On moonless nights, the stars in the sky are especially bright.
In this era when the atmosphere was not polluted, and there were no dense lights on the land to reflect the atmosphere, people could see obvious galaxies when they looked up at the sky.
That's really the galaxy, the other cantilever of the Milky Way, the third cantilever where the Earth is located, which allows people to look up at the sky, and the dense galaxies of the first and second cantilever can be seen in different seasons.
When you look at the sky from the Earth, the closest stars are planets, moons, asteroids, comets, meteors, and interplanetary matter, as if the moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and other celestial bodies in the same galaxy reflect sunlight, as well as some stars that are not so large.
Distant stars are the glow of a star in a galaxy, or even the light produced by the explosion of a star or planet.
The quarry had two heavily guarded areas, a storehouse for work tools and an underground vault for detonators.
When the tools are taken out of the storehouse, the number of guards will be reduced.
Waiting for the tools that were taken out to return to the warehouse, the number of guards will increase.
The number of soldiers guarding the tool storehouse tonight was no different from usual, a team of sixty-six people, including the captain, the chief, and the captain.
In the Han Empire, there were five people with one military commander for one army, so it was six people.
There will be one chief of the two armies, and that is thirteen people.
A team has five and ten captains, plus fifty soldiers and one captain, then it is sixty-six, not only fifty after the team rate, the chief, and the commander are included.
This is distinguished from modern armies.
Whether it is a captain, a captain or a squad leader, they are actually not considered officers.
In the Han Empire, the team rate could not be regarded as an officer, and it was necessary to go to the tun commander to be considered an officer class.
The military chief of the quarry is a tun chief, which also means that the armed garrison of this quarry has more than 200 people, probably close to 300 people.
The underground warehouse where the detonators were stored was not located in the quarry's barracks, but was a post about a kilometre away from the quarry.
This is naturally for the sake of safety, as if the army will deliberately arrange the baggage team transporting gunpowder far away from the army, so as to prevent a large number of people from being killed or injured in the event of an accident.
"Our first goal was not to immediately storm the warehouse where the tools were stored."
Arati didn't deliberately lower his voice, he said in the local dialect of the Western Regions: "It's about setting fires and creating chaos everywhere after it is launched."
The resting quarters of the slaves were long rows of dormitories made of wood.
The dormitory, which appears to be long, is very small, with a row of beds also made of wood nails taking up seven-tenths of the space, leaving a narrow hallway.
A dormitory can accommodate 20 people, and their beds are directly connected to the wall, and if the weather is cold, people sleeping by the windows will freeze to death.
Since he is a slave, he naturally can't get along with any comfort, and when he eats the simplest food, the taste of meat has long been forgotten, and he doesn't even think about seeing a drop of oil in many cases.
Naturally, the beds were not covered with comfortable sheets, but with weeds and rice stalks, but some linen blankets were given to each person.
Doing heavy physical work for a long time, but not keeping up with nutrition, the fat on the human body will definitely be consumed, making people look extremely thin, as if they are a skeleton covered with a layer of human skin.
If a person is emaciated, his physical strength and strength will definitely be reduced, not only will he not have much stamina, but doing heavy work is equivalent to consuming his life, and if he continues to do it for three or five years, he will definitely die.
So far, the Han Empire has consumed nearly 1.8 million slaves, most of whom are due to heavy work without proper nutrition, or even insufficient rest, resulting in overwork and death due to overwork.
The more than 6,000 slaves in the quarry came from different places, so there would be their own local language.
Some people with higher language talent have spent three or five months learning other languages, generally learning basic Chinese for communication.
Even in Chinese, there is actually only one kind.
Chinese is a general term, the Chinese spoken by the Han people living in Henan and the Chinese spoken by the Han people living in Hebei sound like two languages, but both Henan dialect and Hebei dialect belong to Chinese.
Slaves learned Chinese, but because the Han Chinese they came into contact with came into contact with came from different regions, they actually learned the dialect of a certain region.
At night, there was more talking than usual in the dormitories.
