Everyone followed Shen Kuo out of the dock, and Yang Huaiyu didn't get off the boat at all with the Hades camp. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Originally, the boat could only go to Yangqiao, and then it would have to turn overland and go all the way north.

However, Tang Yi wanted to stop here for two days and take a look at the entire section of the river with Shen Kuo. Yang Huaiyu simply let the soldiers stay on the boat, and it was not too late to get off the boat when they got up and went north.

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Originally, I wanted to arrange Wu Xianggong at the Yangqiao Official Post first, and Tang Yi and the young ones would go around the construction site. However, Wu Yu was also curious about what this big project, which cost nearly 10 million yuan, was like, so the old man had to follow.

Tang Yi didn't stop him, it was good to see it, and these court officials didn't understand what was going on, so they knew that they were shouting in the court.

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The Tongji Canal is a river, but it is actually a dryland project, and there is no water in the whole process. Because the whole project is actually to dig another canal on the edge of the original river.

As soon as he arrived at the construction site, Wu Yu was dumbfounded.

"This, this, this is the cement that Zihao made?"

The river was repaired from the direction of Yangqiao Zhubiankou, so the position where Tang Yi and the others are standing now is the river that has been completed. As far as the eye can see, the river is 50 zhang wide and more than four or five zhang deep.

The most shocking thing is the river embankment, a large bluestone and concrete.

The endless riverbank looks like a whole boulder blocking the banks of the river, and it feels like it is impregnable.

And Tang Yi saw this embankment that should not have appeared in the Song Dynasty, and his heart was also agitated.

It is not the people of the later generations who have crossed over, and the people of the Great Song Dynasty who have the feelings of the later generations, it is difficult to understand the excitement in Tang Yi's heart.

There's kindness and a sense of accomplishment.

After all, he has been in the Great Song Dynasty for so many years, although he stirred the wind, but what he can see and touch, and what is most like the future generations, may be this embankment.

Tang Yi even thought wickedly:

If it is properly maintained, after a thousand years, he Tang Yi has returned to dust, and the only thing that can prove that he has been here may be this embankment.

I wonder how future generations will feel when they see that the Great Song Dynasty thousands of years ago had such a level of engineering?

"Xianggong, what do you think of this embankment?"

Wu Yu nodded again and again, "The foundation of eternity!" O foundation of eternity! ”

What the Tongji Canal meant to the Great Song Dynasty, Wu Yu knew very well. And such an epic project connecting the north and the south, with such a strong river embankment, is not the foundation of eternity, what is it?

"Only this one river, Zihao should be my meritorious minister of the Great Song Dynasty!"

Tang Yi smiled, of course he was very proud in his heart, but he said: "I don't dare to make meritorious deeds, as long as the court makes some stirry for the kid, Yi will burn high incense." ”

Wu Yu was dark, knowing that Tang Yi was talking about Zeng Gongliang and Han Qi's disgrace back then. Even now, some courtiers criticized Tang Yi for using Tongji Canal as a tool to collect money and buy roads.

"In the future, if someone else makes irresponsible remarks, the old man will let him come to this embankment to have a look. Look who still has a conscience and doesn't have a backache when they speak! ”

"Hah!" Tang Yi laughed. "Then there will be Lao Xianggong."

"But, Zihao, this causeway is like a stone barrier, and there is not a single ant's nest on the shore of a hundred miles, how did you get it??"

Shen Kuo continued: "Don't worry, the grass people will take you to see it." ”

After speaking, he led Wu Yu to the embankment. There was a horse-drawn carriage parked there, as well as a couple of tall horses.

Because he didn't know that Wu Yu was going to follow, Tang Yi only asked Shen Kuo to prepare a car, which was for Brother Xiao Qiao.

Now there is no way, so I have to let Wu Yu and Xiao Qiaoge ride in the same car, and Tang Yi, Song Kai and others get on the horse directly.

The part of the river that has been repaired so far is probably less than 20 miles, so if you want to see the on-site construction, you have to walk along the river for more than 20 miles.

Walking along the embankment, Wu Yu is even more novel, just from the feeling of the wheels passing over, you can know that this embankment is not ordinarily strong.

I couldn't help but lift the curtain and look at the riverbank outside, as if I couldn't get enough of it.

The Tongji Canal was not repaired before, it was a bad debt left by Taizu and Taizong to move the capital, in fact, the subjects of the Great Song Dynasty knew in their hearts whether this Grand Canal should be repaired or not.

However, who would have thought that such a major event, which dragged on for more than a few years, would be completed by a young man?

Looking at the newly built Grand Canal, and then looking at the high-spirited Tang Zihao on horseback, Wu Yuxin said: It is not unreasonable for His Majesty and many colleagues to respect this young man.

At the very least, Wu Yu saw from Tang Yi what was gradually missing in the Great Song Dynasty - hard work!!

This is a young man who is willing to do practical things, and does not stick to etiquette. Perhaps, what Da Song lacks is such a doer, right?

After watching for more than a quarter of an hour, Wu Yucai put down the curtain and retracted his mind. Seeing that the little girl in the same car was a little cramped, she couldn't help but put on a kind style of an elder.

"What's your name?"

Brother Xiao Qiao was stunned, but he didn't expect this old Xianggui to talk to her.

"I, my name is Qing Yao."

Qing Yao is her Chinese name, and only Tang Yi and Jun Xinzhuo will call her Brother Qiao, or Guanyin, when no one is around.

Wu Yu nodded, "You are Zihao's maid?" ”

"Yes, yes......"

Wu Yu smiled, "Don't be nervous, the old man doesn't eat people." It's just boring to drive, talk to you,"

"Literate?"

"Yes."

"How much do you know?"

"You can recite "Guangyun"."

"Oh?" Wu Yu was a little unconvinced.

The main text of "Guangyun" contains more than 26,000 words, plus explanations and annotations, and the whole book has more than 230,000 words.

This girl said she could carry it?

You must know that even the tribute students who are admitted to the Jinshi are mostly only studying "Yunlu" (a condensed version of Guangyun), and not "Guangyun".

"Then the old man is going to test you."

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The people outside the car didn't know that Xiao Guanyin was in the car, and he was returning to work outside the car.

A few young men chatted as they rode horses.

Tang Yi asked Shen Kuo, "Are there any difficulties?" See what works with me. ”

"Yes!" Shen Kuo was not polite. "Two."

"First, can you find a way to make the barometer more precise? Now it takes several days to average a number to get a relatively accurate number, which is too troublesome. ”

"Uh......" Tang Yi was embarrassed. There's no trick to this, let's talk about the next one. ”

The barometer was not originally used to measure the terrain, and when the weather changes, the atmospheric pressure will change, and the barometer reading will be different. So, now you can only use stupid tricks to take the average of several days.

As for doing it a little more precisely, it's not impossible, but it doesn't have much effect.

"The second is, there is a shortage of people! Let the imperial court levy another 50,000 people. ”

Tang Yi frowned when he heard this.

"Still lacking people? The imperial court has levied 100,000 people! Not enough? ”

Shen Kuo pursed his lips, "One hundred thousand? If you go to the construction site and count me, it's only 30,000 nods. ”

...... (To be continued.) )