"How long? Four hours?"
"Are you sure it's not two days?"
Ying Zheng looked at Zhao Tuo in disbelief.
Such a large and hard stone wall only took four hours? How was this possible?
Zhao Tuo did not say anything. Meng Yi, who was at the side, explained,"High Emperor, General Wang and I have been here all this while.”
"This wall…was indeed built four hours ago.”
"Unbelievable, unbelievable!”
Ying Zheng looked at the remaining pile of cement with shining eyes.
As the former First Emperor of Great Qin, he keenly sensed that this cement…would bring about a world-shaking change to Great Qin!
Coincidentally, at this moment, Ying Zheng was not the only one who realized something.
Feng Quji also came to a realization.
"Your Majesty! Could it be that you asked me to deal with the matter of reducing the corvee because of this cement?”
"That's right!"
The corners of Zhao Tuo's mouth curled up slightly.
However, Ying Zheng was stunned for a moment when he heard the news of reducing the corvee.
However, after looking at the cement, he did not say anything.
"Do you know how this cement is made? How much is the cost?"
Everyone naturally shook their heads.
"I hope Your Majesty can explain."
"To make this cement, only three materials are needed: The first was lime powder, the second was clay, and the third was fine sand ground from slag.”
"As for the production process, it's just a simple mixture of lime powder and clay. After firing it, you can add slag to make this cement ash.”
Wang Ben blurted out,"Isn't that…extremely cheap?”
The eyes of the others also gradually lit up.
The lime powder and the stone workshop were all treated as waste.
The ground was covered in clay.
Slag was also useless before this.
Other than the burning process, the cement was basically…cost-free!
At this moment, everyone present realized it.
This cement…could completely change Great Qin's current situation and even save Great Qin from danger!
Today's Great Qin, the corvee is heavy.
The most important reason was because of the construction of the Great Wall, Afang, mausoleum, and galloping path.
The current Great Qin City's city walls were built with yellow soil as the foundation and rice soup.
A small section of the city wall required dozens of people to work day and night, waving their tools and working hard for several days.
Time and effort were wasted.
They also had to take out the rice soup that the commoners who starved to death could not drink and pour it on the city walls.
He was exhausted.
Starved to death.
They were all living people!
They had accumulated a lot of resentment towards Great Qin!
Apart from that, these hundreds of thousands of people also had to eat every day.
Hundreds of thousands of mouths, how much food would be consumed in a day?
Wasn't this burden shouldered by Xianyang Palace and Great Qin?
Great Qin's land had been abandoned because of the lack of young and strong labor.
The consumption was high, but the tax revenue was low.
No matter how powerful a country was, they could not afford such consumption.
As for Great Qin, it had been declining day by day.
However…if the Great Wall, the house, and the mausoleum were built using this cement…
Then everything would change completely!
With this cement, the difficulty of construction would be greatly reduced, and the progress would be greatly accelerated!
If they needed less, even those convicts from Mount Li would be able to shoulder the construction of these projects.
As for the remaining corvee, they could all be dismissed and sent back to their own homes!
Wasteland clearing, farming, raising children…
Taxes were raised and expenditures were reduced.
From negative to positive!
The entire Great Qin would be completely changed!
"Divine item! This was a true divine item! Great Qin…is saved!"
Ying Zheng squatted down and looked at the puddle of cement in front of him, his eyes turning red.
For many days and nights, Great Qin's predicament had made him unable to sleep.
He could only hope for longevity and rely on his own strength to intimidate the world.
Now…Great Qin had finally found a way out of this predicament!
"Good! Sure!"
"The heavens truly bless Great Qin!"
"Ding! Discovered the influence of cement on the Great Qin Empire, Ying Zheng has a whole new level of respect for it. 120,000 points."
"Ding! Discovered the influence of cement on Great Qin. Meng Yi and the others prostrate themselves in admiration. Obtained Reputation Points: 8,9000 points."
！！！
Zhao Tuo was shocked.
Good heavens, as expected of the First Emperor Ying Zheng.
The Reputation Points he provided alone were as high as 100,000 points, which was more than Meng Yi and the others combined.
He saw that his balance had increased to more than 700,000 reputation points.
Zhao Tuo couldn't help but open the system store to search.
" Universal education…Paper making, let me see…"
[Beginner Paper Making: 132,000 Reputation Points]
It recorded the production method of the basic paper types.
[Note: Paper plays an important role in the inheritance of the world's culture. If it appears in advance, it will completely change the world, so it is very valuable.]
"Good heavens, 1,320,000?”
Zhao Tuo rubbed his temples.
As expected, he was still a little too naive.
"It seems that we still have to hurry up and produce a large batch of cement according to plan, then reduce the corvee to earn a wave of prestige.”
"Your Majesty, what did you say?"
" Nothing…" Zhao Tuo shook his head and looked at Feng Quji,""Minister Feng, now that the trial production of this cement has been successful, we need to rush to produce it in large quantities.”
"Help me draft an edict and order the General Shao Fu to set up a special workshop to burn cement ash in large quantities.”
"Here!"
Feng Quji bade farewell and left.
As for Ying Zheng, Meng Yi, and the others, after seeing the cement, they did not stay any longer.
When the clamor dissipated, Zhao Tuo saw that there was no one around. He leaped to the top of the hall and looked at the scenery in the distance.
Looking at the horizon in the distance, the "qi" that was constantly changing in the perspective of the Aura Observing Spell.
Zhao Tuo's expression became a little playful.
"Counting the time, if those remnants of the Six Nations are not stupid, they should have already planned to take this opportunity to rise up, right?”
"If they are smart, they might even use the previous phenomenon to brag about it and gather the hearts of the people.”
"Perhaps when the large number of slaves return home, they will gather a large number of people to resist the Qin army.”
"I only hope that you can be smart and not really do this.”
The smile on Zhao Tuo's face gradually spread.
"Otherwise…it would be too boring to fall into a well-dug pit so easily.”
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