Out of the north city gate, less than three miles, is the south bank of the Yellow River, Li Zicheng and Tang Ruowang stand side by side on the embankment, look around, there are really two river islands in front, one long and one short, the part of the long beach exposed above the water surface, the length is more than 40 zhang, and the short beach is less than half of the long beach.

Li Zicheng looked at the opposite bank from afar, the Yellow River here is no more than thirty or forty zhang wide, and the mounds and thorns on the opposite bank are all in full view.

Tang Ruowang said: "Governor, if you build a bridge from here, it happens to be facing the north gate, but I don't know if there is a road on the other side." ”

Li Zicheng is concerned about how to erect bridge piers, "Mr. Tang, there are only two river islands, and if you want to avoid the river to build a bridge, I'm afraid it's not easy, right?" ”

"This ...... It was necessary to conduct a field visit and, moreover, to see if the foundation on the river island could support the bridge piers. ”

Li Zicheng looked up and saw that the sun was still hanging in the middle of the sky, and it was still early before it got dark, so he said, "Mr. Tang, why don't we go to Hexinzhou now to have a look." ”

Tang Ruowang arched his hand and said: "The Metropolitan Governor is right, let's go to the field now!" ”

Over there, He Mi immediately went to arrange the boat, and carried a tape measure to measure the width of the river.

Li Zicheng, Tang Ruowang, and He Xiaomi, accompanied by two personal soldiers, and on the other two boats, their own personal soldiers carried a tape measure to preliminarily measure the width of the river in various places.

After a while, the boat carried Li Zicheng to the long beach near the south bank, Li Zicheng saw that the sand on the long beach was grayish-white, and knew that the water had been exposed for a long time, so he got off the boat and boarded the long beach.

Tang Ruowang was behind Li Zicheng, and when he reached the highest point in the middle of Boracay Island, he looked left and right, and ran back and forth twice, and suddenly said: "Governor, if the soil on Jiangxinzhou is hard enough and it is extremely simple to build a bridge, according to his subordinates, two bridge piers can be built on this long beach!" ”

"Two piers?" Li Zicheng looked left and right, the width of Long Beach was about 20 meters, and two bridge piers were erected, was the distance too close? Isn't that a waste of material?

Tang Ruowang said excitedly: "Dadudu, if you erect two bridge piers on the long beach and one bridge pier on the short stall, maybe you don't need to build the bridge piers in the water...... However, you still have to go to the short beach in front of you to see it on the spot. ”

"Okay, let's go to Short Beach again!" Li Zicheng boarded the boat again, and then went to the short beach opposite, which was not only much shorter than the long beach, but also very narrow, and the place opposite the long beach was only a little more than ten meters.

Tang Ruowang looked at the opposite side, looked at it for a long time, and gestured with his hand, and said: "Dadudu, if you set up a bridge pier on the short beach, maybe you can set up a bridge pier on the opposite slope, and you can completely avoid the river!" ”

"That's the best, I just don't know if the slope is stressed!" Li Zicheng visually measured that the distance between the short beach and the opposite river bank should be less than thirty meters, and the river bank here is not a mountain peak, so he nodded, "Mr. Tang, the matter of building the bridge will be handed over to you, and I will let the bridge construction team come over as soon as possible." ”

"Yes, Dadu Governor, my subordinates will investigate all the data tomorrow and strive to come up with a plan as soon as possible," pondered for a moment, and then said: "Dadu Governor, the Yellow River Bridge here is the closest to Lanzhou, but Qingshitan already has the title of 'Lanzhou Yellow River Bridge'......"

Li Zicheng thought about it, in order to increase the momentum, the Yellow River Bridge at the bluestone beach was named "Lanzhou Yellow River Bridge", in fact, the bluestone beach is still far away from Lanzhou, if this place is named "Lanzhou Yellow River Bridge", it should be more appropriate.

However, "Lanzhou Yellow River Bridge", a few big characters, has been engraved on the bridge, the people have been familiar with it, now to change it, it is not appropriate, think about it, said: "This bridge can no longer be called" Lanzhou Yellow River Bridge ", so let's call it "Lanzhou Yellow River Second Bridge"!" ”

"Second Bridge?" Tang Ruowang was happy, how could the Metropolitan Governor think of the title "Second Bridge"? Hehe, with the second bridge, there will be "three bridges" and "four bridges" in the future......

Li Zicheng is not an expert in technology, the matter of building the bridge will be handed over to John Tang, and after the survey is completed, the bridge building team should also arrive, such a thing, let it be handed over to John Tang!

When I left the Yellow River and returned to the barracks, the sun had already set, and only a large red and bright sunset remained on the peak of the distant mountain, dragging out a long tail.

Namu Zhong has already prepared the meal, she was not good at Han food, but under the training of the firefighters, she can already sit on four or five kinds of meat, and she has also learned to use the iron pot of the Han people to stir-fry.

Seeing Li Zicheng coming back, Namu Zhong immediately greeted him, "Heavenly Destiny Khan is back?" The meal is just ready, so eat it while it's hot! ”

Li Zicheng passed by her side and sniffed at her neck by the way, "Namu Zhong, thank you for your hard work!" ”

"Concubines can't eat and drink for nothing!" Namu Zhong was still a little worried, "I just don't know if it suits the taste of Heavenly Destiny Khan!" ”

"As long as it's made by Namu Zhong, Ben Khan likes it!" Li Zicheng took off his outer smock and hung it on the pillar, wearing only a single coat.

