That night, Yang Chuan returned to Shuofang City.

is just a diversion canal, and it is difficult for him, a big man, to cook; However, what makes him difficult is how to solve the problem lightly.

After twenty or thirty years, his biggest lesson is that he has discovered that sometimes lifting weights is as important as lifting weights, the former is about strength, and the latter is about technique.

The ancients and sages once said: 'Skill is close to Tao'.

In Yang Chuan's understanding, in most cases, the most common, inconspicuous, and most eye-catching thing in the world is 'skill', and similarly, the most lacking is this 'skill'.

The quality of a meal often depends on the chef's proficiency and control of techniques, as long as he can do whatever he wants, he will naturally be able to come easily, and it is almost 'Tao'.

He didn't study much, and many things were combined with practice after a long period of speculation, taste, and practice, and gradually came to some truths that he thought were quite reasonable.

Fortunately, at the moment, many of his truths are really reasonable.

For example, when he wants to solve the problem of digging the upstream branch canal of the big river to irrigate hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land downstream, he must not only lift the weight lightly, so as not to expose his hole cards; At the same time, it is also necessary to take a heavy position and finally use this matter to reap some benefits......

So, that night, he urgently summoned a few half-grown children such as Ah Tie and Ah Yao.

For the original 30 half-sized children, Yang Chuan adopted the method of unified training and teaching separately, and tried his best to let them master some 'special knowledge', such as Ah Tie and Ah Yao, the main learning is ore, soil, chemical reactions, sulfur charcoal and so on......

"Childe, can you finally chop vegetables and chop meat?"

"Oops, it's finally our turn to get started......"

Hearing that they were going out to do activities, several young people were very excited, and their faces were full of excitement.

"Everyone prepare, tomorrow afternoon, we will meet in the grove thirty miles outside the West Gate."

Seeing the excited appearance of several teenagers, Yang Chuan's mood inexplicably improved, and he smiled and advised: "Prepare war horses, dry food, water, and in addition, carry enough tools such as steel drills, iron picks, shovels, and iron hammers."

By the way, you also need to bring enough wool rope, axes, saws and other tools, and it is estimated that some trees will be cut down by then; As for the rest, I'll bring it myself.

Be careful to hide your tracks so that no one can see them. ”

Several teenagers nodded in agreement.

Before leaving, Ah Tie suddenly turned around and asked, "Son, where is Uncle Tangyi?" Don't let him know either? ”

Yang Chuan nodded: "You each have your own tasks, don't ask each other." ”

Several teenagers nodded solemnly: "Yes, Childe!" ”

Everyone knows Yang Chuan's temper, he doesn't seem to have a temper at all, even if he occasionally makes a joke, he never shows the face of the owner and the owner; However, once the principles and bottom lines are involved, no changes or concessions will be made. ……

……

On the evening of the second day, around the time of Mozi, Yang Chuan and the others quietly returned to the ravine between Guangmu and Woye.

"Use a shovel to dig through the soil layer above."

"Use a sledgehammer, steel drill, etc., to make a hole in it, not too big, just diagonally down."

As soon as he arrived at the scene, Yang Chuan chose seven or eight places, asked A Tie and a few teenagers to dig holes, and he was not idle, took out a few pre-prepared explosives from his deerskin bag, carefully wrapped them in parchment, stuffed them into a bamboo tube, and connected a lead wire, and then began to fill them with fine sand, dry sheep dung and other materials.

This is one of Yang Chuan's biggest hole cards.

Intense gunpowder.

Compared with the explosives made from glycerin and other raw materials in later generations, what he has now is only a 'simplified version', which is only about two or three times more powerful than black powder, which makes him a little worried about whether it will work for a while......

The difficulty of digging a 'cannon hole' in a mountain rock with a very rudimentary tool can be imagined.

A few half-sized children tossed for nearly two hours, and several blast holes were finally dug out, almost five or six feet deep, which should be regarded as the limit.

"You return to Shuofang City as quickly as possible, and I'll catch up later."

"Remember, don't look back, no matter what you hear, don't come back!"

Yang Chuan was even frightened, sent a few half-sized children away, and asked the stupid eagle and the leopard sister to search the surroundings, and when there was no one, he began to fill the 'explosive tube' into the cannon hole.

Although this kind of high gunpowder is not as easy to detonate as glycerin and other explosives, it is also an extremely dangerous thing, so during the whole process, Yang Chuan was holding his breath and being cautious.

