Huang Jie learned from the dream that road construction is a systematic project, and it is said that later generations have set up a special college in the academy to set up a special college for road construction, and it takes decades of hard study to achieve a small success, and get a title called "siege lion".

For the title of "siege lion", Huang Jie did not understand at first, until the third day of the construction of Kuiba Road, he encountered an insoluble buried boulder in the second section of the east of Wushan County, even if it was concentrated in three firebox trucks repeatedly sprayed and burned, it was difficult to dissolve it, and then got Xue Xian's guidance, put Xue Xian's imitation of twelve palm thunder equivalent gunpowder in an iron shell of a large earth-shattering thunder, buried next to the boulder and detonated, felt the loud sound in his ears and the waves of air in his face, as well as the rocks and civil engineering on the mountain more than ten zhang away from the road because of the landslide. I finally understand why people who study road construction engineering in later generations are called "siege lions"!

The lion is the king of beasts!

Siege is also its use!

Therefore, he decided to keep the title of the first "siege lion" of the Great Song Dynasty to himself, and the second one was awarded to "Xue Xian"!

In fact, Xue Xian, as the deputy envoy of the armor warehouse, only knew that the rules for using earth-shaking thunder in the army could not be thrown under the city, and second, it could not be thrown near the city gate.

As for getting the title of the second "siege lion" of the Great Song Dynasty because of this, it was naturally a pure accident!

As far as the project itself is concerned, it is not a big project in the architectural history of the Great Song Dynasty. Take Huang Jie's cousin Su Shi as an example, any of the "three embankments" he repaired is bigger than the project Huang Jie is doing now. However, the widening and repair of an official road with an estimated length of only 20 miles took more than 120,000 people to start construction on 12 sections at the same time. In the Great Song Dynasty and even in the previous dynasties, it was an unprecedented event.

Originally, Huang Jie made an agreement with each of the servants that the strong labor force for each section should not exceed 2,000, so as to balance the progress of each section and compete fairly. But soon after the start of construction, men, women and children from all families came to battle together, and everywhere they went, there were crowds of people, with an average of three or four hundred people working on every mile of the road.

Originally, the three of them came to attend the groundbreaking ceremony, which was also a form of walking around to save face, and after the groundbreaking ceremony, they also planned to rest for two or three days before returning. It is expected that no matter how fast the speed of the 240-mile official road repair project is, it will take two or three months to complete, after all, they also know the road conditions along the way, there are few flat roads, and there are many dangerous curves, even if the servants are all made of iron, it will never be possible to go anywhere faster.

Who knew that it had only been five days, and three of the twelve sections had completed the excavation and widening of the roadside first, which made them all reluctant to go. and they all changed the sackcloth shorts. I didn't sit in a sedan chair, I asked Wushan County Post to borrow horses, and ran thirty or fifty miles a day to inspect various sections, which was even more conscientious than Huang Jie, the commander-in-chief.

The three Zhizhou actually took the lead. The two of Badong County Ling and Wushan County Ling didn't dare to be idle, and they also wanted to follow the road to inspect, but they asked Huang Jie to coax back. As long as they lead the third class of the county government to organize the relevant industries in the two counties to do a good job in material supply and logistics, there are five-grade officials to find a way. Naturally, these seven-grade sesame officials don't need to join in the fun.

In another five days, the remaining nine sections were excavated and the curb was widened. And the leading three sections are also about to complete the part of paving the stone roadbed and rammed earth, not to mention the progress of the servants themselves, even Huang Jie and several Zhizhou are unbelievable, the tools for digging the soil are not enough, and the soil can be dug with a wooden stick that is burned hard and sharpened into a spade, and the large stones cannot be carried by one person, so seven or eight people are tied with hemp ropes and carried away, and the energy that suddenly burst out of hundreds of thousands of servants and people not only surprised Huang Jie, but also Cheng Zhun, Tang Fu and Zhang Guan were also surprised.

