Chapter 343: The Great Wall
After the pulse aircraft flew to an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, Wu Fei asked the pulse aircraft system to switch manual driving to automatic driving, and then came to Xiao Tao's side and accompanied her to enjoy the beautiful scenery outside. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 InfoLooking down from a height of 1,000 meters, the buildings on the ground have become very narrow, and even the majestic and magnificent Xianyang Palace is no different from the building blocks piled up by children.
"Master Hou, I see our mansion"!
Xiao Tao, who was originally enjoying the charming scenery, suddenly pointed to a building below the window of the pulse aircraft with a jade finger with an excited face, and said to Wu Fei beside him.
Looking in the direction pointed by Xiao Taoyu's hand, Wu Fei saw the mansion given to him by Ying Zheng, and was sitting quietly near the palace. With his current perverted eyesight, he could actually see the four small seal fonts written on the plaque at the entrance of the mansion - the Protector's Mansion.
Because the operating system of the pulse aircraft has now been switched to autopilot, its route is not fixed, and it is more capricious to fly wherever it wants.
In this way, under the leadership of the pulse aircraft, Wu Fei and Xiao Tao enjoyed the scenery outside along the way, flying all the way in an unknown direction.
I have to say that the scenery of the Qin Dynasty thousands of years ago is different from that of a thousand years later. Many great mountains and rivers retain their most natural and primitive side, which makes people feel that the magic of nature is really magical. Many of the places are covered in lush ancient forests, giving them a vibrant life. After leaving the confines of the Xianyang Imperial City, there are hardly any dense buildings on the ground, but scattered thatched houses or wooden houses of ordinary residents.
After flying for almost half an hour, a huge landmark building that looked like a swimming dragon appeared in the eyes of Wu Fei and Xiao Tao.
The Great Wall is the greatest construction project in the history of human civilization, it was built more than 2,000 years ago in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the Qin Dynasty unified China after the Great Wall was connected. In the Han and Ming dynasties, it was built on a large scale. Its engineering is vast and majestic, and it can be called a miracle of the world. Now when you climb the ruins of the Great Wall in the past, you can not only witness the majestic posture of the Great Wall in the mountains, but also appreciate the wisdom and courage of the Chinese nation to create history.
In December 1987, the Great Wall was inscribed on the World Heritage List and is known as one of the Eight Wonders of the World, along with the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Alexandria Lighthouse, the Aegean Sun Statue, the Olympian Zeus Statue, the Artemis Moon Temple, the Mausoleum of Mausolus, and the pyramids of Egypt. From this point, you can see how important the position of the Great Wall is.
The Great Wall of later generations is composed of eight parts, namely Badaling Great Wall, Mutianyu Great Wall, Jihuangyaguan Great Wall, Qinhuangdao Old Dragonhead, Jinshanling Great Wall, Yanmen Pass, Ancient Great Wall Ruins, and Jiayuguan. Among them, the Jiayuguan Great Wall located in Gansu, in the southwest corner of Jiayuguan City, is named after the foothills of Jiayu Mountain, and is the end point of the western end of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, built in 1372. The plane of the city is trapezoidal, with an area of more than 33,500 square meters, and the total length of the city wall is 733 meters, and the height is 11.7 meters. The east and west of the city tower are symmetrical, the face is wide and three-roomed, there is a corridor around, the top of the three-storey hill is 17 meters high, the momentum is magnificent. There are corner towers in the four corners of the city, which are two stories high, and are shaped like bunkers. Climb the customs building and look into the distance, and the scenery outside the wall is in full view.
The Great Wall is located in northern China, from Shanhaiguan in the east to Jiayuguan in the west, with a total length of about 6,700 kilometers, commonly known as the Great Wall.
The construction of the Great Wall lasted for more than 2,000 years, according to historical records, from the seventh century BC when the Chu State built the "Fang City", to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), a total of more than 20 vassal states and feudal dynasties built the Great Wall, of which the length of the Great Wall in the Qin, Han and Ming dynasties exceeded 5,000 kilometers. If you add up the Great Wall built in various eras, the total length is more than 50,000 kilometers; If you build a wall 1 meter thick and 5 meters high from the bricks and earthwork used to build the Great Wall, this wall can circle the earth for more than one circle.
The main project of the Great Wall is a tall city wall that stretches for thousands of miles, most of which are built at the highest point of the mountain, and along the ridge the winding and endless mountains outline a clear outline, shaping a galloping and majestic dragon, thus becoming a symbol of the Chinese nation. On the city wall, there are hundreds of male passes, passes, thousands of enemy towers, beacon towers, breaking the monotony of the city wall.
The Great Wall of China is the world's longest construction time, the largest amount of national military defense project in the era of cold weapons war, embodies the blood, sweat and wisdom of our ancestors, and is the symbol and pride of the Chinese nation.
Only the remains of the Great Wall of Qin remain. Qin Shi Huang mobilized 300,000 people to build the Great Wall, creating a miracle in the history of human architecture. The construction of the Great Wall objectively played a positive role in preventing the southern invasion of the Xiongnu and protecting the economic and cultural development of the Central Plains. Mr. Sun Yat-sen once commented: "Although the first emperor has no way, the Great Wall has contributed to later generations, in fact, Dayu controls the water."
In fact, it also proved that Ying Zheng's practice of building the Great Wall was correct. In the dynasties since the Qin Dynasty, the existence of the Great Wall has played a very huge role. It not only successfully resisted the invasion of the barbarian Xiongnu and foreign tribes, but also left a huge spiritual wealth and symbol for future generations.
The Great Wall that people in later generations saw was only a relic left over from the polishing of time. When they see the Great Wall, they may feel the grandeur and magnificence of the Great Wall, but they do not think of how many working people have paid their blood, sweat and even lives for the construction of such a world miracle. There are more than 300,000 laborers used to build the Great Wall, but the actual number of laborers is more than several times higher than recorded. These laborers were prisoners of war who had surrendered from the other six countries or civilians who had been forcibly conscripted.
The construction of the Great Wall used such a huge labor force that only the elderly, the weak and the sick were left in every household in the country. Young adults, as well as men with a working force, were recruited to work on the Great Wall at the border to work around the clock. This is also one of the important reasons why some scholars in later generations criticized Yingzheng for being mediocre and wantonly using labor to ignore the suffering of the people.
"Master Hou, there are so many people below, what are they doing?"
Xiao Tao, who was standing in the cabin of the pulse aircraft, looked down at the laborers who were busy carrying the stone below, and asked Wu Feidao in puzzlement.
At this time, directly below the pulse aircraft, there were about tens of thousands of people rushing back and forth. They are engaged in different divisions of labor, but the final goal is only one, that is, to build the Great Wall in front of them. Although it was already late autumn, these people were still walking around in thin clothes, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans continued to emerge from their foreheads and drip down the bumpy and rugged road.
Around these busy laborers, guards in armor and armed with sharp spears stood. They were all soldiers under Meng Tian, and this Wu Fei could see it at a glance, because there was a banner of the Meng family army on the mountain on the side. The military emblem symbol on the banner can no longer be familiar with Wu Fei. (To be continued.) )