Li Tangshan threw the matter of digging the spiritual canal to Shi Lu, and he had to be a hands-off shopkeeper, Li Tangshan knew in his heart that Shi Lu was the first person in history to dig the spiritual canal, and Li Tangshan could not grab this historical record. Li Tangshan is still very relieved about the quality, although Shi Lu's wisdom is not very high, but he is still very good at leading troops to fight. The most important thing is that the quality of the projects in the Qin Dynasty is real-name system, and the tofu slag project will pay the price of life in this era.

Li Tangshan called Lu Yique alone: "Brother Lu, I see that the progress of the Lingqu is normal, and I am more worried about the problem of the transport ship now?" I want you to help organize people to build building boats, the building ships in the Minyue area are all shipping, and the use of building boats in inland rivers should be different. “

Lu Yique looked at Li Tangshan's eyes full of respect for himself and said: "Brother Li, thank you for always trusting me, I didn't build a building ship before, but I will do my best." “

Li Tangshan thought in his heart that he had to do all the work as far forward as possible, because the next war with the Xiqi people would be very cruel. The people of Liangguang have been very powerful in fighting since ancient times, and the wolf soldiers of the world are out of Guangxi.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a saying: "Guangxi wolf soldiers, strong in the world". It was because Yuan Chonghuan was training the Liaodong soldiers, which was later known as the Guanning Iron Cavalry. Before that, it had always been the 6,000 Guangxi wolf soldiers and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the battle of Ningyuan defeated the Qing army, even if the data was watery, but the 6,000 wolf soldiers of the Ming army were definitely elite divisions.

Later, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Feng Zicai led the wolf soldiers to defeat the French army that had beaten the Manchu Eight Banners at Zhennan Pass. However, the Qing court still paid compensation to the French army in the event of victory, which is ridiculous and hateful. In the Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army, Li Zongren led the Guangxi soldiers to defeat Wu Peifu in a week and recover Changsha. During the warlord melee period, the "Guangxi Wolf Soldiers" defeated the Hunan army, known as the "elite division", with only a few tens of thousands of troops.

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese also spoke highly of the Guangxi soldiers, saying that they were "a ragtag army whose combat effectiveness can be compared with that of the Central Army".

To borrow a sentence from Marshal Peng Dehuai: "The Guizhou army and the Yunnan army are two sheep, and the Hunan army is a wolf: the Guangxi monkey is the Gui army, fierce as a tiger and as evil as a wolf!" It can be seen that the combat power of the Guangxi soldiers back then.

The history books also recorded: "The number of Tu Sui's army was sharply reduced from 200,000 to less than 100,000 at that time, and hundreds of thousands of corpses were bled in ambush. “

Later, it turned out that Li Tangshan's worries were very necessary, the enemy was so powerful that it was beyond everyone's imagination, these worries Li Tangshan had no way to communicate with anyone, and the only thing Li Tangshan could do was to hurt less.

Li Tangshan asked Wu Rui to come and ask him to help go to the King of Minyue to borrow some shipbuilding technicians. Although Li Tangshan knew that the port of Hepu in South Vietnam could make big ships, those were still in the sphere of influence of the South Vietnamese, and there was no way to recruit shipwrights and skilled craftsmen there, so Li Tangshan had no choice but to seek distance and closeness.

Minyue Wang Wuzhu is a cheerful person, and Wu Rui is particularly attached to him. More than 10 craftsmen were sent over in one go, and the head of the craftsman was called Qiaozhui, who had decades of experience in shipbuilding.

Li Tangshan asked Qiao Qiao and said, "Master, the timber for our shipbuilding is ready!" What do you see that can be used? ”

Qiaochui carefully checked which wood, and then said to Li Tangshan and Lu Yique: "Among these woods, many of them cannot be used, and camphor wood, pine, and fir wood are generally used for shipbuilding, but I saw that there is iron plough wood in it, which is very precious, but it is too small. ”

Lu Yi nodded and said, "There are a lot of huge iron ploughs on the nearby mountains, and I will arrange for someone to cut them down." ”

Qiao Chui happily said: "This iron plough wood is as long and straight as possible, and we can use it to erect the keel." The building ship you want to build is very different from our seafaring ship, your ship can't be too big, and the draft of the inland river is relatively deep, so your boat can't be too big. ”

Li Tangshan nodded, thinking in his heart that with these old professions, he should not stay here and command indiscriminately. Li Tangshan left after a few words, and Li Tangshan was also worried about the progress of Shi Lu's side, so he walked to the construction site where the ditch was dug.

