Save the Bachelor of Heaven

 Chapter 3360 3362【Yellow River and Yangtze River Bridge】

“Your Majesty, I went to the Imperial Hospital to inquire. This Ruilin Incense was jointly developed by many imperial doctors from the Imperial Hospital.” Li Yu asked for instructions, “Look…”

 Originally it was developed by one person, so I was rewarded with two pieces of velvet. Nowadays, it is jointly developed by many imperial doctors, and there are many people to reward it. He does not dare to be good at it, and has to come back to ask for instructions.

"Let's reward them together." Xiang Nan nodded.

 “Hum.” Li Yu then ordered.

Xiang Nan frowned and wanted to follow Ruilinxiang's clue to investigate, but it seemed that there was no chance.

 Because it was jointly developed by multiple imperial doctors, anyone can handle it. The little eunuchs who worked there might secretly add a few drops of bone-containing oil when making incense.

Even the apothecaries who delivered medicines to the palace might have tampered with the medicinal materials. After all, poisons like Fu Guzi are very rare, and even those imperial doctors may not be able to recognize them. When the Aconite Oil is infiltrated into the medicinal materials, it will be even less noticeable.

As a result, it will be extremely difficult to trace the suspects. There are too many suspects.

"Since there is nothing to investigate, we can only 'lead the snake out of the hole'." Xiang Nan thought to himself after thinking about it.

 …

 In the next period of time, Xiang Nan was mainly designing two major projects, the Yellow River Bridge and the Yangtze River Bridge.

Since ancient times, there have been no bridges on the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, mainly because they are too difficult.

The lower reaches of the Yellow River are several miles wide, and the water flow is fast and the sediment is pouring. It is very difficult to build a bridge. The hydrological conditions of the Yangtze River are worse than those of the Yellow River. Not only is the river wide and the water is fast, but its deepest point is more than 70 meters.

 To build a bridge on it is simply difficult than climbing to the sky, so it has been called a natural chasm since ancient times.

But if the bridge is not built, the Southeast Railway will not be able to flow smoothly and will have to be cut into three parts by the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. The traffic efficiency will be greatly reduced, so the bridge must be built.

 Only when a bridge is built, traffic between the north and the south can flow smoothly.

It has been said since ancient times that a mountain is not far away and a river is not close. It can be seen that the river hinders transportation, even as big as a mountain. If there are no obstacles to transportation, then the exchange of people, commodity trade and even cultural circulation will no longer be a problem.

Xiang Nan has sent people to survey the hydrological conditions of the two rivers, including foreigners from the Academy of Sciences.

 After Xiang Nan conquered Europe, he robbed a large number of talents from major schools and scientific research institutions. For example, the Royal British Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Sciences...the total number exceeds tens of thousands.

 All were moved to the capital and placed under house arrest in Xishan for research. Among them are mathematicians, chemists, inventors, medical scientists, physicists, biologists, and civil engineers... They bring together the wisdom of the entire Europe.

 Coupled with the super genius Xiang Nan, it is not impossible to build bridges across the Yellow River and Yangtze River.

In fact, China’s first Yellow River Bridge was built during the reign of Guangxu, and it took five years from design to completion. China's first Yangtze River bridge is the Wuchang-Hankou Yangtze River Bridge. Construction started in 1955 and was put into operation in 2007.

 But in fact, the project of this bridge had been approved during the Guangxu period, and all preparations were in place. But it was precisely because the Qing Dynasty was in turmoil at that time that it was impossible to raise the money to build the bridge, so the project was shelved.

 In the Republic of China, wars broke out frequently. Coupled with the huge cost of building bridges, the construction of the Yangtze River Bridge had to be delayed again and again, and it was not until after the founding of the People's Republic of China that construction finally started.

 It can be seen that at that time, it was not impossible to build bridges across the Yellow River and Yangtze River. It’s just because of money that it’s not easy to do.

 But now the Qing Dynasty has so many people, there is still money. After years of conquest, the Qing Dynasty now has a population of 400 million, a territory of tens of millions of square kilometers, a national inventory of 2.5 billion taels of silver, and 500 million taels of gold. In addition, the annual steel production in China and Europe exceeds five million tons. Among them, Qing Dynasty's steel has the best craftsmanship, but France's steel has the best quality.

 Because the Alsace and Lorraine regions of France have been famous for producing iron ore since ancient times, and they are rich ores. With a little refining, good steel can be made.

  Comparatively, most of China’s iron ore is poor iron ore, and it takes a lot of effort to make good steel.

For bridge construction, good steel must be high strength, high toughness and corrosion resistance, so in order to get the steel, Xiang Nan had to transport good ore thousands of miles from Europe to the Central Plains for smelting.

 …

At the same time, after Liu Yong arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, he first inspected the river embankments, treasury, and grain depots in various places, and then inspected the local official customs, customs, and customs.

 After getting a basic idea, we started to investigate the case of Dong Juren.

 The first thing to do is to open the coffin for an autopsy and re-examine the body of the victim Li Xiaofu.

 Because the root cause of this case is that Li Xiaofu died of poisoning. But if there is no poison in the autopsy, then the entire case is an unjust case, and all the reasoning, all the interrogations, and all the verdicts are in vain.

Once this case is reversed, not only will there be an earthquake in the Jiangnan officialdom, but even the capital will be shaken, so Liu Yong has to be cautious.

 When they learned that Liu Yong was going to open the coffin for an autopsy, the local magistrate Du Dazhi and the magistrate Shen Jue were a little scared.

 Because the two of them were not sure whether Li Xiaofu died of poisoning. Just because Wu Zuo said so, they believed it and did not arrange a re-examination afterwards. If Li Xiaofu didn't die of poisoning, he would be in big trouble.

So they specially encouraged Li Xiaofu's tribe to go and stop Liu Yong from opening the coffin and conducting an autopsy. A large group of people gathered around the tomb to prevent the soldiers from taking action.

 It is said that opening the coffin will disturb the deceased, affect the feng shui, and damage the door style, blah blah blah. He also threatened to go to Beijing to file a complaint, and then he participated in the performance.

But what kind of person is Liu Yong? Not to mention that he has an imperial edict in his hand and can act cheaply, and not to mention that his father Liu Tongxun is the Minister of Military and Aircraft, the Minister of Guan Ming, and the Prince's Taibao.

Even he himself is an upright and upright gentleman who would rather break than bend. How could he be intimidated by these unruly people? Immediately, the soldiers were ordered to drive away these tribesmen. If any of them refused to leave, they would be killed on the spot.

This case was personally investigated by the emperor, with the purpose of rectifying the administration of officials and reviving the government. By then, I don’t know how many heads will have fallen to the ground.

It doesn’t matter if you kill one or two unruly people now.

Sure enough, when he saw the soldiers holding water and fire sticks and the unruly people refusing to give in, Liu Yong directly ordered the soldiers to draw swords and kill people. And as the two of them were killed on the spot, the remaining clan members immediately became like birds and animals and dispersed.

After all, they just collected a little money and came to stop them. The worst they could do was get a beating. Unexpectedly, people actually dare to kill people. If they dared to stop him again, they had no choice but to run away.

"Master Liu, how dare you kill someone on the spot in broad daylight? I must file a memorial to you!" Zhizhou Shen Jue pointed at Liu Yong in horror.

“I am an envoy appointed by the emperor, and I have the right to act expediently. I have repeatedly warned these unruly people who are obstructing the official’s work. They just don’t listen, so I can only kill them along with them.

 As for folding the music, that is your right. You can do it without telling me. "Liu Yong raised his hands and said, not caring about Shen Jue's threat.

 (End of this chapter)