Chapter 405 The incredible paper bridge

Author: Mo Se Jiangnan

Chapter 405 The incredible paper bridge

In the eyes of officials from the Ministry of Industry, the bridge built by Shen Longliang was extremely crude.

It's nothing more than dozens of paper tubes, seemingly connected together at random. The bridge deck above is just made of a dozen pieces of rice paper, simply glued on with glue.

"This kid can't be serious, can such a simple thing be called a bridge?"

"And did you notice that those paper tubes are still hollow? Even if he took some trouble to roll those paper tubes into solid ones, I think he was careful."

"If you don't want to compete, then don't force it. We have been basking in the sun here for so long in vain, and then he came up with something like this?"

Someone else yelled at Shen Longliang: "Boy, even if you are perfunctory, you should be more careful. At least you can create some patterns, so that they can catch the eye."

After all, this bridge is made of rice paper, which inevitably reminds people of something not so good.

Some officials from the Ministry of Works also sneered disdainfully: "Isn't this bridge of yours meant for dead people to cross?"

The officials kept mocking, but the craftsmen did not say a word from beginning to end.

As the saying goes, an expert can tell if there is something as soon as he reaches out his hand.

People who are not skilled enough really cannot understand what is so special about Shen Longliang’s simple paper bridge.

But this is the Ministry of Industry.

The craftsmen present today are among the best in the world.

Because of this, they could vaguely understand the specialness of the paper bridge made by Shen Longliang.

Due to the limitations of the times, there are many places where they do not understand the principles. However, they can understand how to increase the support capacity of bridges in certain places.

Because they understood, the craftsmen were even more shocked.

What is going on with these students and how can they be so powerful?

The officials' ridicule continued.

"You want to compare this broken bridge with the bridge made by our craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry?"

"I think there is no need to judge at all. Let's just declare the craftsmen from our Ministry of Industry the winner."

"As long as your eyes are not blind, you can see who is winning."

The self-righteous irony of officials.

It was like slaps hitting the craftsmen's faces firmly.

In the past, craftsmen had great respect for scholars. They studied the teachings of Confucius and Mencius and were in charge of the rise and fall of the world.

In comparison, craftsmen like them usually only repair bridges and roads, build houses or weapons, and so on.

Although he was a little better than the peasants who faced the loess and turned their backs to the sky, they were just relying on their bodies to earn a living.

Compared with those scholars who know many truths, their hardships are indeed inferior.

But today.

These so-called scholars all pretended to understand, which gave them a new understanding of these people.

Zhao Helun pretended to help Zhu Han make up for it: "The prince's student may have misunderstood the question. Otherwise, I will ask someone to explain it carefully to him, and let him do another one quickly while it is still early."

Zhu Han pointed in the direction of Shen Longliang.

But he saw Shen Longliang placing the paper bridge he had just made on the table, grabbing the edge of the table with both hands and trying to climb up.

But although the wooden table was large enough, when Shen Longliang climbed up from one side, the table legs on the other side were lifted up by his weight and almost fell over.

After only one attempt, Shen Longliang gave up.

He waved to the students in Chaohuangzhuang: "Don't watch the excitement. Come and help me."

Zhang Yunjie directly pointed to someone: "Follow me."

The two came to the table and understood what Shen Longliang meant without communicating.

One of the people was pressing down on the table. Zhang Yunjie turned over and climbed onto the table. Then he turned around and pulled Shen Longliang onto the table.

Their actions made everyone except Zhu Han a little confused.

"What do these guys want to do?"

"Huh, it's just a new trick to try to impress people. Don't take it too seriously."

"No matter what they do, they can't change the fact that this paper bridge is not as good as the wooden bridge made by the craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry."

Wei Chi and Mr. Wei, the older craftsmen, vaguely understood something.

Everyone couldn't help but gasped.

"This...is impossible?" Wei Chi said in disbelief.

Mr. Wei also shook his head repeatedly: "Absolutely impossible, how can such a thing be done? This bridge is made of paper!"

No matter what their attitude or reaction is.

Zhang Yunjie's side has already made some moves. His eyes swept over the officials from the Ministry of Works and the craftsmen, full of contempt and disdain.

These people simply do not understand the power of His Royal Highness.

The bridges made by Shen Longliang are indeed powerful, but all this knowledge was taught to them by His Highness.

The thoughts in my mind are fleeting.

Zhang Yunjie raised his left foot high and stepped directly on the paper bridge.

Officials from the Ministry of Industry were surprised at first, but soon became disdainful.

"You have to pretend to look like you, but it's obviously a waste of effort."

"Do they think they can fool them by pretending to step on them a few times?"

This cynicism had just begun. Zhang Yunjie's subsequent actions made them swallow the sarcasm hard.

Zhang Yunjie first added a little strength and adjusted his position slightly.

Then he stepped on the paper bridge and exerted a little force, and he suddenly stood on the paper bridge.

Seeing this scene, everyone present opened their eyes in disbelief.

Among them, the ones who were most shocked were the craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry.

"Oh my god, can you really bear one person?"

"This bridge is actually made of paper. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have doubted whether they used some magic or magic."

There are also craftsmen with extremely complicated expressions, depressed yet somewhat admiring: "It seems that this time, we lost again."

"Wait a minute, look!" Suddenly someone pointed in the direction of Zhang Yunjie and exclaimed.

When everyone looked at it, Shen Longliang was once again shocked and speechless.

The reason why they were so shocked.

It was because after Zhang Yunjie stood on it, Shen Longliang also put his feet on the bridge on the other side of the paper bridge.

This paper bridge is three feet long and one foot wide. Although it is a bit crowded for two people to stand on it, there is absolutely no problem.

In order to prevent falling, Zhang Yunjie and Shen Longliang put their arms around each other and stood firmly.

At this moment, both of their weights were entirely on the paper bridge.

The craftsmen were too shocked to care about anything else.

Hula rushed up and surrounded Zhang Yunjie, Shen Longliang and others in the blink of an eye, three levels inside and three levels outside.

"Look, they actually rely on the structure of the bridge itself to support them."

"It's amazing that this kind of thing can really be done."

"But why is this happening? The two of them weigh at least two hundred and twenty kilograms together, right? Just these few layers of tattered paper can actually support it?"

Anyone who is close can clearly see that the paper bridge has many supporting parts. Although some deformation has occurred, it is obvious that the support is stable enough.

As long as you don't continue to increase the weight, you should be able to persist for a long time.

Seeing this scene, the craftsmen from the Yanjing Engineering Department were completely convinced.

It is good for a bridge to be beautiful. But the most important thing is the load-bearing capacity of the bridge.

A bridge built with a pile of paper can easily support two people, so how much weight can a bridge built with wood or stone support?

Just thinking about it makes the craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry feel their scalps numb and shudder.

"Get out of the way! Get out of my way!"

The officials from the Ministry of Industry rudely drove the craftsmen aside and came to the table to take a closer look.

One of the officials from the Ministry of Industry only took one look at it and started to question it with dissatisfaction.

"How can a few pieces of paper bear the weight of two adult men? Did you use some other material?"
To be continued...