Chapter Three Hundred and Twenty-Three Bridges
"Well, it's not so urgent. You can build it in sections. For example, build a road from Fuzhou to Fuqing first, and start construction in the area of Hui'an Putian in Quanzhou, and then it depends on the situation." Sun Yu was overwhelmed and was busy with food and grass recently, so he threw this matter aside. After the battle was over, the money he should pay was paid. It's impossible to let the soldiers cry silently after fighting hard.
"The road construction matter is first left to Lord Lu to survey the terrain and repair the road surface. During this period, Mr. Xu will first settle the pension and silver rewards. It is time to give the brothers an explanation." Sun Yu calculated that this money was a lot, and except for Xu Yi, he was not at ease with others.
"Subordinate to obey the order!" Lu Qian looked at Sun Yu's expression and admired Xu Yi even more. In a few words, he knocked down the other party's huge ambitions to the reality.
"Well, Marquis, I am now the governor of Fuzhou, and I am not a clerk of the loyal and brave army." Xu Yi gently twisted his beard, and we also had to take care of it. We are not a follower who can be called and drunk. The demeanor of scholars still needs to be maintained.
"Then I will serve as the military Sima. You have to do this anyway." Sun Yu didn't want to do it himself, but this matter was too important. As for the military Sima, it was just an air rank. Without his own warrant, he could not mobilize anyone at all. If you don't believe it, if you ask him to go to Lao Cheng for orders, you probably fart.
"Don't worry, the marquis should do it now. But where does the money come from?" Xu Yi was not afraid of the cumbersome. After dealing with it over the years, he was familiar with it. He was afraid that everything would be done in the end and he had no money.
"First calculate the details, I can figure out a solution." The states' assets have not been hollowed out. They originally said that they would be more abundant after the autumn harvest this year, but now they have been completely troubled.
If it really doesn't work, I can only go to the money house to borrow money first. This time I went overseas, I should have had a lot of income, but now most of them have been replaced with food, and I don't know how much profit there is.
Sun Yu chose the place where the bridge was built, which was only sixteen meters wide. Each meter of the bridge was three piles, and a total of forty-two piles were placed.
The four selected ships were riveted together, and a simple working platform was built in the gap between them. Everyone worked together to carry the columns made of steel and cement onto the working platform.
This pillar was specially made according to Sun Yu's instructions. Five thick steel bars were left at the bottom, which stretched out two feet long. Only by lying into the riverbed can he not be affected by the water flow.
Fang Hao brought several students, one of them was King Liu Shaoding of Jinjiang, who was painting quickly with a charcoal pen. Now he found his place in the team and ran around the mountains and fields every day. This time he followed Sun Yu's call to learn to build bridges.
"We are also exploring now. If you have good suggestions, you can come up with them at any time. In the future, you have to set up a team, run everywhere, and build as many bridges as possible." In this year, rivers that are slightly wider have to be ferried by boats, which is extremely inconvenient. The main reason is that the wooden stakes are not able to go down. After all, the height of the wooden stakes is limited and the specific gravity is too low. If the water is two meters deep, you have to go down more than three meters of wooden stakes. Where can you find so many big trees over three meters to make wooden stakes?
"Don't worry, Master Hou, the younger one must record carefully." Fang Hao nodded. There were too many principles used here. Just now, when I got on the cement column, I used the lever principle and pulley principle.
"Let it go!" The water of the river was floating up and down. After the work boat approached, everyone shouted and loosened the fixed rope together.
The cement column quickly sank into the river water, and the steel bars at the bottom directly inserted into the river bottom, allowing the river water to wash away without moving at all.
"One, two, three, rise!" Nearly a hundred strong men, all brave men in the loyal and brave army, pulled the rope one after another. A huge piece of iron weighed ten thousand pounds, was quickly pulled up under the action of pulleys.
"Let me go!" The leader gave the order, and everyone immediately let go.
Under the action of gravity, the iron block falls freely and hits the cement column below.
With a muffled sound of "dong~", the cement column that was originally motionless instantly sank about five inches.
"One, two, three, rise!" The iron block continued to be pulled up.
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It goes back and forth until the cement column will never go deeper. The work boat leaves and goes to the shore to continue transporting another cement column. The three cement columns appear a triangle, and a triangular collar is made on site according to the specific size. After it is completely solidified, it is directly inserted from above the cement column to the bottom and then solidify it, and the three cement columns form a whole.
On the top of the cement column, the same cast cement board is buckled on the top to form a plane.
After seven days, fourteen huge flat cement boards on the surface of the Minjiang River attracted countless people to come here to watch. As long as they are built with wooden boards about meter long, a bridge for people to walk can be formed.
What Sun Yu wanted to build was a solid stone bridge that was enough for carriages to walk on. On both sides of the Min River, piers were being built to form a plane with the stone slabs on the river.
A piece of floor slab made of cement sand, mixed with fine steel bars, and a round hole is left in the middle to reduce its weight. It is poured on both sides of the bridge and can be laid after the shade is dry and cooled.
