Wang Yuan stood with his head high by the river, and beside him were Shu Kunshan, Li Chongsi, Yu Lin, Wang Yangming, Liang Xi, Ma Lun and other officials. This order was based on age and official position.
As for the old eunuch Li Xing and Wang Yuan's many disciples, they are still busy at their respective construction sites.
The three dredging boats were sailing on the river. Due to their shallow draft, they were completely unaffected by the silt on the river bottom. There were only occasional ice floes that had to be pushed aside with poles to avoid running into them.
In front of everyone's attention, the water workers threw down the "dragon in the river", stirring up the sediment on the river bottom to disperse it even more.
Immediately afterwards, the four workers pushed the power platform on the deck like a grinding mill. It didn't take much effort on their part. The gears drove the gears, and then drove the canvas tracks. Soon the iron bucket on the tracks was
Then the mud was dug out bucket by bucket and automatically fell into the wicker basket placed on the deck.
The silt excavated by two or three buckets can fill a large basket, which can be transported away in small boats by the pit workers.
Liang Xi, a general involved in water transportation, was extremely troubled by the siltation of the river. When he saw this, he couldn't help shouting: "This is a powerful tool for river control, which can ensure the smooth flow of water transportation!"
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "General Liang, the rolling dam on the upper reaches of the Wei River can slow down the water flow and block the sediment. But it must be cleaned frequently, otherwise the rolling dam will be blocked by the sand and become useless. It is best to take three months from now on."
Clean it up once.”
"I remember," Liang Xi said happily, "With this kind of dredging ship, it is very easy to clean up the sediment, unlike before where we had to organize thousands of soldiers and civilians at every turn."
Sometimes, the local method is the best method.
This kind of dredging ship does not need a steam engine at all, otherwise it will have to transport extra coal, and machine maintenance is also a problem. The imperial court maintains a large number of water workers, and there is no shortage of manpower. If mechanization is really realized, what do you ask the water workers to do on a daily basis?
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Wang Yuan also had practical considerations in building the rolling dam by using Sanhe soil instead of cement.
Even if we organize craftsmen to study for several years and come up with modern cement, with the current technical level, it is impossible to meet the standards for building a dam. If we can barely build it, it will be a shoddy project - cement has different grades!
Engineering-strength composite soil is different. Various auxiliary materials are added to it. After being compacted layer by layer, it becomes stronger as it ages. It is not easy to explode with ordinary explosives.
In ancient times, the power of the development of cement was mainly reflected in the civilian and military fields.
For example, in Wang Yuan's factory in Tianjin, if there is cement, factories and dormitories can be built easily. For example, in the northern border area, cement can be used to quickly build side walls in large quantities, and can even build fortresses layer by layer.
Shu Kunshan clapped his hands and said with a smile: "This is a tool that benefits the country and the people. I will write a poem in praise of Scholar Wang!"
Malun, the governor of the state, also quickly flattered: "Xueshi Wang created things, Yushi Shu wrote poems, and a hundred years later, there will be a legend in Linqing Prefecture."
Officials in Linqing Prefecture agreed one after another, and for a while there was a flood of flattery.
Although the disciples brought by Wang Yangming also found the dredging boat very convenient, most of them had never been exposed to actual practice and did not know what it really meant. Therefore, they felt that Wang Yuan's invention was nothing more than that.
Li Chongsi smiled and said: "It seems that the court should dredge the Datong River (Tonghui River) next year."
It is a total of 160 miles from Datong Bridge outside Beijing to Tongzhou. Siltation began during the Yongle period. In the past hundred years, several attempts to dredge the river failed, and each time the dredging was blocked again soon. Moreover, dredging the river was also very laborious.
Very soon, the river water needs to be drained in sections, allowing river workers to dig out the mud with hoes, and then carry it away with difficulty on their shoulders and hands.
Therefore, the imperial court simply did not bother to dredge. After the grain was transported to Tongzhou, the remaining more than 100 miles were transported by land. It was not until the sixth year of Jiajing that Wu Zhong, the censor of Xuncang, read the classics and followed the water diversion route of Guo Shoujing of the Yuan Dynasty.
Once and for all results.
Grain can be transported by land instead, but it will cost more.
The problem is that merchant ships also have to take the land route, which is time-consuming and expensive. The dock on the Datong Bridge is almost abandoned. Bulky commodities such as lumber are transported from the south to Beijing. Because this section of the river is silted up, transportation costs are rising.
The child's is rising.
Now that Wang Yuan's dredging boats are available, there is no need to drain the rivers and organize tens of thousands of people to dredge them. Instead, they only need to build 30 dredging boats and station 600 river workers on a regular basis to dig out the silt back and forth every day.
It was possible to dig it out in the first half of the year. Moreover, the silt dug out is good agricultural fertilizer and can be sold to make money.
What is more convenient is daily maintenance. The dredging boat can remove silt from time to time. There is no need to wait for a large amount of silt to accumulate before draining the river water to carry out tens of thousands of people.
In the Qing Dynasty, the Tonghui River was known as the Qinhuai River in the north, which was all due to the dredging of the Jiajing Dynasty.
