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The Illegitimate Son of the Song Dynasty Volume 4 Chapter 733 A sudden change of circumstances

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    Kaifeng Governor Hu Zongyu finally recovered from his illness and officially took over the land expropriation case from Su Dongpo.

    He was completely opposite to Su Dongpo's procrastinating approach. He ignored all interference and acted vigorously and resolutely, catching those who deserved and beating those who deserved. There was no rule against using torture in case trials these days.

    The first person to be brought to court was Kang Qi, the steward of the Anlu County Prince's Mansion. Hu Zongyu said nothing, slapping the tree and throwing the arrow. As usual, he was sentenced first. Who asked you to sue the government with the people?

    After the torture, when the bloody Kang Qi was dragged to the lobby again, Hu Zongyu said coldly: "Kang Qi, you resisted and disobeyed the decree, gathered people to cause trouble, beat the imperial officials, and injured the imperial troops.  Soldiers, they are the same as those who conspired against each other, do you know your guilt?"

    Kang Qi's expression changed drastically. Hu Zongyu's tone was completely different from Su Dongpo's previous tone in the trial. He guessed that it was very likely that the court had re-set the tone of the case. If that was the case, it would be over.

    Kang Qi knew very well that their actions at that time were indeed enough to convict them of treason, but they could not admit it. This was a serious crime against the nine tribes, and they could not admit it even if they were killed.

    "My lord, we are unjustly accused! The common people are unjustly accused! It was those unjust officials who ordered the imperial army to beat us."

    Hu Zongyu didn't wait for him to finish speaking, and calmly smiled and said: "Bold Kang Qi, you are talking nonsense, but you have not understood one thing. Although the imperial army went out of the city to participate in land acquisition, they were only responsible for maintaining order, whether it was the Ministry of Household Affairs or the Sinong Temple.  None of the officials have the right to order these forbidden troops. It is nonsense for you to say that illegal officials ordered the forbidden troops to beat people. Since you are not honest and trying to make excuses, you can¡¯t blame me. Come on! Pull me down and you will be punished!  "

    "My lord. My lord, I was wrong. It was the general of the Forbidden Army who ordered the beating. My lord, you can't give in to a beating, my lord."

    "Oh, according to what you said, since the general of the Forbidden Army ordered the beating, then the beating has nothing to do with the officials of the Ministry of Revenue and Sinong Temple?"

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    "What is this? Tell me! Did officials from the Ministry of Revenue and Sinong Temple order the beating?"

    Hu Zongyu slapped the gavel tree fiercely.  Staring at Kang Qi and shouting violently, Kang Qi was so frightened that he was deceived by Hu Zongyu just now. He hastily changed his story and said that the general of the Forbidden Army ordered the beating. Now he must not change his story again, otherwise he would be seeking death if he reneged on his words in this court.  .

    "My lord, it was the Imperial Guards General who ordered the beating, yes, but"

    Hu Zongyu interrupted him again and said: "Since it was not the officials of the Ministry of Hubu and Sinong Temple who ordered the beating. Then you first besiege the imperial officials. This is a rebellion. Kang Qi, you and your people are the first to besiege the officials of the Ministry of Hubu. Moreover,  It was you who was the first to push Dingfan, a member of the Household Department, to the ground and kick him. Many laborers who were transporting earth out of the city saw this, and they all took action;

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????.  Kang Qi, you probably don¡¯t know yet, but Wang Er, the servant of your Anlu County Prince¡¯s Mansion, is trying to atone for his sins.  I have already confessed, but I want to see how long you, a cunning slave, can continue to quibble.  "

    "Sir, Xiao Min was wronged. Xiao Min did not push him. He accidentally fell down. It is true that he asked for a bribe from Xiao Min first."

    "Kang Qi, you first beat up the imperial official. I have many witnesses on this matter and cannot allow you to deny it. As for whether the officials from the Ministry of Revenue asked you for a bribe, it is not just your empty words. There must be stolen money."  Only for proof;

    To put it another way, even if an official from the Ministry of Revenue really solicits bribes, all you have to do is report it to the government. It is up to Your Majesty and the Queen Mother to decide how the court will deal with illegal officials. How can you allow them to overstep their bounds?

