Interview with Emperor Qin

Question: Is it hard or easy to run such great empire?

Answer: It is very hard to rule such a great empire. I have to always be thinking of new punishments and laws to make life for my people better. People are always disobeying my rules, making life harder for me because I have to yell and yell giving me more stress. Also it's hard for me because people are always saying that I'm too harsh. Calling me harsh, angry, crazy, etc will only cause you more pain because all the stress that you cause me will be rebounded on you.

Question: Why did you tell your son to commit suicide?

Answer: Well my son has disapproved of me since he was 10. I allowed him to join me in my rule. While he was ruling with me he made laws that I did not approve of. One of those laws were allowing Confucianism to be practiced. Well first of all allowing somebody to help me in my rule was against me belief. Second, allowing Confucianism was something that I completely went against. So I told my son if you don’t want to disgrace me and your family name anymore just go commit suicide. A couple days later he did.

Question: How did it feel being the first to unify China?

Answer: I was born into this country when it was fighting with itself. Everybody was against everybody. There was an endless war happening. Everybody was miserable back then. The goal that I had my whole life was have China never be like it was when I was a child. That meant unifying China. I spent my whole life thinking of ideas about how to unify China. I’m very happy that I unified China because it showed my life's work paid off and being the first was even better because it made me more famous.

Question: Why did you want to make one main currency instead of multiple different ones?

Answer: People couldn't go to the market in the south and use money from the north. This problem caused big conflicts. One conflict was that people in the south couldn't eat things from the north and vice versa. This meant the culture of China wasn't being spread through out the country. I wanted to standardize the currency so that the culture of China could be the same through out China.

Question: Why do you want to be immortal?

Answer: When I was little I saw many people die. The wars that were happening would kill thousands of people at a time. The pain and helplessness people feel when they die was something I did not want to feel. Helplessness was something I especially didn’t want to feel because I was a fighter which meant helplessness was something I would never want to experience. I want to become immortal so I would never have to feel that way.