sent Xue Bin and Tu Qin away, and the two followed Princess Yinting to lead 50,000 Qin troops to the grassland to help the Huns quell the rebellion. The borders of the Qin State were finally at peace, and Meng Tian was ready to begin the construction of the Great Wall.

The construction of the Great Wall was not a day's work, from the desert Gobi in the west of the Qin State to the high mountains and abysses in the east of Liaodong, tens of thousands of miles away, according to Meng Tian's calculations, this project will take decades to complete.

This time, nearly 800,000 people were requisitioned to the border in Qin, and more than 20,000 people came to Yancheng. So the temporary barracks outside Iwaki was changed to the residence of these people, and the border troops of Iwaki provided them with food.

Lao Zhou was appointed by Meng Tian as the commander of the construction of the Great Wall, and he and other disciples of the Gongyi clan escorted the construction of the Great Wall. With the help of the mechanics, the construction of the Great Wall was much faster than Meng Tian had imagined. Quarrying rocks and transporting stones and trees, if you rely entirely on manpower, it is really a heaven and an underground.

Originally, Meng Tian wanted to walk along the border of the Qin State from west to east, but due to the arrival of Princess Yinting and the dispatch of troops to the grassland, he slowly forgot about it. Knowing that the construction of the Great Wall had begun, he remembered that he had such a plan.

"You still have to go on a trip to the border?" After Meng Tian told Meng Li about this plan that had not been carried out, Meng Tian thought that he had forgotten about this matter a long time ago, but he didn't expect to think about it again today.

Meng Tian looked at the map of Qin that hung in the room, and he said, "I am the general of Qin, so of course I have to know the borders of Qin well. Although I still have an impression of these places when I attacked the Six Nations in the past, there are many places I have not been to, and I want to learn about them, after all, these places may be the enemy's breakthroughs. ”

Meng Li clasped his hands in front of his chest, and he said to his brother: "It's okay, anyway, the Huns won't come to us to harass us for the time being, and it's not a solution for us to have nearly 100,000 troops stationed here." I want to transfer some of these people, and then you take some of them, after all, the supply of these people is not a small amount every day, not to mention that there are tens of thousands of people outside the city. ”

Meng Tian said: "Big brother, you and I have to go together. There are indeed too many garrisons here, so let's do it, you lead the 50,000 troops back, leaving 50,000 to the hornets and Zhang Kui, the two of them should have no problem here, plus there are yellow leopards in Blackwater City, I think it will take five or six years for the Great Wall here to be built, so let them be stationed here first. ”

"Well, how many people are you going to take with you this time?"

"Five hundred people are enough, I'll take the godsend with me. ”

"Tianci is going with you too? Will there be a little less than five hundred?"

Meng Tian said with a smile: "Five hundred people are enough, and there are so many border cities along the way, if anyone dares to provoke us, they will definitely go and not return." ”

On the second day, a military order was issued in the Mengjia army, with Ma Bee and Zhang Kui serving as the two commanders stationed in Yancheng respectively, and went out to garrison the 50,000 people stationed in Yancheng normally, and Meng Li led the remaining 50,000 squad divisions back to the court.

Outside the rock city, tens of thousands of troops slowly advanced, Meng Tian, Meng Li and Meng Tianci rode together.

"Godci, go out with your father this time, remember to behave well, come back and say maybe your father will let you enter the Mengjia army, and then you will be the captain of my personal army. Meng Li said to his little nephew.

Meng Tianci wore a helmet on his head, which forced his head to be one size larger, and the helmet was tightly tied to his head. "Rest assured, uncle, I will not disappoint you and my father. ”

"That's good. Meng Li looked at Meng Tian and continued: "Brother, be more careful along the way. It is said that the remnants of the Six Kingdoms who have been destroyed in the past few years are still ready to move, and this time Du Hui seems to be in a little trouble with the people, and I will help him when I go back. You are in high mountains and rivers along the way, please pay attention to safety. ”

"Don't worry, big brother, I will. Meng Tian said.

"Okay, then we'll see you in Xianyang City later. ”

Meng Li led the army to the south, while Meng Tian and Meng Tianci galloped east with five hundred cavalry.

