Daqin Engineering Corps

So early the next morning, the notice was posted one by one.

The gangsters were all locked in the prison van and drove to the street... There were more than [-] gangsters, and the prison van was lined up in a long line.

It is exactly this effect that Wang Jian wants, so as to intimidate those people who still have small thoughts.

In front of the convoy were hundreds of heavily armed Qin troops clearing the way. Soldiers from behind and behind beat gongs and shouted:

"Bandits doing evil, parading the streets to show the public!"

"Forbidden laws and regulations, self-report!"

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The team turned around three times on the main road of Handan City before escorting the prisoner to Caishikou.

Shen Bing didn't want to see this scene.

But because he and Zhang Xuan caught these bandits, they had to come in person.

That scene was scary enough:

Each batch of 30 people knelt, and [-] executioners stood in the rear, giving an order and swiping the bronze sword... Dozens of heads rolled down, and blood gushed out from the severed neck like a fountain.

Then another batch, and then another batch...it was like slaughtering cattle.

Soon the corpses were piled up into a hill, and the heads with various painful expressions on their faces were carried to the side in dill baskets, and then tied up with hemp ropes one by one and hung high.

This is the ancient "Xiao's head to show the public".

Usually it takes three days to hang up, just like when the Qin army judged the merits of the enemy first, it had to be verified by the public for three days.

This is not finished.

After a night of torture, these bandits confessed all the people who helped them.

Qin Lu talked about sitting together, so more than two thousand people were implicated in this arrest.

Fortunately, except for dozens of civilians who directly took in the bandits, the others were all used as hard labor.

But this is not "lucky", because what awaits them will be exhaustion, hunger and death.

Shen Bing couldn't bear it, after all, most of these people were only implicated, and quite a few of them didn't even know about it.

However, there was nothing he could do.

This is the rule of this era, if you want to survive, you can only follow it.

All Shen Bing can do is to launch another wave of "propaganda offensive".

This time the "propaganda offensive" has been slightly changed.

The same is to send food, but the content includes that suspicious situations must be reported in time, which is the so-called "accusation of rape".

Qin law stipulates that only by taking the initiative to report adultery can one be freed from being implicated in "sit together".

This is the two-pronged approach of Enwei and Wei, so it quickly had an effect... Soon, many gossips spread up layer by layer.

At the same time, when Shen Bing and others used the strategy of "leading the snake out of the hole" again, no common people would be fooled.

At this time, the common people also knew that this was Qin Jun's "fishing and law enforcement", and there was nothing to say if they were still fooled.

On the fifth day, Ying Zheng's approval document arrived in Handan from Xianyang.

As expected, Ying Zheng simply agreed to the tax cut proposal.

Ying Zheng has no reason to disagree:

The people's hearts are unstable and the army is insufficient. It is very likely that the three counties will be lost. Compared with this, a little less tax is nothing at all.

What's more, the reason why Yingzheng imposed heavy taxes before was because he hoped to collect more food next year.

Now that the severe drought has been cured, it can be expected to be a bumper year, so why bother yourself?

What Shen Bing didn't know was that Ying Zheng praised Shen Bing severely after he knew that Shen Bing had built a water truck and overturned it.

That was what Wang Jian said a few days ago when he reported the situation of the drought to Ying Zheng.

Wang Jian didn't specify the name, but only used "Pao Shi Gong Shi" as his substitute.

This is the practice of reporting to Xianyang, because it doesn't make much sense if the name of the little person is specific, and the king doesn't know which one it is.

But Ying Zheng understood.

"Gunner engineer? Isn't it Shen Bing?"

"Well, Shen Bing, you can not only make good things like stone mills, but also waterwheels and overturned carts."

"This solves the worries of the widows!"

Ying Zheng laughed while holding the bamboo slips.

He had hoped that Xu Ying could cure the drought before, but he didn't expect that Xu Ying didn't play a role, but Shen Bing solved the problem.

These days, Yingzheng is very worried about the matter of the three counties.

Grain transportation, drought, household registration, bandits, people's hearts...

Until this moment, he dared to breathe a sigh of relief, because the most important and difficult problem was solved.

Ying Zheng was right. Only when the drought improves will the people's hearts be stabilized, and then other problems will be solved.

Then Ying Zheng sighed:

"The waterwheel and overturned truck are not only benefiting the three counties."

