Chapter 40: The Goal, The 600,000 Laborers of the Afang Palace

The reason why there are so many artisan workshops on the west side of the Soap River.

This is because these workshops are basically set up for the construction of Afang Palace.

Around the Afang Palace, there are craftsmen's smelting houses everywhere.

And this is less than one-thousandth of the number of houses built by craftsmen in the Afang Palace.

Before.

This is the Royal Garden, the Upper Forest Garden.

Under the national policy of cultivating the country, the land here was gradually rewarded.

During the reign of King Huiwen, a castle was built here, known as Ah Cheng, a castle built on a hill.

Like Yongcheng, it has the military status of defending Xianyang.

After the death of King Huiwen, King Zhaoxiang was a generation of heroes and entered the land of the Six Kingdoms, and since the Battle of Changping, the Six Kingdoms no longer had the strength to attack Hangu Pass.

As the defense of Xianyang City, Acheng's military status was greatly reduced, and because it was close to Xianyang City, it gradually declined.

However, since the first emperor ruled the world, many people were relocated to Xianyang City, and Xianyang City was overcrowded.

At the same time, Xianyang City was not enough to show the imperial atmosphere in the eyes of the First Emperor.

On the basis of Acheng, the construction of Afang Palace was started again, and the scale was unprecedented.

It is bounded by Fengyukou in the south, Weihe River in the north, and across the Saohe River.

If it is connected to Xianyang City, it is a super-scale giant capital.

Of course, if the first emperor's construction of the Afang Palace is considered to be built by the first emperor for a woman, it is nothing.

The first emperor didn't even want a queen, let alone a folk woman.

The reason for this.

Afang Palace was actually built for the purpose of the capital.

If it affects the progress of the project here, the consequences are also troublesome.

But it's a matter of priority.

If Afang Palace is burned down, it will be built in vain.

But what he wants to do is to prevent Afang Palace from being burned down.

Don't see it with your own eyes.

is unimaginable.

A civil engineering project built by more than 600,000 people is huge.

Altar of Sacrifice!

Go to the rooftop!

Ranchi Palace!

Magnet door!

Front hall!

Ten miles long.

The front hall alone has 540,000 square meters.

It is not an exaggeration to call it the first house in the world.

And in this land ten miles deep, it is densely packed with people.

If you can stand in the sky and look down, it must be an extremely magnificent sight.

But this magnificence must be put in quotation marks.

"Whoosh!"

Before Yingcheng approached, he heard the sound of arrows, and saw a prison soldier holding a hard bow and shooting a passive slacking man to death.

"Pull it out and bury it!"

The overseer ordered a few soldiers to carry the people away with an expressionless face, and coldly scolded a group of people who were building the city wall:

"Before dark, pull a foot from the ground, the official personally measured, can't do it, all these people will be beheaded."

Let's talk about it.

The overseer took the whip and looked at a man who was slowly pulling the soil, raised his hand and whipped angrily:

"Hurry up, my Daqin has good food and drink for you, do you want to raise you as an uncle?"

The bulldozer man lowered his head angrily and pulled the bulldozer hard.

The anklets on his feet are still ringing in Ding Ling.

If you don't drive away the Qin people on the west bank of the Saohe River, go and see it.

It's just a wall that hasn't been fully built, but it's like heaven and hell inside and outside.

Whenever the feathers of this overseer shot out of the wall more than a foot high, and shot even a cow outside, the overseer would be beheaded.

But inside this wall, there is no difference between one man and a thousand.

Even if there is a big chaos, it will not be the prison guards who will be held accountable.

Instead, outside Xianyang City, the eight battalions were guarded, and Daqin attacked the arrows and crossbows to suppress the chaos here again.

Because of this.

There are at least 400,000 people who belong to the sinners.

If it was the people of Daqin who were conscripted for hard labor, this prison army would never dare to shoot them at will.

And actually.

The man who bulldozed the cart didn't understand what the prison guard was saying.

It was only the whip that let the bulldozer know that he was trying to push faster.

No one knows how many people from the Six Kingdoms who were wiped out after Great Qin ruled the world.

In addition to the self-class division of the Qin people, the people of the Six Kingdoms were all inferior.

And sinners even go to the point of inhuman definition.

Whoever sins is a sinner and becomes a slave.

It has completely become hard labor, and where there is dangerous hard work, there will be the figure of these sinners.

As for how many people died in this vast project, no one cares.

And this problem is a moral question that Yingcheng is not willing to face.

So.

There are some systems that should be used.

Some people have to be driven.

"Pang Cheng listened to the order, hammered and puffed the horn, and gathered the Xiying army!"

Yingcheng stood on the carriage and gave the order for war.

"The last general commands!"

Yingcheng did not have a command flag, nor did he have a large camp of the Chinese army, but Pang Cheng received the order and directly issued the order flag.

Thundered!

In an instant, the 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Western Battalion appeared on the horizon in a neat pace, heavily armed.

Step by step, they surged towards Afang Palace.

Cavalry, chariots, shields, archers, you name it.

"Whew!"

At this moment, in the face of this sudden change, the originally 'quiet' Afang Palace also sounded a continuous horn.

The originally scattered prison guards quickly threw away the whip in their hands and stood on top of the half-finished city wall with swords in hand.

Originally, it looked like there was no army, and there was a lot of hard work in the Afang Palace.

At this time, one after another heavily armed Great Qin Ruishi emerged.

"Who's coming?"

On the top of the half-finished city wall closest to Yingcheng, a lieutenant general nervously questioned.

And in the midst of this questioning.

Cavalry had already rushed out of the gap in the city wall and scattered towards the large army of the western camp surging in the distance.

"The Great Law Decree of the Great Law Mansion, the eldest grandson Yingcheng."

"Captain Wei, Guo Huaiyi."

"Captain Pang Cheng of Xiying has seen General Yang."

"Captain Zhongliang of the West Camp has seen General Yang."

"Captain Tian Fu of the West Camp has seen General Yang."

Next to the carriage in Yingcheng, the five people introduced themselves one after another.

"Hah!"

"The last general, Yang Xi, greets His Highness."

On the semi-finished city wall, Yang Xi, who is also a school captain, immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

As he spoke, Yang Xi turned over and jumped off the half-finished city wall.

Standing in front of a team of soldiers and horses, he didn't come over, and asked with a smile:

"The soldier who came here is the brother of the garrison guarding the western camp."

"But the last general was taken aback, and the last general wondered how an army of unknown origin could suddenly appear in this place."

"But I don't know, why is Your Highness here?"

Although he was not on guard, Yang Xi didn't speak well.

When he opened his mouth, he asked for the reason.

No way, they didn't get any notice from the garrison battalion to come.

Yingcheng didn't want to talk nonsense, stood on top of the carriage and said:

"I won't talk nonsense with you anymore, call your general Yang Duanhe, and the chief eunuch order Chu Xiao to come, I have something to discuss."

That's right.

The person in charge of guarding the Afang Palace was none other than Yang Duanhe, one of the generals of Great Qin.