[Infrastructure] After being mistaken for a god
Chapter 55 2800 BC
Inan and Gilgamesh's second meeting is about to break up.
Although Inan had a great time with Hakish and one lion, she didn't like Gilgamesh who went out to "walk the cat" without keeping the "cat leash".
When Gilgamesh saw that such a little peasant as Inan, he turned his face down as soon as he saw him. His heart that had opened his mouth to explain, disappeared at this moment.
He had already thought about apologizing to Yi Nan, and explaining that Hakesh was indeed behaving abnormally today—this little lion had never lost his composure in front of people before.
But the other party wasn't injured, and Hakesh didn't really cause trouble, why...why should Wang Lai apologize?
Therefore, Gilgamesh looked at Inan's flawless face, and his mouth was hardened. What he originally wanted to say and soft words turned into a bluff: "Who are you? Why are you here? ... You still don't go?" Work?"
Yi Nan smiled and said nothing, she believed that someone would come to help her answer these questions.
Sure enough, an official from Uruk ran over with his robe in his hand. Seeing Hakish, a lion cub breathing beside the king, he was too frightened to approach, and said loudly, "My king should know that Enki was sent to this place by your order yesterday." The team came. But you didn't tell him what to do, and I didn't dare to arrange it myself, so he... just had nothing to do for a while."
Gilgamesh raised his head proudly, and said coldly, "So you are doing nothing... No wonder my Hakesh came to play with you."
Everyone was stunned there, they all saw the dangerous situation just now, and many people had already mourned silently for this thin and weak man in their hearts - the king of dare love thought that the lion was just playing around!
However, this skinny young man had his own magic. Hakesh slapped him several times, but he was fine, and his oily skin was not broken at all.No wonder Wang would transfer him out of the ordinary civilian husband team.
Therefore, the craftsmen, technicians and logistics officials in this group all stretched out their thumbs and sincerely praised: "Gao, Wang's ability to see people is really high!"
Yinan: ...
Gilgamesh's face was slightly relaxed, but it didn't become more tense after all.He already felt that he could save face, so he lowered his eyes and looked down at Yi Nan: "So it's you."
"I remember that you are strong, so come with me." Gilgamesh continued.
In the blink of an eye, the "episode" between Yi Nan and the little lion Hakesh just now is considered to be over.The craftsmen and technicians rushed back to their posts immediately, and the logistics officials also thought that the errands of "Enkidu" were personally arranged by Wang Lai, so they turned around and went to other things.
What reappeared in front of Inan and Gilgamesh was still the clockwork-like fortification site that kept moving forward at an unchanging rhythm—of course, in this era, "clockwork" has not yet been invented.
Gilgamesh routinely patrolled, and Inan accompanied him silently.
Gilgamesh didn't understand at all, why the little lion Hakesh, who was always by his side and always walked with the same style as him, was now so tired and sticky, and always followed the skinny boy beside him. Little man.
"Your name is 'Enkidu,' right?" Gilgamesh asked.
Yinan said "hmm" and said, "You can call me 'Duo'."
Gilgamesh puffed out his chest and said solemnly, "You should answer like this, 'King, you can call me Duo'."
When he turned his head, he saw Yi Nan secretly suppressing a smile when he heard what he said.
Gilgamesh gritted his teeth secretly, really wanting to yell "Don't laugh", but when he thought about it, as the king of Uruk, why would he have the same knowledge as a little man who just arrived in Uruk from afar?
So he coughed twice, and continued to move forward: "Duo, I will show you the wonderful skills of the Uruk builders."
Gilgamesh pointed to a tool in use—a gigantic wheel standing vertically on a stand.Long, thick ropes are attached to the wheels, and as the wheels turn, these ropes are slowly retracted, dragging a weight on the other end of the rope.
Yi Nan: "Oh, the winch!"
Gilgamesh:……!
Unexpectedly, this little man from a foreign country has a lot of knowledge.
Inan continued: "Eridu already had winches more than 2000 years ago. Why, did Uruk just start using them?"
Gilgamesh immediately said loudly: "No way - Uruk too, winches have been used more than 2000 years ago!"
I don't know if the weather is too hot, but Gilgamesh's forehead is sweating a little.Of course he knew that the winch had existed more than 2000 years ago when the shepherd king Dumuzi was alive, but the question is, why did the young man beside him know so clearly?He even knew that the winch actually appeared in Eridu first?
It seems that you really can't underestimate this pretty-faced little man.
Gilgamesh didn't dare to show Inan any tools with simple craftsmanship. He said, "Come and see this crane!"
"Crane?" Yinan was really interested. When she saw the tall crane earlier, she wanted to see what happened. Although these "large" machines are completely different from those of later generations, this is already the beginning of her "re-imagining" Since the Civilization Project, I have seen the tallest artificial machine.
