Greg Jenner
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And then he also forcibly relocates 700,000 people to be forced labourers to build his pet projects.
He murders Confucian scholars by burying them alive.
So he's quite a ruthless character.
All the while doing this, he's also busy juggling another huge engineering project in China.
Do you want to guess what it is, Phil?
Is that what it's called?
It's on the tip of my tongue.
Although it's known as the Great Wall of China.
Yeah, that's one of his.
So clearly we have an emperor who wants to make a big splash in life.
He's building these huge monuments.
He's introducing huge new policies.
But he's also really wanting a glorious death.
And this funerary complex, they start planning it when he's a teenager.
And it's built in Shaanxi province in...
It's sort of central China, but at the time, slightly off centre, I suppose.
And it ends up as being the biggest mausoleum in the history of the world.