People live in the Ming Dynasty, evil spirits are soaring into the sky

Chapter 382 The new Zhaozhou Bridge was built! Even a once-in-a-century flood failed to destroy it

Sophia was very quick and started preparing immediately.

On the one hand, he asked the people from the Ministry of Works to pile all the sand, stone and wood on the construction site.

On the other hand, he asked the students of Imperial University to deduce more solutions as quickly as possible during the simulation process.

At the same time, he also ordered the workers to immediately start making diversion plans according to the deduced plan.

On the other hand, Sofia led a team to find the craftsmen who had renovated the Zhaozhou Bridge.

While making these preparations, Sophia also asked Guo Feixue who was at home to supervise the process of this matter.

I never expected that Sofia would give me such a good opportunity.

She was very jealous when she saw that Sophia was doing very well and could even represent the court to compete for credit with those civil servants.

But she knew that she had no skills and was not as capable as Sophia, so she could only stand by and worry.

But she didn't expect that when a letter came, she was at home as if a pie had fallen from the sky, and she immediately perked up and became the supervisor.

The civil servants of the imperial court gnashed their teeth in hatred when they saw the two women working in Chen Han's mansion.

These scholars looked down upon women.

Especially he looked down on women like those around Chen Han.

I heard that Sophia is a Frenchman, and Guo Feixue is the saint of the Jiangnan branch of the White Lotus Sect.

To them, these were all crooked ways, but Guo Feixue herself, since she started working, immediately gathered the people of the White Lotus Sect.

Otherwise, how can we say that she has a gangster background?

The White Lotus Sect originally roamed the streets and had a very high reputation among the people.

On the one hand, the White Lotus Sect gave alms to the people of the world.

On the other hand, they were also taught the so-called teachings of Maitreya's coming to the world.

So the White Lotus Sect is actually a very strange sect.

It could also become a rebellious sect.

It can also give many people hope and allow them to survive.

Sometimes life requires you to keep your breath in your heart.

In other words, I hope there is something that can give me the greatest comfort.

Chen Han agreed with this point.

Therefore, the White Lotus Sect was not banned.

After Chen Han destroyed the White Lotus Sect's headquarters, they immediately used the Jiangnan branch as their headquarters.

And he no longer participated in inciting the people to rebel.

Or the White Lotus Sect, many people have also seen it.

In fact, under the current reform system of the Ming Dynasty, the lives of the people are getting better and better. There is no need for anyone to rebel, and there is even less need for anyone to sacrifice their lives in order to survive.

So they calmed down and preached like Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.

They began to actually build temples for people to worship and pray.

At the same time, we also provide food and medical care to the people free of charge.

In this way, quite a few people were attracted to join the cause.

Chen Han is very happy to see someone developing this kind of religion that guides people to do good.

In fact, religion is neither good nor bad. As long as it guides people to do good, that is enough.

He destroyed most of the Buddhist temples, so naturally he wanted to support some local religions and make these religions truly become spiritual beliefs in the hearts of the people.

Perhaps it was because all the Buddhist temples around the capital had been cleared out.

Therefore, the White Lotus Sect developed relatively rapidly during this period and quickly absorbed a large number of followers.

Now Guo Feixue has become the true saint of the White Lotus Sect.

Her father Guo Tieshan also successfully became the leader of the White Lotus Sect and began to preach its teachings.

Under the supervision of the imperial court, many messy and misleading things were changed.

It has become a good sect in the minds of ordinary people.

Now that Guo Feixue had received the task from Sophia, she immediately mobilized the White Lotus sect members to monitor the actions of the officials.

Although there are still many Jinyiwei, they have now mainly become the Tax Inspection Bureau and have begun to investigate problems among officials.

So they are just a little bit lacking.

And now the White Lotus Sect just makes up for their shortcomings.

Under the supervision of the White Lotus, every move of all officials in the capital was monitored by the White Lotus.

Soon, the White Lotus Sect made some gains.

For example, the reason why those officials were so anxious to ask Sophia and others to build a stone bridge.

This is because the Imperial Astronomical Observatory discovered that the rainy season is about to arrive.

Once the rainy season arrives, any construction of bridges or roads will be hindered.

