Pretty sure he had them buried long before he died. (Well, that’s the story anyway. For all we know, it could have been completely made up by the Han to discredit the Qin.)
I hear that, but allegedly ground radar of the site from before China became China again showed that the mercury oceans around the Qin continents might be real, I want to believe it’s full on Indiana Jones shit, and you have all these Confucians drowned in a sea of mercury for failing to find him the elixir of immortality out on that irl sea
The Confucian intellectuals are undermining the cause, that’s why I need them all buried with me!
Pretty sure he had them buried long before he died. (Well, that’s the story anyway. For all we know, it could have been completely made up by the Han to discredit the Qin.)
I hear that, but allegedly ground radar of the site from before China became China again showed that the mercury oceans around the Qin continents might be real, I want to believe it’s full on Indiana Jones shit, and you have all these Confucians drowned in a sea of mercury for failing to find him the elixir of immortality out on that irl sea