Since the conquering Baiyue, Xianyang City has not had a large-scale military mobilization for more than a year. Except for the emperor's occasional out-of-city patrols, it was basically very peaceful.

Since Qinghe Hou left Xianyang, Emperor Shi basically stayed in the palace and never came out, and it was even more impossible to leave the city. Emperor Tianshi had no place to go to such a hot place. I heard that every day he went to court to handle state affairs, and then practiced Taiyi Divine Musket in the palace, or read books and meditated to practice Qi, and his life was in a mess.

"Don't look at it first. If something big happens, a decree will definitely come later. Hurry up and work!" An official from the Ministry of Works climbed onto the wooden boat and said loudly.

"Yes, keep working..." The group of people shouted and continued to be busy. Soon half an hour passed by. Just when everyone could not bear it and stopped to rest again, several fast horses galloped from the south gate of the city. Several officials in official uniforms on the horse hurriedly jumped off the horse's back and ran over excitedly, shouting, "Good news, good news, people are here!"

"Who is coming?" The group of people who were taking off their clothes and hats and drinking jelly were all confused.

"Didao Hou conquered the Great Yuezhi in the Western Regions in February and escorted back more than 10,000 strong prisoners. Now he has arrived outside the Ximen City. His Majesty has arranged for Feng Xiang to lead his colleagues from three provinces and six ministries to welcome him. How many prisoners are there? The reconstruction and expansion of the two docks in the east and south of the city will inevitably have sufficient personnel..." Several officials who came explained in a verbal manner.

"Hey, the relationship is good. I just said that there is not enough manpower!" Hu Kuan was overjoyed when he heard this. He stopped drinking ice noodles. He grabbed his hat and asked his subordinates to bring the horse over.

"Director Hu is so impatient. Just wait until tomorrow morning to ask the Ministry of Slaughter and Works to submit a memorial to request the dispatch of personnel..."

"Da, you can't get a single hair tomorrow. Now the entire Qin Dynasty is like a large construction site, with manpower everywhere. If you throw it away, you can't even see a splash. President Zhang will go with me and try to get the people out before these prisoners are thrown to the Ministry of Revenue!" Hu Kuan was already on his horse as he spoke.

"What President Hu said is that Cang is quite familiar with the official secretary of the household registration. Maybe some of the tidying can be done in advance!" Zhang Cang also quickly threw down the pottery bowl and stood up.

"Not bad, the Marquis once said that the moon will be the first to get close to the water. If we can't grab the people under our noses, we deserve to die of heat every day!" A group of officials all jumped up and shouted to go with them. So soon more than ten people rode their horses to the west of the city. When the manager on the dock saw that the officials had run away, he also let a group of exhausted prison slaves go to the shade of the tree to drink water and rest.

Outside the west of the city is a large open space without a tree covering it.

At this time, the scorching sun was hanging high, and under the strong sunlight, two thousand neatly armored but almost hot, Western military pawns were escorting more than 10,000 ragged prisoners of the Great Yuezhi, who were all gathered in the open space.

These prisoners were both men and women, each with pale and thin face, either bare-handed or worn-out fur, and had a undressed face like a group of refugees from the famine era.

Xianyang City is majestic and towering, with black walls standing ten feet high, and with towering buildings, the indestructible momentum suppressing the entire Guanzhong land like a divine palace from heaven.

Xianyang City does not feel anything in Xianyang people, just like people living in villas who never feel that their homes are spacious enough, and they feel like they are used to watching every day. But for the more than 10,000-year-old prisoners of the Great Yuezhi, this is a miracle they have never seen in their lives. Therefore, most of the prisoners have knelt on the ground and started to bow to the giant city. Around the city, you can see countless hanging towers made of giant trees swaying back and forth, as if they are still building taller buildings.

"Woooo~" Accompanied by the sound of cow horns on the city tower and the whistling black dragon flag, countless imperial guards wearing armor and holding sharp edges rushed to the city wall and were ready for battle.

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang~"

As a sound of gongs roaring out from the city, the people who were coming to see the fun quickly dispersed. A long list of luxurious four-wheeled carriages came out from the west gate, and the leader was two in four-bridle carriages, which were right prime minister Feng Quji and censor Meng Yi.

With the arrival of this long string of carriages, a green horse from the Western Army escorted out of the crowd. A mighty general with a helmet and armor on the back of the horse was Li Xin, the Marquis of Didao.

"Haha, Mr. Didao is fine. We are late to welcome him, so please atone for your sins!" The door of the carriage that stopped was quickly opened by the guards. Feng Quji and Meng Yi got out of the carriage and bowed to meet him one after another.

"Xin has met Xiang Feng and Doctor Meng!" Li Xin also jumped off the horse and strode forward to greet him and bowed with his fists.

