Chapter 86: Men should be tougher on themselves
While Lu Zhi was collecting food and fodder, Qin Mo returned to Blackwater City.
At the same time, they brought two thousand craftsmen.
Needless to say, this was all the credit of the Minister of Works Du Ming. With Qin Mo's instructions, the Shaofu recruited craftsmen from various states, not only making up for the previous deficit, but also adding another 2,000 people.
According to Qin Mo , the recruitment campaign has to continue.
As for supplies, as early as when Qin Mo welcomed Emperor Xian of Han back to Luoyang, he took the time to take out half of the massive amount of supplies seized from Dong Zhuo's army and transported them back to the tribe.
At present, the tribe has sufficient supplies to survive the winter.
After coming out of the teleportation array, the Black Water Tribe had completely changed.
The square is still the same square, but it is no longer made of yellow earth. It is paved with bluestone slabs of uniform size. Combined with the Heishui clan statues, the teleportation array, and the ancestral temple, it gives people a sense of solemnity and dignity.
All the tents set up in the square have been removed.
In fact, this is the only old building left in the Black Water Tribe. The shops around the square, including the wooden houses and fences on the periphery, have all been demolished.
The entire thing was torn down and rebuilt.
And further away, a five-meter-high brick and stone wall rose from the ground, like a high mountain, carving out a piece of pure land in the wilderness, silently guarding the flame of humanity.
That is the newly built inner city wall.
A twelve-meter-wide bluestone street extends from the square, connecting the four city gates.
In addition to these, the inner city was full of bustling construction sites. In order to build a new home, the original Black Water tribe members, including the first batch of 2,000 artisans who were brought in, had already moved to the outer city.
There are tents and makeshift shacks everywhere, it feels like a huge slum.
The conditions are very difficult.
But no one complained or cried out. Instead, they were full of energy and seemed to have endless strength. They wanted to use their own hands to build a brand new city in the wilderness.
Qin Mo had promised before that they would have a place in the inner city.
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After handing over the two thousand craftsmen he had just brought, Qin Mo was invited to the ancestral temple by the great wizard.
The courtyard where he used to live was also demolished.
"This is the inner city planning map, take a look." The great wizard Ji Ye took out a large hand-painted map with great interest. It was an overall plan of the inner city of Blackwater City drawn by a craftsman.
According to the plan, the inner city is mainly composed of government offices, and the rest are two east and west markets, the City God Temple, the Bell and Drum Tower, the Zhaixing Tower and other landmark buildings.
On the contrary, there are very few planned residential areas.
The reason why it is so crowded is that a very large royal palace is planned in the inner city. It is located at the northernmost part of the inner city, 3,000 meters wide from east to west and 1,800 meters long from north to south.
It occupies more than half of the inner city.
The great wizard Ji Ye actually took Qin Mo's previous joke to heart and said he wanted to become king or something.
After reading it, Qin Mo said, "I have two suggestions."
"You tell me."
"First, the palace does not need to be as luxurious and grand as planned. It only needs to be 500 meters wide from east to west and 500 meters long from north to south." Qin Mo reduced the palace to less than one twentieth of its original size.
Even this has surpassed the palaces of the kings during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
There is no need to compare it with the Tang Dynasty.
Qin Mo's goal is to pursue immortality, not to become an emperor. It is even more impossible for him to have three palaces, six courtyards and seventy-two concubines in the future. What's the point of building such a big palace?
"Second, the planned area of the palace is temporarily sealed, so there is no need to rush into construction." Qin Mo said.
Including the population of the Black Water Tribe, there are only about 5,000 people in total. Building a palace now will only make people laugh.
However, it is still necessary to plan ahead to avoid the need to expropriate land and demolish and rebuild in the future.
"Okay." The great wizard Ji Ye didn't understand this either. He just listened to the craftsman's nonsense and rejected it when Qin Mo rejected it.
It's just a bit of a pity.
After talking about the city planning, Qin Mo finally talked about business, which was also the main purpose of his return to the tribe this time. He asked: "Great Wizard, have you found all the herbs I asked for before?"
The medicinal herbs Qin Mo mentioned were prepared for practicing the "Eight-Nine Profound Art".
