Dahan first prince

Chapter 103 A mere two thousand stones?

"Old...does your lord have any other orders?"

Seeing the official lowering his head in a panic, Zhang Bingji couldn't help squinting his eyes slightly, looking at the official's gaze, there was a hint of murderous intent!
"The matter here should be the great government of the court. How did you know about it?!"

Saying these words in an inexplicable and strange tone, Zhang Bingji's eyes even showed a little dangerous aura!
Unexpectedly, when the official heard this, he wiped the cold sweat on his forehead with a full of embarrassment, stepped forward a little, and bowed again with an embarrassing expression.

"Return to the old man's words."

"younger generation······"

"It's not an official with a knife and a pen..."

As he said that, the official took advantage of the effort of straightening his robes to reveal the silver seal on his waist, which glowed white and was tied with a blue ribbon.

Zhang Bingji's gaze stayed on the silver seal and green ribbon on his waist for a moment, and then the official bowed his hands in fear.

"The younger generation is a military craftsman of the Qin Dynasty. It has been more than ten years since Dang County and His Majesty..."

"In the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, the Prime Minister Binghou Xiao He and Duke Xiao ordered the construction of Changle and Weiyang palaces under the orders of His Majesty. The juniors were trusted by His Majesty and used them as supervisors."

"So far, the younger generation has never been abandoned by His Majesty, and he is regarded as a craftsman as a young man..."

Softly telling his own background, Yang Chengyan did not forget to smile and bowed his hands again, before retreating to Zhang Bingji's side, not daring to face Zhang Bingji head-on.

——To be precise, I dare not face Zhang Bingji's hands, the sticks that are said to be "able to chase the prince and fight three streets"...
I thought that revealing my identity would make Zhang Bingji be more polite to him, at least stop looking at people with those cannibalistic eyes, but unexpectedly Zhang Bingji learned of Yang Chengyan's intentions, and his snowy eyebrows buzzed again. Stand up!
"Jianzuo Shaofu?"

"Hey, Guan'er is not young!"

"Ranking the Jiuqing, should you be the rank of the middle two thousand stones?"

Asked a little jokingly, Zhang Bingji couldn't help turning around with a faint smile, and looked at those old friends from the same village who were still looking at the pile of stone bricks with annoyed faces.

"Everyone, do you still remember the time when we were the halberd soldiers under Zhou Luling Wuhou, so Zhou Luling Wuhou General Lu, what is the rank and salary?"

Hearing Zhang Bingji's question, he saw an old man raised his head proudly and looked at Yang Chengyan, still showing a little anger from the destruction of the straight road in his eyes.

"Humph!"

"I think back then, after the battle of Pengcheng, the late Zhou Lvling Wuhou, was worshiped as a great general for His Majesty, with a rank of ten thousand stones!"

"If it was at that time, if you and other mere officials with two thousand stones of swords and pens wanted to be the personal guards of the late Zhou Lv Ling Wuhou, you should still ask your parents to spare money and get through the relationship!!!"

Hearing Zhang Bingji's ridicule before, Yangcheng Yanben couldn't hold back his demeanor.

When he heard the phrase "Er waits for a knife and pen official with two thousand stones", Yang Chengyan's mentality couldn't hold back at all.

"Quite... just two thousand stones?"

"This······"

For a moment, Yang Chengyan fell into endless self-doubt.

"Since when did the two thousand stones among the Nine Ministers of the current dynasty become known as... small officials with swords and pens?"

Seeing Yang Chengyan's stunned expression, Zhang Bing seemed to have lost the interest in teasing Yang Chengyan, and patted the neatly stacked stone bricks, then turned around with doubts on his face.

"The renovation of river canals and water conservancy, when the old man was young, he also went with his father and brother."

"Isn't it all about compaction?"

Asked in doubt, Zhang Bingji patted the pile of stone bricks again.

"Tamp the canal soil, and use wooden piles to compact it with young and strong labor. Why use such excellent stone bricks?"

"Not to mention the number of 20?!"

