Apu, who was in Chang'an, wrote to Luo Yong, saying that they would stay in Chang'an City for a while.
They would not set off back to Hexi until this year's crop of sweet potatoes matured in Chang'an City.
Luo Yong wrote back to him, telling him that their people lived very well in Changle County, and that he would take care of things here, so Apu didn't have to worry.
In addition, Luo Yong also asked him to meet A-Zhi.
If A-Zhi wanted to come to Hexi, they would bring A-Zhi over when they set off back to Hexi.
Hengzhi and Azhi are both very old.
When Hengzhi came to Changle County to find Luo Yong earlier, he didn't expect that he would stay here for such a long time.
Judging from the current situation, it seems that we will stay here for a few more years.
Dean Tang told them that the sage intended to explore the Western Regions and placed Luo Yong in Changle County.
This was his intention.
He should not be allowed to return to Beijing for the time being.
Hengzhi is a workaholic.
He works in the workshop day after day, but he doesn't feel bored.
There was also a nice woman who liked his character and background and often looked for opportunities to chat with him.
Hengzhi was not only unmoved, but also a little impatient.
He always felt that he was wasting his time in these meaningless conversations.
He was such a stick, but he liked A-Zhi very much.
When Luo Yong told him about this, he still looked shy.
But he also said that if A Zhi wants to come, that's fine.
If she doesn't want to come, don't force her.
After all, this place west of Hexi is not as prosperous and lively as Chang'an City, and the road is far away and difficult to travel.
A few days after the master and apprentice had just discussed this topic, Guo Xiaoke from Gaochang City came over and said that they had encountered difficulties in the process of laying the wooden track from Gaochang to Dunhuang and asked Luo to use these disciples.
They help each other.
Luo Yong had heard Tang Jian and others mention the problem they encountered earlier.
There was a relatively wide canyon there, and it was also relatively deep.
It was impossible to fill it in evenly, and it was impossible to go around it.
If they wanted to build a bridge over it, , it is also very difficult.
This time Guo Xiaoke's people came over, and Luo Yong's disciples took a wooden carriage to go there for an on-site inspection.
After coming back, they discussed for several days, drew a bunch of sketches, and roughly calculated the cost, and finally made it for Guo Xiaoke.
A quotation for his men to take back.
A few days later, Guo Xiaoke, who was in Gaochangcheng, received the quotation.
When he opened it, his eyes were as big as bells.
The coffin board was deliberately trying to trick him, right?
It was just a short stretch of road, it cost so much money, and this last one, "three loads of sweet potatoes".
Look at the handwriting, could it be that old man Tang Jian himself?
added Qi returns to Qi, this road needs to be repaired, and who knows that the people under him can't handle it on their own.
Thinking about all these years, since he followed the current saint to attack Luoyang, the eastern capital, in recent years, he has never achieved any good military exploits.
Earlier in Chang'an City, even Ashina, who had just surrendered to the Tang Dynasty a few years ago, was unwilling to associate with him.
Even Xue Wanche's club was more prestigious than him.
This time, he finally managed to win over the Anxi Protector.
He is also eager to make contributions.
However, the Turks' grandsons said they wanted to fight, but they never came, leaving him sitting here in Gaochang City waiting around, with no battle to fight.
Fortunately, I was lucky this year.
I got a job of sending people to Chang'an City to donate grain and seeds, which was a small appearance in front of the emperor.
However, the reason why the emperor sent him to Hexi was not to obtain food.
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What he wanted was the expansion of territory and a large area of land in the Western Regions.
Guo Xiaoke knew this very well.
But right now, there is no battle to fight.
Those small countries in the Western Region are doing well, and he can't suddenly attack them with a large army.
The troops are unknown.
What he can do now is to train the army and build infrastructure.
This wooden track must be repaired, and the big ditch in the middle will cost money.
It needs to be filled in.
If the money is not enough, I will use some gold objects to pay it.
