"Gongshusheng, do you know why the iron smelting furnace suddenly collapsed?" After all the injured people were dealt with and placed, Chen Xu returned to Gongshusheng's ward to inquire about the situation.

"Mr. Marquis, it has been several days since the iron smelting furnace was repaired. Because the coal stone and iron ore have not arrived yet, I didn't care. However, because it suddenly snowed, I went to check it out and found that there were signs of cracking in the furnace wall. I asked someone to prepare bricks, stones and soil to be reinforced, but I didn't expect it to collapse suddenly!" Gongshusheng said with lingering fear.

"I don't know the reason?" Chen Xu asked with a serious expression.

"I feel that the thickness of the three-combination soil used in the furnace foundation is insufficient. The furnace is basically designed to be five feet thick, but only three feet. In addition, the furnace wall should have three layers of bricks, but only two layers of bricks were used..." Gong Shusheng said his guess.

"Okay, you can rest assured to recover from your injuries. Don't think too much. I will find out about this." Chen Xu comforted Gongshusheng for a few words and came to the collapsed iron smelting furnace again. At this time, Ying Bu and the imperial guards had already captured hundreds of work slaves, helpers and craftsmen, standing in the snow densely, one by one, was so scared that they were all invisible.

The Qin Dynasty is the most special and terrifying dynasty in Chinese history.

The special reason is that he created the first unified situation in China, which affected China's future generations for more than two thousand years. No Chinese emperor dared to say that he would split his territory in the future.

The terror is because of his decree. This is a dynasty with the most stringent laws. It is extremely strict for farmers and merchants and craftsmen. People without status and status are not allowed to be serialized casually. Of course, it is the exception that you are a gentry. Although the craftsmen in the Qin Dynasty have not had a low status, their management is very strict, especially the quality requirements are simply outrageous. Remote mountainous areas may be better. In big cities, especially places like Xianyang, craftsmen may be abolished from their household registration and demoted to slaves if they have slight negligence. The quality of the project is even more harsh. Legend has it that the construction requirement of the Great Wall is that even swords cannot be inserted into it. Once the craftsmen who fail to meet the standards will be severely punished, and the supervisor will also be punished with severe punishment, with light noses and heavy beheading.

Therefore, the collapse of the iron smelting furnace in front of us caused more than ten casualties was a very serious project quality accident. Although blizzards fell from the sky, this is not an excuse for the iron smelting furnace to collapse. Unless a meteorite fell from the sky and just fell on the railway, there is no excuse to avoid responsibility.

Therefore, all the craftsmen slaves and managers involved in the construction of this iron furnace felt extremely frightened.

Chen Xu did not ask anyone first, but took Yu Wuya and Zhao Qing into the collapsed iron smelting furnace, carefully watched the collapse, and then asked someone to find the construction drawings. After careful comparison, he found that it was different from what Gong Shusheng said. The thickness of the furnace base on the drawings was also three feet thick, and the wall of the furnace only had two layers of bricks, which was no different from the furnace built in front of him. In other words, if the drawings were not problematic, there would be no problems in the construction.

But Chen Xu felt that Gongshu won't talk nonsense, because this iron smelting furnace was designed by him personally referring to the iron smelting furnace in Qinghe Town, and he would not know the parameters of the iron smelting furnace.

The biggest possibility is that someone has changed the drawings!

After watching, Chen Xu came out with a dark face and looked at a group of people standing in the snow and mobilized, saying, "Who is the supervisor?"

"Return to the Marquis, the supervisor is Shang Qi!" a captain in charge of construction site safety bowed.

"Where is the person?" Chen Xu asked coldly.

"Since the iron smelting furnace was repaired, the supervisor of the Shang Dynasty has not been here!" the captain replied.

"Mr. Marquis, Shang Qi is the son of Shang Tu, the left middle of the craftsman's Shaofu. He used to be the Minister of the Secretariat. He had just been transferred to the Academy of Sciences!" Zhao Qing stood beside him and whispered.

"Which craftsmen are responsible for building iron furnaces? Come out!"

Chen Xu shouted loudly, and three middle-aged men and a gray-bearded old man came out of the crowd. The four of them were so scared that they knelt in the snow and kept kowtowing and shouting for their lives.

"I just heard Gongshusheng say that the furnace should be basically five feet thick, but it was only three feet thick. The furnace wall should have three layers of bricks, but only two layers of bricks were used. Who asked you to build it like this?"

"Mr. Marquis please spare me. When the construction was first built, the Supervisor showed us the drawings. We also strictly built them according to the drawings. The furnace base is three feet and the furnace wall is two layers. It is no different. The Supervisor also strictly monitors our construction process every day. We dare not cut corners, nor do we dare to make any mistakes!" The four craftsmen who were in charge of the construction of the iron smelting furnace kowtowed like pounding garlic.

"My benefactor, it seems that someone has tampered with this drawing. Either Shang Qi or someone else, it has nothing to do with craftsmanship!" Yu Wuya stood beside him holding the iron sword and whispered.

