"Song Daqi, this is ...... Your name?" Chang Hu pointed at him and asked.

"That's right, didn't you see that on the bamboo plaque above, there is a Song character behind Anren and Arabic characters? I paid the license money, and this number will belong to me forever!"

As he spoke, he grabbed the reins and removed a metal rod with strips of cloth tied to his side, and the car stopped with a "creak". "Sun Gongzi, it's here." He turned back and said:

"I can only send you here, and there will be a militia guard post in front of it. Just take a look around here, don't dare to go far, you'll be questioned."

"Thank you, Brother Song." Chang Hu helped Sun Gongzi get out of the car, and then took out a piece of broken silver and put it in the palm of his hand.

"Eh, little brother, what are you doing? We said that it would cost you five dollars to send you to the Qiaotou construction site......." Song Daqi grabbed Chang Hu: "You give me silver, don't you dare to ask for it."

"You, don't you dare to ask for more?" Chang Hu felt strange again.

"Although I haven't worked in the Tsing Shirt team yet, I have long been familiar with the Tsing Squad's "Three Military Discipline and Eight Points of Attention". Buying and selling fairly, buying and selling publicly, not being overbearing, this is the rule."

He slapped the silver back into Chang Hu's palm: "I'd rather pull you for nothing than accept this kind of silver and ruin the reputation of the Tsing Yi team!"

Chang Hu was stunned as if he saw a monster, he turned his face to look at the master who was standing on the embankment, and saw Sun Gongzi holding his hands behind his back, and the river breeze blowing his scattered back hair.

"What a Li Sanlang, what a green shirt team, Sun is really convinced!" After talking to himself, he turned around and nodded: "In this case, Brother Song, you stay for a while, and I will take care of your business later, and take the car into the city." Fifty dollars on top of the price?"

"Okay, as long as the price is agreed in advance, then it's fine!" Song Daqi smiled happily. So even the luggage was still placed in the car and guarded by Lao Song, and the master and servant of Sun Gongzi walked down the embankment one after the other.

There were actually more than 200 steps from the embankment to the riverbank, but they were speechless by the majesty of the Jinjiang Bridge.

I saw that the water level of the Jinjiang River had been greatly reduced in this section, and green cattail grass had grown on the exposed riverbank. Most of the river is now wading.

It turned out that Zhu Erye revised part of Li Dan's plan after seeing it on the spot.

Two miles upstream, at the narrowest point between Tazhou and the east bank, he built a dam consisting of shipwrecks and bamboo cage caissons, and released part of the river to flood the swamp on the east side of Tazhou, and almost half of the west side of Tazhou was flooded due to the swelling of the river!

This allows sections to dry up or with as little water as possible, and the exposed riverbed is easier to construct. But the temporary dam won't last long, and the project has to be done quickly!

Zhu Erye and they first used the bamboo cage caisson along the position of the bridge pier as the intersection point, and piled it up longitudinally in the direction of the upstream water, forming a shuttle-like stone foundation more than 300 steps long to protect the bridge pier base.

When the water level dropped to less than six feet, the construction of the pier base began, or the old method, using bamboo cage caissons to make a four-foot-thick, eight-foot-high wall, to isolate most of the water, six animal keel water (water lifting equipment) to continuously lift out the water in the wall;

When the water below is less and less, the inside is spliced into a wall with thick wooden planks with mortise and tenon joints, and the logs with a diameter of half a foot are laid down at certain intervals along the wall to make reinforcements, and then the second wall is made with wooden planks at intervals of three feet;

Then he began to pour a foot of pebbles between the two layers, and then poured cement, and after drying, the inner and outer wooden walls were removed to become a huge cement box;

Finally, a long wood with a diameter of one foot and a length of six feet is laid in the cement box, and the bottom is paved with three-foot thick stones and pebbles, and the cement slurry is continuously injected, and finally the cement is poured.

The base of the pier is two feet six feet long (@

The shelf was stunned, and suddenly reached out and pressed it, and was surprised, and thus the stacked beam arch bridge was born.

When Li Dan came for the second time, he saw that he was struggling to think about the problem that the two three-section arch systems could not achieve a larger span. He didn't speak, but drew a three-section arch plus a four-section arch system on paper, and a schematic diagram of a three-section arch system plus a five-section arch system.

Chen Sanwen suddenly woke up, so the latter became the first and second arches behind the tower bridge, and the other arches used the former.

Now what Sun Gongzi sees is that the tower bridge and the first and second arches are almost completed, and the fifth, sixth and seventh arches are being installed with cement prefabricated arch ribs (the arches need to be pressed by heavy objects, so some arch bridges have pavilions and temples between the arches).

