Chapter 287 Heading south, target Daqin!
The elders of the Xiongnu royal court were angry but dared not speak. They gritted their teeth and felt heartbroken, and gave up thousands of cattle and sheep.

These were the result of months of hard work by the Huns, but in return they received glassware that shattered at the slightest touch.

Then, when the Roman caravan once again took out a royal luxury called "carpet", Maodun finally trembled.

"Elder Klein, Elder Klein, wait, wait!"

"Please listen to me. There are really no cattle and sheep on my grassland today!"

"But I know a good place!"

"Less than a thousand miles south of my grassland is the Great Qin Kingdom!"

"There are the most fertile lands, the most beautiful women, the best food, equipment, and various treasures. They will surely satisfy all your needs!"

Klein's eyes lit up instantly: "Is what you said true?!"

"Is there a country in the world richer than the Roman Empire?"

"Will there be a trap?"

Maodun Chanyu quickly assured: "I dare not, I dare not!"

"It's only a thousand miles away. My Lord, can you go and see it yourself?"

"If you find that what I said is wrong, my people of the grassland are here. When your cavalry arrives, we will be fish on the chopping board. How dare we deceive you?"

Klein narrowed his eyes slightly, and a sneer formed at the corner of his mouth: "No wonder you are so obedient, it turns out you have already found out about it!"

"Well, since you are so obedient, when we conquer Qin, we will grant you the status of a lower-level vassal state of the grassland people, and you will raise war horses exclusively for us Romans!"

"Do you have anything else to say about Daqin?"

The Chanyu was filled with resentment, but when he heard the Romans' proposal, he rolled his eyes and came up with a plan.

"Sir, the Qin army is extremely powerful. I do not recommend that you lead the cavalry to attack directly!"

"On the contrary, the people of that land believe in Confucianism. If you go there peacefully to trade, they will have no reason to take action and will be able to open their borders easily."

"In addition, to ensure that nothing goes wrong, I also know of a path that can allow 10,000 cavalry to bypass the Great Wall of Qin and appear directly on the territory of Qin."

"Of course, I will give you the route and map. It depends on your wisdom how to proceed."

The Roman caravan captain, Klein, took the map, laughed heartily, and waved his hand to give the order:
"Everyone disguised as guards."

"Let's go! Head south and march towards Daqin!"

Almost at the same time, Xu Fu suddenly discovered a cave on Pengdao Island in the East China Sea.

Stepping into it, he laughed wildly:

"Hahaha! The First Emperor sent me to Penglai to look for immortals, but who knew I would actually find the remains of an immortal!"

"Ying Zheng! You asked me to find the elixir for you, but you would never have thought that I actually found it!"

"But will I leave this elixir to you?!"

After saying this, Xu Fu swallowed the only elixir in his hand. In an instant, his momentum surged like a raging tide!
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In the east of Xianyang City, a large team inspected the operating conditions of several factories.

The cement plant, steel plant, brick factory, etc., since the system rewarded them to Ying Heng, he has never taken good care of them, after all, he is too lazy.

Now that it involves Daqin's infrastructure and water conservancy projects, he has begun to devote all his energy to it.

As for flood control, Ying Heng already had two plans in mind based on his memories from his previous life.

How it will be implemented will depend on the specific circumstances of the flooding of the two rivers caused by heavy rains.

In fact, not only the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, but all the rivers in the Qin Dynasty, especially in the southern region, need to consider flood control.

Of course, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River are the upper reaches of many major rivers.

If these two rivers can be managed well in the upper reaches, many problems in the lower reaches will be solved.

However, to properly manage the two rivers upstream, a giant project similar to the Three Gorges Dam in later generations needs to be built upstream. A single dam needs to be hundreds of meters high and thousands of meters long, and the investment is easily hundreds of billions of RMB.

This is a project that can only be realized in the future when technology is highly developed.

Considering the current technological level of the Qin Dynasty, this is simply a fantasy.

Unless it is a system reward, or Ying Heng cultivates to become an immortal and builds such a project with the help of formations and talismans, such a huge project is absolutely beyond human capability.

Of course, ancient times also had their own unique methods.

Combining the memories of the two lives, Ying Heng is prepared to take a two-pronged approach, adopting a strategy that combines the ancient and modern...

The first priority is to widen the channel at the confluence of the two rivers and increase its depth and capacity.

At the same time, many tributaries and reservoirs were dug along the river to serve as buffer zones for flood discharge and water storage when floods come.

Simply put, it is to strengthen the main body of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River and enhance the water storage function around them.

The key to achieving all this is the large supply of steel bars, cement and concrete.

The system prompt sounded: [Ding, temporary system task, if you prevent flooding in the Yangtze River and Yellow River basins within the next month, the host will be rewarded with a Three Gorges Dam. ]

Inside the cement factory, towering furnaces roar, continuously producing gray cement powder.

Qin Shihuang, Liu Bowen and others looked down at the mysterious powder. The curious Qin Shihuang even dipped his finger in it to try a taste.

"Bah bah bah!"

He spat it out immediately, and the remaining particles in his mouth actually condensed into small particles on his tongue.

"Heng'er, what is this? Is this the infrastructure artifact you mentioned?"

Ying Heng was immersed in the temporary task issued by the system. The Three Gorges Dam is a huge behemoth!
Despite the system instructions, due to plane differences, the awarded Three Gorges Dam may not have power generation facilities.

But it is still the world's largest dam capable of holding tens of billions of cubic meters of water!

Such a giant dam has countless uses even if it is not used for power generation!
For a country, it is undoubtedly a source of super energy.

Not to mention its original function - to control water flow and resist floods and droughts!
After Qin Shihuang's repeated questioning, the extremely excited Ying Heng came back to his senses.

"Ah, what?"

“Yes, this is the magic weapon of infrastructure!”

“This time, no matter what the cost, we must manage the water conservancy of the Yangtze and Yellow rivers!”

Ying Heng responded to Qin Shihuang and secretly made up his mind.

The Three Gorges Dam is too tempting, we must fight for it!

Qin Shi Huang was full of doubts, and he reached out and touched Ying Heng's forehead: "Heng'er, you don't have a fever, do you?"

"You're just going to rely on this grey powder to treat the water?"

"You may not realize how terrible a flood is once it breaks out."

Liu Bowen and others also nodded in agreement. "Sir, isn't this cement also a kind of mud?"

"When a flood comes, no matter what kind of mud it is, it cannot withstand the impact."

“Unless we can build a wall several times higher than the Great Wall with stone and mud, we may be able to contain the flood.”

"However, this idea is too idealistic. A feat like the Great Wall would have required hundreds of thousands of workers and taken nearly ten years to complete. It is nothing but a drop in the bucket for the current flood disaster."

“Even if it is really built, it will cause trouble to the people living around it.”

"Whether it's fishermen fishing or farmland irrigation, it will suffer huge inconvenience."

"Such a structure, once erected, will only become a shackle on ourselves and add unnecessary burdens."

(End of this chapter)