"Lift ~ up...... Yo. Step ~ Step ...... Phew. Walk ~ Get up...... Yo! ”

"Hey, hey, hey...... Shoulder to shoulder, work hard, hey, hey...... Do it hard! ”

The embankment of the Yellow River in front of me is only a few kilometers long dirt slope, but I see laborers all over the mountains moving on the slope, like moving ants, some people carrying sandbags and mud bags to the top of the dam, some people are struggling to drive piles, some people are ramming the ground with throwing hammers, and the horns of various dialects are rising and falling.

At this moment, there are tens of thousands of people on the embankment, and this primitive way of working is rarely seen in the modern era of mechanization. Despite the inefficiency, the sight of tens of thousands of people working together is undoubtedly spectacular.

"Hey, everyone, look, there's a girl on the embankment!"

"Really, these girls are stunned to get it, that wood has thousands of catties, to say the least......"

"Hey, look, that pussy is pretty handsome, and her ass is ......."

Xu Jin and Zou Zhubo appeared under the embankment with 5,000 people, which instantly attracted attention, especially the two teams of 100 people composed entirely of women, which were particularly eye-catching. The laborers stopped to watch, and some of the frivolous ones even whistled, only to be immediately whipped by the overseer.

Xu Jin handed over the 5,000 laborers to the command of Zou Zhubo, and he turned over and dismounted, surrounded by a group of brocade guards, and stepped on the mud to the top of the embankment.

As soon as Xu Jin and the others reached the top of the dam, a middle-aged man wearing a seven-grade official uniform greeted him and saluted: "Fan County Commander Gou Fang has seen Lord Xu. ”

This Gou County Commander is about forty years old, and the bulging belly under the official robe is like a woman who is eight months pregnant, her face is full of red light, and her body is very clean, which is completely opposite to Zou Zhubo.

Xu Jin nodded and asked, "Gou County Order, where are Lord Xiao now?" ”

Gou Xian Ling hurriedly replied: "There are signs of clouds in the northwest, Lord Xiao is worried about the weather changing, and he is personally urging the repair of the embankment over there, hoping that the gap in the embankment can be closed before dark today." ”

Xu Jin looked up at the sky in the northwest, and sure enough, he saw dark clouds accumulating. When the old people in the countryside are drying the grain, they often look at the younger generations of the family to "look at the southeast and the northwest at night", and if the clouds rise in the northwest direction in the afternoon, it is very likely to rain, so they have to quickly put away the grain. There is no scientific basis for this, but it is at least empirical.

"Let's go, let's take a look!" Xu Jin followed the direction pointed by Gou County's order, the latter carried the hem of his official robe, and carefully followed Xu Jin behind him, picking a place with turf to settle down, no wonder even his shoes could be kept so clean, and the fat man with a big belly walked so finely, it was difficult for him.

Xu Jin walked hundreds of meters west along the embankment, but when he heard the rumbling sound of the water, he saw a gap more than ten meters wide appearing on the embankment, and the turbid Yellow River water was roaring and pouring out along the gap, splashing the mist in the sky, and the rumbling sound was deafening.

The laborers were constantly throwing sandbags and stones into the gap, but because the water was so strong that the sandbags were immediately washed down by the floodwater, and even the hundreds of pounds of large stones could not be carried for long.

Xiao Huai frowned, and was discussing with the craftsmen the countermeasures to close the gap, and Song Chi, the prefect of Yanzhou, and Zhang Wensheng, the same governor, were accompanying him.

"Lord Xiao!" Xu Jin stepped forward to salute.

Xiao Huai couldn't help but smile when he saw Xu Jin, nodded and said: "Ziqian came just in time, now this gap is about to close, but the water is too strong, and the sandbags, stones, and wood thrown down are useless, so what can I do?" ”

Whether in ancient or modern times, the difficulty of closing the missing embankment is the greatest, because when the gap in the embankment shrinks smaller and smaller, the water level will also rise, and the flow rate of the water will also increase greatly. In modern times, there are still heavy machinery that can solve this problem, but in ancient times, when it was completely reliant on shoulder lifting, this problem was quite a headache.

