The army entered Tongguan and walked westward for more than ten days, and finally set up camp on the bank of the Bashui River. The allusion of the pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info "Baqiao folding willow farewell" is also a household name in later generations, taking advantage of the sunset has not completely fallen down, a group of civil officials from Luoyang have run to the willow shade on the bank of Bashui to visit the scenery here.

"When I went west out of Daxing City, I didn't expect to come back again more than ten years later." Looking at the reflection of the sunset in the rippling water, Kong Yingda sighed endlessly. He became famous at a young age, and because of his talent, he was jealous, and later took refuge under Yang Xuangan, who was the secretary of the Sui Rite Department at the time, and was able to be preserved. During those years in Chang'an, I studied every day, although it was inevitably boring, but it was extremely fulfilling, which created the name of Confucianism that moves the world today.

Among the officials, there are many old people like Kong Yingda in Chang'an, and now they are in Bashui again, they are all surging with nostalgia in their hearts, recalling the scenery of Bashui in the past spring, the catkins are fluttering, like flying snow, and now the Baqiao is still there, the weeping willows are still, but the falling "white snow" does not know when to climb the sideburns, the mountains and rivers remember the travel, the years urge people to get old, time is the most ruthless poison, inadvertently, the young man has become a white-bearded old man.

"Huh......" When everyone was sighing that time was like flowing water, Wang Mai opened his eyes wide and looked at the Baqiao in front of him, this multi-arch stone bridge was hundreds of meters long, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that there would be such a large-span bridge in this world. Under the bridge is dense bridge piers, roughly count not less than dozens, every two piers carry an arc-shaped bridge arch, the bridge arch is paved with a stone avenue that leads directly to Chang'an, the width of the entire bridge deck is almost ten meters, this width is equivalent to the two-way four-lane highway of later generations.

"The design of this bridge is really ingenious...... Wang Mai admired. Later generations of construction engineering is a discipline based on mechanics, but now the civil engineering of this era is an experience-based industry, it is difficult to imagine that the ancients who did not understand mechanics at all, just by experience can build such a grand bridge.

Seeing Wang Mai's surprised expression, Yu Wenshi smiled and explained: "This Baqiao was built in the third year of the emperor's reign, and it was built at the same time as that of Daxing City, and it was built by Yu Wenkai, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Works. ”

Yu Wenkai, cow, this guy has done two big things in his life. First, he presided over the design and construction of Daxing City, which is now Chang'an City; Second, he presided over the design and construction of Luoyang City, and the two largest cities in the world were both written by Yu Wenkai. In addition, Yu Wenkai also presided over the construction of the Great Wall, as well as Hanjiacang, the world's largest granary, etc., which is an out-and-out great engineer.

Yuwenshi and Yuwenkai are both surnamed Yuwen, but there is little relationship between the two. The surname Yuwen was originally a tribe of the Xianbei people, and the people of the Yuwen tribe took Yuwen as their surname, and since Yuwentai took power in the Western Wei Dynasty, it has become a big surname in the north. Later, after Yang Jian usurped the Northern Zhou Dynasty and established the Sui Dynasty, he wantonly slaughtered the Yuwen clan, causing many people to change their surnames to him, and the surname Yuwen gradually became scarce. The Yuwenkai family is one of the surviving Yuwen surnames, he was born in Jiangmen, but he is not good at bowing horses, good at craftsmanship, especially good at architecture, and has been reused by the emperors of the Sui Dynasty for two generations, and the official is still the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

Yuwen Shiji's ancestors were originally slaves of the Yuwen clan, and later followed the master's surname to take the surname Yuwen, and he is not related to the real Yuwen clan. However, his father Yuwenshu was very respected by Yang Guang, and he was also a noble family in the Sui Dynasty, so he was no stranger to Yuwenkai. Yuwen Shihe's younger brother Yuwen Zhihe used to work as a supervisor and served as Yuwenkai's direct subordinate for a period of time.

Seeing that Wang Mai was very interested in this bridge, Yu Wenshi talked endlessly about the construction process of this bridge: "This bridge was designed by a craftsman who was only in his twenties at the time, and his current age should be quite ......."

"Artisan?" Wang Mai blinked, "This person has no grade?" ”

Yu Wenshi shook his head: "This ...... It's not clear below. "He is a son of a noble family, how can he remember the situation of a craftsman.

"Then who is this person's surname, and where is he now, Brother Yuwen knows it?" It is too wasteful for such a talent to be a craftsman, and you must ask him for advice when you have time.

Yu Wenshi still shook his head: "I don't know, but ......" After speaking, he thought carefully for a while, "The Ministry of Industry should have some clues about this person, if Brother Wang is interested, you can check it out." ”

The army was stationed on the bank of the Bashui River, and the officials who came to greet Chang'an had already arranged for tomorrow's entry into the city. As soon as Wang Mai returned to the camp, he saw a tall soldier waiting at the gate of the camp to greet him, this person was Li Er's herald.

"His Royal Highness the King of Qin asks the head of the king to go to the Shuai tent to discuss matters." The person who came said.

Wang Mai nodded, Li Er had already told him that he also had his own share of the ceremony of entering the city, and this time he should have arranged the details of it.

The laughter coming from inside could be heard from a long distance outside Li Er's big tent, and the owner of the voice could still be vaguely distinguished, Cheng Yanjin and Wang Junkuo had the loudest voices.

Seeing Wang Mai coming in, Qin Qiong moved her butt and gave up half of her body to Wang Mai for him to sit down. After waiting for a while, Fugui ran in sweaty, looked around, and finally sat next to Cheng Yanjin.

Li Er saw that everyone had arrived, so he nodded to a person dressed as a eunuch next to him, and the eunuch announced to everyone tomorrow's entry into the city with a sharp voice. Li Er took the lead, Wang Mai followed, Li Shiji, Wei Chigong, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin and other 24 generals followed, and Wang Fugui followed with 3,000 soldiers of the new army as the honor guard accompanying the city.

Everyone dispersed happily, but Li Er left Wang Mai alone. Seeing that there was no one left in the camp, Li Er's face immediately fell: "This time, the reward of Chief Manager Wang has come down." ”

Wang Mai looked at Li Er curiously, it was always a good thing to be rewarded, I don't know why Li Er's face was so ugly, could things have changed? However, since Li Yuan let himself follow his son into the city, it means that the reward this time will definitely not be thin, he doesn't care how big an official he is, anyway, he has already fallen on the big tree of Li Er, as long as he grasps it firmly, he will be promoted to become rich.

Li Er took out an edict from the table and handed it to Wang Mai, Wang Mai took it and looked at it, the content on it was also very simple, it was about the deployment of official uniforms.