Chapter 522: Capital of all kinds

Su You twitched the corner of his mouth and suppressed a smile: "You idiot, how good do you think Confucian businessmen are? Don't you know that bachelors exclude Buddhism?"

Dong Fei said with a sad face: "You big guys have too complex tastes. You all have different tastes. It's too difficult to adapt to your preferences..."

Also accompanying this time were Shi Wei and Zhang Qi. Shi Wei led a medical team composed of monks and Taoist priests and prepared a shipment of patent medicines; Zhang Qi served as Su You's writing manager and helped with chores.

Because Hebei heard that victims of the disaster had gathered to commit robberies, Zhao Xu was worried about Sima Guang and ordered Zhong Yi to bring a team of 20 divine machines to accompany him.

Many teams gathered at the Bianjingzhou Bridge Pier. When it was time to set off, a young man in a small sedan chair also came to the pier.

The young man was Sun Neng. He changed into a simple linen shirt, fast boots, and carried a cloth parcel on his shoulder. He said a few words impatiently to the sedan chair, and then strode towards Su You.

Coming to Su You's side, Su You asked: "Have you thought about it?"

Sun Neng said: "I have thought about it."

Su You said: "What are you going to do in the future?"

Sun Neng said: "I want to be like my father and Privy Di."

Su You nodded: "The ambition is very good, what are you going to do?"

Sun Neng knelt down on one knee: "I want to become my teacher, sir. As you said, sir, for the sake of my father, no matter what request I make, you will help me."

Su You didn't expect that this kid would make such a request, and said, "It's not easy to be my student. You can't meet many of the requirements."

Sun Neng said: "Teacher, just tell me, and I will definitely do it."

Su You said: "To be my student, you must be talented in both civil and military fields."

After saying that, he pointed at Zhong Yi and said: "He is Zhong Shouweng. Now he is His Majesty's personal army and the commander of Yulong Shenji Battalion. In terms of martial arts, we must first pass him."

"There is another Su Yuanzhen. Now he is joining the army from the Fuyuan General's Secretariat. He will take part in the court competition next year. It should be easy for him to become a Jinshi. In terms of literature, you have to pass his test first."

"You have passed both tests, and you still need to be pure and filial. I just saw you talking to your mother, and you were very impatient. So your character is still lacking."

"But it doesn't matter. You lost your father's teachings when you were young. Now you know what you did wrong. You just need to change it. When you have a foundation in civil and military affairs and your conduct is correct again, you can come back to me about becoming a disciple. Now, first be my companion.

There are several gentlemen on board. It will be good for you to follow them on this trip."

Sun Neng was so ashamed that he stopped talking and quietly boarded the boat.

The fleet was organized, and in total there were about twenty large and small ships, mainly water ships transporting grain, and merchant ships led by merchants, and set sail together.

Because the current situation in the middle reaches of the Yellow River is somewhat dangerous, the fleet took the Bianhe River, descended from the Bianhe River to Yingtianfu, and then took the Guangji Canal to Liangshanbo, where it met with the relief ships transported by the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers, and then entered the canal to Damingfu.

When they arrived at Damingfu, the inspection team dispersed and inspected the old eastward flow of the Yellow River, the Ergu River, and the newly opened northward flow. The grain ship then entered the Yellow River and continued northward along the northward flow to Hejianfu, arriving at the center of the earthquake and flood.

When they got to the ship, they saw Sima Guang in a daze facing something that looked like a torpedo from later generations.

Seeing Su You coming up, Sima Guang asked, "Mingrun, what is this?"

Su You said: "This is a flow rate measuring instrument. If you put it into the river, the propeller at its tail will be driven by the water flow to rotate, and then the rotating shaft will drive the gear. Every ten times the gear rotates, it will drive the mechanical counter to jump one frame, and then the counter will move

If the bit wheel jumps ten times, it will cause the tens wheel to jump once; if the tens wheel jumps ten times, it will cause the hundreds wheel to jump once, and so on."

"The faster the flow rate, the faster the counter beats. We have now measured the relationship between the flow rate and the counter beat speed in the laboratory, and then we can calculate the actual measured river flow rate based on the proportional relationship."

After that, he led Sima Guang to introduce various measuring equipment, including water depth, water level, flow direction, flow speed, flow rate, water temperature, specific gravity, sand content, water color, transparency and other equipment.

