The cattle followed the sheep, marching in neat lines toward the depths of the restricted area until they disappeared without a trace. Everyone was still standing there with their mouths wide open.
Including Ying Zheng.
Everyone was surprised by this scene that they had never seen before, and began to believe that there was really a god guarding here.
Ying Zheng was surprised that Yaizhen and Xi reacted so quickly. They probably smelled it when they drove the cattle and sheep out of the camp.
Ying Zheng took two steps forward, coughed slightly, and said, "Everyone."
Only then did everyone come back to their senses and turned to look at Ying Zheng.
"You have also seen with your own eyes that the cattle and sheep, as I said, have lined up and walked to the gods on their own. This means that the gods have accepted our sacrifices and allowed us to break ground here!" Ying Zheng raised his arms and shouted.
"good!"
"good!"
Everyone shouted in unison and looked happy.
It's certainly worth being happy to be able to break new ground. But if we don’t worship the mountain gods and we should build mountains, we will eventually build mountains.
What made them even happier was that they witnessed the strange behavior of cattle and sheep with their own eyes, which indirectly proved the existence of the mountain god.
But the problem was that they were worshiping the mountain god, and the sacrifices they gave were taken away by Jizhen.
Will the mountain god and Yaizhen fight?
No one can say for sure on this question.
However, in Ying Zheng's concept, Yasui is the mountain god of Lishan Mountain, just another name.
In everyone's concept, the mountain god is a heroic figure who is as tall as the mountain, tall and straight, fierce and powerful, with infinite strength, and holding a giant ax in his hand.
This is the difference between the informed and the uninformed.
This is also the difference between those in power and ordinary people.
Ordinary people will never know the truth of the matter, or all of it.
Moreover, you will also firmly believe that what you see and hear is correct.
From the time of Fuxi to the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, isn't this what they have done?
So Ying Zheng doesn't feel any guilt.
According to what Li Si said before, deceiving the people is also a political method.
Moreover, as a Heavenly Successor, you must also get rid of "foolishness", and you must be "foolish" well.
Because most of the secrets cannot be known to the world.
Everyone looked at Ying Zheng with burning eyes, as if they were paying homage to a god.
Ying Zheng continued to speak loudly: "With the blessings of the gods, the royal tombs will be completed and the Qin Dynasty will prosper!"
"The royal tomb will be completed!"
"Great Qin will surely prosper!"
Thousands of people shouted in unison.
"Okay!" Ying Zheng raised his arms and shouted, "I announce that the construction of the Lishan King's Tomb has officially started!"
"Long live, long live..." The soldiers and craftsmen were excited.
The final part of the ceremony was not completed. Under the auspices of Ouyang Zhuo, Ying Zheng completed the final steps.
After the worship ceremony was completed, Ying Zheng called Jing Fan to him and began to arrange the next step.
Jing Fan took out the finalized drawings and distributed the work.
Meng Tian ordered the soldiers to isolate the surroundings of the secret room to prevent it from being destroyed.
Ying Zheng also followed from east to west, but he just watched the excitement and didn't know how to criticize, which also allowed the craftsmen to be more free.
The sergeants renovated the temporary residence outside the secret room. After the scale is expanded, it will become the new Chinese army camp.
After the start of construction, three days passed before we knew it, and the infrastructure had been completed.
The entrance to the royal tomb has also been initially excavated. A high triangular pyramid-shaped iron frame has been erected above it, with a pulley hanging in the middle. It is used to put people inside or transport earth and stones outward. .
The work of excavation is mainly left to Meng Jiajun and the craftsmen of Jingjia class, who are responsible for making equipment and repairing it.
In the past few days, Ying Zheng followed the agreement with Yaizhen and arrived at the cave with Li Si every morning to meet with Yaizhen and Xi to report on the day's progress and new discoveries.
On this day, Ying Zheng was in the secret room checking the description and drawings of the terrain that had just been delivered to him. He saw Jing Fan hurrying into the secret room in a hurry and said in a hurry: "Your Majesty, there is news from the entrance that soldiers We want to
When digging down, we encountered very hard rock formations. No matter how hard we tried, we could not break these rock formations.