Since they were from different countries and regions, it was not possible to discern what they were saying, but they could hear a sense of tension in the tone of their voices that could not be concealed at all.
"What do they want to do?"
"I don't understand it, but it's definitely not a good thing."
The coyote is from the Western Regions, and he was born in Shanshan, also known as Loulan.
Although they are from the Western Regions, the Western Regions have never been a unified country, and the ethnic composition is also very complex, each ethnic group has its own language, and it is not that you know all the languages of the Western Regions as a person from the Western Regions, just like the Han people sometimes can't understand Chinese.
The little wolf is from the peninsula, and he communicates with the coyote in a low voice in standard Chinese.
The so-called standard Chinese was the official language promoted by the Han Empire, that is, the official dialect.
Of course, Liu Yan knew that Mandarin was an evolution of the broken Mandarin of the Manchurians, but the environment in which he grew up was educated in this language.
His native language is Hokkien, but Hokkien should not be used as an official dialect in the Han Empire "Something is wrong, very wrong" "Shall we alarm the guards?"
In the dark dormitory, the coyote and the little wolf were adjacent to each other's beds, and when the two pairs of eyes looked at each other, they saw each other's blurred facial features.
Those who use the dialects of the Western Regions and the native dialects of the steppe do not know what stage the communication has entered, or if there is a quarrel, and there is a tendency to get more and more excited the more they speak.
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Although slaves are all slaves, there are also slaves who are unwilling to accept their fate and slaves who have already accepted their fate.
Coyotes and baby wolves come from different places, and they become friends because they both have a "wolf" in their names.
Two people from different places have the same origin, that is, they are both poor people with nothing.
Before they became slaves, they didn't have a trace of grain in their mouths for three days, and when they became slaves, they at least knew what rice and noodles were, and they could still eat meat on some grand festivals of the Han people.
"Allahu Akbar" "Allah, Haben" In the pitch black environment, a few people shouted slogans and suddenly attacked the people around them.
Of course, there is no "God" yet, but just as Westerners pronounce "God" no matter what God is called, some regions can also pronounce "God" as "Allah" or "Allah".
There was a slogan just now that came out of the mouth of the man next to the coyote, and as a native of the Western Regions, he knew more or less where that slogan came from, an Arab from the territory of Sasansan.
The coyote was actually a little dazed at that moment, all he knew was that there were no Arabs in this dormitory, and he didn't understand why that slogan appeared.
When he was still stunned, his neck was choked, and he subconsciously struggled.
First there was a riot in one dormitory, and then more and more fights broke out in the dormitory.
Lin Sui's dormitory is better than the others, with a layer of sheets on the wooden bed, a set of quilts for each person, and paper windows to block the wind.
Their dormitory is larger than the others, with a capacity of thirty-two people.
These thirty-two people were naturally Han Chinese hard laborers, and when they heard the chaos in the surrounding dormitories, they all turned over and sat up.
"What's the situation?"
"Those are fighting."
"It's not just a dorm room that's fighting."
In the midst of the discussion, they crowded to any place where they could look out, and they couldn't see anything under the dark night, only to listen to the movement.
The movement in the dormitory area was naturally discovered by the camp guards, because there were too many dormitories where there were fights, and the area involved was relatively wide, and the guards on duty at night sounded the alarm at the first moment.
The slaves were fighting in the dormitory, and it was not known whether they were breaking the windows of the wooden sticks or being kicked out, and the first slave came out of the dormitory, and then the second and third.
Gradually, the door of the dormitory was also broken, and slaves poured out.
The bell was ringing, and Zhou Qing was awakened from his sleep.
He rolled over and walked quickly to the window, and since it was a three-story building, he looked down, and there was already a fire in the dormitory in front of him, and under the light of the fire, he could see figures fighting or running around.
It is clear that what is happening is no longer a simple brawl, and even if it is not a premeditated riot, it is developing towards an explosive trend.
"Send a fast horse to call the county seat" Zhou Qing was wearing his armor and yelled at the guards who came over: "At the same time, ask for help from the headquarters" Their camp is within the jurisdiction of Wuyang County, which is not a big county, but as a county, there will inevitably be government officers, and then the county lieutenant can also immediately call up military service and organize the county soldiers.
