After being choked to death by a copper coin, she became a demon Jin Ji in the other world

But isn't this what Aluan and his wife are looking forward to? Then let them do what they want. I will bear witness to history on behalf of Aluan and remember it.

Chapter 186: Cheating and Taunting

After defeating the Han-Wei coalition, Shen Yuelan left Jicheng directly. In the end, she was unable to take away the little girl who had been in her arms for many years.

On the way to Qin State, Shen Yuelan remained silent, which made Shen Huanyan and others a little anxious, but fortunately, Shen Yuelan herself soon noticed this.

Her career as a civil servant in the other world for so many years made her realize that she should not hurt her friends who have always been by her side because of something that is irreversible.

[Ah, sorry, I lost my temper. You were asking about our next plan, right? We will follow our original plan and head to Qin State's Shu Prefecture.]

[Ah, Shu? The last time I went there was during the Song Dynasty. I don’t know what Shu was like a thousand years ago. It would be great if I could meet the ancient Shu people who created the Sanxingdui culture.]

[Master, I am glad that you can recover, but I regretfully remind you that the ancient Shu Kingdom was destroyed by the Qin Kingdom in 316 BC.]

Shen Yuelan curled her lips when she heard that. The ancient Shu Kingdom had only been gone for more than 40 years. Even though the ancients had a short lifespan, they were not all dead. There would always be one or two Shu people who cared about the glory of their homeland.

Chang Qu, a native of Shu, recorded the ancient Shu civilization in his Huayang Guozhi Shuzhi:

【The Shu Kingdom was founded by the Emperor Renhuang, who shared the same enclosure with Ba. When it came to the Yellow Emperor, he married his son Changyi to the daughter of the Shushan clan, who gave birth to Gaoyang, who became Emperor Zhuanxu. He granted his descendants in Shu, and they were made marquises and earls for generations. During the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, King Wu defeated King Zhou, and Shu was among them.】

This record was once regarded as "nonsense" in the modern trend of skepticism about ancient times, but with the emergence of the Xinjin Baodun Culture, which is 4,500 years old, and the Guanghan Sanxingdui Culture, which is 4,500 to 3,200 years old.

The historical conclusion that "Shu was founded by the Human Emperor" began to have a basis for verification, and Shen Yuelan was increasingly yearning for the splendid civilization that originated from the Human Emperor.

Before entering Shu, Shen Yuelan and others had to enter Guanzhong first, passing through Xianyang. Looking at the familiar black giant city, Shen Yuelan couldn't help but miss the life in Bai's family. Five or six years had passed, and she didn't know how Bai Qi's family was doing.

Queen Dowager Xuan died in 265 BC, while Marquis Rang was expelled from the Qin court in 266 BC. The Mi siblings had recently completed the feat of destroying the Yiqiu Kingdom, which completely cleared away all worries for Qin's eastward expansion. They were at the peak of their power.

With such a powerful father-in-law backing them up in the court, the Bai family's life would not be that bad. Shen Yuelan realized this and gave up the idea of entering the city. He turned around and continued to head south to Sichuan.

However, when she was leaving Xianyang, she was accidentally seen by a young man from a distance. Although the man looked happy, he did not say it. He just stood there and silently blessed her.

During the Warring States Period, there were few roads leading into Shu. The only road that was available was the Jinniu Road, which was later called the Jinniu Road. It started from Chengdu in the south, passed Guanghan, Deyang, and Zitong, climbed Yue and Xiaojian Mountains, and went out of Sichuan through Guangyuan, passing through the Qinling Mountains, out of the Xiagu, and directly led to the 800-li Qinchuan.

Shen Yuelan had walked this ancient road once before and should have been familiar with it, but the road conditions of the Warring States Period [Jinniu Road] were much worse than Shen Yuelan had imagined.

Although there are some signs of artificial repairs on the roads along the route and wooden bridges have been built in some dangerous places, it is still a drop in the bucket compared to the overall steepness.

Not only was the road rugged and difficult to walk on, but a straight distance of less than 100 meters actually made Shen Yuelan walk in circles for a thousand meters. It was indeed arduous, but compared to other roads, this was already a "good road" that could transport heavy objects.

