Chapter 1719

Fang Xuanling frowned slightly, looked at the many injured people who were still being treated, and asked, "What happened?" ”

Pei Xingjian sighed and said ashamedly: "Because the supervisor was in a hurry to catch up with the construction period, he failed to check and strengthen the rope on the boom in time, which caused the rope to loosen and the boom collapsed, and the stone weighing thousands of catties fell from mid-air...... It was all a momentary negligence in his humble duties, which caused such a catastrophe, and he was really ashamed and landless, and asked the minister to punish him. ”

Fang Xuanling looked at the bloodstains on the ground, as well as the injured and dead people on the side, his face was solemn, and he slowly shook his head and said: "The top priority is not to hold accountable, but to remember the lesson, we must not let similar accidents happen again, in addition, regardless of the dead or injured, we must be generously compensated." ”

"Whoa!"

Pei Xingjian responded.

Wang Xuance accused Fang Xuanling and Li Jing of their crimes, and walked to the side to direct the treatment of the casualties, while Pei Xingjian stayed behind to accompany the two.

Li Jing put his hands behind his back, raised his head, looked at the square tower base in front of him that was ten zhang wide and had been built about seven or eight zhang high, and asked, "How high is this lighthouse expected?" ”

Pei Xingjian said: "The total height is forty-nine zhang. ”

Li Jingqi said: "The number of Dayan? ”

There is a cloud in the Book of Changes: the number of Dayan is fifty, and its use is nine out of forty.

This sentence is the essence of the Book of Changes, and it hides all the secrets behind the Book of Changes. Why don't you use it? This is an eternal mystery that has been pondered and diligently pursued by successive generations of Yixue masters for thousands of years. However, although no one has been able to answer it incisively, it is generally accepted that this sentence is the basis for the operation of the structure of the Book of Changes, and it is the way of heaven and earth.

This unprecedented and magnificent building, taking such a number as the size, has a good meaning.

Pei Xingjian nodded and said: "This is only one of them, there is another reason, according to those merchants of the big food country, there is a port called Alexandria in the distant Western Ocean, where there is the highest lighthouse in the world, as high as forty zhang, so Erlang feels that since it is going to be built, it is natural to surpass it and become the first in the world." ”

Li Jing was speechless......

Even if he doesn't know the art of civil engineering, he knows that the higher this kind of building, the more difficult it is to build, especially after reaching a peak, the difficulties faced by each inch of height may be unprecedented, and it takes a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to solve.

He couldn't help but add another item to Fang Jun's opinion: rich and capricious......

Fang Xuanling on the side didn't know what to say.

The loser did not use the public funds of Huating Town, and all of them paid out of his own pocket, so there was no hidden danger of being impeached by the imperial historian. However, even Fang Xuanling's indifference to fame and fortune, regarding money as dung, is a little dumbfounded in the face of the astronomical figure of "600,000 yuan".

How big of a project does this have to be?

After thinking about it, I still couldn't help it, and asked: "How long will it take to build this lighthouse, and will it be durable?" ”

Pei Xingjian was in charge of this project, and he was naturally familiar with all kinds of situations, and said: "In fact, this lighthouse seems to be tall and majestic, and it is not difficult to build. We have cement as a binder, and there are all kinds of booms and pulleys to load and unload stones, and the construction speed is very fast. It's just that the whole lighthouse is piled up with stones, which requires a lot of stones, and there is no natural quarry near Huating Town, these stones are transported from a riverside mountain near the Nanshan mine in Niuzhuji, and they are directly loaded on ships after mining, and they are transported by water to this point, which does not cost much manpower. As for the degree of solidity, the most important thing is naturally, according to the estimation of Yu Ming's predecessors, as long as there is no major earthquake and no man-made demolition, this lighthouse can stand for more than a thousand years. And Erlang's requirement is to stand for at least 1,400 years......"

Fang Xuanling and Li Jing were stunned.

Generally speaking, this number should only be an approximation, and everyone will take an integer when they say it, such as 100 years, 1,000 years, 2,000 years, and so on.

But this "1,400 years" is a bit strange, obviously inconsistent with ordinary habits, is there any deep meaning in it?

No matter how wise they are, one is peerless, and the other is commanding thousands of armies, but they want to break their heads, and they can't understand why Fang Jun wants to come up with such a number as "1,400 years......

