Chapter 31                                                             �

These days, gunpowder is not standard and its power is not easy to calculate. Therefore, all calculations based on this are inaccurate.

It can only be considered an estimate. What it will look like in the end is hard to say.

Zhou Mengchen sent personnel to catch all the ships upstream and downstream.

At this time, a fleet was descending along the Yellow River. This fleet was not someone else, but Yang Bo's.

Although Yang Bo received the imperial edict, he still dragged it to the end of the year. Now he was wearing a mourning clothes, standing at the bow of the boat, listening to the people below, saying: "A section of the river below, when the earthquake occurred, a mountain fell into the river, blocking most of the river. Governor Zhou sent people to blow up the mountain."

Yang Bo has lost a lot of weight and has a lot of white hair before, which seems to match his filial piety dress. He said, "Zhou Mengchen?"

The following person said: "That's right."

Yang Bo's seemingly dispersed eyes gradually condensed. It seemed that the three words Zhou Mengchen evoked many of his thoughts.

In fact, Yang Bo is in great pain now.

It is painful for the son to support his parents but his parents are gone. Yang Bo is also very filial. His mother died of a bad life, which made Yang Bo very sad. In fact, the old man is old. Sooner or later, Yang Bo is prepared in his heart, but he never expected that his mother would do this. He was smashed to death by something in the earthquake.

This even made him feel a little resentful of God, why didn’t he arrange a decent way of death for his mother, so that the old man would suffer such a sin when he was dying.

The second pain is his embarrassing situation now.

To be honest, he is a little grateful to Zhou Mengchen for destroying the Tumote tribe. The reason is very simple. Without Zhou Mengchen's destruction of the Tumote tribe, he would not have gone abroad to station in Qingcheng to form Heshuo Province. If there was no such thing, he would not have been able to temporarily postpone the mourning on the grounds that he would not avoid military rebellion.

But Yang Bo knew that he could not be worried.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Dingyou was not a rigid requirement, but now it seems that it has become the moral bottom line of civil servants. It seems that no one is worried, but it is worse than beasts. In order to make his position in politics in the future, Yang Bo must be worried.

If he hadn't had any trouble in Heshuo Province, he would have been at home now.

This is very unfavorable to him. Because his mother's death was without warning. Yang Bo did not make any preparations at all. In the imperial court, one carrot and one pit, how many years did Yang Bo take to the position of Minister of War. If he did not make any arrangements, he would be fine. After three years, he would still be able to become the position of Minister of War?

All I can say is haha.

In Heshuo Province, Yang Bo was given a buffer time. Maybe half a year, or a year. Yang Bo was about to ask the court for Ding You after completing the affairs of Heshuo Province. But this was one question, that is, after he left the political arena, who could support the Shanxi merchants on his behalf, who could become his ally, and after Yang Bo was over, someone would also talk to him and seek a job for him.

This is very important. If there is no such person, after three years, Yang Bo will face the situation where things are different and everything goes on. It is very likely that after Dingyou, he will retire.

This is not uncommon.

Even if the duration occurs, it is normal for people who have no background to get up after a moment of worry. Even if they can get up, their previous efforts will be over again.

Yang Bo said in his heart: "Can Zhou Mengchen become my ally?"

If it were said that Yang Bo and Zhou Mengchen had a happy cooperation before, but this time it was not a cooperation, and it felt like entrusting his wealth and life. Yang Bo could not believe Zhou Mengchen rashly.

Yang Bo said in his heart: "Maybe, it's time to find an opportunity to talk to Zhou Mengchen."

Yang Bo said: "Now, going home one day or one day earlier is nothing. Let's see what Zhou Mengchen can do."

"Yes." Yang Bo agreed.

Zhou Mengchen didn't know that Yang Bo was not far away at this moment, just a little northerly on the other side of the Yellow River.

At this moment, Zhou Mengchen watched Qi Jiguang go up the Tushan Mountain and conduct the final inspection.

