"It's a punishment of 刖 (yuè)."

Dongmen Leopard was also on the side, put down the shovel in his hand and said: "He is probably unwilling to be a prisoner and tried to escape." I've heard that a prisoner like this, who has been a city boy all his life, runs the first time, cuts off his toe, runs the second time, breaks his left foot, and runs the third time......"

"If you run for the third time, you will definitely die......"

Heifu gasped, only to see that the Chu thief was covered with mud and scarred, I am afraid that he was just caught, this guy can really run, and he has to try to escape without his left foot.

Dongmen Leopard also sighed: "I really admire this person's stubbornness, if it were me, without my left foot, I would definitely be disheartened and accept my fate." ”

"Or maybe it's just a death." Heifu doesn't know what kind of emotion he should have, is he guilty? Isn't it, sympathy? A little, but more, just glad that he wasn't that Chu thief.

But seeing Wu Zhu and the county Sikong take the Chu thief with the broken foot to the corner of the city wall that Heifu had just repaired, Wu Zhu recited a word, looking up at the sky for a while, and falling to the ground for a while, chattering with gods, as if he was doing some ritual......

"What is this for?" Heifu felt a little uneasy.

The courtier on the side seemed to have seen a similar scene, and after groaning, he said slowly: "After the city wall is repaired, this person should be used as a sacrifice, buried in the wall, and pray to the local lake gods and mountain ghosts to bless the city wall to be strong and not fall for a hundred years!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the young pawns were all shocked, and Heifu was even more shocked.

"Could it be that although the incident of Wan Xiliang being buried on the Great Wall is a false rumor, something similar has happened?"

Heifu knew that although the Legalists who dominated the Qin State tended to be atheistic, believing that it was better to rely on heaven and earth than on oneself and the law. However, among the people of Qin, from the Loess Plateau in Guanzhong to the Jianghan Coast on the bank of Yunmengze, the wind of superstition is still very strong.

Especially Nanjun, which used to be the hometown of Chu State, is even more prevalent in witches and ghosts. Although Nanjun Taishou denounced this as "obscene and vulgar" in the official document, in fact, even the official government of Qin State was also sacrificing a large number of gods, such as the three gods and witches of Wu Xian, Da Shen Ji and Ya Camel, who were officially worshipped. Anlu County also has Chu gods recognized by the government, such as "Yunzhongjun", "Da Si Ming" and "Shao Si Ming", and temples and altars can be seen everywhere in the city and outside the city.

Even the small Quyang Lake, there is a "Quyang Jun", although the Qin State does not allow young boys and girls to be sacrificed to the lake, but every time a city is built and a road is built, one or two death row prisoners will still be killed from time to time for sacrifice......

In the end, the Chu thief, who was tortured by amputated feet, was killed on the spot by cutting his throat like a dog or a dog. The man who did it was clean and neat, and he didn't suffer any more, and the blood flowed into Quyang Lake, staining a corner of the lake red, and reflecting the red sunset in the sky.

Then, in the ceremony held by the feathered Wu Zhu, a cluster of copper arrows was embedded in the chest of the Chu thief, and in the long singing, the body of the Chu thief was carried by everyone to the gap specially left at the corner of the city wall, and sealed with adobe bricks......

His flesh and blood will henceforth be condensed with this wall, dry up and decay, and only when the next troubled times and the bricks peel off can he see the light of day again.

At this point, this section of the wall was truly completed.

That night, the county sikong, who had been keeping a straight face for half a month, finally showed a smiling face, and he asked the cook to cook a pot of broth for the guards, so that everyone could have a full meal, and called each of the chiefs together to thank them......

"In the past half month, there have been more heavy lives and many complaints, thanks to the proper restraint of the second and third sons, the city wall can be completed on time."

In the county's narration, Heifu learned that it was not easy for the chief foreman, and that the Qin State's special "Sikong Law" for civil engineering was simply meticulous, even the loss of building materials such as formwork and horizontal timber for building walls, and the specifications and quantities of each meal of the prisoners and prisoners were clearly stipulated.

In the Qin State, do you want to do something like some contractors in later generations and make money from it? Dream on!

What scared the county even more was that another "Decree of the Law" also demanded that if he made a mistake in estimating the labor required for the project before the start of construction, causing the construction time to be overdue by more than two days, he would be punished for "not observing".