    You have gathered thousands of people to make trouble in important places in the capital, beating up the imperial officials, resisting the decree and resisting the imperial court's land acquisition. Isn't this treason?  Kang Qi, do you want to recruit or not?  "

    "Sir, the villain has been wronged. The villain has absolutely no intention of rebellion."

    "Come here, pull him down and serve him with severe punishments. I want to see how stubborn this evil slave can be. I'll let him taste the eighteen severe punishments one by one before I tell you."

    The case in Kaifeng Mansion seems to have nothing to do with Yang Yi, because no one knows that Hu Zongyu is his man. He used all means to control Hu Zongyu in order to better control the capital. Now the value of this chess piece has finally been fully realized.  manifestation.

    Zhao Ji had his weak point at the beginning, but now he is still obediently at his mercy. If he can get more handles on the powerful people in the capital this time, it will be of great use in the future, so Yang Yi decided to take this move.

    But he will not be directly involved in the whole thing, so he is still busy expanding the capital every day.

    Zhang Dun used a trick to quickly complete the land acquisition work, clearing the main obstacle for the expansion project hosted by Yang Yi.

    Yang Yi was no ambiguity either. With his strange treasure-digging skills, he leveled the inner city wall with a circumference of twenty miles in six days. This is absolutely?An astonishing speed.

    ?Then the removed bricks and earth were transported to the northeast corner of the city for stacking. Due to the short distance, the progress was very fast. Tens of thousands of people worked together and it took a few days to transport the waste bricks and earth from the east and north sides.

    On the other hand, a battalion of forbidden troops was dispatched from a mountainous area ten miles outside the city. They used explosives to blow up the rocks, and then the craftsmen who were in charge of the supervision chiseled them into strips of stone to pave the way. Since it was more troublesome to cut the stone, Yang Yi decided to use large bricks.  Bluestone mixed.

    Specifically, the place where cars and horses drive in the middle of the road is paved with stone strips, and the two sides are paved with specially fired large bricks. For example, a road that is fifty meters wide, and the middle twenty meters are paved with bluestone strips for daily traffic and horses.  , and then lay large bricks 15 meters wide on both sides.

    Anyway, everyone likes to walk in the middle, and the width of 20 meters is enough for ten carriages to go parallel.  When there is a traffic jam, there is no harm in driving on the road paved with large bricks on both sides.

    These large bricks are larger than those used to build city walls, about 60 centimeters long, 30 centimeters wide, and 15 centimeters thick. After a trial batch was fired, Yang Yi asked people to tamp the lower soil first, and then use large bricks to  Bricks were laid out on a four- to five-foot-long pavement to test the load-bearing strength of the large bricks.

    He let a large truck carrying two to three thousand kilograms roll over it repeatedly, and he kept pouring water on it to simulate the environment on a rainy day.

    After several days of testing, this large brick has no cracks or sinking.  The ground can always maintain its original flatness and successfully passed the inspection.

    So Yang Yi went to the table.  He asked the imperial court to open a brick kiln specifically for firing such large bricks.  There are several benefits to paving with these large bricks;

    First, this kind of big brick is easier to cut than stone.  Can speed up the project progress;

    Second, the large bricks are made in one specification, making the pavement smoother and more beautiful. If the pavement breaks down in the future, it will be easier to replace;

    Third, the road paved with bluestone strips will become slippery if you walk on it for too long, especially when people and horses walk on it on rainy days. However, on the road paved with large bricks, no matter how long you walk, you don¡¯t have to worry about the road surface becoming slippery.

    Fourth, in hot weather, the bluestone pavement is extremely hot.  If the road is completely paved with bluestone, coupled with the large population in the city, the high temperature in the city will be further aggravated.  This kind of large brick has a certain degree of water absorption, so no matter how hot the weather is, it will not appear too hot.

    Yang Yi listed the benefits of laying large bricks one by one in the memorial. The imperial court quickly approved his application and sent people to open additional brick kilns outside the city for firing.

