Chapter 705: The Mainstay

How to solve the problem? Only Du Kang!

Xiao Han may feel that it is not too good for him to bring back the sadness of others.

So the two sorrowful boatmen were each given a pot of wine.

Naturally, such trivial things as the Xiao family's fine wine are easy to get drunk, Xiao Han also accidentally "forgot" about it.

Since ancient times, there have been few people who are not good at drinking! The two boatmen took the wine with great gratitude, smelled the wine intoxicatedly, and eagerly opened the stopper and prepared to pour it into their mouths!

The stunned man on the side saw it, and just wanted to stop it, but he was slapped on the back by Zhang Qiang's coincidental slap, and he coughed for a long time......

A large sip of wine poured into their mouths, and the two boatmen felt as if they had two fires in their mouths! I wanted to squirt it out, but I didn't dare, so I had to swallow it raw!

"Ahem, ahem...... Good, good wine! After a few violent coughs, the boatman soon felt that his body was a little warmer, and he couldn't help but applaud loudly!

When they were sailing, they often drank a little wine to warm up their bodies, and when there was no comparison, they felt that they were drinking good wine! But after drinking Xiao Han's wine, the previous drinks immediately became tasteless.

"Haha! It seems that you are also good drinkers, come, take a few more sips! ”

On the edge of the big river, the two boatmen were instigated by Xiao Han and drank a lot of wine.

Soon, the boatman's face turned from sallow to crimson, his breathing became heavier and heavier, and even the words involuntarily increased, and almost without Xiao Han asking, the two of them revealed all the brains they knew.

At this point, Xiao Han finally has a real understanding of this waterway.

It turned out that this little-known Guangtong Canal was not simply excavated by Yang Guang!

It was first built by Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian as a link between Daxing City and Tongguan.

And, at the beginning!

It is not as unknown as it is now, but has a well-known nickname, that is Fumin Canal!

At that time, the Guangtong Canal was not forbidden to ship at all!

Therefore, whether it is an official ship or a private ship, it can sail unhindered on the water of these 300 miles!

In this way, how many people will benefit?

"At the beginning, from Chang'an! Go to Tongguan, then merge into the Yellow River, and go straight to Xiazhou! Not to mention anything else, a single trip back and forth is enough to top the output of half a year in the field, thinking back to that time, we are also a small rich family! ”

A boatman was so drunk that he fell to the ground.

Only the other, a little younger, was still silent in the memories of the past.

"The end is in Xiazhou?"

Xiao Han felt a little strange when he heard this, he had been in Xiazhou last year, and knew that it was already very close to the eastern capital Luoyang, so after thinking about it, he asked, "You won't go down when you go to Xiazhou?" Why don't you go to Luoyang? At that time, Luoyang was also under the jurisdiction of the previous dynasty, and if you went to that big city, wouldn't the business be better? ”

"You said Luoyang, the eastern capital?"

Some of the intoxicated boatmen tilted their heads and glanced at Xiao Han, and then snorted disdainfully:

"Hmph...... All those who take a boat for the first time want to go directly to Luoyang through the Yellow River! But if they really want to go once, I'm afraid no one will dare to go a second time! ”

"What do you mean? Is it dangerous to get from Xiazhou to Luoyang? Xiao Han didn't mind the boatman's contempt at all, knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, this is nothing to be embarrassed about!

Moreover, he still remembered another very important question through the words of the boatman, that is, when he and Xiao Lizi were stationed in Xiazhou City, there was the Yellow River in front of him! Downstream is Luoyang!

is so geographically advantageous, but it seems that no one has ever proposed to cross the Yellow River and attack Luoyang downstream!

This is indeed a bit strange for a soldier who does everything he can! Now that I think about it, there must be something in it that Xiao Han doesn't know.

The boatman is now drunk.

But fortunately, he didn't fall asleep on the ground like his companions, but seemed to be in good spirits!

Shaking his head and standing up, he pointed to his boat and said slowly: "Dangerous, how can it not be dangerous?" You people haven't walked through there, so you don't know at all!

Not far down from Xiazhou, there are three rapids! Our boatman calls it Sanmen! And if you want to talk about the rapids reef, it's nothing to the experienced boatmen! But the problem is that in the center of the rapids, God has erected a big stone stuck there!

Wherever the river goes, it is already extremely turbulent because of the narrowing of the terrain! Coupled with such a scourge stone, I don't know how many ships were smashed and how many lives were killed!

Not to mention anything else, my little boat, which had avoided the rocks at the beginning, was still beaten several times by the turbulence, and almost capsized there! And if you want to capsize in that position, I'm afraid that no matter how good your water nature is, you will be swept into the bottom of the water and turn into a water ghost. ”

"Shhh...... Is there such a dangerous place on the Yellow River? ”

Listening to the boatman's spit, Xiao Han and Zhang Qiang only stared at each other, and it wasn't until the middle of the night that they remembered to ask the boatman: "Since this stone is a scourge, no one wants to go over and move this broken stone away?" ”

"Yes, how not!"

The boatman took a deep breath and sat back on the ground! As soon as he stretched out his hand, Xiao Dong, who had excellent eyesight, had already handed over his fish skewers, and waited for him to take a comfortable bite before continuing:

"I also heard from my ancestors that when the first saint Dayu controlled the water, he thought about moving away this scourge, but the gods invited couldn't move it! But this is a legend, and we haven't seen it yet! I only remember the time of the previous dynasty, when the two emperors ordered someone to dig this stone! But there is a lot of manpower loss, and there is still nothing to be done about it! ”

"Two emperors, I'll go, Yang Guang didn't do this?!" When Xiao Han heard this, he couldn't help but gasp.

If you want to ask the most persevering emperor in the history of China, Xiao Han thinks that if Yang Guang wants to say second, absolutely no one dares to say first! Even such an emperor can't help a small stone?

"No ......"

The boatman waved his hand at Xiao Han, whose eyes were round, and said in a long voice: "A lot of people have died, but the stones are motionless!" Later, the emperor was furious, and directly used the largest ship at the time to crash it, trying to break it, the original ship, which was dozens of zhang long, five or six stories high, drove like a moving mountain, if we also had such a ship......"

"Hey, stop, stop! Don't talk about the boat, let's talk about the future? How's it going? ”

Xiaodong couldn't bear it the most, and when he saw that the boatman didn't talk about the stone mountain, he talked about the big ship instead, and he immediately didn't want to, and urged him to go on quickly.

"Later, ah......" The boatman snorted and glanced at Xiaodong unhappily, and then said in a low voice: "Later, the ship was smashed to pieces, and none of the people on the boat survived!" The stone was broken because of this!

Oh yes, I remember that year should have been the seventh year of the Great Cause, that is, at that time, the great river suddenly flowed backwards for dozens of miles! Flooded countless villages in Liangtian, at that time everyone thought that the gods were angry, even the emperor, in the end, did not dare to touch the stone again, sent someone to carve the word "pillar" on it, and gave the name to quench the wrath of the sky. ”

"And the stone is the pillar? A legendary mainstay?! ”