The main purpose of wearing official uniforms is to facilitate questioning and investigating the people.
When the people see the officials in uniform, they will be afraid, and it will be convenient for them to ask them anything.
However, they were arrested just after they stopped a citizen and asked him a few questions.
What kind of logic is this? Arresting someone for just asking a single question?
In the dark cell, a hoarse voice sounded in the silence.
"Is Magistrate Deng really planning a rebellion? Otherwise, why would he arrest the Imperial Commissioner's men?"
Another voice said in disbelief, "How dare he? The governor of a small city wants to rebel. Isn't that just courting death?"
"That's right," another person echoed, "There's no one rebelling. They're just trying to renovate the entire city. With all that money, they might as well use it to recruit soldiers."
"Even if Qianhuang City expands further, it still won't be enough compared to the Great Celestial Empire."
"That makes sense. Then why did Magistrate Deng arrest us?"
Just when everyone fell silent again, there was a "creaking" sound.
The tightly closed cell door slowly opened, and the candlelight outside the cell poured in, instantly making the dim cell much brighter.
Everyone widened their eyes and looked towards the cell door excitedly.
The jailer came in carrying a piece of wood and a basket of steamed buns.
"Bang, bang, bang~" The jailer glanced at everyone and knocked on the wooden barrel, "It's time to eat."
After saying that, he placed the wooden barrel at the door of the cell and threw in a basket of coarse grain buns that were as hard as stones.
The hungry officers' eyes lit up and they quickly moved towards the prison door.
"this......."
After receiving the coarse grain steamed buns which were harder than those in the post station, the light in the officers’ eyes instantly went out and they almost cursed.
How can they eat it when it’s so hard?
Everyone's eyes turned to the barrel. They lay on the cell bars and stared into the barrel.
It's a bucket of water...
There were forty or fifty people in the cell, and they were only given one bucket of water...
As for whether the water in the bucket was turbid, the officials didn't care at all. They had drunk a lot of turbid water on the road, so this water was considered clear.
The officers wanted to protest to the jailer.
But when he looked up, the prison boss was nowhere to be seen.
As soon as the cell door was closed, the cell immediately became dark.
A beam of cold moonlight streamed in through a ventilation window as big as a face.
“...Fuck him!!!”
The officers held it in for a long time, then cursed angrily as they picked up the coarse grain buns that were harder than stones.
After taking a few bites of the hard coarse grain steamed bun with great effort, only a few teeth marks were left on it.
One officer couldn't stand it anymore and threw the steamed bun to the ground with a "Duang" sound.
They pulled at the cell door, shook it hard and shouted loudly.
"Let me out! We are the Imperial Envoy's men. Who dares to lock me up?!"
"Someone, please let me out! We are imperial envoys who have been ordered to conduct a secret investigation..."
"Sir, help, please come and help us get out..."
“.......”
Listening to the officers shouting and wailing in the cell, the jailer sneered and muttered softly,
"We're arresting you imperial envoys from the capital who are up to no good."
"Humph, seeing that our Qianhuang City is getting better, everyone wants to get involved."
"When so many people starved to death a few months ago, no one from the capital came to take care of it."
"He...tui...what is that..."
The jailer spat, turned over, listened to the officers' screams and howls, and slowly fell asleep with a smile on his face.
........
"Your Highness, this is the kang...bed that the craftsmen built according to your requirements."
Magistrate Deng pointed at the brick and stone kang and looked at Shen Yong.
To be honest, he had never seen anyone sleeping on a bed made of bricks and stones.
First of all, it is very hard and you need to sleep on a blanket to make it less hard.
Secondly, bricks and stones are very expensive, and the people are reluctant to spend that money to build a stone bed. It is better to just make a bed with wooden boards.
As for those who have money, they have plenty of good beds to sleep in, so they won’t bother with this.
Previously, the rooms where soldiers slept in the barracks were simply built with a few wooden boards.
"Not bad." Shen Yong nodded and walked over to take a look inside and out.
He did it according to the description he found in the takeaway mall.
First, use bricks and stones to build a kang enclosure that matches the height of the human body, and then build brick and stone column bases on the ground.
Then build a vortex trough at the chimney outlet, build the kang surface, smooth it and burn it dry...
It looks exactly as it says in the description.
"Light a fire and see the effect."
Whether the disk is good or not depends on how it works.
If the seal is not done properly, it can easily cause carbon monoxide poisoning.
The heat of the kang must also be controlled to avoid burns.
"Yes." Magistrate Deng nodded with a smile and looked at the person at the stove.
The person squatting at the stove ready to light a fire at any time received a signal from Magistrate Deng and immediately lit the hay stuffed in the stove.
Magistrate Deng looked at the kang excitedly and nervously.
During the process of building the kang, it has been burned several times, mainly to dry the layers of the kang surface.
After the final completion, he had not yet seen the effect of the kang.
According to the report from the craftsman this morning, when the work was completed last night, he tried it and the effect was good. The kang surface was indeed very hot and the temperature in the room was also very high.
The weather is still very hot now, and people can't stand the stuffiness in the house after a while.
A group of craftsmen stood behind the two men, looking very nervous.
I'm afraid something unexpected might happen.
This kang was built by them step by step with their own hands, and the effect is visible.
I have to say that King Qianhuang’s method is indeed good.
In winter, when the stove is lit, the pot can be filled with water.
The room became warm and the water in the pot was hot, making it very convenient to wash.
The winter in Qianhuang City is really cold. Although it is not as cold as Liaodong, the temperature is still very low, sometimes even below minus ten degrees Celsius.
In previous winters, there were elderly people who froze to death.
As soon as winter comes, it is very difficult for older people to endure and they may not be able to survive the winter.
It was freezing cold inside and outside, and the old man was afraid of the cold.
After a snowfall and a night passed, the old man followed.
This matter is unavoidable. Qianhuang City is a border town with a shortage of supplies. The people live a hard life and simply don't have enough money to buy warm clothes.
Some people's families are so poor that three generations of a family only have one set of cotton-padded clothes. Whoever needs to go out to do something wears it, and everyone else stays in bed together to keep warm.
Now that King Qianhuang has built this kang, the people can get through the winter more easily.
It’s not that the common people can afford to build such good houses and kangs, but King Qianhuang directly took charge of building the houses in the expanded area.
This means that all the houses within a radius of dozens of miles around Qianhuang City will be demolished and rebuilt with such spacious and beautiful houses with kangs.
How could the people not be willing?
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