"Your Majesty, the burial terracotta warriors and horses of His Majesty the First Emperor have all been prepared, and the burial work will be carried out at noon today." Li Shanchang, who was the leader, came out of the column and said.

"Yes, Sun Qian." Fusu nodded.

"Wechen is here."

"Your Ministry of Rites should have almost prepared, and I will bring the queen and the prince to the ceremony in a while."

"Back to Your Majesty, everything is ready." Sun Qian replied confidently.

Fusu couldn't wait to see with his own eyes what the terracotta warriors and horses had just been made more than 2,000 years ago.

Fusu casually picked up a bamboo slip on a jade case and read it, only to see a line of words that made him very angry - after the burial, 3,000 craftsmen and 20,000 people were buried alive!

Fusu was shocked, didn't this martyrdom system fly out as early as the Warring States Period?

When it comes to the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, we can't fail to mention the human martyrdom system in the pre-Chinese antiquity, which germinated with the collapse of the primitive public ownership and flourished a cruel and barbaric funeral system from the establishment of slavery. The most prosperous era of human martyrdom was the Yin Shang period, and there were martyrs in the tombs of the nobles of the Shang Dynasty. In the Yinxu Cemetery area of Anyang, more than 5,000 people have been martyred and killed in more than a dozen tombs that have been excavated.

The Zhou Dynasty learned the lessons of the tyranny of the Yin Shang Dynasty and emphasized "Mingde to protect the people". The birth and implementation of the Zhou rite has greatly suppressed the phenomenon of human martyrdom, but it has not been eradicated. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the nations competed for hegemony, the times were turbulent, and human martyrdom was revived. During the Warring States period, the vassal states successively abolished the system of human martyrdom. In the first year of Qin Xian (384 BC), "stop from death", and the Qin State officially abolished the martyrdom system.

The social changes during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period prompted changes in funeral customs, and figurines were used to replace human martyrdom with terracotta figurines and wooden figurines.

The original meaning of "figurines" is human martyrdom, and when human martyrdom gradually fades out of people's field of vision, "figurines" have become the proper noun of pottery sculptures, stone carvings, and portraits in tombs. The Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses are a typical example of the burial of figurines instead of people, and it is also the pinnacle of burial of figurines instead of people.

"Tell me why there are still living people to be buried!" Fusu said coldly.

"Your Majesty, this is not a funeral, it is a secret." Li Shanchang explained: "The massacre of these craftsmen and men is to prevent the location of the burial pit from being leaked and causing the theft and excavation of ill-intentioned people. ”

"Historical Records" contains: the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang began to preside over the planning and design by Prime Minister Li Si according to the convention, the general Zhang Han supervised the work, the construction time was as long as 39 years, and the terracotta warriors and horses were made and buried in the burial pit at the same time as the construction of the Qin Mausoleum.

In the first year of Qin Ziying (206 BC), the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang suffered its first and probably the greatest catastrophe. According to historical records such as "Historical Records of Gaozu Benji", "Hanshu Volume 1 - Gao Di Ji First Shang", "Hanshu Volume 36 - Chu Yuan Wang Biography Sixth" and other historical records, after Xiang Yu invaded Guanzhong, he destroyed the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang on a large scale, destroyed the ground buildings, and excavated the emperor's tomb, and the terracotta warriors and horses were also seriously damaged in this catastrophe.

Later archaeological excavations have shown that there are black charcoal remains in the No. 1 and No. 2 figurine pits, indicating that the collapse of the No. 1 and No. 2 figurine pits was caused by fire.

As a top student in the history department, Fusu remembers these cruel historical facts very clearly, and it is said that a craftsman secretly escaped the day before the completion of the project and later took refuge in Xiang Yu.

But no matter what, he couldn't let Fusu watch these living people being buried alive: "Ladies and gentlemen, since I, Daqin, have already abolished the martyrdom system, then we shouldn't repeat the mistakes of the past, this practice of burying craftsmen alive just for the sake of secrecy is not half a point different from human martyrdom, and now I decree that all craftsmen and people will be sent home immediately after the burial at noon, and anyone who dares to resist the decree will be wiped out!" ”

Fusu viciously said to the minister of the Ministry of Rites who presided over the funeral matters, he felt that this Qin people would die if they didn't kill them, Bai Qi Changping defeated 400,000 Zhao troops to be killed, Qin Shi Huang couldn't get used to seeing Confucianism want to be killed, and even built a tomb to make a burial pit for secrecy, he was really drunk.

"Your Majesty, this matter must not be done, once a project such as the mausoleum is completed, it is my Daqin's practice to immediately kill the craftsmen and people in charge of the construction, and the law of the ancestors must not be abolished, if you want to change Weichen, the first one will not agree." As soon as Fusu finished speaking, a minister jumped out and spoke against him.

You don't need to look at it to know that it must be Wei Zheng, and there is no way to get to what time he Fusu, every time this thing is taught a lesson by Fusu for a few days, he will come out to fight against him again, as if the hardships in front of him are useless to him.

At the beginning, those ministers were worried that Fusu would kill Wei Zheng if he was really angry, and they would always come out together to plead, but after a long time, they found that Fusu was raised high and fell down gently every time, and he would only give a lesson of flesh and skin and flesh and not kill Wei Zheng, so he didn't bother to care, but felt that it was a beautiful scenery in the court, and this matter was so elegant.

You see that there are many virtuous and virtuous ministers in my Great Qin Dynasty, as an emperor, he will never let his ministers be convicted for his words, and he will never worry about not daring to speak out because his head has landed! In the end, except for the parties Fusu and Wei Zheng, the other ministers regarded it as a joke, and the one thing that the court looked forward to the most every day was that Fusu and Wei Zheng had a quarrel, and then bet with each other with great interest What new methods the emperor had developed today to punish Wei Zheng's stinky mouth.

"Wei Zheng, your skin is itching again, isn't it!" Fu Su slapped the table and scolded.

"Your Majesty, what you said is not right, how can this be an itchy skin for the ministers, is it wrong for the courtiers to think about the country?" Wei Zheng said disappreciably: "Weichen is teaching you filial piety, isn't your majesty worried that your ancestral grave will be dug up because of your arbitrary actions?" ”

"Your ancestral grave has just been dug up, and your entire ancestral grave has been dug up!" Fusu was furious: "Someone! ”

"The last general!" When Ma Zhong and Zhuge Zhan heard His Majesty's call, they immediately walked out of the pile of generals on the right and agreed.

"Drag this sand out for me and pour it into my throat ten times with chili pepper water!"

"No." The two generals directly dragged Wei Zheng out on the left and on the right.

"Haha, colleagues, I bet that Shiyi Xuancheng only needs to rinse his mouth with two bowls of water when he returns home today." Li Yan, the servant of the ministry, stood in the pile of civil officials and said nonchalantly.

"Zhengfang, you can't gamble money, I'll bet on Xuancheng for twenty bowls at least five bowls!" The Shangshu Mi Zhu of the Ministry of Commerce slapped his hand on Li Yan's shoulder with a big grin, meaning that you can't do it: "Do you follow Changwen?" ”

With your sister, Chen Qun scolded secretly in his heart, Ma De last time you had to pull labor and management to gamble fifty Yi Wei Zheng was brushed with a horse spoon and couldn't eat for three days, but Nima's family ate a big pot of noodles when they came home from work that night, a group of pit comparisons, labor and management are no longer fooled!

(End of chapter)