How to relieve worries? Only Du Kang!
Xiao Han may feel that it is not good for him to revive other people's sad things.
So the two sad boatmen each got a jug of wine.
Naturally, Xiao Han also accidentally "forgot" such small things as the Xiao family's wine is intoxicating.
Since ancient times, there are few boating people who are not good at drinking! The two boatmen took the wine gratefully, took a sip of the wine intoxicatedly, and then eagerly opened the cork and prepared to pour it into their mouths!
The idiot on the side saw this and was about to stop him, but Zhang Qiang accidentally slapped him on the back. The slap made him cough for a long time...
After pouring a large gulp of wine into their mouths, the two boatmen felt as if they had two balls of fire in their mouths! I wanted to squirt it out, but I didn't dare, so I had to swallow it alive!
"Ahem, cough, cough... Okay, good wine!" After coughing violently a few times, the boatman soon felt that his body had warmed up a bit, and he couldn't help but cheer loudly!
When they were sailing, they often drank a little wine to warm themselves up and relieve their fatigue. When there was no comparison, they felt that the wine they drank was not bad! But after drinking Xiao Han's wine, the previous drinks immediately became tasteless.
"Haha! It seems you are also good drinkers. Come on, have a few more sips!"
On the edge of the river, the two boatmen were encouraged by Xiao Han and others to drink a lot of wine.
Soon, the boatman's face turned from sallow to deep red, and his breathing became heavier. Even the words he spoke involuntarily increased. Xiao Han hardly needed to ask questions, and the two of them revealed everything they knew. come out.
At this point, Xiao Han finally had a clear understanding of this waterway.
It turns out that this unknown Guangtong Canal was not simply dug by Yang Guang!
It was first built by Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty Yang Jian to connect Daxing City and Tongguan.
And, at the beginning!
It is not as unknown as it is now. Instead, it has a well-known nickname, that is Fumin Canal!
At that time, Guangtong Canal did not allow boats at all!
Therefore, whether it is an official ship or a private ship, it can travel unimpeded on the three hundred miles of water!
As a result, there are more than tens of thousands of beneficiaries?
"At the beginning, we came down from Chang'an! We went to Tongguan, then merged into the Yellow River, and went straight to Xiazhou! Not to mention anything else, a single round trip was enough to cover the output of the fields for half a year. Looking back at that time, we were also among the small rich. Home!"
A boatman was so drunk that he fell to the ground drunk.
Only the other one, who is slightly younger, is still silent in the memories of the past.
"The end is in Xiazhou?"
Xiao Han felt a little strange when he heard this. He had stayed in Xiazhou last year and knew that it was very close to Luoyang, the eastern capital. After thinking about it, he asked: "You won't go down when you get to Xiazhou? Why not? Going to Luoyang? Luoyang was also under the jurisdiction of the previous dynasty at that time. Wouldn’t business be better if we went to that big city? "
"You mean Luoyang, the eastern capital?"
The somewhat intoxicated boatman tilted his head and glanced at Xiao Han, then snorted disdainfully:
"Humph... All the people who are taking a boat for the first time want to go directly to Luoyang via the Yellow River! But if they really go there, no one will dare to go there a second time!"
"What do you mean? It's dangerous to go from Xiazhou to Luoyang?" Xiao Han didn't mind the boatman's contempt at all. He knew it if he knew it, and he didn't know if he didn't know it. There was nothing to be embarrassed about!
Moreover, he now remembered another very important issue through the boatman's words, that is, when he and Xiao Lizi were stationed in Xiazhou City, the Yellow River was in front of them! Downstream is Luoyang!
With such a favorable location, it seems that no one has ever proposed crossing the Yellow River and going down the river to attack Luoyang!
This is indeed a bit strange for a military strategist who does everything possible! Now that I think about it, there must be something that Xiao Han doesn't know about.
The boatman is now drunk.
Fortunately, he didn't fall asleep on the ground like his companions. Instead, he seemed to be in good spirits!
Standing up with a shake of his head, he pointed to his boat and said slowly: "It's dangerous, how can it not be dangerous? You people have never been there, so you don't know at all!
Not far from Xiazhou, there are three rapids! We boatmen call it a three-door! And just talking about rapids and reefs, that’s nothing for experienced boaters! But the problem is that at the very center of the rapids, God has erected a tall boulder stuck there!
Wherever the big river reaches, it is already extremely fast because of the narrowing of the terrain! Coupled with such a scourge of rocks, I don’t know how many ships were smashed and how many lives were lost!
Not to mention anything else, my small boat, which had clearly avoided the rock, was still tossed several times by the turbulent current and almost capsized there! And if the boat capsizes in that position, no matter how good your water skills are, you will be sucked into the bottom of the water and turn into a water ghost. "
"Hiss... is there such a dangerous place on the Yellow River?"
Listening to the boatman's words, Xiao Han and Zhang Qiang could only stare. It wasn't until a while that they remembered to ask the boatman: "Since this stone is a disaster, no one wants to move this broken stone away?"
"Yes, why not!"
The boatman took a deep breath and sat back on the ground! As soon as he stretched out his hand, Xiaodong, who had an excellent eye, had already handed over his fish skewers. After he took a comfortable bite, he continued:
"I also heard from my ancestors that when the sage Yu the Great was controlling floods, he thought about removing this scourge, but the gods he invited could not move it away! But this is a legend, and we have never seen it! I only remember the previous dynasty At that time, the two emperors ordered people to excavate this stone! But many people broke into it and still couldn't do anything about it!"
"Two emperors, even if I go, Yang Guang hasn't done this?!" Xiao Han couldn't help but gasped when he heard this.
If you want to ask about the most perseverant emperor in Chinese history, Xiao Han thinks that Yang Guang should be ranked second, but absolutely no one would dare to be ranked first! Such an emperor can't help but a small stone?
"No……"
The boatman waved his hand at Xiao Han, who had wide-eyed eyes, and said in a long voice: "Many people died, but the stone didn't move! Later, the emperor was so angry that he directly used the largest ship at the time to ram it, trying to ram it. Break it off. The original ship was dozens of feet long and five or six stories high. It drove like a moving mountain. If we also had such a ship..."
"Hey, stop it! Don't talk about the boat, let's talk about what happened next? How did it go?"
Xiaodong was the most impatient. Seeing that the boatman did not talk about Stone Mountain, but instead talked about the big ship, he immediately became unwilling and urged him to continue talking.
"Later..." the boatman squeaked, glanced at Xiaodong displeased, and then whispered: "Then the boat was smashed to pieces, and no one on the boat survived! The stones were also broken due to this. A piece!
Oh, by the way, I remember that it was the seventh year of the Great Cause. At that time, the river suddenly flowed backward for dozens of miles! It flooded countless villages with farmland. At that time, everyone thought it was the anger of the gods. Even the emperor finally did not dare to touch the stone. He sent someone to carve the word "pillar" on it and gave it a name to extinguish the anger of the sky. . "
"The stone is the mainstay? The legendary mainstay?!"