Chen Xu nodded slightly and said sternly: "From today on the construction of this iron smelting furnace, no one who participates in the construction of this iron smelting furnace will leave the construction site. When I check the matter clearly before taking it, I will take it down to take care of it. The food and drink cost will be as usual!"

"Here~" After the lieutenant salute, he waved his hand, and more than a dozen soldiers holding long spears took all the people away.

"Others perform their own duties, so don't make this public, do you hear that?"

"Yes, Marquis!" A group of managers on the construction site also quickly bowed and bowed.

Chen Xu took the drawings and went to the medical room again, handing the drawings to Gongshusheng who was lying on the kang: "Do you think this is the drawing you designed at the beginning?"

"No, this is definitely not!" Gong Shusheng glanced at it and immediately shook his head like a rattle, and at the same time it was causing pain in his body, and his face was shaking. "Mr. Marquis, the iron smelting furnace was designed by me personally according to the iron smelting furnace in Qinghe Town. Because the volume was much enlarged, I thickened the thickness of the furnace base and the furnace wall three times for safety. I remember clearly how something went wrong. Although the iron smelting furnace drawn on this drawing is very similar to what I drew, I marked it with two numbers, and there is only one on it..."

After getting Gongshusheng's affirmative answer, Chen Xu confirmed that the drawing of the iron furnace in his hand was indeed lost, so he arranged for everyone on the construction site to come over. Then Chen Xu felt that he could not investigate at this time because there were more than 20 people, and this did not include some officials in the Office of the Academy of Sciences. If all of them were added together, at least more than 30 people, these people were in charge, supervisors, craftsmen, and guards. Most of them were officials transferred from all over the place.

In fact, the Qin Dynasty is gradually transitioning to a stage of aristocratic rule. Because there is no system of enrolling statutory schools to recruit scholars, the officials of the Qin Dynasty are of various origins. Before the unification, officials usually recommend themselves or others recommend them. If the king thinks your theory is in line with his appetite, he will use you. Many of them are also inherited from the family traditions of kings, princes and ministers, and are in a semi-hered state. Ordinary scholars with knowledge may also become officials in the court.

However, after the reunification of the six countries, the advancement of ordinary cold tribes was basically strangled to death. The whole world was unified, and the royal and princes and ministers had formed a group of gentry groups with family power. Even the identity of the disciples was gradually abandoned. The recommended ones were the children of the family. The departments under the Order of the Doctor were the gathering places for the Langguan, all of which were the descendants of the royal and princes and ministers. As an alternate official position, there was no official position, and many people were fighting for this position. Therefore, some interest groups that were grouped together were gradually formed in the court to fight openly and secretly.

Although the Daqin Academy of Sciences, which was newly established, did not have a specific management unit, Chen Xu's status was particularly important and was highly valued by Qin Shihuang. Therefore, the Academy of Sciences also deployed dozens of men and officials and became official officials of formal rank. Behind these officials are all civil and military officials of all sizes in the Qin Dynasty. No official who can stand in the court can be underestimated, and there is a family force behind it.

Therefore, if Chen Xu wants to thoroughly investigate this matter, he must interrogate all these people.

The craftsman and the guards are easy to talk about, but what should those officials in charge do? After being interrogated, it is possible that they will eventually find the real mastermind behind it, but in the end Chen Xu will offend countless princes, princes and ministers.

Chen Xu pinched his chin and thought for a long time and gave up his initial idea, drew a drawing of the iron smelting furnace, and re-convened the craftsmen to build it. For safety, he specially asked Ying Bu to lead a team of imperial guards to guard the construction site for supervision while also being responsible for protecting Gongshusheng. The medical room was strictly under supervision and could not get close to anyone. He claimed that Gongshusheng was seriously injured and unconscious.

"My benefactor, the biggest possibility of this is the business supervisor!"

After arranging the work on the construction site, I returned to Qinghe Hou Mansion. It was completely dark. Yu Wuya said during dinner.

Chen Xu frowned and nodded: "I also suspect it was him, but there are no clues at the moment, and he can insist that he was strictly supervising according to the drawings. If you directly ask him to investigate the matter, it would be a dead end!"

"That may not be possible. I will go and kidnap him out in the middle of the night. I will not be afraid of him being tortured!"

"No, what if it's not him, once the attack is alarmed, the person who is in charge may be silenced. I must dig out the pest hidden in the Academy of Sciences to completely cut it off, otherwise it will be impossible to prevent it. Sooner or later, something will happen if it is impossible to prevent. Fortunately, iron smelting has not started. If a furnace of coal and iron juice is poured down, Gongshusheng may not even be able to find the bones!" Chen Xu said with lingering fear.

"Then what should we do?" Yu Wuya nodded and said.

"Tomorrow you go to Mengyun to invite him to come. These playboys in Xianyang must know many people. If they ask them to secretly inquire, it will be much faster than if we sit at home and guess. As long as we can confirm that it was Shang Qi who did it, hehe, I will definitely squeeze his eggs!" Chen Xu said gritting his teeth.
Chapter completed!