In late summer, the weather was hot, and a long convoy was driving on the official road. The south side of the official road was a mountain wall, and not far from the north side was the Yellow River. The Yellow River water flowing from west to east made a huge roar.

In the Yellow River, there is a huge stone pillar standing, bearing the impact of the river but not moving.

This pillar is called Dizhu, which looks tall as a mountain. It is also known as Dizhu Mountain. At the foot of the mountain is dense forest, with a little cloud and mist on the side of the mountain, and it looks like a huge pillar standing in the Yellow River.

According to legend, when Dayu controlled the flood for a long time ago, this Dizhu Mountain was found. It was precisely because of the Dizhu Mountain that this section of the Yellow River became "irritable".

There is a high and low rock at the foot of Dizhu Mountain, which then causes the flowing Yellow River water to form three rapids. One in the north is called the "Man Gate", the "Shen Gate" in the middle and the "Ghost Gate" in the south.

Among these three "gate", the "ghost gate" is even more dangerous.

This is also true. The Yellow River Canyon here is called Sanmenxia. Since the Yellow River water is the most urgent and dangerous in the place, accidents of ships hitting the reef and killing when passing through Sanmenxia.

However, no matter how turbulent the river water rushed towards Dizhu Mountain, this tall "pillar" stood tall in the face of the dangerous water. This has been the case for thousands of years, so Dizhu Mountain was also called "The Mainstream Pillar".

It is famous. Dizhu Mountain is a gate of hell for boatmen on the Yellow River. Every ship passing through Dizhu Mountain safely will feel like it will be a disaster.

If it weren't for the sake of livelihood, no one would be willing to take the risk of sailing through the Dizhushan River section. It is precisely because this section of the river is not easy to sail, most of the materials transported from Guandong to Guanzhong can only be taken by land. The "Two Capital Roads" connecting Luoyang and Chang'an have become the busiest road in the world.

However, although the official roads have existed since ancient times, they are not flat roads. Some sections of roads are quite rugged. It doesn’t matter if a carriage passes through, but it will be more difficult to walk on it with carriages and wheelbarrows loaded with heavy carriages.

For this team that is moving towards Chang'an, although there are a lot of supplies, they are relatively easy, because the official road has been sorted out and is a little flatter than before. The sturdy and durable four-wheeled carriages share a lot of heavy goods.

Therefore, the young and strong men who were pushing the cart were a little more relaxed, so they had time to look at the Dizhu Mountain on the north side and sigh from time to time.

What they talk about is the goods transported by the team. Among these goods, in addition to the inevitable food and cloth, it is said that there are also various seafood.

First of all, the popular Khumbu, also known as kelp, as well as precious seafood such as Yaozhu and salted fish. At the same time, there are fine salt produced in the seaside salt farm and sea cucumbers that are said to be produced in overseas foreign countries.

When it comes to sea cucumbers, many people find it very strange. Everyone has only heard of extremely precious ginseng that grows in the soil, but never heard of ginseng that grows in the sea.

The sea is full of salt. Will this ginseng taste very salty?

The common people have never seen the world. Not to mention ginseng, they don’t even have the chance to eat a few more bites of meat, let alone know the taste of sea cucumbers. Therefore, the young and strong people who transport supplies just regard this as anecdotes and show off their capital in front of their fellow villagers in the future.

Since the establishment of the Maritime Mansion Department, more overseas goods have been shipped to Chang'an. It is precisely because of this that the people who travel between the two capitals have been exposed to various strange seafood.

Of course, the so-called "contact" is actually just heard. The goods shipped by the Maritime Bureau to Chang'an are all packed in wooden boxes with seals. Everyone can smell some fishy smell at most, and the actual thing is not qualified to see.

But everyone knows that these seafood are shipped to Chang'an. After deducting the part sent to the palace, the remaining seafood can be sold at a good price in the east and west markets. In today's Chang'an city, there is a great demand for exotic seafood such as kombu and sea cucumbers.

