Although Heifu said to his heart that "life will get better and better", as soon as he left, their more pawn days slipped into the trough in vain.

Because the training is over, the guards have to start their main job: conscription.

At the mention of conscription, many scenes immediately came to Heifu's mind:

The 700,000 prisoners in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in Lishan, the Great Wall of Qin, which stretched for thousands of miles, Wan Xiliang who was buried alive in the Great Wall, and Meng Jiangnu, who cried the Great Wall......

Of course, the prototype of this story in the end will have been there a long time ago, called "Qiliang Wife", but it is about what happened in the Spring and Autumn Qi Kingdom, which was falsely rumored to the Qin Dynasty by later generations. After all, "the beauty of the world is attributed to Shun Yu Zhou Kong; The evil of the world is attributed to the evil. In the eyes of later generations of readers, the violent Qin "burned books and pit Confucianism", but it was ten thousand times more vicious than the Confucian, such a cruel thing, you must have done it! Like the law of broken windows, since the Qin Dynasty is so dark, there are more people to add a stroke, and the crimes are more and more difficult to write.

Although the story is false, the heavy conscription is indeed true, and most of the heroes of the late Qin dynasty who rebelled more than ten years later were moths provoked by conscription.

Therefore, Heifu went to the construction site of his service with a mentality ten times more cautious than his training.

Fortunately, Chen Baijiang's attitude towards Heifu is getting better and better, and on their way from the South Gate to the East Gate, they also chatted with Heifu.

He popularized science and said that the highest standard of conscription in the Qin State was called the "Imperial Expedition", which was assigned by the national capital to go to Xianyang to work. Although King Yingzheng of Qin was in the prime of life, his royal tomb, that is, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in the future, had already begun to be repaired, but the current scale of construction is not large, unlike as many as 700,000 later......

When it comes to Xianyang, Chen Baijiang's eyes flashed with light, he didn't want to go to the capital all the time to have a look, even if he was lying on the side of the road and secretly glanced at the king's car, he was satisfied, he saw the glory of Xianyang and felt the glory of the king, which was the moment that every Qin official looked forward to the most.

Heifu knew that more than ten years later, a pavilion chief wearing a bamboo crown and a bearded Surabaya Pavilion would also go to Xianyang to serve with the same idea as Chen Baijiang, and sighed "The husband should be like this" at Qin Shi Huang's car.

In addition, the labor required for civil engineering and transmission requisitioned by each county was called "hengshi", and it was of various kinds, ranging from repairing fences to fences for forbidden gardens and state-owned pastures, to building walls and dikes for each prefecture, or expanding county government buildings.

The last type is temporary conscription, which is not within the annual "living within the means", that is, in the government's financial plan. The project must be approved by the higher-level government, because theoretically, the Qin State does not advocate casual conscription and forced labor, and that day Heifu saw in the county prison in the "Way of the Officials", there is a sentence "From time to time, slow down the order and rush to levy", which really surprised him.

Unfortunately, it was the turn of the Hefu and their pawns to do the heavy work of the heavy work, to repair the city wall......

Originally, the east city of Anlu County was built according to Quyang Lake, and there was no wall. Perhaps considering that there would be a war with the Chu State in the future, as a border county, Anlu must strengthen its defenses, so it was decided to build an eastern city wall. Last year, it was reported to the county and approved, so from the autumn harvest, it began to be built one after another, in addition to more than 100 convicts who worked day and night, and had to call for more guards to repair a period every month.

After Chen Bai handed over more than 100 shifters to the "county secretary" in charge of the project, the task would be completed.

As the foreman in charge of the project, the county clerk gave the black man a dismissal with a cold face, and announced many prohibitions, such as no stealing, no laziness, etc., violators will be severely punished.

"If you don't listen to the teachings and contradict the commonplace, these prisoners will be the end of you!"

The county scare them and point his finger at a group of people who were already busy working on the construction site......

It was already cold in mid-to-late October, but the men were dressed in ragged clothes, ochre-brown prison clothes, and their bottoms were too hard to cover their bodies, and their hands and feet were red from the cold, but they had to work incessantly under the watchful eye of the foreman.

"Brother Heifu, isn't that the merchant Jia Bao who was punished as a city dan for framing you and me a few days ago?"

Ji Ying's eyes were sharp, and he recognized the faltering guy in the pile of prisoners at a glance, it was Shang Jia Bao who would take revenge on them!

Bao also seemed to see the two of them, and was stunned for a moment, and the basket of soil in his hand was accidentally scattered, and he was immediately whipped. He hurriedly exhaled in pain, lowered his head and continued to work, he had not seen him for half a month, he had completely lost his previous wealth, his hair and beard were shaved, and his expression was lonely......

Next, Ji Ying found the three pavilion guards of Huyang Pavilion again, and they were working together to pry a big stone that was in the way, looking up at Heifu and Ji Ying's eyes were full of fear, and the previous hatred was exhausted. Chengdan was the hardest form of labor, and they had to serve years in prison here.

Eventually, they found a thief from Chudi, who had been caught and sentenced, with a swarthy black character tattooed on his face and a wooden tong around his neck, doing heavier work and being called around by the foreman.

"Only one was found, and where did the other go."

