Meng Yi opened his eyes and said, "Your Majesty, this practice of guts, Weichen is no problem, but this grave digging requires certain skills, I really can't." ”

"No one asked you to dig the grave yourself." Ying Zheng said with a wry smile, "You just need to carefully select some masters in this area, and then set the rules, and then classify the tombs you encounter and save them, and the rest of the work will be done by Arida Yi and those craftsmen." ”

"Sounds good." Meng Yi finally had a smile on his face.

Ying Zheng nodded and said, "Nominally, Tian Yi is still the captain of this team, and you are the mastermind behind the scenes. ”

"Okay, no problem." Meng Yi said with a smile.

"However, you have to learn the art of building a tomb and the design of a mausoleum." Ying Zheng said.

Meng Yi's smile froze on his face.

Ying Zheng lowered his voice and said: "Didn't I tell you before, the widow wants to build a mausoleum similar to the tomb of King Wu, but the project is huge, relying on craftsmen alone, the construction period may be too long, and the widow does not want to involve ordinary people, so it is most appropriate to use the Meng family army to prepare for the project." ”

Only then did Meng Yi understand Yingzheng's intentions: "It turns out that the king wants Weichen to lead the Meng family army to build the royal tomb!?" ”

"Or else?" Ying Zheng asked rhetorically, "Your father still needs to keep filial piety, and Xianyang is inseparable, and Meng Tian has to be responsible for the creation of the divine army." ”

In other words, you are the most idle in your family.

"Understood." Meng Yi said, "The king wants Weichen to learn from the experience in the process of robbing the tomb first, and then build the royal tomb, right?" ”

Ying Zheng glanced at Meng Yi: "What kind of tomb robbery, so vulgar, that's called touching gold." ”

"Yes, yes, it's called touching gold." Meng Yi hurriedly changed his words.

"So, you're okay?" Ying Zheng asked.

"I'm not sure if I'm up to it." Meng Yi swallowed his saliva and said, "But Weichen is willing to give it a try." ”

"Haha, that's good." Ying Zheng smiled, "Since that's the case, let's practice the drill first, the tomb in front of us is just an opportunity." ”

Meng Yi: "......"

"What, scared again?" Ying Zheng looked at Meng Yi's strange expression and asked.

"It's not ......," Meng Yi said with a bitter face, "It's just that it's getting late, so it's better to sneak into the ancient tomb early tomorrow morning to look for mines." ”

Ying Zheng stiffened his face and said: "Sneaking into the ancient tomb, what is the difference between the day and the dark sky, besides, only when you go in the dark sky can you practice your guts." ”

Yes, no matter how dark it is, the inside of the tomb is the same.

Meng Yi gritted his teeth: "Just go." ”

"Okay." Ying Zheng said, "Let's set off after eating." ”

The whole army was put in order, and after dinner, Ying Zheng said that he wanted to explore the ancient tomb at night.

Sima Hong did not object, because he had already sent someone to investigate before, and there was no danger, this ancient tomb had been stolen, and more than once, and the entrance was relatively obvious.

Sergeant Meng Tian ordered Sergeant to add three layers of checkpoints, and he personally led people to guard the innermost checkpoints to protect them.

Ying Zheng took Sima Hong, Meng Yi and others to the entrance of the ancient tomb.

Tian Yi and Yang Yong, the craftsman of the Sima family, took the lead, tied a rope around his waist, painted some realgar on his body, and went into the entrance with a torch.

After a while, I saw that the two ropes stopped at the same time, and then trembled.

This is a sign that you can continue to dive in and let people follow.

Five or six more craftsmen followed.

Ying Zheng tugged at Meng Yi's sleeve and said, "Let's go, go down and have a look." ”

Meng Yi rubbed for a moment before saying, "Good ......"

Ying Zheng personally tied a rope around Meng Yi's waist, and then tied another one for himself.

Meng Yi raised the torch and ventured into the entrance.

Ying Zheng followed in.

All the craftsmen knew that Ying Zheng was a "master" of tomb visits, so no one came out to stop him.

