Fu Yang opened his mouth so wide that he could have stuffed an egg into it: "I... Damn it! I don't know, I don't know. I was shocked when I saw it. I was still surprised before that there are no real big rivers in Shanghai."
flows through the city. The river closest to this sluice is also the largest river in the city, which is the Suzhou River. With such a small amount of water and less than two meters deep, how could such a huge sluice be built? Now
Only then did I realize that it was simply shocking.”
Wei Ke also nodded numbly, his eyes flashing with strong shock.
Even she, the ghost king, was so shocked by the hydrology and geography of the Shanghai area. Why exactly?
The main problem lies in the Suzhou River...
Suzhou River starts from Beixinjing, flows through Putuo District, Jing'an District, Hongkou District and Huangpu District of Shanghai, and ends at the mouth of Waibaidu Bridge. Finally, it merges into the mighty Huangpu River at Waibaidu Bridge.
Suzhou River is a small river.
The width is only about 20 meters, and the average flow rate is only 10 cubic meters/second, which is even close to zero during the dry season. The water depth is about 2 meters at low water levels.
This seems to be something that most citizens in East China are familiar with.
However, in the history of China, this was not the case!
The Suzhou River used to be a huge river, and the truth is shocking.
The name of Suzhou River in ancient times was mainly Wusong River; in older times, it was also called Songjiang River.
It is recorded in many official historical books that for a long time in history, the average width of the Songjiang River was more than ten kilometers!!!
The river surface is wide and powerful. There is a poem that says: The water of Wusong shakes the lake, and the waves are vast and thunderous!
Even until the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Songjiang River section in the Qingpu area of Shanghai City today was still "nine miles wide". The widest part of the river mouth where it enters the sea is trumpet-shaped, and is 20 miles wide. Therefore, there is also the "Wusong Ancient River", which is deep and wide, rivaling Qianpu
” statement.
From the end of the Northern Song Dynasty to the present, it is not even a thousand years, but about nine hundred years.
In just a few hundred years, a huge long river, which was nearly ten miles (5,000 meters) wide, rapidly shrank to the current 20 meters?
This kind of frightening contrast and contraction speed may not be enough to describe it as "unbelievable"!
By the Yuan Dynasty, the Wusong River had shrunk to seven or eight miles. Moreover, the silt accumulated at the entrance to the sea, and seawater intrusion often occurred. In order to avoid this situation, the court at that time asked Ren Renfa to go to Shanghai to manage the waterway, and finally built this river.
Huge river sluice.
Through the two-way gate, the wide waterway of Wusong River is kept smooth.
This information is not even information from the supernatural world, but is recorded in the official history of ordinary people!
These alone make people feel chilly on their soles and creepy.
Fu Yang's eyes were dull and he murmured to himself: "In other words, around the Qin and Han Dynasties, at least 80% of the urban area of Shanghai today is still submerged in the deep water?"
Wei Ke nodded: "I'm afraid that's right! Even China's third largest island, Chongming Island, only surfaced and formed during the Tang Dynasty. The time is really too short, abnormally short."
That’s right!
Magic City Shanghai...
This is really like a mysterious city!
What amazing secrets are hidden beneath the surface of the bustling modern city?!
It actually took one to two thousand years to complete the process that normally takes one to two million years. From a geographical and geological perspective, this city would never have appeared at all...
"It's really amazing! I was scared."
Fu Yang touched his chest.
He vaguely felt that there should be a huge secret hidden in it. And this secret, just revealing the tip of the iceberg, would probably destroy people's outlook on life, and it was definitely subversive.
And based on intuition, Fu Yang felt that this magical Yuan Dynasty sluice site was part of this shocking secret!
The couple sighed for a while before their minds stabilized and their emotions calmed down.
Fu Yang chuckled: "I didn't expect that we can also be said to be powerful overlords in the supernatural world. We were actually surprised by the official history of ordinary people."
Wei Ke was a little noncommittal: "People who are not from the supernatural world would be agitated if they knew this, right? It's a pity that in this era, everyone is working hard to live and make money. They are all concerned about the economy and buying a house or a car. How many of them are there?
Will ordinary people care about this kind of unpopular knowledge and information?"
What she said does make sense.
I'm afraid that only they, the powerful supernatural beings who have no worries about food, clothing, housing and transportation, or some powerful elites among ordinary people, have the heart to explore these secrets hidden under the seemingly ordinary world, right?
"Okay, let's not sigh. There shouldn't be anything that Wang Jian is interested in in this glass corridor that ordinary tourists can visit. It's better to go to the core of the sluice gate to take a look."
Fu Yang held Wei Ke's hand and pointed to the last location of the entire visit.
That is also a platform, but it is at the lowest point of the entire sluice site!
There is a section extending out in front, where you can see the magnificent gate and spillway of the sluice at the closest distance. It is like a door to another world, very mysterious and vicissitudes of life.
Fu Yang walked over and stared at the spectacular sluice gate ruins.
Hundreds of years have passed, and after some repairs, it is still shocking. It seems that you can hear the roaring waves and the magnificent roar!
"This gate, the bottom of the incomplete gate after repair is nearly ten meters high. I can't believe how majestic the complete gate was back then."
He sighed.
But think about it.
At that time, the Suzhou River was not only twenty meters wide like it is now. Even after it was partially blocked, it was as wide as ten miles wide!
To build a sluice at such an estuary, what kind of exquisite skills are needed? How powerful supernatural spells are needed to cooperate?
Wei Ke walked over and was about to speak: "Husband, this..."
Buzz!!!
A sudden change occurred!
The walnut-sized black stone in Fu Yang's pocket suddenly began to tremble violently and glowed. It flew out automatically and floated in front of him.
Fortunately, although the Yuan Dynasty Watergate Site Museum is of great significance, it is a very, very unpopular place in the society. There are almost no people there on weekdays. Otherwise, ordinary people would probably be shocked when they saw Fu Yang's scene.
At the moment when the small black stone glowed, the dilapidated and repaired ancient sluice gate in front of me burst out with a burst of bright light!
Of course, it only flickered for less than a second and then disappeared. (Chapter 2 ends today)