This Shi Lu is still very good at leading the troops, Shi Lu is directing everyone at the construction site to continue to dig mud, a large number of farmers and craftsmen came to the construction site, some chiseled stones, some carried stones, and worked in full swing.

Li Tangshan walked over to Shi Lu, and saw that Shi Lu was frowning sadly, and he should have encountered some difficulties.

Li Tangshan patted Shi Ludao on the shoulder and asked, "Are you encountering any problems?" ”

Shi Lu looked up at Li Tangshan and replied: "There is a huge mountain stone blocking the way to the channel, if there is no way to break this stone, there is no way to carry out the next step of the project, and it will drag down the progress of the entire project." ”

When Li Tangshan heard this, he was also a little worried about the progress of the project, and said to Shi Lu: "Let's go, go to the scene to see what the situation is?" ”

Shi Lu called a few engineers to go to the site together.

I saw a huge mountain rock blocking the direction of the river, and if this giant stone was not removed, there would be no way to open the spiritual canal. Li Tangshan carefully observed this boulder and thought: "My mother! This is composed of basalt with a hardness of 7 or more on the Mohs scale, and it would be nice if there were modern cannons and INT**! A few cannons can blow up this boulder, but now in the Great Qin Dynasty, it will be hundreds of years before the emergence of **. Even if there is, how much** will it take to blast this stone. This boulder can only be solved with the materials that are available now. ”

Shi Lu analyzed: "We hit this stone with a hammer and there was no response, only a little bit of gravel slag fell, and the tools were damaged too quickly during the construction process, which was really too damn too hard." ”

Li Tangshan remembered the documentary on the construction of Dujiangyan and said that similar problems were encountered in the construction of Baohuakou. Li Bing and his son adopted such a countermeasure: first dig a ditch on the stones, then fill the ditches and cracks in the stones with hay, and then fill them with branches and firewood, and light a fire. Since the stone will crack when heated, it will be easier to chisel again.

Li Tangshan told Shi Lu the story of the construction of the Jiangyan treasure bottle, which can be tried by this method.

Shi Lu immediately organized manpower and material resources to burn the boulder by Li Bing's method, and used the principle of heat expansion and cold contraction to smash the boulder.

After a morning's hard work, Shi Lu ran over to Li Tangshan and said: "The speed is much faster than before, but the actual effect is still unsatisfactory. ”

Li Tangshan frowned and said, "Let's go to the scene to see, go to the scene to see if there are any other ways?" ”

Li Tangshan carefully observed this boulder and saw that the original intact boulder had been chiseled out of small cracks. Li Tangshan remembered that he had seen a video on the YouTube pipe before using the soil method to open a boulder, and turned to Shi Lu: "Find me a dozen iron awls and people who compare their strength." ”

After a short while, several workers came over with a dozen awls. Li Tangshan pointed to the relatively large slit and said: "According to that slit, you make a hole every other section at a palm distance, drive an awl, and hit the awl evenly. ”

Shi Lu looked at Li Tangshan with suspicion, how could these awls be so small, how could they open the boulders, what kind of jokes. But he didn't have any good way, so he could only see Li Tangshan directing the workers on the side.

A miraculous thing happened, the originally hard stone was subjected to the uniform force transmitted by the awl, and it slowly cracked, and as a result, Li Tangshan really used a dozen awls to split a big stone.

Clearly hearing the sound of the stone cracking, Shi Lu happily hugged Li Tangshan and jumped up, the big problem that had plagued him for a few days could finally be solved.

Li Tangshan pushed Shi Lu away and asked, "How is the progress of the project?" How long will it take to complete? ”

Shi Lu thought for a while and replied: "According to the current progress, it is expected that the ship will be open in one and a half years." ”

Li Tangshan also pondered for a while and said: "One and a half years is too long, I have to think about it and find something else to do?" ”