Another small crane is also very interesting: Although this era is more than 2000 years earlier than Archimedes' "give me a fulcrum, and I can pry up the earth", people seem to have begun to apply the principle of leverage.
Now seeing Gilgamesh's appearance of wanting to show off, Inan felt that it was in his arms, so he pretended to be obedient: "Okay, king, tell me about the crane!"
Gilgamesh was immediately happy, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he put on a posture for a detailed introduction: "The boom on this crane is made of the hardest oak that can be found, and a piece of wood is placed between it and the bracket below. There is a huge copper shaft that allows the arm to turn left and right. There is another type of crane, the arm can move up and down, which can pry the heaviest boulders from the pier, so that workers can add rolling logs under the stones, and the boulders can be lifted. pushed on the log..."
He blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
In this way, it seems that he, the king of Uruk, is taking orders from a small peasant?
But Inan stood beside Gilgamesh, listening with unusual concentration, nodding as he listened to show that she understood everything.Gilgamesh saw her side face full of curiosity, after all, he didn't stop there, but continued in one breath——
Unexpectedly, Yi Nan dared to ask a question after he finished his explanation: "The theory is that the longer the force arm at one end of the suspension heavy object, the less effort the person operating the crane will have. Has Wang ever considered that on the copper shaft of the crane? How about adding a copper rail to adjust the length of the moment arm?"
Gilgamesh was completely speechless.
So you know everything!
I spent so much time explaining it to you, yet you actually ask me these things in turn?
But I don't know if it was because he was eager to win, but he continued to say what Yi Nan said: "All the craftsmen and technicians in Uruk know what you said."
"Oh?" Yi Nan turned his head, looking at Gilgamesh with a pair of big clear eyes, which actually encouraged him to continue talking.
Gilgamesh was really encouraged: "The craftsman used many oak trunks of different lengths to make arms, and we can change them to lift heavy objects of different weights..."
He didn't realize it until the long words were finished, and his face turned dark immediately—this kid's expression, where is he asking for advice?He was "encouraging" himself to continue talking, he was "encouraging"!
He is the king of Uruk, does he need a little man to "encourage" him?
"Let's not talk about that." Gilgamesh decisively decided to change the subject, "Let Wang Lai find you an errand, you are very strong, and you must have a place to use it..."
Unexpectedly, the little man next to him was so alive, he continued to ask: "Does the king know that there was an accident on the construction site yesterday, and a part of the city wall collapsed?"
Gilgamesh continued to be black-faced: This kid doesn't open any pots and lifts any pots.
"Know……"
He didn't know where his patience came from, but he actually explained to the other party: "The section of the city wall that collapsed was built during the period of King Lugabanda... There is something wrong with the foundation."
Lugabanda is also the king of the Sumerian King List, and if Inan remembers correctly, Lugabanda was the father of Gilgamesh.
It turns out that during the period of Lugabanda, the city wall of Uruk had already begun to be built?
Yi Nan did know that there was a problem with Uruk's city wall.Later generations of archaeologists have learned from the analysis of thousands of clay tablet texts excavated from the Mesopotamia that Uruk lacks stone and wood, and the city walls are completely built with clay bricks and mud.Later, during the war between the Sumerians and the Akkadians, the Akkadians once dug a hole outside the city wall of Uruk. As long as they dug in front of the city wall, the city wall could collapse.
Now it seems that this problem has been discovered in the time of Gilgamesh?
But Gilgamesh continued to defend himself: "That section of the wall was the first section of the Uruk city wall. The newly built wall will use a large number of stones as the foundation of the wall, so there will be no more problems like this... "
When he said this, there was indeed some moral pressure. After all, there were civilian casualties in the project he presided over, but he blamed his father Lugabanda.
Unexpectedly, the little peasant beside him opened his mouth and continued to ask: "Do you know how many civilians were injured or injured yesterday?"
Gilgamesh choked for a moment, for he knew it—the officials in charge of personnel affairs in Uruk would report this figure to him every night: how many civilians Uruk needs to recruit from other small city-states, and to whom? How many pensions the city-state sends, how manpower is allocated, how logistics are prepared... are all closely related to this number.
There are casualties every day, which is a cruel fact, but it is also inevitable-unless he Gilgamesh does not repair the city wall.
"I know—" Gilgamesh almost squeezed these three words out between his teeth.
"Then, have all the walls built during the late king's time been checked for safety?"
Gilgamesh:……?
"Is there any new instruction given to the folks approaching or using the old wall foundation? Ask them to implement safe work procedures?"
"Under the premise that the accident has already occurred, is the working environment of the peasants a little bit better today than yesterday?"
"Is everyone safer today than yesterday? Or not?"
Perhaps these questions should be asked by the officials in charge of the project, but now, this little man directly asked the young king of Uruk all at once.
