"Those frosted things are really used for farming?" When the team set off again, Hong Tao used the excuse of inspecting the fields to abandon the car and ride the horse, and there were only two women left in the car. Princess Terry had experienced the scene firsthand, and she had more questions than the black-faced man.

"It's a miracle medicine made by adults, which can make crops harvest every year, isn't it amazing!" The language skills of Monday and Sunday are very good, and they will vary from person to person, so I can make this matter clear in one sentence.

"Of course, the man chosen by this palace is powerful, and if you talk more about what he is capable of, if you are right, this palace will go to the founding marquis to say a few more good words for you."

Princess Terry has little interest in whether the crops are harvested or not, but the more powerful the founding marquis is, the more accurate her vision is, and she must be proud. No matter what others think, anyway, she already considers herself the woman who founded the country, and she is not afraid of others knowing, why should she hide good things.

"That's too much, Your Highness listened to the official and said slowly...... "Mondays and Sundays are also free, maybe it's fun to watch this exotic princess, so it's right to relieve boredom."

With a flat post road, the convoy did not need to be in a hurry, and still walked more than 100 miles when it was dark, and came to Nangong County, Yizhou.

It is located in the middle of Hebei, surrounded by plains, and the Hulu River water system flows through, which is convenient for irrigation, relatively developed agriculture, and relatively rich in the local area.

There is a Guanglong Temple in the southwest of the county seat, which occupies a large area, the houses are continuous, and the incense is very prosperous. However, when the temple property was inspected on the Daimyo Mansion Road, the monks in the temple and the local gentry confronted each other with force, and more than 80 monks and more than 50 believers were shot and killed by the new army in front of the mountain gate, and the blood flowed like a river.

Fortunately, the presiding monk was not involved, so he was not completely fined and confiscated the temple property, and took the remaining monks to guard more than 200 acres of land to maintain. The incense is gone, and the people think this place is unlucky, and they don't want to come.

But some people were willing to come, Wang Qi's temporary headquarters of the engineering corps was set up in it, and most of the courtyards of the temple were requisitioned, and the main hall was changed into a very good warehouse, which was both windproof and moisture-proof, and was specially used to store the cement transported from Handan.

Not only Wang Qi is willing to come, but Hong Tao is also here, worthy of being an adoptive father and son plus a master and apprentice, and his temperament is similar in many things, and he is unwilling to contact the court officials too much, and he is willing to hide from the county seat if he can't live in the county.

"My lord, I found the secret sentry of the engineer in front, please give me instructions." As soon as I could see a light in the darkness in the distance, the procession stopped again, and the moving forward Tanmalay reported.

"It's not bad to have a secret whistle two miles away, let me know, don't make trouble for the seventh, he's also tired."

If Hong Tao doesn't want to tell the other party that he is coming, then the special forces will take down the secret outpost, and then quietly enter the village to shoot guns, which can very intuitively check the work status of the engineering headquarters.

Although it is called the Engineer Corps, its establishment and rules are basically the same as those of the New Army, and it also has to go out for exercises every day, and it has to conduct military training in its spare time. Since it is an army, there are hard requirements for daily defense, and generally when Hong Tao travels, he must check it by the way.

"Official, why are you here all of a sudden!" In less than two quarters of an hour, Wang Qi came, dressed neatly, and it seemed that he hadn't slept yet.

"Let's see if you're lazy, you don't sleep so late, what are you thinking about when you light the lamp and boil the oil?" Wang Qi was already tall, and in the past few years, he has gone to the wild for a run, and his nutrition can keep up, and Hong Tao has to look at him levelly.

"The students are worried about the road construction, and the officials will solve it all when they come, so go and prepare hot water!"

Wang Qi's head is taller, but his face is thinner, and he no longer opens his mouth and closes his mouth to call his father in front of outsiders, but learns to call himself a student. However, I have not forgotten the habit of this adoptive father, I love to take a bath, and I wash wherever I go, and I have to melt the snow and wash it on the Gobi Desert.

In movies and television, high-ranking officials take a bath, and the people who serve next to him are always little maids or something, and when Wang Qi changed the regulations, he moved a small table and put it on the edge of the barrel, and while holding various drawings and data, he helped his adoptive father rub his back.

Originally, Hong Tao planned to let Zhou Zhou play the role of a green lotus, but Wang Qiquan was stirred up, and he couldn't say it clearly, so just don't soak it, make do with it, and wash it with a young man to enjoy it.