The Tonghui River in the Zhengde Dynasty was in very bad condition, with large merchant ships completely extinct. After the dredging boats dredged the river, Beijing's commerce will surely become more prosperous, and countless people will benefit from it. At least the price of rice in the capital will drop a lot!
Li Chongsi thought of these things, Wang Yangming thought of them, but it was difficult for Wang Yangming's disciples to think of them.
It has nothing to do with IQ, it is purely a matter of vision. Those young people still have a long way to go.
Among the more than ten students who followed Wang Yangming to Linqing was a false believer. This person's name was Jiang Xin, whose courtesy name was Qingshi. He had already listened to Wang Yangming's lectures on his way to Guizhou, but he had not officially become a disciple at that time.
That's all.
After returning to his residence, Jiang Xin met with Wang Yangming alone and said, "Sir, I want to transfer to physics. Please allow me to do so."
Wang Yangming smiled and said: "If you want to learn, just go and learn. There is no distinction between doors and walls here."
Jiang Xin was afraid that Wang Yangming would be angry, so he explained: "It is true that the disciples are stupid and cannot understand the teachings of conscience. Sometimes it is difficult to know how to do it, sometimes it is difficult to know how to do it. All kinds of doubts are hidden in the heart, and even if you ask the teacher for advice, you can't solve it. Maybe, physics
The way is more suitable for disciples."
Historically, this person followed Wang Yangming for several years. When he saw Zhan Ruoshui, he immediately changed his family. This is because of Zhan Ruoshui's philosophy of mind, which advocates observing all things to obtain the principles of nature, and then using the perceived principles of heaven to reflect his heart, unlike Yangming's philosophy of mind.
So ethereal and elusive.
The news that Jiang Xin planned to change his major quickly spread among the fanatical believers.
My friend Ji Yuanheng was very unhappy and asked, "Qing Shi, why did you betray your husband?"
Jiang Xin explained: "I have not betrayed my husband, but I am not talented enough to understand the knowledge of conscience, so I want to find another way from physics."
Ji Yuanheng sneered and said: "What is the way of physics? I think it is the way of hundreds of works. Improving dredging boats will indeed benefit the country and the people, but compared with the way of Xinxue, it is just a trivial way. Our goal in learning is to achieve
Saint, rather than being a master craftsman."
Jiang Xin said: "That's not the case. Scholar Wang is also your disciple and has already understood the essence of mind science. How could he only care about trivial things?"
Ji Yuanheng said: "The relationship between words, deeds and doctrines is more like the descendants of Mohism during the Warring States Period."
"Why is it the Mo family again?" Jiang Xin asked.
Ji Yuanheng said: "He carries a sword and is followed by his disciples. He kills officials when he is angry. He also focuses on inventing instruments and is obsessed with the art of craftsmanship. With so many things, what else can he do if he is not a Mohist?"
Jiang Xin muttered: "If you put it this way, your mind is still like Zen Buddhism."
Ji Yuanheng was furious: "Zen Buddhism is just about sitting around. How can we be confused with knowledge and action? Zen Buddhism's Kung Fu is just imagined, and our Kung Fu is made by doing things. You really don't understand your knowledge, sir!"
Jiang Xin said: "Perhaps, the way of physics is just similar to the Mohist school."
"Do you really want to study physics?" Ji Yuanheng asked.
Jiang Xin asked: "Do you still want to sever ties with me because of this?"
"That's not the case. Everyone has his or her own ambitions, so just go ahead." Ji Yuanheng left angrily.
The next day, Jiang Xin went to ask Wang Yuan for advice. Wang Yuan did not talk about the specific content of mathematics or physics. He only presented Zhu Xi's teachings, mixed with Yangming's theory of mind, and misinterpreted it beyond recognition. It was a complete deception.
Then he used various common sense examples of physics, and said that he had seen the true face of the moon with his own eyes, that the earth was a ball rotating around the sun, and so on.
Jiang Xin was impressed by the phrase "all principles correspond to all things". The doubts he had accumulated from Wang Yangming suddenly became clear. This was the knowledge he wanted to pursue!
"Scholar Wang, I want to learn physics, please give me some advice." Jiang Xin bowed to Wang Yuan as a disciple.
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "You and I are fellow students, so there is no need to be so arrogant. We can just learn from each other and confirm each other from now on."
Out of nowhere, Wang Yuan actually stole a disciple from Wang Yangming, and he was the disciple that Wang Yangming accepted before he attained enlightenment.
Wang Yangming is not unhappy, he has taken over the supervision of the construction of the reservoir.
Wang Wensu has always been in charge of the construction site over the reservoir. He was often in a hurry and had to have Wang Yuan wipe his ass. Now that Wang Yangming has taken over, Wang Yuan does not need to worry at all, and things are much smoother than before.
Wang Yuan spent the Spring Festival this year at the construction site, while Shu Kunshan stayed in the city to have fun with a group of literati.
By the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival had passed, and the reservoir, rolling dam, and diversion canal were finally completed.
It must be completed, and the longer it takes, the more frustrated the workers will be.
Because they are all victims of the disaster who have left their hometowns, they want to rush back to their hometowns to busy with spring plowing. Once they miss the spring plowing time, they will have no food and clothing throughout the year. This is why Wang Yuan is frantically scrambling for construction dates.