Ye Ying, Moxin, and the others successfully rendezvoused with the support team while leading the Youqiao Clan's migration party. The party received an influx of people and food, and with more horse-drawn carriages for carrying passengers, their pace quickened as well.
With enough food that they no longer needed to go hunting deliberately, the latter half of their journey went extremely smoothly. They reached the capital city's Imperial Palace construction site in less than three days.
When they arrived, it was still morning, and the construction site was already bustling with activity.
At this point, the Imperial Palace construction site showed none of the grandeur it would one day possess. It was merely a vast, empty stretch of wilderness.
Two thousand Golden Crow Guard soldiers were organizing three thousand slaves as they ceaselessly dug up earth, loaded it onto carts, transported it to the Front Court site of the Imperial Palace, and then unloaded it.
They repeated the same task over and over without pause. They intended to dig an artificial lake at the site of Taiye Pond in the Rear Palace, then use the earth excavated from the lake to pad the foundations of the various halls in the Front Court.
It was a task of extremely low difficulty, but the amount of work involved was enormous.
In truth, three thousand people were nowhere near enough. But the Han Tribe had no other choice—they had no excavators. If excavators handled the work, two machines and a team of Dump Trucks would probably finish it in at most a month.
Fortunately, they had nothing else to do at present. None of the various construction materials had arrived yet, so what else could they do besides build foundations and dig the artificial lake?!
However, when the people of the Youqiao Clan