Chapter 1,123 A tough night

The water did not stop due to the flood discharge, but continued to rise. In just two hours, the gap was cleared to a width of fifty paces!

Chen Zhaoming has been closely monitoring the width of the breach through theodolite, and the science and engineering team is measuring the river water level above the last flood peak.

The anchored Kuizhou-type schooner, with the superb control skills of the ship's boss, actually took the risk to put it on the Yellow River channel directly in front of the breach and re-anchor it through the wire rope!

Then a lifeboat was released and lowered to the breach along the current. Qian Gu, who had the best water quality at the Polytechnic Institute, was wearing a life jacket with a rubber float and was taking readings with a big plumb bob on the boat!

This is a simple trigonometric function question. The depth of the water at the breach was calculated in a blink of an eye. It was already nearly ten feet deep!

One foot... one foot five... one foot eight...

Not only was the breach deepening, the water level was also rising, and members of the science and engineering team kept nervously reporting readings.

"The water is five point three five meters deep!"

"Open wide 73.6 meters!"

"The flow rate is 3.1 meters per second!"

"The water level beyond the third flood peak is 0.7 meters...0.8 meters...0.9 meters..."

"One meter! One meter one! One meter two! One meter...two! One meter one! Report to the mountain chief! The peak of the flood has passed! The peak of the flood has passed!"

Chen Zhaoming suddenly fell onto the embankment. Old Guo Tou knelt down and held his hand, asking eagerly: "Bachelor, has Cao Village downstream been saved?"

Chen Zhaoming now feels pain all over his body, and his head is so painful that it feels like it's going to explode: "I should... save it. Next, it's up to you..."

"It's heaven -" Lao Guotou knelt on the ground, stretched his hands upward, looked at the still cloudy sky and shouted heartbreakingly: "Open your eyes! Please open your eyes! Stop torturing us -"

Chen Zhaoming started to cough: "Old man...begging for it is worse than asking...for yourself...don't waste this hard work..."

With a pop, a mouthful of blood literally spurted out.

Only then did Lao Guotou realize that the inside of Chen Zhaoming's trousers under his robe was also covered in blood. He couldn't help but shout to the members of the science and engineering team who were running towards him: "Come quickly! The bachelor is vomiting blood -"

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In Cao Village, Song Yongchen sat cross-legged on the embankment of the Yellow River, with the rolling torrent of the Yellow River beneath him.

The Yellow River is not wide here, but its water flow is extremely fierce.

Huge waves hit the embankment, splashing foam and mist, and wrapped Song Yongchen's whole body in the icy chill.

Song Yongchen held his knees with his hands, waiting for the last moment of his life to arrive.

He is a native of Bianjing. After entering the palace, he worked hard and worked hard.

There are many people who are down-to-earth and willing to work, but the reason why he is able to stand out is because of another quality - his love of learning.

"He is a man of thoughtful thinking and strong power." This was the evaluation of him in later history.

There are actually not many things you can learn in the palace, basically treasury management, inner workshops, martial arts, and project management.

He tried his best to learn whatever he could.

Emperor Renzong saw that he was a talented person and ordered him to learn from the seniors in the palace.

After launching several small projects, it happened that Su Xiaomei promoted the Royal Institute of Technology. Well, the scale was too small at that time and could only be called a school. Song Yongchen did not think that he was already old, so he begged Your Majesty to set up a group of young people in the school.

Inside, I found a place.

Science and engineering knowledge opened a door for him. It turned out that those projects all involved mathematics.

Yongchen of the Song Dynasty made great progress in knowledge. When he ascended the throne today, he was ordered to build the East and West Palaces and assist Su Shaobao in building the capital. Later, he built the Shangshu Province, established the Imperial College, and built the original temple... "Every major worker should be responsible for his work."

What made him most proud was the Bianhe River management project launched when Su Shaobao was in charge of Kaifeng Prefecture.

He cooperated as the supervisor and was responsible for the upper section, which started from Shagukou of Ren Village, connected with Sishui Pass, and ended at Watingzi in Heyin County, connecting the Yellow River in the north and the canal in the south.

The total length of the project is 51 miles, with embankments on both sides, totaling 13 miles, and a total labor cost of more than 907,000. At the same time, the southern embankment of the Yellow River was repaired to prevent encroachment on the Xinhe River.

