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Chapter 55: Chen Liang recommends himself

As today's host, Zhang Haisan once again picked up the iron horn, and his loud voice immediately spread across the Taiwan Strait:

"Dear fellow villagers, now, please invite the county master, Mr. Chen Liang, who came from afar, and the respected Mr. Kang Yuliang to cut the ribbon for the timetable on the stage!"

The single pendulum clock, which is the pendulum clock, has been moved to the stage. The audience only saw a long, sauce-colored object about four feet tall placed in the center of the stage. Two burly men and two young women pulled up a big red ribbon with three red flowers, lined up in one line. Two young women were in the middle, two burly men were at both ends, and the huge red flower in the middle just covered the upper end of the long strip of things. The things were called very magical, and they appeared and seemed particularly mysterious at this moment.

Under the guidance of Zhang Haisan, County Magistrate Xu walked to the red flower in the middle, and then the person known as Mr. Chen Liang was on the left, and the local scholar Kang Yuliang was on the right. He didn't know what mysterious things were going to do next. However, everyone became more and more expectant, so grand and mysterious, and he didn't know how wonderful things were.

A short and exciting sound of gongs and drums passed by, and the three pairs of scissors moved almost at the same time. The strange ribbon-cutting ceremony was finally completed. It turned out that it was just a cut of ribbons! Before the onlookers could react, they heard the crackling sound of firecrackers, and the long-shaped watch on the stage had no longer blocked objects, revealing the true face of Mount Lu. The upper half was a white circle, and the audience close to them could see three pointers, one of which was spinning constantly, and a copper round cake was swinging left and right below. A group of people looked at this strange thing for no reason. No one knew what this thing was used for. Could it be that it was a magic object specially asked by the magistrate Xu to calm the demons of Zishui River!

However, this time Zhang Haisan no longer kept his mouth shut. His loud voice sounded by the gathering of iron horns sounded again, and he got into the ear drums of onlookers far and near:

"My fellow villagers, I just kept it a secret. Let's talk about the wonders of this time table. This time table, as the name suggests, is used to count the timing. Everyone knows that there are hourglasses, but hourglass is far less accurate than the timing table you see today. It is no exaggeration to say that every breath and every heartbeat time can be accurately recorded. The commentary talk says that "a stick of incense" and "a cup of tea" does not have an accurate number, but with this time table, the timing becomes particularly accurate. Please see, the longest pointer on this time table is 60 seconds, 60 seconds is one minute, this medium-sized pointer turns into 60 minutes, 60 minutes is one hour, and two hours is one hour. The exact time is now 9:40."

After Zhang Haisan explained this, there were few audiences in the audience who could understand it. Many people became more and more confused. In an instant, the crowd began to make excuses. Zhang Haisan frowned, and as soon as he gestured, another loud sound of gongs and drums sounded, and finally suppressed the buzzing sound. It was the first time these onlookers saw this thing today. For a while, they could not understand what bullshit hours and what exactly they meant in seconds. No matter how much Zhang Haisan said it was useless.

Fortunately, there was a plan before that, Zhang Haisan adjusted his energy to the maximum and almost shouted at the speaker in a hoarse voice:

"Dear fellow villagers, before the trial voyage, I specially arranged a relaxed program. Everyone, do you notice that the small boat with red silk by the Zishui River?"

The nursery arranged in advance agreed:

"See it."

At this moment, the onlookers' interest turned to the boat, and the sound of cheering stopped temporarily. Zhang Haisan lowered his tone slightly and said loudly:

"We have two pairs of boatmen here, one is a young and strong boy, and the other is an old couple. Today, both of them have to row the boat to the other side and row back. Let's take a look at how much time it takes for them to row back and forth between the two pairs? Let's see who is faster and who is slower."

The answer is obvious. Onlookers unanimously agreed that the young and strong couple won, but some people suspected that the old couple was a master specially selected by the organizer. They might be suspected of deliberately misleading the public. Maybe they were deliberately set up a trap. So some people in the field adapted to local conditions and started playing the Guanpu gambling game. The group of brightly dressed guys were doing this little gambling and enjoying love, but the old couple won in the absolute minority.

The results of the competition were no suspense. The young and strong couple took one minute and twenty-nine seconds to get back and forth. The elderly couple were obviously much slower, especially in the end, they were obviously not physically strong and finally got back to their original shore.

When Zhang Haisan announced that the second pair took two minutes and two seconds to go back and forth, the dust settled, and the person who bet on the old couple would naturally lose. By the way, this was the three authoritative magistrate Xu County, Chen Liang, and Kang Yuliang, who jointly supervised the timekeeping of several rounds. No one dared to suspect that it would be fake. In fact, there was no need to timekeeping, and he knew that the old couple would definitely lose.

