Chapter 294: Ceres and Lan [Asking for Subscriptions * Asking for Monthly Passes]
"Oh!" Zheng Guo nodded slightly, and only replied with one oh word.
“???” Jin Yao was stunned, oh what it means, he prepared a bunch of trash talk and was stunned that he didn't have a chance to say.
"You can't come in vain, there are some places where the ravines are too deep and difficult to measure, just when you came, fly down to measure, let's calculate whether to change the route." Lan Xin was straightforward, and directly pulled Jin Yao onto another Vermilion Bird and went straight to the deep mountains and old forests.
“???” Jin Yao was dumbfounded again, he didn't get the coolies when he came, and he became a coolie first?
"Isn't there a Vermilion Bird, let the Vermilion Bird fly down to investigate, is it not possible to let the Gongsun family's organ snake go down." Jin Yao was puzzled.
"Don't you often say that there must be a secret to falling off a cliff and not dying, so we have been waiting for you to come for this opportunity!" Zheng Guo said with a smile.
"......" Jin Yao was silent, always feeling that this group of people seemed to know that they were coming, so they prepared in advance and waited for themselves to jump in.
"The place is too small, the Vermilion Bird can't fly down, and the snake lost contact after it went down, and the public lost revenge and said that there might be magnets below, which interfered with the instrument, and then we also sent the prisoners down, but they didn't come up." Zheng Guo explained.
"It won't be dangerous, will it?" Jin Yao asked with some cowardice.
"Why do you want to do it when there's no danger?" Lan asked rhetorically.
"......" Jin Yao was silent.
Soon, Suzaku flew over a bottomless ravine, and Jin Yao also discovered that something was wrong, the navigation compass on Suzaku directly lost its effect in the sky above it, and it kept spinning.
"Drop the rope!" Lan directly instructed his disciple to throw the rope away from the porthole of Suzaku and run straight into the depths of the ravine until there was no end in sight.
"Hit the bottom for a short time until it's shallow?" Jin Yao asked speechlessly.
"I'm afraid that there is a dark river down there, and there will not be enough water for it to swallow." Zheng Guo explained.
They led the Zhengguo Canal, which was built on the land river, and if there was a culvert in the dark river below, they had to choose to divert it or build an elevated canal to cross the ravine.
"Okay!" Jin Yao grabbed the rope and torch and slid down the rope.
When Jin Yao fell to the bottom, he found that it was an underground river and culvert, and at the same time, he also found two black and rotten corpses, and he observed it himself, and found that there were countless black and bright scorpions on the ground, which were extremely poisonous, and these two prisoners were obviously not very lucky, and they were stung by these scorpions and died.
He pulled the rope again, and let the person above pull him back, and then he followed the rope again and returned to Suzaku.
"Let's divert it, there's a dark river below, it's very wide, and it can't be filled!" Jin Yao said.
Lan nodded, then drew a mark on the bamboo slip, and led Jin Yao to the next place.
For three days in a row, Jin Yao really became a human surveyor, helping to survey many areas, including bottomless ravines and culverts, and turbulent rivers.
"How many people have died in the construction of Zhengguo Canal?" Jin Yao's mood was a little heavy, in the past few days, he found no less than dozens of corpses of the dead prisoners who were dispatched, and it is conceivable how many people have died in the construction of Zheng Guoqu.
"In addition to exploration, there are probably more than three hundred!" Lan said with a sigh.
They have tried their best to avoid casualties, but there are not a few people who have died in accidents for such a large project, and many have died from overwork.
Jin Yao was silent, Qin Shi was different from modern times, there were those large machinery to carry and repair, and they could only be carried by manpower, and once the rope was broken, it was easy to have an accident.
"Does Qin Guo know?" Jin Yao asked.
"I know, every month a list of deaths will be compiled and sent to Xianyang, but this is a project that will benefit thousands of families, and the Qin State will not stop!" Zheng Guo shook his head and said.
"Is there compensation?" Jin Yao continued to ask.
"No, Qin's laws are strict, there is no pension for the non-war dead, and most of the dead are prisoners and forced labor, plus the Qin State has been fighting for many years, and the treasury has long been empty.
And because of this locust plague, the Shaofu treasury bottomed out, and he had to promise the merchant nobles and nobles to be promoted to the first level, but they still couldn't make ends meet! Zheng Guo said helplessly.
Of the seven kingdoms in the world, Qin is already the richest after Qi, but even so, Qin is still in deficit and cannot make ends meet.
"Mourn the difficulties of people's livelihood, sigh the necessity of my life!" Jin Yao let out a long sigh.
"What we can do is to minimize casualties and create more tools to reduce the burden on the people!" Lan also said helplessly.
"One of the six elders of the farmer's family, the grain god who is in charge of grains and the elder Yutu who is in charge of water conservancy are here!" Just when everyone was still sad and sad, the Ice White God Kill said indifferently.
"Please!" Jin Yao and the others hurriedly got up and went out to greet each other.
"I just invited Elder Ceres, but I didn't expect Elder Yutu to come, it seems that the farmer is still quite face-saving!" Jin Yao said with a smile.
"The six sages of the farmer's mound, the god of grains and the disciples of Yu have seen the sons!" Two old men dressed in ordinary clothes and with gray hair also walked to the official office, and took the initiative to salute after seeing Jin Yao and his party.
The identity of the two can be recognized from the signs on the two of them, the one standing on the left wearing the nine-bead grain is Elder Ceres, one of the six elders of the farmer's family, and the one on the right wearing a nine-bead marker similar to the water conservancy machinery is Elder Yutu.
"Take the liberty of inviting seniors to come, please don't blame seniors!" Jin Yao stepped forward and saluted.
"It's okay, the letter said that there are seeds that can replace silk into silk cloth, and we naturally won't keep the old law and not go out of the tomb of the six sages of Emperor Yan." Ceres said with a smile.
"The old man also wants to come and see this famous Zheng Guoqu, who needs to spend 10 years on 300,000 prisoners in the Qin State to complete!" Yu said.
"Why bother, it's obviously because you killed Wu Anjun Baiqi, and you are afraid that you won't be able to go back when you come to the Qin State, so you came together." Geng Zhilan's Geng Zhilan went online again, directly exposing the intention of Gushen and Yu to come together.
Jin Yao and Zheng Guo were all stunned, they really hadn't thought about this one.
"......" Ceres and Yu were directly speechless by Lan Yi, and they couldn't get off the stage for a while.
"I have long heard that Mo Jiamo is straightforward and fast-talking, and he doesn't choose what to say, and when I see it today, it deserves its reputation!" Ceres could only say with a haha.
"Don't think that if you praise me like this, you can deny that you are afraid of death." Geng Zhilan didn't appreciate it.
"Forehead......" Ceres God and Yu Tu couldn't get off the stage at all, turned their heads and looked at Jin Yao with a haha and changed the topic, "What about the seed you said, take us to see it!" ”
"Yes, yes, yes!" Yu disciples also hurriedly agreed.
Jin Yao didn't bother, and directly took the two of them to the granary, took out all kinds of seeds and placed them in front of Elder Ceres.
"Wait!" Ceres thought it was just one seed, but there were no less than dozens of seeds in front of him.
"If the cultivation is not enough, just say, I'll lend you some!" Lan continued.
"Huh? Something seems wrong with him today! Zheng Guo whispered to Jin Yao.
On weekdays, although Lan also likes to scare people, he can also distinguish the importance and will not easily offend people, commonly known as the nest, but now he is directly scolding the two elders of the farmer to death, which is very wrong.
Jin Yao was also a little puzzled, and he couldn't understand what happened to Lan today.
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