Chapter 249 Pressure Transfer
After arranging Ma Chao, he continued to head east along the Chidao Road.

We arrived at Shanjin, where Gan Ning was stationed, before dark. With the setting sun at hand, Black Bear was looking at Sanmenxia.

This is where the idiom "Dizhu" is gathered. As the name suggests, Dizhu is just a larger stone pillar on a stone mountain.

In winter, the water level of the Yellow River is shallow, and much of the Dizhu is exposed; during the flood season, the Dizhu can barely poke its head out.

Dizhu is really nothing. The thing that has the greatest impact on water transport is the Shimen upstream of Dizhu. According to legend, when Dayu was controlling floods, he dug out the Human Gate, God Gate, and Ghost Gate from the stone mountain.

The light was not very good, the river was turbulent and there was ice on both sides.

The Yellow River's ice flood season has not yet arrived, but just from a cursory observation, Black Bear feels that the scenery here is very different from the Dizhu and Sanmen he remembers.

It may be due to the different amount of water, or it may be due to the reservoir.

But he was determined to dig through Sanmenxia and completely resolve the issue here.

This place blocked the grain transport between Guanzhong and Guandong, and was the blood clot of the empire.

Either open up or dig a new river channel to use the new river channel for water transport and navigation.

However, if the silt problem is not solved, the new river channel will inevitably become silted up.

In the future, the population in the Hetao region will be reduced and the focus will be on grazing cattle and horses. Even if the Yellow River can recover and become clear again, there will still be silt.

The new river channel was dug with a lower and shallower riverbed and a gentler water flow than the Sanmen River channel, so siltation quickly occurred.

Looking at the Sanmen River at this moment, Black Bear felt like "water rushing through sand".

Looking at the rocks around the three gates, Black Bear frowned and thought, if he could accumulate enough white magic power in the future, he could refine a ten-ton steel drill.

By casting a spell to summon and using the acceleration of gravity to impact the rocks here, the effect should be very good.

By breaking up and clearing this section, Guanzhong's efficiency in absorbing materials from Guandong will certainly increase greatly, and it can concentrate its efforts on expanding westwards.

We can even find a way to connect the Tao River and the Wei River to extend the water transport route further westward.

The trick of gravity acceleration is used well to artificially create several huge barrier lakes.

The lake water accumulates and then breaks through the mountain ridge to form a gap, which can be reversed by the power of water.

With the technology of the future, there is nothing that cannot be accomplished by nuclear weapons, such as moving mountains and filling the sea.

It’s just that countries check and balance each other and cannot transform the earth on a large scale.

Black Bear thought for a moment and wisely gave up that crazy plan.

If we refine a 10,000-ton level item, there might be some possibility.

The heaviest thing he had refined was just armor, and he didn't know if the weight or size would affect summoning.

However, he has already had ideas on how to solve the siltation problems of Sanmenxia, ​​Weishui River and canals, as well as restoring the ancient Han River.

It is not enough to rely on Lu Bu alone. We need to get a few more level seven puppets and use heavy tools. Let these tireless and extremely powerful puppets be responsible for excavation, and the efficiency will be very high.

Then there is the problem of siltation of the Wei River and various canals in Guanzhong, which requires more puppet Taoist soldiers.

Relying on shovels and backpacks to dig soil and clear silt...how long will it take to finish this?

The simplest way is to throw a large number of puppet Taoist soldiers into the riverbed when the water is flowing.

Let these puppet Taoist soldiers who don't need to breathe and will sink when they fall into water stir up the silt, and the water force will naturally discharge the silt into the Yellow River.

If the Wei River can be treated in this way, all the canals in Guanzhong can be treated in this way. It is nothing more than repeated and layer-by-layer dredging.

There is also the ancient Han River. Black Bear doesn't know much about it. He just heard from the self-media that a major earthquake caused the ancient Han River to change its flow. As for how it changed specifically, he has not investigated and has no real clue.

There are also landslide lakes, which are formed when mountain collapse blocks the river water.

Given the strength of the mountain collapse, it will inevitably require a lot of rocks, soil and stones... This doesn't seem like something I can solve on my own.

Not to mention bringing water into the Western Regions, even restoring the water transport in Guanzhong and Hanzhong was a very difficult task.

But there is no need to be discouraged. In just a few years, we have solved the Sanmenxia blood clot and dredged the Guanzhong water transport and irrigation network... We have already gained huge benefits.

How much manpower did the Qin State spend to gain the fertile land of Guanzhong?

It only takes three or five years to restore Guanzhong’s irrigation system, saving huge manpower and time costs!
This is probably the tricky way for Taoist puppets to farm. Commanding the puppets to plow the land and fetch water is the most clumsy way.