The young and strong were fantasizing about how delicious Kumbu was, but they saw many people gathering on the dirt slope next to the road ahead. Among them, several of them were wearing official uniforms and looking at Dizhu Mountain in the river, pointing their fingers.

In this case, young and strong people have seen many such situations. Usually, officials passing by here can't help but linger when they see the magnificent scenery of the Pizhu Mountain, shaking their heads to write poems, and sighing at the beautiful scenery.

But today the behavior of this group of people was a bit strange. Someone set up a tripod next to the earthen slope and set up a strange device. The man leaned his face towards the device, and he didn't know what he was doing.

The others looked like officials, busy on the slope. Some people set up tripod wooden racks, and there was a strange device on the rack. Some people put their faces against the device, but they didn't know what they were trying to do.

Those people in official uniforms were holding a few pieces of paper and talking about something with each other. It didn't look like they were writing poems with their pens, but more like they were painting.

The team slowly passed through the earth slope and continued to move forward, while the people on the earth slope were still discussing heatedly.

Yu Wen Kai, the chief supervisor who was surveying the terrain near Dizhu Mountain on site, looked at the group of "surveying and mapping data", and his brows gradually frowned. He no longer had absolute confidence in his plan to succeed as he did at the beginning.

Not to mention refuting the doubters.

Yuwen Kai was proficient in engineering and construction. He had previously presided over the construction of Luoyang New City. Last year, he began presided over the site selection, planning and construction of Chang'an New City, but one of the major projects he had always wanted to carry out was to blow up Dizhu Mountain.

With the sky-blasting thunder, this is not a delusion. As long as Dizhu Mountain is blown up, the Yellow River section of Sanmenxia can be unobstructed, and the natural danger will never be there.

This is a feat. The Dizhu Mountain, which has been standing here for thousands of years, is gone, so a large number of canal ships can be loaded with materials transported from various parts of Guandong. With the help of a boatman, he goes upstream and arrives at Chang'an through the Guangtong Canal.

Chang'an is the capital with a large population and requires a large amount of food, cloth and various materials for immediate needs. It takes time and effort to transport such a huge amount of materials into Chang'an every year, and the transportation of canals is the most cost-effective.

However, the existence of Dizhu Mountain made Sanmenxia a thorn in the throat of the Yellow River canal transport, making it difficult to deal with pain.

Therefore, Yuwen Kai, who was determined to solve the problem of Chang'an's canal transportation, planned to use the thunder to blow up Dizhu Mountain and clear the canal transportation of the Yellow River, which is famous in history.

For this reason, he carefully made some plans and wrote many letters to state the pros and cons. The prime minister was about to be convinced by him, but he was in trouble.

Some people questioned his plan, believing that there are serious hidden dangers, claiming that once the pillar is blown up, the Sanmenxia River section will not only not become smooth from now on, but will instead flow dozens of miles against the Yan River, harming the upstream and along the river area.

In order to cure the "stubborn disease" of Dizhu Mountain, Yuwen Kai worked hard to formulate the plan. He realized that it was foolproof. Now that he is questioned like this, he must refute it. However, it would be okay if others questioned it, but it was the one who questioned him, which is more troublesome now.

At the beginning of last year, the emperor collapsed and the new king succeeded to the throne. The royal family of the dynasty, Wang Yuwen Wen, served as the priest of Tokyo Xiaozuka, the general manager of Luozhou, was in charge of Luoyang and operated Henan.

Over the past year, King Bin has outstanding political achievements and is in harmony with the Prime Minister Qi and King Yu, who are in Chang'an, and has firmly controlled the internal and external situation of the court.

King Bin has made great achievements in combat and is known as "every victory". Now he is in charge of Luoyang, intimidating Guandong and supporting Guanzhong, so some people call him the "mainstagram" of the dynasty.

Yuwen Kai understood that if he wanted to solve the "mainstagram" in front of him, he had to pass the "mainstagram" of Luoyang first.
Chapter completed!