221BC The ultimate price is won Chin is now China. At the age of 34 Ying Zheng is crowned with the Vail of stars symbolizing the divinity of China's first emperor Qin Shi Huang di (means the first god of the Chin). He regarded him self not only a defied figure but as an innovator or a creator, someone who begin a long lineage.With the help of his prime minister Li si the first emperor Ying Zheng put in place a system of governance that it would long outlasted him. Li Si who arrived as a young scholar the year ,the young emperor came to the throne has become a new power behind it. For 20 years he perfected the system that sweeped away China's feudalist past once and for all. Li si totalitarian philosophy is called legalism. The system that governed every citizen's daily life and the penalty for the transgression is to include physical punishment and mutilation or death.
220bc emperor Ying zheng set off to survey his new empire for the first time ever. A secure and peaceful land, and he intended to keep it that way. Millions of deconscripted soldiers are now freed from fighting ready to be reused. The empire is won but it must be secured with the great wall. For centuries the northern edges of civilized China have been ravaged by nomadic tribes. And though the frontier towns had a defensive walls there are always plenty of gaps now that would change.
With the major war is over laborers are plentiful and building begins on the greatest engineering project of the ancient world. A single impregnable barrier to seal the empire the great wall of China. Laid of compacted earth it is 30 feet high and three thousand miles long. As of pick of its production over a million of people are on slaved to build a great wall and a quarter will die in the process....click here to continue
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