Liu Ying said 'please', Yangcheng Yan said 'oh', and the place of today's court discussion was changed to nearly five miles west of Chang'an, an open space for Shaofu to cut stones and take stone bricks.

"Xiao Xiang."

"Is it really feasible to use stones to pave at the bottom of Zheng Guoqu?"

Before Liu Ying rushed to the western suburbs of Chang'an City in advance, Zhang Cang couldn't help but find his top boss Xiao He.

It stands to reason that as the prime minister, Xiao He should not have an adjutant.

The Imperial Historian, known as the 'Yaxiang', basically does not care about the government affairs of the DPRK and China, and is only responsible for the main work of the Imperial Historian's subordinate government - supervising hundreds of officials.

As for the Prime Minister's Mansion, although there are subordinates like the Prime Minister's chief official, they are only at the level of a thousand stones, and they are far from being the adjutant of the Prime Minister.

But at this time, Zhang Cang, who was exceptionally appointed as the 'prime minister', is indeed Xiao He's deputy in theory.

In the Han Dynasty, the reason why there was a 'deputy prime minister' like Zhang Cang was not because the Son of Heaven Liu Bang was guarding against Prime Minister Xiao He, but because it had to be like this.

According to the normal Qin bureaucratic system, the duty of the prime minister was to 'take charge of the affairs of the world, large and small, so as to help the Son of Heaven rule the people of the world'.

But now, Kanto is basically divided into different surnames and clan princes, which makes the 'world' become Guanzhong, plus the two counties of Longyou and Beidi.

The responsibility of the internal history is to control the big and small things in Guanzhong, which can also be understood in a non-rigorous way: the internal history is the prime minister of Guanzhong.

This makes it so that now, in the case of the world = Guanzhong + Longyou + Beidi, if there is an internal history, the prime minister will be very embarrassed.

The reason is very simple: the internal history is in charge of Guanzhong, and the prime minister is in charge of Guanzhong + Longyou + Beidi, so who is in charge of Guanzhong?

If it is the internal history management, then the prime minister is the head of a hundred officials, but he can only manage the two counties of Beidi and Longyou?

Just two counties, how can Xiao He be considered a prime minister?

At best, it's a king-sized county guard!

A large county guard, like pointing fingers at the court's ministers with 2,000 stones?

Naturally, in order to give Prime Minister Xiao He enough respect and status, Liu Bang did not appoint an internal history for the time being.

can not appoint the internal history, Xiao He has to manage the affairs of Guanzhong, as well as the affairs of Beidi and Longyou, and at the same time, he must go out once a year to raise food and grass for Liu Bang's army to pacify the princes with different surnames.

So the current situation, to put it simply, is that if the internal history is appointed, Xiao He will lose his majesty; If you don't appoint an internal history, Xiao He will be too busy.

As a result, there is the low-profile version of the internal history of 'Ji Xiang', and Zhang Cang, the first and only Ji Xiang of the Han Dynasty, shares the burden on Xiao He's shoulders.

Theoretically, as a subordinate of the prime minister, the existence of Zhang Cang will not have an impact on Xiao He's majesty.

In fact, Zhang Cang can help Xiao He share some of the internal affairs, so that Xiao He will not be too busy.

The two of them are both the founding heroes, although Zhang Cang's status and merits are not as noble as Xiao He's, but his subordinates have cooperated for so many years, and they have also had a certain personal relationship.

Seeing Zhang Cang asking, Xiao He couldn't help but smile slightly.

"Although the old man knows a little about the water work, he is not deep."

"It's a Shaofu, he was born as a Qin military craftsman, and he has many intersections with the craftsmen of the water industry."

"Since Shaofu says that it is feasible, bento is feasible?"

replied indifferently, Xiao He shook his head and smiled.

"I have never been homesick, and I also know so much about water engineering·······

Hearing this, Zhang Cang couldn't help but bow his head slightly, laughed, and asked again: "But why did the family mention this matter inexplicably?" ”

"You need to know that the labor of repairing the canal is not enough for the Shaofu to say?"

With a little hesitation, Zhang Cang shook his head again.

As recognized as the 'No. 1 master of arithmetic in the nine chapters' and the 'counting' who has been dealing with numbers for many years, Zhang Cang is always very sensitive to things related to numbers.

There is no need to make a draft, Zhang Cang has already deduced: Gonghou Guixun and Baiguan Gonghou are private slaves in the family, and at most there are about 3,900 people!

Coupled with the 30,000 official slaves transferred by Liu Ying from Shaofu, there are only less than 34,000 people, and there is still a gap of 26,000 people from 60,000!

Zhang Cang really couldn't understand why Liu Ying would ignore the shortage of 26,000 people.

Why did he inexplicably talk about the specific renovation plan of Zheng Guoqu, and call the courtiers and officials to the western suburbs of Chang'an, what stone bricks do they have to see······

Hearing Zhang Cangzhi's question, Xiao He only smiled bitterly and shook his head, indicating that he didn't understand either.

After a while, Xiao He turned around as if he had a feeling and looked at the slowly approaching prince's chariot not far away.

"The queen's actions have always been more deliberate and then moved, but there has never been no target······"

"I'm afraid that the more than 26,000 laborers will be solved here because of the 'stone bricks'?"

Thinking to himself, Xiao He shook his head for some reason, stepped forward, and greeted Liu Ying's chariot with the courtiers and officials.

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"I also ask the craftsmen of Shaofu to demonstrate: how to take the square stone bricks on the boulder."

After getting out of the chariot, Liu Yingyu arrived in the western suburbs of Chang'an ahead of schedule, waiting for his courtiers and officials to bow down to each other for a while, and then went straight to the point.

Hearing this, Yang Chengyan gave up his hand and immediately stepped forward.

After a while, I saw that Yangcheng was extended and returned, leading Liu Ying and Baiguan Gonghou to a boulder nearly two zhang long, more than two zhang high and wide, lying on the ground horizontally, and the overall shape was roughly oval.

Stopping about twenty paces away from the boulder, Yang Chengyan nodded to the craftsman not far away, signaling that he could start.

Seeing that the craftsman arched his hand a little stiffly, he immediately took a deep breath and drew a black line vertically in the middle of the boulder with charcoal.

After drawing the line on the front, the craftsman climbed up to the top of the stone by leaning on the wooden ladder and followed the previous line until he reached the other side of the stone.

After drawing the line, the craftsman beckoned, and immediately saw five or six young men with a slightly only figure come forward and nail a copper nail at intervals of half a foot on the line.

Then, the people used a small hammer to knock down on the circle of nails, not very hard, but the force was very uniform each time.

All of a sudden, the clanging sound of copper nails sounded, which made Liu Ying's face slowly swell with a touch of memory.

——In the first life, Liu Ying lived in the countryside of the great northwest, and every day he woke up to the sound of the blacksmith at the head of the village······

When Liu Ying came back to his senses from his memories, he saw that a crack appeared on the boulder along the black line from before!

After another moment, the craftsmen stopped moving, and the craftsman from before stepped forward to inquire and explain something to the people beside him.

Then, two burly men with unusually broad shoulders appeared, holding two sledgehammers, and smashed a few hammers on the front and back sides of the stone, a little up!

After about a dozen hammers, I saw that the boulder silently cracked a crack that was an inch wide!

Seeing this, the craftsman from before stepped forward and stuffed a few copper rods similar to crowbars into the gaps, allowing the two burly men to pry left and right.

After a moment's effort, Liu Ying was surprised to see that the boulder, which was about two meters in diameter, was slowly divided into two halves······