Dahan first prince

Chapter 80 Use stone bricks to solve force?
Liu Ying said 'please' and Yang Chengyan said 'here', the venue for today's court meeting was changed to nearly five miles west of Chang'an, an open field specially used by the Shaofu to cut stones for stone bricks.

"Xiao Xiang."

"Is it really feasible to transfer stones to the bottom of Zhengguo Canal?"

Before Liu Ying arrived at the western suburbs of Chang'an City ahead of time, Zhang Cang couldn't help finding his immediate boss Xiao He under the boredom.

Logically speaking, as a prime minister, Xiao He should not have an adjutant.

The censor, who is known as the "sub-prime", basically doesn't care about the government affairs of the court, and is only responsible for the official job of the censor's subordinate office-supervising all officials.

As for the prime minister's mansion, although there are subordinates like the prime minister's chief official, they are only at the level of a thousand stones, far from being the adjutant of the prime minister who eats thousands of stones.

But at this time, Zhang Cang, who was exceptionally appointed as a 'planner', was theoretically Xiao He's deputy.

In the Han Dynasty, the reason why Zhang Cang appeared as a "deputy prime minister" was not because the emperor Liu Bang was on guard against the prime minister Xiao He, but because he had to.

According to the normal Qin official system, the duty of the prime minister is to 'in charge of the world's government affairs, so as to help the emperor rule the people of the world'.

But now, Kanto is basically enfeoffed to princes of different surnames and clan relatives, which makes "the world" become Guanzhong, plus Longyou and Beidi counties.

And the responsibility of internal history is to control all things in Guanzhong. It can also be understood loosely as: internal history is the prime minister of Guanzhong.

This makes it very embarrassing for the prime minister if the internal history is set up under the current situation of Tianxia = Guanzhong + Longyou + Beidi.

The reason is simple: the internal history governs Guanzhong, the prime minister governs Guanzhong + Longyou + Beidi, so who is in charge of Guanzhong?

If the internal history is in charge, then the prime minister, the head of a hundred officials, can only manage the two counties of Beidi and Longyou?
Although there are only two counties, how can Xiao He be considered a prime minister?
At most, it is an extra-large sheriff!
A large sheriff is like pointing fingers at two thousand stones, the court official?

Naturally, in order to give Prime Minister Xiao He enough respect and status, Liu Bang did not appoint an internal historian for the time being.

But without appointing an internal historian, Xiao He would not only manage the affairs of Guanzhong, Beidi, and Longyou, but also raise food and grass for Liu Bang's army who would go out every year to pacify the army of princes with different surnames.

So the current situation, to put it simply, is that if an internal historian is appointed, Xiao He will lose all his majesty; but if an internal historian is not appointed, Xiao He will be overwhelmed.

Therefore, there is a low-profile version of the internal history of "Ji Xiang", Zhang Cang, the first and only Ji Xiang of the Han Dynasty, will share the burden on Xiao He's shoulders.

Theoretically, as a subordinate of the Prime Minister, Ji Xiang, the existence of Zhang Cang will not affect Xiao He's majesty.

In fact, Zhang Cang could help Xiao He share some of the internal affairs, so that Xiao He would not be too busy.

The two are also the founders of the country, although Zhang Cang's status and achievements are not as high as Xiao He's, but the subordinates have cooperated for so many years, and they have a certain degree of personal friendship.

Seeing Zhang Cang asking, Xiao He couldn't help but smile.

"Although the old man knows a little about hydraulic engineering, he doesn't know much about it."

"On the other hand, Shaofu was born as a Qin army craftsman, and he has many connections with hydraulic craftsmen."

"Since the Shaofu said it's feasible, is bento feasible?"

With a calm tone of reply, Xiao He shook his head and smiled.

"I've never been homesick, and I have such an understanding of hydraulic engineering..."

Hearing this, Zhang Cang couldn't help but bowed his head a little, gave an apologetic laugh, and asked again: "But why did the family mention this inexplicably?"

"It should be known that the hard work of repairing the canal is still not enough for what the Shaofu said?"

A little hesitantly expressing his doubts, Zhang Cang shook his head on his own.

As the world-recognized 'No. [-] Master in Nine Chapters of Arithmetic', and a 'time planner' who has dealt with numbers for many years, Zhang Cang is always very sensitive to matters related to numbers.

There is no need to make a draft, Zhang Cang has already deduced that there are at most about 900 private slaves in the household of Gonghou Guixun, Baiguan Gonghou ordained private slaves!
Including the 4000 official slaves that Liu Ying transferred from the Shaofu, there were only less than 6000 people, and there was still a gap of [-] people from [-]!

Zhang Cang really couldn't figure out why Liu Ying would ignore the 6000 force labor gap.

And why inexplicably mentioned the specific renovation plan of Zhengguo Canal, and called the courtiers and officials to the western suburbs of Chang'an, insisting on looking at some stone bricks...

Hearing Zhang Cangzhi's question, Xiao He just smiled wryly and shook his head, expressing that he didn't understand either.

After a while, Xiao He turned around as if feeling something, and looked at the prince's chariot not far away, which was slowly approaching.

"The queen's actions have always been planned and then acted upon, but she has never been targeted..."

"I'm afraid that the more than [-] laborers will be here, and they will be relieved by the 'stone brick' incident?"

Thinking to himself, Xiao He shook his head for some unknown reason, stepped forward, and greeted Liu Ying's chariot with all court officials.

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"I also invite the craftsmen from the Shaofu to demonstrate: how to get the square stone bricks from the huge stone."

After getting off the chariot, Liu Yingyu arrived in the western suburbs of Chang'an in advance, waiting for her courtiers and officials to pay homage for a while, and then went straight to the point.

Hearing this, Yang Chengyan surrendered himself to accept the order, and immediately stepped forward.

After a while, I saw Yangcheng going back and forth, leading Liu Ying and Baiguan Gonghou to a huge stone nearly two feet long, more than ten feet high and wide, lying on the ground, roughly oval in shape. .

Stopping at a distance of about twenty steps from the boulder, Yang Chengyan nodded to the craftsman not far away, indicating that it was time to start.

The craftsman cupped his hands a little cautiously, then took a deep breath, and drew a black line vertically in the middle of the boulder with charcoal.

After the front line was drawn, the craftsman climbed to the top of the stone leaning on the wooden ladder, and followed the previous line to the other side of the stone.

After the line was drawn, as soon as the craftsman greeted him, he saw five or six youths who were a bit weak in stature coming forward and driving a copper nail on the line at intervals of half a foot.

Then, those people used small hammers to hit the circle of nails one after another. They didn't use much force, but the force was very even each time.

All of a sudden, there was the sound of tinkling copper nails, which made Liu Ying's face slowly glow with memories.

——In the first life, Liu Ying lived in the countryside of the Great Northwest, what woke me up every day was the sound of the village blacksmith forging iron...
When Liu Ying recovered from her memories, she saw a crack along the previous black line on the boulder!
After a while, the craftsmen stopped their movements. The previous craftsman stepped forward to investigate and explained something to the people around him.

Then, two burly men with extremely broad shoulders appeared, holding two sledgehammers, and smashed a few times on the front, back and sides of the stone, slightly above the stone!

After about a dozen times of hammering, the boulder cracked open without a sound, a crack an inch wide!
Seeing this, the previous craftsman stepped forward, stuffed a few crowbar-like copper rods into the gap, and let the two burly men pry them from side to side.

After a while, Liu Ying was surprised to see that the huge rock with a diameter of about two meters was slowly divided into two halves...

(End of this chapter)