150,000 people, divided into seven teams of 20,000 people, and there are 10,000 people left.

These 10,000 people naturally want to be used on the railway, but Su Baiyi is not in a hurry to send them over immediately, because these 10,000 people, he has a great use.

Other railway brigades are randomly selected, but these 10,000 people are different, they are the elites specially selected by Su Baiyi from 150,000 people, and in the future, these people will also be the objects of his focus as engineering pioneers.

Of these 10,000 people, there are 1,000 and 13 who are literate, and the rest are either young and strong, or they are excited, revealing a clever energy. This is also a brigade, called the Railway Bridge and Tunnel Team, which is a team dedicated to the construction of bridges and tunnels, and the captain is Fu Lin.

Longhai railway from east to west a total of 1,000 kilometers, although it is by the Yellow River, and the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, the Huai River and other famous rivers do not intersect, but many unknown small rivers can not be avoided, the whole railway line, a total of more than 40 small bridges.

These bridges are more than a hundred meters long and forty or fifty meters short. According to the current bridge-building technology of the Ming Dynasty, there are only two methods: either use wood or stone.

The use of wood is naturally to build a wooden bridge, and the use of stone is generally to build a stone arch bridge. However, neither of these two bridges can bear the weight of the railway itself or the trains, so neither is desirable.

Then the only way left is the reinforced concrete bridge.

As for the tunnel, this railway crosses the southern foot of Taihang Mountain, and bypasses in the remaining veins of Songshan Mountain, after all, there are so many places that cannot be bypassed, so you can only choose to build a tunnel.

Several tunnels on the Longhai Railway are not very long, about three or four hundred meters.

Whether it is a bridge or a tunnel, it is high-tech in this era, and ordinary people can't do it, so Su Baiyi can only set up a bridge and tunnel brigade and let Fu Lin be responsible for the construction of bridges and tunnels on the entire railway.

Of course, 10,000 people is not enough, this 10,000 people is just the first stage, and they will definitely have to recruit people in the future. As for the technique, Fu Lin has already undergone Su Baiyi's all-round written training without dead ends, and what is lacking is just practice.

Su Baiyi bought a large number of steel bars and concrete in the system and put them in the riverside warehouse, these things are the basic bulk materials for building bridges and tunnels, so the next step is to let Fu Lin take people to practice, once the mature technology is mastered, 10,000 people can be divided into several skilled teams in an instant, and if they go hand in hand, more than forty bridges will be very fast.

"See more, learn more, ponder more!" Su Baiyi patted a large cart of drawings and said to Fu Lin: "Although the technology of building this bridge is not difficult, it is rare to organize and coordinate the on-site construction. Workers may be sloppy because they want to be lazy, but you can't be sloppy, all of them, be sure to follow the steps and size and position shown in the diagram, and dare not have the slightest deviation. These 10,000 people will be given to you, starting with the bridge we are going to Defu, and then going to disperse the construction when you are proficient. ”

"Yes, sir!" Fu Lin looked respectful and gave Su Baiyi a deep look.

Su Baiyi patted him on the shoulder and said, "Go ahead." Watching Fu Lin go away with 10,000 people, Su Baiyi had a wonderful idea, if Fu Lin can really lead a team to build bridges and tunnels, then simply let him set up a bridge and tunnel company.

This idea is not a fantasy, when the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge was built, as soon as the Soviet experts left, the people involved in the construction of the empire set up a company on the spot, which was the predecessor of the Bridge Bureau.

……

After sending Fu Lin away, Hou Fangyu came again.

Not only Hou Fangyu, but also Gu Zhong, Xu Xiake and Haihai.

The four of them once went to Annam Tokyo (Hanoi) in the spring to meet with Zheng Zhuang, the king of Qinghe, the minister of Annam, and asked for trade, but Zheng Zhuang refused to meet on the grounds that the Ming Dynasty was too busy to take care of himself and supported the traitor Mo, and even refused the trade request. What's even more excessive is that after Hou Fangyu led the fleet to leave, this cargo dared to send people to the sea to plunder.

Is it tolerable or intolerable?

Can I still eat hairy pigs without Butcher Zhang?

If you want to buy food and plant rubber trees, you Zheng Zhu can, but in addition to your Zheng Zhu, we don't have other partners to work with.

So, after letting Hou Fangyu and the four of them rest for a few days, Su Baiyi sent them to embark on the journey again. This time, the target is still Annam, but it is not Tokyo, where the Truong Le Dynasty is located, but Quang Nam, where the Nguyen Lord is located south of the Ling River.

After Hou Fangyu went to Guangnan, not only was the treatment very different from going to Tokyo, he was personally received by Ruan Fuyuan, but Ruan Fuyuan also immediately agreed to trade with the Ming Dynasty, and when he came, he went out of the city to send more than ten miles and gave a boatload of gifts.

Hou Fangyu happily led the fleet home, where did he think that when he arrived at the gate of Guide Mansion, he suddenly heard that the thief army had besieged the city, so that he did not dare to drive the ship to Guide Mansion, so he stopped near Xuzhou, and at the same time secretly inquired about the news of Shangqiu City. Now that I heard that Mr. had pacified Luo Rucai, he naturally led the team to hurry home.

"Chaozong, Lao Gu, hurry up, come in and talk!" Su Baiyi invited a few people to the office, ordered someone to pour tea, and sat down after saluting together.

Hou Fangyu's height has grown a lot, and his face has darkened, but his eyes are also brighter.

