Chapter 40: Goal, the 600,000 labor force of Efang Palace
The reason why there are so many craftsmanship workshops on the west side of Zaohe River.
It's because these workshops are basically set up for the construction of Afang Palace.
Around Afang Palace, there are craftsmen and smelting houses everywhere.
And this is not enough to supply one thousandth of the number of craftsmen's houses for the construction of Epang Palace.
before.
This is the Royal Garden, Shanglin Garden.
Under the national policy of farming and war, the land here was gradually awarded.
During the period of King Huiwen, a Guocheng was built here, which was called Acheng. It was a city built on hills.
Like Yongcheng, it has the military status of guarding Xianyang.
After the death of King Huiwen, the heroic leader of King Zhaoxiang invaded the lands of the Six Kingdoms. After the Battle of Changping, the Six Kingdoms no longer had the strength to invade Hangu Pass.
As Acheng defended Xianyang City, its military status was greatly reduced, and because it was closer to Xianyang City, it gradually declined.
However, since the First Emperor unified the world, he moved many, many people to Xianyang City, and Xianyang City was overcrowded.
At the same time, Xianyang City was not enough to demonstrate 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 reaches Fengyukou in the south, Weihe River in the north, and crosses the Zaohe River.
If connected with Xianyang City, it would be a super-large capital city.
Of course, if you think that the First Emperor built the Afang Palace because the First Emperor built it for a woman, that would be completely false.
The First Emperor didn't even want a queen, let alone a private woman.
The reason.
Afang Palace was actually built as a capital city.
If it affects the progress of the project here, the consequences will be very troublesome.
But things need to be prioritized.
If the Epang Palace is burned down, it will be in vain.
But what he wants to do is to prevent Epang Palace from being burned down.
Not seen with my own eyes.
It's unimaginable.
A civil engineering project involving more than 600,000 people is so vast.
Sacrifice to the altar of earth!
Go to the rooftop!
Lanchi Palace!
Magnet door!
Front hall!
A land of ten miles in length.
The front hall alone covers an area of 540,000 square meters.
It is no exaggeration to call it the first palace in the world.
And in this land that is ten miles deep, there are densely packed people everywhere.
If you could stand in the sky and look down, it would be an extremely magnificent sight.
But this is so magnificent that a quotation mark must be added.
"Whoosh!"
Before Ying Cheng got close, he heard the sound of arrows, and saw a supervisor holding a hard bow, shooting a man who was slacking off in his work.
"Pull it out and bury it!"
The supervisor expressionlessly ordered a few soldiers to carry the people away, and coldly yelled at a group of people building the city wall:
"Before dark, I measured it one foot from the ground. If it cannot be done, all these people will be beheaded."
Say it.
The supervisor looked at the man who was slowly pulling dirt with his whip, raised his hand and scolded angrily:
"Hurry up, I, Da Qin, will provide you with delicious food and drinks. Do I want to raise you like uncles?"
The bulldozer lowered his head angrily and pulled the bulldozer hard.
The anklets on my feet were still clanging.
If the Qin people on the west bank of the Zao River have not been driven away, go and see it again.
It is just a city wall that has not been completely built, but it is like heaven and hell inside and outside.
If the overseer's arrows were shot out from the city wall, which was more than ten feet high, and killed even a cow outside, the overseer would be beheaded.
But inside this city wall, there is no difference between one person and a thousand people.
Even if there is a big chaos, it will not be the supervisors who will be held accountable.
Instead, outside Xianyang City, there were eight garrison camps, and Da Qin attacked Jiannu to once again suppress the chaos here in an orderly manner.
Because here.
There are at least 400,000 criminals.
If it were the people of the Qin Dynasty who were conscripted into hard labor, this supervisor would never dare to shoot them casually.
But actually.
The man pushing the bulldozer didn't understand what the supervisor was mumbling at all.
It was only the twitching of the whip that let the bulldozer know that he was asking him to push faster.
No one knows how many people from the Six Kingdoms who were exterminated were captured by the Qin Dynasty after it unified the world.
Outside of the self-class classification of the Qin people, the people of the Six Kingdoms were all inferiors.
As for criminals, they even reach the level of inhumanity.
As long as you commit a crime, you are a sinner and become a slave.
It has completely become a hard labor force. Wherever there is dangerous hard work, there will be these criminals.
As for how many people died in this vast project, no one will care about this issue.
And this issue is a moral issue that Ying Cheng is not willing to face.
so.
Some systems have to be used when they should be used.
Some people must be driven when they should be driven.
"Pang Cheng listened to the order, hammered, drummed and trumpeted, and gathered the troops of the Western Camp!"
Ying Cheng stood on the carriage and issued the order for war.
"The last general takes command!"
There was no command flag in Yingcheng, and there was no Chinese army camp, but Pang Cheng accepted the order and directly issued the command flag.
Rumble!
In an instant, the 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Western Camp appeared on the horizon in neat steps, heavily armed.
Step by step, it surged towards Afang Palace.
Cavalry, chariots, shields and archers are all available.
"Woo!"
Suddenly, in the face of this sudden change, the originally 'quiet' Afang Palace also sounded a series of continuous horn sounds.
The originally scattered supervisors quickly threw away their whips and stood on the half-finished city wall with swords in hand.
Originally, it looked like Afang Palace had no troops and was full of laborers.
At this time, heavily armed Great Qin warriors emerged one after another.
"Who is coming?"
On the semi-finished city wall closest to Yingcheng, a captain general appeared and asked nervously.
And in the midst of this questioning.
Groups of cavalry have already rushed out from the gaps in the city wall and are heading towards the Western Camp army surging in the distance.
"Dalu Ling, the eldest grandson of Dalu Mansion, Ying Cheng."
"Weiwei Xiaowei, Guo Huaiyi."
"Xiying Colonel Pang Cheng met General Yang."
"Xiying Colonel Zhongliang has met General Yang."
"Xiying Colonel Tian Fu has met General Yang."
Next to Ying Cheng's carriage, five people introduced themselves one after another.
"ha!"
"General Yang Xi pays homage to His Highness."
On top of the half-finished city wall, Yang Xi, who was also a school captain, heard this and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
With that said, Yang Xi turned over and jumped down from the half-finished city wall.
Standing in front of a group of soldiers and horses, he didn't come over and asked with a smile:
"The soldiers who came here are brothers who guard the Western Camp."
"But the general was shocked. The general was still wondering why an army of unknown origin suddenly appeared in this place."
"But I don't know why your highness is here?"
Although he was not on guard, Yang Xi did not speak properly.
Open your mouth and ask for the reason.
There was nothing they could do, they didn't receive any notification from any garrison camp to come over.
Ying Cheng didn't want to talk nonsense and stood on the carriage and said:
"I won't talk nonsense with you anymore. Call your general Yang Duanhe and the eunuch Chu Xiao. I have something to discuss."
That's right.
The person responsible for guarding Afang Palace was Yang Duanhe, one of the generals of the Qin Dynasty.