As he was talking to himself, Zhang Bing remembered again: This brat in front of him, who called himself 'Master Craftsman', seemed to have said it just now.

These stone bricks seem to be used to pave the canal ground and sides?
All of a sudden, Zhang Bingji, like Yang Chengyan, fell into endless confusion.

—Pave the canal with stone bricks?
this······

Unheard of?
Zhang Bingji asked several times, but Yang Chengyan turned a deaf ear to Zhang Bingji's question as if his soul had been taken away.

In the end, Yang Li, the deputy behind him, stepped forward and gently touched Yang Chengyan's arm, which made Yang Chengyan finally change from "When did Jiuqing become a swordsman?" 'Come back to your senses in the contemplation.

After calming down, recalling what Liu Ying explained to her in the uterus yesterday, Yang Chengyan's slightly blurred eyes gradually focused on one point.

"That's all~"

"The old man who received the rod..."

"Don't provoke, don't provoke..."

With a bitter smile, Yang Chengyan stepped forward and bowed to Zhang Bingji.

"Returning to my lord, this is because the crown prince wants to repair the Zheng Guoqu, but he has no choice but to do it..."

Hearing Yang Chengyan's words, Zhang Bing couldn't help being taken aback for a moment, then slowly turned around, and finally looked at Yang Chengyan's slightly resentful face with purely confused and non-aggressive eyes.

Feeling that Zhang Bingji's eyes no longer carried the chilling and murderous look, Yang Chengyan couldn't help secretly heaving a sigh of relief, and immediately put on a very melancholy expression.

"Ah~"

"My lord doesn't know something."

"This time, His Majesty ordered the crown prince to renovate the Zhengguo Canal, but the court treasury is empty and there is not much work to do."

"Besides, the Zhengguo Canal has been blocked for many years, and it will take a lot of labor to repair it..."

With that said, Yang Chengyan couldn't help but sighed bitterly and shook his head, then pouted again in the direction of the ten prisoners.

"The younger generation and the princes in the same dynasty plan to measure, and the renovation of the Zhengguo Canal will require [-] hard labor."

"However, the prince is benevolent and can't bear to work too hard for the people of Guanzhong, so he ordered the Shaofu to suspend all affairs except Changling, and sent out more than [-] officials and slaves from Chengdan, ghost salary, and servants and concubines to make up for this time, and repair the Zhengguo Canal the labor required."

"Besides, the crown prince also ordered the princes and officials of the court to become private slaves who are strong and strong in the family, so that they can be used for the renovation of the Zhengguo Canal..."

After speaking, Yang Chengyan paused for a moment, pursed his lips slightly, and shook his head again full of sorrow.

"Even so, there are still a lot of people missing for the repair of the Zhengguo Canal."

"The prince is too weak to work, and he can't bear to work in Guanzhong, so he has to come up with this bad strategy;"

"——All out of the Shaofu to build the stone bricks of Chang'an, so as to consolidate the soil of the Zhengguo Canal!"

"With 20 transfers, the bottom of the Zhengguo canal can be consolidated, and the days will be shorter..."

With the last words, Yang Chengyan couldn't help but shook his head, sighed and lowered his head, his face was full of bitterness, as if he was depressed, and he began to lightly kick up the straight road under his feet to a shallow pit driven out by a rolling log.

It's just that this time, Yang Chengyan's act of "deliberately sabotaging the straight road" did not attract Zhang Bingji's eyes again.

At this time, Zhang Bingji, including the old friends behind Zhang Bingji, were thinking about what Yang Chengyan said just now.

"Out of Shaofu prisoners, official slaves, to serve with full strength..."

"Let all the officials and marquises become private slaves in order to fully serve..."

"I can't bear to labor the people too much, so don't conscript the people of Guanzhong..."

"Prepare the stone bricks for the construction of Chang'an to make up for the lack of strength..."

Whispering softly, a little solemnity quietly appeared on Zhang Bingji's face.

"The public just said that the crown prince ordered the Shaofu to release all prisoners and official slaves?"

"How powerful is this?!"

