The Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms: The Evil God Arrives

Chapter 501 Go learn a skill!

"Governor, do we really need to build a road from Guanzhong to Hanzhong or even from Chengdu to Hanzhong?" Xu Shu, who had already arrived in Xiangyang, asked Yang Ji. This news was not top secret among Liu Bei's top leaders, and even some well-informed middle-level officials knew about it.

However, everyone who received this news was discussing whether Yang Ji had done something again to make Chen Xi and Liu Bei's eyes go dark, causing these two people to send Yang Ji to Sichuan to build roads when he had just won a big victory.

While they were wondering what Yang Ji had done, they were also wondering if the road from Guanzhong to Hanzhong could really be built? With their existing technology, could they really build a road in the Qinling Mountains?
"Of course we need to repair it." Yang Ji glanced at Xu Shu. Xu Shu seemed to have grown a lot after experiencing the Battle of Yanzhou. But then again, Xu Shu was a spiritual wise man after all. After experiencing such a great battle, he would have made some progress anyway.

"With the new look of the empire, how can we not create some wonders to demonstrate the power of the empire?" Yang Ji said calmly. Although he only went to Sichuan to survey the terrain, even Chen Xi could not stop him from talking nonsense.

Xu Shu and the others didn't know whether what Yang Ji said was true or false, but considering Yang Ji's ability, they still believed it.

Although Yang Ji's ability is not in road and bridge construction, since Yang Ji dared to say it, it proves that Chen Xi and his team are indeed planning to open up the Qinling Mountains, and Chen Xi always makes mistakes in this regard.

They didn't know why Chen Xi asked Yang Ji, a road and bridge engineer who was not even an amateur, to explore the Qinling Mountains between Sichuan and Guanzhong, but the abilities of these two people were enough for them to have some trust in them and believe that they really planned to build a highway in the Qinling Mountains connecting Hanzhong and Guanzhong.

Whether this road can be built or not is not the issue for now. At least Chen Xi and Yang Ji really have the idea in mind and are preparing for this major project.

According to their experience of Sun Qian's road and bridge construction, Yang Ji's purpose of entering Sichuan was most likely to explore the Qinling terrain between Guanzhong and Hanzhong and find a path for road construction.

However, the route from Guanzhong to Hanzhong had already been explored by his predecessor. Even if Yang Ji went there in person, he would not be able to find a better route than those ancient roads.

Unless Yang Ji can get the road construction team to break through the mountain and build a bridge over the cliffs and valleys.

Otherwise, Yang Ji will eventually have to return to those ancient roads.

[Impossible!] Xu Shu denied the thought that just popped up in his mind. How could humans possibly do such a thing as drilling through the mountain and building a high bridge across the cliff?
"But..." Xu Shu looked at Yang Ji's calm face, and his heart was shaken. It was not that humans were unable to penetrate the mountain. A warrior with internal energy leaving the body possessed such power.

Although the internal energy leaving the body cannot penetrate so many mountains at once, as long as it works, it cannot be said that there is no possibility of penetrating the Qinling Mountains.

On the contrary, building a bridge across the cliff... Xu Shu was very sure that they did not have this technology. If they did, Sun Qian would not have to worry about how to build the Yellow River Bridge.

"Just tell me if you have any questions." Yang Ji looked at Xu Shu who seemed to be hesitant to speak and spoke.

Xu Shu was silent for a while, and finally asked: "Can I ask, if you really want to build a road between Hanzhong and Guanzhong, how do you plan to build it?" At the same time, he was thinking that Chen Xi, Yang Ji and others should rebuild a new road based on the original ancient road.

"Of course - we'll cut through the mountain and build a bridge." Yang Ji said with a smile. It's not that the original ancient road is unusable. They also plan to build a new road based on the ancient road.

However, this does not mean that they will design the new Qinling Passage in complete accordance with the original ancient road.

"..."Xu Shu looked at Yang Ji in silence. Fa Zheng, Zhuge Liang and others were also looking at Yang Ji. They had been thinking about Xu Shu's question before, but they didn't expect that the answer Yang Ji would give would be this.

"Has our technology reached this level?" Fa Zheng looked at Yang Ji with a serious expression. He had just heard Sun Qian muttering about the construction problems of the Yellow River Bridge two days ago.

