Ordinary people have little interest in building a telephone system, even if they see large-scale construction projects nearby...
That is to say, if you are curious and look around to see the excitement, you will not have the interest or energy to delve deeper.
There are people in the Tang Dynasty who are willing to delve into "what kind of medicine is sold in Li Er's gourd" and spend real money to find out the inside story, and there is only one group of them...
In the mansion in the south of the city, Wang Jing was hosting a banquet for guests that day.
It seems that these days are in the depth of winter, when the weather is cold and the ground is freezing, and the New Year is approaching.
The reason why the Spring Festival is celebrated in winter is not because spring is close to winter, but because winter is relatively leisurely. Everything in this season repairs its livelihood, and hibernation is a collective activity in nature. But...human beings are somewhat special after all.
For example, several large mansions near the south of the city have been very busy recently.
Wang Jing, Pei Ji... and others held wine parties in the house every day and invited guests.
As for the reason, it's quite simple... Wang Jing and others have been having trouble lately, but they have no other ideas.
How to break the power of Li Er and his gang is really a problem of the century. But since many attempts have failed one after another, then...
For most people, it means going back to the old path and focusing on their karma as much as possible.
In addition to mastering the writing skills of the Spring and Autumn Period and controlling the direction of literature, history, philosophy and public opinion, the aristocratic family also has a major skill in raising dead men. Of course, under the current situation, Wang Jing and others honestly don’t know what the use of raising so many dead men is...
Things are quite expensive.
Treating others to a banquet with "courtesy" is not enough, so how can we recruit dead soldiers?
But there is no other way now. It seems that I can only play music for the time being and bite the bullet and dance first...
But on this day, the situation had some changes.
Wang Jing and others saw off today's guests. They were all local rangers who came to Chang'an to make a fortune. There were many such people in this era. After all, hundreds of years of war had just ended, and there were many common people armed with weapons.
However, after being sent away, Wang Jing's mood did not feel much better. This time he made friends with a group of dead soldiers again, but...
How to use it? This is also a problem...
If the world is still like this, I'm afraid that in the future...
Li Er's criminal court will only flourish, and the aristocratic families will be completely excluded.
But that being said, I still have no idea what to do. However, on this day, when I was sending off a group of guests--that is, the future dead men--the housekeeper came into the house to report.
Li Er is currently doing a lot of construction work!
The information is accurate, and the personnel supervising the operation are basically Li Er's people.
After hearing about this incident, Wang Jing... naturally fell into deep thought, and immediately thought that he might be able to do something.
But it is still difficult to grasp what to do specifically. After all, the information is too simple, only... "Li Er is doing a lot of construction"?...
Wang Jing checked with the housekeeper again and again, but there was always only this little information.
After some thought, Wang Jing ordered people to invite Pei Ji, Xiao Yu, and the rest of the five surnames Qi Wang.
We are now grasshoppers on a rope, that is, a team, and everything is about defeating Li first.
After the meeting, Wang Jing did not show off and told the matter first!
"...Everyone, have you ever heard of this?"
After talking about the news he heard, Wang Jing asked slowly and looked around at everyone.
First, we had to at least exchange information...but the result made Wang Jing a little disappointed.
Cui Baihe stroked his white beard, frowned and shook his head, "Brother Wang Shi, I'm afraid there's no way to do this..."
After thinking for a while, Cui Baihe said again, "Nowadays, although Li Er and Li Sheng's followers are full of tricks, they are carrying out large-scale construction projects... This seems to be very frequent."
After Li Sheng showed the cement to Li Er, needless to say...
Throughout the country, water conservancy buildings made of cement have been built in countless rivers and lakes, which are many times more efficient and effective than the rammed earth and stone structures of the past.
When the emperors and ministers of the Tang Dynasty saw that this thing was so effective, they naturally couldn't use it just once. After that, they used this cement in many places——
Of course, this is a drop in the bucket compared to the China Super Infrastructure Project in later generations, but the scale is still very large.
And... anyway, since large-scale construction projects happen every day, there seems to be nothing to pay attention to...
When Cui Baihe said this, several other old men also nodded.
Wang Jing's brows furrowed even more deeply, because...
When I asked the housekeeper about this just now, I didn't get any more information. He just said that there were a lot of construction projects nearby...
Did nothing really happen?
Thinking about this, Wang Jing really wanted to give the old housekeeper another round of severe punishment.
But at this awkward moment, Pei Ji suddenly said,
"No...Brother Wang, Brother Cui, brothers, this matter shouldn't be that simple."
"Since Li Er has been carrying out large-scale construction projects, it should be commonplace for the housekeeper of your house...or the informants of the dead soldiers in the surrounding areas. How could he suddenly report it?"
Pei Ji's thinking ability is quite good, and he is really the one who stands out among the people of the Five Surnames and Qiwang.
And when he said this, everyone else was really stunned for a moment.
If you look at it this way, then...
Maybe there really is a mystery to this matter?
Pei Ji's voice made everyone a little more alert, but after all, there is still not much information at the moment.
Wang Jing thought for a while and suddenly waved!
Soon the butler came in, Wang Jing gave a few instructions, and then the butler left. After a while...
Several more dead soldiers were brought over.
The dead soldiers from wealthy families are not special forces, most of them are working people in the city, and the elites are in the minority wherever they are.
The person brought here this time happens to be the person who hangs out in several nearby neighborhoods and is responsible for collecting street news for Wang Jing.
When this man was asked about the situation by Wang Jing, his eyes suddenly jumped, apparently thinking of something.
After a while, the bamboo tube was like pouring beans, and he actually told Wang Jing and others about the somewhat unusual situation.
Li Er's large-scale construction project this time was neither to build palaces nor to build water conservancy projects.
Of course, this is somewhat inaccurate.
To be precise, what was built was something like a water conservancy project... It was a long trench about one person wide and one person deep.
This easily makes people think of things like irrigation canals, but in fact this doesn't make sense, because the "canals" the ancients called are fundamentally different from the modern small ditches, and many large rivers are also called "canals".
In other words, it would not make sense to say that these trenches were some kind of irrigation canals.
after all……
According to the informant's description, the canal built by Li Er was narrow and deep, but the distance was very long.
How can a long and large irrigation project be so small?