Gilgamesh: ...are you teaching the king what to do?
The young peasant man beside him turned his head, looked at him very seriously, and said, "You are the king of Uruk, and building a sanitation city wall for Uruk will be a great achievement in your name forever." , you will naturally make great achievements in the future..."
He stretched out a slender arm from the old woolen robe on his body, and pointed to the laborers in the distance: "But what about them? They were born of parents just like you, why should they bear these things?" suffering?"
Gilgamesh's fire came out of nowhere.
He thought he had done better than others—he did not directly conscript slaves like the previous king or the consuls of other city-states, and all the peasants enjoyed quite superior treatment in Uruk.
There were indeed casualties in the project, but he has ordered officials to do their best to provide compensation and compensation.
Moreover, no one has ever dared to point to those ordinary people who are working in the distance in front of him, tell him that those people are the same as him, and then question him, why do those people have a different fate from him?
Where does he know?
When he was born, Lugabanda announced to the world that Gilgamesh, two-thirds of the gods and one-third of the people, was born and destined to be the king of Uruk!
At this moment, the guilt and apology in Gilgamesh's heart because he didn't tie the rope to Hakesh earlier has long since disappeared.
The other party was just a commoner. Not only did he not suffer any harm in front of his lion, but now he was even talking nonsense, accusing him of being the king of Uruk's fault.
"you--"
Gilgamesh has grown so big, and he has been on the throne for several years, and no one has ever been like this. No one dares to say this in front of him——
Gilgamesh was furious and immediately clenched his fists.
In the past, if he showed such anger, Hakesh, who was always by his side, would immediately lower his head, make a low grunting sound in his throat, arch his back, and put on an appearance that he would attack at any time.
But now, Hakesh is squatting beside this "Enkidu", flicking his tail, making a "owwow", wishing to shake his head and rub against "Enkidu".
Gilgamesh: ...You bastard, why don't you just "meow"?
His little lion "betrayed" him so quickly, which made the young king even more angry, and there was nowhere to vent his anger.He could barely hold his fist, and was about to hand it out——
But... Really, no one has ever been like this, no one has ever dared to say these things to the "Wang" in front of him, and after he finished speaking, he still remained motionless, with his head raised and his eyes wide open, waiting for his response very seriously .
Gilgamesh's fist was almost raised, but he didn't hit it down.
If he gets angry because of a small person's remarks, doesn't that mean that he is only as knowledgeable as a small person?
He endured and endured, finally put down his fist, and said solemnly: "Do you have any misunderstandings about the king?"
"How could Wang not have thought of what you said?" He raised his voice.
"Isn't it just to check all the wall foundations built by the previous kings, and ask the people to confirm whether they are safe before starting construction..."
He has a very good memory, he can remember everything that "Enkidu" said just now, and it will not be difficult to repeat it to the officials in charge of the project later.Doing what "Enkidu" said may really reduce the occurrence of accidents.
But when he saw the little man in front of him showing joy and nodding his head, he felt inexplicably in a good mood.
"It's you... who has all the strength, but also cares so much about the folks on this construction site. I will leave all the safety matters here to you!"
Seeing the surprised look on this "Enkidu" face, he felt complacent immediately, and continued: "If there is an accident here, and any civilians are killed or injured, you are the only one to ask!"
"Enkidu" was really surprised - he pointed at himself: "I... bear such a big responsibility?"
Gilgamesh was completely comfortable, and he looked up to the sky and let out a long laugh, "Yes, the entire project here is all yours. You can figure it out yourself!"
After Gilgamesh finished speaking, he patted Hakesh on the head directly, letting the uneasy little lion follow him directly, leaving the confused "Enkidu" behind him.
"Easier said than done," Gilgamesh whispered.
The construction of the city wall for the whole city of Uruk is a huge project with a lot of thoughts, and it is not easy to implement all the ideas that are conceived.
Gilgamesh simply asked this big talker to do some practical things by himself. If he can really manage it well, then he will be the king with "sight like torches" and "wisdom eyes". If he can't control it, then let him cry Cry out to beg yourself.
Gilgamesh himself went to the officer in charge of the project to repeat what "Enkidu" said, and explain it to him—after all, he also believed in his heart that the father Lugabanda left Those city walls are unreliable, adding one or two preventive measures may really reduce casualties.
Yi Nan didn't expect that after stroking a big cat today, he would inexplicably become the safety supervisor of the construction site.
She is quite satisfied, after all, with Gilgamesh's words, she can inspect any machinery used to build the city at will with this "title", and can intervene in everything about engineering-this is actually a "good thing" for her job. For Yi Nan, who is "observing", this is actually a huge benefit.
But Gilgamesh is not a comprehensive leader either. He handed all the responsibilities to Inan, but neither announced her new responsibilities to others, nor gave her corresponding authority.
