The whole construction site was in full swing and busy, and the breath exhaled from the nose and mouth of the migrant worker Xing Tu became white steam, which gathered on the cold ground and gradually blew away in the cold wind.

The entire construction site continued to increase the number of people, and the Xing disciples mobilized from the surrounding states and counties of Chang'an were also marching to Chang'an at this time. They wore shackles and bound their hands with heavy chains, and the officer in charge of escorting them used all the stuffy breath they held on their leather whips and beat them fiercely.

From time to time, people fall in the snow, are trampled by the officials, whipped with leather whips, and those who can't get up become corpses on the side of the road, no one cares about them, their death is as ordinary as the cold wind of this winter, spreading to the snow at the end of the earth.

The use of Xingtu as labor for large-scale civil engineering projects has existed since ancient times. Fortify cities, build embankments, dig rivers, build mausoleums...

When Qin Shi Huang repaired the Lishan Mausoleum, he took this practice to the extreme, and when the Lishan Mausoleum was at its busiest, there were more than one million Xing disciples gathered near Lishan.

And these Xing disciples had a different name in later history, Lishan Zhong.

How many years has it been in Datang, there has not been such a large-scale construction project, and there has been no requisition of Xingtu.

On this day, Chen Fang finally had free time, and asked Wu Meiniang for instructions, wanting to go to the construction site to see, Wu Meiniang naturally agreed, and promised Chen Fang that as long as he wanted to go to the construction site, he could check it at any time.

Chen Fang didn't expect Wu Meiniang to be so generous, Wu Meiniang asked Taohong to take Chen Fang with her, and when she passed through the palace gate guarded by the prison guards, Chen Fang might not be able to enter and exit at will.

"Childe, why do you want to go to the construction site to see? I've heard it's messy there. The Ministry of Industry has requisitioned many Xing disciples from prisons in various parts of the Criminal Department, and there are many bad people there! ”

When no one was around, Taohong remembered Chen Fang's entrustment and called him Gongzi.

"This workshop will be built in the future, but I will take care of it, so naturally I want to see it! As for Xingtu..."

Most of them were implicated!

Chen Fang did not say anything in the second half of the sentence, Datang's criminal law is actually not harsh, but the Zhulian system has always existed, often one person commits a crime, and the whole family will be implicated, and some big cases will even affect the villagers and neighbors.

Prisons everywhere were generally at full capacity or even overloaded, and it was natural that prisoners were used to engage in all kinds of hard and dangerous work.

For example, the Yeting Palace accepts the relatives and families of many criminal ministers, and Meng Fei is one of them. Often, when an official commits a crime, the whole family will be unlucky together with dozens or even hundreds.

The so-called raiding of the house is really an endless egg under the nest.

"Childe, what's wrong with Xingtu?"

"Xingtu is actually not as terrible as you think!"

"Oh, Childe said it's not scary, then it's not scary."

Chen Fang looked at Taohong, this girl really believes in herself, if she really sells her, it is estimated that she can let her count the money for herself.

"Then the workshop is completed, and Childe lives in the workshop?"

Chen Fang nodded, seeing Taohong's somewhat lost eyes.

"The workshop is behind the Taiji Palace, and it won't be impossible to see it in the future!"

"It's not as easy as it is now! If there is no mother, I will be interrogated when I enter and exit the palace gate, and the prison guards will check it more tightly than before. ”

Taohong sighed, and Chen Fang pinched her nose angrily.

"Knowing that you are greedy, there will still be people to do those things in the Shangshi Bureau in the future, and I will also ask Dingyu to tell the Shangshi Bureau to prepare one for you!"

"It's better to be a childe!"

Peach smile's face was like a peach blossom, Chen Fang wanted to reach out and pinch her face, but he still held back, not far away, two palace ladies passed by, and they were seen passing into Wu Meiniang's ears, which was not good for this girl.

Chen Fang just smiled, and the two passed through the gate of the Dao Palace, and Chen Fang had already seen the Sanqing Hall in front of him.

Taiji Palace is named after Taiji, and many of these palaces have Taoist charm, such as the Sanqing Palace, such as the Ziwei Palace, and the Liangyi Palace. Emperor Wen of Sui, who built the capital of Daxing City, preferred the Taoist set.

And the direction that Chen Fang looked at was a small attic next to the Sanqing Palace, which was quite short compared to the Sanqing Palace, and if he didn't pay attention, he would often ignore the small attic.

The name of that attic is called Lingyan Pavilion, and it is a legendary place in this era and in future generations.

At this time, in the Lingyan Pavilion, the portraits painted by Yan Liben for the twenty-four heroes of the Tang Dynasty were hung in it, and many of them are still alive. The portrait of the eldest grandson Wuji is among them.

Bypassing the Sanqing Palace, Chen Fang looked at the Lingyan Pavilion not far from the side, the Tang Emperor was also powerful, just let people draw twenty-four portraits and hang them in it, and later this place became a holy place in the minds of officials of previous dynasties.

So much so that in later generations, as long as there are novels about the Tang Dynasty, Lingyan Pavilion must be mentioned.

Please go to Lingyan Pavilion temporarily, if you are a scholar and a marquis.

Walking through the halls of the Taiji Palace, Chen Fang had already heard a sound coming from a distant direction.

It was the sound of the Tang Workshop construction site rushing to work, which made this silent land have life at this time.

Out of the palace gate, I saw the hot construction site from afar, a construction site that was extremely incommensurate with the background of the ice and snow.

"Childe, Peach can only take you here!"

"Well, you go back!"

"How can I go back, I'm waiting for Gongzi here at the palace gate, and I'll take Gongzi back later!"

"Then just wait inside, it's too cold outside! It's not good to freeze. ”

Chen Fang walked alone to the hustle and bustle, saw the figures, and saw the overseers with long whips and the ragged migrant workers. Mountains of materials and building materials were piled up everywhere, and a mule and horse were whipped with leather whips, and behind them was a thick hemp rope tied to a loin-waist-thick log, three feet long.

Chen Fang saw someone carrying stones and wood, someone digging the ground with a shovel and a pickaxe, and when he saw a slight lack of manpower or slacking off work, the overseer's leather whip whipped fiercely, the skin of the person who smoked was broken, and the person who smoked was begging to roll in the ice and snow.

This is Datang, it turned out to be not so beautiful.

Chen Fang glanced at it a few times, sighed, and mourned the difficulties of the people's livelihood, but it was a pity that Chen Fang did not have the ability to save anyone.

Several overseers obviously saw Chen Fang, and Chen Fang's clothes at this time were the ones that Wu Meiniang personally asked the Shangyi Bureau to make for him, and at first glance he was a person with a prominent position in the palace.

"I don't know what to call this lord?"

The overseer hurriedly threw the leather whip in his hand to his subordinates, kicked away a Xing disciple in front of him, and came to Chen Fang to ask.

"Chen Fang!"

Chen Fang said two words lightly, and several overseers around him quickly knelt on the ground.

"Humble to meet Lord Chen!"

It turned out that since the Tang Workshop was ready to be built, the entire Tang Dynasty court already knew that the first owner of the Tang Workshop in the future was Chen Fang. This is what the emperor himself said, and Chrysostom will not change it.

Chen Fang's name had already spread throughout Chang'an at this time.

It's just that Chen Fang himself doesn't seem to know at this time.