Chapter 251: The Pillar

Wei Hongji only said one word, which made Li Wei feel convinced.

He said: "It's hard."

Without some ability, he would not have this vision. Not only Li Wei's forehead, but even Yan Liben also looked at him with praise and then had a conversation. Because he had never conducted an investigation, he did not have the detailed explanation of Yan Liben. He did not have the vision of Yan Liben, and he talked about the various things he had achieved through Danshui. However, he also talked about a lot of professional knowledge.

After talking for a while, Yan Liben looked at Li Wei inquiringly, but Li Wei said, "Wei Shaoqing, after you go back, immediately invite a few stonemasons with skillful skills, and take a few holidays tomorrow, and go and check with Gu Yi in person."

Yan Liben frowned and had already handed over the words.

Li Wei looked at his expression and said, "It's not that the work starts. If you don't try anything, how can you know that you have succeeded and failed. Besides, you didn't try it, just go and see it."

I was unwilling to accept it. I originally wanted to cheer up, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult. But I said that the water I poured out could not be collected. Even if the other three things were successful, except for the first thing, the other two things were to make money and wipe out some of the credits. If I failed, it would be equivalent to a match between the merits and demerits. I worked hard for nothing.

Yan Liben had no choice but to say, "Your Highness must go. I will give you some files tomorrow morning."

Li Wei had not conducted an investigation, but Yan Liben knew that the difficulty of Guanzhong's canal transportation was not only difficult, but many people would die every year. Since the prince could make people go to heaven, he might come up with some clever plan. He also believed in the prince very much, or another miracle would happen to the prince.

"Thank you, Xianggong Yan." After saying that, he said goodbye.

After returning to the East Palace and having dinner, Li Wei called Liu Qun and prepared to ask her to inform Liang Jinzhu to return to Beijing. We have to discuss that the Tang Dynasty prohibited the people from going abroad, but there was not even a fixed border. If you really wanted to go abroad, you could still do it. Master Jianzhen might have some difficulties, but Liang Jinzhu was not very difficult. Not only Liang Jinzhu could do it, like the Fujian-Zhejiang area, because of its mountainous and poor production, some people also went out quietly to sea. Some people in Chaozhou, Quanzhou, even drove sea boats to Liuqiu Island to do business. In this regard, the government turned a blind eye like the private horse trading. What should we do? The people also had to eat.

Without a compass, the risk is too great, so I don’t think about it. With a compass, the accident rate will be reduced, and the profits of navigation will be very high. Don’t think that the Tang Dynasty was a "big exporting country". In fact, the profits have been taken by merchants from all over the world. For example, an ivory can be worth one or two hundred coins in the Central Plains, but in the natives of East Africa, they may be exchanged for a few porcelain basins. For example, a glass bottle may only be worth a few dozen cents in Dashi, but in the Central Plains, it can be sold for hundreds of cents per piece. Or porcelain, paper, and when it comes to Dashi, the price difference is amazing. So if you go to sea twice, even if you only have one trip to safe, the cost may be recovered.

Even if you walk from land, you know a lot and you know that there is also danger. The land cost is high and the transportation volume is small. It is better in the Tang Dynasty. When you leave the Tang Dynasty, there are many robbers along the way, and some entire tribes even make a living by looting. Therefore, all merchants on the Silk Road travel in groups to protect themselves. Sometimes a caravan can have nearly a thousand camels, which is very spectacular.

Profits are definitely cost-effective for shipping. There are probably no ships with a thousand tons or ten thousand tons, but if you can go out to sea, you can at least get a few hundred tons. A slightly larger ship can't take away the cargo, and you don't even have to feed them. Although my father agreed, he looked a little unhappy and would definitely be unhappy. He is not afraid of ten thousand, but he is afraid that if he is afraid, he has to prepare all the retreats in advance. It seems that according to the historical direction, his "death period" is coming. If he can sail, he can be familiar with the islands of the South China Sea. The emperor cannot do it. With the resources and knowledge in his hands, he can also be a bearded guest overseas and become a free and ill-fated king. It is better to die in an unfair way.

Now that you have a salt farm and a sugar workshop, you won’t have to worry about money. If you have another fleet, all the retreat will be paved.

But my mind suddenly had an idea, waved to Liu Qun, and said, "You go back."

Wei Yue asked with great help: "Your Highness, how about Wei Shaoqing?"

