For this important stress test, Zhao Ran not only invited Hong Zesou out of the mountain, but Chi Songzi and Grandma Long Gu were also invited to Yingtian by his flying talisman. Together with Sun Zhenren's master and apprentice, the command headquarters gathered a
Hedao, two Lianxu, and three great alchemists. Only with this power can the test be truly effective.
At first, Hong Zesou was unwilling to go out. When his in-laws were in trouble, he was blocked in the cave by Master Shao and could not get out. He felt that he had not done his best and was embarrassed to see others.
But Zhao Ran came to invite him in person, and said that the two masters of Xu Lian and all the monks in the capital would congratulate him on his visit. Then he turned from shame to joy and agreed to help. As expected, he arrived today as promised.
Zhao Ran specially prepared a welcome ceremony, made a recommendation to Hong Zesou, scratched the old carp's itch, and made him happy, and then began to discuss the pressure test plan.
At midnight, it was once again confirmed that the river surface had been cleared, and several senior practitioners above the Grand Master set out at the same time. Fu Sihai, Fu Jiufang and Granny Longgu went up to the bridge pier, and Hong Zesou, Sun Biyun and Chi Songzi went into the water.
Hong Zesou transformed into his true form and began to circle around the bridge piers, swimming faster and faster, rolling up a rapidly rotating whirlpool at the bottom of the river. The vortex drove the river water to rotate, forming a powerful and continuous force, setting off eddies that tore, pushed and pulled the bridge piers.
Its power was so great that even Sun Biyun and Chi Songzi, two practitioners of Lianxu, could not bear it and retreated ten feet further.
The two of them were not idle either. They each produced magic weapons. Sun Biyun was a purple gold compass and Chi Songzi was a glass paperweight. They controlled the magic weapons together and followed the trend of the vortex to help it rotate.
At this moment, there were huge waves on the river, and the water surged more than three feet high. Wave after wave hit the bridge piers standing in the river crazily.
The command headquarters on the shore had long since retreated to the high embankment, but despite this, there were still endless waves surging up the embankment. The waves rolled up into rain and mist and spread to both sides of the shore, like rain, covering everyone's clothes.
Got wet.
This continued for more than an hour. Many rolling logs and broken boats were lowered from the upper reaches. Driven by the wild current, they rushed towards the bridge pier like wild horses and crashed on it.
At the last moment of the ugly moment, the three great masters of Wudang who had been observing the shape of the bridge on the bridge pier took the flying magic weapon and left the bridge pier, flew to the upstream direction, and together they played a set of high-level wind talismans to form a hurricane talisman array in the air.
In an instant, a strong wind blew up, rolling up higher waves and hitting the bridge piers. The wind spread to the high embankments on both sides of the bank, causing the big trees to sway this way and that, and the leaves of the leaves to rustle.
A set of wind talismans can last for a stick of incense. The magic power of the talisman array has just been exhausted. The three great refiners shot another set of high-level wind talismans to keep the wind going.
For this test, Zhao Ran prepared a third-level advanced wind talisman worth 3,000 taels of silver to ensure that the wind force would not decrease.
There were monks on the embankment, and ordinary people had to retreat long ago, otherwise they would be blown directly into the river by the strong wind.
Taking advantage of the wind, Hong Zesou began to use his strength, leaping from the bottom of the river to the sky, jumping over the bridge pier, and falling into the water from the other side. As he jumped out of the water again and again, the waves gradually rose, forming a giant wave more than ten feet high.
The waves were shot from above and crashed down hard.
One huge wave followed another, causing water from the river to fly all over the sky, and it was pouring rain all over the area.
This is the power of Hedao!
It was not until the beginning of the Mao hour that Hong Zesou stopped, transformed into a human form again and went up to the shore. Sun Biyun and Chi Songzi also put away their magic weapons and climbed onto the bridge pier.
Zhao Ran thanked Hong Zesou: "Old seniors have worked hard. After the bridge is built, the names of the seniors will be engraved on the stone tablets so that thousands of years later, people all over the world will still remember what the seniors have done for the bridge."
Hong Zesou twisted his beard and smiled: "That's not necessary, just do your best. As for whether people in the world will remember it or not, that's up to him." After a few polite words, he added: "But if Zhiran really wants to erect a monument, I suggest asking Yan
I wonder if it’s okay for Mr. Ge to draft the inscription?”
"Haha, it's just like the old man meant."
Zhao Ran accompanied Hong Zesou to have a drink, while Sun Biyun took people around to check the condition of the bridge piers and the degree of damage in the water. After the inspection, he reported the good news to Zhao Ran: "It's as stable as Mount Tai!"
Suddenly there was thunderous cheers on the high embankment.
Zhao Ran announced that construction of the Yingtian Yangtze River Bridge will officially start in early August!
The reason why we have to wait another two months is, firstly, to wait for the completion of the Jinchuan River cable-stayed bridge to verify and test the tension of the cablestays; and secondly, to allow time to reserve massive supplies.
Zhao Ran urged Yang Cunxin to ask Taixuan Guan to speed up the refining of refined steel again. The amount of steel used to build the Yingtian Yangtze River Bridge was different from that of the Jinchuan River cable-stayed bridge, dozens of times!
Yang Cuxin immediately said that the three iron-making alchemy furnaces made by Duanmu Changzhen had been completed. She had already gone to Gezao Mountain to receive them on the way to Yingtian. With these three blast furnaces, Taixuan Pavilion could start construction at the same time.
Refining special effect steel and ordinary steel will ensure that it will not delay the construction of the bridge.
Having witnessed the construction of the Jinchuan River cable-stayed bridge and the testing of the bridge piers, Yang Cunxin was already excited to be able to participate in such a great project.
If growing up and making money were her initial intentions, then from today on, another item has been added to her wish: all for the sake of the bridge!
Entering June, Zhao Ran is waiting for feedback from all parties, including the progress of refining bridge piers in Wudang Mountain, the completion progress of refined steel refining in Taixuan Hall, and the green bricks and gravel from official kilns and quarries in Yingtianfu.
The amount of storage, the lessons of the third training class for architectural monks, the number of craftsmen summoned by the Ministry of Industry from all provinces in the world, and the payment and income accounts of money, etc.
He didn't even have time to attend the signing ceremony for the first batch of small-denomination banknotes totaling 50,000 taels that Four Seasons Bank purchased from the Bank of Banknotes. He was too busy.
But there was an official document from Yingtian Mansion that forced him to find a way to solve it.
This is an official document transferred from Maoshan, signed by the Civilized City Creation and Assessment Committee.
Last year, Zhao Ran launched a civilized city creation activity in various counties of Yingtian Prefecture. Then, with the support of Dali Temple Shaoqing Zheng Bengong, he spread the activity to the entire southern Zhili. However, after it was rolled out, there was no follow-up because King Qi
Treason.
In November last year, after the major restructuring of Shangsan Palace, this matter was handed over to Maoshan. Zhao Ran did not expect that Maoshan did not start a new approach, but accepted his set of assessment methods and even included them all.
The activities to create a civilized city in South Zhili that had been launched before Wang Mou's rebellion continued.
Maoshan spent two months quietly visiting all the counties in southern Zhili, and then suddenly released the assessment results.
The reason why Wang Zongyi forwarded the official document was because Shangyuan County and Jiangning County were ranked at the bottom and rated as unqualified!