Vol 4 Chapter 50: Sterling silver cable

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Summer is the season of thunder and lightning. It is now May. There are only two months to build this seven-story pagoda. For the ancients in the Ming Dynasty, it was indeed a difficult task.
However, in the face of crowded tactics, any difficulties can only be concessions. Jiangdong Governor Fang Chengbin was not only able to supply craftsmen and building materials, but also hired experienced craftsmen from Nanjing, Suzhou and other places to take charge of the project. .
The pagoda is a kind of Buddhist architecture. It was originally a place where relics were enshrined. After being introduced to China from India, it has been improved and merged. It has a variety of shapes, but there are only a few commonly used ones. The great craftsman from Suzhou came up with a few model drawings. Liu Yanzhi It's the final word.
He chose the dense eaves-style octagonal brick tower, for no other reason, because the pagoda on Cuiwei Mountain in his memory looks like this.
The high quality of the dense eaves pagoda is that the interior is hollow and cylindrical and cannot be seen from above. This saves a lot of man-hours and can be built in the shortest time.
Once the style was set, the work started. Hundreds of craftsmen rushed to work 24 hours a day with the assistance of 3,000 civilians. All the decorations were omitted, and the prototype of the pagoda was built first.
Dang Aiguo and others are busy making lightning rods and conductive wires. If a lightning rod is easy to do, a tall iron rod will do. Conductive wires are a problem. There is no wire from the Ming Dynasty, and there is no craftsmanship for producing iron wires. Good conductors are silver. , The resistance is only 0.016 ohms, but the cost is too expensive.
It's a big deal, let alone silver, even gold wires have to be punched out!
Without the protection of immortals, the people of Jinjiang would have been poisoned by the Qing army. I heard that immortal man-made pagodas cost silver, and countless people donated silver taels. The landlords also pledged to donate them. Even the warlords near Jiangdong came to offer their courtesy after hearing about this incident, Shi Kefa One thousand taels of silver was given, Huang Degong gave five thousand taels, Zuo Liangyu gave ten thousand taels, plus the ten thousand taels donated by Chengbin from above, basically enough.
It’s just that the fineness of the silver ingots these years is very different. Even the filamentary ingots contain a lot of impurities, not to mention those silver bars and silver ingots cast hundreds of years ago. These silver ingots have to be remelted and forged. The technicians can’t find it. There is no shortage of silversmiths. More than a dozen jewelry craftsmen from Nanjing and Yangzhou gathered in the workshops near the pagoda construction site to study day and night to create pure silver cables.
In the early summer of 1645, due to the intervention of the traversers, history has undergone tremendous changes. Zuo Liangyu did not die, Shi Kefa did not die, and Li Zicheng did not die. The small court of Nanming lingered, but Wu Sangui died, Duo Duo died, and Man Qing was in The rule north of the Yellow River is at stake. On the land of the Central Plains, the war and fighting ceased temporarily and entered a weird period of peace.
The Jiangdong Mingjun recovered a large area of ​​land north of the Huaijiang River, and Fang Chengbin had not enough people on his hands, so he had to let his third brother stand alone. The original Jinjiang Mansion Liupintong ordered Fang Chenglong to lead 10,000 soldiers, guarding Nantai City, as a barrier to Jiangdong, Fang Chengbin Ambitious, he is no longer willing to be a minister of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong can be the king and hegemony. Why can't he be the emperor?
This is also the reason why Fang Chengbin strongly supports the immortals to build the pagoda. Although he does not know the role of the pagoda, he can guess that it was used and why? Isn't it to help the virtuous people sit in the world? So the question is, in today's troubled times, who is a virtuous person, who is qualified to aspire to the Central Plains and replace the exhausted Zhu family?
It seems that the answer is already there. The immortals chose to take root in Omi, not just to help Lao Fang's family.
As long as there is one thing that Fang Chengbin dared not think about, it is which children and grandchildren of the Fang family in Italy are the fairy people.
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At the end of July, Cuiwei Pagoda was completed, and Omi entered the thunderstorm season. The four members of the traversing group stood in front of the newly built pagoda with umbrellas.
"The pyramid may be some kind of facility built by the aliens to leave the earth." Guan Lu opened his mind.
"Maybe the pyramid was built by us." Liu Yan shrugged straight.
Ji Yu was thinking about his career in Datum Time and Space, and asked the party patriot: "Is the equipment reliable?"
Dang Aiguo raised his head and looked at the Cuiwei Pagoda in the rain. On the top of the tower is a lightning rod made of stainless steel. The bottom of the lightning rod is connected to a sterling silver wire. The wire is protected by a wooden sheath and extends from the heart of the tower to the ground, leading to the distance. The crossing point is connected to the power interface of the crossing cabin.
"According to the principle of traversing the cabin, the greater the power, the higher the chance of winning." Dang Aiguo Road, "The duration of lightning is measured in microseconds. The electricity is actually very small, but the voltage is high and the power is high. General electrical appliances will be broken down. Bad, but time travel requires high power, so as long as there are no major problems, we will leave here."
Liu Yan said straightforwardly: "You just said that we will leave here, but you didn't say that we will definitely return to 2018."
Dang Paiguo Road: "Of course, the power of lightning cannot be precisely controlled, otherwise I will build a power plant and do what I will do. It will not be enough to directly use lightning to pass through. We will leave the Ming Dynasty, but I really can’t guarantee when the anchor will fall, or During the Qianlong period, or during the warlords' melee in the early years of the Republic of China, or after liberation, it was possible, depending on how powerful this split was."
