Yasumasa Fukushima was muttered all the way by Zhao Chuanxin, a name that the clergy of every church he passed had heard.

The dead are innocent, and these people forcibly occupy and buy land, and do not do anything in personnel, which is equivalent to legal foreign bandits.

If he didn't have to leave a message, Zhao Chuanxin said that he couldn't give it to the whole slaughter.

The two rode for several days, worried about the pursuers, and Bayar proposed to make a detour to Zhangjiakou and go straight to the direction of the capital, wanting to go north to the palace of the king of Gongwang in Guangou.

For several days, the horses stopped and people did not stop, and one of them changed horses and horses, and soon arrived at Guangou.

I saw that at Badaling, there were countless workers digging shafts, and the pickaxes collided with the rocks.

The arrival of the two did not attract the attention of the tired workers.

It was a middle-aged man in a gray suit, and when he found Zhao Chuanxin, his eyes suddenly widened, and then he walked towards Zhao Chuanxin.

When he got closer, he was surprised: "Charcoal? ”

Zhao Chuanxin turned his head and smiled when he saw the middle-aged man: "Brother Cheng, don't come unharmed." ”

This person is Zhan Tianyou.

Zhan Tianyou looked left and right, lowered his voice and said, "How dare you go to the capital?" ”

Zhao Chuanxin is a wanted criminal in the imperial court.

"I'm sitting upright, why don't I dare to come?" Zhao Chuanxin's eyes widened: "Did you find a gold mine here and lead people to dig gold?" This kind of good deed, how can you not bring a share of your brother? ”

Zhan Tianyou couldn't help laughing: "I am in charge of building the railway from the capital to Zhangjiakou, which is the final stage of the second section, and I am digging shafts and tunnels. No, it ran into a huge rock, blocking the way, and the project was blocked. There is a rumor among the workers that they have dug up the ground dragon, and the dragon is turning over carefully, and I have a headache......"

Whenever a tunnel is dug, there are always various rumors and legends, with noses and eyes, even in later generations.

Whenever this matter is mentioned, there will always be people who say: some things have to be believed......

Zhao Chuanxin asked him: "Didn't you use the method of drilling gunpowder blasting?" ”

Zhan Tianyou hesitated: "Chinese people have never used explosives before, so we must be cautious in this matter." ”

Zhao Chuanxin encouraged: "Everything has a first time, and the British began to use explosives as early as the beginning of the last century." ”

"Hey, the terrain of Badaling is very different, the mountains are majestic, and many rocks under it are indestructible. Even if the blast hole is drilled and filled with explosives, not every place is feasible. In some places, it is still necessary to rely on the hands of workers to complete, such as the difficulty in front of us. ”

Zhao Chuanxin turned over and dismounted, lifted the belt of his trousers, and rolled up the sleeves of his flannel shirt: "Let's go, lead the way, brother help you." ”

Although Zhan Tianyou has not dealt with Zhao Chuanxin a few times, he feels quite a match.

He was also not polite, and said: "Charcoal worker, don't mess around, this is different from marching and fighting, it is not brute force." ”

To say that Zhao Chuanxin is first-class in war, he is known as the god of war.

But Zhan Tianyou doesn't think he still understands engineering.

"Who's messing around with you?" Zhao Chuanxin turned around and instructed Bayar: "Old man, you let the horse eat some grass, and you will rest here today." ”

Zhan Tianyou had no choice but to take him to observe.

Zhan Tianyou uses the middle shaft method, that is, two shafts are drilled in the middle, and after going down, they are excavated to both ends respectively to increase the construction area as much as possible.

Zhao Chuanxin looked at the shaft that had not been dug deep in the mountain, and there were rocks underneath, and the workers were clanging and laborious chiseling, but the effect was not great.

This is going to be dug up to the Year of the Monkey and the Horse Month?

Zhao Chuanxin said: "You let the workers below come up, you can do whatever you want, and leave it to me here." ”

Zhan Tianyou naturally hesitated, in history, he completed the laying of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway two years ahead of schedule.

Therefore, the construction period is actually ahead of schedule at present.

But he is not willing to waste a day, because the significance of the railway is too great, and it will be completed and opened to traffic one day earlier, which will have an important impact on the national economy and people's livelihood.

"Hurry up, brother, if I say anything, I'll see you."

At this time, people still attach great importance to oaths.

When Zhan Tianyou heard this, he made up his mind and called all the workers up and told them to rest for a day.

Naturally, the workers were happy and dispersed.

At this time, Zhao Chuanxin said happily: "By the way, I forgot to tell you, it's true to mention the head, but it may be the head of a foreigner." ”

Zhan Tianyou: "......"

There was an urge to kick Zhao Chuanxin into the shaft.

The two of them dragged the rope down the three-meter-deep shaft, and Zhao Chuanxin's face suddenly became cautious: "Brother Cheng, what you see today, you have to help me keep it a secret." ”

Zhan Tianyou saw him chattering, but he still clenched his fists: "You must keep your mouth shut." ”

Zhao Chuanxin's right hand is a mud trowel glove, and his left hand is an elf carving knife.