Moreover, the newly built stone bridge would inevitably be damaged by the impact of such a severe flood.

At that time, the civil servants will have the opportunity to attack the Imperial University.

The civil servants intended to say that the Imperial University of Peking wasted manpower and resources and that the things it produced were of little use.

When Guo Feixue told Sofia the news, she was also very angry.

It turns out that this group of civil servants had already planned it out.

In fact, they have never thought of cutting corners or deliberately withholding your materials.

But they had already made some predictions about the weather.

After listening to Guo Feixue's words, Sophia suddenly realized.

Finally I understand why these civil servants did not obstruct it.

It turned out that she thought that those people in the Ministry of Industry knew that their master was now very powerful and did not dare to offend him easily.

That's why I gave out those materials obediently.

Only now do I realize that this group of people had actually planned it out long ago.

Their purpose was to use this heavy rain to destroy the stone bridge that had just been built.

In this way, even if we want to find evidence of their guilt later, there will be no way to find it.

And it was done without any loopholes, without leaving any handle for you to catch.

Sophia sighed slightly, "Why is it that these officials in the Central Plains don't use their minds to think about the people, but instead spend every day thinking about how to harm the people who do things."

Guo Feixue felt a little uncomfortable when she heard Sophia say that the people in Central Plains were a little uncomfortable.

The same applies to anyone.

After all, she was also a Ming Dynasty person. Now, when she heard Sophia say this about the officials of the Ming Dynasty, she felt a little disappointed.

I was thinking in my heart, you officials are really bringing shame to us people of the Ming Dynasty. You let a foreigner laugh at us. Don't you deserve to die?

The master is now fighting outside, fighting against Korea and the Jurchens, all for the sake of gaining face for the Ming Dynasty.

But not only are you holding the master back, you are also bringing disgrace to the Ming Dynasty. You deserve to die, absolutely deserve to die.

Guo Feixue cursed the civil servants and asked, "So how are you doing now?"

Sophia smiled when she heard this: "It's going very smoothly. Although the rainy season is coming soon, we have skilled craftsmen. The stone bridge we designed can definitely withstand the erosion of rainwater.

Those civil officials are short-sighted and have no idea that the Han people had already created some excellent architecture more than a thousand years ago."

Speaking of this, Sophia really admires it.

I personally went to Zhaozhou Bridge for an inspection, and after interviewing many local people and chatting with them, I found that
"The Zhaozhou Bridge is truly an ancient miracle, a manifestation of the wisdom of the common people.

It is really hard to imagine that such wisdom existed more than a thousand years ago.

It is simply unimaginable for me to have such wisdom in Europe.

Even if our skilled craftsmen spend their entire lives, they would not be able to come up with such a good building."

Hear Sophia praise the wisdom of the Han people.

Guo Feixue finally smiled, "Of course, our Han people have been able to stand firm since ancient times.

Even after experiencing so many foreign invasions, it still survives.

They also gradually assimilated those ethnic minorities, absorbed their strengths, and eliminated the Han people's own shortcomings.

It is based on infinite wisdom. If you stay in my Central Plains for a while longer, you will feel this more."

Looking at Guo Feixue's face full of arrogance, Sophia laughed out loud, "That's true."

Now that they knew the civil servants' plan, the students of Imperial University, while feeling angry, warned themselves that they should do it to save face for themselves, for Imperial University, for the Duke, and to live up to the Duke's spending so much money to build such a good academy.

He gathered people from all over the country and made a desperate effort to fight against the scholars.

The students of Imperial University also secretly encouraged themselves with this.

If I don't make some achievements this time, I will just find a rope and hang myself in a remote place. I am too embarrassed to live any longer.

Everyone has a breath, everyone wants to be proud of themselves, and everyone has self-esteem.

Those civil servants deliberately dug a pit for us, the students of Imperial University of Peking, to jump into.

But as Sophia said, this time there was no choice but to jump in.

Now that we are in this pit, we have to save ourselves.

How to save yourself?

Cheer yourself up. Encourage yourself, we can do what we can, and make this stone bridge stand like the Zhaozhou Bridge, which has stood on the Xiao River for hundreds of years.