Finally, Qi Jiguang took off the boat to Zhou Mengchen and said, "Teacher is ready."

Zhou Mengchen asked, "Today is the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month?"

"Today is the third day of the first lunar month." Han Bangqi said: "You are all busy and confused."

Zhou Mengchen added his forehead with his hands and said, "Yes, yes, it's been 35 years since Jiajing. After doing this, I'll have to rest for a few days."

When Zhou Mengchen went from Beijing to Tongguan, it was almost the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month. After that, he kept running back and forth for several days, and even stayed in one place for two days. He came and went in a hurry, and at least everything in Beijing was formed into a framework.

Today's matter is the last urgent task.

After this matter is done, the pace of doing things will not be so fast or so urgent.

Before this, many places were in the sequelae of earthquakes. It is very likely that some people died of starvation due to earthquakes, but now most people are exempted from this threat. Zhou Mengchen has to consider a new problem. As many as millions of people affected, the water conservancy systems on the land are all in chaos. If they are not repaired, the grain output in Guanzhong will decline a huge decline. Even Zhou Mengchen estimated that the wheat harvest in May this year will be quite limited. How should millions of victims be raised? How to save more lives in the epidemic that must occur in the spring? There are also opening up various major traffic channels blocked by earthquakes. You should know that many places in Shaanxi are full of troughs. Can the terrain be intact under such earthquakes?

This is all a matter. But in fact, it is just two words: "Money and Grain."

It is not a big deal to have money and food. If you don’t have money and food, you will die. Even the deaths are no less than the deaths in an earthquake.

However, this can be done slowly.

After all, work is rhythmic.

Qi Jiguang said: "The teacher is right. The teacher has indeed worked hard these days."

Zhou Mengchen felt the pain of his thighs. Zhou Mengchen almost lived and ate and lived on horses throughout the twelfth lunar month. He deeply understood that riding a horse was not a good thing, and blood cocoons were all grinded inside his thighs. When pain became a habit, people did not feel pain. Only when they remembered, they felt pain in pain.

Zhou Mengchen said, "Let's start."

Qi Jiguang said: "Yes."

Then he ordered the command flags to wave left and right. On the earthen mountain in the Yellow River, some people immediately began to go down the mountain and took off the boat one by one and left the earthen mountain.

For a moment, everyone held their breath and waited quietly.

Suddenly there was a loud noise. At the place where Tushan and the west bank of the Yellow River were connected, a roar sounded, and a ray of white smoke mixed with loess rose into the sky. Then, with this place as the starting point, a series of cannons spread eastward. Zhou Mengchen did not count how many sounds were heard. He held the Qianli Mile Mile Mile Mile and stared at the movements of Tushan.

It seems that there is no movement?

Zhou Mengchen put down the Qianli Mirror and was about to say something, but he heard a rumbling sound. He immediately raised the Qianli Mirror to look, but he saw a vortex suddenly appear in a Tushan Mountain. The vortex was like a sharp blade. Each wave rushed into the Tushan Mountain and rolled down a large number of earth and rocks from above. The naked eye saw the Tushan Mountain weakened, and the roar spread, and the water flow broke the earth mountain like a sharp arrow.

This is just the beginning.

Because of Qi Jiguang's plan, the places where they placed gunpowder exploded deep in the Tushan Mountains, even lower than the surface of the Yellow River, so it seemed that there was no problem just now, but the foundation of the Tushan Mountains had been damaged. At this moment, the decomposed Tushan Mountains were like floating objects in the Yellow River, impulsively rolling downwards in the Yellow River.

Because it is a Tushan, it has sufficient contact with the Yellow River water at this moment. Every time it rolls, a large amount of soil is mixed in the Yellow River water, adding a touch of yellow to the Yellow River water. After rolling down for several miles, the Tushan disappears. It seems that it has never appeared before.

The Yellow River swallowed this huge earthen mountain and returned to peace. It rolled southward.
Chapter completed!