Datang first village

That's right, working in a dangerous place is working hard to make money. .

No one reported to Li Yuanxing about adding money. Naturally, it was a solution thought up by the people below.

Many people have died in the Qinling Mountains. If they were placed in the former Sui Dynasty, they would not be given a penny. They would use leather whips and military steel knives to force these people to work.

This is Datang now, and there are sergeants from Datang here, but their job is not to oversee the work.

The Datang sergeants at the Qinling Railway Construction Site, their first task was to prevent wild animals from suddenly coming out to hurt people.Then it is to prevent some foreign spies from approaching, and finally it is to maintain order, but not to manage work.I'm just afraid that someone will fight, make trouble, or something like that will happen.

As he was talking, he heard strange noises coming from the cave.

The team leader's face changed: "This hole is probably the most difficult to drill in the thirty miles before and after. The length of three hundred steps, I'm afraid I will throw a few lives into it."

When talking about how many lives were thrown in, the captain's expression eased a bit.

Li Yuanxing asked immediately: "Aren't you afraid?"

"I'm afraid, how can I not be afraid. My wife and baby are at home, and I'm still counting on the wages to be paid this time, and I will go back and buy a flat in Chang'an City. The house is all optimistic, a five-hundred-foot two-entry room .”

The [-] feet mentioned by the team leader is the living area.

Li Yuanxing didn't do such imaginary things as building area in Datang, and 57 feet is actually not too small.Converted to modern standards, the usable area is about [-] square meters.The second entrance room is two bedrooms and one living room. For ordinary people, this is already the best house.

Over there, a middle-aged man in his 40s but with graying hair had rushed over with a few people.

"Go and have a look!" Li Yuanxing was about to go over, when Pei Xi stood in front of him: "Well, that Fang Gong said that a gentleman should not stand under a dangerous wall, so..." No matter what Pei Xi said, he would not let Li Yuanxing Near the construction site, even if a stone cuts his hand, it is a very big deal in Pei Xi's view.

"Ten steps closer, listen!"

"Ten steps, just ten steps!" After measuring the distance of ten steps, Pei Xi looked at Li Yuanxing with a smile.

The team leader also smiled: "You must be a big shot from Chang'an. We've seen it before. There are always some big shots who come to this construction site quietly. You're busy!" Here, even if Li Yuanxing wants to look for it, the road workers here all wear the same clothes, so how to find it.

Li Yuanxing took ten steps forward, which was ten short steps.

Pei Xi fended off the people next to him, and four guards stood around Li Yuanxing.The road worker was not without winks. He felt that this was a big man, so he stepped aside unnaturally.

Over there, Master Bai had already brought people closer to the cave, but he didn't dare to go in. After observing outside the cave for a while, he shook his head.

Trouble, very troublesome, there are still stones falling in the cave, which is a huge danger in itself.

If there are dozens more lives, I don’t know there will be orphans and widows.

"Reinforcement, you must first strengthen this place. Arrange to transport [-] wooden piles and [-] beams and columns. It may be a way to reinforce this place all the way, but it is not absolutely effective. You should be careful when you work, and don't use it again." Use detonators and manpower to dig through the most difficult section."

Immediately someone asked: "Will this mountain collapse completely?"

"No, it's because there are several mountain springs here, so they keep infiltrating, making the rocks a little loose. In this case, the rocks that can only be shaken by a detonator will fall down. If it is driven purely by manpower, even if it is slower, it will not. No matter how it collapses. When I start working again, I will not hide outside. Naturally, I will enter the cave. I will not take my own life or your life as a gossip. People who work here are not family members. , even those who have not married a wife, naturally they will not mess around!"

To tell the truth, all the road workers in the Tang Dynasty nodded in agreement.

The foreman who understands the Japanese language thinks there is no need to explain it to the Japanese.

"Arrange people to go to the mountain to divert the stream."

"Baitou, didn't you correct it a few days ago?" Someone shouted.

"Go and check again. If there is water seepage here, there must be a stream. If anyone wants to die, go into the cave now." Master Bai got angry and cursed a few times: "Go check the stream, go now."

There were two teams going at the moment.

Another team was arranged to move the wood, and the last team cleaned up the surrounding area first, leaving an open space for piles of wood.

It was obviously impossible to work today, so Li Yuanxing had no choice but to leave first.

"Tomorrow, when work starts in the morning, you must come first." Li Yuanxing instructed Pei Xi before leaving.

The next day said

Li Yuanxing came to the construction site early, and the rest of the work was already in full swing, but this one was still waiting.

The foreman came over with a few blueprints. Obviously, the craftsmen of Datang had already studied this cave and had a solution.

"If you bring a piece of wood in, you will be rewarded with ten cash. If you erect a foot of reinforcement, you will be rewarded with two hundred cash!"

Master Bai spoke up in person.