[Master, when we were traveling here in the Song Dynasty, we heard the legend of the Golden Bull Road. It was said that the King of Shu coveted the wealth of the King of Qin, so he ordered the people of Shu to dig and build this road.]

【But when I look at this road again today, I have a different opinion. This road stretches for thousands of miles, and it is not something that could be opened by the human power of one country in the pre-Qin period. As we walked along, we found traces of artificial excavation, but they are not many. Could the legend of the Golden Bull Road be false?】

[It's possible, but legends are something you can say are untrue, but you can't ignore them.]

[The fact that Qin destroyed Shu is well documented, and the story of the Golden Bull is not necessarily false. It is just that sometimes the recorder will exaggerate a little when recording this matter.]

[For example, we can assume that this Golden Bull Road has existed for a long time, but because the road is hidden, no one except the people of Shu knows about this road into Shu. Moreover, the road is dangerous and some dangerous places do not have wooden bridges, so ordinary people cannot pass through at all.]

[In order to obtain specific information about this road from the Shu people, the Qin people set a trap to trick them into transporting heavy goods back to their country through this road. The road that the Golden Bull could pass through also allowed the Qin cavalry to pass through.]

[The so-called Five Dings can be called road builders, but it may be more appropriate to understand them as guides. Five Shu people led the Qin transport team, and in places they could not see, there were hundreds of thousands of Qin troops following them.]

[Of course, all of the above are just my guesses. ]

[History is like a girl who is in a trance and has half her clothes removed. It is only interesting if you take off her mysterious veil little by little. If she stands naked in front of you from the beginning, there will be no fun at all.]

Shen Yuelan's analogy was despised by everyone, especially Shen Sushang, who even mocked Shen Yuelan in the face.

[Hey, yo, your clothes are half off? You're still feeling ecstatic? How long has it been since you last touched me? You're a characterless heroine! ]

[Hey! How am I incompetent? I just didn't put in enough effort. Su Shang, you bastard, you actually dared to mock me. Just wait and see how I'll deal with you when I get to Shu County!]

[Haha, why do you have to go to Shu County? I can accept a field battle. If you have the guts, Shen Yuelan, fight me right now. I'll wait for you in the grove to the west now. Don't let me look down on you.]

Looking at Shen Sushang walking calmly into the woods, Shen Yuelan was in disbelief. She quickly looked at the people around her, trying to seek help, but unfortunately, these birdmen under her command were more weird than the other.

Su Xin avoided her gaze guiltily, but her red earlobes revealed that she was quite excited at the moment.

Su Yi said more directly that she didn't like 3P and asked Shen Yuelan to stop staring at her. Only Shen Huanyan reminded Shen Yuelan to turn off the empathy without blushing or beating her heart, and stuffed a quilt for her, telling her not to catch a cold.

Looking at these nasty things under her hands, Shen Yuelan couldn't help but wonder what sins she had committed in her previous life to have these weird things.

Chapter 187 Reading from the Script

In the end, Shen Yuelan followed with the quilt in her arms. She naturally refused to admit that she was incapable. If she wanted to prove herself, she could only fight Shen Sushang with real swords and guns.

Seeing this, the remaining few people naturally tactfully did not go over. They found a relatively safe open space, set up camp, made a fire and cooked, and waited for the results over there, without saying a word all night.

As the saying goes, a man is like a wolf at thirty and a tiger at forty. Although Shen Sushang is not as good as those old foxes, she is definitely a thousand-year-old fox. If she really tries her best, Shen Yuelan's thin body will be in trouble.

What everyone saw the next day was the rosy-faced Shen Suchang and the pale-faced Shen Yuelan, sitting around the campfire together, eating the tonic soup that had just been cooked.

That tonic soup was naturally made by Shen Sushang, and the person who really needed the tonic was Shen Yuelan. It seemed that the dispute had already come to an end, and Shen Yuelan was completely defeated.

Shen Yuelan herself did not deny this. After a short rest, she continued on her way dejectedly, and never dared to make any dirty jokes along the way.

During the Warring States Period, the geographical location of Qin Shu County was basically the same as that of Chengdu in later generations. It can even be said that the geographical location of Chengdu City in successive dynasties has not changed much. After all, although the Chengdu Plain is large, there are only a few places suitable for building a city.