An official from the Ministry of Industry next to him said in a deep voice: "Lord Xiao, the lower officials think that the only way now is to find a few big ships loaded with sand and gravel, and then sail to the vicinity of the gap and sink." ”

"No!" Xu Jin frowned and shook his head, although this method may work, but it is also quite dangerous, if you are not careful, you will have to plant people and boats through the gap, and it is estimated that no one will dare to operate the boat.

The official of the Ministry of Industry shook his head when he saw Xu Jin, and said a little unconvinced: "The old man has participated in many emergency repairs to the embankment, and in the end he did it like this, could it be that Lord Xu has a better way?" ”

Xu Jin glanced at the "technical" personnel of the Ministry of Industry, and said lightly: "The method you said is effective, but it is too dangerous, who will operate the ship and scull the ship?" ”

The official of the Ministry of Industry said disapprovingly: "There must be brave men under the heavy reward, and naturally there will be people to operate the boat, not to mention that even if the lives of a few small people are sacrificed, if the gap in the embankment can be blocked, is it not worth it?" ”

Xu Jin asked rhetorically: "Then how about Your Excellency come to operate the ship?" The official contributed 3,000 taels of silver as a reward! ”

The worker official was suddenly blushing and speechless, Xu Jin didn't bother to pay attention to him anymore, turned to Xiao Huai and said, "Lord Xiao, the lower official has a method worth trying." ”

Xiao Huai's eyes lit up and said, "Let's hear it!" ”

"Seeing is believing, the lower official will immediately order someone to demonstrate it!" Xu Jin turned around and gave a few orders to Jin Biao, who was a hundred households of Jinyi Wei behind him, and the latter immediately ran away.

Soon, Chen Dazhuang led the team to carry more than a dozen giant trees.

Prefect Song Chi reminded: "Lord Xu, although these woods are thick, even if they are all tied together and thrown down, they will not work!" ”

The Ministry of Labor's Wai Lang even pouted and said, "We have tried this method a long time ago, but it is useless." ”

"My approach is different from yours!" Xu Jin said lightly, and then instructed Chen Dazhuang and others to build the three pieces of wood into a triangle, cut out wedges and grooves at both ends to fix each other, and tie them firmly with bamboo strips.

All the officials looked at it curiously, and the Wai Lang, a member of the Ministry of Works, looked contemptuous, he naturally knew that the stability of the wood tied into a triangle was good, but no matter what shape it was tied into, the wood was always wood, and it would float if thrown into the water, and finally it would have to be washed away by the strong current.

However, when Xu Jin asked people to combine several "triangular" wooden frames together to make a three-dimensional pyramid, the Ministry of Engineering Wailang finally restrained his contempt, he was "professional" after all, and the four-sided pyramid can be said to have brought the stability of the "triangle" to the extreme, and it is not easy to roll.

About half an hour later, the first "pyramid" wooden cage was ready, and Xu Jin immediately ordered someone to load the wooden cage with heavy objects such as stones and sandbags. Seeing this, the officials couldn't help but light up, and even the most stupid people saw that Xu Jin's method might work.

Soon, the wooden cage of the pyramid was stuffed with sandbags and boulders, estimated to weigh tens of thousands of catties. Xu Jin was not in a hurry to let people push the "pyramid" to the gap, but to let people carefully strengthen it layer by layer, so as not to be scattered by a huge impact when the wooden frame was thrown down, after all, wood is not steel.

Everything was ready, and Xu Jin recruited hundreds of people to work together to lift the "pyramid". With a loud trumpet, with a loud bang, the huge wooden cage rolled into the torrent of the gap.

Everyone stared intently, only to see the wooden cage tumbling slowly in the torrent for a week, but then it came to a steady stop!

Coax......

Instantaneous cheers resounded in the sky, this method worked!

Xiao Huai stroked his long beard and laughed, and said three 'good' words in a row.

Since this method worked, Xu Jin then asked people to move all the hundreds of pieces of wood that had been felled, and then made more "pyramid" wooden cages in full swing.

Zou Zhubo commanded the laborers to carry the wood, full of admiration for Lord Xu, what is a rainy day, people Xu is a rainy day, no wonder the laborers were cut down on the way, and the dare had already had a case.

Bang......

A muffled thunder rolled from the sky, and the black clouds in the northwest quickly spread to this side, followed by the raindrops the size of beans......

Heavy rain is coming!