I Time Travelled to the Construction of the Great Wall of China! (Vlog)

I time travelled to the Construction of the Great Wall of China. 221 BC. Qin Shi Huang is literally alive. And I spent three months just living here. I rammed earth with my bare hands until I could not lift my arms (it took four attempts to pick up the tool. Wei thought it was hilarious.), ate grain porridge and fermented fish every single day and somehow stopped noticing, climbed bamboo scaffolding six stories up with no safety rope and absolutely no business being up there, watched a garrison soldier explain how to read a Xiongnu raid in the stars before you see it on the steppe, stood on the north side of the wall at night with nothing between me and the empty steppe for a thousand kilometers, and ended up sitting with a farmer named Wei at a fire while he described every inch of his rice paddy back home a paddy he had not seen in a year. This is not a history lesson. This is just what it actually felt like to be here. And it was a lot. One million people built this thing. Most of them never came home. Come with me 🏯