The reason for such a speed is actually because of the use of firebox trucks and blasting earth-shaking mines, so that this old road, which has been walking for thousands of years, can be widened and repaired at such a fast speed. After all, the road from Jiangling Mansion through Xiazhou and Guizhou into Shu is not the traditional Shu Road, let alone the ancient road with a large number of plank roads such as the Golden Bull Road and the Meridian Road, but an old road that is dug along the river and winds down the mountain.

According to the data obtained by Huang Jie's exploration along the way, in the more than 100 miles of road from Badong to Wushan, there are more than 80 miles of gentle road sections, and the rest of the road is mostly close to the cliff road dug out of the mountain gorge, so in the actual construction process, the gentle road section is naturally constructed in accordance with the four-lane regulations, and there is no need to admit that this part of the cliff road is not necessary, as long as the cliff wall is excavated slightly, widened to a normal double carriageway, and the stone pier guardrail is built on the cliff side. On the side of the slope, slope protection and fort ridges are built to prevent landslides and landslides from destroying the road.

As for the road from Wushan to Kuizhou, there are fewer dangerous roads near the cliff, but there are more buried stones on the road than the line from Wushan to Badong, so although it is not very reasonable to spread down the 20-mile section of a family, after all, it is necessary to take into account the problem of the servants living nearby.

Therefore, on the ninth day of September, the fourth section between Wushan and Kuizhou took the lead!

On the 10th day of September, the first section to the west of Badong County, which was contracted by Elder Ermink's Ajiazhai and the adjacent Baijiazhai, was also completed. By September 12, the fifth section of the Wushan-Kuizhou section, which was contracted by no more than 3,000 people from the four servants, was also completed.

In order not to let the remaining sections lose their competitive momentum, Cheng Zhun, the governor of Kuizhou, simply took out another 3,000 yuan of hanging red in the name of Kuizhou Prefecture, and at Huang Jie's suggestion, the hanging red was divided into three classes: the first class three companies each rewarded 500 yuan, the second class three companies each rewarded 300 yuan, and the third class three companies each rewarded 200 yuan.

Under the stimulation of the hanging red, by September 25, the entire Kuiba Road was finally completed and successfully closed!

After the servants of the whole line rested for three days, on September 28 of the fourth year of Zhenghe, more than 100,000 servants and tens of thousands of people from Wushan County also gathered at the fork of the official road in Wushan County, and Huang Jie specially built the "Kuiba Road Memorial Square" to hold a completion ceremony.

The whole "Kuiba Road", from the start of construction to the completion of the opening of traffic, the total time is only 46 days, although the amount of labor and earth and stone used can not be calculated, but Huang Jie built this road but broke a record, that is, there was no death. Since ancient times, the road construction in the land of Bashu has never been immortal, but under Huang Jiewan's care and prudence, there have been more than 1,000 work-related injuries in the construction process of "Kuiba Road", and there are more than 100 people with hand and foot disabilities caused by rockfalls, landslides and landslides, but I don't know whether God opened his eyes or Huang Jie's sincerity, and no one died!

This achievement, even when Huangguang Road and Qinghu Road were repaired, did not set a record!

In addition, the construction of the entire "Kuiba Road", the total cost of money and grain was 82,000 yuan, 6,000 stones, Huang Jie's self-raised part was about 40,000 yuan, but the remaining cost was offset by the more than 8,000 giant trees and more than 1,000 strange stones and trees harvested in the repair process and the merchants, and even after he deducted the cost of rice and grain, the project cost reported was only 76,000 yuan, and these expenses did not need to be reported to Tokyo, Cheng Zhun alone used the official seal. After approving 50,000 yuan of silver and 400,000 yuan, he had to settle with Huang Jie.

Huang Jie gritted his teeth and agreed, and then when he wanted to take 400,000 yuan to lure back the 10,000 copper coins he borrowed from Wushan County, Wu Xian quit! (To be continued.) )