Zhenguan Xiaoxian Wang Li Shen Li Shimin

Li Shen still doesn't know that his home has been stolen, and he is still living happily in Wu Liluo. These days, Li Shen is close to nature and does not live in a carriage.

Just set up a tent outside, live in the tent, look at the stars in the sky at night in August and September, and listen to the chirping of crickets outside.

There is only fragrance in the air, no exhaust, no haze.

It is really a beautiful thing in life to have a beautiful woman lying in your arms and whisper something.

It's a pity that Lu Dingniang and Wu Meiniang didn't come. It would be more in line with Li Shen's outlook on life to lie among the women.

Just when Li Shen was feeling at ease, all the bridge repair materials he requested arrived.

Li Shen has already drawn the drawings. In fact, Li Shen doesn't know how to build a bridge with a long span. Li Shen has never studied engineering mechanics.

However, Li Shen was confident that such a small span would be acceptable, and Wang Hongfu also sent two craftsmen from the palace who were responsible for construction.

Although they have no knowledge of engineering mechanics, they are experienced and have built houses and repaired bridges.

In ancient times, these things were all based on experience. The master led the apprentice. Although there were no fixed terms and calculation methods,

But all experiences were recorded.

The two masters looked at Li Shen's drawings and exchanged Li Shen's ideas. Finally, after modeling, the two masters agreed that it was feasible.

In fact, Li Shen's method was similar to that of building bridges in later generations. He inserted a one-meter-square iron plate into the river, then drained the water out, cleared the silt at the bottom, dug a little, then placed steel bars, and finally poured it with cement.

Such a bridge pier is ready. As for the problem of uniformity, it is to knock the iron plate when pouring cement.

Normally, there are two bridge piers in a row in later generations. For safety, Li Shen arranged three bridge piers in a row, so that the bridge deck would be very wide.

The bridge deck is placed on the piers with reinforced concrete decks prepared in advance. In the absence of a crane, Li Shen plans to use several large pulley blocks.

Fortunately, the river is not wide and the bridge deck is not very long. Otherwise, we would have to set up scaffolding to lay wooden boards on the bridge piers and pour cement directly.

After all discussions were completed, Li Shen began to recruit people. Goguryeo had plenty of people, and it was not busy farming now.

Li Shen's salary for recruiting people was no money, but food, three meals a day, six hours of working at sunrise and resting at sundown.

Three meals a day, two meals with meat, and one pound of grain every day.

For the current Goguryeo people, this is equivalent to the treatment of high-level white-collar workers, and they can also earn some food for their families.

Although there is relief in the Tang Dynasty, you can only eat half full to ensure that you don't starve to death.

There were huge crowds of people when signing up, but Li Shen's requirement was to be strong. This is inherently a physical activity, and only one person from a family can join.

In order to rush the work, Li Shen recruited thousands of strong laborers, and there were also stronger women who were responsible for cooking for these people.

Li Shen also held a special groundbreaking ceremony and dug the first shovel of soil with a shovel tied with red silk. The guards and the people applauded enthusiastically,

Some people who were good at painting painted this solemn moment. On August 18, the [-]th year of Zhenguan, Li Shen, the tenth son of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, built a bridge here to benefit the country and the people.

Afterwards, Li Shen threw away the shovel, walked back to a clean place, and threw away the silk shoe covers on his shoes. His shoes were very expensive.

"Start work" Li Shen issued the order to start work.

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"Report~~~~His Royal Highness Prince Ji, this is His Majesty's secret order."

Li Shen was drinking tea in a tent not far from the construction site when Xue Rengui brought in a Baiqi.

"My Aye's secret decree?" Li Shen took it over and glanced at the seal with some suspicion. It was intact and showed no signs of being opened.

Then he turned around and looked at the front. Li Shen was sure that this must be a letter from Li Shimin to him, because the words "Edict: Treason." were written on the front.

Li Shen pursed his lips, tore open the envelope, opened the letter and read it.

The first sentence above is a harsh criticism of Li Shen. It probably means that Li Shen is incompetent, timid and afraid of getting into trouble, and that Li Shen is a treacherous person. He only knows how to fight with his own people, so why doesn't he dare to fight with those generals?

Asked him what he was afraid of, he didn't dare to touch a little Zhao Yuan, and he said all day long that he was a playboy and had no shame.

Anyway, I said before that Li Shen was worthless and hated iron but could not make steel. The meaning between the lines seemed to be that Li Shen should have killed all four generals at that time.

After Li Shen finished reading the first half, his head hurt. He now had a sense of pictures. Li Shimin stood in front of him and squirted at him.

The next thing he said was business, but it was just a few words. First, he was asked to wait for the 20 troops behind him, and then he followed Cheng Yaojin back to the front line. If he didn't go back, he would be disobeying the order and have his house confiscated.

The second is to let him fulfill his role as military governor and act in accordance with military laws and regulations. The generalissimo has no right to interfere, and let him free his hands and feet to help Li Chengqian stabilize his position.

The third is to rectify military discipline and eliminate bad habits in the army, which must be implemented in accordance with the standards of Li Shen's escort camp.

At the end, Li Shen turned around and found that there was no more. This made Li Shen very angry. That was all the business was about. The rest of the words were just to reprimand himself.

Moreover, the house must be confiscated and the property confiscated. Has this father been thinking about him for a long time and wants to find an excuse to steal the house?

With a sigh, Li Shen put the letter on the candle and lit it. Regardless of whether it was a secret decree or not, there were so many words scolding him that he couldn't let it exist.

Li Shen knew that Li Shimin would never let him go back, so he stayed in Wu Liluo, otherwise he would have returned to Chang'an City long ago.

Li Shimin will know about this matter sooner or later, and he doesn't need to report it himself. As an emperor, especially an emperor like Li Shimin who has such strong control over the country, he must have his own intelligence system.

It's just that Li Shen doesn't know how Li Shimin will deal with Zhao Yuan. He estimates that Zhao Yuan may be in trouble.

It was because of him that Li Chengqian was persecuted and a warlord was angered. It was strange that Li Shimin allowed him to live.

After sorting out his thoughts, Li Shen said to the stone;

"Go ahead and speed up the progress. I will be in front of the battle soon, and I need to finish the next thing before I leave."

20 days later, the bridge piers were completed and the bridge deck began to be put up. The entire bridge deck was too heavy, so Li Shen chose to separate the bridge piers one by one, and used the set pulleys to move the bridge deck up bit by bit.

Thousands of people had their own division of labor during the entire process. A dozen ropes as thick as a child's arm were pulled by hundreds of people, moving forward bit by bit.

With the wisdom of the ancients and Li Shen's modern methods, the bridge plank was safely placed on the first pier. Li Shen watched the whole process and sighed at the greatness of the working people.