Therefore, a few days ago, the county Sikong had a straight face, and the requirements for the quality of the project were extremely high, although it did not reach the extent that Helian Bo built ten thousand cities in later generations and would kill people by piercing an inch with a cone, but it was almost the same, and the lazy prisoners were all drawn to death.

Fortunately, the construction period of the black man was successfully completed on October 29th!

But just when Heifu and the others breathed a sigh of relief, the county Sikong took a sip of broth, but said with a wry smile: "Don't think that the second and third sons will be finished after repairing the city wall, and in the next year, if there is a problem with this wall, we still have to ask!" ”

It turned out that the civil engineering works of the Qin State had a "warranty period", and the foreman and the laborers who repaired the city were responsible for the section they built. If there is a quality problem within a year, causing the city wall to crack and collapse, the guard in charge of the construction will be arrested and repaired, and the warranty period does not count the time you serve in the service!

"So ruthless!"

Heifu couldn't help but be speechless, and could only pray that the Chu thief who was embedded in the city wall could really work, so that next year's rain would not be too big and the lake would not rise too high, otherwise he would be unlucky. This conscription was so hard that Heifu didn't want to serve it a second time.

However, if you think about it carefully, if this "accountability warranty" system can be passed on to future generations, such as the collapse of the rainbow bridge and the cracking of high-rise buildings within a month of completion, they will not be so rampant. At least in the Qin State, everyone can pat their chests and promise: "I am Daqin, there is no tofu scum project!" Although tofu had not yet been invented at this time.

Heifu knew that because the rammed earth was too strong, it would be difficult for grass to grow on the remaining sections of the Qinzhi Road after 2,000 years.

The projects completed in the Qin Dynasty, such as Dujiangyan and Lingqu, have basically maintained their original appearance in modern times, and are even still in use.

Easier said than done.

But the question is, with such backward productivity, how much more blood and sweat will be shed in order to achieve such a standard?

That night, Heifu lay in a temporary shack under the city wall, unable to sleep for a long time, and the cold wind outside was whining, as if the Chu thief who was embedded in the city wall was screaming.

It has been more than a month since he came to this era, and here, he witnessed the rigor and precision of Qin law, and the Qin officials controlled the efficient operation of the country, just as Xunzi saw when he entered Qin: "Its people are simple, its vocal music is not dirty, its clothes are not bad, and they are very afraid of being obedient." The Duyi government, its hundred officials are solemn, all of them are frugal, respectful, faithful and not ...... "At least, most of them are like this, I have to say that Qin Law is indeed the pioneer of the leading era.

But Heifu also saw the other side that Xunzi failed to see, this is still an era full of barbarism, for the small people of Shengdou, life is difficult and dangerous everywhere, if you accidentally violate the law, you will suffer severe punishment, and there is no possibility of turning over. Although Qin's prison sentence ratio is not to the extent that the streets are full, it is high enough.

The advanced and the barbaric dance together, humanity and ruthlessness coexist, this is the Qin that Heifu feels, the real Qin, is not so unbearable as smeared by later generations, nor is it so beautiful as Qin fans advocate......

In the middle of the night, Heifu fell asleep in a daze.

On the second day, they finally survived until the end of the construction period, and they were all called by the county secretary to sign a wooden board document, which was stamped with the seal of the official temple to prove that the service period expired, which is called "to".

The county secretary said that this document will be divided into two, one will be sent to the place of household registration in advance, and the other will be held by the guards themselves, so don't lose it.

You yourself claim to have returned from service? That's not counting, and there must be a certificate issued by the government.

If the recruited guard returns to his hometown, and it is found that he has fled without permission, he will be sentenced to four months of hard labor on the frontier...... So, don't think about cheating, or be honest, serving is an obligation that every citizen of the Qin State must fulfill.

After completing these formalities, they returned to the school yard to reassemble, and General Chen Baijiang counted the number of people again before announcing that the service was over, and they had to leave the school yard by tonight.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, congratulated each other on the successful conclusion of this service, and planned to go home with them along the way.

But at this moment, General Chen Baijiang called out to Heifu with a pleasant face, saying that the county lieutenant had something to look for him!

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PS: If the pawn is not blocked, the Sikong will be red (gong) and the gentleman who is the main blocker is guilty, so that he will be restored, do not count it as (徭). - "The Discipline"

At the corner of the southern wall of the ancient city of Liye, the bones of a male prisoner who had been tortured were indeed excavated and placed here as a sacrifice.