The first-class concubine of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 498
What Lu Dinggong said still counted. The next morning, as soon as Liu Wei woke up, Lu Dinggong's people brought food to the government office.

There is a lot of water on the street, so they transport it by boat. In some localities, some people jump into the water to push the boat. No matter what, Lu Dinggong expressed his support for Liu Wei's actions.

This is undoubtedly a good thing for Liu Wei, but thinking of the relationship between Lu Dinggong, Lu Duoxun and King Wei, his actions reveal a deep taste of conspiracy.

But now Liu Wei doesn't care about this much anymore. What he needs now is to feed the people in Shangzhou City, and then lead the water to the Yellow River under his leadership. It only needs to be supported for about ten days. , he believed that the food and grass from the imperial court would be delivered soon.

With the food, the enthusiasm of the people immediately increased, and many people who had left Shangzhou rushed back after hearing the news.

If there is hope in the homeland, who is willing to leave their hometown?
Travelers are lonely, and the outside world is dangerous. In comparison, they hope to live in their homeland.

The people are getting more and more right, which is a good thing for Liu Wei. More people are more powerful, but there is also a disadvantage of having more people, that is, their food will be depleted very quickly. It used to be enough for more than ten days, but now it may last for ten days. There are not enough days.

And according to the previous discussion between him and Lu Dinggong, he can no longer ask Lu Dinggong for it. Not only that, he must also protect Lu Dinggong’s food security. Wanshi food, you have asked for so much food from others for nothing, so naturally you have to keep your promise.

The summer wind is getting hotter and hotter. After the food was available, Liu Wei and Zhuge Pi surveyed the terrain, and worked out a drainage plan, and it was the only feasible plan. This plan was the only one. It’s not impossible, it’s just that using those solutions will either lead to a long journey, which will delay time, or there will be a lot of land along the way, which will reduce the cultivated land after being destroyed, and the cost is too high.

The only feasible solution is short and there is no crop land, but there is one biggest problem, that is, there is a hill in the northwest of Shangzhou City that blocks the way. If you want to divert the water, you must pass through the hill. Only one path will do.

The hill was only four or five people high, but it was very long, a kilometer long, and a long hill was blocked there like a Great Wall. At first, Liu Wei and Zhugepi thought that if this hill was to be dug through If not, it will take at least ten days, so I was a little bit resistant at first.

But in comparison, they feel that digging through the hills is not bad compared with other solutions, so they still choose to use this solution.

After such a decision, the people of Shangzhou began to drain water under the leadership of Liu Wei. In fact, it is easy to drain water, just dig a ditch according to the terrain, let the surrounding water flow into the ditch, and the ditch eventually leads to But at the same time, they must do a good job of protection every time they dig a section of the ditch, because if the ditch has not been dug and water flows in, it will be a little difficult for the people to dig it.

But these are still trivial matters. Under Liu Wei's leadership, they quickly resolved the matter.

For four or five days like this, things went smoothly, but when facing the hill on the sixth day, a problem arose.

The first problem is that their food can only be eaten for four days, and the other is that when they dug on the first day, they encountered a big rock on the mountain wall. , and it is impossible to take it out.

What was originally vigorous and vigorous was suddenly blocked by a big rock.

In the scorching summer, Liu Wei's brows were furrowed deeply. He was a little worried about such a thing. How could such a big rock be made out by manpower alone?

Now he is a little envious of those people in his previous life. They either use a machine to shovel the soil, and a shovel is used to dig the soil for a day, but like this kind of big rock, if it is blasted, it will break with a bang.

Unfortunately, none of these are available.

Looking at the big rock, Liu Wei thought to himself, do I really want to show the explosives in advance?
In fact, gunpowder already existed in the Song Dynasty, but no one has ever used it in destructive ways. More, it is still used in firecrackers and fireworks. If Liu Wei uses gunpowder in destructive ways, what will happen? ?
I dare not think about things, but Liu Wei knows that he can't stop the development of history. If he doesn't use it, someone will use it.

After thinking like this for a long time, Liu Wei had no choice but to order people to find saltpeter and other materials for gunpowder. Zhuge Pi and the others didn't understand what Liu Wei was going to do, but they still followed his orders.

When Liu Wei was making gunpowder, he didn't let anyone approach him. The room he was in was guarded by soldiers. It had to be strictly guarded. The making of gunpowder is a confidential matter. If someone with good intentions finds out , that would be bad news.

Liu Wei believes that in this day and age, as long as someone rushes into Kaifeng with dozens of bombs, the imperial guards in the entire palace may not be able to stop it.

And the more Liu Wei made things mysterious, the more curious people became. Among them, Pan Weiji was the most curious. He was very curious about what Liu Wei was doing, so he went to find Liu Wei. In his opinion, he It can be regarded as Liu Wei's deputy envoy, so it shouldn't be too much to see what Liu Wei does.

But things were not as simple as he thought. As soon as he approached the place where Liu Wei made gunpowder, he was immediately blocked by the guards.

"Master Liu ordered that no one is allowed to enter."

"Including me?" Pan Weiji blushed, obviously a little angry.

"Master Liu said that no one is allowed to enter, since it is anyone, including you."

The guard's attitude was very domineering, which hurt Pan Weiji's self-confidence. He glared at the guard, knowing that he would not be able to get in no matter how troublesome he was, so he turned around and left angrily. I became more and more curious about what was going on in there.

So, after going back, he quietly sent a message to Zhugepi, asking Zhugepi to quietly find out what Liuwei was doing. Zhugepi didn't object to Pan Weiji's request, and he really went to Liuwei to make gunpowder The place.

It's just that when he came to that place, he also suffered the same fate as Pan Weiji, and no one was allowed to enter without Liu Wei's order.

Seeing this, Zhuge Pi felt suspicious in his heart, so he said, "Just tell Mr. Liu that I, Zhuge Pi, have something to ask to see you."

A guard yelled a few words from across the house, and after a while Liu Wei came out of the house. Seeing that it was Zhuge Pi, he asked, "What's the matter?"

"My lord, you've been messing around for three days now. Our food...is almost running out. What are you doing in there?"

Hearing Zhugepi's words, Liu Wei looked Zhugepi up and down, and then frowned slightly.

(End of this chapter)