Since the conquest of Baiyue by the Marquis of Tongwu, there has been no large-scale military movement in Xianyang City for more than a year, except for the occasional emperor going out of the city to parade around the city, it is basically peaceful.

And since the Marquis of Qinghe left Xianyang, the first emperor basically stayed in the palace and never came out, and it was even more impossible to go out of the city, and the first emperor of such a hot day had no place worth going.

"Don't look at it yet, if something big happens, there will definitely be an edict later, hurry up and get to work!" An official from the Ministry of Works climbed aboard a wooden boat and said loudly.

"Also, keep working...... a group of people shouted a few times and continued to be busy, and soon half an hour passed in a flash, just when everyone couldn't bear it again and stopped to rest, several fast horses galloped from the south gate of the city, and several officials of the Ministry of Industry wearing official uniforms on horseback hurriedly jumped off the horses and ran over and shouted loudly, "Good news, good news, manpower is coming!" ”

"Who's coming?" A group of people who were stripping off their clothes and hats to sweat and drink cold powder were all full of doubts.

"Di Daohou conquered the Dayue clan in the Western Regions in February, escorted back more than 10,000 strong captives, and now has arrived outside the West Gate City, His Majesty has arranged for Feng Xiang to lead his colleagues from the three provinces and six departments to meet him, how many prisoners, the reconstruction and expansion of the two wharves in the east and south of the city must have sufficient manpower......" Several officials who came explained nonsense.

"Hey, that's a good feeling, Fang is just saying that there are not enough people!" Hu Kuan's face was overjoyed when he heard this, and he stopped drinking the ice powder, grabbed his hat and beckoned his subordinates to lead the horse over.

"Dean Hu is so anxious, just wait for tomorrow morning to send a letter to the Ministry of Slaughter and Labor to request the dispatch of manpower......

"Hey, you won't be able to get a single hair tomorrow, right now the whole Daqin is like a big construction site, there is a shortage of manpower everywhere, and more than 10,000 people can't even see a splash when they are dropped, Dean Zhang and I will go with me, and strive to get people out before these captives are thrown to the household department!" Hu Kuan had already turned over and got on his horse when he spoke.

"What Dean Hu said is that Cang is quite familiar with the subordinate order of the household registration department, maybe he can get some out in advance!" Zhang Cang also hurriedly dropped the pottery bowl and stood up.

"Yes, yes, Hou Ye once said that the building near the water will get the moon first, if we can't grab the people under our noses, we deserve to die of heat every day!" A group of officials jumped up and shouted to go with them, so soon more than a dozen people rode to the west of the city, and the steward on the dock saw that the officials had run away, so he also let a group of tired prisoners and slaves who were about to collapse go to the shade of the trees to drink water and rest.

Outside the west of the city is a large open space, not a single tree to shelter it.

At this time, the scorching sun was high, and under the strong sun, two thousand neatly armored but almost hot dog-like Western Army horsemen were escorting more than 10,000 ragged Otsutsuki Clan captives, all of whom were gathered in the open space at this time.

The captives, both men and women, were yellow-skinned, shirtless or dressed in shabby furs, unkempt like a group of refugees from the famine.

Xianyang City is majestic and towering, the black city wall stands ten zhang, coupled with the towering floors, the indestructible momentum is majestic like a heavenly palace that suppresses the entire land of Guanzhong.

Xianyang City does not feel half a point in the eyes of Xianyang people, just like the people who live in villas never feel that their homes are spacious enough, and they feel like that every day, but for the more than 10,000 captives of the Dayue clan who have just arrived, this is a miracle that they have never seen in their lives, so most of the captives have already knelt on the ground and began to kowtow to this giant city, and faintly, countless hanging towers made of giant trees can be seen around the outside of the city swaying back and forth, and it seems that higher buildings are still being built.

"Woo~" Accompanied by the sound of horns and black dragon flags fluttering one after another on the city tower, countless forbidden troops in armor poured onto the city wall and waited.

"Bang bang bang ~ "

With the sound of a gong opening the way came from the city, and soon dispersed on both sides of the people who came to see the excitement, only to see a long line of luxurious four-wheeled carriages coming out of the West Gate, led by two four-wheeled carriages side by side, it was the right minister Feng Quji and the imperial historian Meng Yi.

With the arrival of this long series of carriages, a cyan horse in the escorted Western Army came out of the crowd, and a mighty general with a helmet and armor on the horseback was Li Xin, the Marquis of Di Dao.

"Haha, Di Daohou don't come unharmed, I'll be late to greet you, please atone for your sins!" The door of the stopped carriage was quickly opened by the guards, and Feng Quji and Meng Yi got out of the carriage one after another and greeted them.

"I've seen Feng Xiang and I've seen Doctor Meng!" Li Xin also hurriedly jumped off his horse and strode up to meet him with a fist salute.

"A few years apart, Di Daohou is still mighty, His Majesty instructed me to wait to meet the triumphant division, the weather is hot, we still enter the city and talk slowly in detail, here will be handed over to the military department to deploy the Ya to arrange the disposal, please~"

The two sides only met in two sentences, and Feng Qujian decided to go to the city to find a cool place to communicate.

