Qin Shi Huang was a very arbitrary and dictatorial emperor in Chinese history, and posterity felt that his brutality eventually led to the demise of the Qin Dynasty. Part of what Qin Shi Huang did was indeed a decision that had to be made for the sake of the centralization of power at that time. However, it is an undeniable fact that Qin Shi Huang was cruel by nature, and under his rule, the people did not have a good life, and countless people died innocently because of his personal character problems.
The mausoleum of The First Emperor of Qin is grand in scale and strange in structure, and has not yet been opened. Before his death, he had three major crimes of burning books, harsh punishments, and abuse of people's power, so how many people were buried after he died?
The martyrdom system was not pioneered by Qin Shi Huang, and the phenomenon of living burials already appeared as early as the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. In the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the terracotta warriors that were temporarily excavated to replace the martyrdom of the Qin Dynasty army are conservatively estimated to be as many as six or seven thousand. Because the safety of the Qin Dynasty at that time depended on these soldiers, Qin Shi Huang would never joke about the world he had worked hard to build, and would not really ruin the army that accompanied him to fight in the country. Others, however, were not so lucky.
The first to be buried were the craftsmen who built the mausoleum for Qin Shi Huang. According to historical records, the Mausoleum of The First Emperor of Qin was built for 30 years, and nearly 800,000 people were used to build it. Zhuang Ding, who was recruited by the emperor to build a mausoleum, has been a dead end since ancient times. Except for those who died of old age or accidental death, these craftsmen accompanied Qin Shi Huang into the underground without leaving. According to the means of Qin Shi Huang, it is already good to be able to give them to be buried after death, and the reason why the ancient emperors preferred to bury people alive was because the people buried alive were more resentful and could protect the imperial tomb from being harassed by later tomb robbers.
The next batch of people to die were the concubines of Qin Shi Huang who had no heirs. When Qin Shi Huang destroyed the Six Kingdoms, he took the harem of the monarchs of the Six Kingdoms as his own, and from the endowment of the Afang Palace, we can see the grand number of harem beauties. Some scholars have roughly calculated the number of concubines in the harem of the Six Kingdoms, plus the royal female relatives of the Six Kingdoms, and Qin Shi Huang had at least a thousand women. A thousand women, even if they take turns to spoil, will take three years and five years, and there must be a large number of them who are not pregnant and have children. The consequences of these poor women must have been buried with Qin Shi Huang, and Qin Shi Huang believed in reincarnation so much that he only said, how can he tolerate not having a woman with him in his next life?
So can the concubines who give birth to the Crown Princess be safe? Not necessarily! After The death of Qin Shi Huang, most of his 32 children were ordered to be killed and buried by the order of Gongzi Hu Hai. Moreover, these princes and empresses were dismembered after their deaths, and the means were very cruel. Qin Shi Huang's children ended up like this, and the possibility of their birth mother surviving was also very slim.
Even if Qin Shi Huang died, he would not let go of the glory and wealth that these people enjoyed before they died, and the examiners had already excavated a large number of young girl bones when excavating the tomb filling layer, and they were all mutilated, and the death was very miserable. From this, it can be concluded that the number of people buried in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang is innumerable, and the scene must be appalling. After so many years, this bloody history is quietly buried under the Lishan Mountain, waiting for future generations to discover and restore.