Apu, who was in Chang'an, wrote to Luo Yong, saying that they would still have to stay in Chang'an City for a while, and that they would only choose a date to set off for Hexi after the sweet potatoes in Chang'an City have matured this year.

Luo Yong wrote back to him and told him that their tribe members lived well in Changle County. He was taken care of by him in the matter here, so that Apu would not have to worry about it.

In addition, Luo Yong also asked him to see Azhi. If Azhi had any intention of coming to Hexi, then when they set off for Hexi, they would bring Azhi over as well.

Hengzhi and Azhi are both young. When Hengzhi came to Changle County to look for Luo Yong earlier, he didn't expect that he would stay here for so long.

Judging from the current situation, it seems that he will stay here for a few years. President Tang told them that the saint intends to manage the Western Regions and placed Luo Yong in Changle County. This is the intention, and he should not be allowed to return to Beijing for the time being.

Heng Zhi is a workaholic, and he doesn't feel bored when he is bored in the workshop day by day.

There was also a good woman who liked his character and often looked for opportunities to talk to him. Heng Zhi was not only unmoved, but also a little impatient. He always felt that he was wasting time in these meaningless conversations.

It's just such a good thing. I like Azhi very much. When Luo Yong talked to him about this, he looked shy and shy.

However, he also said that it would be better if Azhi wanted to come. If she didn't want to come, don't force her. After all, this place in Hexi is not as prosperous and lively as Chang'an City, and the journey is long and difficult to walk.

The master and the disciple had just talked about this topic a few days ago, Guo Xiaoke from Gaochang City condemned people, saying that they encountered difficulties in laying the wooden track from Gaochang to Dunhuang. Please help these disciples.

Luo Yong had heard Tang Jian and others mention the problem they encountered earlier. There was a relatively wide canyon in that place, which was deeper and could not be filled evenly, and it could not be avoided. If you wanted to build a bridge on it, it would be very difficult.

This time, Guo Xiaoke's people came here, and Luo used the disciples to go on a wooden carriage to conduct on-site inspection. After returning, he discussed for several days, drew a bunch of sketches, roughly calculated the cost, and finally made a quotation for Guo Xiaoke and asked his subordinates to take it back.

A few days later, Guo Xiaoke, who was in Gaochang City, received the quotation. When he opened it, he saw that his eyes were as big as a copper bell!

That coffin board is deliberately trying to cheat him! Just that short journey, how much money does it cost? And the last one, what is the "Three Tails of Sweet Potatoes"? Look at the handwriting, was it not what Tang Jian added to him himself?

If the Qi returns to Qi, you still have to practice this path. Who can’t handle it by his subordinates?

Think about it over the years, since he followed the saints to attack the eastern capital Luoyang, he has never made any military achievements in recent years.

Earlier in Chang'an City, even Ashi, who had just surrendered to the Tang Dynasty for a few years, was unwilling to be with him. Even Xue Wanche's stick was more glorious than him. This time, he finally won the chance to win the role of Anxi Protector, and he was eager to make contributions.

However, the Turkic grandsons said they wanted to fight, but they didn't fight, which made him sit in Gaochang City and wait around, and there was no war to fight.

Fortunately, I was lucky this year. I took on a job of sending someone to Chang'an City to offer grain, which was a little bit showing off in front of the emperor.

However, the reason why the emperor sent him to Hexi was not to get food. What he wanted was the expansion of territory and the large tracts of land in the Western Regions. Guo Xiaoke knew this very well.

But now there is no war to fight. The small countries in the Western Regions are good, so he cannot suddenly lead the army and fight over. Wuming is out of the army. What he can do now is to train the army and do infrastructure well.

This wooden track must be repaired. If the big ditch in the middle is burning money, it will have to be filled. If there is not enough money, I will use some gold tools to pay it. In the future, as long as I have military achievements, I will definitely have these external things.

In fact, Guo Xiaoke really wronged Luo Yong this time. Although Luo Yong had read this quotation, he had not done anything on it. It was actually a reasonable quotation his disciples came up with after calculation.

The last "three chunks of sweet potatoes" were indeed what Tang Jian insisted on adding. It was nothing to do with Luo. Doctor Tang was not the one who was willing to suffer losses. He still remembered the last time he had in Gaochang City.

Besides, when it comes to bridge repair, either the distance is short, a few pieces of wood are crossed on the top, or the height is small, and a bracket is built below, and it is slowly repaired one by one.

This time, I built a bridge in the canyon, with a width of more than four meters and a depth of more than ten meters. The distance is far and the height is large. It is not that easy to build a bridge out of thin air.

Guo Xiaoke, who has never done engineering, also thinks that the disciples Luo used have some skills, and this problem is just a piece of cake.

This man was also very bachelor, and he didn't send anyone to discuss the price with Luo Yong's disciples, or to give him a deposit first, and directly sent someone to send them all the money, silk, gold and artifacts needed to build the bridge. A lot of copper, iron, gold, silver and silk were transported.

This is very obvious. I have given the money. If this bridge cannot be built properly, you can do it yourself.

"Tsk, or I would say that the people born in Wagang Village are all bandit leaders." Lord Tang said in his hand a IOU with the words "Three Tails of Sweet Potatoes" written in his hand and commented.

When the sweet potato harvest season this year, he still has to take this IOU and go to Gaochang City to find Guo Xiaoke to ask for sweet potatoes. That old guy should not cheat on him then.