The piers of the third and fourth arches have been mostly formed. The flood arch and tail bridge at both ends have been completed because they are installed with prefabricated cement materials, and people can be seen walking on them.

The new bridge looks like a long tail dragon has appeared on the riverbed of the Jin River!

"It's so big!" Chang Hu cried out in surprise.

"It's not about the big, it's about the ...... It seems that there are not so many craftsmen busy on the bridge. Don't you think?

If such a bridge is built in Zhongjing, I am afraid that the number of people mobilized will be thousands if not tens of thousands, right? But the people here are busy, but there seem to be much fewer of them!" Sun Gongzi saw the difference.

"Childe has a good eye, there are indeed not so many people on this construction site."

A voice suddenly came from the embankment above them, and when I looked back, I saw that it was a young man in a green coat with arrow sleeves, wrapped in an equally blue cloak, with a green cloth wrapped around his head, squatting on it and smiling downward. "The two counties together have only about 2,000 migrant workers and prisoners."

"It took 2,000 people to build such a big bridge?" Chang Hu didn't believe it, shook his head and said, "If such a thick piece of wood is to be transported from the mountains to the river, it will take dozens of people to push and pull each one, right? How can you use this manpower?"

"It doesn't take that many." The little brother waved his hand: "The wood is cut down and pushed directly into the water, and it flows into the river along the river, and then there are animal-powered steamers to tow it, and each four-wheeled animal-powered boat can tow more than 20 or even 30 dogs, where do you want so many people?"

"But to pull it up to that height, you have to ask for someone!" Chang Hu is still not convinced.

The little brother pointed with his hand: "You see that the platforms on both sides of the bridge are bamboo cage caisson bottoms, and the two dams are paved with square wood to form the pavement. See that tall cantilever? It's called a crane crane, and it's a tower built on top of an eight-wheeled frame.

There is an iron hoist at the front of the tower, a counterweight stone disc in the box on the tail, and a suspension cable at the top of the tower to pull the bearing arm in front and the balance arm in the back.

The lower floor of the attic in the middle of the tower has animal power to drive the gear to be responsible for steering, and the upper layer has a worker responsible for shaking the gear to drive the chain up and down, and the heavy objects are fixed below, and the crane tower can lift them to the required height, and then transfer them to the appropriate position and place them in place.

It needs to be changed, there are winches on both sides of the bank, ten oxen pull the winch to turn, and the crane tower wheels can go forward or backward. Each of these four crane cranes can be worth more than 1,000 people."

He pointed to the ends of the bridge: "Why do you want to start at both ends first? Because they are all prefabricated concrete components, they are built faster than wooden structures.

After the construction is completed, the small crane can be driven up to pave the bridge deck, install the upper level of the tower bridge and the door and bridge part, which can effectively speed up the progress.

All these things, in Yugan, were designed and started to make parts, numbered and stored. As soon as Anren's strategy began, the fleet and convoy kept transporting them back and forth, and they were assembled together according to the number and immediately ready for use."

He talked eloquently, which made Sun Gongzi curious: "Little brother seems to be familiar with things here?"

"From the first day I came here, I watched this river change day by day." The little brother said and pointed with his finger: "It took a day and a night to build the dam upstream, and it took four days for the water level here to be lowered to start construction of the base of the pier, and I counted it."

"Oh, so the bridge was built when the water level dropped to the point where it was now?" Chang Hu asked.

"How can you wait for it? There is a 300-step stone water pile in front of and behind the base of the pier, which was built on the second day of the upstream interception. that

First put the bamboo cage caisson as the bottom, and then throw the big stone down."

"Good boy, how many bamboo cages does this cost?"

"When Yu Gan was not surrounded, the ancient port began to prepare bamboo cage strips, men, women and children went into battle together, and the whole town earned a sum of money!"

"Is this what you bought?"

"Yes, I decided to recapture Anren, and I said at a meeting with the Funding Committee, and made a list for everyone about how much military spending is needed to occupy Anren, how much will be spent on future construction, how to earn back this money, and how much income is expected to be generated. It's not easy to convince people to pay for it!"

"How do I sound similar to the Imperial Court Military Department reaching out to the Household Department to ask for money?" Chang Hu stuck out his tongue as soon as he finished saying this, because Sun Gongzi glared at him.

"That's different, it's not comparable!" The little brother shook his head vigorously.

"Tell me, why can't you compare?" Sun Gongzi walked a few steps closer with his hands behind his back, raised his head and asked with a smile.

"There is no discipline and no plan for the household department to spend money, but our committee has a set of "fund management measures". The ministries stretched out their hands to ask for money, and the household department didn't know whether he was accurate or not, and he didn't care about the rest of the money after the money was allocated.

Our committee businessmen are shrewd, and they won't allow you to do that.