"Old Lu, why are these people so idle? I still have time to watch the fun?" Xu Yi came to the riverside and smoothed out the matter in the army. As a result, the riverside was covered with people and was watching the fun.
"This is a time to rest for dinner, and it is not easy to squeeze too much." Lu Qian himself likes to see. Some of the children nearby come here in the morning and have been going back when they see them eating, and they come again after dinner.
"I'll go, what's going on?" This was the first time Xu Yi saw him. He thought Sun Yu planned to build a stone arch bridge, so why did he directly get piles in the middle of the river? It's so simple and rough?
"Mr. Xu, our marquis, this!" Lu Qian gave a thumbs up, and he looked here since the first world. He was completely imaginative. He never dared to think about it in his life, but he realized it.
"Nonsense, otherwise I will be able to appreciate it?" Xu Yi gently twisted his beard, and his movement was a bit big. If he had to cover it up first and then suddenly appeared in the eyes of the world, wouldn't the Marquis be the gods? This was a missed.
Sun Yu didn't expect this. If he wanted to be a god, he had some means, but what he had to do was to lay the seeds of science and bring society to the road of using science to drive productivity. Naturally, he could not make fun of the power and the gods.
Lu Qian felt that Xu Yi was good everywhere, but he was too narcissistic and made him look like Zhuge Wuhou. Could it be that the marquis invited him to visit him three times?
"Boatman, take me to the other side." Xu Yi walked towards the boat by the river.
"Oh, okay!" The boatman quickly got up, slapped his clothes, and walked towards the oars behind the boat. After waiting here for a long time, he finally got a business.
After Xu Yi got on the boat, the boatman tried hard to shake the sculls, and the boat left slowly
On the shore, drive towards the opposite side.
"Boatman, if this bridge is built, I'm afraid you have to make another living?" Xu Yi estimated that the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait must have hoped to build the bridge as soon as possible. Only this boatman will have to cut off his livelihood once the bridge is ready.
"That's right? I haven't had any business these days and it's just opened today." The boat house replied helplessly. The people were ready to cross the river directly. There was nothing important, so wait. After all, no one is very affordable.
"Where are you going to make a living in the future?" Xu Yi asked. The development of society will eventually damage the interests of some people.
"I didn't think about it. Maybe I was fishing in the river and I could barely make a living." The boatman smiled. This boat was also a big item, and he had no other ability, so he just relied on the boat to make a living.
"How many fish can there be in the river? Why not go farther and go out to sea to fish?" There were originally fishermen in the river. If these ferry fishing boats also joined the fishing team, the daily harvest would probably have to be lower.
"No, this flatbed can't go to the sea. If you have a big wave, you have to turn over. You have to buy a big big boat with a sharp bottom. It's too expensive." The boatman shook his head. He also wanted to go out to sea to fish. The profit was much higher than the current ferry. However, the price of a ship that can go out to sea is too expensive.
"You can go to the money shop to borrow, but it hasn't been there yet. After a while, Jianzhou Commercial Bank will come back to Fuzhou to open a money shop, and the interest rate is very low." Xu Yi felt that going out to sea to fish is bound to be profitable, and there is no need to stick to the current Minjiang River.
"I can't trust the money house. I can't even know a lot of old people, and I've cheated too many people." The boatman shook his head. Why do they go to provoke money houses if they have nothing to do? Maybe they will be sold and count the money for others.
Most of the money shops these days have no industry rules, and cheating is common, but ordinary people are too evaded.
"Can you trust that person?" Xu Yi pointed to Sun Yu on the other side of the river and was standing on the bridge pier to check the quality. The bridge pier was inclined, reducing the slope as much as possible, so that it would be convenient for the carriage to board the bridge in the future.
"Of course I can trust it. If someone is a dignified marquis, can you still lie to me, the old man." The boatman nodded with a smile. The actions of this marquis have spread throughout Fuzhou, which was a compliment.
Although this bridge made him lose his livelihood, since ancient times, building bridges and roads has been an extraordinary merit.
When this person came to Fuzhou, he not only built bridges, but also started to build roadbeds on both sides of the Minjiang River. It is said that a wide avenue that is enough for four carriages to run in parallel is still the same kind of stone slabs and can run fast on rainy days. He has absolutely no merit.
"The money shop is the one who opened it, so don't worry. I am the governor of Fuzhou. If there is any fraud, you can come to the yamen to sue it. I will make the decision for you." Seeing that it was almost here, Xu Yi showed his identity. Speaking of which, this person was his duty to rule the people and seek welfare for the people.
"Is that money house really opened by the Marquis?" The ship owner was a little unbelievable. This big man had always been hiding his business, and this person was actually doing his best.
"I will lie to you, so I can do it with confidence and boldness. In the future, going to sea to fish more will definitely earn more than now." Xu Yi, with the help of the boatman, got off the boat carefully, and still kept reminding him.
"Don't worry, sir, I can save it." The boatman pointed straight at the head of the boat. He was smoking from the ancestral grave. He received guidance from the governor, so he would definitely be able to do this.
Chapter completed!