Saint Qin Batu

Chapter 337 The Straight Road Hidden in the Mountains

Ten days later, outside Xianyang City, a guard team of a thousand people was ready to go.

Li Si looked at the guards all around who were full of murderous aura, and his brows furrowed even tighter.

These 1000 people, without exception, all belong to the deep palace guards, and they are also the Tianjin army of Yingzheng's pro-army.It can be said that these 1000 people are enough to defeat thousands of ordinary elites.

"Da da da!"

There was a crisp sound of horseshoes, and Song Fan, who was wearing silver armor, rode a brown war horse to Li Si's side.

Turning over and dismounting, ten years of time made him lose the last trace of greenness, exuding a sense of stability all over his body.A beard grew on his face.

"Lord Prime Minister Zuo, it's almost time. Can we go?" Song Fan asked Li Si, saluting.

"General Lao Song is here. It's time to go." Li Si said with a smile, glanced at the sun in the sky, and nodded.

"Left Prime Minister, please pedal!" Song Fan showed a gentle smile and respectfully waited for Li Si to get into the car.

And Li Si didn't dare to push him too hard. After returning the courtesy slightly, he boarded the carriage just now with the support of the waiter.

Along with him, of course, was Chun Yuyue who had been awarded the post of servant by Ying Zheng.

Although the position of Pu She is considered a good official position in the court, compared to Li Si and Song Fan, this small Pu She still seems a bit unattractive.

As the commander-in-chief of the Tianjin Army, it was impossible for Song Fan to treat Chun Yuyue the same way he treated Li Si.However, after a brief greeting, Song Fan left.

"Let's go!"

Following Song Fan's loud shout, the guard team of more than a thousand people drove towards Hangu Pass in such a mighty manner.

Bitter momentum, sophisticated equipment, and distinctive military flags, everything is part of this convoy, which is particularly eye-catching.

Especially when the names of Tianjinjun and Zuo Prime Minister Li Si are engraved on those flags, they are even more eye-catching.

Along the way, there was an endless stream of pedestrians who stopped to watch and salute.

Li Si, who was in the carriage, looked at the more and more pedestrians on both sides of the road, and slightly closed his eyes.

Sighing softly, last night, the whole night, Li Si didn't really fall asleep, but was thinking about how to persuade his stubborn teacher to come out of the mountain.

Until now, Li Si had never really thought of any effective method.

In addition, Li Si, who was busy with government affairs on weekdays and had no knowledge of martial arts, felt a faint sense of exhaustion at this moment.

However, the bumpy frame made it impossible for Li Si to sleep no matter what.

Li Si couldn't help but feel even more headache when he thought that the road beyond Xianyang City would be more rugged.

"Boom! Boom!"

"Boom! Boom!"

A calm but slightly crisp voice rang in Li Si's ears.

"Ok?"

In the carriage, Li Si, who heard the soft sound of the car window, slowly opened his eyes.

"I actually fell asleep?" Li Si, who came back to his senses, looked outside the carriage at the setting sun, and rubbed his head that was still a little swollen.

"It seems that I'm really overworked." Li Si shook his head and sighed softly.

"Master Zuoxiang? Sir Zuoxiang?" Outside the carriage, the waiter's voice sounded again.

"What's the matter?" Li Si asked with squinted eyes as he opened the car window.

Although the sun had already set in the west, the interior of the carriage was not very transparent after all, and Li Si could draw the curtains.Li Si's eyes still couldn't adapt to the sudden sunlight in the dark.

"General Song asked everyone to rest for a while, and sent a villain to ask, where are you going to rest today?" The waiter lowered his head, stood outside the carriage, and asked respectfully.

Li Si, who had barely adapted to the sunlight, gradually opened his eyes and asked, "Now, where are you now..."

However, in order for Li Si to finish speaking, he swallowed the rest of the words abruptly.

A nearly straight road, more than ten feet wide, appeared in front of Li Si's eyes.And they are resting on the side of the road.

"Where is General Song?" Li Si asked almost eagerly.Even before the waiter in front of him could answer, Li Si hurriedly got off the carriage.

"General Song! General Song!"

At this moment, Li Si even shouted in spite of his image, while walking towards Song Fan who was not far away.

"Lord Zuo Xiang, what's the matter, but just tell the attendants, Song Fan will go to Zuo Xiang's frame, why come here in person?" Song Fan said, supporting Li Si who was slightly panting.

However, Li Si ignored Song Fan's good intentions. Instead, he grabbed Song Fan's arm and asked, "General Song! When did I, Great Qin, build such a road?"

It's no wonder Li Si was so shocked. The road in front of him must have cost a lot, whether it was manpower, material resources or time.

However, it is unimaginable that he, as the prime minister of the left, does not know about such a path.

"No surprise on the left, your majesty has already started to build this road ten years ago." Song Fan said with a light smile.

"Ten years ago? Wasn't that when His Majesty just unified the six kingdoms?"

The shock in Li Si's eyes remained undiminished.You know, the Yingzheng at that time issued a special order for self-cultivation. Apart from the necessary labor in the territory of the six countries, there was no large-scale conscripting of the people of the six countries.

Moreover, even if it is secretly recruiting manpower, it is absolutely impossible to be full of oneself for ten years!

Sensing the distrust in Li Si's eyes, Song Fan didn't care about it, and replied with a smile: "To be exact, His Majesty has already started preparing for this road since the Xinzheng Rebellion."

"The Xinzheng Rebellion?"

Li Si frowned, still unbelievable, relying on Qin's pace of attacking the Six Kingdoms at that time, how could he have the spare energy to prepare for such a road.

Without waiting for Li Si to ask again, Song Fan continued: "To be exact, since then, His Majesty has ordered the Gongshu family to focus on developing the mechanism beasts used for road casting."

"Gongshu family? Mechanism beast?" Li Si nodded slightly after hearing this.

Indeed, if the Gongshu family had fully helped to build the road in the past ten years, the manpower needed would be greatly reduced.

However, even so, it still requires a lot of manpower.What's more, this road is basically built along the mountain, and the manpower required to open the mountain to open the road will not be much less because of the Gongshu family.

"Where's the manpower?" Li Si asked after hesitating for a moment.Now that Ying Zheng had put them on this path, Li Si wasn't worried that Ying Zheng would blame him for it.

"It was done by a lieutenant general." Song Fan replied bluntly.

"A lieutenant general?"

Li Si's eyes widened, and he looked at Song Fan in disbelief.It was even more unimaginable that the Great Qin Ruishi who had been fighting the enemy would be sent by Yingzheng to do something that belonged to the untouchables.

"So, isn't it true that in the army..."

Li Si said half of what he said, but the meaning was already very clear.Obviously worried that Ying Zheng would affect the morale of the lieutenant soldiers.

"Left Prime Minister, there is no need to worry. Your Majesty has already given an oracle. As long as a soldier who builds the road, he can kill one enemy in one day of service."

Song Fan's words once again shocked Li Si speechlessly.

Ten years of stability and self-cultivation means that in these ten years, there are no new military exploits.And during these ten years, Li Si wondered more than once, how did Ying Zheng maintain the army without any military exploits, so that there was no complaint from the army.

Unexpectedly, it turned out that the way of building roads to kill the enemy was used to stabilize the morale of the army.

It has to be said that Li Si had never heard of such a way of killing two birds with one stone.

(End of this chapter)