April 11, 236 B.C
By Deng Sha-Han
China Today
Xi’an—today three
hundred slaves were exiled from a small province near Mount Li. They
were sent to construct a burial for Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi. 236 B.C
there were rumors of the site of his grave but no one actually knew
where it was. Emperor Qin decided that he needed to be remembered in
luxury so he got over seven hundred thousand men to build a burial for
him.
Ten
years ago, the King of the Qin state had died and the young Ying Zheng
had taken power at age thirteen. Ying had feared for his life so he
decided to build a secret underground mausoleum. Now as Emperor Qin Shi
Huangdi; he ordered over three hundred slaves to be exiled from a small
province near Mount Li. One slave had managed to escape from the
clutches of Qin and his government officials. Kuan-Yin reported: “I know
of this mausoleum that is being built for Qin that is why the slaves
were exiled. No one knew where we were going. When we got there Qin told
us to keep this a secret but I was scared for my life.”
According to the
escaped slave Kuan-Yin, After many years of intense labor the slaves had
almost finished building the mausoleum. Kuan-Yin had men on the inside
that would feed him info through a messenger bird. They would tell Kuan
that the terracotta soldiers were being constructed with horses.
According to these men the Emperor was going to lock the slaves and the
other thousands of men in the mausoleum to die.
There were two other
men involved with the escaped slave. Jing-Yung was an architect working
in the mausoleum;he helped disguise two slaves for an escape. Jing
reported: “I had to help Kuan and his friend Ku-Lon because the
officials were working them to death; I was fed up with this thirteen
year old Emperor.” This man was a well-respected architect in China. The
other slave that could not escape from the mausoleum is Ku-Lon through
the letters that he sends to Kuan-Yin he reported: “There are many
statues and everything is terracotta it is so beautiful but we slaves
are getting beaten to work, it is so hard. You need to get me out before
it is too late.”
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