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Chapter 4387 4389 [Blood Horse]

Xiang Nan then sent Cui Wenzi down the mountain. Before they parted, he cast a traceless stretching spell on Cui Wenzi's gourd and filled it with the best Xinghua Fenjiu.

In addition, he was given a double-sided bronze mirror, and it was agreed that if Cui Wenzi encountered difficult and complicated diseases, large-scale plague, or his life was in danger, he could use the bronze mirror to contact Xiang Nan.

"It's really a divine method." Cui Wenzi couldn't help but admire it when he saw it.

It was incredible that Xiang Nan used magic to make the space in his gourd so big.

Moreover, the bronze mirror can transmit messages over thousands of miles, as if face to face, making the world seem so close at hand. It is truly amazing.

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After sending Cui Wenzi away, Xiang Nan went to Xianyang and secretly stole General Meng Tian's warhorse Heifeng.

Meng Tian was a famous general of the Qin Dynasty. He was well versed in military strategies and led the Meng family army to fight in the south and the north, winning every battle. He held a very high position in the court.

In the play, he also treated Yi Xiaochuan as his long-lost brother Meng Tian, ​​and was very caring and kind to him, even entrusting the Meng family army to him before his death.

It's a pity that Yi Xiaochuan had no ambition. With 300,000 soldiers under his command, he didn't want to do anything. Instead, he disbanded the Meng family army, leaving himself alone.

Otherwise, if he had commanded a large army, even Qin Shi Huang would have been wary of him, and he would not have been bullied by Gao Yao, Lu Zhi, and Liu Bang.

The reason why Xiang Nan stole Meng Tian's mount Black Wind was because Cui Wenzi's elixir of immortality was made from Black Wind's blood and Tianxing powder.

Originally Xiang Nan was still wondering what was so special about Heifeng's blood.

But when he saw Heifeng, he understood.

It turned out that Heifeng was actually a Ferghana horse. This kind of horse can be called a BMW horse. It is fast, strong, and has great endurance. It is the best horse breed in the world.

Emperor Wu of Han even sent a large army to the Western Regions to obtain the Ferghana horse. No wonder Cui Wenzi wanted to get it.

But why does the elixir of life require Black Wind Blood? Can the blood of other horses, other animals, or magical creatures be used?

You know, there are a lot of potions in Snape's storage room, many of which come from magical creatures, such as unicorns, leopards, centaurs, phoenixes, unicorns, dragons...

Xiang Nan still needs to study slowly.

After stealing Black Wind, Xiang Nan specially kept it under the villa in a space created using the Traceless Stretching Spell.

This space was very huge and looked like a real grassland, with lush grass and clear streams. In order to prevent Heifeng from being lonely, Xiang Nan even went to the Western Regions and caught a group of fine horses to keep him company.

This group of horses gallops across this space every day, just like they live on the grassland. Moreover, they don’t have to worry about natural enemies such as wolves, bears, tigers and leopards. It can be said that they are quite free.

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At the same time, in the 30th year of his reign, Qin Shihuang began to build the Great Wall in the north, for which he conscripted more than 400,000 laborers.

At the same time, the total population of the Qin Dynasty was only 20 million, which means that one in fifty people was conscripted. Moreover, those who were conscripted were all young and middle-aged laborers, which was bad news for many families. Because of this conscription, many people's fathers, brothers, and husbands were forced to leave their hometowns to perform labor service, which caused the lack of labor in their families, leading to difficulties in production and life.

After all, farming is a very hard job. Whether it is plowing, sowing, fertilizing, weeding, watering or the final harvesting and storage, it is very strenuous and it is impossible without strong labor.

This is why in old age, when the husband is seriously ill and unable to support the family, the wife will find a hardworking and capable man to live with her husband after obtaining his consent, and then marry that man after her husband dies. This custom is called "Labangtao".

Moreover, when the laborers were performing labor service, they had to bring their own dry food, travel expenses, and clothes for the journey. If they missed the deadline and failed to arrive at the assembly point in time, or if not all the conscripted people arrived, everyone would be punished.

The key point is that this is not the first time that Qin Shihuang has undertaken a large-scale infrastructure project.

In 220 BC, the 27th year of Emperor Qin Shihuang's reign, or the year before last, Emperor Qin Shihuang recruited hundreds of thousands of laborers to build the Great Road.

The Qin Chi Road was a huge project with a total length of more than 900 kilometers. In ancient times, there were no road rollers, no pile drivers, no transport vehicles... all of them required human and animal power.

In 219 BC, Qin Shi Huang again recruited civilians to build the Lingqu Canal between the Xiangjiang River and the Lijiang River. The Lingqu Canal is 37 kilometers long and took five years to dig. In other words, there are still some civilians digging the Lingqu Canal in the south.

In addition, when Qin Shihuang first ascended the throne, he had already started building his own mausoleum; and after unifying the six kingdoms, he began to build the Afang Palace, both of which were also huge projects. The Afang Palace was not even completed until the end of the Qin Dynasty.

These large infrastructure projects had already made the people of the Qin Dynasty suffer greatly. After successive conscriptions, almost all the strong laborers in each household were taken away, leaving only a group of the elderly, the weak, women and children.

The people naturally found it unbearable and suffered terribly. For this reason, all those who were conscripted resisted and many of them escaped on the road.

In the play, when Liu Bang, as the head of Pei County, led the people to Xianyang, two people looked for opportunities to escape and were unwilling to perform labor service.

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Xiang Nan also knew about Qin Shihuang's construction of the Great Wall, but he did not ask about it.

To him, the lives of those civilians were indeed miserable.

Not only did they leave their homes and travel far north to build the Great Wall, but the work was also very tiring. Because the Great Wall was built between high mountains and steep cliffs, just moving the stones and bricks for construction up there was not an easy task.

Although there is no record in history books about how many people died in the construction of the Great Wall, it is impossible that such a large project would not have killed tens of thousands of people.

But Xiang Nan had already seen life and death for a long time. To him, even hundreds of thousands or millions of people, let alone tens of thousands, were nothing but passing clouds.

If he had to take action every time, even if he had billions of clones, it would not be enough. Xiang Nan did not want to be a superhero who believed that "the greater the power, the greater the responsibility". He was not that selfless and great.

If someone asks him for help, or something happens to him, he doesn't mind lending a hand if it doesn't harm his own interests, but he will never take the initiative to help, go out of his way to help, or sacrifice himself to help others.

He was not a saint like Yi Xiaochuan, who knew what kind of people Liu Bang, Lu Zhi and Gao Yao were and what they had done to him, but he could still forgive them. He was even willing to risk his life for someone who had nothing to do with him.

He believed in tit-for-tat and would never suffer a loss.

Therefore, Xiang Nan didn't care about this matter and continued to practice his skills in the mountains.

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