    The first ring road in the city is stepping up its efforts to consolidate the lower roadbed, because the first ring road was built along the original inner city moat, with 60-meter-wide roads on both sides of the moat.  There is a five-meter-wide tooth channel along the river side, and a guardrail needs to be built to ensure the safety of pedestrians. The guardrail is now being stepped up.

    Expand the promotion department.  Shen Qingzhi, Sima Bofang, Su Xiu, Wade and others walked into Yang Yi's signing room together. Everyone had their own division of labor, but today they all raised a question to Yang Yi in unison: there is not enough manpower.

    Shen Qingzhi was the first to speak: "Sir, we only have 60,000 laborers on hand, and currently 40,000 people are focused on the laying of the first ring road. Only 20,000 people are used to dig the foundation of the outer city wall because there are too few people.  Progress was extremely slow;

    When the outer city wall is built in the future, a large amount of manpower will be needed to transport the large stone strips at the base of the wall, transport wall bricks and soil, lay bricks, and ram earth. With tens of thousands of people alone, how long will the construction period be delayed?

    Besides, the slack farming season is okay now, but once March enters the busy farming season, I'm afraid these tens of thousands of laborers will not be guaranteed. For such a big project, we only need tens of thousands of people. We are really short of people and constrained everywhere.  The longer the construction period is delayed, the more money is spent and the greater the impact on people's livelihood.  "

    Sima Bofang then said: "Sir, it is the slack season in winter, and the population around Gyeonggi is densely populated. It will not be a problem to recruit another 100,000 or 200,000 people. My lord, if you don't ask for 200,000 yuan, you can give me another 60,000 yuan."  Okay. Otherwise, there are so many love affairs, the official would really have no way to start."

    Yang Yi thought for a while and said: "Let me go to the political hall to talk about this matter. I can't guarantee how much manpower will be needed. However, you can also think of ways to save manpower.  And be able to get things done;

    For example, I feel that the excavation of the wall foundation of the outer city can be put later, and the moat of the outer city can be dug out first. In this way, many supplies can be transported by boat from the Bianhe River, Wuzhanghe River, Caihe River, and Huimin River.  Delivered directly to every point in the outer city;

    This will definitely save a lot of manpower, but I don¡¯t know whether digging the moat first will affect the stability of the city wall, and how to deal with the soil dug out from the wall foundation in the future. These things need to be carefully demonstrated and practiced by you;

    I am just using an analogy to remind you that the order of various tasks is very critical. You must arrange the work sequence reasonably while ensuring quality.  "

      ¡°Yes, sir.¡±

    "Also, we should try our best to improve the tools. The same good tools can save a lot of effort."

    Yang Yi thought of the hand-operated hoist crane that was often used in later generations. The structure of this thing is not complicated, and it is not restricted by the site. It can be used by just setting up an iron frame;

    In the future, a large number of large stone strips will be laid at the base of the wall. If there is such a hand-operated hoist, it will undoubtedly greatly reduce the work intensity, speed up the construction progress, and save effort.

    He took a pen and paper and drew the structural diagram of the hand chain hoist.

    The hand chain hoist rotates by dragging the hand chain and hand sprocket, pressing the friction plate ratchet and brake seat into one body to rotate together. The 5-tooth long shaft rotates the plate gear, the 4-tooth short shaft and the spline hole gear.

    In this way, the lifting sprocket installed on the spline hole gear drives the lifting chain, thereby lifting the heavy object smoothly.  It adopts a ratchet friction disc type one-way brake, which can brake on its own under load. The pawl engages with the ratchet under the action of the spring to ensure the safe operation of the brake.

    Its structure is not too complicated, so it will not be a problem to create the ability to serve as a supervisor.

    After Yang Yi drew a rough structural diagram, he marked its principles with words, and then handed it to Su Xiudao: "You are the general supervisor, so I will leave this matter to you. Let the general supervisor develop this kind of structure as soon as possible."  Hang it from the gourd, it will be of great use in building the city from now on."

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