“It’s OK.”

"Your Highness..." His eyes looked in the direction of the dormitory.

Li Wei was speechless, not knowing what her mentality was, and said, "You and Wan'er are sleeping together tonight."

Wei Yue jumped up happily.

The next morning, Yan Liben indeed brought in many files and several picture albums.

In fact, this stone pillar is not at the junction of Weishui and the Yellow River, but is dozens of miles away from the lower reaches of the Yellow River. The Yellow River just so happens that it forms an inverted triangle curve here. Because of the mountains on both sides, the river water becomes narrow, so the water flow becomes turbulent immediately.

But it is not fatal. The Yellow River is not like the Yangtze River. After passing the Three Gorges, the river surface is wide and suitable for navigation. The Yellow River has many such river shapes for thousands of miles. The fatal thing is that there are two large river islands in the river. One is Shenmen Island and the other is Guimen Island. Only three small gaps are left to allow the river to pass through. Local people call these three gaps Sanmen, the North Gate is Renmen, the Middle Gate is Shenmen, and the South Gate is Gate. The water flows through it and becomes very steep and rapid, and the rushing sound is as thunder. Especially the Gate, the boat and raft accidentally enter, and few are escaped, so it is called the Gate. Shenmen is also not good. There is only a peninsula in front of the Gate, so the water is buffered and can be sailed. Of course, this makes the water flow of the other two gates more rapidly.

After the ship passes through the man gate, it must turn a corner, otherwise it will hit the man gate peninsula. There are still dangers, but it is not the most dangerous. After turning the bend, it meets with the main stream of the Ghost and Gods. It is not far downward. There are three mountains. Although the other two mountains are exposed and are slightly better, there is another mountain. To be precise, it is a stone pillar, which is just blocking the center of the river. Because it is on the mainstream, the river is fast, which forces the ship to crash directly into this huge stone pillar.

Even if you have good boating skills and make a slight mistake, you will be able to overturn the boat. If you capsize here, don’t mention swimming skills, no matter how good it is, it will be useless. The river water is so urgent that even if it is one dragon, it will immediately roll downstream. Therefore, if you want to manage the canal transportation in Guanzhong, you must manage this section of the river. The human gate has left a way to survive, and because the two islands of gods and ghosts are extremely huge, standing in the middle of the river, there is no way to manage it. Therefore, many people, including Emperor Wen of Sui, Yuwen Kai, and then to Yan Liben, are all thinking about this stone pillar.

Apart from this stone pillar, not only does it make the mainstream without crisis, but this giant pillar exists, but also makes the water flow more surging. Remove it, the water situation will be relatively gentle, at least there will be no diversion vortex, and it can also send civilians to control the reefs during the dry season.

Therefore, the management of Guanzhong's canal transportation was concentrated on this stone pillar.

The Tang Dynasty was not unruly. At the beginning of the founding of the country, Guanzhong had a small population and sufficient supply, so it was very small for transportation. But later, the population increased. Although Guanzhong had been rich since ancient times, it was narrow in area and insufficient supply. So after my father ascended the throne, he built a land route from Luoyang to Guanzhong. The land route can be imagined. The freight for every two hu of freight amounted to one crap, that is, a dou of grain alone reached more than 60 cents. This is obviously not possible. In the year of disaster, such freight plus the price of grain itself is close to a hundred cents. Each dou of rice is not enough. As long as it reaches fifty cents, the people can starve to death. It is impossible to afford it!

Then in the first year of Xianqing (656), he saw that countless people died because they were rented to Guanzhong. So Chu Lang, the supervisor of Yuanxi, submitted a report and suggested that Sanmen Mountain be dug into a beam. That is, after reaching this section of the river, the ship was bent to the shore and transferred to the downstream by land. It seemed that it was also a solution, with only a dozen miles of roads, and it was not like the road from Luoyang to Guanzhong, which was 800 miles away. The freight rate was not high. So Li Zhi asked 6,000 soldiers to dig the mountain to open the road. However, the rocks were hard and things were not successful.