This was an area that Sima Guang had never been exposed to, but the principles of these measurements were not complicated. After Su You's in-depth explanation, Sima Guang understood the functions of various instruments.

Sima Guang sighed: "Is this the ultimate development of practical knowledge? It is so refined. I have been working hard all my life to manage the world, but I don't know anything about it."

Su You smiled and said: "Speaking of this, the great monk Huai Bing has taken a big advantage. Using the method of floating iron ox on a boat, a ten-year-old child in Shu can probably think of it, so that he can be given purple clothes."

This was during the Yingzong period. The Hezhongfu pontoon bridge was pulled and fixed by eight iron oxen, one of which weighed tens of thousands of kilograms. During the Zhiping period, the floods destroyed the pontoon bridge, dragging the iron oxen and sinking it into the river.

A monk from Zhending, Huai Bing, filled two large boats with earth, held them with oxen to hold them in place, and used big wood as a weight to hook the oxen. He slowly removed the earth and the oxen floated out of the boat.

After the transshipment envoy Zhang Tao heard about it, he gave him purple clothes.

Sima Guang smiled: "You should stop talking. Monk Huai Bing's acquisition of purple robes is not just for this reason."

"Back then, the central pillar of the Zhending pagoda was broken and the tower tilted to the northwest. Monk Huai Bing made another pillar, replaced the broken pillar, and straightened the pagoda."

"The stone bridge over the Xiaohe River in Zhaozhou was skewed and was about to fall over. Monk Huai Bing claimed that pouring iron into the stones under the bridge could straighten it. Villagers enthusiastically donated stones. Monk Huai Bing dug a hole in the stone and melted molten iron to run through it, and it was indeed straightened.

Shiqiao. Do you really think that a reward from the imperial court comes so easily?"

Su Youqi said: "Really? If so, this is a rare engineering talent! Since he is in Hebei, let's look for him and maybe he can be used by then."

After that, he added: "Bachelor is humble. You are an important historian of the imperial court. Next, we will collect hydrological data from various states along the way. In addition to daily inspections of officials and people along the way, we also need to rely on the master's ability to organize the data."

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Sima Guang said: "This suggestion is very good. It seems that Mingrun knows the importance of managing history. Using history as a mirror can help us understand gains and losses. I will do my part in this matter."

Today's northern water system is as developed as the south where Su You later lived. The boat was silent all the way, and before the survey started, everyone was sorting out the hydrological data collected from various places under the leadership of Sima Guang.

Sima Guang is a living search engine. As long as it is a historical event, not only human affairs, but also natural changes, disasters, geography, and even some unconventional local chronicles, he is very clear about it, and Su You admires it very much.

Just like Wang Anshi's Confucian classics, he definitely has the capital to dominate others.

There was no talk along the way. The fleet passed Yingtianfu, Xingrenfu, and Guangjijun, and took a short rest in Jeju before setting sail. The water surface suddenly opened up, and it entered a large lake.

Sima Guang wrote about his family treasures: "This is the ancient Juye Ze. According to legend, the Fuxi family was born here. Later, Yao, Shun, and Yu all passed through this place."

"In the sixth year of Xiande's reign in the later Zhou Dynasty, the Wuzhang Canal was dredged, passing through Caoji in the east and Liangshanbo to connect Qingyun's canal."

"Afterwards, due to the Yellow River breaching many times in Hua, Chan, Pu, Cao, Yun and other places, the river water gathered around Liangshan and connected with Zhangzebo in the southeast of Liangshan. Liangshan became an isolated mountain in the water, forming a larger mountain than the ancient Juye.

I want a big river."

"Celebrities here include Peng Yue of the Western Han Dynasty; Manpang and Li Dian of the Cao Wei Dynasty; among modern people, um, Wang Yucheng, Wang Yuanzhi, Mingrun should know about it, right?"

"Oh, I know so much about "Huanggang Xiaozhulou", I must memorize the chapters."

Sima Guang was a little puzzled: "You studied in the Su family, and you still want to learn the poetry of today's people?"

Damn it! I accidentally brought things from later generations into the present.

Fortunately, Su admired Lao Wang very much and considered him to be the pioneer of the ancient prose movement. Following Han Bai and before Ou Mei, he paved the way for today's poetry innovation movement.
Chapter completed!