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Chapter 435 The special machine snake, Daqin Technology, is shocking

Faced with Ying Zheng's question, Gong Shuqiu had already expected it.

When he helped Bai Yuan build Biluo Villa before, Bai Yuan had already told him that Ying Zheng wanted him to use mechanism skills to speed up the construction of the canal project.

Therefore, during this period, in addition to helping Bai Yuan build Biluo Villa, Gong Shuqiu also took the time to study the aqueduct being built by the Qin State.

The plan is to divert the Jingshui River from the west to the Luoshui River from the east. It is expected to be at least three hundred miles long. It is indeed an extremely huge project.

It took the Qin State five years to build only about half of it. In order to build the Zhengguo Canal, the Qin State recruited 200,000 civilians, and the Qin State treasury consumed a lot of property every year, which was a big burden for the Qin State.

Because of this, Qin's march to the east was indeed hindered.

Ying Zheng intended to send troops to attack Zhao State, but because of this incident, the national treasury was unable to sustain itself, so he temporarily put aside this idea.

Gongshu Chou knows what Ying Zheng wants, and he happens to have this ability. At the same time, he also needs this opportunity to make Gongshu Chou achieve glory again.

So Gong Shuqiu took two steps forward and answered respectfully.

"Back to the king, although my father-in-law's family's mechanism skills are more focused on killing, there is no problem in speeding up the construction of canals!"

Ying Zheng's face didn't change much after hearing this. He just nodded slightly and continued to ask:

"How sure are you? How soon can the channel be opened?"

When Gong Shuqiu heard Ying Zheng's question, he didn't dare to speak big words on such an important matter. He thought about it and thought about his words.

"I haven't seen the construction drawings of the canal. I lack a lot of information. I dare not make a conclusion easily. However, according to my estimate, the canal should be opened within three years, maybe even sooner."

After hearing this, Ying Zheng was already very satisfied with the answer.

It is not easy to shorten a project that originally took five years to complete to three years.

After all, digging a canal is much more troublesome than building a villa, and the amount of work is not of the same level.

But at this time, some people couldn't sit still.

The current Prime Minister of Great Qin, Chang Pingjun, stood up.

"Your Majesty, Gongshu Qiu said that the canal can be opened within three years. Although it is good, he did not say how much our Daqin will spend in these three years and how much manpower and material resources it will require."

Chang Pingjun turned to Gong Shuqiu and glanced at him.

"Today, our Da Qin has recruited 200,000 civilians in order to build the canal, spending countless money. If we recruit more civilians again in order to open the canal as soon as possible and shorten the construction period, on the one hand, the national treasury will be unable to support it, and on the other hand, I am afraid it will attract If the people are complaining, then the gains outweigh the losses."

When Ying Zheng heard what Changping Jun said, he frowned slightly and couldn't help but think deeply.

Now that Zheng Guo was a spy for South Korea, the people in the country were somewhat negative about Ying Zheng's proposal to build aqueducts.

That is to say, he forcefully suppressed those opposing voices, so there were no problems for the time being.

But he knew that recruiting civilians again and increasing investment in manpower and material resources would definitely not work.

At this time, Gong Shuqiu grinned.

"Mr. Changping's worries are not unreasonable, but it's understandable that Mr. Changping doesn't know my mechanism skills. I can guarantee that with the help of mechanism skills, we can not only speed up the construction of canals, but also save a lot of manpower. Now Great Qin has mobilized 200,000 civilians, and after using my machine beast, there will be no need for so many people."

When Lord Changping heard this, he frowned.

He really doesn't know much about the art of mechanism, or in other words, no one in the entire Da Qin court understands the art of mechanism.

Although the Mohist machine skills are unique in the world and are famous far and wide, these mechanisms basically appear on the battlefield, even the non-offensive machine skills of the Mohist family are no exception.

In addition, there are not many people who are proficient in the art of mechanism, and not everyone in the Mo family knows this art of mechanism, so many people have only heard of it and have never seen it with their own eyes.

This has led to the world's impression of mechanism skills being relatively remote.

Chang Pingjun is no exception.

However, looking at Gong Shuqiu's confident look, Chang Pingjun still didn't believe it.

"You're just talking nonsense, what guarantee do you have?"

Gongshuqiu smiled and took out a stack of white paper from his arms, handed it to the waiter on the side, and asked him to present it.