Therefore, now Yi Nan can neither take the initiative to check various safety hazards like a "supervisor", nor can she make demands on the officials and craftsmen on the spot - no one else recognizes her, and they don't know what Gilgamesh "imposed" on her. responsibility.
She can only make herself a brick, and move wherever it is useful—to detect danger in time with a pair of eyes that are good at discovering risks, and prevent accidents from happening... This sounds unreliable.
Right now, the entire construction site was running smoothly. The boulders tied with cables were pushed onto the rolling logs, passed through a downward slope, and slowly lowered into the pre-dug foundation of the city wall.
Several civilians stood in the foundation hole, and one of them was an engineer holding a clay tablet.It seems their responsibility is to let the stones slowly fall, and fall exactly where they should be.
Yi Nan walked over and asked a craftsman standing on the ground in charge of directing. What she asked was simple: whether the rope had been checked.
This is no longer the scene where logs were piled up at the Eridu pier, and the ropes used by the Uruk people are also very different from the hemp ropes used by the Eridu people.The basic materials of their ropes are also flax and flax, but horsehair, pig bristles and other materials are mixed into them to increase strength. Every ten ropes are braided into one strand, and ten strands are then braided into a huge thick rope.
But Yinan knew that this kind of thick rope would be taut as a whole when it was under force, and if any rope inside was of poor quality and could not withstand the force and break, it would cause a catastrophe.The huge back-twist force will make the broken rope bounce off quickly, and the broken rope head that breaks and bounces at this moment alone will cause death or injury to people if it collapses.Not to mention those civilians who are still staying in the foundation potholes.
Yi Nan's worries were clearly understood by the other party.The craftsman nodded to confirm that the ropes had been inspected before use.
However, the law of "whatever you are afraid of" is also applicable in the ancient times of more than 2000 BC.Just as Yi Nan was talking to the craftsman in charge of directing, a burr suddenly appeared on the huge rope stretched straight in front of the two of them.
The craftsman beside Yi Nan seemed to be directly nailed to the ground, staring at the small burr, his whole body was shrouded in fear, his throat seemed to be moving, but he couldn't make a sound.
This burr is like a small flower suddenly blooming on a smooth rope. It is very cute, but it is the harbinger of a problem with the rope.
If the rope were to break right in front of them, the first to die would probably not be the peasants standing in the foundation, but the two of them.
Yi Nan's reaction was a beat slower than that of the craftsman.She just realized what happened, and subconsciously stepped forward, holding the cable with both hands.
No one else even knew what she was doing.
Yinan: It may be because I firmly believe that "great efforts make miracles".
When she held the cable tightly with both hands, the small burr instantly expanded into a small crack, and in a blink of an eye, one piece of the rope was broken, and then one strand, two strands... the entire rope.
When the whole length of cable was completely broken, Yinan was holding the cable with both hands.She felt that a strong force was transmitted to her hand suddenly, and all the weight of the boulder dragged by the cable was borne by her body.The thick rope wrapped around her arm seemed to be able to twist her slender arm in an instant.
Her body sank, her feet kicked down, as in a tug-of-war, trying to let the center of gravity fall in the opposite direction, and at the same time, she pushed her feet hard, and immediately kicked out two deep pits on the artificially built slope. Knee-less almost all the time.
The craftsman next to him woke up like a dream, "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
At this moment, Yinan seemed to have returned to the pier in Eridu.
At that time, she had no strength at all, but she had friends.
Now at last she has the strength—
In this world, she was alone, alone, fighting for the responsibility that suddenly fell on her shoulders and for many lives.
Yes, she is powerful and should bear corresponding responsibilities.But according to her understanding of Daniel, the attribute of "infinite strength" she requested can never mean that her strength "=" is infinite.After all, mass-energy might not be conserved in that way.Daniel probably arranged for her to have explosive power greater than three to five adult men... Ten, ten is absolutely top-notch.
And there is a hidden danger in this power - Yi Nan has never tried it, so he doesn't know under what circumstances it will happen.
At this moment, Yi Nan thought silently: After all, she is still too good and strong.
And why do you always have to struggle with the rope?
The craftsmen in Uruk scrambled and fled away, shouting loudly for everyone to evade in time, leaving Yi Nan alone, holding a cable thicker than her arm, not knowing how long he would hold on before letting go .
At this moment, she suddenly remembered Hamti, Ake, those Eridians who rushed up from the water's edge to help resist the heavy objects together, and the one who suddenly jumped from her side when she almost failed. Helping hand.
At this moment, Yi Nan suddenly saw a big hand stretched out in front of her, a strong and powerful hand, with a strong force, the veins in the hand appeared, and grasped the entire cable in front of her.From Yi Nan's point of view, this is almost like a reappearance of the scene, or a flashback of memory.