Namu Zhong snorted lightly in his nose, but he was happy in his heart, "Eat quickly!" ”

"Namu Zhong, you can eat too!" Li Zicheng leaned on a wooden chair, picked up a steamed bun with a bamboo chopstick, took a big bite, and frowned unconsciously, "Namu Zhong, didn't you make this steamed bun?" ”

"Giggles!" Namu Zhong smiled with the back of his hand, "Heavenly Destiny Khan, the concubine can't make steamed buns yet, so I have to go to the military camp to buy them, but these dishes are made by the concubine herself, especially mutton, we Mongolians are the best at it......"

Li Zicheng picked up a piece of braised mutton, but his brows wrinkled even tighter, "Namu Zhong, Lanzhou's salt has recently been reduced in price......"

"Ah......" Namu Zhong's eyes widened, "Heavenly Destiny Khan, is the mutton too salty?" Concubines taste ......"

"Oh, it's not too salty...... It's just not ripe...... Hey...... This mutton is chewy, not bad......" Li Zicheng spit out the broken bones and swallowed the mutton raw.

Namu Zhong tasted it, and immediately frowned and frowned, his eyes were squeezed into a line, his small mouth was slightly open, and half of his red little tongue was sticking out of his mouth, "This mutton is too salty...... It's not ripe either......"

She hurriedly spit out the mutton on the square table, thinking that Li Zicheng had just swallowed a piece of mutton raw, and she didn't realize that she had a blank look, "Destiny ...... sweat"

"Well, that's good......" Li Zicheng seemed to laugh.

"Not bad...... Then you will eat all this plate of mutton......" Namu Zhong said as she took the mutton aside, prepared the meal, and poured it out.

"I mean good people...... Li Zicheng said with a smile: "You are the great blessing of Hutu Ketu Khan, you can cook by yourself and learn to cook Han people's food, this heart...... It's really good! ”

"Hypocrisy!" Namu Zhong scolded with a smile, she put the bamboo chopstick into the green vegetables, sandwiched one, and put it in her mouth, "This cabbage should be good, ah...... How can the salt in Lanzhou be so ......?"

Li Zicheng said in his heart, this cabbage is okay if it is eaten raw, so he sandwiched one and threw it into his mouth, it is really good, except that it is salty and can bite people!

Namu Zhong smiled wryly, "Heavenly Destiny Khan, otherwise, you can go to the barracks and eat......"

"Ben Khan's food, there's anything worse than that!" Li Zicheng remembered that when he returned to Mizhi from Ningxia Post Station that day, if he hadn't met a strong man at night, he almost starved to death in the middle of the road, what was this dish? Not only did he eat two white steamed buns, but he ate a plate of cabbage in a daze, which stunned Namu Zhong.

But Namu Zhong only ate one steamed bun, and she barely ate vegetables, just dipped some vegetable soup in the steamed bun with a bamboo chopstick.

After Li Zicheng was full of food and drink, Namu Zhong hurriedly lowered his head to clean up the dishes, and poured all the remaining dishes to feed the dogs.

Li Zicheng had to shake his head and smile bitterly, this Namu Zhong, I will "repay" you in a while......

Namu Zhong cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and neither went back nor entered the inner room, but leaned against the candlelight at the door of the inner room, leaning on the door and looking at her husband's little daughter-in-law.

Li Zicheng looked at the beautiful woman in the candlelight, and chuckled: "Namu Zhong, don't cook for an unknown day, you are the great blessing of Hutu Ketu Khan...... Leave these rough jobs to the firefighters! ”

"Does the Heavenly Mandate Khan think that the concubine body is willing to serve you?" Namu Zhong is a white eye again, and under the candlelight, it looks extraordinarily warm, "Tianming Khan is often not at home, and the concubine stays alone in the barracks, and she is suffocated to death......"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Li Zicheng said with a smile: "It's too busy during this time, and I can't always be at home during the day...... Well, at night, Ben Khan didn't go anywhere, so he stayed at home to accompany Namu Zhong...... "Before he finished speaking, he got up and rushed to the porter.

"Who is rare, you pay ...... Despicable and shameless...... "Namu Zhong knew that something was wrong and wanted to dodge, but he couldn't move his legs and feet, and he was already hugged by Li Zicheng and held in his arms......

The night breeze blew the barracks door, making a rhythmic "squeak" sound, leading the murmuring of the inner chamber like a baton.

When he got up the next day, Li Zicheng regained his dragon and tiger fierceness, he first went to the training ground and trotted until he sweated, and then returned to the barracks, washed up, and had breakfast.

Although he was a little anxious, Li Zicheng had to wait for information from all sides, such as Songshan between the inner and outer walls, Jingyuwei in the northeast of Lanzhou, and Tang Ruowang's inspection of the Second Yellow River Bridge, and how many displaced people could be sent to Guguan......

Everything takes time.

Li Zicheng saw that Namu Zhong had nothing to do, so he took her out of Lanzhou, preparing to go to the Gaolan Mountains outside the city to play, but suddenly received an urgent message from Wang Anping: Chen Qiyu, the governor of Shaanxi, is organizing officers and soldiers to work together with the governor Hong Chengchou to hunt down and kill the thieves, and for a while, the thieves in Shaanxi have been killed countless times.

Wang Anping's rangers did not dare to get too close to the officers and soldiers, and did not know the exact information, but he felt that the wind was very tight, so he released the rangers regardless of losses, so the message came later.

In order to explain the detailed message, he did not send a pigeon to deliver the message this time, but sent a herald to deliver the message on a fast horse.

Li Zicheng suddenly lost his interest in playing, Chen Qiyu, this is an expert in suppressing thieves, he was almost born to slaughter thieves.

Hong Chengchou didn't go, Chen Qiyu came again, where will the Mandate of Heaven Army go?

Sooner or later, Chen Qiyu will know the situation in Xining and Longyou, what should I do? Does the Manifest Destiny need to be the line with his army?