• According to historical records, the country boasted a population of 20 million, among which 7 million were able-bodied laborers. To construct the mausoleum, more than 700,00 of these laborers were conscripted.
Emperor Yingzheng
• To achieve this, Emperor Qin Shihuang shook up the civil system in three areas: first, he was responsible for the promotion of officials at all levels; second, he adopted the prefecture and county system and third , he standardized the legal system, measures.
Mausoleum
Mausoleum
• Like other emperors in Chinese history, the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty built his own grand and luxurious mausoleum. He ordered its construction to begin when he came to power at the age of 13. This imperial mausoleum was originally 120 meters tall and 2,000 meters in circumference. Now it is still 76 meters tall and 400 meters in circumference.
The Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang
Contents
• 1.Emperor Yingzheng
• 2.Mausoleum
• 3. Pits of Terracotta Warriors and Horses
Emperor Yi
Emperor Yingzheng
• He also commissioned a large number of laborers to pave high-grade carriageways to facilitate trade and cultural exchange.
• In addition, he built the Great Wall on old foundations that snaked from Jiayu Pass in Gansu Province in the west to Shanhai Pass in Liaodong Peninsula in the east in order to protect China against harassment by the northern nomadic groups.
• The memorial park on the ground can be deemed as a miniature capital, since the First Emperor accurately copied the layout of Xianyang, the capital city.
• There used to be a palace compound in the northwestern part and a fishpond in the northeaster corner.
• In the outer compound there was a quarry pit in the northwest and a graveyard in the west.
Emperor Yingzheng
• To further boost his power, Yingzheng promoted a number of talented and competent civil servants and generals. In order to unify the greater China, he laid down a military strategy of befriending distant states while attacking those nearby.
• The First Emperor of Qin lived from 259 to 210 B.C. and was surnamed Ying and had Zheng as his given name.
• He ascended throne when he was 13 years old and took the helm of the state at age of 22.
• By 221 B. C., he defeated six countries in less than ten years, ending more than 500-year-long chaotic Warring States Period.
Emperor Yingzheng
• From then on Yingzheng named himself the First Emperor in the hope that his descendants would pass down his regime from generation to generation.
• When he established the first feudal empire in China’s history he laid a solid basis for the rapid development of its economy, politics, ideology and culture.