After calming down his thoughts and temporarily putting aside the idea of ​​various water conservancy reconstruction and restoration, he drove his horse into Shanjin City.

The city of Shanjin has a population of only about 700 households, and Gan Ning has only 500 troops stationed here.

Dispersed military bases can save food and enhance control.

The evening drum sounded in Shanjin City, and the gatekeepers waited until the third evening drum ended to close the city gate.

The military officer on duty saw Black Bear and Lu Bu riding their horses towards him from afar, and suddenly felt a chill in his tailbone and was about to jump up and shout, but he quickly realized that he had already been recruited.

"Quickly inform the Lord! Duke Zhenbei is here."

The military officer pulled the swift-footed young man beside him and shouted in a low voice, then brushed off any dust that might be on his body, walked out quickly, and bowed for almost ten steps, "Your humble servant respectfully welcomes the General Zhenbei!"

After being several dozen steps away, the black bear also slowed down his horse and drove it into the corridor of the city gate.

The sound of horse hooves rang out, and looking at the unfamiliar streets, Black Bear moved along the road towards the northern area of ​​the city.

At the city square, Gan Ning had already led a dozen county officials to greet them quickly: "General Qu, how are you?"

"Everything is fine."

Black Bear did not dismount, and asked, "Where is the military camp?"

"In the southwest of the city."

"I will go to the camp, and you can come back later."

After saying this, Black Bear pulled the reins and led Lu Bu towards South Gate Street. The military camp in the city was a wide area and was easy to identify.

He scanned his face all the way and entered the spacious barracks in the military camp.

The officials of Hongnong County who were roughly gathered by Gan Ning all felt very uncomfortable, and the official turnover in the Hongnong County government was fierce.

Originally, they were members of Zhong Yao's party. After Zhong Yao went to Tongguan and surrendered to Gan Ning, most of the Hongnong Yang family and the original team of county officials and county officials resigned. Later, when Linghu Shao took office as the county governor, he recruited and employed a group of scholars.

After Linghu Shao fell, Gan Ning could only select scholars with thin resumes and humble origins to fill the county offices and counties.

Gan Ning did not dare to delay and walked quickly towards the military camp without even having time to prepare his horse.

The county officials looked at each other in bewilderment, feeling uneasy.

Faced with a higher-ranking superior who dared to travel alone, they generally felt a little panicked and found it difficult to adapt.

In the military camp, when Gan Ning arrived, Black Bear was already serving him some tea.

This spacious barracks had a converted fireplace. The fireplace, which had been filled with a lot of dry firewood, had not yet been lit, and the light inside the room was a little dim.

Gan Ning was now dressed as a county magistrate, wearing a black official uniform, a black gauze Jinxian crown on his head, and a sword hanging from his waist.

After entering, he immediately said with a bitter face: "General Qu, please do not take risks again. I know that Taishi Wengong is brave and powerful, but he is alone."

"Just listen to Xingba. I will find another warrior to protect your safety."

Black Bear sat sideways in front of the fireplace, not wanting to listen to Gan Ning's advice anymore, so he asked, "Are the boats ready?"

Sanmenxia is not impassable, but the risk of shipwreck is very high and transportation from downstream to upstream is even more difficult.

But as long as one is determined, a group of empty ships drifting down from upstream will only suffer a loss of one-fifth at most, which can be completely ignored compared to military strategy.

Gan Ning sat on a chair opposite Black Bear and answered hesitantly, "We have converted more than sixty ships, each of which can carry more than fifty people or twenty horses."

"I have already started selecting elite cavalry. They will gather at Tongguan one after another. There will be about a thousand cavalry."

Black Bear calculated the transport volume and the necessary redundancy, and said, "Each ship should have more than 30 sailors. One third of them should be good at controlling the ship, one third should be good at archery, and the other third should be brave enough to fight."

Gan Ning nodded and said, "I have already selected the best troops. I will assign five soldiers to each ship. Since the commander wants to rescue Liyang, I would like to appoint Li Yi as the captain of the navy."

This batch of ships are large ships collected from Guanzhong, Hedong and Taiyuan. They are smaller in scale than the previous transport ships and Sanya warships, and can only transport about 60 people when fully loaded.

In case of temporary overload transportation, this is another algorithm.

A full load of sixty people means that these sixty people have to eat, drink, sleep and have room to survive on the boat.

This type of boat only has a mainsail, and a few boats have a small tailsail for steering.

"You select more people. I can set out at any time. If it's fast, there will be 120 ships. If it's slow, there will be no more than 150 ships."

Hongnong had not experienced the devastation of war, and Shaanxi and Jin had stored the supplies that Linghu Shao had previously collected, so they could meet the supply needs of this fleet.

