Chapter 183 Treat it as a show of respect for the deceased!
Three days later, the first carved stone was erected at the southern foot of Pinshan Mountain.
This is a sad place in the Jing diversion project, and it is also evidence that people all over the world will remember the illustrious achievements of the people of the old Qin Dynasty. The mighty Qin Dynasty, with thousands of people united as one, defied the sky with their human power.
Because the King of Qin personally ordered it, Li Si personally wrote and wrote the names. Not only did he record the names of the Weishui light barracks, but he also engraved their names on the back to pass them down to future generations.
Time passed day by day, and Ying Gao followed Ying Zheng as he rushed back and forth to various construction sites. It was not until the end of May that the dust that stirred up the Qinchuan River for 800 miles slowly subsided.
Ying Zheng is busy these days, and so are Zheng Guo, Li Si and others.
The entire line of the Jingshui diversion project has been completed, and project acceptance is in progress. Only when the entire line is up to standard can the water be cut off, allowing the Jingshui River to penetrate and sweep down to join the Luoshui River.
Seven days later, the acceptance work of the Jing diversion project was completely completed. On this day, Li Si, Li Huan, and Zheng Guo hurriedly came to the camp shogunate. At the same time, Meng Tian and Lao Tingwei also came.
Ying Gao was beside him, and he knew in his heart why these people came. Ying Zheng had been going to the Jingshui Project for two consecutive months.
The king of a country has been absent from the capital for two months, and the backlog of official duties can be said to be as high as a mountain.
If this continues, the entire Qin court may be paralyzed.
"I ask your Majesty to return the capital and make a special trip to come on the day when the water is cut off." Meng Tian looked solemnly and bowed solemnly to Ying Zheng and said.
"I would like to ask the king to return the capital and make a special trip on the day when the water is cut off."
At this moment, the six people spoke in unison and spoke to the King of Qin.
Among the entire camp, only Ying Gao had not yet spoken.
When Wang Wan saw that someone finally thought the same as him, he had already bowed solemnly to Ying Zheng and joined the camp of Meng Tian and others.
Ying Gao chuckled lightly, breaking the solemn atmosphere, and faced Ying Zheng: "Father, I also think that your adults' request is reasonable. After all, although the Jing diversion project is large, it is not as big as the Qin Dynasty!"
"No matter what, it will be the same when my father comes to witness the day when the water is cut off!"
A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall!
Ying Gao did not approve of Ying Zheng's actions, but Ying Zheng was the king and he would not listen to what he said. He had no choice but to let it go.
But now, since there is such an opportunity, Ying Gao naturally hopes that Ying Zheng will return to Xianyang.
But at this moment, Ying Zheng's eyes narrowed and he said: "All the problems in the Qin Kingdom, among which the drought of thousands of miles is the first. As long as the drought is solved, the Qin Dynasty will be fine!"
"If I don't see the water released from the canal with my own eyes, the King of Qin will be ashamed of the people of Qin and the descendants who died on this canal. What's more, I have to go to Pinshan. Before I leave, look at those martyrs.
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The topic at this moment was too heavy, and everyone was speechless for a while. After a long silence, they all nodded and stopped mentioning the matter of returning to the capital.
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The next day, dawn.
Ying Zheng had already dressed up and ordered Ying Gao decisively: "Go to Pinshan!"
"promise."
Ying Gao waved his hand, and Tie Ying shouted loudly, saying: "The whole army lines up and sets off to Pinshan!"
"drive."
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The war horses rumbled, the four-horse king's chariot galloped, and the group of people rushed straight towards Pinshan Mountain with the force of thousands of horses rolling up the hill.
When Ying Zheng led the camp and the officials of the Hukou shogunate out of Hukou, they saw a huge, dark crowd walking along the main canal.
"Li Si went to ask what happened. The people of the country should break up camp and go home. Why did such a team form?" In the king's car, Ying Zheng's eyes were straight.
"promise."
After a moment, Li Si turned around and returned: "Your Majesty, what the people said: The people who broke camp and returned home, according to the ancient etiquette of the old Qin people, went to Pinshan to call for the souls of the brothers in the Weishui Light Barracks."
This is a heavy topic. Once Li Si raised it, the whole scene suddenly became solemn. The Weishui Light Barracks is just a representative.
On the Jing Diversion Project, hundreds if not thousands of people died. In this era, any large-scale project was basically built with human lives.
It takes many bones to create a project that will last forever.
Just like the Great Wall, just like the Lishan Mausoleum...
Everyone present can understand this, but they all know that understanding is understanding, but looking at this vast crowd, their hearts are still shocked.
"Who summoned these people?" Ying Zheng's eyes were as bright as fire, and the shock in his eyes did not diminish at all.
"Father, these people just happened to do it spontaneously without anyone calling them together!" Ying Gao was also shocked by the scene at this moment. The cohesion of the old Qin people was really shocking.
As far as the eye can see, there are people all over the world. They are traveling all the way towards Pinshan Mountain.
Ying Zheng stared at the dark crowd filling the canal bank, thought for a moment, waved his hand and said: "Everyone dismounts and walks to Pinyang."
"promise."
At this moment, no one objects!
It's not that they didn't know that the distance between Hukou and Pinshan was as far as a hundred miles, but looking at the huge flow of people, no one dared to ride on horseback.
Riding on horseback is disrespectful to the martyrs who died in Pinshan, and it is also an insult to oneself.
At this moment, both Ying Zheng and ten-year-old Ying Gao got out of the car and entered the crowd, becoming one of them.
Although Ying Gao is a time traveler, he has lived in the Qin Dynasty for so long, so he naturally knows that the Qin people have had rituals to summon the souls of martyrs since ancient times.
When soldiers died on the battlefield, there were too many of them. The three armies were unable to transport the bodies back to Daqin, and they would not return to the place where they were born. On the day of the withdrawal of the army, no matter how critical the battle situation was, they had to face the battlefield and shout from afar.
"Brother! Come home with me—"
After a victory, the soldiers who died in battle must be placed, and then a carved stone should be erected on top of the grave. The commander-in-chief of the three armies must firmly press his bloody fingerprints on the carved stone before returning to the court.
Apart from Ying Gao, Ying Zheng is the one who understands the importance of this ancient soul summoning ritual best to the people of Qin. After all, he is the king of Great Qin, and he understands some things better.
Li Si and others came from the Six Kingdoms of Shandong and could not sympathize with this matter. However, since Ying Zheng was the king and Ying Gao was the general, they naturally understood the meaning of the soul-calling ceremony.
Along the way, Ying Zheng had a sullen face. Zheng Guo and others did not dare to ask, so they had no choice but to ask Ying Gao, "Sir, if only one wizard is enough, why are the Chinese people going in groups?"
Hearing this, Ying Gao shook his head and said: "Great Qin is different from the Six Kingdoms of Guandong. This soul summoning ceremony was originally formed because of the three armies of Great Qin."
"The soul-calling ritual has different meanings to the people of Old Qin. Even my father dare not look down upon it. You'd better not think too much about it and just go with the flow."