Chapter 251: Pillar

Wei Hongji only said one word, and Li Wei agreed.

"It's hard," he said. ”

If you don't have some skills, you don't have this eyesight. Not only Li Wei's forehead, but even Yan Liben glanced at him approvingly, and then talked. Because no investigation has been done, there is no Yan Liben to say in detail. He didn't have Yan Liben's vision, saying that Danshui had cultivated all kinds of things. However, I also talked about a lot of professional knowledge.

After talking for a while, Yan Liben looked at Li Wei inquiringly, but Li Wei said: "Wei Shaoqing, after you go back, immediately invite a few skilled stonemasons, and invite a few holidays tomorrow to inspect with Gu Yi in person." ”

Yan Liben frowned, he had already handed over the words.

Li Wei looked at his expression and said: "If you don't start construction, if you don't try everything, how can you know if you succeed or fail." Besides, I didn't try, I just went to see. ”

I was unwilling in my heart, and I wanted to cheer up, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult. But the words that have been spoken, the water that has been spilled, cannot be recovered. Even if the other three things are successful, except for the first thing, the other two things, because they are accumulating wealth, will somewhat erase some credit, and the two channels will not succeed, which is equivalent to offsetting the merits and demerits. I worked my own.

Yan Liben had no choice but to say: "Your Highness must go, and tomorrow morning the minister will give you some files." ”

Li Wei did not do an investigation, but Yan Liben knew the difficulties of Caoyun in Guanzhong. Not only is it difficult, but many people will die every year, and since the prince can make people go to heaven, he may be able to come up with some clever plan. He also believed in the prince very much, or some miracle happened to the prince again.

"Thank you, Xianggong Yan." When it is said and done, I will take my leave.

Back in the East Palace, after dinner, Li Wei called Liu Qun and prepared to ask her to inform Liang Jinzhu to return to Beijing. I have to discuss, the Tang Dynasty forbade the people to go abroad, but there was not even a fixed border, and if you really want to go abroad, you can still do it. The great monk Jianzhen may have some difficulties, but Liang Jinzhu is not very difficult. Not only can Liang Jinzhu do it, like Fujian and Zhejiang, because of the mountainous and barren production, there are also some people who quietly go to sea, and even the people of Chaozhou in Quanzhou drive sea boats to Liuqiu Island to do business. In this regard, the government is the same as selling horses privately, they are all turning a blind eye, what to do, the common people also have to eat.

Without a compass, it's too risky, so don't think about it. With a compass, the accident rate will be reduced, and the sailing will be very profitable. Don't think that the Tang Dynasty was a "big exporter", in fact, the profits allowed merchants from various countries to take a large share. For example, a piece of ivory can be worth one or two hundred taels in the Central Plains, but in the indigenous people of East Africa, maybe a few porcelain pots can be exchanged. Another example is a glass bottle, which may only be worth a few tens of yuan in the big food, but it can be sold for a few hundred yuan a piece in the middle principle. Or porcelain and paper from the Central Plains, when it comes to big food, the price difference is amazing. Therefore, if you go to sea twice, even if only one trip is safe, it is possible that the cost will be fully recovered.

Even if you go by land, you know a lot, and you know that there are also dangers. The cost of land is high, the volume of transportation is small, and there are better in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and when they leave the Tang Dynasty, there are many robbers along the way, and even some entire tribes make a living by looting. Therefore, all the merchants on the Silk Road traveled in groups in order to protect themselves, and sometimes a caravan could have nearly a thousand camels, which was very spectacular.

The profit must be cost-effective by sea, and it is estimated that there are no thousand-ton ships and 10,000-ton ships, but they can go to sea and go to sea, at least a few hundred tons, and a slightly larger ship can not pull away the goods of a thousand camels, and they don't even need to feed them. Although my father agreed, his expression was a little unhappy, and he would definitely be unhappy. Don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case, you have to prepare all the back roads one by one in advance. It seems that according to the trend of history, his "death period" is coming. If you can sail, you will be familiar with the islands in the South China Sea. The emperor can't do it, with the resources and knowledge in his hands, he can also be a bearded guest overseas, and it is better to be a carefree king than to die unjustly.

Now that we have a salt mill in our hands, a sugar mill, and no worries about money, and a fleet, then all the back roads are paved.

But his mind suddenly had an idea, waved his hand to Liu Qun, and said, "You stand down." ”

Wei Yue asked with an inviting smile, "Your Highness, how is Wei Shaoqing?" ”

"Okay."

"Your Highness......" eyes looked in the direction of the bedroom.