"Yes, it has been extremely hot in recent days, Di Daohou went to the city to hand over the military order, and later went to the old man's annex swimming pool to take a bath......" Meng Yi also nodded again and again beside him.

A group of people are all top nobles of Great Qin, and they have known each other for a long time, so they are all more casual in their speech.

Although Great Qin has not had much foreign war in recent years, this attack on the Great Moon Clan has also played a huge role in maintaining the peace of the Western Regions, but after all, it is only a tribe of more than 100,000 people, and the Great Moon Clan is not a regional power, and it is not worthy of the First Emperor to go out of the city to greet him personally.

What's more, Meng Yi and Feng Quji both knew that the First Emperor was unhappy with the resale of enamel equipment by the Western Army, and although he arranged for the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs to go out of the city to greet him, he didn't even send out a formal order to welcome and commend him, obviously to dry Li Xin and others.

And Li Xin didn't wait for the edict of the First Emperor, naturally he was also uneasy in his heart, and after listening to the two bigwigs, he carefully clasped his fists and whispered: "Xin still wants to go to the palace to meet Your Majesty first......

"Don't use it, Your Majesty has already asked the palace people to spread the word, Di Daohou will hand over the prisoners and military orders first, and then you can return home to rest, and the military affairs of the Western Regions will be discussed together when Jingwu Hou returns!" Feng Quji directly interrupted Li Xin's words.

"Huh?!" Li Xin's body shook slightly, and his face instantly turned a little pale.

"Alas, Di Daohou blames the old man for talking too much, His Majesty is very dissatisfied with the enamel equipment, let's go, go into the city first to pick up the wind and wash the dust for you, and it's not too late to talk later!"

Feng Quji's face was depressed and sighed slightly, and then he beckoned the officials of the three provinces and six departments behind him to come and meet Li Xin, and then the government offices arranged their own arrangements according to the regulations for accepting prisoners in the past, and the two thousand Western Army horsemen were arranged by the military department to be stationed in the nearby military camp, and the household department dispatched grain, forage, fish, meat, wine, etc., and the remaining more than 10,000 Dayue clan prisoners were all taken over by the household department, and after registering and making a register, they were either sold as slaves or used as labor slaves, which were not Li Xin's business.

The Western Army won a great victory, and the excitement of returning to Beijing to offer prisoners disappeared before it began, and tens of thousands of Xianyang people who inquired and came to see the excitement did not know the essentials, but there were also well-informed people among the people, and soon it began to spread that the reason why His Majesty did not like the Western Army's sacrifice of prisoners was because the Western Army secretly resold more than 10,000 sets of enamel equipment......

The movement of the court has always been a hot topic of discussion among the people, and the attitude of the first emperor is a topic of conversation among all strata, now the Marquis of Qinghe is no longer in Xianyang, and the people of Xianyang also instantly found that it seems that the lively atmosphere of the entire Xianyang seems to have dropped several grades, and they are secretly speculating how the Marquis of Qinghe should face it if he knows about it, after all, it was the suggestion of the Marquis of Qinghe to build enamel equipment, and the court spent a lot of money, but he didn't expect it to be such an ending.

But not everyone is interested in the intrigue politics of the imperial court, such as the straight men of the science and engineering departments of the Academy of Sciences and Engineering, they don't care whether Li Xin will be pressed to the ground and spanked by the First Emperor, they care about this group of prisoners.

Before leaving, the Marquis of Qinghe painted such a large cooking cake for the First Emperor and the people of the whole country, more than a dozen books, and hundreds of projects, large and small, most of which will eventually fall on the heads of the Ministry of Industry and the Academy of Sciences.

In the face of Qinghehou's plan to open the road, a group of map experts from the Academy of Sciences are still stepping up to make sand tables, while a large number of civil engineering, construction, surveying, and design engineers have already set off by boat and car to conduct field surveys all over the country.

As long as the survey is over, the next step is to invest in large-scale construction.

But any project construction, in addition to money, is the need for enough manpower, in this era without large-scale machinery and equipment, people are the main body of construction, repair the Great Wall, repair the road, repair the palace, repair the mausoleum, mine and smelt iron, all the projects are piled up little by little with manpower and material resources, there is no possibility of opportunism.

However, after the appearance of Qinghehou, the invention of cement and new steel smelting technology, the pattern and mode of construction have also undergone earth-shaking changes, especially with concrete, not only can build taller and stronger buildings, but the speed of construction has also been greatly accelerated, but no matter how convenient and fast, manpower has always been the most important factor that can not be bypassed by any project.

Therefore, after suddenly hearing that Li Xin had escorted back tens of thousands of prisoners today, Zhang Cang, Hu Kuan and a group of science and engineering men couldn't help it, and just when the household department arranged for the transfer and resettlement of these prisoners, a large group of sweaty officials braved the scorching sun and rode horses to catch up with a group of household officials.