"In the future, all Qin land can be used for farming with waterwheels and overturned carts."

"Why do the four kingdoms not perish?"

What Ying Zheng said is also true. You must know that according to the previous method of garrisoning the fields, Gaotian can only use clay pots to carry water.

But with a rollover, the water can be led up layer by layer and very quickly.

So no matter how high the field is, there is no need to worry about water use.

Where there is water, there is food.

Where there is food, we can fight.

Can fight... With the strength of Qin's army, do you still worry about not being able to defeat the four countries?

Thinking of Ying Zheng's joy, he asked Zhao Gao beside him:

"The scallion pancakes haven't been made yet?"

Zhao Gao hastened to apologize:

"Your Majesty, I have just gone to the dining room to ask."

"The imperial chef still doesn't know how to make the scallion pancake..."

Ying Zheng snorted:

"A bunch of trash!"

At the same time, I regretted it deeply.

When he left Handan, he only said that the scallion pancake was not difficult, and that if Shen Bing could do it, the imperial chef should be able to do it, so he didn't ask carefully about the method of making it.

I don't want to come back, no matter how hard the imperial chef tosses, I can't divide such a thin scallion pancake into several layers.

Although it is also crispy, the taste is much worse, and it does not have the unique fragrance made by Shen Bing.

Thinking of this, Ying Zheng sighed.

Handan is the place that brought him countless nightmares, and it is the place he hates.

If it weren't for revenge, Yingzheng would never have stepped into Handan.

However, at this time, he found that he missed Handan a little bit.

A few days later, another memorial came from Handan, which was for the tax reduction, and "cannon engineer" appeared again in it.

Ying Zheng couldn't help being stunned:

"This Shen Bing not only has superb wood skills, but also knows how to defend the city!"

"Talent."

"But I don't know what else this engineer can do?"

Then without thinking too much, he immediately agreed to reduce the tax and sent him back to Handan in an expedited eight hundred miles.

As soon as the tax cut news reached Wang Jian, he immediately announced it to the three counties.

This is like a reassurance that the people of the three counties will have a good life in the future.

Because everyone will calculate in their hearts:

The drought was cured and the Daitian method was used, and tax exemption will be allowed next year.

What needs to be paid is only the rent and tax of the leased grain, and it has been reduced to one of the twelve taxes.

Does that still need to be considered?

If we work hard to farm this year, there will definitely be a large amount of surplus grain next year.

The people take food as their god!

Coupled with another wave of "propaganda offensive" by Shen Bing.

Soon there was a trend of renting grain seeds for farmland in Handan, and grain seeds were in short supply again.

But of course that's a good thing.

Because the official fear is that the people have nothing to do.

Once the people have nothing to do or suffer from hunger, they will commit crimes and think about rebellion.

If everyone lives and works in peace and prosperity, whoever has enough to eat and has nothing to do will risk his life.

Chapter 99 使节

Only then did Shen Bing let go of his hanging heart.

These three counties can't get into chaos anymore, and since Daqin is governed by legalists, it won't take long for the three counties to get on the right track.

At this time, Shen Bing couldn't help sighing again:

It's really not easy to live in this time and space.

When there is a war, there are dangers, and when there is no war, there are dark tides.

If you keep playing like this, even if you don't die on the battlefield, you will be scared to death!

When Shen Bing had nothing to do, he checked with Ren and others at the gate of the city.

Of course, guarding the city gate is not that simple.

Ren and several armored personal guards led two teams of craftsmen to inspect the city gate, while Jian led fifty gunners and craftsmen to guard the top of the city.

This is still the first layer of gates.

The gate on the second floor was guarded by two hundred soldiers under Zhang Xuan's command.

Due to the shortage of manpower, even these soldiers, like gunners and craftsmen, repaired the city wall while defending the city.

This test is also interesting, it is not only to check the personal test, but also to step over the brazier at the gate of the city, and sometimes light wormwood to smoke it.

As for the carriage, it must be carefully roasted with a torch.

Shen Bing asked curiously: "Why is this?"

Ren replied:

"The engineers don't know that there is an epidemic in Taiyuan County. This is to prevent the epidemic from entering the city."

Shen Bing let out an "oh", and stared nervously at Ren when he came to his senses:

"What did you say? Epidemic?"

Ren replied:

"Workers don't need to be nervous."