In reality, the decoration of the practice room in the basement of the villa is nearing completion, and the practice props Qin Mo customized online have also been shipped.
You can choose a day to practice the gold tribulation among the five elements.
By then, Qin Mo will be covered in blood and his bones will be broken. He must soak in a special medicine recorded in the "Eight-Nine Mysterious Art" in order to recover quickly.
Qin Mo asked the great wizard to find all the medicinal herbs needed.
"You wait."
The great wizard turned around and took out a large wooden box. He opened it and found it was filled with dried herbs. He said with emotion, "Some tribes have stocks of the herbs you want, and some we temporarily collected in Black Stone Forest."
What he didn't say was that for one of the medicinal herbs, Zhao Gang led his hunting team on an adventure deep into the Black and White Mountains, where they were almost attacked by monsters and wiped out.
Fortunately, I escaped the disaster.
"Thank you for your hard work!" Qin Mo didn't hesitate and stored the box into the dimensional space.
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That afternoon, Qin Mo returned to Luoyang.
He is now in a high position of power, and everyone is watching his every move, so he dare not leave for too long.
In a blink of an eye, it is October.
In reality, Qin Mo also ushered in another special day - the start of university.
Qin Mo, who had long been fed up with taking classes with a bunch of little brats, learned his lesson this time. He first applied to not live in the dormitory on the grounds that his home was in Jiangcheng, in order to escape the control of the dormitory manager.
At the same time, avoid interacting with classmates.
Then, Qin Mo used some tricks to raise his body temperature to 41 degrees, successfully obtained a certificate of illness from the hospital, and escaped the routine military training for college freshmen.
As a result, during the first month of school, Qin Mo never showed up at Jiangnan University except on the day he reported, causing his classmates to think that there was no such person in the class at all.
This is exactly what Qin Mo wanted.
Anyway, you are free to take classes in college. As long as you get the class schedule, nothing else will be affected.
As for club activities, class activities, dormitory-specific overnight activities, and social activities, they have nothing to do with Qin Mo.
There was no way he could do that before when he was in high school, but now he has no interest in joining in the fun.
From this moment on, Qin Mo was destined to become another legend of the Department of Physics at Jiangnan University, a mysterious person who was hard to find but always ranked first in the exams and won scholarships.
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Xinghe Community.
Inside the villa, Qin Mo opened the door to the basement through fingerprint recognition.
There is a simply decorated dressing room at the entrance. Strangely, there is a large bathtub inside. It is more like a bathroom than a dressing room.
The bathtub was filled with an unknown green liquid, which was the medicine brewed by Qin Mo.
Still steaming.
Qin Mo took off his clothes and shoes, leaving only a pair of special crotch-protecting shorts and a special metal helmet, and walked out of the locker room barefoot.
Connected to the locker room is the training room.
Very weird design.
Not only are the four walls covered with high-strength stainless steel plates, but even the ceiling and floor are covered with stainless steel plates, forming a sealed iron box.
Except for the floor, the other five sides of the steel plate are densely packed with holes of varying sizes. The large holes are as big as a fist, while the small ones are as thin as a needle hole.
I don’t know what it is used for.
A dot was marked in yellow paint in the center of the floor, and a circle with a diameter of one meter was drawn.
Qin Mo walked into the circle, picked up the remote control on the ground, took a deep breath, and pressed the switch of the remote control. Suddenly, a rumbling sound of the mechanism turning came from the steel plates on the surrounding walls.
It turns out that there is a track ejection device installed inside the steel plate.
“Puff! Puff! Puff!”
Almost at the same time, fist-sized steel balls were ejected from the holes in the surrounding walls and the ceiling, and the target was Qin Mo in the circle.
That's no ordinary steel ball.
Not only is it forged entirely with ultra-strong steel, but it is also covered with steel spikes of varying lengths that flash with a cold light, the kind that makes one's scalp tingle at first sight.
Qin Mo put on a blindfold.
Bang! Bang! Bang…
As he spoke, steel balls hit Qin Mo's naked body one after another. Because they were projected at high speeds, even with Qin Mo's tough skin, bloody holes were quickly pierced.
And this is just the beginning...