From the beginning of the Jiazi period in the fourth month to the completion of the Wushen period in the sixth month, there were forty-five days of work, and the total was more than nine hundred and seventy thousand.

This feat of engineering was completed in just one and a half months!

The South Road that Shaobao was responsible for at that time was only half completed!

Thinking of this, Song Yongchen couldn't help but smile. Mr. Su County often said that in science and engineering, a person needs to be better than a person who is good at it.

Although Shaobao was the first to advocate Neo-Confucianism, the responsibility of his successors is not to put him on the altar, but to strive to surpass him, step on his shoulders, and reach higher and brighter stars.

That time, in Shaobao's words, he really "shocked" him, and then he joked that with his ability, he could earn a monthly salary of 300 guan in Sitong Construction.

If he hadn't been one of His Majesty's men, he would have poached him.

Are you kidding? A monthly salary of three hundred guan is the salary set by His Majesty for the governors!

What a pity... I can no longer see the scene of peaches and plums flying and tourists on the Bianqu Embankment that I built with my own hands...

Wait...something's wrong...

What's wrong?

Water! The water under him, the evil river water that could wet the hem of his clothes just now, is now half a foot away from him!

What's going on? How is it possible?

But the flood in front of me is really slowly receding!

Just now, the waves arrogantly submerged the small pebble in front of it, but now, no matter how hard it struggles, it can't reach it!

Song Yongchen slapped himself hard, and there was a burning pain on his face. He was not dreaming! It was not a fantasy when he was about to die!

Tears couldn't help but burst out of his eyes, flowing over the wound on his face that had just been scratched by nails, which made it even more painful.

Song Yongchen covered his heart with both hands and leaned forward, almost lying on the embankment.

A hoarse whimper that was half mad and half demented came out of his mouth.

He was laughing. Although the sound was worse than crying, he knew that he must be laughing.

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Bianjing, Military Aircraft Department.

Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night. If Zhao Xu hadn't been here, Su You would have stayed up all night in the living room.

Now we can only let Cai Jing and Chao Buzhi take charge from outside, while I... have to sleep with Zhao Xu.

Don't get me wrong, there are two small beds in the duty lounge of the Military Aircraft Department, and he and Zhao Xu have one bed each.

Mosquito-repellent incense is added with high-grade spices, which smells very good and has a soothing and calming effect.

Zhao Xu really fell asleep. Su You's calmness and calmness in front of him made him relax after being tense for many days, and he actually... fell asleep.

However, Su You couldn't sleep. Not only could he not sleep, he didn't dare to move for fear of making a noise that would wake Zhao Xu up, not to mention the discomfort.

Now that he has become an official, Su You feels that it is really boring.

If I hadn't lived in this swindling dynasty, I would have no problem digging into any corner and becoming a rich man.

How can it be like now, where you have worked hard for decades and started worrying about it since you were five years old? Can you believe it?

If it were written inside, readers wouldn’t be able to scold the streets?!

Forget it, just memorize it a little, you can’t blame society.

Wei'er is still very busy at the pharmacy. The city is overflowing with sewage, and there are also heat colds, which can also kill people...

I don’t know what happened to the flat jars and colanders in the village, and I don’t know if the hedgehog’s nest was damaged by the rain...

Can hedgehogs be eaten? Forget it, even if they can eat flat cans, I’m sure they won’t let them. I don’t know if the hedgehog I caught is a male or a female...

Oops, I just remembered that I had seen it somewhere. Hedgehogs are sensitive to lactose and cannot be fed dairy products. On Zhongmou Zhuangzi, the most abundant products are dairy products...

Haha, I guess that hedgehog has been reincarnated now...

Su You was fighting against the hedgehog in his mind. He was trying hard to get rid of the feeling of weakness through this incident.

For the first time since traveling to the present, he was unsure of what he was going to do, so he had to feel a sense of weakness.

It is three hundred miles from Kaifeng to Puyang, and it takes fifteen hours to reach the large and small embankments there.

After all, it's almost that time.

Now there is really nothing I can do except ask God for blessings.

There were two gentle knocks at the door. Su You didn't take off his clothes at all. He gently got up from the bed and walked out of the room. It was Cai Jing.

"what time is it?"

Cai Jing said in a low voice: "It's the first day of the month. I guess your Majesty, you can't sleep and feel uncomfortable in there. Why don't you go to the hall and relax."
Chapter completed!