Ji Yan returned to the Son of Heaven's bedroom and asked Ji Dong to call Ji Yong over. This is a burly and vigorous old man, his square face is covered with wrinkles like slashing and axe, and the deep nasolabial folds highlight his resolute personality, and he walks like a triumphant general.www.biquge.info

"The old minister sees my king."

"Uncle Wang has always been good?" Looking at the swarthy and old-fashioned Ji Yong, Ji Yan was inexplicably nervous.

Ji Yong arched his hand slightly, and said in a stiff tone: "Don't dare to work my king's thoughts, Weichen has always been tough, and the young people are still afraid of the ministers like tigers." ”

Ji Yan smiled secretly in his heart, this old guy still looks stinky and hard. "This time, the King of Qin entered Luoyang, and the reception outside the city was mainly greeted by Yan Taishi, and the reception in the city was mainly by Uncle Wang. I don't know if Uncle Wang has any difficulties? ”

Ji Yong's face was slightly surprised: "My king is actually concerned about such a cumbersome greeting? The old minister remembered that at the beginning of the year, my king had been drowsy, and finally slipped back to the palace before the ceremony was over. ”

"Uncle Wang, don't treat this king as a child anymore, okay?" Ji Yan smiled bitterly, and said as if offering a treasure: "This time, the suburbs are used to meet the sword soldiers, but this king planned it single-handedly!" ”

"The old minister has heard about this, and it is indeed amazing!" Ji Yong arched his hand, a smile on his face. "However, my king can concentrate on state affairs, and the old minister is deeply grateful." This smile fell in Ji Yan's eyes, like a tiger cracking the corners of his lips during a demonstration, and his eyelids jumped.

Ji Yong continued: "According to the ancestral system, the princes should send an envoy to the Son of Heaven to make an appointment on the date. At the end of the period, the temple people guide the princes to the outside of the central hall. The drums played in unison, and the Son of Heaven ascended to the throne. When the princes enter the palace gate, they also use drum music to stop music, and the princes perform the salute of the head. The lieutenant read out the book, announced the edict, led the princes to sit down, and the Son of Heaven asked him. After the ceremony, the drum music is played, and the Son of Heaven gives a feast. After the banquet, the princes performed the first salute again, and the temple people sent it out. At this point, the princes completed their pilgrimage. ”

Ji Yan smacked his tongue and said, "So complicated? ”

"It's really cumbersome, but it can show the authority of the Son of Heaven. It's just that I heard that Yingdang doesn't obey the king and doesn't respect the king's courtesy, so I'm afraid he won't follow this rule. If the King of Qin violates etiquette during the Hajj, I don't know how the old minister should deal with it? ”

Ji Yan thought about it and said: "Uncle Wang just has to follow the ancestral etiquette system, if he violates the etiquette, you can just ignore it." ”

Ji Yong said in a slightly bitter voice: "I do my own, he does his own, what does my king mean?" ”

Ji Yan nodded silently with a dark face.

"The old minister has one more thing. I heard that the King of Qin brought a large number of officials and concubines, and the king banquet required a lot of food, especially meat, but there was not much left of the internal affairs supervisor, and the king banquet was probably quite cold. ”

"You can serve whatever you want, do you want Lao Tzu to cut a piece of meat for him?" Ji Yan was inexplicably irritable.

Ji Yong looked at the slightly excited Son of Heaven, and it took a long time before he arched his hand and said, "No." "It's going in a hurry.

Defeated! Ji Yan sighed in his heart.

Looking at the three o'clock in the morning, thinking that when Taishi Yan greeted King Qin, it would be noon when he arrived in the royal city, and there were still more than two hours, so it was better to go to the construction site to take a look, and by the way, he spit out a breath of bird breath in his chest.

Declined to be accompanied by the palace maid, Ji Yan only brought more than ten personal guards, after leaving the palace city, he went straight to the north gate of the royal city along the central avenue, and about ten miles outside the north gate was Luoshui.