Anyway, as long as I have military exploits in the future, I will definitely have these extraneous things again.
In fact, Guo Xiaoke really wronged Luo Yong this time.
Although Luo Yong had read the quotation, he did not do anything on it.
It was actually a reasonable quotation obtained by his disciples after calculation.
The last "three loads of sweet potatoes" was indeed something Tang Jian insisted on adding.
It had nothing to do with Luo Yong.
Doctor Tang was not someone who was willing to suffer losses.
He could still handle the things he did in Gaochang City last time.
Remember it.
When it comes to building a bridge, either the distance is short and a few pieces of wood are strung across the top and the bridge is crossed, or the height is small and supports are put up below and the bridge is slowly built section by section.
This time, the bridge was built over the canyon, with a width of more than four feet and a depth of more than ten feet.
The distance is so far and the height is so high.
It is not that easy to build a bridge out of thin air.
Guo Xiaoke had never done engineering before, and the disciples of Luo Yong were very skilled.
This problem would be a piece of cake for them.
This man was also a bachelor.
He didn't send someone to negotiate a price with Luo Yong's disciples or give them a deposit first.
Instead, he just sent them all the money, silk and gold needed to repair the bridge.
A lot of copper, iron, gold, silver and silk were brought in.
The meaning is obvious.
I have already given you the money.
If this bridge cannot be repaired by me properly, then you will have to decide what to do.
"Tsk, maybe everyone from Wagangzhai is a bandit leader."
Mr.
Tang commented as he held an IOU with "three loads of sweet potatoes" written on it.
When the sweet potato harvest season comes this year, he will have to take this IOU and go to Gaochang City again to find Guo Xiaoke for sweet potatoes.
The old boy should not cheat on him then.
On the other side, after Guo Xiaoke ordered the money, silk, gold and silver to be sent away, he sat at home with eyes wide open, waiting for news.
A few days later, someone under his command came to report that Luo Yong's disciples had built a shed on both sides of the canyon, and it seemed that construction was about to begin.
After Guo Xiaoke heard this, he was a little satisfied that the speed of action was quite good.
A few days later, someone came to report again.
It was said that Luo used his disciples to transport several fine iron bars as thick as a car's finger to the construction site.
The fine iron bars were long and short.
The short ones were only a few feet, and the long ones were about two feet.
Three feet.
"It's just to build a bridge.
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Why do we need so many fine iron bars?"
Guo Xiaoke, this stick, still thought that Luo Yong's disciples could rely on wood and stones to build a bridge over this canyon in the air.
A few days later, another subordinate came to report that it was Luo Yong's disciples who had transported a batch of cement from Changle County.
Judging from the color of the cement, it was different from the yellow cement originally produced in Changle County.
It looked like The cement produced in Chang'an City is only slightly different.
This time Guo Xiaoke couldn't sit still in Gaochang City.
He got on the wooden carriage and went to the construction site with a group of soldiers.
This time he went to the right place.
He witnessed with his own eyes the first use of later concrete technology in contemporary bridge construction.
It was also the first time he heard about the cantilever construction method.
He watched with his own eyes as the fine iron bars were placed and spliced into two arcs that were two lengths long and one and a half widths wide.
He also saw many pre-built towers at both ends of the cliff being pulled up.
After a whole day of hard work, the ropes spliced the two arc-shaped fine iron structures together, fixing them in an arch shape above the canyon.
The most difficult step has been completed.
The next step is to use this arch structure as a support, build a bracket on it, and lay a straight reinforced concrete bridge deck across it.
In the evening, everyone sat in the work shed at one end of the canyon to have dinner.
Everyone was talking and laughing.
Although the environment was simple, the food was very good.
There were meat, vegetables, and rice and noodles.
Even the cook , all specially brought from Changle County.
Hengzhi and the others finished their dinner, and before it got dark, they got together to discuss tomorrow's project.