'In each cannon hole, the high gunpowder filled is about three catties, but I don't know what the effect is? ’

'I really can't do it, then I'll come back in a few days and increase the dose......

So, more than an hour later.

The east is white, and the rooster announces.

The big river comes from west to east, flowing endlessly, and the area of Shuofang County, the rock wall and ravine between Guangmu and Woye counties are quiet.

Suddenly, the earth shook slightly.

Immediately after that, it was one, two, three, four, five...... It was as if the dragon turned over, slammed the thick rocks and soil layers on his body, and shivered a few times.

Boom Boom!

After three or two breaths, a few extremely dull roars suddenly swept over, and the birds and beasts in the mountains and forests scattered violently; Flocks of unknown birds, frightened, staggered across the sky, and did not dare to turn their heads back.

More than 20 miles away, in the tent at the construction site of the diversion branch of the great river, the craftsmen, people, and supervisors and officials of Guangmu and Woye counties suddenly woke up, and they didn't react for a while, and they were at a loss: "Oh no, the earth dragon has turned over!" ”

"Hurry up, the earth dragon has turned over!"

The crowd ran out of the tent before they had time to get dressed, and only then did they find that between the rocks and ravines in the southeast direction, a few terrible clouds of smoke and dust slowly appeared, and in the light of dawn, they seemed to be rolling up quickly and violently;

At the same time, from a distance, it seems to be motionless, completely in a strange state of stillness.

In the east and west directions, there were officials, craftsmen and people who were digging the canals, and they stood in the distance, each with a look of horror and uneasiness on their faces, always feeling that something big had happened......

Actually, it's not a big deal.

It's just that the rocks and ravines of the mountains and ravines were exploded in an instant by dozens of catties of strong gunpowder several feet deep, and they silently went up a few times, and then, with a sigh, turned into countless gravel and fell down, turning into a large area of 'smooth road' suitable for digging and repairing water canals.

Looking at the 'blasting' he made with his own hands, Yang Chuan was speechless: "This kind of strong gunpowder with white sugar seems to be okay?" ’

Without staying too much, Yang Chuan, who didn't look back, rode his horse and galloped wildly, and returned to Shuofang City.

But.

This explosion caused an uproar.

The officials, craftsmen and people who dug the ditch in the two counties were the first to rush to the blasting site, and found that the huge mountain rocks that had left them helpless before had now turned into a muddy pile of rocks of different sizes, and they were very messily paved on the ground. The two ravines, which required one or two thousand people to dig stones and move soil, and worked hard for two or three months to fill them, are now basically filled with a large amount of gravel and loess......

In other words, this time the earth dragon turned over, and it actually did them a great favor, so that this branch canal, which was almost impossible to dig through, could finally be penetrated?

Whether it was the officials and craftsmen of the two counties, or the nearly 1,000 people, they all looked at each other, and their eyes widened for a while.

"The earth dragon turned over and helped us dig a canal in Shuofang County!"

"God bless the big man, this is even the earth dragon is busy digging the canal!"

“……”

For a while, rumors spread and all kinds of arguments.

Among them, the most "popular" saying is that the day before, the Taishou of Shuofang County and Yang Chuan, the Marquis of Changning, came to the site of digging the ditch, cooked a few delicious dishes, poured three bowls of wine on the ground, and prayed to the heavens and the earth: 'May the heavens and the earth bless me and help my Shuofang County through this year's drought.' ’

So, the word goes.

A day or two after the Marquis of Changning worshiped the heavens and the earth, such a major event occurred when the earth dragon turned over, and it really helped to shatter this section of the mountain rock and fill these ravines with rocks......

Soon, when the 'rumors' came back to Shuofang City, Ah Tie and a group of half-sized children were busy making simple lathes, and after hearing the news, they also looked at each other.

They know the inside story, and naturally they don't believe the statement of 'the earth dragon turned over'.

However, what method did Yang Chuan Gongzi use to flatten that piece of mountain rock? I vaguely remember that at that time, when they hurried back to Shuofang City, there was indeed a dull loud noise behind them, and the earth trembled......

'Could it be that Childe is an immortal with great magical powers, attracting the thunder of heaven and thunder, and blasting those mountains and rocks into slag? ’

It is no wonder that these teenagers thought so, they did not say or ask each other, as if they never knew about it.

However, in the hearts of every young man, it has long been a terrifying wave, full of 'brain supplements': Yang Chuan Gongzi is an immortal who has mastered the power of heavenly thunder, and those holes dug on the mountain rocks should be the legendary 'array eyes';

Then a black cloud appeared in the sky, lightning and thunder, and dark clouds rolled.