Hearing Zhang Bingji's sonorous and forceful question, Yang Chengyan bowed his hands slightly.

"More than [-]..."

Seeing Zhang Bing pondering for a moment, he raised his head suddenly: "How many relatives of the nobles of the imperial court, who became ordained private slaves?"

"Grandpa, how many private slaves are there?"

Hearing that the old man replaced 'ru' with 'gong' unconsciously, Yang Chengyan also felt that the trauma in his heart was healed a little.

Without any hesitation, he bowed to Zhang Bingji again.

"There are more than [-] private slaves who have made great achievements in the court, courtiers and relatives, and private slaves."

"And the younger generation..."

With that said, Yang Chengyan couldn't help but smile stiffly.

"The younger generation got the rank of two thousand stones, but there was no high rank, so they had to give up 14 slaves at home; in addition, they paid their own money and food, and found three younger generations from the distant cousin's house as labor, a total of 17 people... ·”

"really?"

Zhang Bingji asked a question with suspicion, and before Yang Chengyan could answer, he raised his head and looked at Yang Li, the Young Mansion Prime Minister behind Yang Chengyan.

"How many private slaves did the public have?"

Hearing Zhang Bingji's words, Yang Li couldn't help but feel ashamed and bowed his head in shame.

"The boy's family is poor, and he has no private slaves..."

"However, the boy has a thousand stones, and he has already paid for it. He hired ten men in the east city of Chang'an to contribute a little..."

Hearing Yang Li's words, Zhang Bing couldn't help thinking for a while, and then went straight forward.

He grabbed Yang Li's wrist a little recklessly, and after seeing Yang Li's calloused hand, Zhang Bingji finally nodded thoughtfully.

"The official of the Shaofu should have no experience in the army and battle; he can still work in the fields when he has a salary of thousands of stones..."

"Um······"

There was another burst of whispering to himself, Zhang Bing thought for a long time, and cast a glance at Yang Chengyan and Yang Li respectively.

Seeing that there was no trace of hypocrisy on the faces of the two, Zhang Bingji finally turned around, leaning on his right hand with a cane, his left hand behind his back, and nodded slightly towards those old friends from the same village.

Seeing Zhang Bingji's actions, those old men also turned sideways as if they had realized something, looked at each other and nodded slightly, then walked towards the village with a sigh.

In a short time, there was a burst of loud and clear gongs in Zhangjiazhai, which was home to about a hundred households.

"Qiang~"

"All the men in Zhangjiazhai, who are fifteen or fifty years old, should pack their bags quickly and gather at the entrance of the village~"

"Qiang~"

"Those who know but do not come, or those who do not come quickly, will be expelled from the genealogy according to the clan's staff~"

"Clang~~~~~~"

In such a short period of time, the entrance of the Zhangjiazhai village with more than a hundred households has been occupied by sixty or seventy men who are not burly, but are still quite strong!

Seeing these men carrying 'luggages' that were so simple that they were almost only wrapped in a coat, and the faces that were slightly flushed and looking at him while panting, Yang Chengyan felt a sudden delay. In the meantime, I don't know what to say and what to do.

"Humph!"

Hearing that Zhang Bingji gave another inexplicable cold snort, he strode forward and stared at Xiang Yang Chengyan with 'fierce' eyes.

"There are dozens of men here, all of whom are descendants of my Zhang family village!"

"If there is a mistake, the old man will never give up even if he fights his old life!!!!"

With a roar full of roughness, Zhang Bingji turned around again, nodded slightly to the dozens of fellow juniors gathered at the entrance of the village, then greeted a few old friends, and walked towards his old house not far away.

"Straight!"

"Within three days, the Dao will not be restored to its original state, and the old man will ask you 'craftsman as a young mansion'!"

Xunsheng raised his head, looked at the elderly figure who kept going away, and uttered such an effective 'threat', Yangcheng was stunned for a long time, but finally burst out laughing...

　Huh~ The fifth watch is completed in 1w5, and it will be like this in the future.

　　The update time, I adjust and adjust, and strive to fix it until the early morning at the end of the month.

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