and after becoming the monarch, he tried to turn the tide and regain the power of the Qin state, but instead destroyed the three tribes of the rebel minister.
According to common sense, "Duke Wu of Qin" is still a relatively capable king, and in time, the State of Qin will certainly have a leap forward under his leadership; surprisingly, Duke Wu of Qin did not put his mind on developing national strength, but in order to maintain his own rights and majesty, he began to pursue a "violent political state." Although Qin Wugong reigned for 20 years, he did not make great achievements, but he created a precedent since the abolition of "human martyrdom" in the Zhou Dynasty; restarting "human martyrdom" has also become his family tradition, and his descendants have inherited and carried forward it.
Until the Qin State produced another "Duke Miao of Qin", he was also a monarch with both talent and excellent reputation. "Duke Miao of Qin" reigned for 39 years, opened up the road, attacked the city and plundered the land, so that the Qin State had a territory of a thousand miles for the first time, and also added 12 vassal states, which for a time became the hegemon of the Xirong region, and also laid the foundation for the future unification of the Qin State. "Duke Miao of Qin" once lost a beloved BMW, and it was later found out that it was stolen and eaten by hundreds of hungry people; after receiving this news, "Duke Miao of Qin" not only did not blame, but also said, "I have heard that people eat the meat of 'war horses', and if they do not drink alcohol, these people who eat horse meat will get a strange disease that hurts people everywhere." Therefore, "Duke Miao of Qin" not only pardoned these hungry people, but also gave them wine to drink.
As soon as this matter came out, the people of the Qin State rushed to tell each other, and praised Qin MiaoGong as a rare "benevolent prince" in the ages; but this "benevolent prince" still followed the family tradition after his death, and the scale of "human martyrdom" was even greater, and the historical records recorded that "thirty-nine years (621 BC), Miao Gong died and buried Yong." From the 177 people of the deceased, the three people of the Qin Zhiliang's son Youshi whose names were Dying, Zhongxing, and Needle Tiger were also in the midst of death. The Qin people mourned, for the song of the yellow bird poem. Translated, it means that after the death of "Duke Miao of Qin", the scale of burial with living people was even greater, reaching an unprecedented 177 people; among these 177 people, there were three people who were deeply loved by the people, and the people of Qin complained one after another, and the name of "Duke Miao of Qin" was destroyed.
At that time, most of the princely states followed the "martyrdom" left by the Zhou Dynasty, but the Qin state has always followed the "human martyrdom" system, which has caused the world to spit on it, and Confucius also exploded a foul mouth" "The initiator, there is no consequence!" However, the successive monarchs of the Qin State still go their own way, so the title of "Violent Qin" has long existed; more than 400 years since the death of "Duke Miao of Qin", the deeds of Qin Shi Huang have deepened the color of "Violent Qin"; during the reign of Qin Shi Huang, the southern conquest and the northern war for decades, the large and small battles are even more numerous, these battles are as short as a few days, as long as several years, and the number of people who died during this period is even more numerous; according to numerical records, the least number of dead people in a battle is more than 6,000, and many have reached hundreds of thousands, such as the famous " The Battle of Changping", the Qin State "Bai Qi" was even more pit to kill 400,000 Zhao people!
According to the "Qin Shi Huang Benji" record, at that time the world was in chaos, and the gods were angry, drought, earthquakes and even natural disasters such as meteorites from the sky appeared continuously, which also reflected the cruelty of "Qin Shi Huang" from the side; although "Qin Shi Huang" was very brutal during the war, he still made a lot of "benevolent government" measures after the unification of the Six Kingdoms, the most typical representative of which was to abolish "human martyrdom" again, but instead burned a large number of pottery figurines as his tomb for burial. The brutal "Qin Shi Huang" finally made this benevolent act, but this "good wish" was ruined by his own son; it is said that Qin II "Hu Hai" was a usurper of the imperial throne, and in order to show the majesty of his father, he not only inherited the ancestral training, but also expanded the scale of "human martyrdom" to an unprecedented level.
"Those who do not have children in the former emperor's harem are not suitable for them." All order from the dead, the dead are many; the great things are completed, the Zang has been closed, the envy of the middle, the envy of the lower outside, the closed craftsman Zang, there is no comeback. The meaning of this sentence is that "Hu Hai" drove the concubines of the First Emperor's harem who had no heirs, and hundreds of thousands of mausoleum craftsmen into the "Lishan Mausoleum", all of which were made into living burials; now the "Terracotta Warriors" have unearthed a large number of ancient corpses, which also proves this, but strictly speaking, "human martyrdom" is not the original intention of Qin Shi Huang. According to relevant reports, the mausoleum of the "grandmother of Qin Shi Huang" has also been found, and although the "TianziJia Vi" kind of live horse martyrdom has been unearthed, no signs of living people's martyrdom have been found; this also proves from the side that after Qin Shi Huang unified the world, the "human martyrdom" system has actually been abolished.
It is reported that archaeologists have locked the location of the "underground palace", and believe that in the near future, the "Lishan Mausoleum" will also be reopened; at that time, it will be known how many "human martyrs" Qin II "Hu Hai" used for Qin Shi Huang.