He first turned the rocks on all sides into sand, and the elven carving knife stretched out, reaching in, and cutting the rocks from behind.

A large chunk of rock falls off.

He casually put it into the secret realm, three meters high, it was just idle for him, bent his knees, afterburner, and jumped out suddenly.

Below, Zhan Tianyou was dumbfounded, looked up at the wellhead, and then looked at the rock with a flat cutting surface below, and suddenly felt incredible.

It's simply not human.

Zhao Chuanxin threw the rock out and came back again.

Turning sand, cutting, throwing stones...... In this reciprocating cycle, the shaft is drilled to a sufficient depth at a very fast speed.

Zhan Tianyou hurriedly said: "Charcoal worker, it's time to dig horizontally." ”

Zhao Chuanxin was worried about the landslide, and when digging the rocks, he set aside a few stone pillars to support them, and left them while digging.

Because Zhan Tianyou pioneered the "herringbone slope" method to combat steep slopes, the tunnel is only more than 1,000 meters long.

Because of the horizontal digging into the tunnel, in order to let the secret realm as much as possible, Zhao Chuanxin a large area of sand, mixed with stones, transported out one by one, each time five meters long, the cross-section is not wide, what he needs now is to dig a tunnel that is enough for workers to pass, and then the workers will complete the later work.

So the progress is fast.

After going out five meters once, Zhao Chuanxin ran back and forth more than 100 times, and his tired forehead was sweaty.

Zhan Tianyou was behind him, holding the drawings to make suggestions, his face was full of joy, and when he saw this, he said: "Charcoal, rest and rest, go out to eat, we have been down for five hours." ”

Zhao Chuanxin wiped his sweat: "I'm blanching, it's even more difficult than I imagined." ”

There are artifacts that are still like this, and it all depends on the hands of workers to dig the mountain, and the difficulty can be seen.

In the beginning, the Chinese people built many railways with great difficulty.

It is unimaginable how many problems Zhan Tianyou has to overcome in these many projects.

The two climbed out of the shaft and found the scorched Bayar, and the three returned to the shed for dinner.

Zhao Chuanxin was sweating, so he simply took off his shirt and put it on his shoulder.

Zhan Tianyou saw that he was covered with simple graphic tattoos of various plants and animals gathered by regular geometric patterns, and couldn't help but be speechless: "How did you get this tattoo?" ”

The meal was very simple, white flour steamed buns with stewed pork, and Zhao Chuanxin asked for a bowl of garlic sauce to eat.

He took a spoon and chopsticks, the spoon was used as a mallet, and the chopsticks were used as a needle, and he chiseled and struck: "That's it, little by little, it is still full of scars, and it has suffered from old sins." ”

"I see that the charcoal workers have tattoos on their bodies, which have the totemic characteristics of the Hawaiian people, why bother with these coat of arms?"

After all, Zhan Tianyou has been to the United States to study and is well-informed.

"This is a long story, when I went to Hawaii, the local natives said that I was the incarnation of their Kuku god of war, and I had to give me a tattoo, otherwise I would commit suicide en masse.

Zhan Tianyou: "......"

The charcoal worker is good at everything, but the mouth is indescribable.

Your hands are covered with blood, and you are ashamed to say that you are sick with blood?

Just said that when he was in Hankou, Zhao Chuanxin killed a river of blood.

After eating, Bayard said, "When are we leaving?" ”

"There's no hurry." Zhao Chuanxin wiped the corners of his mouth: "I'll leave when I finish helping Brother Cheng." ”

At this time, the sun was already setting in the west, and it was clear that it could not be done today.

The two of them went down the tunnel again, digging through one side first.

When he saw the twilight outside, the excitement in Zhan Tianyou's heart was indescribable.

"It's through, it's really through, the charcoal worker only took one day to dig through one side, which is really the work of ghosts and gods!"

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Zhan Tianyou would never have imagined that someone would be able to dig five or six hundred meters of tunnel in one day.

When he returned to the workshop, another engineer, Yan Deqing, returned with a group of engineering trainees.

Because drilling rocks is an ink job, they went to the front to survey the road conditions in order to speed up the construction period and do a good job in advance.

After coming back, he found that Zhan Tianyou had driven all the workers back.

Yan Deqing was stunned.

"You're really, it's really inappropriate." He wanted to say that he was messing around, but Zhan Tianyou was the chief engineer, so it was difficult to speak: "The construction period is so tight, how can you ask the workers to rest?" ”

Zhao Chuanxin, who was eating noodles and garlic next to him, suddenly raised his head and said, "Hey, you have some familiar noodles, what is the relationship between you and Yan Huiqing?" ”

Yan Huiqing was met by Zhao Chuanxin when he was in Shanghai and went to the British Consulate to ask for mining rights in Shanxi.

At that time, Yan Huiqing and Tang Guoan were preparing for the International Anti-Smoking Conference.

Only then did Yan Deqing notice Zhao Chuanxin: "Yan Huiqing is my brother, who are you?" ”

(End of chapter)