But the behind-the-scenes are not over yet. Next, Zhang Haisan announced that if any two people present can pass the first pair quickly, they will receive a reward of three stakes of money. Of course, there are only three opportunities, and those present can freely match.

This gimmick was really lethal at this time. In the end, the Tolerance finally came forward to maintain order. Luo Qi used his eyesight to audition and matched three pairs of tough players. These three pairs appeared in sequence, without exception, more than one and a half minutes. Fortunately, their strength was not in vain. The three pairs won the encouragement award - each participant received two pencils.

This gimmick made the onlookers present appreciate the wonderfulness of time-time clocking. Seeing this excitement this time was indeed worth the trip. Even a fan who loves Guanpu immediately discovered that this time-time watch is very useful in Guanpu, and he secretly regarded this thing as a rare gambling weapon in his heart.

Next, the official trial time entered. Although I had tried it once yesterday evening and was a great success. Today is a public demonstration and no mistakes are allowed. The trial personnel, including Mao Geng, were very nervous.

When Dun Erbao drove from downstream into the public's sight, the turtle boat was getting closer and closer, and its huge hull made all the ships present look inferior. At first glance, the boat was filled with carbon, and with Zhang Haisan's live commentary, the onlookers immediately understood that this turtle boat, which was larger than all other ships on Zishui, was the protagonist of today's Zishui River.

The rosy boat walked to the floating place of the green float. Under the instructions of the people on the boat, the people on the boat took the float and hooked the iron hook connected to the float to the cables on the boat. With Zhang Haisan's on-site explanation, every onlooker understood that it was the turn of the water turbine to show its power.

In fact, the water wheel kept rotating, but before that, the hoist was resting quietly. Mao Geng gave a soft command, Tan Xiaochun immediately closed the clutch, and the hoist immediately turned.

Onlookers from afar saw the cables on the ferrous boats dragged on the riverside and straightened bit by bit. Suddenly, the beam extending out of the riverside swung heavily, obviously tilting towards the direction of the cables. The cables immediately fed and hung up. Then they saw the ferrous boats being pulled closer by the cables. From a distance, it looked like the fish biting while fishing was dragged slowly by the fishermen. In the "squeaking and silence" sound, the ferrous boats successfully crossed the most urgent point of the water flow and came to the middle of the beam and the water wheel.

At this time, Zhang Haisan, who was in charge of the on-site commentator, shouted in an excited voice, and the onlookers were also infected by Zhang Haisan, and some people began to cheer. County Magistrate Xu, who was sitting on the stage, was still quite reserved. Although Chen Liang was congratulating, County Magistrate Xu just smiled slightly.

After the tug is successful, a trial sailing is taken to control the ship's speed downstream.

After shook the iron hook and sailing up for a while, he turned around and then reached the red float, he picked up the float and hooked the iron hook connected to the float to the rear of the iron boat. The whole ship drove downwards. Seeing that it was about to reach the rapids, the ship was speeding faster and faster.

Similarly, the beam extending to the river surface suddenly shook heavily. The beam squeaked a few times, the cables tightened, the roving boat began to slow down, and then gently crossed the dangerous shoal in full view of the crowd. The turbulent water slapped the hull all the way, and the waves slammed onto the boat gang and rushed up Lao Gao.

When I looked again, the rosy boat was already away from the dangerous shoals, leaving only the red floater sinking and floating under the impact of the rapids.

This no longer requires Zhang Haisan to explain. Everyone at the scene understood that today's trial voyage had been successful. County Magistrate Xu was no exception, and he was extremely excited. However, County Magistrate Xu decided to randomly choose a ship to attend and try again in order to be on the safe side.

The other ships are simply not worth mentioning than the roving boat full of carbon, which is full of carbon. The beams are not shaking when dragged. It can be said that the effect this time is even more shocking. Everyone was amazed that the water wheel winch was indeed powerless, and no one questioned that it was built just to show off.

When County Magistrate Xu finally announced that each hydraulic winch would be built for a free month to provide towing and speed control services to passers-by ships, the entire scene reached **. Chen Liang's speech then made the onlookers boil again. When Chen Liang confirmed that this was the first hydraulic winch in the Song Dynasty, the onlookers became excited. Under the influence of the atmosphere on the scene, many people began to cheer enthusiastically. Amid the cheers, the grand demonstration came to an end.

Although the demonstration ended successfully, for Mao Geng, another thing has just begun.

