Save the Bachelor of Heaven

Xiang Nan then sent Cui Wenzi down the mountain. When they parted, he cast a traceless stretching spell on Cui Wenzi's gourd and filled it with the top-grade Xinghua Fenjiu.

In addition, he gave him a double-sided bronze mirror, and agreed that if Cui Wenzi encountered difficult and complicated diseases, large-scale plagues, or his life was in danger, he could use the bronze mirror to contact Xiang Nan.

"It's really a magical trick." Cui Wenzi couldn't help but admire it.

It was incredible that Xiang Nan cast a spell to make the space in his gourd so large.

And the bronze mirror could actually transmit messages thousands of miles away, just like face to face, and the world was so close, which was really amazing.

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After sending Cui Wenzi away, Xiang Nan went to Xianyang and secretly stole General Meng Tian's warhorse Heifeng.

Meng Tian was a famous general in the Qin Dynasty. He was familiar with military books and strategies. He led the Meng family army to fight north and south and won every battle. He had a very high status in the court.

In the play, he also treated Yi Xiaochuan as his long-lost brother Meng Tian, ​​and loved and treated him very well, even entrusting the Meng family army to him before his death.

It's a pity that Yi Xiaochuan had no ambition. With 300,000 soldiers and horses, he didn't want to do anything. Instead, he disbanded the Meng family army, making himself a lonely man.

Otherwise, if he had a large army, even Qin Shihuang would be afraid of him, and he would not be bullied by Gao Yao, Lu Zhi, and Liu Bang.

The reason why Xiang Nan stole Meng Tian's mount Heifeng was because Cui Wenzi's elixir of immortality was made from Heifeng's blood and Tianxing powder.

Originally, Xiang Nan was still wondering what was so special about Heifeng's blood.

But when he saw Heifeng, he understood.

It turned out that Heifeng was a sweat-blood horse. This kind of horse can be called a good horse. It is fast, powerful, and has strong endurance. It is the best horse breed in the world.

Emperor Wu of Han even sent a large army to the Western Regions to obtain the Ferghana horse. No wonder Cui Wenzi would want to take advantage of it.

But why does the elixir of immortality need the blood of Black Wind? Can it be made with the blood of other horses, other animals, or magical creatures?

You know, there are many potions in Snape's storage room, many of which come from magical creatures. For example, unicorns, leopards, centaurs, phoenixes, unicorns, dragons...

Xiang Nan still needs to study slowly.

After stealing Black Wind, Xiang Nan specially raised it under the villa, using a space created by the traceless stretching spell.

This space is very huge and looks like a real grassland, with lush pastures and clear streams. In order to prevent Black Wind from being lonely, Xiang Nan also went to the Western Regions and caught a group of fine horses to accompany it.

These horses galloped freely in this space every day, just like living on the grassland, and they didn't have to worry about natural enemies such as wolves, bears, tigers, and leopards. It can be said that they were quite comfortable.

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At the same time, in the 30th year of Emperor Shihuang's reign, Emperor Qin Shihuang began to build the Great Wall in the north, for which he recruited more than 400,000 civilians.

At the same time, the total population of the Qin Dynasty was only 20 million, which means that one in 50 people was recruited. And those who were recruited were all young and middle-aged laborers, which was bad news for many families.

Because of this conscription, many people's fathers, brothers, and husbands were forced to leave their hometowns for corvée labor, which caused the family to fall into difficulties in production and life due to lack of labor.

After all, farming is a very hard job. Whether it is plowing, sowing, fertilizing, weeding, watering, or the final harvesting and storage, it is very laborious. Without strong labor, it is impossible.

This is why in old age, when the husband of the family fell seriously ill and was unable to support the family, the wife, after obtaining the husband's consent, would find a hardworking and capable man to live with her, and wait until the husband died before marrying that man. This custom is called "Labangtao".

Moreover, when the laborers were serving labor service, they had to bring their own dry food, money, and clothes on the road. If they missed the deadline, did not arrive at the assembly point in time, or the conscripted people did not arrive in full, all of them would be punished.

The key point is that this was not the first time that Qin Shihuang had carried out a large infrastructure project.

In 220 BC, that is, the 27th year of the first emperor, that is, the year before last, Qin Shihuang recruited hundreds of thousands of laborers to build the Chidao.

The Qin Chidao project was huge, with a total length of more than 900 kilometers. And you have to know that there were no road rollers, no pile drivers, no transport vehicles in ancient times... all of them required human and animal power.

In 219 BC, Qin Shihuang recruited laborers to build the Lingqu Canal between the Xiangjiang River and the Lijiang River. The Lingqu Canal is 37 kilometers long and took five years to dig successfully. In other words, there is still a group of civilians digging the Lingqu Canal in the south.

In addition, when Qin Shihuang first ascended the throne, he had already started to build his own mausoleum; and after unifying the six kingdoms, he began to build the Afang Palace. These two are also huge projects. The Afang Palace was not completed until the fall of the Qin Dynasty.

These large infrastructure projects have long made the people of the Qin Dynasty miserable. After successive conscriptions, almost all the strong laborers in each household were taken away, leaving only a group of old, weak, women and children.

The people were naturally unbearable and miserable. For this reason, everyone who was conscripted was very resistant, and there were countless escapes on the road.

In the play, when Liu Bang, as the head of the pavilion in Pei County, led the civilians to Xianyang, two people looked for opportunities to escape and were unwilling to serve corvée.

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Xiang Nan also knew about Qin Shihuang's construction of the Great Wall, but he did not ask about it.

For him, those civilians were indeed very miserable.

Not only did they leave their hometown and go far to the north to build the Great Wall, but the work was also very tiring. Because the Great Wall was built between high mountains and steep ridges, it was not an easy task to move the stones and bricks used for construction.

Although there is no record in history books about how many people died in the construction of the Great Wall, it is impossible that tens of thousands of people did not die in such a large project.

But Xiang Nan has long been accustomed to life and death. Not to mention tens of thousands of people, even hundreds of thousands or millions of people are nothing but passing clouds to him.

If he had to take action every time, even if he had billions of clones, it would not be enough. Xiang Nan does not want to be a superhero who "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility". He is not so selfless and great.

If someone asks him for help or something happens in front of him, he does not mind lending a hand if it does not harm his own interests. But he will never take the initiative to help, go to help specially, and sacrifice himself to help others.

He is not a saint like Yi Xiaochuan. He knows what kind of people Liu Bang, Lu Zhi, and Gao Yao are and what they have done to him, but he can still forgive them. He would even risk his life for someone who had nothing to do with him.

He believed in tit-for-tat and would never suffer a loss.

Therefore, Xiang Nan did not care about this matter and continued to practice his skills in the mountains.

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