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Chapter 1: Tunnels and Aqueducts (Part 2)

Soon, Pulaima became a huge factory. For the progress of the project, Kelly also used Lukulas's connections to get a group of prisoners from the prison in Rome. Now veterans, craftsmen, slaves and prisoners are mixed together. The first thing to do is to build the aqueduct and the reservoir. In order to achieve normal progress, under the auspices of Karabis, a relatively detailed division of labor was done: veterans were responsible for supervision, stonemasons and construction workers were responsible for the specific construction, and slaves and prisoners did some rough work, such as excavation and transporting stones.

Soon, the lead was shipped from Kelly's friend's warehouse, and the corresponding slave craftsmen also came in batches. They used a mold made of wood to cut the lead into thin strips, bent it into arcs on the mold, and then welded and connected it together to form a series of standardized lead pipes, accompanied by violent coughing and sneezing.

"You have to order wine and hot bread for these people!" One day, when Karabis, who came from the Kitchen Temple, saw the terrifying whiteness of the slaves who forged lead tubes on site, it was obvious that these people were already poisoned by lead. He still had thick saliva flowing unconsciously, so he loudly asked Kelly, the supervisor.

Kelly shrugged, "Okay, these people were originally bought by my friend from a mine in faraway Spain. Now they can leave the mine and come here to make lead pipes, which is a great benefit."

"No, the fortune teller said that there should be no workers, even slaves, who died at the Pulaima construction site, otherwise it would be an unlucky manifestation. Don't worry, some inferior and cheap warm wine and bread can not cost much money, but can help them excrete some poison." Karabis is stubborn.

Then he looked at Kelly's eyes and said, "Okay, the money will be deducted from the project payment."

Only then did Kelly nod and expressed his willingness to buy it.

In his spare time (the main specific engineering affairs were entrusted to Milu), Karabis sat in the Kitchen Temple, stretched out a roll of thin parchment paper, and applied it with lead to calculate the budget of the project. Yes, Milu expected that 50,000 drachma would be the highest. Now his asking price is 85,000 drachma, of which 50,000 is the total cost including the salary of veterans such as Milu and Pope, and the remaining 35,000, and 8,000 are fixedly taken away by Claudiya, Bicchi, and now 5,000 are left by Kelly, Fake squids. Today, it would be an additional 2,000 drachma for the slaves. Then the final falls into his hands is about 20,000 drachma.

I was so scared that I stopped Milu from quoting. If it were only 50,000 Drakma, I would have treated both kidneys as not enough. Moreover, Claudia and Kelly would have interfered halfway, which was very dangerous.

After careful consideration, Karabis carefully rolled the parchment paper, stuffed it into a sleeve, and placed it on the corner of the bookshelf. At this moment, a man covered in a black cape and couldn't see his appearance suddenly stood at his desk, shocking him.

"Give us a key, administrator." A man of big and thick slack next to the man in black cloak said, and then handed over a heavy purse.

The wallet was extremely rich. As soon as Karabis passed by, he knew that there were at least seventy or eighty owl silver coins inside. Then he looked at the man and the man, but without any surprise, he presented the key.

After the two left, Karabis complained in his heart: "This is the first time I have seen this combination. You can imagine how tragic the scene inside is. I should have asked them just now if they want to use cream and olive oil."

After a while, the youngest Virgin Zeno, covered her virgin clothes with her coat, touched the pillars of the Holy Cu, and walked over with a pair of big eyes with thick eyelashes, looking at Karabis in fear, and then asked timidly: "Which room is the man with a black cloak just now?"

"!" Only this symbol was left in Karabis' heart, but he didn't say much, just pointed to the room, Zeno bit his lip, nodded at Karabis with a red face, and then walked over quietly.

After Zeno left, Karabis suddenly covered his mouth. He really didn't know what to say. This was a great thing. Let Li Xilia know that Zeno's little girl is buried in life, and I will be implicated. No, but I can't break in rashly, as that would probably cause a commotion. Unexpectedly, these ancient Roman nobles were so developed, and some people liked to wear virginity, and they were two big men and a fifteen or sixteen-year-old virginity.

Karabis, who was restless, was relieved until he saw the man in black and the man coming out. Then Zeno followed him out with a panic look on his face, "Please don't tell Li Xilia what happened just now." She begged.

"Are you short of money?" Karabis couldn't help asking. You know, the treatment of the Kitchen God Virgin is very generous and his status is extremely noble. He really couldn't think of any other reason to convince himself, believing that Zeno would do such a move.

Zeno also looked at Karabis with a look of surprise, and then said, "No, I don't short of money." After that, he wrapped his coat and went out.

Karabis, who was covered in vague mountains and mountains, couldn't figure out what Zeno was for for the time being, so he continued his special work as a "Sanku Administrator". It seems that Li Xilia didn't notice anything. About eight markets later, the seawater guidance project in Pulaima was completed.

Between the green mountains and the blue sea water, there is a breakwater made of goose yellow stones. The huge and high reservoirs are surrounded by them. The sea water inside is drawn in with a precision spiral water pump. Then, rows of curved lead pipes extend into the pond, sucking out the accumulated sea water in the pond, adhering to the continuous mountains, and there are four Roman foot thick wooden boards under it to prevent leakage. One up and one after another, it is finally injected into the towering aqueduct reservoir in the courtyard, and then flows through pipes made of ceramic pieces and into the artificially dug pond.

In this pond of sea water, there are many sea fish that Lukulas and Marcos cherished. According to ancient Roman agronomic books, it has no economic value at all. "The price of transporting an eel on the road is equivalent to a mule pulling an eel." But the nobles didn't care. Lukulas was very happy because although he was at a disadvantage in the triumphal genre, he undoubtedly dominated the city of Rome in terms of fish raising.

There is a pond with seawater injected, and there is a pond with freshwater injected on one side. There is also a pond in the middle of the two ponds. It is connected with exquisite sluice gates designed by Pop, and mixes salt water with freshwater in between. This is Karabis's mind, which is specially used for Marcos. Soon, two Nile crocodiles were transported from the Port of Alexandria. This kind of thing likes to live on the beach where seawater and freshwater are mixed. Now, they are covered in concave scales and are about to "conquer Rome". Perhaps in a few days, Marcos will be able to throw small stones on the shore to feed them.

"My library and Claudia's banquet hall are also handed over to you. If you have any questions about money, just go to my trust company to handle it. Kelly will assist you." The brothers Lukulas and Marcos, who were sitting in the ring chair, were obviously very satisfied with the scene in front of you, and said to Karabis who was smiling beside you.
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