Li Wei was speechless, and he didn't know what kind of mentality she had, and said, "You and Wan'er will also sleep with you tonight." ”

Wei Yue jumped up happily.

The next morning, Yan Liben really brought many files and a few picture albums.

In fact, this stone pillar is not at the junction of Weishui and the Yellow River, but dozens of miles away from the Yellow River downstream. It just so happens that the Yellow River forms an inverted triangular bend here, and because of the constraints of mountains on both sides, the river becomes narrow, so the water flow immediately becomes turbulent.

But it is not fatal, the Yellow River is not like the Yangtze River, after passing the Three Gorges, the river is wide and suitable for navigation. Thousands of miles of the Yellow River, there are many river shapes like this. Fatally, there are two more large islands in the river. One is called Shenmen Island, and the other is called Ghost Gate Island. Only three small gaps are left for the river to pass through. The local people call these three gaps the three gates, the north gate is the human gate, the middle gate is the god gate, the south gate is the ghost gate, the water travels in the meantime, it becomes very steep and urgent, and the sound of rushing is like thunder. It is especially a ghost gate, and the boat raft enters by mistake, and it is rarely taken off, so it is called the ghost gate. The same is true for the Divine Gate, only there is a peninsula in front of the Human Gate, so that the water potential is buffered and can be navigated. This, of course, makes the other two currents even faster.

After the ship passed through Renmen, it had to make a turn, otherwise it would crash into the Renmen Peninsula. There are dangers, but not the most dangerous. After turning the bend, it merges with the main stream of the two gates of ghosts and gods, not far down, and there are three mountains, although the other two mountains are fangs exposed, they are slightly better, but there is another mountain, to be precise, a stone pillar, just in the center of the river. Because of the main stream, the river is so fast that it will force the ship to crash straight into this huge stone pillar.

Even if the boat handling skills are good, the slightest mistake will cause the boat to capsize and die. Capsizing here, not to mention any swimming skills, no matter how good it is, it is useless. The river is so fast, even if there is a dragon, it will immediately roll downstream. Therefore, if you want to control the Caoyun in Guanzhong, you must manage this section of the river. The human gate has left a way to live, and because the two islands of gods and ghosts are extremely huge, standing in the middle of the big river, there is no way to govern it. Therefore, many people, including Yu Wenkai of Emperor Wen of Sui, and then Yan Liben, were fighting the idea of this stone pillar.

Removing this stone pillar not only makes the main stream not in crisis, but also makes the water flow more turbulent and surging, and the removal of it, the water potential will be relatively gentle, at least there is no diversion whirlpool, and in the dry season, people can be sent to control the reef.

Therefore, the management of Caoyun in Guanzhong, tens of millions of stakeholders, all concentrated on this stone pillar.

The Tang Dynasty was not without governance, at the beginning of the founding of the country, the population of Guanzhong was not large, and the supply was sufficient, so there was very little transportation. But later, the population increased, although Guanzhong was rich since ancient times, but the area was narrow, and the production was not enough, so after his father ascended the throne, he built a land route from Luoyang to Guanzhong, and the land freight can be imagined. The freight of each two hus reaches one penny, that is, the freight of a bucket of grain alone reaches more than 60 yuan. This is obviously not possible, in the event of a disaster year, such freight plus its own grain price is close to 100 Wen. Each bucket of rice does not need 100 wen, as long as it reaches 50 wen, the people can starve to death. Can't afford to eat!

Then in the first year of Xianqing (656), he saw that hundreds of people died because of the rent sent to Guanzhong, so Chu Lang, the supervisor of Yuanxi, played and suggested that Sanmen Mountain be dug as a beam, that is, after arriving at this section of the river, the ship should be moored to the shore and conveyed downstream by land. It seems to be a way, only a dozen miles of road, turnaround, not like the road from Luoyang to Guanzhong is eight hundred miles, the freight rate is not high. So Li Zhi asked 6,000 soldiers to dig the mountain and open the way. However, the rocks were hard, and things didn't work out.

But the way to always have to think, there was no salt at that time, the people in the lower reaches of the Yellow River relied on Hedong salt for food, and Guanzhong relied on Shandong Lianghuai grain, so Yang Wulian, a master craftsman, dug the Sanmen Mountain plank road again, which was convenient for the slender man to pull the boat. But bad things happen all the time. Sometimes it's because the rope is broken, sometimes it's because the current is so fast, sometimes it's because it's hitting the reef. Ships often sink, ships sink, or ropes are pulled upside down, and the slender man falls into the rapids. Therefore, the people often ran away, and the government had no choice but to take his parents as hostages. As a result, the people on both sides of the strait thought it was bitter. Of course, you can also eat a mouthful of rice, but this meal is worth it in exchange for life. Besides, most of the time it is in the form of forced labor, and I can't even mix the rice. Surely there is no one who wants it.