Last time, Shen Yuelan traveled all over northern Sichuan and tasted all the delicious food there. But when she went to those places again this time, she found that in most areas, even the villages had not been formed yet.

Therefore, Shen Yuelan did not stay in these places for too long, but even so, due to the dangerous road, they walked for more than three months. At the end of 271 BC, they finally arrived at Shu County where they wanted to go.

Looking at the somewhat shabby county town in front of her, Shen Yuelan would be lying if she said she was not disappointed. However, it was not very realistic to expect a county town in a remote area to be built well.

Shen Yuelan's identity in the Qin State was somewhat awkward. She was Bai Qi's deceased adopted daughter Bai Lan. Because she had lived in Xianyang for quite a long time, many people knew her and Huanyan and others, including the current Shu County Prefect Li Bing.

Therefore, most of the matters related to entering Shujun City were coordinated by Shen Sushang. After all, she had been sleeping before and no one knew her. Moreover, she felt like she had returned home in this era, especially in Qin State, where this guy was much more active than usual.

[Alan, Alan, I have found out that Governor Li and his men are now in the Minjiang River in the northwest of Shu County, building the Dujiangyan Irrigation System! When are we going there?]

[Oh, have you found out? What is the progress of the construction now? ]

[It is still in the initial stage. I heard that Governor Li has just designed the engineering drawings of Dujiangyan these days, and will be ready to start construction in a few days.]

[And I also got the design drawings. The governor's overall design was based on the terrain characteristics and resource conditions of the Minjiang River flowing out of the high mountain valley, the river surface is wide, the flow rate suddenly decreases, and the left bank area is surrounded by mountains. ]

[He first planned to "dig away the flood and avoid the harm of the foamy water." He planned to dig a water inlet about 20 meters wide in a section of the Hanshan Mountain that extends to the west of Guan County. This would not only divert floodwaters and reduce disasters, but also divert water to irrigate the Chengdu Plain.]

【The second is "blocking the river". That is, building the Dujiangyan diversion embankment. Its layout is: in the middle of the river above Li Dui, along the direction of the left foothills, take local sand and stones to build a long embankment. And this section of the foothills is repaired to become the left bank of the water diversion channel, forming an arc-shaped bend from the right (Minjiang River) to the left (this section of the bend is called Neijiang), so as to force the surface water to enter the water diversion channel from right to left; the bottom water still rushes to the main flow with silt. In this way, the siltation of the irrigation channel can be greatly reduced, so that the smooth flow of the channel is guaranteed. 】

【The third is to "pass through the two rivers in Chengdu". That is, to dig two major canals (now Zouma River and Baitiao River) below the Lidui water intake to bring water into the Chengdu Plain.】

[Yeah, not bad, not bad. Although I didn't understand the principle at all, I roughly understood it. Is this the information about Dujiangyan that you searched on the Internet in the surface world? ]

[Eh! Lan, how did you know that? I have clearly tried my best to express it in my own language, and I should have made it very clear.]

[Well, it's because you explained it so clearly. Ancient people relied on their own experience to do things. They didn't understand the principles you mentioned, and you used so many professional terms.]

[And the feeling of your lectures is just like that of my junior high school physics teacher, who explained things very clearly but always made people sleepy. Later I found out that this guy was actually just reading from a textbook, no wonder it was so uncomfortable to listen to.]

Shen Sushang bit Shen Yuelan's arm in dissatisfaction. Although she did not get the design drawings in Li Bing's hands, weren't the design principles the same?

And even if they did, what would happen? They didn't understand the hydraulic principles involved, and they didn't intend to help or sabotage. They just wanted to watch the fun, so why bother being so professional?

Shen Sushang complained to Shen Yuelan, and Shen Yuelan, who was complained about, blushed and said indignantly:

[This is a sense of ritual! A sense of ritual!! Regardless of success or failure, the process must be followed. There is no romance at all! ]

[What kind of sentiment is this? You are just being formalistic! Formalistic! Because you are always doing useless things, I have policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom!]

The two chattered for a long time but couldn't come to any conclusion. In the end, Shen Huanyan's shout of "Dinner is ready" ended the argument.

Since we are in Shu, we naturally have to try the local specialties. There were no famous dishes in Shu during the Warring States Period, and the famous Sichuan cuisine of later generations had not yet begun to take shape during the Warring States Period.