Fang Xuanling sighed helplessly: "Even if it didn't cost the imperial court's money, it would indeed be useful after it was completed, but this kind of project is too huge, and casualties are inevitable. ”

Pei Xingjian was quite unimpressed by this, he said solemnly: "Now there may be many people who don't know much about Erlang's measures and don't know what they mean, thinking that it is just grandstanding and willful. But if you think about it a little deeper, if this lighthouse really could stand for a thousand years, how many fishermen and merchants would benefit from it? Those nobles in Chang'an like to build floating slaughter to accumulate merit, but in the humble view, 10,000 floating slaughter is not as good as one such lighthouse! ”

If such a lighthouse stands for thousands of years, how many people can be saved from the danger of getting lost and running aground?

Pei Xingjian looked at the casualties over there and said: "The boats transporting stones under the island, and the people who participated in the construction here, in fact, many of them were spontaneously organized by the surrounding people. It's not that we don't give it, it's that they don't want it. Because they know what kind of protection the construction of such a lighthouse will have for their children and grandchildren, even if they are injured or dead, so far, no family members cry. ”

Fang Xuanling and Li Jing were silent.

Everyone thought that Fang Jun built this lighthouse just for a while, but they didn't expect it to have such a deep meaning.

Fang Xuanling asked, "Are there any drawings?" ”

His emotions towards the lighthouse ranged from anger, disdain, and helplessness, to the solemnity of the present, because he also saw another purpose for the lighthouse in addition to guiding navigation.

Pei Xingjian said: "Naturally, there is, please come with the humble position." ”

As he spoke, he led the two of them to a row of simple houses on the other side.

The interior of the house is very simple, with no frills, except for a large wooden table in the middle with some thick drawings on it.

Pei Xingjian said: "Erlang just put forward the proposal to build this lighthouse, but the design and drawings of the entire construction are all from the calculations of more than a dozen children of the Yu Ming clan. ”

Fang Xuanling and Li Jing stepped forward and flipped through them one by one.

The whole lighthouse consists of two floors, the first floor is the base, a square structure, which has a number of large and small rooms, used as a fuel depot for lighting the lights and the accommodation of the staff, and the second floor is an octagonal tower body, with a spiral staircase up and down in the middle, leading to the lamp room at the top of the tower.

Fang Xuanling looked at the drawings, felt the grandeur of this unfinished lighthouse, and became more and more sure of his guess.

It seems to be a simple lighthouse, but if it can really stand for thousands of years without collapsing, it is no longer as simple as a lighthouse, and it can even become a symbol, a totem, standing at the junction of the Yangtze River and the sea, so that people of all ethnic groups in the world can see the greatness of the Han people!

Li Jing looked at the drawings and frowned: "This lighthouse is completely made of stone, and there are not even some copper and iron utensils?" ”

Pei Xingjian nodded and said: "Yes, Erlang once specially told that there must not be a penny of bronze, because in extreme cases, it may be the reason why this lighthouse was artificially demolished."

They are all smart people, Pei Xingjian said this vaguely, and Fang Xuanling and Li Jing immediately understood.

What is an "extreme case"?

It is nothing more than a change of dynasty, and there is no sailor on this island, and there is no time for guarding......

People are greedy, and if there are some copper and iron things on this lighthouse, someone will come up and tear it down, which may lead to the collapse of the lighthouse. And all of them are stones, so there is no need to worry about this, the island is surrounded by cliffs and cliffs, and it will take a lot of manpower and material resources to remove these stones.

The question is, who is idle to death will tear down a pile of stones and take them home?

Man-made disasters basically do not exist, if there are no natural disasters, even if it is the change of dynasty in Shenzhou, this lighthouse will still stand here, let the wind blow and the waves, Leng Yan looked at the Shenzhou Continent, I stood still!

Li Jing's eyes were full of envy and jealousy, patted Fang Xuanling's shoulder, and exclaimed: "As long as this lighthouse does not fall, the name of his Fang Jun and the name of your Fang family will always be spread in the world, even if the vicissitudes of life in the future, there will still be countless descendants who will read the grace of this lighthouse and will live forever." ”

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This mallet seems to be out of tune for everything, and it looks like it's acting arbitrarily, but why is it that in the end, it always reaps the greatest incredible effect?

Sighing again, Li Jing muttered: "Look at our kid, look at this one in your family, give birth to a son like a house and belove......"

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