Traveling through Great Qin: Father Qin Shihuang!

On the other hand, Ying Zheng also selected a suitable man from the Ministry of Industry and Xuanniaowei, and asked them to go to Jingshui to learn how to drive an excavator with Zhao Che.

On this day, Zheng Guo went to Xianyang Palace to ask to see Ying Zheng.

"Report to Your Majesty, I have determined the construction route and prepared the materials, but our current manpower is still insufficient."

"Then how many people can we recruit now?"

"Three thousand."

Zheng Guo has recruited all the prisoners in Xianyang, and that's how they got so many people.

As for the civilian husband, now is the critical moment of spring plowing, and it is impossible to choose this time even if he is serving corvee.

"Then how many people are still missing?"

"At least tens of thousands of people are needed, because the manpower still needs to undertake the transportation of soil and other work."

"The widow knows, you go down first."

Ying Zheng rubbed his forehead in distress. Where did he recruit so many people in such a short period of time?

After Zheng Guo left, Ying Zheng announced Meng Yi into the palace again.

"Meng Qing, what is the current progress of the two selected to learn excavators from Che'er?"

"Your Majesty, those two people are already able to get started, and they can operate the excavator to carry out relatively simple tasks such as mobile excavation."

"Prepare the carriage, the widow has to go and see for himself. By the way, there is a problem, and I have to go to Che'er to solve it."

Ying Zheng waved his hand and gave the order.

Not long after, the two of them had already returned to Jingshui in a carriage.

"Che'er, how is Dad learning from the people you sent over? Are you able to operate the excavator and start building the canal now?"

As soon as Ying Zheng entered, he asked the question he was most concerned about.

"Don't worry, Dad, my excavator is very easy to drive. Although the two of them are a bit stupid, they can barely get started now. As long as it is not too difficult to operate, they will be fine."

"That's good!"

Ying Zheng breathed a sigh of relief.

"By the way, Cher, this time I'm here, besides asking about this matter, I have another question I want to hear your opinion on."

"Father, tell me."

"It's still the problem of building canals. Although excavators can greatly improve the excavation efficiency, the dug out canals need to be rammed before they can be put into use. And this rammed earth requires manpower, let alone Other work like transporting soil..."

"I see, Dad, you are short of people, right?"

Just as Ying Zheng was halfway through his speech, Zhao Che interrupted him.

"That's right, there is indeed a shortage of people, and at least tens of thousands. I have sent people to recruit all the prisoners in Xianyang City, but I can barely make up more than 3000 people. The corvee workers here have to wait until The recruitment can only be done after the spring plowing, otherwise it is easy to cause trouble, please come up with a solution for me."

Hearing Ying Zheng's words, Zhao Che subconsciously touched his chin.

"The aspect of ramming and transportation is indeed a big trouble, but logically speaking, Daqin should not be short of manpower?"

"Lack, why not, there is a shortage of people everywhere now."

"Such a shortage of people? Then Qin Shihuang still wantonly used people's power to build the Great Wall, the imperial tomb, and the Afang Palace? This is too stupid."

"Ahem, cough, isn't that all in the past? The construction of the imperial mausoleum and Afang Palace has long since stopped."

Ying Zheng coughed twice and explained.

"Then transfer the people back. Isn't there enough people? Even if all the civilians are given a holiday, the criminals alone are enough, right?"

"The main reason is that it won't be able to be transferred in a short time. With so many prisoners, it is very complicated to transfer. If it is not handled properly, it will cause riots. Even if everything goes well, it will take several months to travel. .”

Ying Zheng spread his hands, why didn't he think of this method, but it was rejected as soon as he proposed it.

"If there is no one, then we can only start from the tools."

Zhao Che also shook his head, he really couldn't do anything about the lack of manpower, and he couldn't conjure people out of thin air.

"Is there any machinery like an excavator?"

Ying Zheng's eyes lit up, and he asked questions quickly.

"It's gone, and I don't need it, but I have something that can improve efficiency a little bit."

"Then what are you waiting for, take it out and have a look."

Faced with Ying Zheng's urging, Zhao Che shook his head helplessly, and then led him to the underground secret room again.

It's just that the room I entered this time is located in the front rooms.

Opening the door lock and lighting the candles inside, Ying Zheng saw all kinds of tools piled up in the corner.

"found it!"

Zhao Che rummaged for a while, and soon came out with a stone hammer.

"what is this?"

Ying Zheng took a look at the structure of the thing. Below it was a semicircular stone, which was cut very flat, and then a wooden stick was embedded in it. One end of the wooden stick was connected to the stone, and the other end was connected to a The crossbar can just be carried in the hand.

"This thing is called a ramming hammer. You should be able to understand it by looking at it. It is just holding the end of the handle, and then using the end connected to the stone to tamp the soil."

"So that's it. This tamping hammer doesn't look light, but it should be much easier to use than a Usuki stick."

As Ying Zheng said, he stepped forward and tried to lift the ramming hammer. Sure enough, it was not light.

However, Ying Zheng was still a little dissatisfied. After all, he had seen such a powerful, fully automatic large-scale machine as an excavator, and now Ying Zheng didn't think much of these small tools.

I have to say that Yingzheng's truth is a bit inflated.

"Che'er, this ramming hammer alone may not increase the efficiency much. If you have any good things, just take them out at once, so that I have to run back and forth, right?"

"Okay, let me think about it. It seems that there is something else. If it is combined with the ramming hammer, the efficiency should be improved a lot."

As Zhao Che said, he turned over and went into the debris pile to search again.

Not long after, he cleared away the sundries placed on top, and finally found what he wanted.

"Daddy, how about this thing?"

"This is?"

Ying Zheng looked puzzled, Zhao Che said that such a good thing is such a round stone?Isn't this bigger than a rammed earth hammer?

"This thing is called a stone roller. It has a handrail. When repairing the ground, you can use the stone roller to run it over first to make the ground much smoother and save a lot of effort."