A large box of copper coins was opened, and it was full of ten-cent copper coins.

If there is a reward, someone will naturally go in.At the moment, a dozen road workers carried the wood and walked in, but just when they reached the entrance of the cave, they heard a whirl of thoughts inside, and many small stones fell from the roof of the cave.

At that moment, everyone threw the wood and fled back.

The white craftsman knew very well that this cut off the water on the hillside. After the cave really dried up, letting some gravel fall down, it was nothing terrible at all.

But he said that even if the road workers believed it, they were still a little nervous.

At this time, a man in a red vest came here, and he already knew the situation here.After handing a warrant in his hand to Master Bai for a look, he walked up to the road worker.The position he was standing was not facing the Datang Road Worker, but the Japanese Road Worker.

I just heard him shouting in Japanese. "A piece of wood, bring it in. A stone of rice will be rewarded."

A guard beside Li Yuanxing translated these words to Li Yuanxing.

Those Japanese were a little loose, and a few of them seemed to want to go over and have a try.But I still feel afraid, and I am still wavering.

Li Yuanxing gave Pei Xi a wink: "Go and see, what is written on his warrant?"

Pei Xili passed by, there was information from Prince Qin's mansion, and His Highness King Qin's orders, there was nothing he could not read.

At this time, the man in the red vest shouted again: "One piece of wood is worth two stones of rice."

Some Japanese people were moved and began to stand up, but there were still less than ten people.

Master Bai frowned. This number of people was meaningless at all. At least a hundred people could quickly reinforce the cave and make the project progress smoothly.

At this time, Pei Xi had seen the warrant and retreated to Li Yuanxing's side.

The man in the red vest seemed to sense something, the sign of King Qinzhuang, so is His Royal Highness King Qin here?

Gritting his teeth, he put his hand on the handle of the knife.At this time, it was a matter of cruelty, and the progress of the Changyi Railway did not dare to be delayed.

Pei Xi said to Li Yuanxing at this time: "Your Highness, his warrant says that if necessary, force can be used to make the Japanese take risks. It's okay to kill a few."

Seeing that the knife was an inch out of the sheath, this was the foreman in the red vest making up his mind.

It is not a last resort to use force against these Japanese people, otherwise it is easy to cause chaos.But the death of the Japanese is not the death of the Datang people. This is already a consensus of all the officials on the Qinling Railway. .

"Let's come!" A group of people came from a distance. They were not tall, but they were extremely strong.

"That team!" Master Bai Jiang asked.

"We came from the middle of Sichuan, and we wrote a suicide note when we came out. Our family also confessed that we Shu people would not frown even if we built this road and threw thousands of lives into it. Think back to those who built the canal back then At that time, it was beaten with a whip, and the knife rest was repaired on the neck. This railway is the lifeblood of my Shu people, and we will transport materials!"

"Qiu, do you think we Guanzhong people are softies?"

Immediately, both sides closed their eyes.

"Ten stones, ten stones of rice!" a Japanese man suddenly shouted.

In the hearts of the Japanese people, offering a piece of wood to ten stones of rice is a price that the people of Tang Dynasty will definitely not pay. When he saw the knife, he was forcing the people of Tang Dynasty not to dare to kill him.Forcing people to work just because they are willing to pay ten shimi will cause mutiny.

The Tang road worker didn't know what the Japanese were shouting, but the two foremen who understood the Japanese language knew it. When the road worker asked, they told the truth.While speaking, he glanced at the Japanese man with vacillating eyes, and added: "That Japanese man is very cunning, but this time he was defeated by him!"

The road workers of the Tang Dynasty were immediately blown away: "This is for us to build our own roads in Tang Dynasty, our own roads, we must fight for ourselves!" The road workers from Sichuan shouted.

Hundreds of Tangren road workers lifted the logs and prepared to rush in.

"Stop!" Li Yuanxing said, and Pei Xi immediately rushed up to block these people.

"Is it safer to directly use stone strips and cement hoops?" Li Yuanxing asked. "Then make a three-to-five-foot-wide steel frame and push it forward. Even if the roof collapses again, people can get out safely with the steel frame supporting it."

"Yes, but this will still have to be dismantled in the future. More than [-]% of the stone bars can be reused, but at least dozens of tons of cement will be wasted. With this method, you don't have to worry about using the detonator in a small area, and the progress is slow." It will speed up. This plan is excellent, but Bai has a low official position and needs to ask for instructions."

"Let's do it. Dozens of tons of cement will keep the people of Tang Dynasty safe, and also save others from feeling that Tang Dynasty is bullying someone, or something else?" Li Yuanxing turned around and left after finishing speaking.

If such a danger is placed in the modern age of later generations, there must be countless ways to deal with it.

Li Yuanxing glanced at the Japanese man from the corner of his eyes, but Pei Xi and the red-armored foreman secretly took down the portrait of the Japanese man. (To be continued.)