"After leaving for several years, Dudao Hou is still mighty. Your Majesty ordered us to come and welcome the triumphant army. The weather is hot, so we should go into the city and talk about it slowly. Let us leave it to the Ministry of War to arrange the disposal. Please~"

The two sides only had a few words to say when they met, so Feng Quji decided to go to the city to find a cool place to communicate.

"Yes, it's extremely hot in recent days. Didao Hou first entered the city to hand over the military order and went to my husband's villa swimming pool to take a bath later..." Meng Yi also nodded repeatedly from the side.

A group of people are all top nobles in the Qin Dynasty and have been familiar with each other for a long time, so they speak more casually.

Although the Qin Dynasty has not had much foreign war in recent years, this attack on the Dayuezhi also played a huge role in maintaining peace in the Western Regions, it was just a tribe of more than 100,000 people. The Dayuezhi was not a regional power and was not worthy of the First Emperor's personal greeting from the city.

Moreover, Meng Yi and Feng Quji knew that Emperor First Emperor was unhappy with the Western Army's reselling enamel equipment. Although he arranged for civil and military ministers to go out of the city to greet him, he did not even send out a formal welcome and commendation order, so he obviously wanted to let Li Xin and others go.

Li Xin didn't wait for the order from the First Emperor, so he was naturally worried. After hearing the two bigwigs say it carefully, clasping their fists and whispering: "Xin still wants to go to the palace to pay homage to Your Majesty first..."

"Don't use it. Your Majesty has asked the palace servants to pass the message. Marquis Di Dao first hand over the prisoners and military orders, and then he can return home to rest. After the Western Regions military affairs are returned, we will discuss together!" Feng Quji directly interrupted Li Xin's words.

"Ah?!" Li Xin's body shook slightly, and his skin was pale in an instant.

"Oh, Didaohou, don't blame me for being too talkative. Your Majesty is very dissatisfied with the matter of enamel equipment. Let's go, go and enter the city first to welcome you. It's not too late to say it later!"

Feng Quji sighed slightly with a depressed expression, and then he called the officials from the three provinces and six ministries behind him to meet Li Xin. Then the government offices went according to the previous regulations for accepting prisoners. Two thousand Western military patrols were arranged by the Ministry of War to station in nearby military camps. The Ministry of Revenue dispatched food, grass, fish, wine and other rewards to the army. The remaining more than 10,000 Dayuezhi prisoners were all taken over by the Ministry of Revenue. After registering, they were sold as slaves or as work slaves. These were not what Li Xin should do.

After a great victory in the Western Army, the bustling of prisoners returning to the capital disappeared before it even began. Tens of thousands of people in Xianyang who were inquiring about the fun were unaware of the trick, but there were also well-informed people among the people. Soon it began to be reported that the reason why His Majesty did not like the Western Army's prisoners was because the Western Army secretly reselled more than 10,000 sets of enamel equipment...

The movements of the court have always been a hot topic of folk discussion, and the attitude of the First Emperor is a topic of relish among all classes. Now that the Hou of Qinghe is no longer in Xianyang, the people of Xianyang also instantly found that the lively atmosphere in Xianyang seemed to have dropped by several levels. They were secretly guessing how the Hou of Qinghe would face it after knowing this. After all, it was Qinghe Hou's suggestion that the Hou was Qinghe Hou's proposal, and the court spent a lot of money, but unexpectedly, it was such an ending.

But not everyone is interested in the intrigue politics of the court. For example, the straight men from the Department of Science and Technology of the Academy of Sciences and the School of Technology of the Academy of Sciences do not care whether Li Xin will be spanked by the First Emperor on the ground. What they care about is this group of prisoners.

Before leaving, the Hou of Qinghe painted such a big cook cake for Emperor Shi and the people of the whole country, more than ten memorial books, hundreds of projects of all sizes, and most of the tasks would eventually fall on the heads of the Ministry of Works and the Academy of Sciences.

Faced with Qinghehou's plan to smooth the way, a group of map experts from the Academy of Sciences are still speeding up the production of sand tables, and a large number of civil and architectural and surveying and design engineers have already set off on-site surveys across the country.

As long as the survey is completed, the next step is to invest in investment and start large-scale construction.

But any project construction requires enough manpower, besides money, in this era without large-scale machinery and equipment, people are the main body of construction, building the Great Wall, building roads, building palaces, building tombs, mining and iron smelting, all projects are piled up bit by bit with manpower and material resources, without any possibility of taking shortcuts.

However, after the emergence of Qinghehou, the cement and new steel smelting technology invented, and the structure and methods of the building have also undergone earth-shaking changes. In particular, with concrete, not only can we build taller and stronger buildings, but the construction speed is also greatly accelerated. However, no matter how convenient and fast it is, manpower has always been the most important factor that any project cannot avoid.
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