There is no division of the border of Qin, it is really just the division of the place of the Qin people and the Huns, the Central Plains and the grassland, so every time Meng Tian passes through a city on this road, he will go in to rest for two days to check the progress of the local construction of the Great Wall. As soon as it is discovered that there are officials who sabotage or abuse people's husbands and secretly enrich their own pockets, they will be executed on the spot. Because these people violated Meng Tian's bottom line, he didn't allow anyone to get involved in this matter that was beneficial to all Qin people. Weichang

From Liaodong on Yancheng Road in the west, Meng Tian took Meng Tianci for nearly a year. For a year, the father and son spent more time on horseback than they slept, either shuttling between the mountains or on the construction site of the Great Wall. According to God's teaching, sleeping on horseback is more comfortable than sleeping in a bed.

A year has passed, Meng Tianci's original white face has become the same as his father, a little tanned, but the whole young man has changed like a person, Kong Wu is powerful, and has a bit of the demeanor of Meng Tian when he was young.

After staying in the bitter cold land of Liaodong for nearly a month, the father and son and five hundred relatives were finally about to embark on the journey back to Xianyang. When it was dawn the next day, Meng Tian personally entered the house and pulled him up from the bed.

The father and son went all the way to Yishui, which used to be the Yan Kingdom. Looking at the river in front of him that had just thawed and was flowing all the way to the sea, Meng Tian said, "God's gift, do you know the story of this easy water?"

"Yi Shui, what can be the story of this river? Could it be that my father has been here before?" asked Meng Tianci curiously.

Meng Tian shook his head, and he said, "It's the first time I've come here as a father, but this Yi Shui used to have a relationship with two people I knew. ”

"Who? male or female?"

Meng Tian raised his arm, wanting to slap the mouthy son on the head. "What men and women, these two are the two most dazzling people in the world before, one can make the fastest sword in the world, and the other can play the best sound in the world. ”

"Father is talking about Jing Ke, who assassinated His Majesty the Emperor, and Gao Yuanli, who talked about Zhuzhu, right?" Meng Tianci said.

"So you know. Meng Tian looked at his son and said.

Meng Tianci looked disdainful, and he said: "Isn't it just an assassin who assassinated His Majesty the Emperor, and a useless pianist, of course I know these things." When I was in the barracks, Uncle Meng and Uncle Du told me about it. ”

"Oh, I said. Meng Tian suddenly realized that although it had been so long since Jing Ke assassinated Ying Zheng, many people had forgotten the existence of these two people, but among some ministers and generals of the Qin State, there were still many people who remembered this matter.

Meng Tian pointed to Yi Shui in front of him and said: "It was here that Yan Dan, the prince of Yan Kingdom, bid farewell to Jing Ke, and asked Jing Ke to go to Qin State with the map of the place where Yan Guo was governor and the head of Fan Yuqi who shot your great-ancestor to death. ”

Speaking of this, Meng Tian laughed, and he said in a low voice: "You may not know, these two people also saved your father's life back then, but I don't seem to be able to repay this favor." ”

"Father, they're all dead anyway, so don't think about it so much. Let's hurry up, we don't cross the river, it's getting dark, and we have nowhere to stay. ”

"Okay, then let's cross the river. ”

There were fishermen who crossed the river with pedestrians on the river, and Meng Tian asked them for two boats to take all the men and horses across the river, and rested in a post house on the other side of the river, and then continued their journey tomorrow.

The post house is very large, according to the store, this is the only post house within hundreds of miles of Yishui Mansion, so by the time Meng Tian and they arrived here, the post house was almost full. However, after the owner of the inn saw a group of Qin troops coming, he immediately packed out two upper rooms and a few ordinary guest rooms for them to live in.

In the evening, Meng Tian took Meng Tianci to the hall of the post house for dinner. There were a lot of people in the hall, most of them men, and only a few scantily dressed women who looked like they were supposed to be selling prostitution shuttled through the crowd in the hall, flirting with the men who were sitting here to eat.

Meng Tian and Meng Tianci found a relatively clean table to sit down, and asked the post house guys who were running back and forth for some food.

Before the meal was served, Meng Tian saw everyone in the hall, including the women, cheering, and then saw a man with long hair covering his face, holding a long building in his arms and walking up to a high platform in the hall. The man placed the building on a table prepared on a high platform and sat down.

The cheering crowd in the hall immediately fell silent, and a pleasant sound of "Zheng" sounded, and Meng Tian's face immediately changed after hearing it.