Most of the huge procession to the Luoshui Bridge were officials and servants on horseback, as well as guards and retinues, but Ang Lee and several important ministers sat in comfortable steam buses and walked to the front of the whole procession. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The road leading from Luoyang City Railway Station to Luoshui Bridge is a wide official road, although the concrete pavement has not yet been paved, but the dirt road is basically smooth, and even the depth of the ruts is almost the same, apparently someone is often responsible for maintenance.

In order to accompany the officials sent by the imperial court to inspect the Luoshui Bridge, the magistrate of Luoyang City got up very early and went to the Luoyang Railway Station, and set off with Li An and his party.

"Guo Shilang is riding a steam car for the first time! How does it feel? ”

Li An leaned comfortably on the seat and looked sideways at Guo Xuji opposite.

"It's more comfortable than a carriage, and it's wider than a carriage, but it's a little louder and a little noisy."

Guo Xuji told the truth and gave a very pertinent answer.

Li An nodded and said with a smile: "What Guo Shilang said is that this noise is indeed a little louder, but there is no way!" The noise of the steam engine is relatively loud, and in the future, some noise reduction treatment can be carried out to make the noise not sound so harsh. ”

"Haha! That's the best, by the way, after the Luoshui Bridge is closed, the next step is to build the canal bridge, after celebrating the Luoshui Bridge, can we go to the location of the Grand Canal Bridge to see how it goes. ”

Guo Xuji asked.

"Of course, you can go over and have a look, but the Luoshui Bridge needs to walk for an hour, and if you go to the Grand Canal, you have to walk another hour, I'm afraid it's too late!"

Li An's meaning is that he is afraid that it will be dark on the Grand Canal, after all, the Luoshui Bridge is more than fifty miles away from the Luoyang City Railway Station, and the location where the Grand Canal Bridge is going to be built is still nearly fifty miles away from the Luoshui Bridge, and it will pass through Bishui on the way.

The width of this river is not narrow, and a railway bridge will be built soon, however, Li An no longer plans to build a double-decker bridge, one layer is enough, as long as the bridge deck is built wider, the railway goes to the middle, pedestrians and cars and horses can go on both sides, and the middle is separated by a fence.

Of course, this kind of one-story structure of the bridge, is relatively ordinary, far less than the two-story bridge looks magnificent, and, in the future, there is no need to send people to station, let alone charge tolls, in Li An's thinking, such a river as Luoshui belongs to a small river, do not need to invest too much, enough on the line, anyway, this river is relatively short, water transport and water transport are not used, ordinary fishing boats have a small bridge hole can pass, no need to raise the bridge deck.

On the road from Luoyang City to Laizhou, there will be dozens of large and small rivers, and only the widest river surface and the longest river basin are worth spending huge sums of money to build a double-decker magnificent bridge.

"In that case, forget it! After the canal bridge is completed, we will take the opportunity to inspect it. ”

As soon as he heard that there was too much time, Guo Xuji decided to give up the opportunity to inspect the Grand Canal and go again next time.

The journey of more than fifty miles, before an hour arrived, and there was a long distance, and the ministers saw the magnificent bridge lying on both sides of the Luoshui River.

At this time, the basic works of the bridge have been completed, only the last concrete bridge deck has not been installed, and this is deliberately not installed, just waiting for Li An and other ministers to arrive, and then in front of them, the last bridge deck will be installed.

Li An and a number of ministers successively pretended to encourage and praise all the builders who participated in the construction of the bridge, and greeted them on behalf of the emperor, asking them to continue to work hard to build more bridges for the Tang Empire.

"Li Shilang, it's almost time, you can start."

A small official in charge of the construction of the bridge opened his mouth to remind.

"Okay, the bridge closes immediately."

After a burst of orders, hundreds of craftsmen began to get busy, and very easily installed the last bridge deck in place, so far, the Luoshui Bridge was fully penetrated, and the magnificence was displayed in front of everyone's eyes.

"Guo Shilang, please see, the bottom layer of this is specially used to take the train, to pave the tracks, the train can pass through here, the road is above, pedestrians and cars and horses have to walk on it, so that they do not interfere with each other, can avoid danger, increase efficiency."