Ji Ying looked at it for a long time, but still didn't find another Chu thief, looking at the miserable appearance of the prisoners, he said fearfully: "Thanks to the wit of the black man that day, otherwise, if we lose the lawsuit, you and I will have to serve in Chengdan labor here, not for half a month, but for three or five years!" ”

Heifu also nodded, and traveled to the Qin Kingdom, and it was indeed a copy of hell-level difficulty, not that if you follow the general trend of the world, you will be able to smooth sailing. As a small person, you have to be careful to avoid all kinds of illegal acts, and if you make a mistake, it will be an abyss, and there will be no second chance.

If you think about it carefully, you were too reckless in training a few days ago, and you always don't leave yourself a way back when you bet against others, so it seems that you should be cautious in the future and can't take such risks.

The county secretary didn't talk nonsense with them, and immediately arranged tasks, and each had its own work to be responsible for. So, in this bleak winter day, under the supervision of the county secretary and under the spur of the small foremen, more than 100 guards and more than 100 prisoners shuttled like a group of worker ants on the loess construction site, coming and going in a hurry.

Although Heifu was long, he couldn't be idle, he took a large basket of dirt from the robes, and said secretly in his heart: "It turns out that the city walls of this era are not made of bricks......

He saw in the county town that the foundation and floor of the official temple were paved with bricks, but the city walls of this era were not made of bricks, but rammed earth.

At the beginning, under the command of the foreman, we put together a thick wooden plank, and inserted a column called "Zhen" outside every two planks. Ropes were also tied between the posts, which held the planks in place like sticks so that they would not collapse. As a result, four wooden walls are erected to form a long and narrow square frame, which looks like the scaffolding of the building in later generations.

It is said that this four-version city building method was brought to Jianghan by Wu Qi from the Central Plains more than 100 years ago, eliminating the local backward two-version wall. Time has passed, and the locals don't remember much of Wu Qi's name, and these four versions of the law are probably the only things he left behind in Chu......

The task of the Hefu is to constantly shovel the soil with the iron "shovel" of this era, put it in a bamboo basket, and let people carry it along the "scaffolding" to the wooden wall, and keep filling it with earth. At this time, the results of the training a few days ago were revealed, and they passed in turn, which was very orderly and efficient.

And when it was full of earth, let Cheng Dan and the prisoners work in groups of three or four to pick up the heavy rammer and smash it against the loose mound!

Heifu knew that those planks were called "plates" and the ramming pestle was called "tsuki". This process is called plate building, Mencius said "Fu said to lift between the plate building", which means that the minister of Shang Wuding, Fu said, at the beginning, it was also the hard work of picking a pestle and smashing rammed earth......

"Hey! Hey! Hey! ”

As the prisoners shouted again and again, picked up the pestle again and again, and smashed it into the soil, the loose dry soil was slowly tamped, more and more stiff, until the shovel could not be pryed. So sprinkle it with water, apply a layer of mud, and a section of the wall is finished.

When the construction is completed, the scaffolding is removed, and the rods pressed in the rammed earth can also play a reinforcing role.

Heifu was still a little skeptical of the quality of the wall, and stabbed the dried walls with his dagger, only to realize that he had been overly worried, and it was really rammed as hard as stone. They may not have the same lifespan as stone walls, and after thousands of years, they will definitely become shorter or even disappear in wind and rain, but their defense is good, and they can withstand the bombardment of stones.

Therefore, the best way to siege a city in this era is not to use a catapult, but to dig a tunnel, or send water to soak it slowly......

Thinking about it carefully, in fact, the Great Wall of Qin was also built with rammed earth, but Heifu silently calculated it in his heart, and couldn't help but be shocked.

There were more than 200 of them, and they were busy for several days, but they only built a small section of the city wall.

How long is the Great Wall? Even if it is not as exaggerated as thousands of miles, at least thousands of miles, and how much labor is needed? The transportation and population of northern Xinjiang are much worse than those of Jianghan, how many people will die?

Later generations all said that Qin built the Great Wall, and the dead belonged to each other.

In the past two days, Heifu did see with his own eyes that one of the prisoners, who did not know whether he was sick or overworked, suddenly collapsed and was carried down, but everyone just looked numbly, and there was no surprise, which shows that this is a common thing......

"Be careful not to give birth to a boy, and give birth to a girl with breasts. I don't see the Great Wall, and the corpses are on crutches! ”

This is not a rumor, but a real folk voice, thinking of this, Heifu couldn't help but shudder.

He doesn't dare to think about too big ambitions now, too far in the future, he just wants himself and his family to live a good life first, so as not to die in the ravine, and he must not fall into such a situation!

Therefore, it is better to quickly find a way to upgrade the title to no change, so that you can be permanently exempted from hard labor and have the ability to protect your family.

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard a terrible shout, and the soldiers put down their work one after another. But I saw a man wearing feathers and a cloak singing a strange song and walking over slowly, it was a local witch. The county sikong walked behind with a frosty face, and behind him, two foremen were holding a shirtless man with a dark face......

"Brother Heif, he's ......"

Without waiting for Ji Ying to say, Heifu recognized it, it was one of the Chu thieves they captured last month, and he hadn't seen it a few days ago, and he didn't know what had happened? Now that I've been brought out again, I don't know what I'm going to do?

When they got closer, Heifu was stunned to find that the Chu thief's left foot, from the knee down, was gone!