Chapter 425: Building a Bridge
Li Shen didn't know that his house had been stolen, and he was still living happily in Wuliluo, these days Li Shen is close to nature, and he doesn't live in a carriage.
He pitched his tent outside, lived in a tent, looked at the stars in the sky at night in August and September, and listened to the crickets outside.
There is only fragrance in the air, no exhaust fumes, no haze.
Lying with a beautiful woman in her arms and whispering something is really a beautiful thing in life.
It's a pity that Lu Dingniang and Wu Meiniang didn't come, or lying in the pile of women would be more in line with Li Shen's outlook on life.
Just when Li Shen was at ease, the materials he asked for to repair the bridge also arrived.
Li Shen had already drawn the drawings, in fact, if it was that kind of bridge with a large span, Li Shen would not have built it, and Li Shen had never learned any engineering mechanics.
However, Li Shen, who has a small span, is confident that he can still do it, and Wang Hongfu also sent two craftsmen in charge of the construction of the palace.
Although they don't know much about engineering mechanics, they have rich experience and have done everything they have done in building houses and building bridges.
In ancient times, these things were based on experience, and the master took the apprentice, although there was no fixed noun and operation,
But all the lessons were recorded.
The two masters looked at Li Shen's drawings and exchanged Li Shen's ideas, and finally after modeling, the two masters said that it was feasible.
In fact, Li Shen's method is similar to that of later generations to build bridges, using a one-meter-square iron plate to insert into the river water, and then get the water inside, remove the silt at the bottom, dig it, then put steel bars, and finally water it with cement.
Such a bridge pier is done, as for the problem of uniformity, it is to knock on the iron plate when pouring cement,
Normally, in later generations, there were two bridge piers in a row, and Li Shen had three piers in a row for safety, so that the bridge deck would also be very wide.
The bridge deck was placed on the pier with a pre-made reinforced concrete bridge slab, and in the absence of a crane, Li Shen was ready to use several large pulley sets,
Fortunately, the river is not wide, and the bridge plate is not very long, otherwise it can only be laid with wooden planks on the piers, and the cement is poured directly.
After all the discussions were completed, Li Shen began to recruit manpower, Goguryeo has manpower, and now it is not a busy farm.
Li Shen's treatment of recruiting people has no money, that is, for meals, three meals a day, and daily income and rest at sunrise, six hours.
There are three meals and two meals a day with meat, and one pound of grain is given every day.
This is equivalent to the treatment of senior white-collar workers for the current Goguryeo people, and it can also earn a little food for the family.
Although Datang has relief, it can only eat half full, and it is enough to ensure that it does not die of hunger.
When I signed up, there were a lot of people, but Li Shen's requirement was to be strong, which was originally a hard work, and only one person in the family could join.
In order to rush to work, Li Shen recruited thousands of sturdy laborers, and there were sturdy women who were responsible for cooking for these people.
Li Shen also deliberately held a groundbreaking ceremony and dug the first spade with a shovel tied with red silk. The guards and the people applauded enthusiastically,
Some people who can paint painted this solemn moment, on August 18, the 18th year of Zhenguan, Li Shen, the tenth son of the emperor of the Tang Empire, built a bridge to benefit the country and the people.
After that, Li Shen threw away the shovel, walked back to a clean place, and threw away the silk shoe covers on his shoes, which were very expensive.
"Start work" Li Shen gave the order to start work.
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"Report ~~~~ His Royal Highness King Ji, this is His Majesty's secret decree."
Li Shen was drinking tea in a tent not far from the construction site, when Xue Rengui brought in a hundred riders.
"My Aya's secret decree?" Li Shen took it and glanced at the seal with some suspicion, it was intact and there was no sign of opening.
Then he turned around and looked at the front, and Li Shen was sure that this must be a letter from Li Shimin to him, because the front side reads "E: Rebel son." "Three words.
Li Shen pursed his mouth, tore open the envelope, opened the letter and read it.
The first sentence above is to criticize Li Shen, which probably means that Li Shen is incompetent, that Li Shen is timid and afraid of things, that Li Shen is in the nest, and that he knows how to fight with his own people, why don't he dare to do it with those generals,
asked him what he was afraid of, a little Zhao Yuan didn't dare to move, and he said that he was a gentleman all day long, and he was not ashamed.
Anyway, the previous one said that Li Shen was useless, hating iron does not become steel, and the meaning between the lines was as if Li Shen should have killed all four generals at that time.
After Li Shen finished reading the first half, his head hurt, he now has a sense of the picture, Li Shimin stood in front of him and sprayed him wildly.
The next thing to say is the right thing, but it's just a few words, first let him wait for the 200,000 army behind, and then follow Cheng Yanjin back to the front line, if he doesn't go back, he will resist the decree, and his family property will be confiscated.
The second is to let him do a good job as an overseer, act in accordance with military law and military regulations, and the generalissimo has no right to intervene, let him let go of his hands and feet to help Li Chengqian stabilize his position.
The third is to rectify military discipline and eliminate the unhealthy tendencies in the army, which must be carried out in accordance with the standards of Li Shen's guard battalion.
saw that in the end, Li Shen turned around and found that there was no more, which made Li Shen angry, and he was so angry that he was doing the right thing, and the rest of the words were reprimanded for himself.
and has to confiscate property, is this father worried about him for a long time and wants to find an excuse to steal the house.
With a sigh, Li Shen put the letter on the candle and lit it, regardless of whether it was a secret decree or not, so many words scolding himself on it could not let it exist.
Li Shen knew that Li Shimin would definitely not let him go back, so he stayed in Wuliluo, otherwise he would have returned to Chang'an City a long time ago.
Li Shimin will know about this matter sooner or later, and he doesn't have to report it himself, as an emperor, especially an emperor like Li Shimin, who has such a strong control over the country, he must have his own intelligence system.
It's just that Li Shen doesn't know how Li Shimin is going to deal with Zhao Yuan's matter now, and he estimates that Zhao Yuan may be more auspicious.
It was because of him that Li Chengqian was persecuted, and he was also angry with an overseer, so it is no wonder that Li Shimin could let him live.
Sorting out his thoughts, Li Shen said to the stone;
"Tell me to go down and speed up the progress, this king will soon go to the front of the battle, and he must finish the next thing before leaving."
Twenty days later, the bridge pier has been completed, and the bridge deck is too heavy, so Li Shen chose to separate the pier one by one, and use the erected pulley group to move the bridge deck up little by little.
During the whole process, thousands of people had their own division of labor, and more than a dozen ropes with the thickness of children's arms were pulled by hundreds of people, moving forward little by little.
The wisdom of the ancients, coupled with Li Shen's modern methods, the bridge was placed on the first pier of the bridge steadily, Li Shen looked at the whole process, and sighed at the greatness of the working people.