"Oh?" Ying Zheng said in surprise, "Let's go and take a look."
When I arrived at the entrance, I saw soldiers shaking the axles to transport the people under the well back to the ground.
Ying Zheng and Jing Fan came to the edge of the well and looked down.
Not long after, I saw a sergeant sitting on a circular wooden frame, being pulled up little by little.
After returning to the ground, I saw that the soldier's face was covered with dust and his body was covered with dirt.
Ying Zheng stepped forward to dust him off.
The soldier lowered his head, took off his hat, dusted his hat, and wiped his face.
When the cleaning was almost done, Ying Zhengcai asked, "What's going on down there?"
The soldier cupped his hands and said: "Back to the king, today we dug down according to the pattern, but we only dug to a depth of less than two feet before touching the rock formation. But the strange thing is that this rock formation is extremely strong, no matter how hard it is to cut with an axe, , or hammered with an iron chisel, they are all intact, not even a single piece has fallen off.”
"Oh? There is such a thing?" Ying Zheng said in surprise.
Jing Fan looked at the entrance of the cave, then turned back and said, "Your Majesty, please wait a moment, I will go down to see what's going on."
Ying Zheng nodded and said, "Be careful."
Jing Fan nodded and got into the circular wooden frame.
The soldiers lifted the wooden frame and put it into the well, then shook the wheel axle and lowered Jing Fan down.
Ying Zheng turned back to a soldier and said, "Go and find Mr. Tingwei."
"Yes." The soldier handed over his hands and turned to look for Li Si.
Ying Zheng came to the edge of the cave entrance, squatted down and looked down, but he could only see the faint firelight reflected from below.
Not long after, Li Si came to the well with two craftsmen.
"Your Majesty, I already know the situation," Li Si said.
"What do you think, sir?" Ying Zheng asked.
Li Si looked at the entrance of the cave and said, "According to the plan, we originally wanted to build an underground house here to store tools and allow the soldiers to rest temporarily. Now it seems that we can only determine the area of this rock formation. and thickness before making a decision.”
"Yes." Ying Zheng said, "Jing Fan has been down for a while, let's wait until he comes up."
Li Si looked at the two craftsmen behind him and said, "You guys should go down too and give Leader Jing a try."
"Okay!" The two craftsmen responded and went down the well one after another.
After waiting for a while, I finally saw the rope connecting the bottom shaking. This was a signal to pull the people below up.
The soldiers began to shake the wheel axle.
Not long after, Jing Fan was pulled up.
"Your Majesty," Jing Fan said as he dusted off the dust, "I saw it and it is indeed as I said before, but..."
"But what?" Ying Zheng asked anxiously.
"But why do I feel like this rock seems familiar?" Jing Fan said.
"Seems familiar?" Ying Zheng asked in surprise, "Where have you seen it before?"
Jing Fan thought for a moment and then said: "Wei Chen is not sure, but please think about it, Your Majesty, what is so hard that even if it is chopped with a knife or an ax it won't leave any trace."
Ying Zheng and Li Si looked at each other and saw each other's guesses.
"Could it be that..." Ying Zheng couldn't believe his own judgment.
"Is it an alloy?" Li Si continued Ying Zheng's words.
"How is this possible?" Jing Fan said in disbelief, "If the alloy buried underground is made of alloy, how much would it cost? It is similar to a rock formation, and the thickness is unknown."
Li Si thought for a moment and said, "If it's an alloy, it's not impossible."
"How do you say this?" Ying Zheng asked in confusion.
"Your Majesty, think about it," Li Si analyzed, "have we missed anything about the legend of the Yellow Emperor here?"
"Legend?" Ying Zheng turned sideways and stomped back and forth a few steps, thinking about the legends he had heard about the Yellow Emperor's place here.
