Chapter 34 A mountain and a mausoleum! A super project that shocked the world!

A mountain, a mausoleum!

Martha looked at the unremarkable "hill" in front of her in shock, and asked in disbelief: "Yan? Are you kidding? This whole mountain is the tomb of the First Emperor? It's so big!?"

It’s not that she hadn’t visited the tombs of great figures in other civilizations, but even the largest tomb she had ever seen was only a few dozen square meters in area!

And the tomb of the first emperor who unified China is actually an entire mountain! ?

Foreign netizens also widened their eyes, unable to believe what they saw.

How can a tomb be built so big?

"2000 years ago, the powerful Qin Dynasty was tormented for half its life in order to build this mausoleum. What do you think?"

Lin Yan said with emotion: "Back then, in order to build the Qin Mausoleum, the entire Chinese conscripted more than 70 corvées, who worked day and night to build this super project. It took 39 years to complete it."

70, 39 years!
As soon as these two numbers were brought out, all the audience in the live broadcast room were frightened!
"2000 years ago, China was able to mobilize so many people to build a project? How many people did our Lanxi country have at that time?"

"Was there a country called Lanxi at that time?"

"They hollowed out the entire mountain and turned it into a tomb to bury this emperor? Is this something that people 2000 years ago could have done?"

"It's not impossible. After all, we also have unsolved mysteries like the pyramids. No one knows how it was built, but it is there and it cannot be faked!"

"The pyramids may not have been built by the ancients. They may have been forged by modern people! Otherwise, who would believe that the ancients could accomplish such a miracle? It is totally incomprehensible!"

"The same thing is true of the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum in China! How could people at that time have hollowed out an entire mountain and built it into a mausoleum?"

"Hey, guys, if you guys want to talk about this topic, we won't be sleepy anymore. How did China build the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum? How many people of what status were recruited? How long did it take to work? The specific construction methods are all clearly recorded in our history books. You will be able to see it later. If you don't believe me, I will read it to you now."

"The world's greatest unsolved mystery: Why does China have no unsolved mysteries? Because every earth-shaking thing our ancestors did was explained in detail how they did it, where they did it, how much time they did it, and everything can be traced. Everything that is so magical that it is incomprehensible can have a principle and evidence, so there is no such thing as an 'unsolved mystery'."

The Chinese people fought back one after another.

Martha squatted on the ground, knocking on the ground and putting her ear close to it, as if she was using this method to listen to whether the mountain was "hollow" or not.

Looking at Martha's silly look, Lin Yan couldn't help but laugh.

"Martha, you won't be able to knock with such strength. In fact, decades ago, we Chinese also used a lot of advanced instruments and equipment to finally confirm that this mountain is the legendary Mausoleum of the Qin Emperor."

Martha asked again: "Has China discovered many treasures from here?"

Lin Yan nodded, but immediately felt something was wrong and shook his head again.

Martha: “?”

Lin Yan replied: "Huaxia has excavated many precious cultural relics from around the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, enough to make the entire area the 'Qin Emperor Museum'. This is true. But in fact, our most core area, the Qin Mausoleum under this mountain, has never been developed by Huaxia."

what! ?

This really confused Martha and the foreign viewers in the live broadcast room. "Not developing it? Why? Isn't China curious about what precious treasures are buried in the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum? That was the first emperor of China! The richest and most noble person in China! The objects buried with him at that time must be extremely precious!"

You know, nearly 400 years ago, a wine glass of Catherine II could become a "national treasure" in an extremely wealthy country like the Emirate of Alian!
Now, a Chinese emperor who lived 2000 years ago was buried with the most precious artifacts of China at that time. Any artifact unearthed from these artifacts would be a super treasure that would shock the world!

Even without mentioning the archaeological value, just selling these cultural relics could bring in an astronomical sum beyond imagination! To put it in an exaggerated way, it might be enough to cover China's fiscal expenditure for a year!

How could China resist exploring this?

Lin Yan smiled bitterly: "How can I not be curious? If you tell me what is inside the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum now, I would be willing to exchange it for the answer even if it costs me two or three years of life. But no, no."

"When the mausoleum was built, the Qin Dynasty, the construction party, fully considered the danger of tomb robbery. Therefore, the anti-tomb robbery measures of the entire Qin Emperor's Mausoleum are complete, and the difficulty of excavation is high. Even if you look at the whole of China, it ranks first. Once forced to excavate, it will surely destroy everything, not only the cultural relics and historical sites, but also the extremely precious cultural relics inside. Why do such a stupid thing?"

Martha was a little disappointed.

She was really itching to see China's super treasure from 2000 years ago.

It's such a waste to have so many of these precious national treasures lying underground without ever seeing the light of day!

The audience in the live broadcast room was also itching! Not to mention the foreign audience, how many people in China dare to say that they are not curious about how many good things the First Emperor brought with him and left lying there?

However, even though they are equally curious, there are obvious differences in ideas between foreign countries and China.

"No, I mean, you Chinese people at least claim to be an ancient civilization with a history of 5000 years. How could you bear to leave such a super treasure there without touching it? Is it because this cultural relic is too difficult to excavate?"

"Are you trying to brag about the wisdom of the ancient Chinese people? You are overthinking. All I see is that your Chinese archaeological technology is useless. You can't even use the anti-tomb robbery methods from 2000 years ago!"

"Even if part of it is destroyed, it's better than leaving it completely lying on the ground! Isn't this just letting the treasure be 'destroyed' for nothing? Even if we get less, it's definitely better than getting nothing at all!"

"If it really doesn't work, I know a few archaeological experts here. They have rich archaeological experience in many places in West Asia and North Africa. I will introduce my brother to you in China. If he knew that there is such an unexcavated tomb in China, he would definitely be very interested! As long as he can take away one of the collections after the excavation, it will be fine!"

???

Chinese netizens felt their blood pressure rising rapidly when they saw the inexplicable remarks made by their foreign friends.

Excavating the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum?

Is it your turn as outsiders to interfere in this matter?
Also, the guy who made the last statement, you didn't intend to hide it at all, right? It's obvious what you were thinking!
Lin Yan's expression also turned serious.

"The Mausoleum of the Qin Emperor, the Dragon Vein of the Ancestors."

"In the 2000 years since the Qin Dynasty, China has suffered from chaos several times. China has been devastated and the Chinese nation has suffered. When we were in extreme poverty, we couldn't even get enough food to eat. We could only write down with tears in our eyes, 'There was a great famine and people were eating each other.'"

"But even though we are in such a difficult situation, we Chinese people have been guarding the Mausoleum of the Qin Emperor for 2000 years without touching the treasures inside!"

"This is the wealth that the Chinese ancestors left to us, the unworthy descendants. We would rather starve to death than touch a cent!"

(End of this chapter)