A passionate voice sounded in Yinan's ear:
"Don't be afraid, the king is here!"
Everything has a king.
Although Inan had a great time with Hakish and one lion, she didn't like Gilgamesh who went out to "walk the cat" without keeping the "cat leash".
When Gilgamesh saw that such a little peasant as Inan, he turned his face down as soon as he saw him. His heart that had opened his mouth to explain, disappeared at this moment.
He had already thought about apologizing to Yi Nan, and explaining that Hakesh was indeed behaving abnormally today—this little lion had never lost his composure in front of people before.
But the other party wasn't injured, and Hakesh didn't really cause trouble, why...why should Wang Lai apologize?
Therefore, Gilgamesh looked at Inan's flawless face, and his mouth was hardened. What he originally wanted to say and soft words turned into a bluff: "Who are you? Why are you here? ... You still don't go?" Work?"
Yi Nan smiled and said nothing, she believed that someone would come to help her answer these questions.
Sure enough, an official from Uruk ran over with his robe in his hand. Seeing Hakish, a lion cub breathing beside the king, he was too frightened to approach, and said loudly, "My king should know that Enki was sent to this place by your order yesterday." The team came. But you didn't tell him what to do, and I didn't dare to arrange it myself, so he... just had nothing to do for a while."
Gilgamesh raised his head proudly, and said coldly, "So you are doing nothing... No wonder my Hakesh came to play with you."
Everyone was stunned there, they all saw the dangerous situation just now, and many people had already mourned silently for this thin and weak man in their hearts - the king of dare love thought that the lion was just playing around!
However, this skinny young man had his own magic. Hakesh slapped him several times, but he was fine, and his oily skin was not broken at all.No wonder Wang would transfer him out of the ordinary civilian husband team.
Therefore, the craftsmen, technicians and logistics officials in this group all stretched out their thumbs and sincerely praised: "Gao, Wang's ability to see people is really high!"
Yinan: ...
Gilgamesh's face was slightly relaxed, but it didn't become more tense after all.He already felt that he could save face, so he lowered his eyes and looked down at Yi Nan: "So it's you."
"I remember that you are strong, so come with me." Gilgamesh continued.
In the blink of an eye, the "episode" between Yi Nan and the little lion Hakesh just now is considered to be over.The craftsmen and technicians rushed back to their posts immediately, and the logistics officials also thought that the errands of "Enkidu" were personally arranged by Wang Lai, so they turned around and went to other things.
What reappeared in front of Inan and Gilgamesh was still the clockwork-like fortification site that kept moving forward at an unchanging rhythm—of course, in this era, "clockwork" has not yet been invented.
Gilgamesh routinely patrolled, and Inan accompanied him silently.
Gilgamesh didn't understand at all, why the little lion Hakesh, who was always by his side and always walked with the same style as him, was now so tired and sticky, and always followed the skinny boy beside him. Little man.
"Your name is 'Enkidu,' right?" Gilgamesh asked.
Yinan said "hmm" and said, "You can call me 'Duo'."
Gilgamesh puffed out his chest and said solemnly, "You should answer like this, 'King, you can call me Duo'."
When he turned his head, he saw Yi Nan secretly suppressing a smile when he heard what he said.
Gilgamesh gritted his teeth secretly, really wanting to yell "Don't laugh", but when he thought about it, as the king of Uruk, why would he have the same knowledge as a little man who just arrived in Uruk from afar?
So he coughed twice, and continued to move forward: "Duo, I will show you the wonderful skills of the Uruk builders."
Gilgamesh pointed to a tool in use—a gigantic wheel standing vertically on a stand.Long, thick ropes are attached to the wheels, and as the wheels turn, these ropes are slowly retracted, dragging a weight on the other end of the rope.
Yi Nan: "Oh, the winch!"
Gilgamesh:……!
Unexpectedly, this little man from a foreign country has a lot of knowledge.
Inan continued: "Eridu already had winches more than 2000 years ago. Why, did Uruk just start using them?"
Gilgamesh immediately said loudly: "No way - Uruk too, winches have been used more than 2000 years ago!"
I don't know if the weather is too hot, but Gilgamesh's forehead is sweating a little.Of course he knew that the winch had existed more than 2000 years ago when the shepherd king Dumuzi was alive, but the question is, why did the young man beside him know so clearly?He even knew that the winch actually appeared in Eridu first?
It seems that you really can't underestimate this pretty-faced little man.
Gilgamesh didn't dare to show Inan any tools with simple craftsmanship. He said, "Come and see this crane!"
"Crane?" Yinan was really interested. When she saw the tall crane earlier, she wanted to see what happened. Although these "large" machines are completely different from those of later generations, this is already the beginning of her "re-imagining" Since the Civilization Project, I have seen the tallest artificial machine.