After listening to the calculation, Gan Ning said, "If there are 150 ships, I will select a battalion of Henei soldiers to join the fleet to serve as close combat armored soldiers and archers to guard the ships. With 150 warships like this, it may be difficult for Li Yi to control them alone. Please appoint a commander and a Sima."

"Just discuss it with Li Yi. I don't need Li Yi to go ashore to join the battle. He is only responsible for guarding the safety of the fleet."

After a short pause, Black Bear said, "I will lead a thousand cavalrymen and two thousand horses to rescue Liyang this time. If the war is urgent, I will lead more than a hundred elite cavalrymen to go to the river first, and wait until the ice on the river thaws, and then you can arrange for Li Yi to send troops."

Gan Ning wanted to give some advice, but he felt that such advice lacked practical significance.

He nodded and thought, then asked, "General Qu, when can I send troops to Shangluo?"

"Wait for my news. If I call back the geese, you can mobilize all the soldiers and horses in Hongnong and march towards Luoyang."

As he spoke, the black bear summoned two ganders and placed them at his feet.

There are only two geese in Lantian. When sensing them from a long distance, there is an obvious difference between the two, so he can recall them accurately.

Gan Ning picked up a goose and stroked it. After discussing military affairs, he said something else: "The imperial envoy has passed Dagu Pass and is now on the Hangu Road."

"Who is the messenger?"

"Hedong Pei Mao."

Gan Ning suppressed his smile. "During the reign of Emperor Ling, this gentleman was the Minister of the Chancellery. After the Dong Zhuo Rebellion, he served as the Imperial Censor to protect the emperor as he moved east. Later, he led the generals in Guanzhong to kill Li Jue's three clans and was awarded a title of nobility for his merit. Now, he is the Imperial Envoy as the Minister of Justice."

Black Bear was surprised when he heard this: "Pei Mao and Pei Qian, father and son, are also interesting."

Gan Ning didn't know the details, so he asked, "Captain Qu, what happened to Pei Mao and his son?"

"Sima Zhi had a good friend named Pei Qian, who was quite famous in Jingzhou and lived in seclusion in Changsha. When I was fighting against the Xiongnu, Pei Qian was recruited by me to go north, and later I sent him to Jingzhou to assist Liu Qi in his work."

Black Bear raised his hand and touched his chin. "I also heard that Pei Qian had a younger brother who went to Yizhou. His father Pei Mao was an important court official in Xudu. His son must have been held as a palace attendant. If I remember correctly, when I attacked the Xiongnu in Wenxi, there was a young man among the local scholars who claimed to be the son of the Minister of Justice."

Gan Ning was also stunned when he heard this. How many sons did Pei Mao have?

He immediately felt that his one son and one daughter were not enough.

Black Bear was talking about Pei Mao's family affairs when he suddenly changed his tone and said, "It seems that Cao Cao is still unwilling to give me a Shangshu Xingtai, and he sent me the Shangshu Ling from the Lingdi period. This is to force me to detain Pei Mao."

I always feel that in a few years, when Pei Mao, Zhong Yao, Wang Can, Wei Duan and others gather privately, someone might say this: There is a Black Bear spy hiding among us.

Gan Ning didn't care about the Shangshu Xingtai. Even if there was no such institution, the promotion and advancement of officials in the Guanzhong counties and prefectures would be a matter of a word from Black Bear, right?
"Cao Cao refused to give it to me, so I had to take it away from him."

Black Bear smiled and said, "If he doesn't want to be a minister, I will break one of his arms!"

The Secretariat was the last place of majesty and dignity for the imperial court, and he never expected that Cao Cao would agree to this matter.

As long as a small hole was opened, the little credibility accumulated by the Xudu court would be immediately destroyed.

Gan Ning was now very excited. He counted all his fellow villagers in Qiaopei and found that the only one who could be regarded as Cao Cao's arm was Xiahou Dun!
Seeing Gan Ning like this, Black Bear knew that he had misunderstood: "It's not Xiahou Dun. Such a good man should be left at the end. This time, we must either eat Cao Hong or Cao Ren!"

Black Bear said with a chuckle: "Let's settle this matter for now. I won't stay here tonight. I still have to go see Kong Rong. He seems to have a lot to say to me."

Gan Ning felt a little disappointed, so he said, "Maybe he wants to arrange Qu Shuai's marriage."

"The wedding should be held, even if it is simple, it can confuse Cao Cao for a while."

As Black Bear spoke, he couldn't help but think of the timid Cai Zhenji, who gave him a sense of warm familiarity at the time... a bit like Mizuno Ami.

At that time, I thought that if there were more familiar and close people in life, his pressure would not be so great.

By now, he no longer has any pressure.

Instead, it became a pressure for countless people inside and around.

(End of this chapter)