News Article: Wall Workers Suffer Through The Job

Wall Workers Suffer Through the Job

By:Lei Sui

Real China

BEJING-  After 11 years. The Great wall is almost complete. “Its about time!” a villager who does not want to reveal his name says, “these poor Wall workers have been at this and suffering for years. They all cant wait to be let free once again and not tortured and beaten every single day!” Chinese subjects have many different views on the workers of the great wall and statements are getting mixed messages on how Qin and the rest of the Empire are treating the workers.

“It was September 18, 252 BC when the building of the Great Wall first started and since then each and every individual worker has been treated with respect and equality,” says the great Emperor Qin. He went on saying, “everyone has been working so hard for years trying to finish the wall as quickly and to the best of our abilities, and for that reason, we treat our workers with great kindness.” Qin made it clear that anyone who disagrees with his statements that he treats his workers right, will face consequences.

“Emperor Qin is a evil man. We were beaten and tortured every single day by him and his crew and he didn’t care one bit,” says Wang-Yi, A worker of the great wall for the first five years of the process. “I witnessed him kill two of my very close friends right in front of my own eyes. Hes a disgusting man, and somebody needs to put a stop to the building of the Great Wall so these poor workers can be free once and for all!”

Editorial: What Citizens Think of the Great Wall

Emperor Qin editiorial

by:Leah Sutherland

Real China

Emperor Qin has taken hundreds of slave workers and prisoners against their wills to work on the great wall. This edict will allow the Great Wall to be built at a faster pace. This edict will ruin China’s citizens. Poor and innocent slaves being forced to work against their wills every day and night! Prisoners that have served their time, sent right to the Great Wall of China to get beaten and tortured daily.
These people that are being forced are innocent people and they are getting treated like they did something completely wrong. They have families too. They have wives and kids too. Yet they are still working day and night, for hours at a time. These people should have a choice on where they work and what they want to do with their lives. Not be forced to do hard labor everyday for years straight.
Wanting to get the great wall done is one thing, but forcing people that don’t want to do it, and make them work on it is not the right way to get it done. But of coarse, the rich and people that are not working on the great wall think differently about the workers. “Why are they making such a big deal about working? Its a job. Emperor Qin is providing them with a job. Why aren’t they happy about that?” Says landlord Wei-Teing. Its not a good job when they are getting forced into it and don’t get paid for it. Its not a job that helps provide for the family and that is fun for that matter.
China’s citizens shouldn’t be forced to do jobs that they don’t want to and don’t get paid for. Everyone only lives once and you have to make the most of it. Don’t let the government run your life; run it yourself.
   

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Map of Great wall

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