"Previously, when I was helping Master Bai Yuan build Biluo Villa, under his guidance, I created two brand-new mechanical beasts. One of them has the power to break mountains and crack rocks. It can be used to help dig canals. It only requires two people. Controlling it can be worth hundreds of people.”

"The other one can be used to transport supplies, which can also save a lot of manpower."

The chamberlain handed over the drawings given by Gong Shouqiu. Although Ying Zheng did not understand the mechanics, he still picked them up and looked at them.

Regardless of whether he could understand it or not, Ying Zheng was very satisfied with Gong Shuqiu's thorough preparation.

At least this would give Gongshuqiu's words more credibility.

But Gong Shuqiu seemed to think that this was not enough. He also knew that not everyone could understand the drawing, so he handed it over again.

"To be honest with the king, I have actually built these two machine beasts. When the king summoned them this time, I also brought them over. They are now outside the palace."

Upon hearing this, Ying Zheng's face immediately lit up with joy, he put down the drawing in his hand and jumped up.

"Then what are you waiting for? Dear friends, would you like to go with me to see this magical machine beast?"

"I am willing to go!"

Now even Lord Changping, who initially questioned Gong Shuqiu, couldn't help but become curious, and responded along with many ministers.

A large group of people rushed to the palace gate.

At this moment, a large number of forbidden troops were already lined up outside the palace gate. When Ying Zheng issued the order, the Shadow Guards had already taken a step ahead and mobilized the forbidden troops to wait outside in case anything unexpected happened.

In the open space outside the palace gate, two huge objects were covered by a piece of black cloth, making it impossible to see what was inside.

Around the object, several disciples of the Public Loser looked at the majestic imperial army, and for a moment they broke out in a cold sweat nervously.

Ying Zheng led the civil and military officials to the palace gate with the support of the imperial army.

As soon as he came out, he saw these two behemoths parked in the open space, and his eyes widened.

Although its true face is covered by black cloth, you can tell from its size alone that this thing is definitely not simple.

Gong Shuqiu waved his hands to those disciples.

After receiving the order, Gongshujia's disciples pulled a corner of the black cloth and pulled it off completely with a splash.

Two huge machine beasts were displayed in front of everyone.

One is blue-purple, looks like a lizard, and is equipped with a huge blade, which is used to crack mountains and crack rocks.

The other one is red and looks like a huge snake head.

Not to mention whether these two machine beasts can be used to help build canals, but Ying Zheng has already confirmed that they can be used to attack cities and demolish strongholds.

Especially the lizard machine beast, which looks like a master of battlefield charging at first glance, and is much more dangerous than that tank.

All the civil and military officials looked at the two machine beasts and opened their mouths in surprise.

Gong Shuqiu walked to the lizard machine beast and took the initiative to introduce it to Ying Zheng and others.

"Your Majesty, because this machine beast looks like a lizard, it has the ability to excavate soil and open mountains, and can move underground, so I call it a machine lizard, and the other machine is a machine snake, but it is not complete yet." Zheng frowned after hearing this.

"Why is it incomplete? Are there any flaws?"

Mr. Changping took advantage of the opportunity and raised some doubts.

Gongshuqiu smiled and shook his head: "The head of the machine snake is already so big. If the body of the snake is also connected, it will be dozens of feet long. I am afraid of disturbing the king, so I didn't do it." Put on the snake body.”

The giant mechanical snake, which is dozens of feet long and more than a hundred meters long, makes people feel extremely small just by listening to it.

But Ying Zheng was even more happy when he heard Gong Shuqiu's words.

This mechanism snake is used to transport materials, so naturally the bigger it is, the more things it can transport.

The truth is obvious.

Just like a horse pulling a cart, the bigger the body, the stronger the horse, the greater the strength of pulling the cart, and the more goods it can pull.

But Ying Zheng was still curious.

"How much supplies can this complete snake trap pull?"

Gong Shuqiu rubbed his hands and smiled.

"Back to the king, except for the head and tail, the snake's body has ten sections in total. Each section is three feet long. It is hollow inside and has a lot of space. It only needs one person to control it, and it can carry materials weighing five thousand stones. .”

This special design was not thought up by Gong Shuqiu, but by Bai Yuan.

The original mechanism snake was specially designed by Gongshu Qiu to target the mechanism white tiger, one of the four mechanism spirit beasts of the Mo family, for use in combat.

But Bai Yuan told him that it would be a pity if it was only used for fighting, and asked him to expand his thinking.

The mechanism snake was so huge, and it was segment by segment, which reminded Bai Yuan of the high-speed trains in later generations. Even this mechanism snake was even more technologically advanced than that.