This is an open plain, with only a few small hills within a radius of ten miles, and the land is barren and has no traces of cultivation. Nourished by Luoshui, the plains are lush and lush, with gusts of wind blowing, and the occasionally exposed land looks very fertile and swarthy. There is a road along Luoshui that is not too wide, and the six-horse king car can barely pass, but the potholed road makes Ji Yan who is sitting in the car not light, and from time to time there are birds or small animals in the grass that are frightened away, making a fluttering and stabbing sound.

Ji Yan silently glanced around, and the depressed mood just now slowly rose: What a good place! When the house is completed and the personnel are in place, we can extract the resources in the land, and in the near future, it will provide me with a lot of money and food, and become an important fulcrum for economic development. A word popped up in his mind: development zone. I don't know if the old man who drew a circle in the south and created a metropolis in the future will be in the same mood as I am now when I first saw that land.

On the chaotic and noisy construction site, the tall Xia Xun was talking loudly to Liu Ping, the master of Simu: "We have seventy-three carpenters, and we have assigned you four thousand lifu, why can't it be completed in ten days?" ”

Liu Pingqi snorted and said: "The land here is very soft, and the stone foundation must be built to erect the frame of the house. The stone foundation has to be dug out of a deep pit first, and then filled with stones, which may not be completed in ten days. It takes time for me to cut wood in the mountains more than ten miles away, and it takes time to transport it back from such a long distance, and it still takes time to cut and take care of it before it can be put into use, but Sikong asked me to complete the first row of houses in ten days, which is impossible. ”

Xia Xun was furious: "I gave you four thousand lifu, now there is nothing else, you can pull all the wood over, don't pile up the wood after it is cut down, and immediately divide a part of the people to transport it back with their chariots, how long will it take?" ”

Liu Ping also snorted angrily: "Don't say those chariots are okay." Of the 120 chariots, they were basically attack vehicles, and only 20 taels were defensive chariots, and several of them were damaged and could not be used. Just such a few vehicles, and they were divided into five cars by Dr. Zhang to pull stones. I only have seven or eight cars left here, what can I do? ”

Xia Xun's brows furrowed: "Didn't you say that the attack car can be barely used even if it is slightly repaired?" ”

"It takes time to repair a car to defend it, you need materials, you need the best craftsmen."

"Time, time! Bird for a while. Xia Xun gritted his teeth: "I can't finish the first row of houses within ten days, how can I achieve the guarantee that I will give the king to complete the ten rows of houses in January?" He turned his head and said to the doctor who was discussing something with a few craftsmen not far away: "Zhang Cheng, come here." ”

Zhang Cheng heard the call, hurriedly explained a few words and rushed over: "Sikong looking for me? ”

Xia Xun said with a dark face: "How long will it take for the first stone foundation to be completed?" ”

"It takes three days to dig a deep pit, two days to fill the stones, one day to repair the stone floor, and six days to complete."

"How was the five thousand Lifu for you arranged?"

"Two thousand quarry, two thousand digging pits, and a thousand carrying."

"The first row of houses is the most time-consuming, and you have to be the focus of the assault. In this way, the excavation of the earth is increased by 1,000 people, and the digging of the pit is completed in two days, after which all the stones are filled in one day, and the final trimming is given to you in half a day, and in three and a half days, the first stone foundation must be completed. ”

Zhang Cheng scratched his head, and said after a long time: "The two thousand people digging the pit are already very crowded, and it is impossible to increase the number of people to enter." I can only get them to speed up, but this requires the urging of the reinforcement generals. If Sikong can let the generals supervise on the sidelines, his subordinates will strive to complete it in four days. ”

Xia Xun only felt a headache, was that arrogant Ji Che so easy to deal with? No way, in order to speed up the progress, I have to go and discuss with this difficult guy again. "You guys go get busy first, and the old man will go to Ji Che."

