There were tanks in the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 386
Li Chu was preparing, and Fang La was also preparing.

On the third day of May, there are two days left before the Dragon Boat Festival.

Liangzhe Road, Qingxi County, Suizhou.

Qingxi County was called CA County in later generations, and the famous Qiandao Lake in later generations is next to Qingxi County.

This is also the area where the Huashi Gang is the most serious.

Song Huizong Zhao Ji loved flower stones very much, especially Taihu stones.

What is Taihu Stone?
Taihu stone, also known as cave stone and rockery stone, is formed slowly after long-term erosion of limestone, and can be divided into two types: water stone and dry stone.Water stones are slowly formed in rivers and lakes after being washed by water waves and eroded over a long period of time.The dry rock is formed by the long-term erosion of the limestone in the geological period under the long-term erosion of the acidic red soil.Taihu stones with different shapes and various postures can best embody the beauty of "wrinkled, leaky, thin and transparent". Most of its colors are white stones, and there are few blue, black and yellow stones.Especially the yellow ones are rarer, so they are especially suitable for arranging parks, lawns, campuses, courtyard tourism scenery, etc., and have high ornamental value.

Taihu Stone is not only produced in Taihu Lake.

Qiandao Lake is named after 1078 emerald islands in the lake.

There are many islands here, and it is also the place where Taihu stone is abundant, and it is also one of the places where the damage of Huashigang is the most serious.

In nine years, the population here has dropped by two-thirds.

Most of them sold their sons and daughters to starve to death or were killed by the government. Only a few left abandoned their homes and chose to make a living elsewhere.

The fifth day of May, the Dragon Boat Festival.

This is a commemorative event, but since the Huashigang incident started, since five years ago, there has been no concept of festivals in Qingxi County. At most, during the Spring Festival, you will be given a half-day holiday for you to go home for the New Year.

This year, be extra cautious.

Several huge flower stones were salvaged from the bottom of the lake, and the people in Yingfeng Bureau were very satisfied with these Taihu Lake stones.

With his satisfaction, the local people suffered again.

Since the four boulders could not be loaded by a large ship, and there were shallows all around, the boulders could only be tied up manually and pulled out.This is a very large project. The local people were all recruited. Each of them carried a hemp rope on their backs one by one, stepped on the bottom of the water with most of their bodies, and walked on foot on the mud and sand at the bottom of the lake.

The linen cloth on the shoulders was worn out by the hemp rope. Nearly ten thousand people went to pull the four boulders, but after half a month, they only walked less than a few hundred steps.

Officers and soldiers shuttled back and forth on the lake in small boats. They held whips in one hand and fine wine and meat in the other. If they saw anyone who disliked them, they would whip them over and leave red marks on their faces. Don't forget to laugh three times and continue to enjoy the wine.

The civilian husbands who were recruited dared not speak out when they were angry, and they didn't even dare to raise their heads. Once they looked up, the officers and soldiers saw the eyes full of anger, and they waited for either whips or various beatings.

Not that no one resisted.

The civilian husband who was beaten looked at Shenlong Island in front, his eyes were full of horror.

Those who resisted were killed only lightly. Once this group of officers and soldiers were angered, they would be arrested and taken to Shenlong Island. That was the real cruelty.

Shenlong Island, this is a good name for heaven.

In fact, there are all kinds of snakes everywhere on Shenlong Island, regardless of whether there are poisonous snakes or non-venomous snakes, you can see many of them in almost one step on the island. Going up, locking people together with more than a dozen hungry non-poisonous snakes, letting the snakes bite people to death, that kind of scene is horrifying, just think about it for a while, and listen to that miserable cry...

I can only endure silently, endure, endure the days when I don't know when it will end.

"Hurry up, give me a hard pull."

Small boats shuttled across the lake, and the officers and soldiers on board kept cursing.

These boulders themselves are extremely heavy, but now they are walking on the water, most of their bodies are in the water, and the sand is trampled under their feet. If they are not lucky, they may encounter some water snakes, snails, crabs, etc. Feel better, the officers and soldiers don't care if you are injured or not, but if you find that you have neglected a whip, it will be light.

On the deeper lake, a large boat was parked.

The priest from Yingfeng Bureau and the magistrate of Qingxi County stood at the bow of the boat.

Alcohol, already drunk.

Dishes, also eaten.

But with this progress, there has been almost no progress in the past few days.

The priest had a gloomy face.

Today is the Dragon Boat Festival.

In addition to the Dragon Boat Festival, there is another day that no one else knows.

This day is very important.

Official birthday.

Song Huizong Zhao Ji's birthday!

Zhao Ji's 38th birthday.

Originally, it was planned to offer these boulders as a gift on the birthday of the official family, to be favored by the official family, but the progress could not keep up.

After discussing with the Feng Bureau, the date was postponed until the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, and the salary was planned to be offered on the Mid-Autumn Festival. But now it is the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May, and these big rocks are still in Qiandao Lake. In the mid-autumn festival, there are only three months away from the Mid-Autumn Festival.

In three months, it will be loaded on a ship and transported all the way along the waterway. The boulder is so heavy, and it will take too much time to go by water. How can this time be enough?
Yingfeng Bureau was already very angry.

Zhu Qian even dropped his wine glass several times, and those who made offerings were terrified.

Looking at this progress, if this progress continues, not to mention the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, I am afraid that even the Double Ninth Festival in September will not be there.

The priest said to the county magistrate of Qingxi next to him: "Go and recruit another 1 people. Since 2 people can't move, then 2 people. When the festival comes, if you still can’t ship to me, whether you can continue to be a county magistrate is another matter, and you can just wait for Master Zhu’s anger.”

With a throw of his sleeve, the priest walked back to the boat building.

In the boat building, Pang Yanyan, the most famous singer in Qingxi County, was waiting inside.

The magistrate couldn't bear the anger of this priest, so he replaced it with this gorgeous Qingxi Pang Yanyan. After a while, there was a corrupt voice, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Outstanding, here, you can only sing songs without words.

If 1 people are not enough, then 2 people.

If 2 people are not enough, then 3 people.

In short, it must be shipped before the Rain Festival.

Rain Festival, May [-]th, Rain Festival.

In other words, there are still seven days.

Seven days!
Where is seven days enough?
So Qingxi County Venerable immediately wrote a letter and sent it to Jiande quickly, and sent it to Zhou Venerable.

If so many civil servants are recruited at one time, and they are in such a hurry, there will definitely be accidents. The magistrate does not have such a big right in this matter, nor does the state lord, so the state lord wrote a letter to the road transfer envoy In his hand, he asked to send garrisons to protect and maintain the field.

It was related to the construction of Longevity Mountain. Zhou Zun immediately approved it after receiving the news, and asked the three thousand Xiang army stationed in Shouchang to rush over, and at the same time asked the one thousand forbidden army in Suian to help.

(End of this chapter)