Daqin Engineering Corps

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Carriers are responsible for making and maintaining means of transport, such as horse-drawn carriages, and building roads and bridges.

The siege division is to make siege equipment other than cannons, such as siege ladders, rams, etc.

It is said that the artillery division was also part of the attacking division before.

Later, because the cannon can be used to attack and defend, it is not just "siege". On the other hand, the cannon is much more complicated than other siege equipment, so it became independent and formed a division.

In addition, there is a defense division, which is mainly responsible for making defensive equipment, such as lapping stones, rolling logs, horse-repelling guns, and tripping ropes.

Before that, the most powerful one was the attacker.

This may be related to the main attack of the Qin army, and the siege ladders and car crashes made by the siege division are directly related to the life and death of soldiers.

Therefore, the attacking division has always been the highest status and the best treatment among the engineers.

It's different now.

Under the leadership of Shen Bing, the artillery division made outstanding achievements repeatedly, breaking cities and building bridges, various promotions and promotions.

Among them is Jinjue.

It is a big deal to have a few officials in the ordinary engineering army, and few of them have made meritorious service to be promoted to the top.

However, the artillery division was promoted to noble ranks twice because of collective merit, so it went up and down everywhere. I want to sharpen my head and squeeze in.

Not long ago, there were still many craftsmen who wanted to find some reason to transfer to the artillery division.

But now they don't need to do this, because Shen Bing has become a stingy man. In the future, it will not be based on the artillery division but on the control of all the engineers.

This is also one of the reasons why the higher the title, the harder it is to promote. The higher the rank, the more soldiers you lead, so the credit is more likely to be diluted.

Therefore, the strangers who came to congratulate each other were not all hypocrisy... Shen Bing, a new official, took office, and of course these engineers had to come to get acquainted.

Besides, thinking that the future credits will be more and more due to Shen Bing, can they not be happy?

This one is called Pu, that one is called Cu, and the other is called a debt... Did you give birth to this child when you owed someone money?

Qin people's naming is simple, but hard to remember!

A lot of people took turns to introduce Shen Bing and didn't remember a few, but Shen Bing did remember Zuo Yufu's name: Meng Liang.

This is what Hui told Shen Bing, because there was only one vacant job but no one was seen.

This is okay?Shen Bing just needs an assistant to take care of the chores around him, yet he still has a vacant job? !

1 Chapter Twenty

Shen Bing didn't think much, turned his head and asked the guards to find Zuo Yufu.

Unexpectedly, after a while, the guards ran back and reported:

"I'm sorry for the miser, my subordinates were blocked and never saw Zuo miser."

Shen Bing couldn't get angry when he heard it.

What a big shelf!

If Zuo Yufu rides on his head as soon as he takes office, will he still be messed up in the future?

Immediately, he took a few personal guards and Ren together and went aggressively to find someone to question him.

Hearing the sound of a musical instrument from a distance, followed the sound to find a tent and found that there were at least fifty personal guards around him, Shen Bing was stunned...

what's the situation?

This stingy man has only five personal guards, but this Zuo stingy man has fifty personal guards?

Ren probably knew better, so he stepped forward to stop Shen Bing and whispered:

"Small be safe and don't get bored."

"There will be such a ostentatious person who is either rich or noble, this Zuo miser is afraid that he went to the army to receive his merits!"

Shen Bing frowned and asked:

"Cheng Gong?"

Ren explained:

"Just hang up a vacant position and don't work hard, just go back and inherit the title when the credit is enough!"

Shen Bing let out an "oh".

Shang Yang's reform stipulated that the children of nobles could not inherit the titles of their parents without making military achievements, nor could they enjoy privileges.

This law will create a group of people who are vacant.

In fact, Shen Bing thinks that this system is a little too strong.

Shang Yang is simply one size fits all for the sake of fairness.

But it is obvious that military officers such as Wang Jian, Yang Duanhe and others, their descendants can easily do this.A military attache has experience, inheritance, tradition, resources and connections.

But if it is a civil servant who has no power to restrain a chicken, their children will be swaying with words and ink from the womb...Where do you want them to make military achievements?

