10,000 people dug together, digging quickly in the ground.

Bai Ping was checking back and forth with his hands behind his back, and the craftsmen of the Qin army were constantly commanding.

The lines dug and the width of the dug were all surveyed in advance.

"You, take someone to move the stones."

Throughout the night, the Zhao irrigation canal, which was about five miles long, four feet wide at its widest point, only two feet at its narrowest point, and no more than one foot deep, was forcibly diverted and moved three and a half miles north.

Many iconic stones and trees were also dug up and moved.

The original river channel was filled with excavated soil.

At dawn, Bai Ping had already led people away and cleaned up the traces on the ground as much as possible.

At about ten o'clock in the morning, a team of ten Zhao soldiers came out of the city and then patrolled along the border.

One of them suddenly asked, "How do you feel that you have arrived at this canal not long after leaving the city?" ”

Another laughed and said, "It's not that you changed horses, this horse is running fast." ”

The crowd laughed.

The patrolling Zhao Jun didn't pay much attention to it, and it took a while to ride a horse in just five miles, and then they patrolled into the distance.

Heavy rain began to fall in the afternoon and continued for two days.

When it rained, the Japanese slaves still went out late at night and dug up some untreated stones and trees.

The most important thing is the boundary monument.

In the rain, the patriarchs of the two minor nobles, Han and Wei, as well as the two masters of the Qin army, stood beside Bai Ping.

"General Bai, this is not enough, it has only moved so little, and it has only stuck to the edge of the mining area on one side. That fire and soil is very important to our Great Qin, and we must dig it up. ”

After the master craftsman finished speaking, a small Korean nobleman stepped forward to offer advice: "There is a plan, we can dig a well at the border and then dig it from the ground." ”

The master shook his head: "If the Zhao people know that this is fire and earth, they will definitely excavate it on a large scale, so if they want to find a way to occupy this mining area, please ask General Bai to be the master." ”

Bai Ping scratched his head, this method of translating the boundary was still thought up by a sergeant of the Wei people.

Effective.

But it's not enough.

The little nobleman of Wei stepped forward: "General, I have a plan." ”

"Tell me about it!"

"Build a kiln, we build a kiln here at the border. Now we know that there is a high-quality porcelain stone mine over there, and we can buy it. ”

Bai Ping turned his head: "Buy?" ”

"Yes, just buy. How much money is a cart of stone, let Zhao people dig it, and then pull it over and we will buy it. Then make excuses to buy stone and soil. The fire soil Zhao people don't know, we only say that it is used to burn bricks, but they don't know that the ingredients and craftsmanship of fire and earth bricks are only used when we burn ordinary bricks. ”

Bai Ping heard the taste: "You mean, build a kiln here to produce porcelain." ”

"You can't make fine porcelain here, unless there is a master craftsman who comes to study new ingredients based on the materials here, and as far as we know, only the best porcelain can be fired here. Just pretending. ”

After listening to the words of this little nobleman, Bai Ping shook his head: "No, I'll do the master's affairs, I will ask Dahe Jun to be the master, build a kiln here, and send you a task, this one will continue to fight, until the Zhao people are afraid, and then let more than half of the Zhao people in the entire city rely on us to eat." ”

"No."

Whether right or wrong, Bai Ping is a leader, and this identity represents his right to speak.

Even if it's wrong, since Bai Ping has made a decision, the rest of the people just need to do it.

The minor nobles on both sides of Han and Wei immediately left to distribute men.

Bai Ping asked the master craftsman beside him again: "Two craftsmen, the fire brick materials here are indeed of the highest quality." ”

"Tell the general that he knows, and he is superior. There are several kinds of materials used in fire bricks, and there is exactly one of them here, which is fire brick earth, fire brick white stone, fire brick spar, ......"

Craftsmen have their own names for materials, fire brick clay is refractory clay, white stone is dolomite containing silicon and aluminum, and wollastonite.

And wollastonite is also a material that Qin Guo needs in the current porcelain formula.

This time, what the miners of the Qin State set their eyes on was refractory clay and wollastonite.

Refractory clay is almost impossible to find in the Guanzhong Plain, and according to the territory controlled by the Qin State, Jiupu has it, but it can't be transported. Henan and Shanxi have them, but they haven't been found. This accidental discovery is naturally not to be let go.

And it's on the surface, just dig it.

The only trouble is that, according to the map, that place belongs to the Zhao State Linxiyi, which makes the craftsmen of the Qin State scratch their heads.

Next, it was Bai Hui who gave Bai Ping an order to make trouble.

Let's talk about Linxiyi.

In the city, the prefectural commander and the guard sat facing each other, and there were many people kneeling next to them, or crawling on the ground, and the people who climbed on the ground could only choose this position because their legs were broken.

The county order is also surnamed Bai, which is still different from Bai Qi and Bai Hui's Bai.

He spent this money from the Baifu branch of the Yandi tribe.

The guard's surname is Zhao, which has nothing to do with the Zhao family, ordinary soldiers have no name or surname, and after being promoted through meritorious service, they are given the surname Zhao.

Many soldiers in the Zhao army had surnames in this way.

The county commander Bai Tan and the guard general Zhao Yu. The two men were asking for details about the fight.

"You say it's because someone from the Wei people crossed the border to hunt, and then they were beaten, and the deer they hunted were also snatched."

One of the people who was crawling on the ground replied, "That's right, the deer is very unusual, the antlers are three feet, and such a deer must not be taken away." ”

On the border, the hunters came out to hunt, and it was not their fault at all to cross the line or something.

This matter, if it is really true, it is still the people on Zhao Guo's side who are greedy for that deer.

The deer was dead, and the deer's head was raised.

"It's ......." Bai Tan walked up to the deer's head and stared at the deer's head for a while: "Strange, I have never seen such huge antlers. ”

Deer, one of the six arts of Confucianism, is actually shooting deer.

After the Han Dynasty, only the emperor could hunt deer, and ordinary deer hunting had to be killed.

At this time of the Warring States period, the deer was a kind of prey that could be sold to the homes of the great nobles for a heavy reward, especially the deer with this huge antler.

It's a pity that Bai Tan and Zhao Xi are not zoologists.

Otherwise, they will definitely know that in this place of Jindi, there are musk deer, muntjac, and sika deer, but it is impossible to have such a huge deer head, this deer is a red deer from Liaodong, a giant deer species that can weigh up to 200 kilograms, so there are such huge antlers.

To put it bluntly, it's a pit.

Bai Tan asked again: "So what next?" ”

Next, the Wei people called a group of miners, who were digging coal ten miles away. They had no weapons, only sticks, so we met them with sticks. The Wei people couldn't fight, but twenty miles to the east, the Han people came a few hundred, and then more than 500 Wei people came. We had to ask the general to make the decision. ”

Zhao Yu nodded: "Well, I only knew at the time that the Zhao people fought with the Han people and the Wei people on the border, and they didn't use swords and soldiers, but only used wooden sticks, so I transferred 2,000 defenders to help." ”