"That's right." Li Si was not worried about the presence of outsiders here and said slowly, "This legend has it that Wei Chen once gave the king
It has been said that after the Yellow Emperor understood the "Huangdi Sutra", he decided not to kill anymore and destroyed all his weapons. Then he only kept a handful and stored it in the secret room. The king found it. Bar. "
"Yes, it was in that secret room that I found that 'my weapon'. It was the ancient magic weapon from the Jing family class." Ying Zheng said.
"Your Majesty found this place because he found a tortoise shell inscription commemorating the divine weapon 'My Weapon' in Qishan Mountain, right?" Li Si asked.
"Yes, many people have seen those tortoise shells and animal bones." Ying Zheng said.
Although the tortoise shell and animal bones did depict the road map to get here, Ying Zheng did not find this place by relying on the records on it.
Of course this cannot be said.
Jing Fan, who was at the side, also nodded and said, "Yes, the Jing family class knows these things best."
"That means that these ancient legends are probably true?" Li Si asked.
Although Ying Zheng was speechless about Li Si's habit, he still nodded and said, "These legends are very consistent with my experience, and they should be true."
"Okay." Li Si paused and said, "If these legends are true, have you ever thought about it, the king and everyone else, if the Yellow Emperor really destroyed all the 'I' weapons' back then, then the destroyed ones 'My weapons' will not all disappear, but should be smelted into many alloys, so where did these alloys go?"
"!!"
A word awakens the dreamer.
Yes, if the so-called "my weapon" is destroyed, then only the shape of the magic weapon should be destroyed, and the materials should still be there.
"Sir, what you mean is that the smelted alloy raw materials should be placed where they were destroyed, that is, right here?" Ying Zheng asked with a twitching corner of his mouth.
"And the so-called rock formations in the well are the alloy raw materials that were stored here after being smelted?" Jing Fan asked in surprise.
"It's very...possible." Li Si said in a long tone.
"Hahaha..." Jing Fan said with great joy, "If this is true, then there is no need to spend so much time searching for minerals!"
Although Ying Zheng was also happy, he still asked with some caution: "This matter cannot be ambiguous. Sir, is there a way to confirm it?"
Li Si smiled and replied: "The king has already used this method of identifying raw materials very freely."
"The Point Guard Is Here"
"Sir, are you talking about...Xuan Tie Luo?" Ying Zheng asked.
Li Si raised the corners of his mouth slightly and nodded slightly.
Jing Fan echoed from the side: "Yes, the black iron snail has already marked the properties of the alloy. If the king uses the black iron snail to detect it, he will definitely be able to verify the authenticity."
Ying Zheng sighed softly: "It's a pity that I gave the black iron snail to Meng Yi and asked him to explore the minerals. At this time, I don't know where he is."
At this moment, a voice suddenly came from the direction of the secret room: "Your Majesty, look who is coming."
Ying Zheng and others looked up and saw that it was Meng Tian who was speaking, and next to him were Sima Hong, Meng Yi, and Tian Yi.
Ying Zheng was overjoyed and hurried forward to greet him.
The three of them paid homage to King Qin one after another.
Ying Zheng quickly asked: "Why are you here suddenly?"
Sima Hong cupped his hands and said: "Back to the king, we mined several minerals. After Meng Yi's appraisal, they were rare minerals, so we escorted them back to Xianyang. In the Meng Mansion, I heard General Meng say that the king ordered us to I came to Lishan, so I rushed over."
"Just come." Ying Zheng said happily, "Meng Yi, did you bring the Xuantieluo?"
Meng Yi nodded, knowing that Ying Zheng attached great importance to Xuan Tie Luo, so of course he did not dare to neglect it. He quickly opened the bag he was carrying and took out the Xuan Tie Luo.
Ying Zheng placed the compass on the ground, skillfully changed the state of the black iron snail, and then adjusted it to the position where the alloy was confirmed.
The black iron snail started spinning as usual.
Sima Hong and others were curious as to why Ying Zheng was so eager, but they did not ask. They just watched the pointer of the rotating black iron snail gradually stop in the direction of the well.
"It seems that it is really an alloy." Li Si said calmly.