All the people who went to visit the tomb, including Sima Hong, entered the entrance one after another.

The entrance was small, but the space below gradually opened up, and everyone came to a tomb with broken walls.

It seems that the entrance was not a normal entrance, but was excavated by the previous tomb robbers.

The people did not rush in, but went around to investigate.

Maybe it's been dusty for a long time, and although everyone has been lightly moved, the dust on the ground is still a little dazzling.

After all, this is the outermost side room, and it has been visited many times, so it is impossible to find anything.

"Since there is no danger, let's go find the mine." Ying Zheng said.

Yang Yong led the way in front with a torch, Tian Yi followed behind with all the craftsmen, and Ying Zheng, Meng Yi, and Sima Hong stayed behind.

Anyway, he has already come down, and he is not afraid that Meng Yi will not move forward.

Yang Yong followed the pattern in his hand and searched forward, stopping and stopping.

Finally, after going around for most of the circle, I found a space similar to a cellar in the side room of another room.

Inside this cellar, it is indeed full of minerals similar to stone powder.

Tian Yi handed his torch to others, then dragged the rope into the cellar, took out the sack and began to fill the stone powder.

In fact, it doesn't take too much, just a few samples.

Tian Yi loaded a few large handfuls of stone powder and was pulled back.

Tian Yi handed the sack in his hand to Ying Zheng: "Your Majesty, you have a look."

Ying Zheng took the sack and came to a place with a larger space.

Putting down the sack, Ying Zheng was about to grab it with his hands, but was stopped by Sima Hong.

"Let me come." Yang Yong walked over and pinched a small handful of stone powder to look at it carefully.

I saw Yang Yong take a shovel, fill it with some stone powder, and then put it on the torch to bake.

After a while, I saw that the powder was slightly yellowed, and a few drops of black water flowed out of the gap.

"As written, these are the strange stone dust." Yang Yong said.

Ying Zheng looked at Li Si and asked, "Sir, what kind of ore is this?" ”

Li Si grabbed some yellowed stone powder with his hand, twisted it, and said, "It's still uncertain, let's bring all this powder back to the big tent." ”

"Okay." Ying Zheng turned back to Sima Hong and said, "Where is the wellhead of the mine?" ”

Sima Hong pointed to the wall behind him and said: "According to Yang Yong's family code, it should be behind this wall, but I don't know if these minerals are only these in the cellar, or if they have another context, only after they are discovered, we will make a decision." ”

Ying Zheng looked at the sack containing the stone powder and said, "Leave a few people to chisel through this stone wall overnight, and tomorrow we will find out the mine, and then make plans." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Everyone said in unison.

Five of the craftsmen brought by Sima Hong remained, and Tian Yi also left behind with five craftsmen from the Jingjia class.

The rest of the people followed Yingzheng back to the barracks.

In the Chinese military tent, Meng Yi put the sack containing the stone powder on the ground, and then cleaned the stone powder stuck to his clothes.

Meng Tian was also called back.

Although he brought back a sample of the mineral, Sima Hong was still a little worried: "No one knows what kind of mineral this is, and they don't know if it can be used to forge divine weapons. ”

"yes, I don't think it's much different from sand." Meng Yi patted his clothes and said, "It is estimated that building a house is almost the same." ”

Ying Zheng glared at Meng Yi and said, "Don't talk nonsense yet, listen to what Mr. thinks." ”

Li Si arched his hand and said: "It is not difficult to find out what kind of mineral this mineral is. ”

"Oh?" Ying Zheng said urgently: "Sir, tell me quickly, what should I do." ”

Li Si stepped forward and said, "Please ask the king, take out the dark iron snail and use it." ”

Although Ying Zheng had doubts, he still took out the compass box containing the black iron snail from the package he was carrying.

"Could it be that this dark iron snail can guide anything?" Ying Zheng put down the dark iron snail and asked Li Si.

Li Si replied: "Actually, there is a third use for this dark iron snail. ”

"The third usage?" Ying Zheng asked in surprise.