Everyone was silent.
"If you don't leave this year, you have to wait for next summer." Dang Paiguo Road, "Are you patient?"
The other three expressed their opinions, go!
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After learning that the fairy was leaving, Fang Chengbin seemed to be ten years old suddenly. All he relied on was the fairy to help out. Now the fairy wants to abandon them, all his dreams have become a pig urine bubble. Broken pig urine bubble.
But Fang Chengbin can’t say anything against it. The immortals have helped him enough. Fang’s family is now one of the top warlords in the Ming Dynasty, with 100,000 armors and sufficient money and food. He already has the strength to compete in the Central Plains. Do you want the immortals to give him? Can't go back and start the battle?
At the request of the fairy, Fang Chenglong rushed from Nantai to personally send his old friends home.
On a rainy night in early August, the heavy rain on Cuiwei Mountain, thunder and lightning, the immortals embarked on their way home, this matter was extremely confidential, only a few of the Fang clan knew, before crossing the hatch, Liu Yan directly confessed to Fang Chenglong: "This is for you Just remember that after we are gone, your elder brother may be against you and the Qing army will go south again. When you can't beat them..."
At this time, a thunder blast sounded, and Fang Chenglong didn't hear what Liu Yan said straight, only felt that there was something in his hand.
"The time has come!" Party Patriotic shouted and closed the hatch.
With a bang, the hatch was closed, and a pale lightning pierced the sky. The Cuiwei Mountain in the rainstorm was shining every minute. This lightning was extremely violent, with a length of several thousand meters, and a temperature of 28,000 degrees Celsius. The temperature of the surface is five times higher. The high temperature of lightning instantly heated the surrounding air, and the air expanded violently and thundered.
The end of the lightning hit the lightning rod at the top of the Cuiwei Pagoda, and the current was transmitted to the transit cabin through the pure silver cable in an instant.
Fang Chenglong flashed a flower before his eyes, and the transit cabin disappeared.
The immortals left, and the heavy rain was full, Fang Chenglong went back to the tent next to the tower in despair, and looked at the thing in his hand, which was a gray ball.
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When the immortals left with a crane, Fang Chengbin strictly ordered to keep the secrets. He found three men and one woman to look like immortals. They still lived in the inn, and sent someone to build a Taoist temple on Cuiwei Mountain, and publicized that the immortals would cultivate here for a long time.
Half a year later, Duoergun, the regent of the Qing Dynasty, led an army of 300,000 troops to march south. The soldiers pointed out that the flag was dropped. The Henan General Xu Dingguo surrendered again and was killed by Dorgon. The army went south and took Yangzhou first. Shi Kefa Asked for help from the Fang family in Omi, Fang Chengbin stood still. Seven days later, the city of Yangzhou was broken and Shi Kefa was martyred. The Qing army slaughtered in Yangzhou for ten days.
After a month or so, the Qing army came under the city of Nanjing, Emperor Hongguang fled, Ma Shiying was martyred, Ruan Dacheng was captured, Huang Degong died in battle, Emperor Hongguang was held on the river, and the Nanming court lasted for more than a year, but still fell.
Dorgon quelled Nanming and sent troops westward. Zuo Liangyu, who dominated Wuchang, relapsed from his old illness and died violently in the boat of Jiujiang. His son Zuo Menggeng did not dare to resist the Qing army and led a crowd of 200,000 to surrender.
In the entire Central Plains, only a corner of Jiangdong is still under the banner of the Ming Dynasty.
The lonely city of Nantai, which was swayed by wind and rain, was originally a small county town. After Fang Chenglong led his troops in, he strengthened the city's defenses day and night, hoarding food, and turned it into a strong city that can be attacked, retreated, and defended. , Fang Chenglong fought with them several times, winning each other.
In the county office, Fang Chenglong, a former white-faced scholar, has a beard on his lips, which looks mature and stable. In fact, he is only twenty years old. Not only is he younger than his generals, he is even younger than his concubine Chen Yuanyuan. year old.
Although Fang Chenglong was already a general in charge of one party’s military power, he did not dare to rebel against his father's order and marry a firework girl. Chen Yuanyuan did not think too much about it~EbookFREE.me~ Anyway, she was the only one beside her, and she was content. Up.
Fighting is tight, Fang Chenglong uses alcohol to relieve his sorrow, and the eldest brother has not sent reinforcements. Is it really impossible to save him? At this time, what he missed most was Liu Yanzhi. If the fairy was here, he would definitely not be afraid of the Tartars outside the city.
Suddenly the military academy reported: "General, there are envoys outside the city."
Fang Chenglong was irritable and restless: "Emissary of Tartar, it doesn't matter if you don't see it."
The military academy said: "It's not Tarzi, it's... the major general."
Fang Chenglong was shocked and hurried out of the county office. He ran straight to the east gate city wall and leaned on the crevice to look out. However, he saw a small team outside the city gate. The leader was the eldest son of the Fang family and his nephew. Fang Zihao.
Fang Zihao changed his outfit. He did not wear the bullfighting suit bestowed by Emperor Hongguang. Instead, he wore a white cotton armour, a yellow jacket of Tartar, and a warm hat on his head. He saw Fang Chenglong and said, "Uncle, Omi has already fallen. After speaking, he took off his warm hat, revealing a newly shaved head, and the other familiar generals also took off their helmets, revealing the new hairstyle of money rattail.
Fang Chenglong spouted blood.