The so-called headquarters is the department of the governor of Xiangcheng County, and the head of a county in the Han Empire is the county guard, but the main army is the county captain.
Depending on the location of the county and the size of the population, each county has a large or small garrison in peace.
There were more than 6,000 slaves in the quarry, and the guards, overseers, and related staff together were only about 350 people, which was almost 10 slaves per person.
If the slaves were to keep to themselves, it would not be a big problem for many Han people to take care of them.
For example, it is impossible to say that the number of guards in proportion to the number of guards is matched for a long time, because the cost is unreasonable, and the country does not do it even if it has more soldiers.
Maintaining a suitable ratio is the normal pattern.
"I didn't notice the clue before" Zhou Qing faced Zhou Ming, who came over, without using a questioning tone, let alone being angry, but reflected: "We already take our submission to foreign races for granted. ” That's what happened, the contemporary Han people are in the most glorious and proud moment.
In the past, even if the country was strong, the strength of the country actually had no intuitive impression on most people.
Now the Han Empire is not short of slaves of foreign races, look at their own lives are changing day by day, from time to time you can hear which country the army has destroyed, and then see that the foreign race is so cautious and flattering in the face of themselves, it can be regarded as an intuitive understanding of how powerful the country is.
Out of contempt and contempt, although the quarry staff did not deliberately abuse the slaves, it is not necessary to say how much attention they had, and some measures that should have been taken have not been done, such as the development of informants among the slaves, and it is better to know in advance what is going on.
"There was no impact on the tool warehouse."
Zhou Ming had already understood the general situation before he came: "It looks like the contradictions between various ethnic groups broke out, and then slowly affected the entire camp. ” Zhou Qing also received a report that the slaves who were in turmoil did not rush to the periphery, and there was no sign of breaking through the camp and going out for the time being.
The two men exchanged what they knew, and came to the conclusion that it was a slave's den, and that it was only necessary to guard the exit passage of the camp until reinforcements arrived.
"Something is wrong with these" Lan Zi was stubbornly pressed against the door panel with a few people, and someone was hitting outside again and again.
He yelled: "Usually I don't even have the courage to look at us squarely, but today he actually came around, and he has the posture to kill us all."
Although they all worked in quarries, Han Chinese slaves and alien slaves were not the same kind of people, and it could even be said that they could never be the same kind of people.
Alien slaves never dared to stab the Han slaves, and the timid alien slaves really did not dare to make eye contact with the Han slaves, even if there was any contradiction, it has always been the alien slaves who tolerated the Han slaves.
"Those guys' eyes are all red."
Although Lin Sui was a deserter, he was one of the six people who had been on the battlefield among the thirty-two people: "Not only did he act crazy, but his eyes were also crazy" Encountering this kind of thing, even if the rest of the people usually look down on Lin Sui, they are clearly caught in the whirlpool of the riot, and only the remaining thirty-one people can believe it, or even depend on each other.
"There are no guards."
Lin then punched out, and a slave whose head was sticking through the window fell to the temple.
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He pushed the slaves who didn't know whether they were alive or dead from the inside: "There is only one tun in the mine, so I must have chosen to guard the passage." ” If you have a big picture view, if you think about it a little, you will feel that the guard's response is correct.
If the commotion is detected in advance, or before the riot spreads, the guards will be able to pull in and suppress it.
Now the whole dormitory area is in chaos, thousands of people are fighting frantically, and the scene is extremely chaotic.
The tool warehouse must be guarded, then at least one team of people cannot move, and even need to strengthen the guards, and the insurance is to use two teams to guard.
The rest of the passages must also need to be guarded, and there may be less than 120 people who can break into the camp.
In the face of thousands of slaves, it is of course best if such a person can frighten the slaves, otherwise they will be drowned.
What the Han people in the quarry didn't know was that there had been a slave riot a few days ago, and Zhou Qing had to wait for the people sent out to come back, so that he would know that not only did they have chaos here today, but also riots of varying degrees in the four camps where the road was built
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