Therefore, the Tsing Shirt team has to report the money spent in the end, and the results of the money spent are audited by the committee every year, because there is a "fund audit method" there, and no one wants to rub oil from it!"

Sun Gongzi looked back at the bridge and was a little unconvinced: "I don't believe it, no one will rub oil for such a big project?" That's how this audit works?"

"Childe has seen the bridge, yes, isn't this the first thing you can see on the boat when you come by boat?

But you don't see that the port construction of Shigang in the upstream, the construction of Meigang and Jinjinbu Port in the downstream, there is a Shangdukou fort behind Tazhou on the opposite bank, and the construction of two castles in Huangxi Town and Yingtan Fort to the south is starting.

Oh, and that's not even counting the smelters and steel mills that the committee built in Golden Port, and the carriage factory and distillery that the committee built in Yangbu. Yugan is starting construction on the south gate, and the renovation of the official road from the south gate to Baimadu and Yangbu has also begun, and it is not just a bridge?

Gongzi just said that there will be someone rubbing oil, maybe there is, but the green shirt team has discipline, and you have heard of the three major military disciplines and eight points of attention?"

"Well, it's like thunder, I've always heard people say it since Yu Gan, but I don't know what it is?" Sun Gongzi nodded: "Little brother is from the Tsing Shirt team? Tell me about it."

"The discipline of the three major armies is to obey the command of all actions, not to take a single penny from the people, and to return them to the public. The eight points of attention are: speak kindly, buy and sell fairly, repay what you borrow, compensate for damages, be honest and not deceive, do not destroy crops, do not dishonor women, and do not abuse prisoners."

The little brother crossed his fingers and smiled: "If anyone violates discipline, he will be demoted and confiscated with twenty military sticks, or demoted to labor to atone for his crimes, or he will be expelled from the green shirt team and never use it. With such rules, there will naturally be fewer people who dare to violate discipline."

Sun Gongzi swallowed his spit, and asked again with some difficulty, "If you can do it, it is enough to shame the officials and soldiers. But this Li Sanlang has trained such a regiment, so he is not afraid that some people will say that he will rebel?"

The little brother twitched his eyelids: "Fifteen-year-old rebel, who would think of such nonsense if they are fine? Besides, the rebellious Tsing Shirts don't know how much they have cut, but compared to this, is it more likely that the officers and soldiers will rebel than us?"

"Ugh." Sun Gongzi was tightly blocked, he didn't expect this little guy to dare to say it, there was no taboo at all.

"We just want to live a good life, so that the places where the Tsing Yi team has traveled can make more people in cities and towns earn money and become rich, what's wrong with that? Even if the imperial court and counties report an increase in taxes and a full treasury, isn't it good for the country?

You just said the household department, I guess if the Shangshu and the squire of the household department saw that the treasury was full of money and grain, they would definitely not point to the green shirt team and say that we want to rebel!

Besides, after the battle, the main focus of the Tsing Yi team will be on business, mining, smelting, and manufacturing equipment, and there will definitely be no need for such a lot of armament at that time, and the regimental training will be handed over to the counties themselves to manage."

Sun Gongzi narrowed his eyes and suddenly asked, "

Little brother has been in the Tsing Shirt team for a long time? I see you're pretty familiar with them."

"Not really." The little brother grinned and stood up. Sun Gongzi found that the little brother was quite tall and sturdy, he was not like the Xiangyong who saw on the road with a strip of green cloth to tie his waist, but a three-finger-wide, serious cow belt, and a leather sheath waist knife hanging on the button.

I saw him point with his hand: "Lao Song said that you just got off the boat and are not familiar with the rules, so I came here to tell you to go down, you need a waist card or an errand card to enter the construction site, you can just take a look here, and if you go further, I am afraid that there will be inspectors to check."

Only then did Sun Gongzi realize that the coachman was still worried about himself from a distance. "Don't worry, we're not going to get in trouble." He said.

The little brother smiled, "What do you call Childe? Why did you come so far south from the capital?"

"How did you know we were from the capital?" Chang Hu was stunned.

"You are better than your son-in-law in official terms." The little brother winked mischievously: "You should be from the vicinity of Zhongjing, your son-in-law...... it should be Wu Yue's hometown, right?"

"Huh?" Chang Hu glared: "You're not doing inspections, your ears are very smart!"

"Under the surname Sun, the name is stated, and the name is from Hangzhou. The year before last, he moved to live in Beijing. I don't want the capital to be cold, and the winter salary is very expensive, I can't get used to living and can't afford to live, so I want to go back to my hometown.

However, nothing was accomplished, and he was shy when he returned home, but fortunately there were more than friends to recruit him, saying that there were many mines here, and there was a place for him to learn from the following, so he specially came to vote.