However, seasonings such as peppercorns, ginger, and garlic had already been used during this period, so early Sichuan cuisine was more numbing than spicy.

It was naturally impossible for Shen Huanyan to cook those ancient Sichuan dishes that were not very delicious. Shen Yuelan and others ate the Sichuan hot pot that was famous in later generations. This delicacy originated in the Qing Dynasty and is still delicious if you eat it occasionally.

[So are we going to Dujiangyan or not? ]

[Let’s go, when they officially start construction, we’ll go and take a look. There’s no point in going now. Alas, actually we’re still too early. I wanted to wait until they have built a prototype before going to see it.]

[There is nothing we can do about it. Dujiangyan was not built in a day. It took Governor Li and the Bai family in Shu 18 years of hard work and youth to build it.]

[And how many eighteen years did the ancients have? ]

Chapter 188: Erlang Zhenjun

On the way to Minjiang River, Shen Yuelan met a group of very interesting Shu people.

This group of people were very opposed to Li Bing's construction of the Dujiangyan Irrigation System. They believed that what Li Bing was doing today was against the will of heaven. At this moment, they were standing on the road leading to the construction site, spreading the theory that water conservancy projects were harmful.

[The heaven and earth have their own constants, the sun and the moon have their own brightness, the stars have their own rows, the animals have their own groups, the trees have their own standing, the heaven and earth are born with me, all things are one with me, we should follow nature and not act arbitrarily.]

【Heaven and earth are the mother of all things, and man is the spirit of all things. Man follows the earth, the earth follows heaven, heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature. In front of nature, we should be like the butcher Ding who cuts up an ox, good at following the laws of nature and letting it live naturally. Otherwise, it will inevitably lead to disastrous consequences.】

[All our actions should be in harmony with the natural world. The harmony of heaven is the premise of the harmony of man. What Li Bing did today destroyed the harmony of heaven and will definitely bring disaster! ]

[We should abandon our limbs, abandon our intelligence, leave our bodies and wisdom, and follow the great way. We should not use man to help heaven, nor should we use man to destroy heaven. We must not develop a "utilitarian and cunning heart", which will bring endless chaos, fighting and sin to the entire society!]

Looking at the old men standing on the hillside and talking, Shen Yuelan scratched her head a little depressed. She listened for a long time and roughly heard that these gentlemen should have some relationship with the Laozi and Zhuangzi doctrines of the pre-Qin period.

This is what later generations called the "Taoist School", but unlike what later generations believed, there was actually no such thing as the Taoist School in the Pre-Qin era.

The several major schools within Taoist doctrines each developed their own systems during the Warring States Period. It was not until after the Qin and Han Dynasties that they were combined into one school, the so-called Taoism.

And it mainly formed two schools, [Huang-Lao] and [Lao-Zhuang], the former emphasized external kingship, while the latter emphasized internal sageliness.

The Huang-Lao school of thought flourished in the early Western Han Dynasty and focused on politics, while the Laozi and Zhuangzi school of thought placed more emphasis on the relationship between man and nature, believing that man should follow the will of nature and not go against it.

The group of opponents were talking about the Laozi and Zhuangzi doctrines at this moment. They didn't care whether the people below could understand them or not. Anyway, as long as they thought the remarks were useful, they would quote from classics to prove that Li Bing's approach was wrong.

[Master, what they said seems to make sense. Is Governor Li's plan really that perfect? ]

[There is nothing perfect in this world. They are not wrong, but we should not go to extremes. Being too utilitarian will indeed lead to disaster, but the opposite is also true.]

After listening to this, Shen Huanyan fell into deep thought and did not speak for a long time. No one knew what she was thinking at the moment. Although the little girl was young, her thoughts were deeper than anyone else present.

Maybe it’s because she has a master who is not very cunning. Children from poor families have to grow up early, and this is exactly what is meant by a little beauty like Huanyan.

[It is said that the ancients liked to deify their ancestors who made outstanding contributions. Li Taishou and his son made such great contributions to Sichuan, but they were not given any official positions?]

[Yes, of course not. After their death, Li Bing and his son were worshipped by the local people. Li Bing's son, Li Erlang, was even listed among the immortals! ]

[Immortal class? Really?]

