Chapter 338 A Fang Palace
"Along the way, Meng Jiangnu suffered all kinds of hardships, but the hardships and remoteness of the road did not give her in."
With the firm belief that she must give her cotton clothes to her husband, she overcame all kinds of difficulties and finally walked to the foot of the Great Wall.
"But I didn't expect Wan Xiliang to die of exhaustion and was filled into the city wall by the brutal Qin Shi Huang."
"The news of her husband's death made Meng Jiangnu like five thunderbolts, only to feel that the sky was dark in front of her, and she was unconscious all of a sudden."
When she finally woke up, she couldn't help but be heartbroken and began to cry bitterly.
"Meng Jiangnu's desperate and painful cry was extremely miserable, the heavens and the earth were moved, and in an instant, the sky was full of clouds and mist, the sun and the moon were lightless, the ground was stormy, and the beasts were terrified."
"Meng Jiangnu leaned on the Great Wall, crying for a long time, suddenly there was a loud sound like a landslide cracking, the repaired Great Wall fell eight hundred miles at once, and the pile of rocks was full of human corpses and bones, white bones, very terrible."
"Meng Jiangnu dripped blood into those white bones, and secretly prayed to heaven in her heart, if it was her husband's corpse and bones, let her blood soak into the bones all the time, and not seep around."
In this way, Meng Jiangnu finally found her husband's body and bones, he held the pile of white bones in his arms, cried again, and passed out several times.
"Qin Shi Huang heard that Meng Jiangnu cried down the Great Wall for eight hundred miles, and was very angry, and ordered Meng Jiangnu to be arrested and tortured in person, but when Qin Shi Huang saw Meng Jiangnu, he was suddenly attracted by her beauty, and forced her to be a concubine."
"Meng Jiangnu pretended to agree to this tyrant, but asked him to do three things first."
"Build a bridge as magnificent as a rainbow on a river."
"Near the Great Wall, build a ten-mile-square grave for those migrant workers who died at the foot of the Great Wall."
"I want Qin Shi Huang to personally lead the ministers of civil and military affairs to cry and sacrifice Wan Xiliang."
"Qin Shi Huang did it one by one in order to hold the beauties."
"But after Qin Shi Huang finished these three things, Meng Jiangnu scolded him with a fierce voice, and then jumped into the surging river and water, Qin Shi Huang was so angry that he jumped like thunder, but there was nothing he could do, so he had to give up."
"This story of the first emperor is indeed a bit of a black cauldron, but it is a fact that the people are oppressed, in fact, this story is not only about the Qin Dynasty, but also about the ironic Ming Dynasty."
"Why make up this kind of story, because when the Ming Dynasty built the Great Wall, the people were also full of complaints, thinking of the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty, so the people made up such a story to use the past to satirize the present, to vent their dissatisfaction and indignation."
"It can be said that this can also be regarded as a conspiracy of the common people, and such a story was adapted to satirize the rulers of the dynasty."
"The touching story of the Great Wall is an indictment of the tyrannical behavior of the feudal ruling class, and it is also a celebration of the enslaved people's unyielding spirit of fearless violence."
"The construction of the Great Wall is the most cruel and representative labor in the various kinds of labor of the feudal dynasties of the past dynasties, from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Ming Dynasty, nearly two thousand years of long years, the Great Wall has been repaired and repaired repeatedly, and countless people have been forcibly recruited, and there may be encounters like Meng Jiangnu at any time."
"Therefore, Jiang Nu and Xiliang are two typical characters created by the working people in the process of enduring unlimited labor, which concentrates on the disaster of millions of lower-class people who are forced to die and their wives separated by labor."
Wu Zetian: How? Since Miss Zhang said that the Great Wall has an impact on the back, she knows that this Great Wall must be repaired, why other dynasties also tinker, because this is a line of defense to protect the country and protect the people, there is no choice, this Great Wall must be repaired.
Zhao Gou: If I were the emperor, I would not sacrifice the lives of my people for security, and I would work hard to strengthen the army to resist foreign invasions.
Li Longji: Haha, me, you still have a strong army?
Zhao Kuangyin: My old face is all lost!
Meng Tian: Aren't the people in the army human, and the expansion of the army can be accomplished overnight? It's ridiculous.
Li Shimin: This question is actually contradictory, he has two sides, one is the people, the other is the country, how to choose an emperor? After years of building the Great Wall, hundreds of thousands of people were levied and labored extremely heavily, and the damage caused to the people by this burden of servitude was very painful, but it was not a success to resist the aliens! ”
"This matter is indeed two-sided, although the Great Wall laid the foundation for future generations to fight against northern nomadism, and greatly reduced manpower and material resources, but at that time, the Six Kingdoms had just been decided, the people were able to breathe, and the First Emperor carried out a huge project, which was undoubtedly the emergence of class contradictions and social contradictions."
"Now, from a historical point of view, Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, which is a great achievement!"
"From the perspective of people's livelihood at that time, it was extremely cruel to the people, and in the final analysis, it was right or wrong, then the benevolent will see the benevolent, and the wise will see the wise!"
"The Great Wall is thousands of miles long, and I don't see Qin Shi Huang back then."
"What he built is not a palace for his own pleasure, but a defensive city to defend against foreign races, and in my case, the Great Wall is a great achievement!"
"At this time, it was Qin Shi Huang's past, that is, the construction of Afang Palace and Qin Mausoleum, which is a big project."
"In the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor ordered the opening of a road from Jiuyuan to Yunyang, digging holes and filling rivers to connect the two places."
"Then the first emperor ordered the construction of a palace in the forest garden on the south bank of Weishui, and first built the main hall Afang Palace."
"The number of people who have been punished by the palace alone is more than 700,000 people, and of course, there are other people."
"Afang Palace is large in scale and difficult to build, and there are many stones and wood needed, so I excavated stones from Beishan and cut wood from Shu and Jingchu."
"More than 300 palaces have been built in the Guanzhong area alone, and more than 400 outside the Guanzhong."
"The scale of Afang Palace is grand and magnificent, five hundred departments from east to west, fifty battles from north to south, ten thousand people can sit on the palace, and His Royal Highness can set up a five-zhang high banner, but it is a pity that Afang Palace was not built, and Qin Shihuang died with a whimper."
"The scale and luxury of Afang Palace was one of the wonders of the world at that time."
"Its construction required a lot of manpower and material resources, and it fully demonstrated the ruling power and wealth of the Qin Dynasty."
"It also made other countries feel awe of Qin's ruling power and strength, thus making Qin more influential in international politics."
"A Fang Palace costs so much manpower, material and financial resources, but the mausoleum of the first emperor is even bigger than this A Fang Palace."
Because of the strong feudal superstitious thoughts, as well as the pursuit of the ritual system of "death is like life", almost all feudal emperors in the past have attached great importance to the construction of cemeteries. ”
"Qin Shi Huang is no exception, and after he succeeded to the throne at the age of 13, he began to build a mausoleum for himself at the foot of Lishan Mountain."