"Not bad." Lees opened the lid and transformed the snail into a pointer.

Ying Zheng carefully watched Li Si's movements.

Sima Hong and the brothers of the Meng family also came over and half-squatted down around the compass.

I saw that Li Si did not put the conch on the compass, but used the conch to stab it at a position on the side of the compass, and then pressed it on the outer edge of the compass with his finger.

Syllable......

Only a slight sound was heard, and layers of cracks appeared on the surface of the compass.

"This ......" Ying Zheng was so shocked that he couldn't speak, he used the Xuantie snail like this, but he didn't know that there was such a change.

The others also opened their mouths wide and stared at the sudden change.

I also saw that Li Si pressed the outermost Xuantie ring with the index finger of his right hand and turned it clockwise, and after half a turn, Li Si pressed the second Xuantie ring and turned it in a counterclockwise direction.

After turning the two layers of Xuantie rings one after another, Li Si turned the innermost Xuantie ring again.

Gradually, the words slowly appeared on top of the layers of dark iron rings.

What is this operation?

It's weird, isn't it?

However, everyone present is also a person who is used to seeing the strange things around Yingzheng, and they can't believe what is happening in front of them.

But the words that appeared were Huaxia, and only Ying Zheng and Li Si were present who recognized them all.

Ying Zheng stared at the words on the compass and looked at them one by one for a while.

"Your Majesty, it doesn't seem to be Qin Wen on this." Meng Tian said.

"It's really not Qin Wen." Ying Zheng said, "This is the Chinese language, the orthodox script of the Chinese nation. ”

"This is Huaxiawen?" Meng Yi said curiously, "There are some of them, it seems that they can understand them." ”

Sima Hong also stared at the compass and said: "Our Qin Wen is gradually derived from the Huaxia language, at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, the world used Huaxia language, but after hundreds of years of strife among the countries, this formed different scripts in various countries. ”

"Therefore, Huaxia is the foundation of the ancestors." Ying Zheng said, "The widow has decided to fully implement the Huaxia language in Great Qin to return to orthodoxy. ”

Several people nodded in agreement.

"Your Majesty, what is written on this?" Meng Yi asked.

"Most of the words on this are the names of some minerals." Ying Zheng said.

"Not bad." Li Si finally explained, "What is written on this is actually a list of natural elements, and this compass can also tell us what kind of minerals these stone powders are. ”

So amazing?

I saw Li Si grab a handful of stone powder, sprinkle some on the ground, and then lift the compass to cover the powder on the ground.

He sprinkled the rest onto the black iron ring in the center of the compass.

Li Si picked up a glass of water and slowly poured it on top of the small pile of stone powder in the center.

After standing for a while, Li Si put the dark iron snail on the compass, then held the pointer with his fingers, and then gently lifted it up, and the end of the pointer tilted upward.

Li Si gently pushed the black iron pointer again.

The hands rotated clockwise, like a grinding disc, grinding the stone dust in the middle.

And this time, the pointer rotated relatively slowly, completely lacking the speed that Ying Zheng used to guide the way.

Everyone didn't dare to relax, but they still stared at the compass and the pointer and didn't dare to relax.

As time passed, the stone powder gradually decreased, and it seemed that the compass was really grinding the stone powder.

It took about a quarter of an hour for the powder to be ground clean, and then the snails stopped.

The tip of the needle then fell, pointing to a word on the compass.

Titanium!

Li Si breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "Your Majesty, the identification has been completed, this mineral is titanium ore. ”

Ying Zheng stared at the word that the pointer pointed to, and said in surprise: "The widow remembers that titanium is indeed a kind of manufacturing 'self-device'. ”

"And it's a very major one." Lees added.

When everyone heard this, they were both surprised and delighted.

"And that's not all." Li Si said again, "In the future, whenever there is a titanium ore nearby, the king can use the dark iron snail to find it." ”

And this good thing?

Ying Zheng clenched his fists and closed his mouth happily.