If it is modified and part of the snake body is hollowed out, the Daqin High-Speed ​​Railway will not be restricted by railways and the like, and it will be easy to cross mountains and ridges. This mechanical snake can even move on water.

If anyone else had said this to Gongshu Qiu, Gongshu Qiu would have ignored him.

Transforming a powerful machine snake into a means of transportation does not conform to their concept of domineering machine arts.

But who let Bai Yuan be the one who made the suggestion? We cannot ignore the public’s loss of grudges.

Especially Bai Yuan's words, "Non-attack machine arts and domineering machine arts are both machine arts. In the final analysis, they both serve the same purpose by different paths and serve people. The difference lies in what purpose you want to achieve." But it directly woke him up and made him There is no need to worry about being overbearing or not overbearing with machine skills.

Just use it well!

Gong Shuqiu is worthy of being a master of mechanism skills.

He spent some time and thought carefully, and then tried to modify the mechanism snake, removing some of its destructive functions, but unexpectedly found that this idea had great potential.

This is how today's mechanism snake came into being.

Gong Shuqiu's answer was beyond the expectations of everyone present, causing the ministers to start talking about it.

"Five thousand stones! Are you kidding me?"

"One person and one mechanism snake can actually transport five thousand dan of supplies!"

You must know that five thousand stones is not a small number.

Take the transportation of grain and grass as an example. If it were transported by manpower, a baggage camp with thousands of people, plus hundreds of horses pulling carts, could only carry about a thousand stones of grain and grass.

And one such machine snake can actually reach 5,000 shi, which is equivalent to the transportation volume of five baggage camps.

This does not include the consumption of horse chews by people during transportation. Generally, a large part of the grain and grass transported is consumed on the road.

If it can be transported by a mechanical snake, then the mechanical snake does not need to eat, wouldn't it reduce a lot of consumption?

And the transportation speed will probably be faster.

Even building such a mechanism snake may cost a lot of money, but this is a once and for all solution!

The one-time cost, not to mention permanent use, is much more cost-effective than human transportation.

For a time, all the generals serving in the army, such as Meng Ao, Zhang Tang, Huan Jue and others, all had their eyes widened.

They had thought of this almost as soon as they heard Gong Shuqiu's answer.

Ying Zheng couldn't help but stepped forward and reached out to touch the red mechanism snake head, as if he was touching some treasure.

Compared with the mechanism lizard next to it, this mechanism snake has a wider range of uses, and it is obviously more valued by Ying Zheng.

"Five thousand stones, okay!"

Ying Zheng seemed to see that the prosperous age of Great Qin was coming.

Immediately, he turned around and waved his sleeves.

"The public loses their hatred, and I have to work together in the shortest possible time to create at least ten, no, twenty of these trap snakes! All expenses will be borne by Great Qin."

Hearing this, the face of Zhizunaishi, who manages the treasury's finances, turned green.

The head of the house doesn't know that firewood and rice are expensive. Ying Zheng can simply say that this is a huge expense for him.

But everyone else looked excited, especially Ying Zheng, who had a determined attitude and a trace of irresistible majesty in his eyes.

Zhi Neishi could only grit his teeth and did not voice any objection.

Anyway, Ying Zheng only said that it would be produced in the shortest time, but he did not specify a specific time.

This leaves a lot of room for manipulation.

With enough money, enough manpower, and full efficiency, those few months may be the shortest time.

But when there is not enough money and manpower, there is nothing we can do if it takes a year and a half.

After all, he couldn't conjure money out of thin air.

Ying Zheng also knew the difficulties of governing Su Neishi, so he issued such a somewhat vague order.

Gongshu Chou immediately accepted Ying Zheng's order with a smile.

He knew that starting from today, they, the public losers, would completely ride on the chariot of Da Qin and have the most powerful backing.

Compared to the famous Mohist family, Gongshujia's life has not been very good these years.

And researching the mechanism technique is also very expensive. Now that he has Da Qin's support, he no longer has to worry about money in his research on the mechanism technique.

When the canal was built, he had done another great job.

After that, Ying Zheng issued another order.

"I've been told to send Gong Shuqiu to assist Zheng Guo in building the canal. The specific matters are with Zheng Guo as the main one and Gong Shuqiu as the auxiliary. The young governor must give his full support. Within three years, I will see that the canal is open!" "

　There is another chapter of 4k words tonight

　　

　

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