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- At night, the Shigongshan quarry in the south of Xishan Island finally became quiet.
On the stone pier three miles long under the quarry, torches still shine in the sky.
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Liang and Miwa had been waiting until now, and it was their turn to row the boat to the dock.
At this time, the steward of the quarry asked them to show the red ticket.
¡°It was received from the county the day before departure. It had a unique number and the size of the ship.
The person in charge lit the torch, wrote down the number, stamped it, handed it back to Ms. Liang, and gave her four meal tickets.
The steward shouted: "One piece of information!"
The husband then carried the stones in the baskets to the mother-in-law's boat, and stopped after loading six baskets in total.
The waterline reached the side of the ship in no time. Fortunately, after the two civilians got down, it rose a little higher.
"Move the boat far away and stay out of the way." The steward waved his hand and told them to leave quickly.
The two women carefully maneuvered the boat, avoiding the densely packed boats on the pier, and went outside to find a berth.
Fortunately, their boat was small and they found a space to stop less than a mile from the dock.
Then the couple got off the boat and walked to the large canteen not far away. With two meal tickets, each received a large bowl of brown rice, a pickled herring, and a bowl of bitter melon soup with egg droplets floating on it.
Miwa took a piece of half-salted fish and a bowl of rice, which made her burp until she was full.
"It's so delicious!" The half-grown boy was bubbling with happiness. "Just for this salted fish, I will pull stones every day."
"Looking at your potential, I think you are no different from salted fish." Mrs. Liang smiled and rolled her eyes at him, but this Jiangnan company is really wealthy and can actually make the fish so salty.
I heard that there is a big salt merchant among the shareholders, so it must be true that he is so willing to put in salt.
After dinner, the couple went back to the boat and took a nap. At dawn, Mrs. Liang got up, and with her two remaining meal tickets, she went to get four steamed buns, two salted duck eggs, and boiled them cold.
After taking it back to the boat and calling Mi Wa, the couple ate steamed buns with salted duck eggs, and then returned home as soon as possible.
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It was a smooth journey on the way back. Although it is fully loaded, it saves time and effort.
Before noon, the boat returned to Kunshan. The section number 'twenty-two' is written on the back of the sign. Although Liang is illiterate, he still recognizes numbers one to ten.
The two women rowed the boat to the twenty-second section. After showing the sign, someone soon came up, hooked the baskets with iron hooks, and hoisted the baskets up the embankment.
After the last basket was hoisted, Mrs. Liang breathed a long sigh of relief. This time the task was finally completed.
The couple rowed a boat and took a long detour, returning to the county town from Xiajia River. Because Li Hua is building a sluice here.
There are many rivers in the south of the Yangtze River. There are six tributaries to the north on the 62-mile Wusong River in Kunshan.
These six parallel rivers provide drinking water, irrigation and travel convenience for the people of Kunbei, and it is impossible to block them all.
It is necessary to set up gates, which can be opened for boating during normal times and closed when floods come to prevent waterlogging. This is also the difficulty of the entire embankment project.
Fortunately, there is Pan Jixun.
Pan Zhongcheng and Zheng Ruo once traveled to all the rivers in the wind and rain, and after repeated deliberation, they designed different sluices for the six rivers.
??For example, on the ten-foot-wide Xiajia River, he adopted a left and right double gate design, with each gate having a front and rear gate. There is also a water scale engraved on the side of the gate. When it is time to open one gate and when it is time to open both gates, you can tell at a glance.
In the past, it would have taken more than half a year to build the Xiajia River gate alone, but now with concrete and prefabricated panels, the project is much simpler.
The gate uses prefabricated bamboo reinforced panels and is poured elsewhere.
The gate chamber and gate piers are built using the block construction method and concrete is poured directly.
The so-called block building method is an ancient architectural technique. To put it simply, the frame is built with wooden boards, supported by wooden piles and sticks on the outside, and tightly tied with ropes to ensure it is strong, and then filled with soil and tamped.
Most city walls and even the Great Wall have adopted this technique.
In fact, the high-rise buildings four hundred years later were built using the same method.
Zhao Hao originally planned to teach the craftsmen the pouring method, but when he saw that others had a ready-made method, he stopped trying.
In the end, he only reminded Pan Jixun of two points. First, concrete will release heat when it solidifies, so pay attention to watering to cool down. Second, when pouring, workers must use sticks to tamp the concrete to eliminate gaps and make the concrete densely bonded.
In fact, this is something that future generations will need to pay attention to in large-scale projects that often span tens to hundreds of meters. At the moment, we are just constructing a sluice of a few meters high. Regardless of these two points, it is not a big problem.
A hundred years after the birth of concrete, who knew these things? Aren't you just doing it right?
But the stakes of this dam are too important. Mr. Zhao would rather be cautious than have any hidden dangers.
This made Mr. Pan look at him with admiration and felt that this idle boy had some merits.
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The two women sailed the boat and entered the gate of the earth embankment. They saw a group of craftsmen busy on the bamboo scaffolding.
When Miwa saw it, she immediately saw her father working at the top.
"Daddy, daddy!" He waved his hands and shouted excitedly.
"Hey! Good son!" Many craftsmen responded in unison: "Where's your mother!"
"Mom, you're going to die soon!" Li Hua laughed and scolded, then threw a piece of clay and some ideas down to reward those bitches.
He waved to his son, gave his wife a toothy smile, and then accurately threw a three-pound grass carp from a high place into the cabin.
"It burned at night."
In the morning when the gate was closed and dredged, a lot of big fish were caught, and this was the one he got.
Ms. Liang also smiled sweetly at her husband and slowly rocked the oar back.
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In the evening, the couple finally returned to the county town. They handed in their tickets at the dock and received the 'subsidy' for the trip - four kilograms of rice, two taels of oil and three cents of salt.
If they were a second-rate ship, they could receive twice as much supplies. The couple saw with their own eyes that a large boat of 50 tons took away two bags of rice, a barrel of oil, and a large bag of salt.
Although it would take a dozen people to maneuver such a big boat, it was still much more cost-effective than their small boat.
¡°Hey, you shouldn¡¯t think like that. We don't go out to get benefits from the county.
Ms. Liang felt deeply ashamed of her selfishness. In fact, to a large extent, she just thought that sailing would give more than weaving baskets
The couple put the fish, grain and oil into baskets and happily returned to their home in Xin'an Minshe, Sibao, Liuli and Qijia.
Mrs. Liang asked her son to pick up his younger siblings and bring back a load of water.
She quickly opened the door, put down the basket, and started handling the big grass carp.
After a while of busy work, it became completely dark.
The fire in the fire pit was bright and warm, and the fish soup in the pot had an enticing aroma, which once again made the child next door cry.
The children gathered around the fire pit, sniffling hard and swallowing saliva.
At this time, the door of the house opened, and Li Hua came in carrying a pole. .
"Daddy is back!" The youngest son and daughter cheered, jumping forward to greet their father and throwing themselves into his arms. "Finally it's time to eat."
"I'm back, let's wash up and eat." Mrs. Liang also stood up and took the pole from her husband.
"Well, you've worked hard too." Li Hua reached out and touched his wife's face.
Under the reflection of the pond fire, her face was red.
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