There is still not much rain this year, and the valley water level is below normal.

After three more discussions on the detailed design and construction plan of the "Fengchi Bridge", it was finally time to start preparing to dig the foundation.

Morning.

By the Gushui River, flags are unfurled, and gongs and drums are shaking!

Zhang Gong, who will be a master craftsman, personally invited the winter official Shang Shuwu Youyi to preside over the groundbreaking ceremony.

The participants also included Zhang Gong, the winter official waiter, Shi Xue Gong, the governor of Luozhou, two young craftsmen who would be the supervisor, a young eunuch of Shang Fangjian, Wu Yanzhi, Luoyang Ling and other high-ranking officials with more than five grades.

As for the officials of the sixth grade and below, there were more than 30 people, and the entire river beach was full of people, and the people on the other side of the river watching the excitement were also crowded.

The weather is also very face-saving, it has been cloudy for several days, it looks like it is going to rain, but it does not come down, but today it is sunny! The sun is shining, and occasionally a few clouds of white clouds float leisurely by.

Wu Yanzhi's spirit is very good! Three days later, it was the summer solstice, and he was preparing to set off the next day of the summer solstice, and Emperor Wu Zetian had already approved the itinerary! As for the return trip, it is tentatively agreed to be ten months later.

Of course, if there is no emergency, decide for yourself when to come back.

Today's bridge groundbreaking ceremony was presided over by Li Cheng, who will be the supervisor.

He looked at the hourglass next to him, and felt that the hour had arrived, so he waved his hand to signal the gong and drummer to pause, and then asked Wu Youyi to come to the stage to offer a sacrificial speech first.

On the rostrum, there was a sheep and a pig, which were used as a young prison gift.

Wu Youyi went up to the temporary rostrum, and under the auspices of the celebrant official, he read out the sacrificial text and performed a great ceremony to worship the gods of heaven and earth and the river.

This set of procedures is very cumbersome, so I will not go into detail here, and it took almost an hour to complete it.

Just as Li Cheng was about to ask Wu Yanzhi, the planner of the project, to go up and say a few words, a eunuch came over there, and he was very anxious to find Wu Yanzhi: "Wu Lang! Holy Lord, please enter the palace quickly! ”

When Wu Yanyi heard this, he was shocked and didn't know what was going on, so he hurriedly said goodbye to Wu Youyi, Zhang Dajiang, Xue Jichang and a large number of officials.

When everyone saw the eunuch in the palace coming, they knew that something was wrong, and they didn't dare to slack off, so they hurriedly let him enter the palace to face the saint.

Bidding farewell to everyone, taking Zhang Tai, followed the eunuch to the Xuanhui Gate on horseback, and entered the palace through the long gate.

Emperor Wu Zetian was waiting for him in Renshou Palace.

After walking for a while, after several extremely complicated physical examination procedures, I saw Wu Zetian who was watching a play in the side hall.

From Wu Zetian's expression, Wu Yanzhi could see that it was boring.

This Monk Xue had just died, and the brothers of Zhang Changzong and Zhang Yizhi had not entered the palace at this time! There is a lack of male pets around her, so she is naturally not very happy.

Actually, you don't have to have sex with you! Between the opposite sex, it is ordinary talking, joking, and playing, which is naturally a hundred times better than that of the same sex! Men and women alike!

"Wu Lang is here, please take a seat! Let's have lunch later! Wu Zetian said indifferently.

"Grandson obeys!" He said respectfully, and then sat down on the ground as the eunuch had instructed.

In front of Wu Zetian, no one dares to be presumptuous! He didn't dare to Wu Yanzhi.

After sitting down, he turned his head and saw that there was no one else here except for Wu Youning, Wu Yizong, and Wu Youji, as well as female officials and eunuchs such as Shangguan Wan'er.

Wu Youji, more than 30, from the third rank of the right guard general, Dingwang; It is also the concubine of Princess Taiping.

