"Oh!" Zheng Guo nodded slightly and only answered with the word "oh."
"???" Jin Yao was confused. Oh, what do you mean? He had prepared a lot of trash talk but didn't have the chance to say it.
"You can't come here in vain. The ravines in some places are too deep to be measured. You just happened to be here. Fly down and measure it so that we can calculate whether to change the route." Lan Xin said bluntly and directly pulled Jin Yao into another Suzaku.
, go straight to the deep mountains and old forests.
"???" Jin Yao was dumbfounded again. He came here and didn't get a coolie, so he became a coolie first?
"Isn't there a Suzaku? If you let the Suzaku fly down to investigate, you can't let the Gongsun family's trap go down." Jin Yao was puzzled.
"Don't you often say that there must be a secret to survive falling off a cliff, so we have been waiting for this opportunity!" Zheng Guo said with a smile.
"..." Jin Yao was silent. It felt like these people knew that he was coming, so they were prepared in advance and were waiting for him to jump in.
"The place is too small. The Suzaku can't fly down. The trap snake lost contact after it went down. Gong Shuqiu said there might be a magnet underneath, which interfered with the instrument. Then we also sent criminals down, but none of them came up." Zheng
Guo explained.
"Is there any danger?" Jin Yao asked timidly.
"Why do we need you to come if there's no danger?" Lan asked in return.
"..." Jin Yao fell silent.
Soon, Suzaku flew over a bottomless ravine, and Jin Yao also discovered something was wrong. The navigation compass on the Suzaku simply lost its function in the sky and kept spinning randomly.
"Throw down the rope!" Lan directly ordered his disciples to throw away the rope and run down from the porthole of Suzaku, heading straight into the depths of the ravine until they could no longer see the end.
"It didn't take long before it reached the bottom until it reached a shallow level?" Jin Yao asked speechlessly.
"I'm afraid that there is an underground river below, and no amount of water will be enough for it to swallow," Zheng Guo explained.
They used the Zhengguo Canal built by the overland river. If there is an underground river culvert below, they can only choose to change the route or build an elevated canal to cross the gully.
"Okay!" Jin Yao grabbed the rope and torch and slid down the rope.
When Jin Yao landed at the bottom, he discovered that it was an underground river and culvert. At the same time, he also found two black and rotting corpses. After observing for himself, he found that there were countless black and shiny scorpions on the ground, which were highly poisonous.
Incomparably, the two prisoners were obviously unlucky and died suddenly after being stung by these scorpions.
He pulled the rope again and asked the people above to pull him back, and then followed the rope back to Suzaku.
"Change the route. There is an underground river below. It is very wide and cannot be filled!" Jin Yao said.
Lan nodded, then drew a mark on the bamboo slip, and took Jin Yao to the next place.
For three days in a row, Jin Yao really became a human body surveyor, helping to survey many areas, including bottomless ravines and culverts, as well as rapid rivers.
"How many people have died since the construction of the Zheng Guo Canal?" Jin Yao felt a little heavy. In the past few days, he had found dozens of corpses of prisoners and dead soldiers who had been dispatched. It is conceivable how many people had died during the construction of the Zheng Guo Canal.
"In addition to the exploration ones, there are probably more than three hundred of them!" Lan said with a sigh.
They have tried their best to avoid casualties, but in such a large project, many people died accidentally, and many died from overwork.
Jin Yao was silent. The Qin Dynasty was different from modern times. There were large machines to carry and repair, and they could only be carried by manpower. Once the rope broke, it was easy to cause an accident.
"Does the State of Qin know?" Jin Yao asked.
"I know, a death list will be compiled and sent to Xianyang every month, but this is a project that benefits thousands of families, and Qin will not stop!" Zheng Guo shook his head and said.
"Is there any compensation?" Jin Yao continued to ask.
"No, Qin's laws are strict, and there is no pension for the non-war dead, and most of the dead were prisoners and corvees. In addition, the Qin State has been fighting for years, and the treasury has long been empty.
And because of this locust plague, the Shaofu's treasury was at its lowest point, so he had to promise the merchants and nobles who had invested thousands of stones to be promoted to the first rank, but they still couldn't make ends meet!" Zheng Guosuo said helplessly.
Among the seven countries in the world, Qin is already the richest after Qi, but even so, Qin still has a fiscal deficit and cannot make ends meet.
"I'm sorry for how difficult people's lives are, and I'm sorry for how short my life is!" Jin Yao let out a long sigh.
"What we can do is to reduce casualties as much as possible and create more tools to reduce the burden on the people!" Lan also said helplessly.
"One of the six elders of the farm, the God of Grain in charge of grains, and the elder Yutu in charge of water conservancy are here!" Just when everyone was still sad about the spring and autumn, Bingbai Shensha said indifferently.
"Please come quickly!" Jin Yao and others hurriedly got up and went out to greet them.
"I just invited Elder Gushen, but I didn't expect that Elder Yutu would also come. It seems that the farmer is quite respectable!" Jin Yao said with a smile.
"The Sixth Tomb of the Farmer, the God of Grain, and disciple Yu have seen the disciples!" Two old men with ordinary clothes and gray hair also walked towards the official office. When they saw Jin Yao and his entourage, they took the initiative to salute.
The identity of the two people can be recognized from the signs on their bodies. The one wearing the nine-beaded grain planter standing on the left is Elder Gushen, one of the six elders of the farm family, while the one on the right is wearing a hat similar to that of a water conservancy machine.
The nine-bead symbol is Elder Yutu.
"I take the liberty to invite you, senior, please don't blame me!" Jin Yao stepped forward and saluted.
"It doesn't matter. The letter said that there are seeds that can replace silk and make silk cloth. Naturally, we will not abide by the old rules and not leave the Tomb of the Six Sages of Emperor Yan." Gushen said with a smile.
"I also want to come and see the Zheng Guo Canal, which is famous all over the world and took 300,000 prisoners from the Qin State and ten years to complete!" Tu Yu said.
"Why bother? It's obviously because you killed Wu'an Lord Bai Qi and you were afraid that you would not be able to go back to the Qin Kingdom, so you came together." Geng Zhilan's integrity came online again, directly exposing the fact that Gu Shen and Yu Tu came together.
intention.
Jin Yao and Zheng Guo were both stunned. They really hadn't thought about this.
"..." Gu Shen and Yutu were immediately speechless by Lan Teng, and they were a little unable to get off the stage for a while.
"I've long heard that Mo Bianlan of the Mohist family is outspoken and unscrupulous in his words. When I see him today, he's well-deserved of his reputation!" Gu Shen could only say with a laugh.
"Don't think that just because you praise me so much, you can deny that you are afraid of death." Geng Zhilan didn't appreciate it.
"Um..." Gushen and Yutu couldn't get off the stage at all. They turned to look at Jin Yao and changed the subject, "Where's the seed you mentioned? Take us to see it quickly!"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Tu Yu also hurriedly agreed.
Jin Yao did not hesitate and took the two of them directly to the granary, took out various seeds and placed them in front of Elder Gushen.
"Wait a minute!" Gushen thought it was just the same seed, but in the end, there were dozens of seeds placed in front of him.
"If you don't have enough cultivation, just tell me and I'll lend you some!" Lan continued.
"Huh? There seems to be something wrong with him today!" Zheng Guo said to Jin Yao in a low voice.
Although Liaolan likes to quarrel with others on weekdays, he can also distinguish the seriousness from the serious and will not offend others easily. He is commonly known as a quarrelsome person, but now he directly quarrels with the two elders of the farm family to death. This is very wrong.
Jin Yao was also a little confused and couldn't figure out what happened to Lan today.