Chapter 40: Blowing Up the Mountain
Chen Yaozuo looked at the other side of the ditch and shook his head: "Xu Longtu, I didn't say it, I heard about this a few days ago, and I felt that you did something wrong." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoSome small people, rat-eyed people, where do you know what to do? If you leave the kiln mouth to them to take care of themselves, what will they look like? Seeing the profit, the one forgets his righteousness, and he has no money at first, and everything is easy to say, and when the kiln makes money later, there will inevitably be countless incidents. We are local officials, and we are above all else, and you are stirring up trouble for nothing. Wait, there are troublesome things about Mengzhou and Heyin in the future. ā
After speaking, Chen Yaozuo looked at Li Shen on the side and shook his head again and again.
Xu Ping said: "Wealth moves people's hearts, and the benefits are at present, and people's hearts are indeed not as united as they were at the beginning." Therefore, these kiln societies and the like are all official and private offices, and everything comes according to the regulations, and those that do not comply with the regulations are all dissolved. ā
Chen Yaozuo said with a smile: "If everything in the world was so easy, the world would have been peaceful a long time ago." I said that here, if this kiln continues, either someone in the state and county will take the trouble to do things, or there will be a second one, so what, Tong Dalang. Will the officials in charge take the trouble of it? The old man has been an official for decades, and he really hasn't seen it. ā
Xu Ping and Li Shen glanced at each other, did not speak, and walked forward silently.
Is what Chen Yaozuo said right? Nature is right. What Xu Ping disagreed with was just that he was an official in the local area and took nothing as the top. Always be passive to avoid incidents, so what merit can be made? When it should be peaceful, we must be peaceful, and when we should be eventful, we must be eventful, and we must adjust our own principles of doing things according to the actual situation.
It's just that this is easier said than done.
How many years can this kiln society exist? Twenty Chinese New Year's Eve? Maybe only three or five years. Xu Ping originally wanted to promote the tide of the commodity economy, and this kind of productive mutual aid and cooperative organization that ran counter to the commodity economy could naturally only exist for a while. The club has the meaning of the existence of the club, such as being very small, such as meager profits, but once it develops and is profitable, it will naturally lose the basis for its existence. This is an objective law, and it is not subject to human will.
The organization of clubs is a buffer measure against the impact of the tide of the commodity economy, not a long-term solution, as long as it can play its due role. If the club can die, it means that the commodity economy has matured, and the goal has been achieved. Allowing the poor and small producers to get through this transition period safely will be of great merit to the community.
Leaving the chasm, when he arrived at a rugged place, Xu Ping said: "Xianggong, this is it." You can see that the rocks here are exposed, not far from the river beach, and the quarried boulders can slide down the slope. ā
Chen Yaozuo looked left and right, nodded and said, "Okay, this is it!" What kind of gunpowder, show me! ā
Xu Ping hurriedly took Chen Yaozuo: "Gunpowder has the power to destroy the world and destroy the world, it's better to be careful, just watch it from afar!" ā
After speaking, he motioned to Lu Fang, who was following behind him, to prepare the medicine to explode the mountain.
Lu Fang promised, brought a few soldiers, took out the prepared gunpowder pack, and showed Chen Yaozuo from a distance.
Chen Yaozuo couldn't help frowning: "Wrapped in linen, who knows what it is!" ā
Xu Ping said: "Xianggong, when we go back, we will take it apart and look at it, it is really inconvenient now." As soon as this thing gets touched by sparks, it will blow up and be earth-shattering, not to play tricks, but to let them do things with peace of mind. ā
As he spoke, Xu Ping pulled Chen Yaozuo and retreated behind a few large stones nearby.
Lu Fang took a few soldiers of the bridge and road carriage army, holding a sledgehammer and iron drill, to a place where gunpowder was placed on the edge of a cliff exposed by the rocks. It is located on the bank of the Yellow River, the wind is constant all year round, the humidity is strong, the stone is very weathered, and it is not bothering to chisel it.
Xu Ping said loudly: "Lu Fang, today is just a meaning, put less gunpowder, don't have an accident!" ā
Lu Fang promised from afar and instructed his soldiers to do things.
Chen Yaozuo said unhappily: "Since you come out to see it, let's see it completely, what's the point of putting less gunpowder?" ā
"Look at it with peace of mind, if you are not satisfied, you can start again."
Xu Ping looked around, only a hundred steps away from the place where the gunpowder was placed, and he was not at ease. If one is not good, and a stone just flies over, you will get into a big disaster. called the bridge road army to come over, and erected a high bamboo curtain in front of the place where his people were standing. This is what they have been carrying with them all year round, and it will not take long for them to stand up.
This bamboo curtain is not very strong, it is used to block flying stones. If the stone hits it, even if it passes through, there is no harm.
Chen Yaozuo watched silently, his brows furrowed more and more tightly, and he secretly blamed Xu Ping for being tricky. I am dozens of years old, what have I never seen? I'll also be frightened by the appearance of the opening stone!
After tossing for half an hour, everyone was already impatient, and Lu Fang ran over to report: "The medicine holes on the side of the big stone in front have been chiseled, and the gunpowder has been put in." According to the instructions of the officials, only a small half of the amount was used! ā
Xu Ping nodded and asked Chen Yaozuo beside him: "Xianggong, did you start blowing up stones?" ā
"Go, go! Wait any longer, I won't be able to stand! ā
Xu Ping turned around and gestured to Lu Fang, and waved his hand violently: "Start ignition!" ā
Lu Fang promised, ran out quickly to the open space in front of him, felt a whistle in his arms, and blew it violently.
The whistle was extremely sharp, which startled Chen Yaozuo, Li Shen and others who were standing behind the stone, and their hearts suddenly became nervous.
After blowing the whistle, Lu Fang looked around, and when he saw that there were no more accidents, he took out another small flag. The whistle in his mouth blew three times in succession, and the small flag in his hand waved down violently.
The soldiers in front got the order, blew the fire in their hands, and lit the fuse.
Receiving the signal from the ignition soldier, Lu Fang blew a few whistles in succession, and saw that no one around him was exposed, so he quickly ran behind a big rock and covered his figure.
Chen Yaozuo was nervous by this sharp whistle, and Lu Fang's series of actions made him even more nervous. After waiting for a while, I saw a faint black smoke a hundred steps away, and there was no movement, so I let out a sigh and said to Xu Ping: "It's just a flash of black smoke, why is it so scary!" ā
Before the words fell, an earth-shattering roar suddenly sounded, and the smoke in the sky rose with gravel and dust. Almost in the blink of an eye, there was a crackling sound from the bamboo curtain in front of them, and several soldiers wearing bamboo armor holding the bamboo curtain could barely hold on. Not only did the sound stop, but the pungent smell of gunsmoke filled the entire mountaintop.
Behind the bamboo curtain, except for Xu Ping, everyone became wooden people, looking ahead dumbfounded. (To be continued.) )