Another small crane is also very interesting: Although this era is more than 2000 years earlier than Archimedes' "give me a fulcrum, and I can pry up the earth", people seem to have begun to apply the principle of leverage.
Now seeing Gilgamesh's appearance of wanting to show off, Inan felt that it was in his arms, so he pretended to be obedient: "Okay, king, tell me about the crane!"
Gilgamesh was immediately happy, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he put on a posture for a detailed introduction: "The boom on this crane is made of the hardest oak that can be found, and a piece of wood is placed between it and the bracket below. There is a huge copper shaft that allows the arm to turn left and right. There is another type of crane, the arm can move up and down, which can pry the heaviest boulders from the pier, so that workers can add rolling logs under the stones, and the boulders can be lifted. pushed on the log..."
He blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
In this way, it seems that he, the king of Uruk, is taking orders from a small peasant?
But Inan stood beside Gilgamesh, listening with unusual concentration, nodding as he listened to show that she understood everything.Gilgamesh saw her side face full of curiosity, after all, he didn't stop there, but continued in one breath——
Unexpectedly, Yi Nan dared to ask a question after he finished his explanation: "The theory is that the longer the force arm at one end of the suspension heavy object, the less effort the person operating the crane will have. Has Wang ever considered that on the copper shaft of the crane? How about adding a copper rail to adjust the length of the moment arm?"
Gilgamesh was completely speechless.
So you know everything!
I spent so much time explaining it to you, yet you actually ask me these things in turn?
But I don't know if it was because he was eager to win, but he continued to say what Yi Nan said: "All the craftsmen and technicians in Uruk know what you said."
"Oh?" Yi Nan turned his head, looking at Gilgamesh with a pair of big clear eyes, which actually encouraged him to continue talking.
Gilgamesh was really encouraged: "The craftsman used many oak trunks of different lengths to make arms, and we can change them to lift heavy objects of different weights..."
He didn't realize it until the long words were finished, and his face turned dark immediately—this kid's expression, where is he asking for advice?He was "encouraging" himself to continue talking, he was "encouraging"!
He is the king of Uruk, does he need a little man to "encourage" him?
"Let's not talk about that." Gilgamesh decisively decided to change the subject, "Let Wang Lai find you an errand, you are very strong, and you must have a place to use it..."
Unexpectedly, the little man next to him was so alive, he continued to ask: "Does the king know that there was an accident on the construction site yesterday, and a part of the city wall collapsed?"
Gilgamesh continued to be black-faced: This kid doesn't open any pots and lifts any pots.
"Know……"
He didn't know where his patience came from, but he actually explained to the other party: "The section of the city wall that collapsed was built during the period of King Lugabanda... There is something wrong with the foundation."
Lugabanda is also the king of the Sumerian King List, and if Inan remembers correctly, Lugabanda was the father of Gilgamesh.
It turns out that during the period of Lugabanda, the city wall of Uruk had already begun to be built?
Yi Nan did know that there was a problem with Uruk's city wall.Later generations of archaeologists have learned from the analysis of thousands of clay tablet texts excavated from the Mesopotamia that Uruk lacks stone and wood, and the city walls are completely built with clay bricks and mud.Later, during the war between the Sumerians and the Akkadians, the Akkadians once dug a hole outside the city wall of Uruk. As long as they dug in front of the city wall, the city wall could collapse.
Now it seems that this problem has been discovered in the time of Gilgamesh?
But Gilgamesh continued to defend himself: "That section of the wall was the first section of the Uruk city wall. The newly built wall will use a large number of stones as the foundation of the wall, so there will be no more problems like this... "
When he said this, there was indeed some moral pressure. After all, there were civilian casualties in the project he presided over, but he blamed his father Lugabanda.
Unexpectedly, the little peasant beside him opened his mouth and continued to ask: "Do you know how many civilians were injured or injured yesterday?"
Gilgamesh choked for a moment, for he knew it—the officials in charge of personnel affairs in Uruk would report this figure to him every night: how many civilians Uruk needs to recruit from other small city-states, and to whom? How many pensions the city-state sends, how manpower is allocated, how logistics are prepared... are all closely related to this number.
There are casualties every day, which is a cruel fact, but it is also inevitable-unless he Gilgamesh does not repair the city wall.
"I know—" Gilgamesh almost squeezed these three words out between his teeth.
"Then, have all the walls built during the late king's time been checked for safety?"
Gilgamesh:……?
"Is there any new instruction given to the folks approaching or using the old wall foundation? Ask them to implement safe work procedures?"
"Under the premise that the accident has already occurred, is the working environment of the peasants a little bit better today than yesterday?"
"Is everyone safer today than yesterday? Or not?"
Perhaps these questions should be asked by the officials in charge of the project, but now, this little man directly asked the young king of Uruk all at once.
Gilgamesh: ...are you teaching the king what to do?