But the solution is always to think about it. At that time, the people in the lower reaches of the Yellow River rely on Hedong to dehydrate salt for food, and Guanzhong also relies on the food of Shandong Lianghuai, so they will be the master craftsman Yang Wulian and the plank road of Sanmen Mountain to facilitate the boatmen to pull the boat. However, bad things often happen. Sometimes the ropes are broken, sometimes the water flows upside down, and sometimes it cannot be pulled up, and sometimes it is impacted on the reefs. Often, ships sink, ships sink, or ropes dragged down, causing the boatmen to fall into the rapids. Therefore, the civil servants often flee, and the government has no choice but to take their parents as their qualities. So the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait think it is bitter. Of course, they can also eat a bite of rice, but the rice is worth it if they are exchanged for life. Besides, most of the time, they are used to pull the fibers in the form of force, and they cannot even make the rice. There is definitely no one who is willing to do it.

Yan Liben did not come up with a solution, but he used his heart to record all kinds of terrain suggestions one by one, and even recorded the reefs on this section of the river, even the size and distances between each reef were included one by one.

Li Wei didn't know that this was the famous Sanmen Valley Transportation. Not only in Li Zhi's hands, but later in the hands of the emperors of all dynasties of the Tang Dynasty, except for Wu Zetian's capital in Luoyang, many other emperors had governance, but they did not achieve success.

But after reading it, I thought of a word like Wei Hongji: Difficult.

I still didn't believe in evil in my heart. After seeing it, I brought a team of guards, Wei Hongji, and a dozen stonemasons I found by Wei Hongji, all of whom were temporarily found from the General Manager. I didn't bring them all. I found several young, strong, and I could take them with me, and went all the way east.

He didn't use a car and rode his horse quickly. He went to Tongguan to rest that night and went to Shanzhou to rest again the next afternoon. If he wanted to manage this section of the river, he needed local people to be guides. When he met the officials in Shanzhou, he asked them to call boatmen and boatmen who were familiar with the river.

On the morning of the third day, a large group of people arrived at Sanmenxia with the guards and several officials, relevant boatmen and boatmen.

The road is getting more and more rugged. Before we turn to the river, we hear the sound of trumpets and the thunder of the water flow rushing against the river stones. We do not immediately see the boatman and the ships traveling, which is not only without compassion. There are so many people in Guanzhong, not only food, but also various other materials, which need to be transported. Even if we move the capital to Luoyang, this section of canal transportation must continue. If we want to carry out, we will die. Radical cure is the only way.

Come to the cliff and look at the river.

The sky is still beautiful, the sky is blue and cloudless, and it is not clear because the two banks are mountains and the fog is gloomy. The file is very auspicious and detailed, and it has not been shocked with my own eyes. The turbid river roars to the southeast, bringing whirlpools. Especially the blockade of the two islands seemed to make the Yellow River angry, slapped the two islands hard, and the waves splashed like snow. Layers of water were like standing on a cliff, splashing up.

Because of the impact, it made a roar like thunder. Don’t stay on the ship, even if you stand on the top of the cliff, your expression will change.

Wei Hongji smiled bitterly and said, "Your Highness, Dajiang minister has never been there, but I saw rocks and clouds here, storm waves slamming the shore, and thousands of snow piles rolled up."

Li Wei just had a calm face and said nothing. He had never been to the Yangtze River. The section of Rongzhou can only be regarded as the upper reaches, not the real Yangtze River. But it can be imagined that even the Three Gorges may not be so dangerous, either the Three Gorges are longer. After going to the southwest, he also saw many dangerous rivers, especially from Yaozhou to Tieqiao. Some rivers traveled through the canyons several hundred meters deep, which was more dangerous than here. But no matter how dangerous it was, it was not navigable, just like the yellow fruit trees bursting. The more dangerous the better it was. It could be regarded as a landscape and placed on the Yellow River, things would be a little bad. Of course, no matter how dangerous it was, it was not as wide as it was.

Look downward.

Seeing the stone pillar, September is coming, the river water is gradually lowering. The stone pillar is several feet high from the water surface, with only sparse shrubs growing on it, and most of the blue-brown stone rocks are exposed. The shape of this stone pillar is like a fang, which is actually more cruel than the devil's fang. Since ancient times, because of this fang, I don't know how many lives have been swallowed.

It happened to be located on the mainstream of the Yellow River. The waves splashed in front of them were taller and more intense, but the stone pillar did not move. Li Wei's face suddenly changed again. He finally remembered that this stone pillar was a magic horse. It is very famous. The pillar in the idiom of the main pillar in the flow of the main pillar is this stone pillar!
Chapter completed!