As Li An introduced, he walked forward, followed by a group of officials, and gathered in twos and threes to talk about the grandeur and grandeur of the Luoshui Bridge, and expressed various opinions.

The first level of the railroad was only a mile away, and it was quickly over, and then a large number of officials continued to walk forward, from the approach bridge on the opposite bank, to the second level of the bridge.

The length of the second layer of the bridge is two miles, mainly because the approach bridge is too long, which doubles the total length, and the slope of the approach bridge is relatively gentle, so there is no pressure to walk up.

And when everyone stood in the middle of the second layer of the bridge, they felt much higher than the first floor, and it felt like standing on the top of the highest mountain, looking down on the mountains.

Many ministers are very talented, and from time to time I hear someone write a poem, of course, in this case, Ang Lee will choose to hide far away, so as not to expose his lack of cultivation in literature.

"Li Shilang, the Luoshui Bridge has been closed, and the next step is to build a more magnificent Grand Canal Bridge, but there is still a Luoshui in the middle, why not build the Bishui Bridge first."

Guo Xuji looked at the white water in the distance, and suddenly asked.

Li An said with a smile: "Who said that it will not be built, the Bishui Railway Bridge will be built together with the Grand Canal Railway Bridge, but the Bishui Bridge is designed as a single layer, and the bridge deck is not too wide, so it is not a bridge, so it is not proposed, otherwise, we will go over and take a look now, anyway, it is not far away, only more than 20 miles, and the steam car will arrive in half an hour." ”

"Good! But wait a minute, let the official blow the wind for a while. ”

Guo Xuji hadn't experienced enough, and continued to stand in the middle of the bridge, staring at the white water in the distance.

A moment later, the steam bus drove onto the bridge, and carried Li An and a few other officials, straight to Bishui more than 20 miles away, dozens of guards rode horses to follow, and most of the officials continued to stay on the bridge to enjoy the beautiful scenery around them.

After arriving in Bishui, Li An took out the drawings and re-inspected the bridge building site in Bishui, and further determined that his plan was correct and excellent.

After handing the drawings to Guo Xuji and a few people to read, everyone returned to Luoshui Bridge by car, and returned to Luoyang City Railway Station with the ministers from the capital, preparing to take the night train and return to Chang'an City.

The aristocratic train has been lying at the Luoyang City Railway Station, after the ministers got on the train, they started to open Chang'an City overnight, of course, due to the weak light at night, the speed was reduced by half, and it was estimated that before noon on the second day, they could return to Chang'an City.

Dinner was eaten on the train, many officials were tired for a day, and after dinner, they lay down on the soft bunk and fell asleep, and the small officials and their entourage could only lie down on the soft seat for a nap aggrievedly, but fortunately, the soft seat was more comfortable, and they could still fall asleep while lying down.

At noon on the second day, the train returned to Chang'an City Railway Station on time, everyone got off the train in turn, Li An and Guo Xuji got off the train together, and went to the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry.

"Li Shilang, I'm back so soon."

Chen Xuanli passed by the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry and happened to meet Li An who walked out of the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry.

"General, such a coincidence?"

Li An was stunned.

"Li Shilang, you said the day before yesterday that you want to draw a map of the world, when will you be able to draw it?"

Chen Xuanli asked with concern.

Li An was very puzzled, and said, "What's the matter, general, you are in such a hurry to find me, just to look at the map?" When did you become so interested in maps? ”

"Don't hide it from Li Shilang, after I went back that day, I talked to a few subordinates about the overseas world, but it reached Your Majesty's ears in less than a day, and Your Majesty asked me for a picture, and I could only push it on Li Shilang."

Chen Xuanli said helplessly.

"So that's the case, the general doesn't have to worry, the map has been drawn, it's in the courtyard outside the city, I'll go back and get it."

"Li Shilang, I'll go with you, I also want to see the map earlier."

Chen Xuanli asked eagerly.

"Alright! Whatever you want, go. ”

Ang Lee and Chen Xuanli rode to Ang Lee's courtyard outside the city, Chen Xuanli stayed in the main hall to wait, and Ang Lee ran back to the main house.

"Aaron."