On the other hand, after Guo Xiaoke sent the money, silk, gold and silver away, he sat at home with his eyes staring and waiting for news.

A few days later, someone from his subordinates came to report that Luo used his disciples to build a shed on both sides of the canyon, as if the construction was about to start. When Guo Xiaoke heard this, he was a little satisfied, and the speed of his movement was still successful.

A few days later, someone came to report that Luo used his disciples to transport the fine iron bars as thick as the fingers of the driver to the construction site. The fine iron bars were long and short, only a few feet short, and about two or three feet long.

"It's just a bridge that requires so many fine iron bars to make?" Guo Xiaoke still thought that Luo Yong's disciples could build a bridge above this canyon with wood and stone.

A few days later, another person came to report that Luo used his disciples to transport 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, but it was a little different.

This time, Guo Xiaoke couldn't sit still in Gaochang City, so he boarded a wooden carriage and took a team of personal soldiers to the construction site.

This time he went right, witnessed the first use of concrete technology in contemporary bridge construction with his own eyes, and it was also the first time he heard about what cantilever construction method is.

He watched with his own eyes the fine iron bars were placed and spliced ​​into two arcs, two long and two battles, one and a half wide, and then pulled many ropes through the two prebuilt tower-like objects at both ends of the cliff. After a whole day of hard work, the two arc-shaped fine iron structures were spliced ​​together, so that they were fixed on the canyon in an arch shape.

The most difficult step has been completed, and then it is to use this arch structure as a support, build a bracket on it and lay a straight reinforced concrete bridge deck.

In the evening, everyone sat in the shed at one end of the canyon for dinner, and they were all talking and laughing. Although the environment was a little simple, the meals were very good, including meat, vegetables, rice, flour and food. Even the cooks were brought specifically from Changle County.

After dinner, Hengzhi and his friends finished their dinner. Before the sky was dark, they came together to discuss tomorrow's project. Guo Xiaoke came over and listened, but didn't understand, so he simply sat back to the fire and asked his personal soldiers to make another bowl of stews for him, held it in his hand and started to eat it.

The disciples Luo Yong heard that they were not of high origin, and they were very good at living, and they were reluctant to starve themselves when they came out to work. They looked at the food, but they looked simple, but the taste was very good. The cooks in his mansion were not as good as this one.

"Are you from Changle County?" Lao Guo was talking to a worker next to him while eating.

"I'm from Dunhuang." The middle-aged man smiled at him with a little silly. Guo Xiaoke was not here on the first day. He was quite a big official. At the beginning, everyone was very cramped, and it was okay if he got used to it in the past two days.

"How could you, a Dunhuang native, come out to work with them from Changle County?" Guo Duhu asked him.

"I happened to go to Changle County to find a job in those two days. I heard that they were about to hire someone to build a bridge here. The wages were high, but this job was not easy to do, it was very hard and dangerous. Many local people dared not come. I went to ask, and they saw that I was strong and not as timid as the ones, so they accepted it." After eating a bowl of ginger, the man was beaten to the side of the pot and beat another bowl.

"How much money can you get when you hang it on the basket today?" Guo Duhu asked casually.

"!" The man was holding a mouthful of squid in his mouth at this time. Before he could speak, he stretched out his two fingers to compare.

"Twenty Months?" Isn't this a little bit less?

"Two hundred." The man swallowed the shit in his mouth and said with a proud look on his face.

"That's OK," said Guo Dufu. The two hundred words were a little more than he thought.

"You're not afraid of such a thrilling situation?"

"Hehe, it's not a big deal. Isn't it still tied a rope on my body? I don't know how many times I've checked it back and forth, and I can't make any mistakes."

Today, in order to connect the two arc-shaped fine iron structures together, they have to send individuals to sit in the basket and slide along a rope led by the two towers at both ends to the middle of the canyon to do corrections and final fixing work.

There was a big stroke in the canyon, and I sat alone in the basket and hung out of thin air. I could scare people to death. Those who were not brave enough would never dare to go up. There were several people going up around today, but they all came down one after another. In the end, this one stayed on and stayed on until the end of today's project.

"Then you can earn some money this time," said Guo Duhu.

"If you work here for a month, you can earn at least a consistent amount." Speaking of this wage, the Dunhuang man smiled so hard that he couldn't see him.

After he said this, the men next to him also became happy. Before they came here to work, they heard that the wages here were paid more. After they actually came here, they found that the actual wages were more than they thought.

Among these people are Changle, Dunhuang, Jinchang, and Hu. They have done everything in the past. This time they have made money by doing this bridge construction work, and they have plans to continue to do this industry in the future.

Construction in such a wilderness is indeed very bitter, especially in such a hot summer, when the sun is burning during the day, the Gobi Desert is hot, just like throwing people into a stove and baking them. They are covered in sweat and mud, and there is not even a bath water. They just work day after day with a sour smell.

It was so cold that almost freeze people to death at night. The wind on the Gobi Desert was whistling. Sometimes it sounded like a howl of wolves, or like a group of thieves coming from the crowd. After working hard for a day during the day, I couldn't sleep at night.

However, such hard work and dangerous construction seem to be nothing in the face of the return of earning consistent money every month.

Every evening after work, these people sit together for dinner. When they talk about the wages, everyone is satisfied and glad that they have found a good job.

After they finished this work and paid their wages to go home, their families didn't know how happy they were. With so much money, they didn't know how much food they could buy.
Chapter completed!