Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

Hearing what Lu Chen said, the others looked at Zhao Dahu nervously.

Although this uncle is a nice person, his temper is too straightforward and he doesn't have a heart. If he accidentally asks some question that shouldn't be asked and annoys this young and shameless big shot, then they will be finished.

Under the tense eyes of several people, Zhao Dahu asked in a trembling tone: "My lord, you...have you ever said...the people...the people are the most precious, and the people are water or something?"

Lu Chen thought for a while, and then said directly: "The people are more important than the king? The people are water, and the king is a boat?"

Zhao Dahu nodded vigorously: "Yes, Erhu seems to have said so!"

Hearing this, Lu Chen vaguely remembered something.

I remember that when Xia Yan, the No. 3 backstab guy, was interrogated by the third division, among the Yongchuan people who came all the way from Yongchuan County to hand over the Wanmin letter to save Xia Yan, there seemed to be something called Erhu.

But this little matter seems to be nothing to worry about, so he didn't think about it too much, nodded directly, and admitted:

"Well, that's what I said."

After the words fell, Zhao Dahu breathed a sigh of relief as if he had confirmed something, and then he uttered the questions that Lu Chen had just asked.

The people conscripted into labor have to work for nine hours out of twelve hours a day, and each person still has a daily workload. If it is less than this amount, the food will be reduced according to the small part, and then the stomach will not be full. It was difficult to finish the work, so I could only watch helplessly as the food gradually decreased.

Then, if no family members come to deliver meals, they will basically either die of exhaustion or starve to death on the construction site.

There is indeed a reward for completing the workload, but the reward is just an extra bowl of so-called broth with no oil or water in it. As for the food provided by the government, it is even more difficult to describe. They have never tried it without eating sand. The so-called thick porridge is so "thick" that it is almost difficult to stand up with chopsticks, and the pancakes given can almost be used as blunt weapons to kill people, and there is only a small piece.

Eat less and work more, if you don't do well, you have to be beaten and starved, even if you do well, there is almost no reward, the rest time is short, and there is a strict time limit for going to the toilet.

Sometimes the officials are in a bad mood, such as losing money, or failing to be the guest of a certain girl or Mr. Rabbit, and they will find all kinds of excuses to vent their anger on them.

It has been just over a month since the renovation of the Wuji Palace and the arrangement of the New Yuan Ceremony started. As far as Zhao Dahu knows, there are no less than ten servants who have died of violent deaths.

After listening to his story, Lu Chen's heart became more and more heavy.

In ancient times, labor was indeed a more terrible thing than tax items...

Then he raised his head, staring at the scars on several people who were clearly left by whipping, a look of regret flashed in his eyes.

Working for free, you have to endure bullying by officials. If you are unlucky, you will be responsible for your life here.

In ancient society, human life was indeed worthless.

Compared with this, modern society is simply a fairyland on earth.

Moreover, the people of Central Continent will be threatened by evil cultivators, evil spirits, monsters, natural disasters, spiritual disasters, etc. Maybe when an evil cultivator who has practiced some kind of kung fu that needs to dig out the marrow and eat the heart will pass by, All the people in an entire area will die tragically.

Compared with it, the ancient society before he traveled didn't seem so bad.

"grown ups…"

Seeing Lu Chen's silence, Lin Feng asked nervously, "Do you have anything else to ask?"

Lu Chen suddenly came back to his senses, then shook his head and said, "No more."

As he said that, he stood up directly, patted the dust on the back, then stretched out his hand to stop Zhao Dahu and the others from getting up, told them to take a good rest, then turned and walked towards another construction site.

Afterwards, he roughly inspected the entire Promise Palace.

It seems that the renovation project and the layout of the New Yuan Ceremony are halfway through. According to this progress, it should be completed before the New Yuan Ceremony.

Of course, the premise is that everything goes smoothly and there are no twists and turns in the middle.

Finally, Lu Chen came to the warehouse where various things such as spirit stones, special stones from Tianhe Mansion, spells, etc. were placed.

Several petty officials followed behind him.

"Lord Lu."

One of the small officials said with a smile: "Although the warehouse is not dirty, but all kinds of spirit-controlling objects inside are piled up together, and the surrounding aura may be a little abnormal, which may not only hurt the adults, but also cause harm to the people." The spiritual root of the adult has an influence, and there are many more..."

"You're full of nonsense, why don't you go and write a book?"

Lu Chen snorted softly, and said decisively:

"Stop talking nonsense, where is the spirit key? Hurry up and open the vault door for me!"

Seeing that Lu Chen was so strong, they had no choice but to follow suit.

But when they opened the door, the two of them gave each other a wink inexplicably.

click...

The heavy warehouse door opened, and Lu Chen walked in without hesitation, then went straight to the place where the spirit stones were piled up, randomly took out one of the blue spirit stones piled up in a small hill, then closed his eyes, Perceive carefully.

After a while, he slowly opened his eyes.

"Yes, the spiritual power is pure, and it is a top-grade spiritual stone."

Hearing this, the eyes of several small officials relaxed slightly, and then one of them smiled flatteringly and said: "Of course, this is something used in the palace, and the quality is naturally not bad, otherwise, your majesty will blame it, and no one will take care of it." I'm sorry..."

Another little official also continued: "Moreover, the Lingshi in the palace has always been provided by the Duke of Yan. The Duke of Yan has been loyal and good for generations, and the Dukes of Yan have been loyal to the court and respected His Majesty. How could this be possible? Will you do such disrespectful things as shoddy?"

"That's right, Duke Yan is absolutely trustworthy. It is said that every spirit stone supplied to the palace must be carefully confirmed by the nobles of Duke Yan's mansion, and it will only be shipped to the capital after confirming that it is a top-grade spirit stone."

A few people talked about Yan Guogong's kind words, but they didn't notice that the corner of Lu Chen's mouth showed a meaningful arc.

"Spiritual stones are indeed good, but... a top-grade spiritual stone with five hundred taels of silver, isn't it a bit ridiculously expensive?"

Hearing this, the voices of several people stopped abruptly.

Lu Chen threw the spirit stone back casually, and continued, "Although it's normal for good things to be more expensive, when I was the governor of Yu and Sui states, I knew a lot about prices. You know, the general high-grade spirit stone is about two hundred and fifty taels of silver, and I have seen its fineness, and it seems to be no different from the spirit stone of the Duke of Yan's mansion."

"That, Mr. Lu, you don't know something..."

A small official said softly: "The spirit stones in the Duke of Yan's mansion have much less impurities than ordinary high-grade spirit stones, and the spiritual power contained in them is also extremely pure. It can be used to arrange magic circles..."

Lu Chen smiled coldly: "Can it be twice as high as the high-grade spirit stones in other places?"

As soon as the words fell, the faces of all the petty officials froze slightly.