He heard that there were a lot of opportunities when An Ren was in ruins, so he came here to have a look." Sun Shu made up a half-truth.

The little brother said "oh" and asked, "Dare to ask where you are boarding in Yugan?"

"Oh, but I didn't stay at the hotel." Sun Shu thought that this was to inquire about my whereabouts, and the Tsing Shirt team was really alert, so he quickly replied:

"But I disturbed Master Xu Tongxu's house for a night, and I went to Yamen early this morning to change the route, and asked Master Xu to help me buy a ferry ticket to Anren.

I didn't want the four-wheeled clipper to be so fast, but an hour came, and I still think about it as if I was in a dream."

"Haha, it turned out to be Sun Shu Sun Gongzi, very rude! Don't you think that Second Master Xu is also a well-connected, but he still knows the nobles in Beijing?" The little brother said and jumped off the embankment and walked towards Sun Shu:

"It's true that Anren wants to open two factories for smelting and steel, but it's just ...... A Sven person like Childe goes to work in that kind of place...... Tsk, I'm afraid this Second Master Xu isn't nonsense, right?"

"Quite the opposite!" Chang Hu pouted and said, "Tell you that my son-in-law is rich and well-informed, and you have never seen all the famous mountains and rivers you have walked through in your life.

If you bring a stone, Childe will know at a glance whether it is gold or dansha, mica or quartz, ....... Ahem, what I'm telling you to do here, you don't understand anyway!"

"Yo, I don't look convinced." The little brother was amused by him with his hands on his hips, and then looked Sun Shu up and down, "Can you identify the ore? How many mines do you know? What are the associated ores of iron ore?"

Sun Shu was stunned. He didn't want to pay attention to the little brother's provocative tone, but the last question made him immediately become serious. "Copper, nickel, lead, tin, phosphorus, and sulfur are the most common." He replied.

"Say six, yes!" The little brother muttered.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the distance, and there was movement on the other side of the bridge, as if someone was running and shouting something. "What are they doing?" Chang Hu asked puzzled, stretching his neck.

"It's nothing, it's raining upstream." The little brother turned his back and said lightly: "It's rare that the sun is shining for many days, which provides convenience for us to build a bridge, but it started to rain yesterday in Yingtan, and I feel that something is wrong here." It's nothing, it's been prepared."

He raised his hand and pointed, "The water will flow between the four piers on the west side of the finished bridge, don't you see they are evacuating the livestock and vehicles over there?" The dam was used to desilt it, so the riverbed was lower than the rest of the place.

If you go down, you can tear open the sack at the mouth of the faucet on the dam with a hook gun, and let it drain naturally along the terrain."

"If there is a flood peak, it will not break the dam above

？」 Sun Shu looked at the upstream direction with some concern.

"No, we have built a flood gate over there, and the excess water will be diverted through the flood channel, so as to prevent the excessive amount of water in Xihe from endangering the safety of the upper ferry. Tazhou doesn't matter, there's no one up there, and if it's flooded, it's flooded."

"Won't the water flood Tazhou and rush to this side?" Chang Hu tilted his head, looking at this guy who was obviously younger than himself but almost a head taller.

"You see, the point where the tower bridge extends to Ta Chau, that is the highest point of Ta Chau that we measured, and it is usually one zhang and seven feet higher than the river level, so with this barrier, it is difficult to be submerged on this side of the construction site.

Besides, there is still a flood here in the east, and I won't see the water level of the West River being too high." The little brother said, turned around and shouted something, and soon came down from the embankment, a young man in the same green clothes, took out something from the shoulder bag beside him and handed it over.

The little brother pulled it open and put it on his eyes to look over there, and Sun Shu whispered in surprise, "Telescope?"

"Well, you've seen it?"

"Well, I've seen it in the capital, it's exactly the same as this one!"

"Oh." The little brother turned around and looked upstream again, and suddenly everyone felt that the ground trembled slightly, and there seemed to be the sound of a horn in the distance from far and near, and after a while, the horn was also blown on the construction site.

All the little black dots on the construction site ran to both sides, and only the empty platforms and cranes remained there. "Tsk, it seems that there is a problem with the horn, it needs to be improved!" The little brother muttered to himself.

In the distance, the horse's hooves sounded, and a black horse appeared on the embankment, and the Tsing Yi knight on the horse rolled off his saddle and swayed closer, and shouted in a rough voice: "My lord, I have been waiting in the harbor for a long time, and I have not seen a miner!"

"Who told you to pick up the miners?" Li Dan laughed angrily and pointed with his hand: "Everyone has come here themselves, what are you looking for?" I'm talking about a gentleman who knows ore, where is he going to be a miner?"