"Aaron."

"Husband, are you back so soon?"

Xiao Yin and Xiao Meng, as well as Yan Ruyu, were all copying the map, and when they saw Li An returning, they all stood up.

"Hey, you're all copying maps, how many have you drawn?"

Ang Lee asked.

"Husband, we've already copied three of them, and we're copying them."

Yan Ruyu replied gently.

"Wow, it's so fast, I've only been gone for more than two days, and you have copied three of them, show me quickly."

Li An was overjoyed, this is actually normal, the reason why Li An spent half a month drawing the map is because he can only take out a short time every day, and half a month does not add up to a long time, in addition, Li An is drawing out of thin air, which needs to be constantly thought about and modified, while Yan Ruyu and the three of them are copying the map, as long as they draw a scoop according to the gourd, the speed is of course much faster than Li An.

"Husband, look, which of these three is the best?"

Yan Ruyu and Xiao Yin Xiaomeng hung up all the three maps they copied and asked Ang Lee to give an evaluation.

"Okay, very good, the copying is in place, so it's okay."

Li An was overjoyed, reached out and took one of the pictures, wrapped it up, and prepared to take it away.

"Husband, you haven't said which one is the best?"

Yan Ruyu pulled Li An's sleeve and refused to give up.

"The three maps are very well copied, ma'am, is the general still waiting for me in the main hall? Come back and make trouble, good. ”

Li An suddenly kissed Yan Ruyu on the forehead, so frightened that Yan Ruyu hurriedly took a step back, while Li An immediately put away the map and strode towards the main hall.

"Don't laugh, keep copying."

Yan Ruyu covered her face with both hands, glanced at Xiao Yin and Xiao Meng, and continued to copy the map for Li An.

"General, this is the map of the world I made, please see."

Li An opened the map first, let Chen Xuanli take a look, then put away the map, and quickly went to Daming Palace with Chen Xuanli.

"Everyone, Li Shilang and General Chen asked to see each other outside the palace, saying that they were offering maps."

A little eunuch walked into the main hall to report the situation.

"Let them enter the temple quickly."

Li Longji said and went out directly.

"There's no need to salute, what Li Shilang is holding in his hand is the map."

Li Longji stopped the two from making a royal salute and looked at the map in Li An's hand.

"Your Majesty, Weichen has a map in his hand, recording the mountains, lakes, oceans, and islands in the world, please take a look at it."

Li An nodded, and slowly opened the map with Chen Xuanli.

"This, this is the map of the world?"

Li Longji saw the familiar territory of the Tang Dynasty, as well as the neighboring Tibetans and Turks, but there were many more large places that he had not heard of.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the world that Weichen knows is on this map."

Ang Lee replied in the affirmative.

"Someone, hang this map, I want to take a good look at it."

Ang Lee and Chen Xuanli were unstable and couldn't watch the map well, but after hanging it, it was more convenient to watch.

"It turns out that the world is so big, my Datang is just a corner of the place, hey, Li Shilang, how do you know so much, you have been to these places?"

Li Longji sighed, and then looked at Li An suspiciously, with Li An's age, how could he have been to so many places? But if you haven't been, how did you draw this map?

"Back to Your Majesty, this is the map I got from a master when Ah Weng lived in seclusion in White Wolf Mountain, and Wechen has seen it a few times, so I keep it in my heart."

Ang Lee was helpless and could only talk nonsense.

"Hey, there are always some high-ranking people in the world who are unwilling to contribute to the imperial court, but does Li Shilang really believe that this map is real?"

Li Longji continued to ask.

"Your Majesty, Wechen once doubted it, but this master marked the map so carefully, many of the things we already know are correct, why are these extra parts fake? Besides, in the future, after the large steamship is built, it will not be possible to prove the authenticity of these places by sending a troop of soldiers and horses to search for these places according to the map? ”

Li An Zhengse said.

Needless to say, Ang Lee believed that Chen Xuanli had told Lee about the railroad to Laizhou and the construction of a large steamship in a bay in Laizhou.

"Okay, in that case, I'll assume this map is real, but what's going on with these blank spaces?"

Li Longji also showed a strong interest in most of the blank land.