When cutting the ribbon, Mao Geng didn't mind that it was supposed to be cut by himself and finally changed to Chen Liang's ribbon. Mao Geng felt that Chen Liang's arrival made today's ceremony icing on the cake. However, Mao Geng immediately found that Chen Liang's eyes were constantly scanning Wang Qinyin and then scanning it. Mao Geng then remembered the saying "It's a real celebrity who is romantic", and naturally thought of various versions of rumors about Chen Liang.

In history, Chen Liang was a madman who was famous for his crazy words and actions. Chen Liang was imprisoned three times, most of which caused trouble because of his nonsense after drinking. For example, one of them was to have sex with someone after drinking. A man openly regarded himself as the emperor, prime minister and empress. Chen Liang probably wanted to be prime minister and openly regarded himself as prime minister! Such a rebellious thing, naturally someone wanted to invite him to the prison cell of the Song Dynasty to sober up. Fortunately, Emperor Xiaozong knew that Chen Liang was just drunk and was disorganized, so he did not ask him for a beheading crime, but instead let him go.

Chen Liang was 50 years old and the emperor appointed the top scorer. But this guy died in a daze as soon as he became the top scorer. There are rumors that Chen Liang was even more crazy after becoming the top scorer. It is said that Chen Liang fell in love with the daughter of a carpenter and forced to marry someone's daughter as a concubine. But the carpenter did not buy Chen Liang's account, so Chen Liang forced the carpenter to make a square barrel after drinking, otherwise he would be nice. In the end, the carpenter killed Chen Liang in anger, and the top scorer Chen Liang died absurdly. If this is true, it can be called a black humor. If it is purely someone who arranged him, be good! I have to hate Chen Liang so much that I can arrange such an outrageous story!

This time Chen Liang came to Xinhua, which also had some accidental elements. Chen Liang liked to visit Chen Fuliang, a wise army in Guiyang. Chen Fuliang and Chen Liang both belonged to the "Yongjia School" and were both pragmatic philosophy that "practices in the world". The two had a strong relationship, and it was not surprising that Chen Liang came to find Chen Fuliang. However, Chen Liang came to Jinghu South Road this time because of "Baixi Academy" and "New Chemistry Journal", and there were novel things like cement, which made Chen Liang feel itchy. Chen Liang was curious and decided to come to Jinghu South Road to explore. As a result, when Chen Fuliang talked about this matter, Chen Fuliang laughed and said that he had some contact with the Xu County Magistrate of Xinhua, so he wrote a letter and asked Chen Liang to come to Xu County Magistrate directly. This was the cause and effect of Chen Liang coming to Xinhua this time.

A trial flight was extremely successful, and after the success, he had to hold a celebration banquet routinely. When attending the celebration banquet together, Chen Liang drank a few glasses of wine and proposed to join Mao Geng's team. Mao Geng thought to himself that this must be because Mr. Kang was too talkative. Sure enough, Chen Liang, who had drunk a few glasses of wine, offered to get a decent executive in Mao Geng's group, and Mr. Kang said strongly. Mr. Kang was of course kind. Mao Geng had to take care of both this and that, and his subordinates were in a hurry to lack talents, especially senior talents like Chen Liang.

County Magistrate Xu pointed out the problem of the "West China Contract Team" at a critical moment. Recently, the "West China Contract Team" encountered two incidents of debts being owed by the boss, and the lawsuit was filed into the county government. County Magistrate Xu knew the details and predicted that the "West China Contract Team" would encounter more such debts and arrears in the future.

Mao Geng thought to himself that County Magistrate Xu has always been wise, and it may be fine to listen to County Magistrate Xu. Although Chen Liang has many problems, contractors all over the world have all kinds of problems, but it does not prevent them from doing very well in the engineering industry. Besides, with Chen Liang, the famous master, those who have been owing debts must consider their weight. Facing Chen Liang, who had debated with Zhu Xi for a year in the past, I am afraid that few people have the courage to make a decision openly!

When Chen Liang saw Mao Geng agreed, he asked him to lead the "West China Contractor Team" with some robbery, but Chen Liang was Chen Liang, and he was not repulsed at all. Instead, he was excited and praised him repeatedly. The gentleman relied on his drunkenness and claimed that he would undertake the construction of the palace in the future and build the Palace of the Song Dynasty to a particularly grand manner, so that Chen Liang's reputation would be worthy of Chen Liang's reputation. When Mao Geng heard this, he suddenly felt that Chen Liang was a little crazy and cute. What he lacked might be Chen Liang's crazy spirit.
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