Yan Liben didn't come up with a solution, but he put his heart into it, and recorded all kinds of terrain suggestions one by one, and even recorded what reefs there were on this section of the river, even the size of each reef and the distance between them.

Li Wei didn't know that this was the famous Sanmen Caoyun. Not only in the hands of Li Zhi, but later in the hands of the emperors of the Tang Dynasty, except for Luoyang, the capital of Wu Zetianding, other emperors had many governance, but none of them had success.

It's just that after reading it, I thought of a word that was the same as Wei Hongji: difficult.

I still don't believe in evil in my heart, and after reading it, I took a team of guards, as well as Wei Hongji, and more than a dozen stonemasons found by Wei Hongji, all of whom were temporarily found from the general as a prisoner, and did not bring them all, so I found a few young and strong stonemasons who could ride horses and took them with them, and went all the way east.

I didn't use a car to drive, I rode a horse very quickly, went to Tongguan to rest that night, and went to Shaanzhou to rest again the next afternoon. If you want to control this section of the river, you need the locals to be guides, and when you meet the officials of Shaanzhou, you can call the boatmen who are familiar with the river, as well as the slender men.

On the morning of the third day, with the guards and a few officials, the relevant boatmen and slender men, a large group of people arrived at Sanmenxia.

The road became more and more rugged, and before I could turn to the river, I heard the sound of trumpets and the thunder of the water crashing against the river rocks. It is not without compassion that the slender man did not immediately look at the boats that were sailing back and forth. There are so many people in Guanzhong, not only food, but also various other materials need to be transported. It is to move the capital to Luoyang, and this period of transportation will continue. If you want to do it, you have to die. Radical cure is the only way.

Come to the edge of the cliff and look at the river.

The sky is still good, the sky is blue, there are no clouds, and there is no fog because there are mountains on both sides, and you can see it clearly. The dossier said that it was very auspicious, and I have not seen the shock with my own eyes. The murky river roared southeast with whirlpools. In particular, the blocking of the two islands seemed to make the Yellow River angry, slapping the two islands vigorously, and the waves splashed like snow. Layers of water droplets, as if standing on a mountain cliff, splashed up.

Because of the impact, there was a thunderous roar. Don't stay on the ship, even if you stand on the top of the cliff, you will be discolored.

Wei Hongji smiled bitterly and said: "Your Highness, Da Jiangchen has never been there, but here he has seen rocks and clouds, waves crashing on the shore, rolling up thousands of piles of snow. ”

Li Wei just kept a calm face and didn't say anything. He has never been to the Yangtze River, and the section of Rongzhou can only be regarded as the upper reaches, not the real Yangtze River. But it is conceivable that even the Three Gorges may not be so thrilling, or it is just longer than the Three Gorges. I went to the southwest and saw many dangerous rivers, especially from Yaozhou to Tieqiao, some rivers run through canyons hundreds of meters deep, which is more dangerous than here. But no matter how dangerous it is, it is not navigable, just like the yellow fruit tree bursting cloth, the more dangerous the better, it can be used as a scenery and placed on the Yellow River, and things are a little bad. Of course, no matter how dangerous it is, it is not as wide as it is spectacular.

Look down.

Seeing the stone pillar, September was approaching, and the river was getting a little lower, and the stone pillar was several feet high above the water, and only sparse small shrubs grew on it, and most of the blue-brown stone rock was exposed. The shape of this stone pillar is like a fang, in fact, it is more ferocious than the fangs of the devil, since ancient times, because of this fang, I don't know how many people's lives have been devoured.

It is located just above the main stream of the Yellow River, and the waves splashing in front of it are higher and more intense, but this stone pillar does not move. Li Wei's face changed suddenly, and he finally remembered that this stone pillar was a divine thing. It is very famous, the pillar in the idiom of the mainstay, it is this stone pillar!

: Some people say that they don't need to be bound by such rigorous historical materials. I couldn't help it, and I checked a lot more. "Tang Chun" seems to have been written here, and because I wanted to govern Sanmen Caoyun and really entered the palace, I wanted to write it, so I had to investigate it more carefully, and it was unpopular, which was more difficult to check than the historical materials of Nanzhao. After tossing all night, my head was dizzy, and I didn't start writing until now. After all, although YY, it should also be reasonable.

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