Wu Youning, nearly forty years old, Xia Guanshangshu and King Jianchang;

Wu Yizong, in his fifties, General Zuojin Wuwei, King of Hanoi;

These three are his uncles! He nodded at the trio! I continued to watch the play.

This play is the most common "song and dance play" in the Tang Dynasty, but this play is performed by Cao Cao and Cai Wenji.

Today, there is a part where Wen Ji intercedes for her husband Dong Ci, which says that after Cai Wenji returned to Han from the Southern Xiongnu in her thirties, Cao Cao re-found a famous man Dong Ci as his husband at that time.

Dong Ci committed a capital crime a year after the two got married! In the winter, in the ice and snow, she went barefoot to beg Cao Cao to spare her husband.

Later, Cao Cao remembered the kindness of Cai Yong, the father of Wen Ji, and let her husband go! Later, the story of the two returning to Luoshui and retreating.

The play ended after two quarters of an hour.

Someone came over and whispered a few words to Shangguan Wan'er! She told Wu Zetian: "Your Majesty, it's time for lunch!" Is it chatting while eating? ”

Wu Zetian nodded.

Wu Yanzhi looked at this thirty-year-old Shangguan Wan'er, but she was plump and beautiful, with a seductive bearing, and this woman in history was also a woman who read countless men! He smiled and shook his head! Women and men are actually pretty much the same.

followed the three uncles, Wu Yanzhi and others to a room not far away for dinner.

The emperor, of course, was a separate large table filled with hundreds of dishes! When there are countless palace maids beside him, what to eat, as long as he points out, there will be female officials and palace maids who will come and scoop it for the emperor.

Of course, Wu Yanzhi and others were not treated like this, the four of them sat on a big case, but they also put more than a dozen dishes.

The two sides are not far apart, only less than five meters! Being able to have a meal with the emperor at close range is also a great honor for Wu Yanzhi!

"Flame! You're late today, but you also know the story of Cao Cao and Cai Wenji, right? Wu Zetian asked.

Wu Yanzhi hurriedly put down the tableware and said respectfully: "Go back to my grandmother!" The grandson knows a little bit about it! That Cao Cao is not grateful to his mentor Cai Yong, and he is also a person with affection! ”

"Hmmm! You're saying a great deal! Cao Cao is indeed a man of great talent, affection and righteousness! However, many people don't have any feelings to go nowadays! Seeing that I was a woman, I thought about restoration and rebellion everywhere.

They don't want to think about it, if it weren't for me, this Da Zhou wouldn't know what it would be like, would it be that only men in the world could be emperors? ”

She was furious.

Wu Yanzhi stood up at the right time and said, "Grandmother! Men deserve to be emperors, and of course women deserve to be! It's just that there are many small countries in the south, aren't they also the queen in power?

My grandmother's plan for Anxi, Ji'an, Yaozhou, and Beiping Goryeo is all the work of eternity! The grandson felt that his grandmother was not inferior to the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty! ”

"Excellent! I can't imagine that my martial arts family has a son like you! Visionary and insightful! From time to time, people advised me to give up Yaozhou, saying that it was a barbarian land.

But they don't know that if I don't protect it, sooner or later it will be occupied by Tibet, or it will grow independently and become a problem for my Great Zhou's henchmen.

The same is true of the four towns of Anxi, this defense against foreign races must be strategically deep, where can those corrupt literati understand? ”

Wu Yanzhi, Wu Youji and others all smiled and said yes.

"Youning, you tell Yan Zhi, what am I looking for him today!" Wu Zetian said, let's go, continue to eat.

Wu Youning put down the tableware and said to Wu Yanzhi: "Yanzhi, I recently got a secret report that Hongzhou, Fuzhou, Huzhou, Yuezhou, Mingzhou and other states in Jiangnan West Road and East Province are suspected of rebellion.

Since you are going to Raozhou to supervise the smelting of copper and iron, Your Majesty's intention is to ask you to investigate secretly, and if there is really such a thing, they can be killed on the spot! ”