"Thank you guys, how's it going?" Su Baiyi asked Hou Fangyu with a smile: "Have you suffered at sea, did you miss your mother when you dreamed?" ”

Hou Fangyu blushed and said, "No!" ”

Gu Zhong, Lu Hai and Xu Xiake covered their mouths and laughed, laughing so inexplicably that Su Baiyi laughed, but Hou Fangyu's face was as red as a monkey's buttocks.

Su Baiyi asked curiously, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Xu Xiake coughed twice and was about to speak.

Hou Fangyu said: "You dare to say? ”

The three laughed again.

Su Baiyi was even more puzzled, looked at his precious apprentice with a painful face, and asked, "What's wrong?" Could it be that Ruan Fuyuan also gave you a girl? ”

Gu Zhong and the three of them laughed even more.

Hou Fangyu blushed and arched his hand: "Sir, don't ask, it's all the student's troubles, the student should report to Mr. about the situation of going to the Quang Nam Ruan family." ”

"Okay, you say." Su Baiyi no longer wondered why the three of them were laughing, and when he heard that Hou Fangyu was going to talk about business, he quickly straightened up and said, "You tell me carefully." ”

"Yes!" Hou Fangyu said: "After the disciple led the team to Guangnan, he went to Fuchun (now Shunhua, the capital of Lord Ruan), and said that we are the messengers of the Ming Dynasty, and Lord Ruan was very happy to hear it. ”

Su Baiyi said: "Although the Li Dynasty is controlled by the Zheng Dynasty, but in the final analysis, it is orthodox, our Ming diplomacy has always only chosen the orthodox dynasty, this Ruan Lord is just a local warlord, suddenly heard that the Ming envoy came, as if he was directly mentioned as a warlord to the status level of the country, he was naturally very happy." ”

"According to what Mr. said, the disciple first gave our gifts to Lord Ruan, and Ruan Fuyuan was extremely happy and couldn't put down our soap, perfume and glass. When the disciple told Ruan Phuc Yuan what Mr. meant, he agreed without any hesitation. They also asked us to bring more soap and glass in the future, they have plenty of food. Hou Fangyu sighed deeply and said, "I didn't expect that this Annan region is barbarian, but it is even richer than our Celestial Empire power. The disciples saw along the way, and learned that their local rice is harvested three times a year, and there is no risk of water and drought, which is really smooth. When the tide rises, the low wall is not in the water, and when the tide pushes it, the wall is full of fish, and there is no need to sail far away, so they just take a dustpan to pick it up. I knew that the land of Annan was so rich, and when Emperor Chengzu conquered Annan, he should have been included in the territory of our Ming Dynasty. ”

"Huh!" Su Baiyi said: "There are many strange things in the world, and there is no more than Annan where the rich are, do you want to occupy them when you see that people are rich?" If the scholars of the Confucian and Mencian sects in the imperial court heard your words, they didn't cut off your tongue? ”

"That ......" Hou Fangyu blushed and said: "In such a rich land, the people of Annan are not good at farming, and the rice seedlings are not together, obviously three crops a year, those people are too lazy to plant, some only plant two crops, and some even only plant one stubble." Wouldn't it be a pity that those barbarians were so disappointed by the heavens? If it is cultivated for us Han people, I don't know how much extra rice will be produced? ”

"yes!" Su Baiyi sighed deeply and said: "In this world, only our Han nation is the most industrious, and those barbarians have never been hungry and don't know the taste of hunger, so they don't know how to cherish it." Okay, let's not talk about that, you can move on to this Ruan master. ”

"Yes!" Hou Fangyu continued: "Sir, this Ruan Lord is a man of great talent, they have 20,000 soldiers in Fuchun, 100,000 Zheng in the north, just 20,000 people, although they can't defeat the Zheng family, but they can always protect themselves." Ruan Fuyuan once said to his disciples that if the Ming Dynasty attacked the Zheng clan, he was willing to raise troops in the south, and if the two sides were attacked, the Zheng lord would definitely be defeated. ”

"What did you say?" Su Baiyi asked.

Hou Fangyu bowed his hand in fear, and said: "The disciple didn't dare to say anything, but he didn't dare to offend this Ruan Fuyuan, so he said extremely vaguely, only saying that if Lord Ruan intends to go north, I am willing to help him." ”

"Well, that's fine!" Su Baiyi asked again, "Did he make any other requests?" ”

"The teacher is really like a god!"

"Stop slapping, talk about it!" Su Baiyi feigned anger.

Hou Fangyu said: "Yes, this Ruan Lord has made a request. ”

"What are the requirements?" Su Baiyi asked.

Nguyen Phuc Yuan told his disciples that he was now a courtier of the Li Dynasty, and what he did was only for the sake of the Qing monarch. But the Zheng family coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and sometimes he had to obey orders. If our Ming Dynasty can allow him to establish a country, perhaps, it will be easier for him to do it. ”

"Hehe......" Su Baiyi smiled and said, "Don't you just want a title, I will enter Beijing tomorrow, and I will mention this matter to Your Majesty." Alright, that's all for today, and you all go back and rest. ”

"Yes!" The four of them stood up and saluted Su Baiyi.

Su Baiyi suddenly asked, "Old Gu, why did you laugh when you just entered the door?" ”

As soon as Hou Fangyu's face turned red, he wanted to stop it, but it was too late.

Gu Zhong said: "Chaozong is unwell at sea, and he wetted the bed a few days ago!" ”

"Poof......" Su Baiyi just took a sip of water, and then he was caught off guard and threw up a table.