Put on armor and go to war like ordinary people?

It's just that after a few battles, the military exploits did not get people, but they were gone.

So how many children do you have to have if someone wants to inherit the title of civil servant, and they must be male?

As a result, a considerable number of descendants of civilian officials took up vacant positions in the military camps to "receive meritorious service".

Among them, logistics units that do not need to go directly to the battlefield, such as engineers, are a favorite.

The Xianyang side also knew about this, but this is part of the law's imperfection. If it is really strict, I am afraid that no one will be employed as a civil servant, so they can only turn a blind eye.

At this time, Meng Liang, the left miser, was probably just such a civil servant, and he was able to carry fifty bodyguards with him in the army, so he must have a good fortune.

Shen Bing didn't care about this much, he stepped forward and opened the tent.

During this time, the guard wanted to stop him, but Ren stopped him and shouted:

"The miser came here to find the miser Zuo to discuss something important, who would dare to stop him?"

When the guard heard this, he didn't dare to move, he just bowed his hand and stepped aside.

This is really ironic. It seems that he still needs to report when he comes to find his subordinates?

After entering the door, the sound became even louder. A person in the middle was beating a musical instrument with a bamboo ruler, making a beautiful and rich sound.

Only later did Shen Bing know that it was called "Zhu", a very popular musical instrument during the Warring States period, and even Ying Zheng enjoyed it.

On the other side is a desk, and on the other side is a young man wearing a crown, with wine utensils and side dishes beside him. He is enjoying the music with half-closed eyes while tapping the desk gently in rhythm, as if intoxicated. Among them, Shen Bing and others didn't even notice when they came in.

Shen Bing let out a "hmm".

The music stopped suddenly, and the young man suddenly saw Shen Bing and the others standing in front of him but was taken aback, almost fell to the ground, and then pretended to be calm but asked with a panicked expression:

"Who is coming..."

Before he finished asking, he breathed a sigh of relief:

"So it's Engineer Shen, I've looked up to him for a long time!"

Shen Bing was a little strange:

"You recognize me?"

The young man stood up, cupped his hands and said with a smile:

"The engineer was joking."

"Shen Bing, the artillery engineer, has long been known to the entire army, how can I, Meng Liang, not know?"

Ren interjected from the side:

"The left stinger should not be called an engineer, but a stingy man!"

Meng Liang looked puzzled:

"Coward?"

Then I was overjoyed:

"You mean...the engineer is already a coward?"

"Wonderful and wonderful!"

Then he yelled again:

"Oh, that's not good! That fellow Chen Kui..."

Shen Bing was a little confused by Meng Liang's surprise.

Ren Dai replied:

"Chen Kui has been transferred back to Xianyang."

Meng Liang bowed his hands to Shen Bing in embarrassment, and explained:

"Master... No, the miser laughed."

"Meng Liang used a few taels of silver before to let Chen Wei hang me under the name of the artillery master. I don't want to..."

Shen Bing couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this, it turned out that this guy still had this idea!

Then Meng Liang became happy again:

"But it doesn't make much difference now."

"With a stingy man sitting here, why should we worry about not having military merits?"

"Come on, stingy man, please take your seat. Meng Liang will toast you three cups first, and congratulate the stingy man on being promoted to rank!"

As he spoke, he gave up his seat and poured wine courteously, like an old friend reunited after a long absence.

This made Shen Bing a little uncomfortable, just now he wanted to bring someone to give this Zuo miser a blow... I didn't expect the painting style to become like this!

After a few glasses of wine, Shen Bing said bluntly:

"If Mr. Zuo loses his vacant post, then the military affairs..."

Before Shen Bing finished speaking, Meng Liang slapped his chest and said:

"Good talk good talk!"

"If it's that Chen Wei, I don't bother to talk to him."

"Now that Mr. Shen is here, of course he doesn't dare to neglect!"

"What matters in the future, the miser can just order."

"Even if Meng Liang can't handle it, the guards under control are still at his disposal!"

Shen Bing: ...

I thought it was a difficult job to serve, but I didn't expect it to be done so easily.

Not only was it done, but fifty more personal guards were assigned?

Is it real?