Chapter 33: Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, the national treasure!

Chang'an City, Qin Emperor's Mausoleum Museum.

The moment she got out of the taxi, Martha's outlook on life was almost shaken again.

"This, this can be a museum? Yan? Have we come to the wrong place?"

Looking at the "desolate" place in front of her, which had nothing to do with "prosperity" but instead looked like an ordinary small village, Martha counted on her fingers in confusion.

"Shouldn't a museum be a magnificent building with many priceless treasures inside? Is it such a prosperous place? Why is there... this..."

Lin Yan smiled: "Do you think this place is too desolate to be a museum?"

Martha nodded gently and whispered, "It feels like a remote little village. I thought... the museum that Lian Yan strongly recommended to take me to visit must be an incredible, super beautiful, super large museum."

The Arab League audience was also confused:
"Is this a museum? It doesn't even look as grand as my home!"

"It shouldn't be like this. If this Chinese kid is not bragging, this museum should have a huge amount of precious cultural relics from the Qin Dynasty 2000 years ago. These are treasures that any country would treasure and enshrine with great respect. It has to be a super museum to be worthy of this status. Why do I see that it doesn't even have many buildings, let alone a super museum?"

“I’ve been to so many museums and I’ve never seen anything like this!”

"If you ask me, is this really a museum? Could it be that this guy has finally lost his ability to hide and has tricked Martha into a remote place to prepare for his attack?"

"!!"

"!"

All of a sudden, the elders of the Alian Chiefs felt that this made sense and became excited.

Lin Yan couldn't help but feel embarrassed. Can you guys trust me a little bit?
“Of course it’s a museum.”

Lin Yan explained: "You have a misunderstanding. There are indeed many priceless cultural relics here, but because there are so many of them, to the point where they are everywhere, so... there is no need to really treat them as treasures and carefully worship them. Just leave them as they are, this is the most respectful way to treat cultural relics."

"Take your Alian Chieftainship as an example. The whole world knows that oil is a good thing, and it is also an expensive thing. Even if you keep it at home, you have to seal it well to prevent it from evaporating. But in your Alian Chieftainship, do you treat oil as a treasure and carefully preserve every drop of it?"

Everyone in the Alian tribe: "..."

That seems to be the case?
Chinese netizens felt a little uncomfortable.

"I say, isn't Brother Yan exaggerating a bit? I also went to the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum. Although it is indeed somewhat different from those high-end and classy museums in my impression, it is not to the extent that Brother Yan said it was just a casual deal. Isn't this a lack of respect for the staff who protect the cultural relics?"

"Well... I don't think so. On the contrary, I think what Brother Yan said is quite right. Just think about it, if there is a Qin warrior in the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit and such a statue on display in a museum abroad, it will definitely be a full set of top-notch arrangements. Glass cover, no photography allowed, and no approach allowed. Compare it with our 'big shed'..."

"Yes, there are indeed too many of these super cultural relics. It is not realistic to protect every one of them with top-level treatment."

Martha looked at the discussion among Chinese netizens and couldn't help but feel curious.

"Terracotta Warriors? Big shed? What is that?"

Soon, Martha saw the magic of the Qinling Museum. It is indeed different from other conventional museums. It has almost no high-rise buildings and few magnificent exhibition halls.

But it's big.

"W-what! What did I see! Yan! That's... a shuttle bus!? There's a shuttle bus in a museum?"

After entering the hospital, Martha was shocked by what she saw at first sight!
Instead, Lin Yan looked at Martha in confusion.

"Of course there has to be a shuttle bus."

"The entire Qin Emperor's Mausoleum Museum covers an area of ​​56 square kilometers. Note that it is square kilometers, not square meters. Do you intend to walk all 56 square kilometers on foot?"

"I, I... God Almighty, this is a museum? This is a museum? A museum whose area is measured in square kilometers!?"

Not only Martha, but the entire live broadcast room was shocked by this number!

How can a high-end place like a museum use "square kilometers" as the unit of area?

If I remember correctly, one of the most famous museums in the world, the British Museum, has a total area of ​​56000 square meters. If converted to square kilometers... 0.056!

A thousand times difference!
Of course, for such a large museum, the density of its collections cannot be compared with that of the British Museum. But even so, with this thousand-fold difference in size, the number of collections in the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum Museum is probably astronomical!
On the ferry, as the bus started, Lin Yan also told Martha the story of the Qin Dynasty.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the country was in turmoil. The First Emperor, with the remaining strength of six generations, finally unified the country. After that, the wheels of the carriages were standardized and the writing system was standardized. Even though the Qin Dynasty fell in the second generation, it still left an indelible mark in Chinese history. Therefore, the First Emperor was revered by the people as the greatest emperor of all time.

These stories were already well known to the Chinese, and Martha listened to them with great interest.

"No wonder this place is so big. It turns out to be the tomb of an ambitious emperor who unified the world! China is so big, and so many magical treasures were collected by Qin Shi Huang. Just imagine how magnificent this place must be!"

Martha finally understood why the "Qin Emperor's Mausoleum" covered such an exaggerated area.

When the shuttle bus stopped in front of a "small hill", Lin Yan smiled and gestured to her, indicating that she should get off the bus.

Martha blinked.

"Here... why did we stop the car? Aren't we going to visit the Terracotta Warriors? What is this mountain? Could it be that the Terracotta Warriors are on the mountain?"

Lin Yan pretended to cough deeply.

"I am honored to introduce it to you, my dear Martha. It is the most famous 'collection' of the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum Museum, the treasure of the museum, and may be the only unique cultural relic in the world."

"As a single artifact, it is about the same size as the world-renowned British Museum. And in terms of value, the value of this artifact to us Chinese people is so great that even if the entire British Museum were packed together, it would not be worth even one-tenth of this one artifact."

"This small hill in front of you is generally called the 'Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor' by us. It is the treasure of China."

(End of this chapter)