After crossing over, he has no taboos among the zombies.

I was busy until the afternoon.

Qin He then set out again to head south.

More than a thousand bodies were buried and thirty were burned.

Thirty shadow puppet shows made Qin He yawn again after a night's rest.

The rewards aren't great.

Most of the time what they give is one year’s cultivation or internal strength, anyway, it’s just a token of their appreciation.

There are even cases where there are no rewards at all.

Since they were ordinary people and their bodies did not rise up, the black-robed man did not read out the verdict and did not give them any reward. It was the same as if they had not been burned at all.

The requirements for corpses for the same reward are getting higher and higher, and the lower limit of the reward is zero.

But after all, there were thirty bodies, which was a sufficient number.

Gave two skill books, a strength fruit, a heart-clearing pill, and a essence-reinforcing pill.

The stuff is quite mixed.

First of all, there are skills, one book is "Intermediate Bronze Skin and Iron Bones Technique" and the other is "Mechanical Technique".

Intermediate Copper Skin and Iron Bones Technique: This is a spell from the abyss. By practicing it, you can harden a part of your body in times of danger, making it invulnerable to swords and knives, and as hard as copper and iron.

Previously, the old man of the Liang family had obtained the primary copper skin and iron bone technique, which was considered an advanced level.

It is also Qin He’s first advanced skill.

The low level can only harden one part, while the intermediate level can harden three parts, and the degree of hardening is higher.

The effect is very powerful, after all, it is a spell from the abyss.

The last time it hardened its heart, it withstood a claw attack from an evil cultivator of the Ghost Path without even leaving a trace.

He decisively learned the skills and slowly lowered his head to look down.

grin.

This time, I must make up for the regret.

There's no way. Some tricks are used too many times and I get scared myself.

The second book, Mechanical Engineering: This is a technology for making mechanisms. If you learn it, you will become a master of mechanisms.

Study decisively and you will master a large number of mechanism manufacturing techniques and skills in no time.

Qin He was immediately surprised. Although the term "mechanical arts" mostly refers to mechanisms, it can actually be replaced with a more familiar name in later generations, called mechanical arts.

This is great.

Qin He felt that as long as he was willing to invest a lot of money and think about it, he could make a steam engine.

It's just so fierce.

This skill comes from a White Lotus craftsman named Wu Sanhe.

Those catapults were built under the supervision of Wu Sanhe.

To be honest, Wu Sanhe is not an ordinary person.

Wu Sanhe came from a family of craftsmen, and his ancestors were said to have had connections with the Mohist school, the originator of mechanical engineering.

Among the 81 trades of craftsmen, mechanism craftsman ranks second, because the manufacture and installation of mechanisms spans several trades, including smelting, carpentry, mechanism, stonemasonry, blacksmithing, construction, civil engineering, etc.

The places with the most large-scale mechanisms are city defenses and royal tombs.

City defense goes without saying, but any larger city, especially a border crossing, would require mechanical engineering to open and close its gates. Then there's the matter of protecting royal mausoleums from theft. Throughout the dynasties, construction on the royal mausoleums was virtually non-stop.

The Ministry of Works was one of the "Six Ministries" of the imperial court, which shows its importance.

In addition, private shipbuilding, smelting, hydraulic power and various workshops will support a certain proportion of mechanical craftsmen.

The Wu family was one of the best mechanical craftsmen, and they were paid by the government. They specialized in building city gate mechanisms. Wu Sanhe's father was also an official, the head of the Ministry of Works' Machinery Department, an eighth-rank official.

The Ministry of Works is a government agency with a lot of money. When it comes to construction, there is never a fixed amount. It can be more or less, and there are many tricks involved.

But there is also a downside: if something goes wrong, you can easily lose your head.

Wu Sanhe's father was beheaded as a scapegoat for the collapse of a border town agency. Wu Sanhe was also implicated and transferred to the Mausoleum Bureau to be responsible for the construction of the mausoleum agency.

This Mausoleum Bureau is the "deathbed" of the Ministry of Works. How long it can survive depends entirely on when the emperor dies.

Once the emperor died, the craftsmen who knew the secrets of the imperial mausoleum would definitely be buried with him, and the mechanism craftsmen would be the first to be killed.

When Wu Sanhe was transferred to the Mausoleum Bureau, rumors had already spread that the previous emperor was in poor health.

If they wanted to survive, they had to prepare early. Wu Sanhe and a group of craftsmen who were going to be buried with the mausoleum secretly dug a secret passage and prepared explosives. After the mausoleum was closed, Wu Sanhe and others blew up the secret passage and escaped from the mausoleum.

But somehow the news leaked out and the Feiyu Guards secretly hunted him down. Wu Sanhe had no choice but to disfigure himself and beg on the streets to survive.

But his suffering did not end there. After begging for a few days, the military cleared out the refugees and beggars in the city and threw him into the refugee camp outside the city.

As mentioned earlier, the refugee camp is a place where people eat each other and people are only allowed to enter but not leave.

Later, a riot broke out in the refugee camp, and only one in ten people survived. Wu Sanhe narrowly escaped death and only survived the pursuit of the government troops under the protection of the White Lotus Sect.

From then on, Wu Sanhe joined the White Lotus Sect and became a member.

About two months ago, the White Lotus Sect's plan in the capital was thwarted, and a large number of its followers moved to Shandong to prepare for an uprising.

Wu Sanhe also came to the canal, and what happened today happened.

The downfall of Wu Sanhe's fate was the result of the interweaving of the shadow of imperial power and the world's misfortune.

Logically speaking, if the fathers are officials, the descendants should have a better life than ordinary people, even if it is not very comfortable.

But the fact is that under the shadow of imperial power, no one is safe. A tall building may be built today, but it may collapse tomorrow, and it may be smashed to pieces, crushing a large number of people below.

And in troubled times, it is even worse.

The shadow lamp captivated the soul, the judgment was weighed, and the black-robed man spoke: "The traps and tricks were intertwined, and I narrowly escaped from the imperial mausoleum; I endured nine deaths in the refugee camp, and my life ended under the White Lotus Banner."

Reward: The detailed location of the collapsed imperial tomb entrance.

This is not the reward from the man in black robe, but the shadow play reading of Wu Sanhe.

If you have time, you can go and dig it up, but I don’t know whether the body of the previous emperor was embalmed.

If not, you will definitely get rich.