"How did this come about?" Back in Wang Qi's room, the first thing that caught my eye was a large row of clay specimens on the table. Their shape made Hong Tao very curious, all of them were cylindrical, and the shovel handle was thick and a foot long. Could it be that Wang Qi got all the drilling rigs out, it's unlikely.

"With a shovel, it can save a lot of trouble, I used to want to see the foundation soil layer need to dig a well, and it is easy to collapse when the water runs." Wang Qi was worried about building a bridge, so he picked up a tool from the table and handed it over.

"Yo, isn't this a Luoyang shovel...... Who invented it! Hong Tao frightened this tool, although it is a little different from the Luoyang shovel of later generations, but it is very subtle, and a slight change is the Luoyang shovel. Could it be that a traverser has mixed into Wang Qi's team, this is a big deal.

"I can't say who invented it, it's a local ancestor ......" Wang Qi was taken aback by his adoptive father's expression, could there be something wrong with this shovel?

"It's okay, the official looks at it a little familiar." After Wang Qiyi's explanation, Hong Tao knew that he was rare and strange. The cost-effective Luoyang shovel was not invented by later generations, but at the latest in the Han Dynasty, and was a tool used by craftsmen to check the quality of the rammed earth layer.

There are many stones in the plains of Hebei, and rammed earth is used to build cities and embankments, and local craftsmen will use this tool. After Wang Qi found out, he rebuilt a batch of stainless steel, and the shovel head was lengthened a little, which was more suitable for taking soil samples.

"Then you're going to build a bridge, aren't you?" It was determined that it was not the post-generation technology brought by the traverser that Hong Tao was relieved and picked up the drawings.

The road that Wang Qi wants to build next is not difficult, but the further north he goes, the more rivers there are, among which the Hutuo River, the Tang River, and the Yishui River are all large water systems, the main stream of water is deep and rapid, and it is two or three hundred steps wide at every turn, and the ordinary stone bridges, wooden bridges and even pontoon bridges are a little powerless.

If you just build roads and don't build bridges, and you still rely on ferries to cross the river, then the efficiency is too poor. Once the flood season is in full swing, the ferries will not be able to pass through, and they will not be able to meet the supply requirements of the new army.

"It's useless to talk on paper, it's better to rest early and take the official to the river tomorrow." Build bridges! This is a new topic for Hong Tao, who has never been exposed to it in his life, and naturally can't think of any way. But he didn't want to say that there was no way, and that it could be delayed for a day.

Hong Tao, the name of the Hutuo River, was slightly heard of in later generations, because of his hobby, fishing. There are several large reservoirs near Shijiazhuang, and Gangnan and Huangbizhuang are on the main stream of the Hutuo River. The river seems to have originated in the northern part of Shanxi Province, winding all the way down, cutting off the Taihang Mountains across the Hebei Plain, and finally converging into the Haihe River.

In later generations, the water volume of the Hutuo River was reduced many times, but the ancient river channels in some places are still faintly recognizable. How wide is it? At least two kilometers, but most of it is farmland, and the river channel with water is only 100 meters, and there are even seasonal interruptions.

But the Hutuo River in the Song and Liao periods really has a fight with the Yellow River, the widest place is more than two kilometers, and it is all river water, and the narrow place has more than 200 steps, which is converted to 300 meters. In addition, the water is abundant, the sediment content is high, and in some places it is already higher than the river bank, and the embankment has to be built like the Yellow River.

"How to build a bridge with such a wide river, even if the gods come, they are helpless."

Exploration is not like tourism, originally Hong Tao did not plan to take a female dependent, but Princess Terry did not do it, she had to go to see how capable her future husband was, but when she arrived at the river, she was the first to retreat.

"Oh, what if the official really built the bridge!" If only Wang Qi and a cadre of engineering technicians were accompanied, Hong Tao really had no interest in bragging. The saying that women are woe makes too much sense, and the more Princess Terry says it's impossible, the more he wants to prove that he is no worse than the gods.

“…… Whatever conditions you put forward, this palace has agreed! What if you can't make it? "As the saying goes, Xu Bull is not allowed to raise the bar, Princess Terry is obviously not a good listener, so she likes to raise the bar.

"If you can't make it, this official will marry you immediately!" When the two of them bump together, you can place any bet. Hearing this, Wang Qi and Zhou Ri were dizzy, why were they still thinking about marrying the princess of Liao, this heart was too big.