Living under Qin dynasty was very harsh and difficult. The emperor chose to follow Legalism and now every single person under his rule is under strict law, harsh punishment, and could be exiled anytime if you made even the smallest mistake. Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Johntesh Lin, I am a soldier and was sent a lot of time to attack tribes and rival states. Sometimes the war was so fierce that we lost nearly the whole army trying to just capture a stronghold.I was sent a lot of time to fight and even though we won, some of my good friends died in battle and their body was never found.
Sometimes war wasn’t my daily work, but we were sent to make sure the emperor is safe. My parents sends letter to me about whats going on inside the city when I was out of the city protecting our territory. My mom said one thing they liked about emperor Qin was that he made trade much easier. He told every village and city to use the same coins and things to trade. He also created weights and measure to weight the amount of coins and used measuring cup to make the same amount of coins.
Then, something happened that changed my life forever, the emperor ordered massive amount of soldiers,villagers,scholars,teachers, and musician to build the Great wall of China. It’s goal were to stop the nomads while most of our troops were south fighting fierce resistances. My parents were sent, including me to make sure nobody is lazy. Not only the workers were living under bad condition, we soldiers cant breathe and some nearly die because of such high wall making them unable to have enough air.That was when everyone hate him down to the bottom of the ocean.Even I don’t like emperor Qin.
There some people discussing about plotting against the emperor, but they were sent off the wall with my other friend soldiers and they said that the plotters were executed.Then at that moment no one dare to plot against the emperor again.Gosh I really wish someone would be able to overthrow him or assassinate him. Life living under building or overseeing was terrible, nothing such horrible I have ever think of.Can you even imagine a place were you were carrying woods or materials for the wall, trying to rest and get beat up by the soldiers? Can you imagine trying to build a wall without air to breathe? I don’t want to talk about it anymore, its a bad memory.