At this moment, a deacon of the Winter Official Mansion walked quickly, leaned into Xia Xun's ear and said, "The Son of Heaven has arrived." ”

"Oh?" Xia Xun was surprised, where is such a place where the Son of Heaven should come, "Where is it." ”

Following the deacon's fingers, he saw Ji Yan looking around a few hundred meters away, and Xia Xun hurried over.

"See my king." Xia Xun bowed and said.

"Aiqing, hurry up." Ji stretched out his hands and supported him, looking at the muddy Sikong and said, "Is everything going well?" ”

"Everything is fine, the reinforcement general Ji Che and others are also more cooperative, and have ordered their soldiers to obey the arrangements of my Winter Mansion. It's just that these soldiers don't work very hard, and I'm afraid that there will be some delays in the construction period. ”

"That's it! If you don't work the first day, won't you have to grind foreign workers after that? Ji Yan's eyes were solemn: "Go, take Gu to see Ji Che and the others." ”

Xia Xun shook his head and said: "This place is quite dirty, and it is not appropriate for my king to go deeper." Please ask my king to return to the king's car, and the old minister will call Ji Che and others to come and visit. ”

Ji Yan thought that he was the Son of Heaven, and he really should maintain the style of a king, and he couldn't condescend to meet a few generals, but he still didn't fully adapt to this role! So he nodded in agreement.

After a while, Xia Xun came over with Ji Che and a few others.

After seeing the ceremony, Ji Yan of Gao Zhiwangche looked at Ji Che coldly, but did not say a word, until these people broke out in a cold sweat and were at a loss, he said lightly: "Ji Che." ”

"The end will be." Ji Che hurriedly bowed down.

"Yesterday, your soldiers surrounded the lonely general, what do you want?"

"King Qiqi, misunderstanding, that's pure misunderstanding." Ji Che felt a hot stream roll from his forehead to his eyes, but he didn't reach out to wipe it, causing his eyes to quickly turn red.

"If it weren't for the old lady's repeated pleas and promises that you would help this king do a big thing, this king would have to take off a few heads."

"Yes, yes, the last general is leading his subordinates to help the king do this big thing."

"Good." Ji Yan finally showed a smile: "This matter, you have to do it well, and you have to do it quickly." As for how to do it, everything is subject to Sikong's arrangement, you can't be lazy! ”

"Yes, he who will listen to everything in the end, and will not be lazy." Ji Che finally couldn't help but reach out and wipe his eyes.

Seeing this, Ji Yan pretended to be surprised and asked, "General Ji, what are you crying about, isn't Lone no longer pursuing it?" ”

Ji Che was speechless for a while, speechless, and slandered: Lao Tzu, is this sweat good!

Ji Yan said to Xia Xun again: "Xia Qing, General Ji just said, everything is subject to your arrangement, and you will definitely not be lazy, you have to arrange it well and ensure that it is completed on time." If you miss the king's big event, you are the only one who asks! ”

Xia Xun nodded and said: "General Ji is indeed very cooperative with the work of the old ministers, but I am afraid that they will have to personally supervise the soldiers to ensure the progress." ”

Ji Yan turned his head to look at Ji Che, who nodded: "No problem, I will immediately arrange for a few brigade commanders under me to personally supervise it, and I will never miss the construction deadline." ”

After Xia Xun and a few others left, Ji Yan looked at the hot construction site for a while, and it seemed that buildings were about to rise from the ground, shopping malls, hotels, restaurants, cinemas, stadiums, ...... Everything. At that time, the traffic is busy, the pedestrians are weaving, and at night it is a brightly lit city that never sleeps; At that time, sleep until you wake up naturally, count the money and count until your hands cramp!

What do you think? Ji Yan looked at his hands that were counting money, smiled wryly and shook his head, it's all the fault of poverty! Forcefully pulled his thoughts back to reality, and immediately remembered that the Qin army was about to enter the city. "Let's go, go to the South City Gate."