The ancients were able to do it, so why can't we do it now when we have better conditions, better talents, and better materials?
Therefore, under this kind of encouragement, the craftsmen became more confident and more motivated.

Learn, practice and teach at the same time.

Teachers and students have truly achieved teaching through practice.

When we encounter a problem, we work together to solve it. When we encounter a difficult problem, we write it down and the solution is immediately formed. This way we can gain more experience.

That's how life is.

How do human lessons and experiences come about?

Isn’t it accumulated one by one in the process of solving difficulties?

As more difficulties are solved and more experience is accumulated, what happens in the future can be summarized and practiced based on the experience of predecessors.

The solutions provided by our predecessors always appear in the midst of difficulties.

To put it bluntly, no matter how rapidly technology develops, the essential core logic of human endeavors will not change.

So why is the experience of the ancients still useful? This is why.

Because humans haven't changed much in their evolution so far.

It's just that more technology has been discovered.

But people’s hearts are all the same, and human races have not changed.

It is also based on this that the students of Imperial University can continue to make progress based on the experience of their predecessors.

Three months later, a brand new arch bridge appeared over the Yongding River.

Of course, this bridge cannot be called Zhaozhou Bridge now. Since it is in Xiawei Village, the bridge is called Xiawei Bridge.

But in fact it is the arched form of Zhaozhou Bridge, so it is called Xiawei Zhaozhou Bridge.

When the news that the Zhaozhou Bridge was completed spread throughout the capital, everyone was very surprised.

It took only four months from project approval to completion of a stone bridge, which made many people question whether such a bridge could withstand being walked on and trampled by people and horses.

Can it withstand carriages passing over it? Can it withstand the coming and going of thousands of people?

You should know that although Xiawei Village is a village, because the land here is fertile and the grain production is abundant, there are many people coming and going on weekdays.

Merchants coming from Shanxi also like to use this bridge to go directly into the city.

Therefore, this bridge not only bears the needs of ordinary people coming and going, but also vendors.

Sometimes, even when sending troops to Taiyuan, they had to pass through this bridge.

So many people have raised questions.

Although the deadline was met within half a year, whether it can stand the test needs to be proven in practice.

And just as the Imperial Astronomical Observatory had predicted, heavy rains came and the rainy season arrived.

After seven or eight days of heavy rain, the water level of the Yongding River rose by more than ten feet.

The people living along the coast had already had experience and evacuated when the rain came.

But Shiqiao couldn't be evacuated.

This is the first time that Xiawei Zhaozhou Bridge has experienced such a heavy rainstorm since its completion. We will have to wait and see what the result will be.

Fortunately, some students suggested building this stone bridge across the Yongding River in the same way as the Zhaozhou Bridge.

Because porous drainage can greatly reduce the pressure of rain impact, it also greatly reduces the input of materials.

So the form is simple and it doesn't look like there is much protection.

More than a dozen students from the Imperial University braved the heavy rain and squatted near the Zhaozhou Bridge at the lower edge of the Yongding River to witness with their own eyes that this stone bridge could stand the test of the flood.

Just as the students of Imperial University encountered, the floodwater burst forth directly, and was so high that it almost flooded the bridge deck.

This shows how important rain is.

We know that the height difference between the bridge body and the riverbed when it was built was more than four meters, but now it is almost submerging the bridge deck.

This shows how heavy the rain was.

However, the situation that worried the students of Imperial University did not occur.

Heavy rain continued to wash the stone bridge, but the bridge did not collapse under the impact of the rainstorm and flood.

Even the rainwater flowed smoothly through the bridge hole.

For three whole days, there was no damage to the stone bridge and the rain gradually stopped.

Seeing this result, the students guarding the stone bridge finally burst into cheers.

But when this news reached the capital, all the people in the capital were surprised.

A stone bridge that was built in less than four months was surprisingly preserved in such a severe flood.

And it also withstood the monstrous chaos, which is enough to silence all doubts.

What they didn't know was that when the civil servants learned the news, not a single one of them looked happy.

There was only one thought in my mind, which was to do whatever it took to cause some damage, and not allow the arrogance of the Imperial University to continue to grow like this...

(End of this chapter)