Chapter 50: If you don’t visit the Great Wall, you are not a true man

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Through the light curtain, people saw that Ms. Zhang’s figure actually appeared in the camera. It's almost the same, it's a miracle.

Seeing everyone's admiration, Zhang Yanxi thought she could buy some Polaroids online and give them to them.

In the evening, Zhang Yanxi turned on the hologram again and took people to experience a seafood feast.

I chose the popular spade seafood dish, which is a dish with all kinds of seafood on a big spade. The common people were so greedy that they swallowed their saliva.

The emperors were also greedy and swallowed their saliva. Although they were the most noble, due to regional transportation problems, seafood was rarely available.

After finishing the seafood meal, Zhang Yanxi was so exhausted that she just wanted to lie down on a chair and rest for a while, so she took a taxi back to the hotel. Today's live broadcast has come to an end.

Early the next morning, Zhang Yanxi took a taxi to the final destination - the Great Wall.

As soon as the live broadcast started, the ancients saw a Great Wall that stretched with the mountains and ravines, ups and downs, like a gray dragon lying across the land of China, hovering among the high mountains, and there were many people around it. .

Today Zhang Yanxi is in a particularly good mood, "Today I will show you the charm of the Great Wall. There is an old saying here: "If you don't climb the Great Wall, you will be in vain. If you don't climb the Great Wall, you are not a hero!" "When talking about the Great Wall, everyone will invariably think of our First Emperor..." Zhang Yanxi walked slowly like this, explaining the story of Qin Shihuang and the Great Wall to everyone.

"The construction of the Great Wall has begun since the Western Zhou Dynasty. However, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when various countries competed for hegemony and defended each other, the construction of the Great Wall entered its first climax, but the length of the construction was relatively short at this time. After Qin destroyed the six kingdoms and unified the world, Qin Shihuang Connecting and repairing the Great Wall during the Warring States Period was the beginning of the Great Wall."

"Since Qin Shihuang, almost all dynasties that ruled the Central Plains have participated in the construction of the Great Wall. Statistics include Han, Jin, Northern Wei, Eastern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Song, Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming, More than ten dynasties, including the Qing Dynasty, built the Great Wall on various scales."

"In 221 BC, the Qin State unified the world. The main external threats at that time were the rebellions from the Huns in the north and the ethnic minorities in Lingnan. During the thirty years of His Majesty the First Emperor, Qin Shihuang sent Lu Sheng from Yan to visit the immortals, and Lu Sheng came back Later, he presented a prophecy book to Qin Shihuang, which contained the words "Hu who destroyed Qin". Qin Shihuang was originally worried about the intrusion of nomadic people in the north, but now he paid more attention to the problem of the Xiongnu in the north.

In the 32nd year of the First Emperor's reign, Qin Shihuang sent General Meng Tian to lead an army of 300,000, with his son Fusu as the supervisor, and recovered a large area of ​​land from the east of the Yellow River to the Yinshan Mountains, and established 44 counties. At the same time, he moved a large number of prisoners Stationed in these places. In order to better defend against the harassment of nomadic tribes such as the Xiongnu in the north, Qin Shihuang decided to connect the Great Walls of the three kingdoms together based on the Northern Great Wall of Qin, Zhao, and Yan, and further expand the defense scope of the Great Wall to make it a complete defense system. "

"Qin Shihuang continuously recruited civilians and assigned culpable officials and other guilty personnel to build the Great Wall. However, in the Qin State at that time, the war had just subsided, and the people's lives were not yet stable, and they were still living a very miserable life. However, in the face of the Xiongnu's constant attacks on the Great Wall, Due to the invasion of the Central Plains, it is imperative to build the Great Wall. Most of the Qin Great Wall is made of earth or stone. The project mainly consists of four parts: passes, city walls, city platforms, and beacons. Passes are also called Guancheng, and they are usually built in high mountains. In dangerous places such as canyons, or guarding traffic fortresses, it can play the role of "one man can guard the gate and ten thousand men can't open it"."

"On the inner side of the Great Wall, there is a gate every not far away. It is a vaulted door made of stone bricks. There are stone steps leading to the top of the wall for soldiers guarding the city to go up and down. The city platform is divided into wall platform, enemy platform and There are three types of battle towers, which are set up about half a mile apart and protrude from the wall. In some places, there are no watch towers, only crenels built outside, and bungalows inside for soldiers to patrol and watch. Beacons are also called smoke piers or beacon towers, or beacon towers. It is placed on the top of a mountain, or at a turning point in the plains, or on the top of a watchtower, and is specially built to convey information. If there is an enemy situation, smoke will be burned during the day and fire will be raised at night."

"The construction of the Great Wall played a positive role in preventing the northern nomads from invading the Central Plains and protecting the social economy and the stability of people's lives in the Central Plains at that time and for a long time to come. It has also since It established the territorial boundaries of northern China over a long period of time, which was also the main achievement of Qin Shihuang during his reign."

"Later dynasties such as the Sui Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty built on the Great Wall of Qin, forming today's Great Wall. In later generations, the world-famous Great Wall has been included in the world cultural heritage and is known as The eighth wonder of the world.”

"However, when Qin Shihuang was building the Great Wall, he imposed a heavy burden on the people's lives because of a large number of people's labor. At the same time, he also greatly increased various exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, which made the people miserable. In addition, Qin Shihuang also implemented Cruel punishments ranged from imprisonment for rebellion to death. Under this high-pressure policy, social conflicts were about to break out. During the reign of the First Emperor, he was called a tyrant by the people. Shortly after the death of Qin Shihuang, in 209 AD, the The first peasant uprising in Chinese history - the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprising, this peasant uprising also sounded the death knell for the Qin Dynasty."

"Everyone says Qin Shihuang is a tyrant, but in the eyes of us descendants, he is not. In our eyes, he is the emperor of the ages, the overlord, the first emperor who left us his home. The construction of the Great Wall It has become our "eyes". Although building the Great Wall is an arduous and painful task, and I don't know how many people have paid blood and tears, without the obstruction of the Great Wall, soldiers on the border will only lose more lives. , this Great Wall has protected our country for thousands of years."

Xianyang Palace's eyes turned red when he heard these words, "Hahahaha! I don't care what it means to be called a tyrant! I only know that this is what I want to do!" You can see the evaluation of him by his descendants, which is the best explanation. He did nothing wrong!

The people of Qin Dynasty were silent, but they were really tired!

In a small courtyard, "Chen Sheng, us?" Chen Sheng took a bite of dry food, "Who am I doing this for?" He got up and went out of the door.

"Chen Sheng, why are you going?" Wu Guang shouted?

"Build the Great Wall!"



In 223 AD, all major government offices in the Qin Dynasty posted notices announcing a bumper rice harvest. All those building the Great Wall would have to eat rice porridge three times a day. With this notice, more people signed up to build the Great Wall...