A few thigh-thick lightning bolts...... No, at least a purple lightning as thick as a bucket suddenly shot out under the traction of Yang Chuangongzi's great mana supernatural power; Then, rubbing wildly between the rocks and ravines......

That's pretty much it.

A few half-sized children silently glanced at Yang Chuan, who was lying on Mazhazi not far away, with his eyes closed and recuperating, his eyes full of admiration and fear......

……

"Taishou led the officials under his rule to pay tribute, and two days later, the earth dragon turned over and collapsed the cliff?"

A few days later, the news reached Chang'an City.

In Weiyang Palace, Liu Che was eating roast suckling pig, his hands, mouth, and beard were covered with clear and shiny oil, and he laughed and scolded: "Why do you feel that kid is more powerful than me?" ”

"Worship heaven and earth, pray to the sky, I have done this kind of thing many times, except for when I was seventeen years old and prayed for rain, but it really rained, and the other times I didn't feel very good, that kid prayed a few words, and poured three bowls of wine?"

"In my opinion, I'm afraid there are a lot of untruths in it, right?"

Liu Che talked and laughed to himself, and seemed to be quite unconvinced of Shuofang County's 'Earth Dragon Turnover', which made the faces of several people in the audience change slightly, but they still didn't dare to say anything after all.

Especially Wei Qing, his expression is even more indifferent, eating meat and drinking wine slowly, and he looks much more than Liu Chesiwen.

But in fact, he was still slightly uneasy in his heart.

Being so praised by the emperor is not a good thing for a courtier who is only sixteen or seventeen years old, on the contrary, in many cases, he hopes that Yang Chuan can be down-to-earth in Tuntian and do some real things, which is the safest way of officialdom.

Unlike Princess Pingyang and Wei Qing, Princess Nangong, who only went back to Chang'an City once in a while, was as usual, and under the service of Zhang Anshi, she ate several pieces of meat and drank two large glasses of wine, and said with a smile: "There are a lot of strange things in this world, and this palace has heard a lot, like turning stones into gold, moving mountains and seas, immortality or something, all of them are on the verge of fiction, just listen to it."

Yang Chuan and my son are estimated to be at the right time, just a few days before the earth dragon turned over, I went to Guangmu and Woye, this government and the opposition, there are some people with ghosts, under the pretense of this matter, to spread rumors for him, so that you, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, have some suspicions, which is really ridiculous;

Liu Yu, you won't believe it, will you? ”

Liu Che laughed: "Second sister, some people in Chang'an City say that although Yang Chuan's kid is the righteous son of my eldest sister Princess Pingyang, in fact, Princess Nangong is even more good at protecting calves, and she is almost the biological son of the second sister." ”

Princess Nangong smiled, tilted her face, her two hollow eye sockets seemed to be slightly 'distracted', and sighed: "It's just sympathy." ”

"Your second sister suffered twenty years of sins in the tent of the Huns, and in the end, a pair of eyes were blinded by Yi Zhixie's beast with hot mutton fat, if you didn't want to use my mother and son as a hole card to contain you Liu Yu, I'm afraid the bones would have been gone."

"Yang Chuan is the same, when he was a slave of the Qiang people and the Huns, how many sins he suffered and how much he suffered, the people of Chang'an City know a fart!"

"Liu Yu, the second sister is blind, but this heart is not blind, and it is very bright."

"What others see is that Yang Chuan and my son are clinging to the powerful, relying on the eldest sister Princess Pingyang's family to make a fortune, a young man, a marquis at the age of sixteen, and the official rank is also moved three times a year, and now he has become a county at a young age, and the future is unlimited."

"But eldest sister, Liu Yu, you should know very well, whether it is Yang Chuan's achievements in farming or military achievements, I am afraid it is not enough to seal a Guannei Hou, right? Others dare not say it, but your second sister dares to say that you Liu Che are just a stingy skin! ”

"And your eldest sister, Princess Pingyang, is also a stingy skin, she has received so many benefits from Yang Chuan in vain, but she will never be protected as her own flesh and blood, if you want me to say, you two are really the blood of our old Liu family, and this lack of affection is really incisive."

Princess Nangong's tone was flat, her expression was quiet, and her pale hair did not move at all.

Liu Che, Princess Pingyang and others were silent, and a trace of shame appeared on their faces......

(End of chapter)