Augustus Road

The "next dish" Poti mentioned appeared a few days later. The Temple of Vesta was still in its festival period. Calabis, who had nothing to do, continued to perform the extremely shameful "ancient dish" in Tyranion. "Greek Military Physical Training" not only includes heavy infantry racing, but also boxing, [***] wrestling, swimming and other events. Until Kelly appeared at the entrance of the college with a tired look on his face again, "Congratulations, Karabis, that Feltus engineer introduced by Claudia..."

"Called Portus." Calabis wiped the sweat and fine sand from his body, removed the leather bandage on his fist, and corrected him.

"Well, Porthos, he failed with the tunnel."

"How did it fail?" Karabis asked curiously as he raised the pottery urn to fill with water.

"When digging the tunnel, two teams of craftsmen dug opposite each other across the mountain. In the end, they were completely different by a hundred Roman feet, and they didn't match up. Then they continued digging sideways, preparing to match up. In the end, they were right up against each other, but they also collapsed. "Kelly's words made Calabis spurt out a mouthful of water. However, after coughing repeatedly, he also figured out that at this time, the level of engineering mathematics was still limited, and digging tunnels in the mountain was not suitable for such common problems. It's okay, just get used to it gradually.

"Did the patron ask me to try it?"

Kelly said with a serious face: "I'm not asking you to try it. The master has already lost 20,000 drachmas because of this failure. He asked you to solve this problem and take that Milu with you."

The scorching sun in May was like a scorching fire. In the trench area of ​​​​Prema, Milu was using a measuring instrument called "Groma" with sweat on his face. Karabis was holding a parasol to protect him from the sun, and his face was also sweaty. . Luculas and Claudia sat behind them with gloomy expressions. It seemed that the two people must have had a big quarrel before. After being busy for a long time, Milu asked Popper to bring a pedometer, a kind of thing rolled with a strip of cloth, to the foot of the mountain over there. The two of them then used a triangular edge measurement method on one side of the mountain. We found a meeting point on both sides and finally figured out the straight length of the tunnel.

After Calabis saw Milu's calculation, he was very pleased. He thought that since these legionnaires had calculated the angle and length, what they did next must be much better than the engineer in Portos.

Unexpectedly, Milu walked up to Luculas, gave a military salute, and said bluntly: "Your Excellency, after measuring the length, I personally believe that the soil of this mountain cannot dig a tunnel. Even if it is dug, it will be It collapsed because it could not hold up." Upon hearing this, Calabis's face was even more painful than Luculas's.

"But... we can build an aqueduct to bring seawater from the mountain." Popper added on the side.

Luculas said strangely: "Aqueduct? I've seen it before. Do you mean to use an aqueduct to transport water from the sea up, and then cross the hillside and pour it into the courtyard of my villa? How is this possible!" At that time, people still had basic mechanics. Someone who knows something.

Pope showed a knowing smile at this time and began to talk about the mountain: "Sir, this is not your fault. My solution is this. Now build a reservoir with a breakwater on the seaside, equipped with a water pump, and the height Across your courtyard, lay multiple rows of lead pipes with a diameter of one Roman foot along the hillside, and insert them into the reservoir on this side, leading directly to the aqueduct in the courtyard. After the seawater is sucked up, it passes through the lead. The inside of the pipe goes over the mountain, flows into the aqueduct, and then flows into your fish pond.”

"What is this?" Luculas asked, squinting his eyes.

"Sir, this is a technology I saw in a castle in Pergamon, Asia Minor. It is said that we also had it in Rome two hundred years ago, but it has been lost now." Pope said with certainty.

"Isn't this the siphon principle?" Calabis said silently in his heart, but did not say it out loud. Instead, he looked at everyone present with an expression of wonder, and then everyone was infected by his expression. , and they all looked at each other with expressions of wonder.

"Soldier, maybe what you said is a feasible plan. Why don't you talk about your budget." Luculas finally said this.

"Your Excellency, the biggest investment is the lead pipe. This is a big trouble. I estimate that a large weight of lead will be used to produce it. It will require a large space and a lot of craftsmen." Pope said, Lukula Si then asked directly: "Is one hundred thousand drachmas enough?"

"Actually fifty thousand..." Before Milu on the side could speak, Karabis shouted first: "Actually, my friends can do very well with eighty-five thousand drachmas."

"Kelly, please don't worry about this. I have to go and stay with Marcus for a while - dear wife, I'm sorry." Luculas stood up politely, obviously satisfied with the plan. , then abandoned his wife and left. When he left, he turned back and told Calabis: "Calabis, you have to know that with the identities of Milu and Pop, I have to withstand a lot of pressure when using them, so ——Make things beautiful.”

"Oh yeah!" Karabis originally looked at Luculas's back and wanted to make a fist to express his excitement and joy, but he soon saw Claudia staring at him with a strange look, and immediately He restrained himself.

"Calabis, where are you from?" Claudia put her hand on her cheek and asked curiously.

"The east, the far away place, is full of deserts and wild beasts." Karabis made nonsense.

Claudia was not interested in asking questions. She put a gauze shawl on herself and blackmailed Carabis: "You want 85,000 drachmas? Do you know how much the architect of Fertus wants?"

"It seems to be Portus, Portus, respected mistress." Carabis carefully corrected.

"Well, he wants 125,000 drachmas. This guy is worthy of being a free man protected by Crassus. He is greedy, but he is only willing to give me 5,000 drachmas as a commission." Claudia said in an annoyed tone. Two hairdressing maids handed over the open dressing box and held it in front of her. The romantic lady took out a small handheld bronze mirror from the dressing box and put on makeup, because it was said that there would be a grand aristocratic party in Beyer tonight. She didn't want to be gloomy at all. "Five thousand, that guy can do it..."

"Although we only want 85,000, but 8,000 are yours, mistress." Carabis bowed and said in a low voice.

Claudia chuckled, looking very happy and satisfied. "You are good, Carapis. In fact, I have always valued your plan. I won't ask more about this matter." Then she closed the dressing box and left, surrounded by maids and servants.

"Get out of here quickly." Carapis squinted his eyes and said in Chinese very kindly, as if he was saying goodbye to his mistress warmly.

"What lead blocks do you want? I have a fellow countryman who has two ore warehouses in Rome. There are thin lead sheets made of large square lead blocks from Athens Claudius. The quality is absolutely excellent." Kelly appeared beside Carapis at some point and whispered in his ear - everyone wants to get a share of this business.

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