"It should be possible with current technology." Yang Ji said uncertainly, "Aren't Gongyou and his team planning to build a bridge across the Yellow River? Have you not paid attention to this before?"

"Gong You and his men do plan to build a bridge over the Yellow River, but building a bridge over the Yellow River is not the same as building a bridge on the cliffs in the Mianlian Mountains." Fa Zheng said seriously. Although he didn't know how to build bridges, he could see Sun Qian's irritable mood.

"That's fine. Since they have already started preparing to build the Yellow River Bridge, it proves that the technology is up to standard." Yang Ji nodded. Although the difficulty of building a bridge over the Yellow River cannot be discussed together with the difficulty of building a bridge on the cliffs of Qinling Mountains.

However, Sun Qian, who was able to build a bridge across the Yellow River, now has the foundation for designing and building an viaduct. All he needs to do now is to go deeper. It is only a matter of time before Sun Qian will be able to build an viaduct.

"Are you sure that a viaduct and an arch bridge are the same thing?" Fa Zheng looked at Yang Ji in disbelief. Even someone like him who didn't understand bridge construction knew that an ordinary arch bridge and the Yellow River Bridge were not the same thing, and a viaduct and a ground bridge were even more different things.

"Of course these two are not the same thing. I'm just saying that Gongyou has already taken that step." Yang Ji said with a smile. Sun Qian should have already discovered his spiritual talent by now, otherwise he would not have attacked the Yellow River Bridge.

"Ah?" Fa Zheng and the others froze in their expressions, and then they realized what Yang Ji meant. It was about the quasi-spiritual talent in road and bridge construction. It was the first time they heard that building roads and bridges could sublimate a quasi-spiritual talent.

"No one in the Han Dynasty can surpass Gongyou's skills and knowledge accumulation in road and bridge construction. Spiritual talents are the sublimation of skills and knowledge. It is normal for him to sublimate relevant spiritual talents." Yang Ji said.

"We are surprised by the range of spiritual talents that can be awakened." Zhuge Liang shook his head. He had always believed that only the arts of calligraphy, painting, and music could awaken spiritual talents.

"Don't you know that the two great doctors, Doctor Zhang and Doctor Hua, also have psychic talents?" Yang Ji looked at them in surprise. He thought many people knew that Zhang Ji and Hua Tuo had psychic talents.

"We know that Doctor Zhang and Doctor Hua have spiritual talents." Sima Yi said with a wry smile, "But the difference between medical skills and road and bridge construction... this kind of craftsmanship is really too big."

"You, don't think that those craftsmen don't have any relevant knowledge to support them except for the skills, right?" Yang Ji looked at them in surprise. If there was no relevant knowledge to support them, how could those people master the relevant skills?

"Most of them...can't even write their own names..." Xu Shu said with a wry smile. They never thought that illiterate people could awaken spiritual talents or quasi-spiritual talents. Yang Ji looked at them steadily. It turned out that in their opinion, only people who have read books can awaken spiritual talents or quasi-spiritual talents.

However, knowledge is not necessarily recorded in books. It can also be hidden in various man-made objects. There is no thing or object created by heaven and earth that does not contain the hard work, skills and knowledge of the craftsmen!
“It’s true that the vast majority of craftsmen are illiterate, but they are not without knowledge. They just can’t use the universal knowledge recognized by the world to describe the knowledge they have mastered.” Yang Ji sighed, thinking of the status of craftsmen in this era.

"Forget it, you can try to learn a skill in the future. I believe that with your abilities, you should be able to feel the difference soon." Yang Ji said helplessly. If he wanted to experience the knowledge contained in the skills up close, there was really no other way except to master a skill himself.

Fa Zheng's heart moved, and he asked Yang Ji: "Commander, do you also have a spiritual talent that has been sublimated from your skills?"

As soon as Fa Zheng said this, Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi, Xu Shu and Pang Tong also looked at Yang Ji. Yang Ji was so clear about the knowledge contained in the technology in the hands of the craftsmen, so he must have mastered a technology that can support awakening spiritual talents.

Yang Ji was silent for a moment, then nodded, "I do have a quasi-psychic talent, which is related to rune etching." He did not say the effect of his quasi-psychic talent.

"It's true!" Fa Zheng and others looked at Yang Ji in amazement. It was indeed Yang Ji. If you think about it carefully, Yang Ji had awakened at least three talents by now.