The young peasant man beside him turned his head, looked at him very seriously, and said, "You are the king of Uruk, and building a sanitation city wall for Uruk will be a great achievement in your name forever." , you will naturally make great achievements in the future..."
He stretched out a slender arm from the old woolen robe on his body, and pointed to the laborers in the distance: "But what about them? They were born of parents just like you, why should they bear these things?" suffering?"
Gilgamesh's fire came out of nowhere.
He thought he had done better than others—he did not directly conscript slaves like the previous king or the consuls of other city-states, and all the peasants enjoyed quite superior treatment in Uruk.
There were indeed casualties in the project, but he has ordered officials to do their best to provide compensation and compensation.
Moreover, no one has ever dared to point to those ordinary people who are working in the distance in front of him, tell him that those people are the same as him, and then question him, why do those people have a different fate from him?
Where does he know?
When he was born, Lugabanda announced to the world that Gilgamesh, two-thirds of the gods and one-third of the people, was born and destined to be the king of Uruk!
At this moment, the guilt and apology in Gilgamesh's heart because he didn't tie the rope to Hakesh earlier has long since disappeared.
The other party was just a commoner. Not only did he not suffer any harm in front of his lion, but now he was even talking nonsense, accusing him of being the king of Uruk's fault.
"you--"
Gilgamesh has grown so big, and he has been on the throne for several years, and no one has ever been like this. No one dares to say this in front of him——
Gilgamesh was furious and immediately clenched his fists.
In the past, if he showed such anger, Hakesh, who was always by his side, would immediately lower his head, make a low grunting sound in his throat, arch his back, and put on an appearance that he would attack at any time.
But now, Hakesh is squatting beside this "Enkidu", flicking his tail, making a "owwow", wishing to shake his head and rub against "Enkidu".
Gilgamesh: ...You bastard, why don't you just "meow"?
His little lion "betrayed" him so quickly, which made the young king even more angry, and there was nowhere to vent his anger.He could barely hold his fist, and was about to hand it out——
But... Really, no one has ever been like this, no one has ever dared to say these things to the "Wang" in front of him, and after he finished speaking, he still remained motionless, with his head raised and his eyes wide open, waiting for his response very seriously .
Gilgamesh's fist was almost raised, but he didn't hit it down.
If he gets angry because of a small person's remarks, doesn't that mean that he is only as knowledgeable as a small person?
He endured and endured, finally put down his fist, and said solemnly: "Do you have any misunderstandings about the king?"
"How could Wang not have thought of what you said?" He raised his voice.
"Isn't it just to check all the wall foundations built by the previous kings, and ask the people to confirm whether they are safe before starting construction..."
He has a very good memory, he can remember everything that "Enkidu" said just now, and it will not be difficult to repeat it to the officials in charge of the project later.Doing what "Enkidu" said may really reduce the occurrence of accidents.
But when he saw the little man in front of him showing joy and nodding his head, he felt inexplicably in a good mood.
"It's you... who has all the strength, but also cares so much about the folks on this construction site. I will leave all the safety matters here to you!"
Seeing the surprised look on this "Enkidu" face, he felt complacent immediately, and continued: "If there is an accident here, and any civilians are killed or injured, you are the only one to ask!"
"Enkidu" was really surprised - he pointed at himself: "I... bear such a big responsibility?"
Gilgamesh was completely comfortable, and he looked up to the sky and let out a long laugh, "Yes, the entire project here is all yours. You can figure it out yourself!"
After Gilgamesh finished speaking, he patted Hakesh on the head directly, letting the uneasy little lion follow him directly, leaving the confused "Enkidu" behind him.
"Easier said than done," Gilgamesh whispered.
The construction of the city wall for the whole city of Uruk is a huge project with a lot of thoughts, and it is not easy to implement all the ideas that are conceived.
Gilgamesh simply asked this big talker to do some practical things by himself. If he can really manage it well, then he will be the king with "sight like torches" and "wisdom eyes". If he can't control it, then let him cry Cry out to beg yourself.
Gilgamesh himself went to the officer in charge of the project to repeat what "Enkidu" said, and explain it to him—after all, he also believed in his heart that the father Lugabanda left Those city walls are unreliable, adding one or two preventive measures may really reduce casualties.
Yi Nan didn't expect that after stroking a big cat today, he would inexplicably become the safety supervisor of the construction site.
She is quite satisfied, after all, with Gilgamesh's words, she can inspect any machinery used to build the city at will with this "title", and can intervene in everything about engineering-this is actually a "good thing" for her job. For Yi Nan, who is "observing", this is actually a huge benefit.
But Gilgamesh is not a comprehensive leader either. He handed all the responsibilities to Inan, but neither announced her new responsibilities to others, nor gave her corresponding authority.
