Soon, Prima became a huge factory, and Kelly used Lucuras's connections to get a group of prisoners from the prisons of Rome to work in order to progress the project. Now veterans, craftsmen, slaves and prisoners were mixed, and the first work was carried out on both ends of the aqueduct and the cistern, and in order to keep things on track, under the auspices of Calabis, a relatively detailed division of labor was made: veterans were responsible for supervision, stonemasons and builders were responsible for concrete construction, and slaves and prisoners were responsible for some menial work, such as digging and transporting stones.

Soon, the lead skin was brought from Kelly's friend's warehouse, and the corresponding slave craftsmen came in droves, who cut the lead into thin strips from wood molds, bent them into arcs on the molds, and then welded and welded together to form regulated lead pipes, accompanied by violent coughing and sneezing.

"You'll have to order wine and hot bread for these people!" One day, when Karabis, who had come off from work in the temple of the Stove, saw the terrible white color of the slaves who were forging lead pipes at the scene, it was obvious that these people had been poisoned by lead, and the corners of his mouth were unconsciously drooling thickly, so he loudly demanded to Kelly, who was overseer.

Kelly shrugged, "Alright, these people were originally bought cheaply by my friends from the mines in Far Spain, and now they can leave the mines and come here to make lead pipes, which is a great favor." ”

"No, the soothsayer said that no worker, even a slave, could die here at the Prima site, otherwise it would be an unlucky sign. Rest assured, some low-quality and cheap warm wine and bread can help them get rid of some poison if they don't cost a lot of money. "Calabis is stubborn.

Then he looked into Kelly's eyes and said, "Haode, the money will be deducted from the construction money." ”

At this time, Kelly bowed his head and expressed his willingness to procure.

In his spare time (the main specific engineering affairs were entrusted to Milu), Calabis sat in the sacred treasury of the temple of the Stove, stretched out a thin roll of parchment, and smeared it with lead to calculate the budget for the project, yes, Milou estimated that 50,000 drachmas would reach the top, and now his asking price was 85,000 drachmas, of which 50,000 was the total cost including the salaries of veterans such as Milu and Pope, and the remaining 35,000, 8,000 were fixed to be taken away by Claudia, the, and now another 5,000 were taken away by Kelly, the FackToday, it is said that Haode will increase the budget by two thousand for the slaves to drink and bread, so what will end up in his hands is about 20,000 drachmas.

I was scared to death, but fortunately I stopped Milou's offer in the first place, if it was really only 50,000 drachmas, I would have taken both kidneys, and it was not enough to stick upside down, and Claudia and Kelly would definitely get in the way halfway, so dangerous.

After some calculation, Calabis carefully rolled up the parchment, stuffed it into a sleeve, and rested it in the corner of the bookshelf. At this moment, a man with a black cloak and hat covering his whole body and his face could not be seen suddenly stood in front of his desk, startling him.

"Give us a key, Administrator." Next to the man in the black cloak, a man with five big and three thick words said, and then handed over a heavy money bag.

The purse was extremely rich, and as soon as Calabis passed his hand, he knew that it contained at least seventy or eighty silver owl coins, and then he looked at the man and the big man, but without any consternation, he presented the key.

After the two left, Calabis complained in his heart: "This is the first time I have seen this combination, and you can imagine how tragic the scene inside is right away." I should have asked them if they wanted to remove the balm and olive oil or something. ”

After a while, the youngest virgin, Zeno, covered her virginial dress with her coat, and actually touched the pillars of the Holy Treasury, and walked over, looking at Calabis with a pair of big eyes with thick eyelashes, and then asked timidly: "What room is the man in the black cloak just now?" ”

“！” In Calabis's heart, there was only this symbol left, but he didn't say much, just pointed to the room, Zeno bit his lip, nodded to Calabis with a red face, and quietly walked over.

After Zeno left, Calabis covered his mouth suddenly, he really didn't know what to say, this is a terrible thing, let Richia know, Zeno's little lady is going to be buried in life, and I will also be implicated. No, no, but I can't rush in, that will directly cause a commotion, I didn't expect that the nobles of ancient Rome were so developed, and there were still people who liked virgin clothes to play, and they were two big men and a fifteen or sixteen-year-old little virgin.

Calabis, who was restless, was relieved until he saw the man in black and the big man come out, and then Zeno followed out with a panicked face, "I beg you not to tell Li Xilia what happened just now." She pleaded.

"Are you short of money?" Calabis couldn't help but ask. You must know that the virgin of the Stove God is treated very well, and her status is extremely lofty, and he really can't think of any other reason to convince himself, believing that Zeno will make such a move.

Zeno also looked at Calabis in surprise, and then said, "No, I'm not short of money. With that, he wrapped himself in his coat and went out.

Calabis, who was covered in clouds and fog, couldn't figure out what Zeno was for the time being, he still continued the special work of the "Holy Treasurer", and it seems that Richia didn't notice anything, and about eight full market days later, Prima's seawater diversion project was completed.

Between the verdant mountains and the azure water, there is a breakwater made of goose-yellow stones, which encloses a huge high reservoir, in which the sea water is pumped in by a sophisticated spiral pump, and then rows of curved lead pipes extend into it, sucking out the accumulated seawater in the pool, sticking to the rolling hills, and underneath the wooden planks with a thickness of four Roman feet to prevent leakage. It flows into the pond of hand-dug haode.

In the pond of the sea, there were many fish cherished by Luculas and Marcus, and the cultivation of this fish, according to the ancient Roman books of agriculture, had no economic value at all, and "the price of transporting an eel on the road was worth a mule pulling the eel", but the nobles did not care, and Luculas was happy, because although he was inferior in triumph, he undoubtedly dominated the city of Rome in terms of fish farming.

There is a pond filled with seawater, and on one side there is a pond filled with fresh water, and there is a pond sandwiched between the two ponds, which are connected with each other with the ingenious sluice designed by Pop, mixing salt water and fresh water in between, this is the mind of Calabis, specially for Marcus, and soon two Nile crocodiles will be shipped from the port of Alexandria, this kind of thing likes to inhabit the beachhead where the sea and fresh water are mixed, and now they are covered with bumpy scales to "conquer Rome", maybe in a few days, Marcos will be on the shore, Throw small stones to feed them.

"My library, as well as Claudia's banquet hall, are also handed over to you to undertake, if there is any problem with the money, go directly to my trust company to handle it, and Kelly will assist you." The brothers Luculas and Marcos, who were sitting in the circle chairs, were obviously very satisfied with what they saw, and said to Calabis, who was smiling next to them.