[Of course it is true. I have checked it out. Li Erlang is the prototype of the Holy Erlang. The so-called Guankou Erlang refers to this person. As for the legend of Yang Erlang who split the Peach Mountain to save his mother and carried the mountain to catch up with the sun, it was spliced onto him by later generations.]

[During the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan court also conferred the title of Shengde Guangyu Yinghui Wang on Li Bing, the governor of Qinshu County, and the title of Yinglie Zhaohui Lingxian Renyou Wang on his son Erlang Shen, which can be regarded as a great honor that will be passed down through the ages.]

[However, the Li family father and son were quite miserable. The records of their names in historical books are actually incomplete. The "Historical Records of Rivers and Canals" records "Shu Shoubing" with a name but no surname.]

[The "Han Shu Gou Xu Zhi" records "Shu Shou Li Bing", which is considered to be a complete name, but it is still unknown how credible this record is after hundreds of years.]

[So it’s hard to say whether this Governor Li’s surname is Li or Yang, right?]

[Normally, this is the case. However, let's just assume that his last name is Li. After all, we are civil servants in the other world, so we have to stick to our guns. Even if we are wrong, we have to be stubborn for a while before changing our ways.]

【Forehead……】

Looking at Shen Sushang, who has already mastered the essence of being a civil servant in the other world, Shen Yuelan is not only worried about the future of her team, but also worried about the future if they are so good at fooling people now. What will happen in the future?

Avoiding the noisy opponents, Shen Yuelan and others continued to walk towards their destination. Although what those Shu people said was very high-sounding, Shen Yuelan knew that these people were essentially what she thought they were, the Shu people who hoped to restore their country.

Why did the several generations of Shu dukes appointed by Qin always rebel? Wasn't it because these people were doing things in secret? The construction of Dujiangyan would not only strengthen the connection between Shu and Guanzhong, but also make the people of Shu gradually give up resisting the rule of Qin.

These were all things that the group of national restorationists could not accept, which was why they desperately opposed the construction of Dujiangyan. It was not that Dujiangyan was bad, but that it could not be built by the Qin people.

But at this moment, the three kingdoms in Shu had been destroyed for more than 40 years. How could they decide who would repair it and how to repair it?

It should be noted that the independent power of the ancient Shu Kingdom did not appear in the wave of uprisings at the end of the Qin Dynasty. In other words, the ancient Shu Kingdom was ultimately a thing of the past for this generation.

[Moo…moo…]

Before Shen Yuelan reached the riverside, a sad horn sounded slowly in the distance, echoing on both sides of the Minjiang River. It seemed that the groundbreaking ceremony had begun.

Compared with the crowded construction site that Shen Yuelan had imagined, Li Bing's groundbreaking ceremony could almost be described as simple. The scene was more like a sacrifice, no, it was exactly a sacrifice.

Whole cows, sheep and pigs were placed on a high platform for the gods to eat. On both sides of the altar, there was a cage containing two girls of the same appearance.

It seemed that they were planning to use it as a human sacrifice. After the wizard finished his blessing, he would throw it into the river together with the three animals on the stage.

Shen Yuelan was a little hesitant for a moment, not knowing whether she should save them or not. With A-Lan's previous experience as a lesson, Shen Yuelan really didn't want to raise two children around her in the short term.

Just when she was about to give up, an item on the sisters caught Shen Yuelan's attention. It was a copper lock, which was part of the raw material for forging the Ming Dao Monster. Hiss, she had to save them this time.

But how to save him became a problem that troubled Shen Yuelan. Although there were not many people at the sacrificial site, judging from their clothes, they were either rich or noble. If she acted rashly, she was afraid that she would inadvertently change the course of history.

Chapter 189: The Future is Promising

But if you want to take the two people away without anyone noticing, it is not easy to do. If you are not careful, it will backfire and turn into a manifestation of the gods, attracting those nobles and powerful people to compete for human sacrifice.

If this is the result, it would go against Shen Yuelan's original intention of saving people. So what should we do?

Just as Shen Yuelan was thinking hard, her sight inadvertently fell on the turbid river surface. Tsk, since she can't do anything on the water, she might as well get into the water.