Chapter 294 The Yellow River Bridge
Rand almost sat underground after hearing this. This was Lu Bu, the Marquis of Wen of the Han Dynasty, the governor of Xuzhou, and the general who held more than 100,000 soldiers. He actually called himself a little brother, and he deserved respect regardless of whether it is true or false.
Some of them are very straight inside, with awesome, with their tails coming to the sky, their eyes are long and their heads are over.
The manager signaled Rand to perform well, and he would not think about the future if he had diarrhea at this time.
The thin monkey went to the horse shed to pull two black horses. The Hun horses were much smaller than the red rabbit mule, not on the same level, but the horse was just a three-point dragon, full of energy, two black horses were covered with reins and bridles, and four hooves grabbed the ground, plowing the ground quickly and steadily.
Zhuge Jin next to him sighed: "It is not easy for a horse grown on the grassland to be trained like this. But I don't know what happened. Why did the lord raise so many horses, so how can he not use it to cultivate military horses?"
"Yes, but the military horses are cultivated relatively few. Military horses have high requirements for horse farms, with a vast area and rich pasture. Our horse farm is generally more than ten miles long and wide, and is in the Central Plains. Although there are fewer people, it is a farm area after all, and grazing cannot destroy other people's crops. Therefore, our military horse farm is arranged in a deserted place near the seaside in Xia Pi, but it is mainly in Youzhou. Other horse farms are semi-grazing and half-feeding. The horses that come out can ride, pull carts, and cultivate land, but it is much worse to be a military horse."
Zhuge Jin then suddenly realized that although there were so many ways of doing it, although they were all pastures, the pastures in the Central Plains were too small to be far from the deserted grasslands in the north. There was no farming civilization there, and the horses ran a lot every day, with strong explosive power and strong sprint power. Only such a horse could become a war horse.
Yangqiu County has a vast land and sparsely populated areas, and Zhuge Jin suggested: "The lord also set up a horse farm here. Even if the first generation is not available, we can use the second generation. The local donkeys are all tall and big donkeys, which can produce strong mules."
"Just because of this, I spent so much effort to take down Youzhou, just for the horses of the Wuhuan people. The horses on the grassland in the north were calculated in millions. We should not lack horses in the Central Plains. Ziyu started planning one and sent someone to drive away the beasts around the horse farm to avoid a large amount of losses. When the horse farm is ready, the horses in Youzhou will come."
"Okay lord, I'll make arrangements in the past two days, it's very fast.
The horse business became popular, and the enthusiasm of the people to raise horses became popular. Everyone used horses to pull carts, cultivate land, and ride horses, and gradually they would breed new horse breeds.
Only the three groups of horses, donkeys and oxes are considered healthy models. Mules are a combination of horses and donkeys and cannot be bred, so they cannot be used as a separate breed.
Zhuge Jin was relaxed in governance, loyal, kind and not mean, and was just right for Qingzhou after the chaos. The population of Qingzhou has been greatly reduced. Many farmers who had no land and little land have re-owned land. I believe that with the promotion of new crops, the farming civilization will once again flourish.
The next morning, Lu Bu led his troops away, and the people crossed the street to see off. Zhuge Jin was a real person, but he still understood the rules in the officialdom. However, Zhuge Jin and Dong did not organize the people too much.
Zhuge Jin kept sending Lu Bu out of the north gate, and Lu Bu bowed: "Tiyu will go back, it's getting late, I'm going to build a bridge construction site."
"Okay, that lord is walking slowly."
Zhuge Jin has a lot of things to do. Such a big county also supervises several other surrounding counties, which is equivalent to managing a large part of Qingzhou.
Only then did Lu Bu come and go to the construction site of the Yellow River Bridge. The lower reaches of the Yellow River have a width of three or four miles, and there is also a mile of land on the water. The construction site is crowded with people, and hundreds of craftsmen are busy.
Now the river channel is a ferry, with huge reinforced concrete bases on both sides, and a ferry is carried out round-trip through a winch.
It is the dry season now. Craftsmen are driving piles on the dry riverbeds on both sides of the river, erecting strong cement columns, erecting a few people, each ten feet apart, and then pouring them through the scaffolding shell boards. Without machinery, it is labor-intensive.
It turned out that Lu Bu planned to build a floating bridge, but he didn't expect that the whole reinforced concrete bridge was not as technical as possible. However, when the Gongjiazhuang Zhuang was coming to deliver weapons, he chatted with Lu Bu for a while. The public building said that I was very knowledgeable about building bridges. I have studied bridge construction from my ancestors. I participated in the small reinforced concrete bridge built by Teng Kingdom. I have also seen the Yellow River. It is nothing more than a wide or larger river. The difficulty lies in laying the foundation on the soft riverbed, but the problem is not big. Our bridge is nothing more than a carriage or a horse team. It is not too difficult.
When Lu Bu thought about it, he was right. The pontoon bridge was too disadvantageous and easy to build, but the stability was poor. It had to be removed as soon as the water rose. It could only be opened after it was stable. It was arranged for dozens of large ships in Jinan County, and when used, it was connected to the head and tail.
After Lu Bu and Chen Gong discussed, let’s try it, because once a bridge is laid on the Yellow River, Xuzhou’s control over the north will be stable and he can quickly reinforce Youzhou.
For this purpose, Lu Bu exchanged tens of millions of cement and steel bars. He appointed Public Building as the bridge lieutenant, and transferred a deputy general to assist Public Building, recruited 3,000 civilians and hired 200 craftsmen to carry out the construction.
The construction site was busy, and the riverbed was too wide. According to the plan, the piers were first repaired from the dry riverbed at both ends. The bridge piers were not cylindrical, but oval, which could minimize the impact of the river on the bridge pile. Hundreds of meters have been built on both sides, and it was about to reach directly above the river. Lu Bu pointed to the majestic and spectacular bridge and said to Feng Xiong, Huaji, Pu Feng, Cao Ping, Xu Shitou and other generals behind him, "Did you see it? This is the working people, the most inconspicuous mud legs, they have created one miracle after another."
Everyone exclaimed that this bridge is too difficult, and it is difficult to conquer such a giant dragon that is thousands of miles away in the Yellow River.
Huaji asked: "It is easy to build a bridge on the dry riverbed, but how to build a bridge on the water?"
"The water here is not deep, only ten feet long, and it is still very difficult, and I am also worried about how to close it. The reason I chose to build this year is because the old Taoist Yu Ji said that in a while, the Yellow River will be cut off for dozens of days, and dozens of days will be enough to repair the bridge."
Everyone looked incredible. How could the surging Yellow River stop flowing? But in fact, more riverbeds on both sides were exposed. As for how Yu Ji calculated in this era of underdeveloped technology, Lu Bu didn't know.
"If it keeps flowing, wouldn't the bridge be closed and would make people laugh at it?" Feng Xiong said.
At this time, the bridge lieutenant Gongjian came over and just heard it.
Chapter completed!