Guo Xiaoke went over to listen, but didn't understand, so he simply sat back by the fire and let The soldiers made him another bowl of buns, held them in his hands and started eating them.
I heard that all of Luo Yong's disciples were not of high origin, but they all knew how to live a good life.
They refused to starve themselves when they went out to work.
They looked at how the food was cooked.
Although it looked simple, it tasted very good. , none of the cooks in his house were as good as this.
"You are also from Changle County."
Lao Guo was eating his buns while talking to a worker next to him.
"I'm from Dunhuang."
The middle-aged man smiled at him honestly.
It wasn't the first day that Guo Xiaoke came to their place.
He was a big official, and everyone was quite cramped at first.
But after getting used to it in the past two days, it was fine.
"Why do you, a Dunhuang native, come out to work with people like them from Changle County?"
Guo Duhu asked him.
"I happened to go to Changle County to look for work in the past two days.
I heard that they were hiring people to build a bridge here.
The wages were high, but the work was not easy to do, very painful, and dangerous.
Many local people did not If you dare to come, I went and asked about it.
They saw that I was strong and not timid like that one, so they accepted it."
After finishing a bowl of buns, the man went to the pot and made another bowl.
"How much money can you get from a job like the one you hung on the basket today?"
Guo Duhu asked casually. "" The man was holding a mouthful of buns in his mouth at this time.
Before he could speak, he stretched out two fingers to compare.
"Twenty cents" is a little too little, isn't it?
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"Two hundred."
The man swallowed the food in his mouth and said with a proud look on his face.
On weekdays, there are not so many.
Today's work is more dangerous, so we give more, but on weekdays, it's not much.
"That's okay," Guo Du said.
Two hundred coins was a little more than he thought.
"It's so thrilling, but you're not afraid" "Hey, it's not a big deal.
Isn't there a rope tied to my body?
I've checked it back and forth so many times, but nothing can go wrong."
Today, they spent a lot of effort to connect the two arc-shaped fine iron structures.
They also had to send someone to sit in the basket and slide along a rope held by the two towers at both ends.
Go to the middle of the canyon to do the correction and final fixing work.
The wind in the canyon is so strong that a person sitting in a basket and hanging out of thin air can be scared to death.
Those who are not brave enough will definitely not dare to go up.
Several people went up before and after today, but they couldn't do it.
They all came down one after another, and this was the last one.
I held on and stayed up there until the end of today's project.
"Then you can earn some money from this job this time."
Guo Duhu said.
"If you work here for a month, you can at least make a living."
When talking about the wages, the Dunhuang man laughed so hard that he couldn't see his teeth.
As soon as he said this, the men next to him also became happy.
Before they came here to work, they heard that the wages here were high.
After they actually came here, they found out that the actual wages were much higher.
There's more to it than they thought.
Among these people are people from Changle, people from Dunhuang, people from Jinchang, and Hu people.
They used to do whatever they wanted.
This time they made money doing bridge repair work, and some of them will continue to do this in the future.
Intend.
Construction in such a wilderness is indeed very difficult, especially in such a hot summer, when the sun is blazing during the day and the Gobi Desert is so hot that it is like throwing a person into a stove to roast him, and he is covered in sweat.
Covered in mud and without even a bathing water, he just had to work day after day with a sour smell all over his body.
At night it is so cold that it can almost freeze people to death.
The wind on the Gobi Desert is howling.
Sometimes it sounds like the howling of wolves or the thieves coming in groups.
During the day After a hard day's work, I couldn't sleep well at night.
However, such hard work and dangerous construction seems to be nothing in the face of the return of earning a consistent amount of money every month.
Every evening after work, these people sit together to eat.
When they talk about the salary, everyone feels proud and satisfied, glad that they have found a good job.
After they finished the work and went home with their wages, their families didn't know how happy they would be.
With so much money, they didn't know how much food they could buy.
Those cakes and snacks people are very stingy.
As long as their wives and children want to eat them, they can just take the money to buy them. gd1806102: