Section 40: Chance encounters
After Yun Ye entered the mourning hall, Li Chengqian thought for a long time, shook his head, and muttered to himself: "The society and the country, how can it be manipulated by others, the right in the hands of one person is power, and the control in the hands of tens of millions of people is not called power." ”
Yun Ye didn't know what kind of decision Li Chengqian would make, it was none of his business, the thing now was to send Li Er away and bury her perfectly in Zhaoling, and after the eldest grandson died, he would send her in, and finally cover it with quicksand and boulders, and kill some tomb robbers who coveted the burial goods, even if his task was completely completed, what Li Chengqian thought and how to do it, who could take care of it.
In the face of the catastrophe, the strong national strength of the Tang Dynasty fully showed its due power, the train kept moving back a large number of tents from Luoyang day and night, which greatly alleviated the loss of human life, and the army of the Sixteen Guards was scattered like locusts in these four disaster-stricken counties, the Ministry of Industry, the construction team of the Yushan Academy, built a lot of houses in a short period of time, for this reason, the Mr. of the Academy re-planned these places, and the previous chaotic buildings all disappeared, replaced by the most economical conjoined houses, Rows of them stand on the field, and the red bricks and blue tiles are very beautiful.
300,000 households were affected by the disaster, and with the efforts of the simple Tang people, they quickly came out of the shadow of the disaster, for no other reason, just because the spring sowing began, as long as the apricot blossoms bloomed and the swallows came, the days still had to go on, bury the dead, lead the ploughing ox, carry the plough, and the new year began again.
The situation that scared Li Er the most was that the mortuary regardless of the armor did not happen, and his coffin was carried into the Zhaoling Tomb by some eunuchs who were determined to be buried after being worshiped for eighty-one days. A spring rain came unexpectedly, just like Li Er's politics, first furious, and then endless comfort.
The land of Guanzhong does not stop its hurried footsteps because of the death of a king, the white smoke train is still rushing between Chang'an and Luoyang, and the swallows are still giving birth to children under the nest built last year. The world is calm, as if it doesn't know that there was once such a great king as Li Er who once conquered, ruled, or saved on this land......
Du Wei was very irritable and walked around the train platform, damn, it takes a whole day to get from Luoyang to Chang'an? Didn't you say that the locomotive was changed and the speed increased? Why hasn't the train on the other side come yet? A one-way road is a problem, and according to Du Wei's opinion, two train lanes should be built at a time, one for running east. A special run to the west, half an hour can have a train out, in terms of efficiency is the fastest, from the Yushan Academy graduated Du Wei easily came up with the best plan, as the big treasurer, this calculation is not the slightest problem for him.
The fat-bellied sons of the nobles are the biggest fools in the world, and they only know that they live ignorant by guarding the little wealth left by their ancestors, and Du Wei doesn't believe that this railway was thought up by Yun Huan himself. It was only natural for him to attribute this credit to the esteemed duke.
I heard that the railway from Luoyang to Jinyang will be opened to traffic in the next few days, and the railway from Jinyang to Chang'an has also begun to break ground. However, because of the problem of bridges, if you want to complete the connection between the three capitals in recent years, I am afraid that it can only be a dream.
As a businessman, Du Wei's sense of smell has always been keen, and he heard that Yushan Academy has a new bridge design scheme, which is completely different from the ancient stone arch bridge. Or the suspension bridge, which carries a weight and span that is simply incomparable to the first two types of bridges, and is said to be a veritable iron bridge made entirely of steel, and the method of construction is very simple. It is only necessary to rivet the pre-made workpiece with rivets and build it on several bridge piers, so that the bridge can not only support the convoy of horses to walk on it, but also the lower level can also be used by trains to pass through it, and now there are people clamoring to build such a bridge on the Yangtze River, so as not to divide the land of the Tang Dynasty into the north and south banks by a large river.
Maybe such a bridge has other uses in politics, Du Wei, who was born in the academy, is not ignorant of the government, but he doesn't want to think about it, what he cares about is rivets, if he wants to build a bridge, the rivets needed must be countless, and everyone in the world knows that Zhou Ji's rivets are the most reliable, and the rivets that connect large appliances in the army are supplied by Zhou Ji, there is no reason to build a bridge but don't use Zhou Ji's rivets, he plans to go to Beijing this time, go to find a few classmates from the Ministry of Industry, and see when the bridge will be built, It's good to get orders yourself.
Hearing the whistle from afar, Du Wei breathed a sigh of relief, the damn train finally came, and when the train from the opposite side rumbled past him, Du Wei opened his eyes, the train always fell black soot, very annoying.
Most of the trains that came across were freight cars, only a few passenger cars, and now transporting goods is more profitable than transporting people, so the Yun family always pulls goods and transports people as much as possible, just piggybacking.
There are still a few people who can afford to sit on the train, and the people who ride donkeys to Chang'an curse the Yun family, Du Wei is obviously not the group of people who curse, and his only hope now is that the train can go quickly!
After waiting for a full pillar of incense, Du Wei had already asked the steward in the carriage three times, and each time he got the answer that there was still one that did not come up, so wait!
"Brute!" Du Wei scolded in his heart irritably, nestled in a small seat, next to him was a bearded man who exuded the smell of sheep, and was wearing a sheepskin shoulder on a hot day, a bench for three people, half of which he occupied alone.
On weekdays, I sit in the front carriage, the seat is a soft sheepskin chair, if you are tired, you can also put down as a soft couch, a day of travel, only need to cover your head and sleep to get off the train in Chang'an to visit those classmates who are chanting poetry in the green building.
There is no such good thing today, two big men in brocade clothes stood in front of the door of the carriage like a horizontal sword and iron tower, and the entire luxurious carriage was requisitioned by Xungui.
Needless to say, the train is waiting for this noble, if a civilian did not get on the train, the train would have run dozens of miles away at this time, the people of the Yun family are very tough, they have never refunded the ticket only to say, and always take "People are not trustworthy and inhuman!" This sentence came to prevaricate the people.
Du Wei turned his head to look out the window, his breathing was about to stop, he didn't see a beautiful woman, he had experienced a lot of happy scenes over the years, and what a beautiful woman he had seen, it would not surprise him.
The reason why he was surprised was because he saw a horse, a legendary horse, this is not a thousand-mile horse, it may have been, now it is not even a hundred-mile horse, the red fur has become sparse, but there is a small cupola braid on the top of the brain, and the most excessive thing is that there is a huge emerald on the handful of hair......
Wangcai farted while walking, Yun Ye looked back at Wangcai, and sighed, why do you like to eat boiled soft beans? If you have a bad stomach, don't eat those things that bloated your stomach.
No way, since he took Wangcai on the train once, he liked the train, maybe he couldn't run anymore, but he still missed the feeling of galloping, so as long as Yun Ye went out and let Wangcai see the train, it excitedly took its hooves to dig the ground......
It has been five years since Li Er's death, and this year's big sacrifice Yun Ye doesn't want to let go, and he can't figure out why the royal family chose the sacrifice time on the hottest day of the year, maybe it is because the yang qi is heavy on this day, and the royal children who died unjustly will not come to find those living emperors.
Yun Ye has only asked about the government for a long time, and his life has been very peaceful, in the past five years, his footsteps have reached the farthest far island, Li Tai successfully installed the steam engine on the big ship, so the time to go to the far island has been greatly shortened.
After getting on the train, Wangcai habitually lay down on a large straw mat prepared by the groom, resting his head at Yun Ye's feet and looking out from the glass window underneath, Yun Ye never allowed Wangcai to poke his head out of the window, although this was his favorite.
The old housekeeper came over to ask the grandfather if he could drive, Yun Ye nodded, and the guards helped the grandfather put down the soft chair and brought a thin blanket to cover it, and it has always been the habit of the grandfather to sleep in the car.
Du Wei no longer complains, he feels very happy to be able to sit on a train with a legendary figure, he knew Wangcai when he was studying in the academy, and he has also seen Wangcai, but in recent years, his grandfather has stopped teaching students, and the arithmetic classes are all taught by Teacher Wu Mei and Teacher Hypatia, I heard that this old man resolutely gave up all his rights and cultivated the countryside. Just this one makes the people of the world respect.
If you advance, you will be dominant, and if you retreat, the sea will not be prosperous, how many people hope to be able to achieve such a life goal, but only Chu Guogong has really achieved this.
The train rumbled open, waking Yun Ye up from his sleep, looking at the hourglass and finding that the train had passed the Hangu Pass, and was about to enter the Guanzhong Plain, the Yellow River was flowing quietly not far away, but the river was yellow, which was already too good, a few years ago, the Yellow River was simply a yellow mud soup river.
Wangcai always had trouble sleeping, and when Yun Ye got up, he also struggled to stand up with the help of the groom, and his iron shoes clattered on the floor paved with jujube wood. In any case, Wangcai can't stay with him for too long, and as long as a horse can't stand up by himself, it's time to die.
In order to make themselves happy, the younger generations quoted classics to prove that a horse can live past the age of eighty, and took out the "Three Kingdoms" compiled by Chen Shou and pointed to the yearbook of the red rabbit horse and swore that it was not a problem for a horse to live for 50 years.
Chen Shou's words can also be heard? Whoever gives money will give it to a historian who says good things, the Yan family has long classified him as a scum, and there is a record about him in "The Biography of the Sheren".
The years of life are old enough, Yun Ye can already face death, Fang Xuanling is dead, Du Ruhui is also dead, and there are only a few Zhenguan ministers left, except for Cheng Yanjin who is still a big bowl of wine and a large piece of meat, Yu Chigong and Niu Jinda are already in the twilight of the West Mountain. (To be continued......)
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