Fa Zheng's eyes rolled and he asked Yang Ji, "Governor, what skill do you think someone like me should try to learn?" Zhuge Liang and the others' eyes lit up. Although they did not say anything, their eyes had already expressed what they wanted to say.

Yang Ji looked at Fa Zheng in surprise. This guy was really smart. He could even come up with such a method.

"Your words..." Yang Ji pondered for a moment and said, "Aren't all kinds of vernacular novels popular in Fenggao recently? You can try to write a few vernacular novels. Maybe they can help you."

Although Fa Zheng's awakened spiritual talent is related to human nature, Fa Zheng knows human nature but does not understand it. I hope that as he ponders the changes in human hearts in the novel, he can make progress in this aspect.

"Uh..." Fa Zheng was stunned. He didn't expect that this would be the suggestion Yang Ji gave.

"Is writing vernacular novels also a skill?" Fa Zheng swallowed his saliva. Even though Yang Ji said it lightly, he was still writing a book. Nowadays, anyone who can write a book must be a big shot.

"Don't think that writing a vernacular novel doesn't require any skills." Yang Ji said unhappily.

"Anything that can be used to make a living is a skill." Yang Ji sighed.

"Okay, don't tell me that you don't need to rely on this skill to make a living. Ordinary people simply can't master this kind of high-end technology." Yang Ji shook his head to stop Fa Zheng who wanted to speak.

"I suggest you learn a skill just to let you look at the knowledge you have mastered from another perspective."

"Don't make me explain it so clearly." Some things, once explained, are meaningless.

Fa Zheng smiled awkwardly, but did not continue to ask Yang Ji why he suggested him to write a vernacular novel. Instead, he began to think about what type of vernacular novel he wanted to write. Then he thought of the vernacular novels that Chen Xi had previously adapted into dramas, and wondered whether the vernacular novels he wrote could be adapted into dramas and performed in Manxianglou.

As he thought about it, Fa Zheng fell into that beautiful fantasy, without thinking at all what would happen if his words were not popular, or what would happen if some bigwigs picked on them?
After all, with Fa Zheng's current status, if he publishes a vernacular novel that he conceived and wrote himself, it seems that it is not impossible to use the term "work" to refer to it.

If Fa Zheng published his work under his real identity, it would definitely attract many bigwigs who are interested in what Fa Zheng wrote, including his father Fa Yan.

[Hmm...] Yang Ji glanced at Fa Zheng who was immersed in fantasy, thought for a while, and decided not to tell him the consequence. After all, he also wanted to know what opinions those big guys would have on what Fa Zheng wrote.

"Governor, do you have any suggestions for me?" Seeing Fa Zheng immersed in fantasy, Zhuge Liang could not help but ask.

"Kong Ming..." Yang Ji looked at Zhuge Liang. According to legend, Zhuge Liang was an inventor, but they were in Xiangyang now.

"How about you learn some planting techniques from Zilong?" Yang Ji asked tentatively. Although we now know that the prime minister who calls himself a commoner is definitely not the commoner in the public's understanding, it is definitely true that he worked as a farmer in Nanyang.

"Ah?" Zhuge Liang widened his eyes, revealing a bit of confusion. Although he had been exposed to agricultural planting technology, he only dabbled in it and had not really gained an in-depth understanding of the relevant knowledge.

No matter how you look at it, the Zhuge family of Langya is an aristocratic family. How could an aristocratic family farm themselves? At most, when educating the younger generations of the family, they would let them symbolically fiddle with farm tools in the fields in front of the ancestral hall at the beginning of spring or the vernal equinox.

As for asking them to really finish cultivating a field or something, it is better not to think too much about it. The reason why aristocratic families are aristocratic families is that they don't have to rely on farming and studying to pass on their family traditions like the poor families.

"If you are not interested in farming, you can also go and learn about mechanical principles from your wife." Yang Ji said hesitantly. He didn't know much about Zhuge Liang's inventions. All he knew were the wooden ox and the Zhuge crossbow.

"No, I still have some interest in farming, but I will also learn the principles of mechanics." Zhuge Liang calmed himself down. He didn't know why, after Yang Ji mentioned that he should study agronomy, he suddenly became interested in agronomy.

Of course, he was also very interested in the mechanical principles mentioned by Yang Ji, especially when studying with Huang Yueying.

(End of this chapter)