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Chapter 50 The Great Wall Is Not A Hero

Through the light curtain, people saw that the figure of Miss Zhang actually appeared in the camera.It was just like a miracle.

Seeing everyone's admiration, Zhang Yanxi felt that he could buy some Polaroids online and give them to them.

In the evening, Zhang Yanxi turned on the hologram again to take people to experience a big seafood meal.

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

The emperors are also greedy and swallow their saliva. Although they are the ninety-five lords, due to regional transportation problems, seafood is rarely eaten.

After a meal of seafood was gone, Zhang Yanxi, who was overwhelmed, just wanted to lie down on the chair and rest for a while, and took a taxi back to the hotel. Today's live broadcast is completely over.

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 the Great Wall stretching out with the mountains and valleys, 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 of the Warring States Period is 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. According to statistics, there are Han, Jin, Northern Wei, Eastern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Song, Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming, More than a dozen dynasties, including the Qing Dynasty, built the Great Wall in different scales."

"In 221 BC, the Qin State unified the world. At that time, the main external threat was the rebellion from the Huns in the north and the ethnic minorities in Lingnan. During the 30 years of His Majesty the First Emperor, Qin Shihuang sent Lu Sheng, a native of Yan, to visit immortals. Dedicated to Qin Shihuang a book of prophecy, which contains the words "Hu, who destroyed Qin". Originally, Qin Shihuang was worried about the intrusion of nomadic people in the north, but now he paid more attention to the problem of the Huns in the north.

In the 32nd year of the First Emperor, Qin Shihuang sent General Meng Tian to lead an army of 30, with his son Fusu as the supervisor, recovered a large area of ​​land from the east of the Yellow River to Yinshan, and established 44 counties. At the same time, he moved a large number of prisoners to these The place is stationed.In order to better defend against the harassment of nomadic peoples such as the Huns in the north, Qin Shihuang decided to connect the Great Walls of the three countries together on the basis of the Northern Great Walls of Qin, Zhao, and Yan, and further expand the defense range of the Great Wall, making it a complete building. defense system. "

"Qin Shihuang kept recruiting civilians, and dispatched guilty officials and other guilty personnel to build the Great Wall. But at that time, in Qin State, the war had just subsided, and the people's life was not stable, and they were still living very hard. However, in the face of the Huns' constant punishment In the situation of 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, and the project is mainly composed of four parts: pass, city wall, city tower, and beacon. Dangerous places such as canyons, or guarding traffic fortresses, can play the role of "one man guards the gate and ten thousand men cannot open it."

"On the inner side of the Great Wall, there is a coupon gate not far away. It is an arched gate 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 towers are divided into wall towers, enemy towers and There are three kinds of battle platforms, which are set up about half a mile apart and protrude outside the wall. In some places, there are no watchtowers, only crenels built outside, and shop houses opened inside for soldiers to patrol and watch. Beacon towers are also called Yandun or beacon towers, or built On the top of the mountain, or at the turning point of the flat ground, or on the top of the enemy building, it is specially built for the transmission of information. In case of enemy situation, smoke during the day and fire 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 afterwards. For a very long period of time, the boundary of northern China was established, which was also the main achievement of Qin Shihuang during his reign."

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

"However, when Qin Shihuang was building the Great Wall, he imposed a heavy burden on the lives of the people due to a large number of labor labors from the people. Cruel punishments, ranging from punishment of traitors to death in severe cases. Under this high-pressure policy, social conflicts were on the verge of breaking out. The first peasant uprising in Chinese history—the Chen Sheng Wu Guang uprising, this peasant uprising also sounded the death knell for the Qin Dynasty.”

"Everyone says that Qin Shihuang is a tyrant, but in the eyes of us future generations, he is not. In our eyes, he is an emperor through the ages, a tyrant, and the first emperor who left us a home. The construction of the Great Wall It has become our "eyes". Although the construction of the Great Wall is an arduous and painful task, I don't know how many people have paid in blood and tears, but without the Great Wall's obstruction, there will only be more deaths of soldiers on the border. , the 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 the 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 is this for?" He stood up and only went out the door.

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

"Build the Great Wall!"

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In 223 A.D., all the major government offices in Daqin put up notices, announcing that the rice harvest would be bumper, and all those who built the Great Wall would have three meals of rice porridge a day. With this notice, more and more people signed up to build the Great Wall...

(End of this chapter)