Therefore, now Yi Nan can neither take the initiative to check various safety hazards like a "supervisor", nor can she make demands on the officials and craftsmen on the spot - no one else recognizes her, and they don't know what Gilgamesh "imposed" on her. responsibility.
She can only make herself a brick, and move wherever it is useful—to detect danger in time with a pair of eyes that are good at discovering risks, and prevent accidents from happening... This sounds unreliable.
Right now, the entire construction site was running smoothly. The boulders tied with cables were pushed onto the rolling logs, passed through a downward slope, and slowly lowered into the pre-dug foundation of the city wall.
Several civilians stood in the foundation hole, and one of them was an engineer holding a clay tablet.It seems their responsibility is to let the stones slowly fall, and fall exactly where they should be.
Yi Nan walked over and asked a craftsman standing on the ground in charge of directing. What she asked was simple: whether the rope had been checked.
This is no longer the scene where logs were piled up at the Eridu pier, and the ropes used by the Uruk people are also very different from the hemp ropes used by the Eridu people.The basic materials of their ropes are also flax and flax, but horsehair, pig bristles and other materials are mixed into them to increase strength. Every ten ropes are braided into one strand, and ten strands are then braided into a huge thick rope.
But Yinan knew that this kind of thick rope would be taut as a whole when it was under force, and if any rope inside was of poor quality and could not withstand the force and break, it would cause a catastrophe.The huge back-twist force will make the broken rope bounce off quickly, and the broken rope head that breaks and bounces at this moment alone will cause death or injury to people if it collapses.Not to mention those civilians who are still staying in the foundation potholes.
Yi Nan's worries were clearly understood by the other party.The craftsman nodded to confirm that the ropes had been inspected before use.
However, the law of "whatever you are afraid of" is also applicable in the ancient times of more than 2000 BC.Just as Yi Nan was talking to the craftsman in charge of directing, a burr suddenly appeared on the huge rope stretched straight in front of the two of them.
The craftsman beside Yi Nan seemed to be directly nailed to the ground, staring at the small burr, his whole body was shrouded in fear, his throat seemed to be moving, but he couldn't make a sound.
This burr is like a small flower suddenly blooming on a smooth rope. It is very cute, but it is the harbinger of a problem with the rope.
If the rope were to break right in front of them, the first to die would probably not be the peasants standing in the foundation, but the two of them.
Yi Nan's reaction was a beat slower than that of the craftsman.She just realized what happened, and subconsciously stepped forward, holding the cable with both hands.
No one else even knew what she was doing.
Yinan: It may be because I firmly believe that "great efforts make miracles".
When she held the cable tightly with both hands, the small burr instantly expanded into a small crack, and in a blink of an eye, one piece of the rope was broken, and then one strand, two strands... the entire rope.
When the whole length of cable was completely broken, Yinan was holding the cable with both hands.She felt that a strong force was transmitted to her hand suddenly, and all the weight of the boulder dragged by the cable was borne by her body.The thick rope wrapped around her arm seemed to be able to twist her slender arm in an instant.
Her body sank, her feet kicked down, as in a tug-of-war, trying to let the center of gravity fall in the opposite direction, and at the same time, she pushed her feet hard, and immediately kicked out two deep pits on the artificially built slope. Knee-less almost all the time.
The craftsman next to him woke up like a dream, "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
At this moment, Yinan seemed to have returned to the pier in Eridu.
At that time, she had no strength at all, but she had friends.
Now at last she has the strength—
In this world, she was alone, alone, fighting for the responsibility that suddenly fell on her shoulders and for many lives.
Yes, she is powerful and should bear corresponding responsibilities.But according to her understanding of Daniel, the attribute of "infinite strength" she requested can never mean that her strength "=" is infinite.After all, mass-energy might not be conserved in that way.Daniel probably arranged for her to have explosive power greater than three to five adult men... Ten, ten is absolutely top-notch.
And there is a hidden danger in this power - Yi Nan has never tried it, so he doesn't know under what circumstances it will happen.
At this moment, Yi Nan thought silently: After all, she is still too good and strong.
And why do you always have to struggle with the rope?
The craftsmen in Uruk scrambled and fled away, shouting loudly for everyone to evade in time, leaving Yi Nan alone, holding a cable thicker than her arm, not knowing how long he would hold on before letting go .
At this moment, she suddenly remembered Hamti, Ake, those Eridians who rushed up from the water's edge to help resist the heavy objects together, and the one who suddenly jumped from her side when she almost failed. Helping hand.
At this moment, Yi Nan suddenly saw a big hand stretched out in front of her, a strong and powerful hand, with a strong force, the veins in the hand appeared, and grasped the entire cable in front of her.From Yi Nan's point of view, this is almost like a reappearance of the scene, or a flashback of memory.
A passionate voice sounded in Yinan's ear:
"Don't be afraid, the king is here!"
Everything has a king.
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