Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 377
"What do you have to tell me?" Ziying asked calmly.

When Ziying spoke, Shi Lu knew that the person in front of him must be the giant of the Momen, and said hastily: "Young man, please leave Lingling City quickly, my identity may have been leaked, and Prince Qin should already know about me. For the sake of safety, please leave as soon as possible regarding the gathering of the Mo sect in Lingling."

Shi Lu was also extremely anxious. If he heard Ziying speak calmly, he should feel that the voice seemed familiar.

However, at this moment, Shi Lu's heart is really anxious like a flame, and he has no mood to think about the sound.

Before Ziying could reply, Shi Lu continued: "Juzi, the King of Qin intends to build a large canal between the Xiang River and the Lishui River for the purpose of transporting military supplies, so I ask Juzi to deal with it as soon as possible."

After listening to Shi Lu's words, Ziying was speechless for a while, but fortunately this giant of the Momen was also himself, otherwise Shi Lu would have sold himself in a blink of an eye.

After finishing speaking, Shi Lu was wondering why Juzi didn't respond, when he heard a joking word in his ear: "In this Lingling City, no one can hurt me. Although the King Qin you mentioned is a powerful man, But it doesn't work either."

"You should be thankful that you didn't speak ill of Gu, so take off the blindfold." Ziying continued with a smile.

Although Shi Lu didn't understand why Juzi was so confident, he still took off the blindfold as he said.

You must know that Juzi's identity and appearance have always been an unsolved mystery among Momen, and it is precisely because of this secret that Qin has never found any clues about Juzi in these years, and never imagined that he would be able to see Looking like a giant, I was a little excited when I thought about it.

Shi Lu took off the blindfold and looked in the direction of the giant, and then he felt bad...

"King Qin... Juzi...you..." Shi Lu said incoherently.

At this moment, Ziying had already taken out the Mozi sword that he carried with him and was playing with it in his hand. Shi Lu saw the Mozi sword in Ziying's hand and understood that the Qin prince in front of him was the mysterious giant of Momen.

At this moment, the long-standing doubts in Shi Lu's mind finally penetrated, why after the replacement of the giants, Mo Sect stopped opposing Qin, and sometimes even provided convenience for Qin's actions.

It turns out that Mo Sect has long been incorporated by Qin State, Qin State's number two figure, King Qin, who is under one man and tens of thousands of people, is his own giant, so how can Mo Sect continue to compete with Qin State.

Although he understood the truth of the matter, Shi Lu's mind still couldn't accept the fact that his own giant was the King of Qin Qin for a while.

"Why is the giant the King of Qin! These are clearly two unrelated species!" Shi Lu was entangled.

"The giant is me, and the king of Qin is also me, but these two identities do not interfere with each other, do you understand?" Ziying looked at Shi Lu with a tangled face and continued:
"The reason why Mr. Gai Nie passed on the title of giant to me is because I agree with Momen's philosophy and am willing to work hard for it. Don't you think that in a unified empire, the people's lives will be better, although the current situation is somewhat Deviation, the people are not better off because of the unification of the world, but I will spend the rest of my life to correct it."

After Ziying's explanation, Shi Lu finally accepted the fact that the King of Qin is the giant of Momen.

"So, the reason why Juzi called us here is to build the canal together," Shi Lu asked himself and answered.

By now, the matter has become very clear. King Qin wanted to build the canal, and the giant called for someone to come. Since the two are unified, the purpose must also be unified.

"Although the Qin army is numerous, there are very few who are good at hydraulic engineering. I just want to use Momen's organs and engineering skills to help open this canal as soon as possible!" Ziying said solemnly: "You can send 40 troops at will. The whole group of the Mo Sect is also under your command, and this canal must be dug up within half a year!"

"Shi Lu leads the order!"

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Shi Lu, who cleared up the misunderstanding, met the rest of the Mohist elites under the leadership of Jian Yi. That afternoon, he took a group of craftsmen who were good at this technique under the protection of Jian Yi, and went to the place where the canal was built to investigate in detail. .

When Ziying saw Shi Lu again, it was already a week later. At this time, Shi Lu seemed to be a different person, with thick dark circles under his eyes, and his clothes were a little tattered by the thorns in the mountains.

Seeing Ziying, Shi Lu took out a roll of bamboo slips from his arms, spread them out on the table and said to Ziying, "Young man, fortunately, this is the best plan for opening the canal that I have been investigating for the past few days."

Hearing Shi Lu's words, Ziying immediately moved forward and watched carefully.

Speaking of which, Shi Lu's painting skills are really not bad. If he does not become a water conservancy engineer and switches to the art industry, he might be able to achieve something.

From Shi Lu's paintings, it can already be seen that if the canal is completed in the future, all directions will be clear.

After looking carefully, Ziying suddenly asked, "Why did you build the canal in such a crooked shape? Is it because of the underground rocks?"

Although Ziying didn't know much about water conservancy, according to the schematic diagram drawn by Shi Lu, the excavated canal was designed to wind around the small valley and connect the two rivers in a few circles.

"The giant doesn't know something. I checked it carefully and found that the water level of Lishui is much higher than that of Xiangshui, and our army needs to sail against the current from Hunan to Lishui, so I deliberately extended the length of the canal, so that the water flow It can be used slowly." Shi Lu explained.

As soon as Shi Lu said, Ziying also understood. It turned out that these twists and turns were deliberately designed, just like the current winding mountain road, to slow down the slope by stretching the length.

However, looking back on the Lingqu that I visited in later generations, it seems that there are not so many twists and turns.

Racking his brains and searching in his own mind, Ziying suddenly remembered how the later generation Lingqu solved this problem.

In the final analysis, the scheme adopted is very similar to the current ship lock. In places where the drop is large or the water flow is relatively turbulent, the corresponding piers and abutments are built on both sides of the canal. Make a frame with the same length and width as the steep gate, cross the middle of the frame with wooden bamboo poles as a support, and finally cover it with a layer of bamboo mat, so that a primitive sluice is completed.

Because the width of Lingqu is narrow, the width of the place chosen by Doumen is only about four to seven meters, which makes this plan possible. Although this original "sluice" cannot completely intercept the water flow, the control between the two sluices It is still possible to raise the water level to a certain extent depending on the amount of water entering and exiting.

In this way, the length of Lingqu can be greatly shortened, and the amount of work will be reduced accordingly.

According to the normal path of history, this structure first appeared on Lingqu in the Tang Dynasty, but because of the existence of Ziying, the structure of Doumen was destined to be born hundreds of years earlier.

(End of this chapter)