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"Still sturdy?"

Tang Yi nodded.

"Originally, I wanted to reinforce the embankment with iron bars, but the cost was so high that even I couldn't afford to spend so much. Therefore, it had to be replaced by the method of interspersing iron and bamboo bars, which was discounted in terms of sturdiness. ”

When Wu Yu heard this, he hurriedly shook his head, "Zihao, don't be too demanding, that's enough!" ”

In the final analysis, Bianshui is just a canal, not a big river like the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. To be able to cultivate to this point, in Wu Yu's opinion, is enough.

Looking at the embankment construction site again, Wu Yu sighed: "The first section of Bianshui and the first section of Luoshui will cost tens of millions of yuan. It turned out that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty thought that Zihao was a little exaggerated, how could he use so much money? If there are 10 million, it is enough to build the Yellow River from beginning to end, let alone such a canal? But now it seems that it really counts! ”

Wu An listened straight behind him, looking at Tang Yi's background and was confused, this is Tang Maniac?

Thousands of rivers are repaired! Except for this God of Wealth, no one in the Great Song Dynasty seems to have this ability.

......

"Huh?"

Wu Yu in front suddenly spoke out, attracting everyone's attention.

He noticed a very strange phenomenon, as if it was ......

It seems that the number of workers on the river embankment is more than the number of workers who dig the river, and the number of workers is not a little bit.

"Isn't the biggest project of repairing the river just excavation? Why does it seem that there are more workers on the riverbank than in the river? ”

Tang Yi smiled bitterly when he heard this: "This is also something that can't be helped." ”

gave Shen Kuo a look, and Shen Kuo stepped forward, "Xianggong, please follow the grass people to take a look." ”

After speaking, he took Wu Yu down to a section of the river base that was being poured.

Wu Yu was even more convinced of his previous judgment that the number of people here was obviously more than the number of people digging in the river.

Shen Kuo pointed ahead, "Look!" ”

Wu Yu took a closer look and saw that in addition to building boulders into the river base, there were also people pushing wheelbarrows to transport mud back and forth.

More people inserted the ends of giant bamboos seven or eight feet long into the freshly poured concrete, and were dragged back and forth in the mud pond by three sturdy men. On the other end of the giant bamboo, twenty or thirty people with short sticks vigorously hit the giant bamboo, making a earth-shattering noise.

"...... this?"

Of course, Wu Yu couldn't understand which one was making trouble.

Tang Yi explained: "The embankment of thousands of miles was destroyed in a hole, and this cement and stone slurry embankment is indeed strong, but it also has its shortcomings. ”

"That is, it is inevitable that there will be bubbles and the problem that the stone is not compact enough, so we can only spend a lot of manpower to use this method of knocking bamboo to shake out the bubbles inside and shake the sand and gravel."

Shen Kuo added: "There are only a little more than 10,000 people who actually dig the river, but there are nearly 10,000 people on the entire construction site like this."

Tang Yi said with some resentment: "The imperial court thought that 30,000 people were enough to repair the river, but in fact, it was not. There are more than 30,000 people on this construction site, but only 10,000 people actually dig the soil and dig the ditch. ”

In later generations, a worker could do it with an electric vibrator, but now he can only use dozens of manpower to fill this vacancy, plus the labor of repairing the embankment, the actual amount of labor is more than three times that of the regular river repair in the Great Song Dynasty.

......

It was not early, and after seeing the construction site, Tang Yi and the others did not return to Yangqiao, but were arranged by Wu Daling, and they chose a relatively wealthy landlord's house to live in a nearby village.

On the way to the village again, Wu Yu did not take a car, but walked with Tang Yi among the farmland.

As he walked, Wu Yu suddenly spoke, "It's the old man's negligence, but I have to compensate Zihao." ”

Tang Yi was stunned, "Xianggong, what are you talking about?" ”

Wu Yu glanced at Tang Yi and couldn't help but smile. Just now on the embankment, how could he not hear the resentment in Tang Yi's words?

"Don't hide it from Zihao, the old man and Han Zhigui were responsible for the matter of ordering the prefectures and governments to recruit people to repair the river, and it was indeed the old man's dereliction of duty if he didn't have a full number of husbands!"

Tang Yi pondered for a while and said: "This matter is not to blame, the imperial court has issued an order, and the local government will not levy labor, this is a problem for local officials." ”

The imperial court does have the responsibility of unfavorable supervision, but no matter how Wu Yu says, he is also an old minister who is nearly half a hundred years old, and admits his mistakes to him, a young man in his early twenties, Tang Yi will not be able to say anything.

However, I didn't want Wu Yu to shake his head lightly, "I don't blame the local officials, it's still the responsibility of the old man." ”

“......”

Wu Yudao: "Zihao doesn't know ......"

Tang Yi interrupted: "It seems strange to call Zihao, if you don't give up, just like Master Fan and Master Du, call me a big man." ”

"Okay." Wu Yu smiled.

I had more contact with this young man, and I found that this kid was not as flamboyant as he appeared.

"It's called Dalang."

"Da Lang doesn't know, it has always been the case in the imperial court to recruit husbands. 10,000 for 5,000, 20,000 for 10,000, that's all right. ”

Tang Yi was stunned and said: "Why, the local state capital still dares to resist the decree?" ”

Wu Yu smiled: "That's not it, it's just that there is a reason for it." ”

"Why?"

Wu Yu didn't answer, but said something else.

"Last year, His Majesty lived in Guanlan, and the old man once heard Fan Gong talk about Da Lang's theory of 'Song Zhi's disease'."

Although Tang Yi didn't know why he suddenly turned to this, he still said modestly: "Don't listen to the master advocating for the kid. Those were all crazy things six or seven years ago, when the kid was still a baby, and they couldn't be true. ”

"Nope!" Wu Yu said with a smile. "The old man thinks it's to the point anyway, and it's extremely incisive!"

"Especially the rhetoric about land annexation."

Tang Yi was stunned, "What do you mean?" ”

Wu Yu walked with his hands behind his back and said slowly: "What Da Lang said is right. The reason why Fan Gong and Du Gongqing's reform failed, and it was so completely defeated, was, in the final analysis, the interests of too many people were moved. And among these people, the northern officials are the most important. ”

Speaking of this, Wu Yu smiled awkwardly and said, "It's a shame to say that the old man is also against it." ”

Tang Yi said: "Why should the minister mention the old things back then? ”

Wu Yu was born in Pucheng, and he is like a fellow villager with Zhang De, and some partiality is inevitable.

Now that Zhang Dexiang has gone west, even Zhang Dexiang's relatives and descendants have entered Guanlan Academy, what is the grudge that can't be resolved?

"Okay, don't mention it, and then talk about the northern officials,"

"Da Lang is also right in this point, the reason why the northern officials strongly oppose the new policy is because most of them are from the Shi family, landlords and wealthy households, Fan Gong moved the root of these people, and the root of the problem is land annexation."

Tang Yi paused violently, what a smart person he is, Wu Yu just mentioned it, drew inferences from one another, and understood it at once.

"Xianggong is saying that the inability of the people to be requisitioned is related to the land annexation of the northern states?"

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