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Chapter 3 The Tide Strikes

Qiantang is famous all over the world.

This is a common sight for the backflow of sea water, but there are only one place like Qiantang River.

Therefore, this trend of observing tides became a trend as early as the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, and by the Tang and Song Dynasties, this trend became even more prosperous.

However, the experience of watching tides before the end of the Tang Dynasty was not strong. Although the Qiantang tide was spectacular, there was a lack of embankments to block the tide. The tide would pour into the river bank city, causing great inconvenience to residents and an important factor hindering the development of Hangzhou.

Because sea water will flow to land, the tide viewing points of this era are mainly high-level places such as Fenghuang Mountain and Jianggan County.

This year's Qiantang tide comes later than before.

It was not late until August 18th.

Before, Jiangnan became the granary for the Tang Dynasty's southern and northern expeditions, the economy was backward, the people were poor and the people were in vain.

In recent years, under the governance of Li Yuanai and Liu Rengui, the economy has recovered. Shangguan Yi and Lu Zhaolin held poetry meetings from time to time. Their talents and novel poems have stimulated the literary world in Jiangnan. Li Zhi, who was also the governor of the country, deliberately or unintentionally favored Jiangnan. In the past two years, Jiangnan scholars shined.

Luo Bin and Wang Yong won the title of No. 1, Gu, Lu, Chen, and Qian's children also achieved considerable results.

The emergence of the palace examination furthered the status of the imperial examination and further compressed the status of poor families and noble families.

In short, the imperial examination results in recent years have given Jiangnan literary circle a dose of stimulant, and the literary style is prevalent.

The biggest preference of the scholars in the Shilin Dynasty is to gather together to brag, write poetry, and the grand scene of Qiantang tide is not to be missed.

What's more, King Li Yuanai of Wu mobilized troops and wanted to fight against the Qiantang Tide God, a world-wide strange story that has never been seen before.

Compared with superstitious people, scholars often believe in the sayings of ghosts and gods.

Curiosity is a common problem for humans. After receiving such explosive news, they rushed to Qiantang early, hoping whether Li Yuanai could create miracles again.

If it were an ordinary person, he would definitely be ridiculed if he said that he would be laughed at by shooting tides.

But Li Yuanai is different.

The three words Li Yuanai have almost become synonymous with miracles.

The Grand Canal, which plagued the Tang Dynasty for many years, was repaired for two years and benefited the two towns of the canal.

When conquering Goguryeo, the Liaoshui Bridge was not destroyed by the Goguryeo army, and the food and grass could not be supplied. He did not need a nail to build a bridge in one day, which was amazing.

Jiangnan is exhausted and no one dares to take over this mess.

It was Li Yuanai who took only a few years to go to the south of the Yangtze River. He used the most insignificant cotton to directly increase the economy of Suhu and the two states.

Although the methods are not very brilliant, they have cheated Japan and Baekje, who cares?

When Quanzhou opened its sea, the Tang Dynasty ships transported gold, tin, iron and various rare woods from the south.

Now, in order to obtain a license to go out to sea, merchants from all over the world have changed their sexual desire from profiteers who cannot pour water into the water and have begun to spread money to gain reputation.

The rise of Jiangnan began with Li Yuanai.

When it comes to administrative achievements, no one can compare in recent years.

Everyone trusted Li Yuanai from Jiangnan, from officials and scholars to merchants and people.

Now I heard that he intends to confront the people of Hangzhou and the "trend gods" that have been rampant in the area for thousands of years, and he is even more eager to watch the excitement.

On August 15th, the Qiantang Road was already like a stream of cars and people were surging like a tide, and guests from all directions flocked to see the wonders of the tide.

Phoenix Mountain and the Sanlang Temple in Jianggan County are full of tourists.

Li Mingda has the most noble status and is naturally located on the platform on the hillside of Phoenix Mountain, the best viewing point, and is protected by soldiers and tourists are not allowed to approach it.

Early in the morning, Li Mingda and Xu Long came to the hillside of Fenghuang Mountain. Looking at the calm Qiantang River estuary in the distance, the two of them couldn't help but feel tense.

These days they inevitably understood the horror of Qiantang Chao and inevitably heard about the previous failures in the management and governance of Qiantang Chao. Although they were confident about Li Yuanai, they could not help but worry about it.

The observatory platform where they are located is several hundred meters away from the river bank. With human eyesight, they can't see the figure clearly. Looking at it, they can only see black dots as big as ants.

Suddenly, a glimmer of gold flashed from time to time on the river embankment.

Li Mingda shouted excitedly: "Brother Ai, that's Brother Ai! He is wearing the Mingguang armor given by his father..."

The Mingguang Armor originated in the late Han Dynasty and was wise to see the light of the sun. The world was Ming Dynasty and developed all the way to the Tang Dynasty and reached its peak. The whole body was inlaid with polished iron armor pieces, shining in the sun and shining for several miles.

Wearing bright light armor, there is no need for flags at all. Both the enemy and us can see the direction of the leader on the battlefield at a glance.

Show the martial aura to the fullest.

Suddenly, tourists around were exclaiming: "Here, come!"

Li Mingda looked down at the sight and saw a small white dot appear in the distance, but it turned into a silver thread during breathing, and accompanied by the sound of muffled thunder, the white thread rolled in.

Before Li Mingda could react, the surging tide was already whistling.

The wave as high as two feet high was like a giant beast, with its torrential mouth, as if it wanted to swallow everything.

And there are more than one wave, the next wave is rushing towards the previous wave, layer by layer, and countless waves are like a long white belt, with great momentum.

She opened her mouth wide and wanted to shout, but she couldn't say a word.

Xu Long also had a pale face and a shaky figure.

The wave hit the river embankment, bursting open, and the water splashed, causing more than ten feet of water mist...

One wave has not yet subsided, and another wave has arrived again.

Rumbled, and the waves hit the river embankment, whistling like thunder.

The most attractive thing about Qiantang tide is that it is not static, but will form a different wave due to the air pressure of the air flow.

After another layer of waves, a sudden thunder sounded, and a tide of more than three feet high, like a dragon lifting its lock, roaring and looking back, suddenly stood up, turning back to the Qiantang River embankment, the sea flowed across the river, the river water surged, and thousands of acres of waves. In an instant, a line of Bai Lian turned into a five-meter-high water wall. The sound of the tide was like thousands of horses galloping, thunder was thundering, and it raised a silver rainstorm and rushed into the sky, which was extremely dangerous.

Faced with this terrifying wave, the onlookers were stunned and there was only one thought in their minds.

Is this a human power match?

Li Yuanai looked at the tide in the distance and felt scared.

Faced with the power of nature, he couldn't help but worry whether the technological power he had could withstand this tide.

Qiantang River embankment is the most common earth-rock dam. The earth-rock dam is not unstable, but it has a fatal weakness and is most afraid of flooding the dam.

Li Yuanai studied architecture and naturally knew civil engineering well.

The water flow brought by the flooding of the dam will take away the earth and rocks on the dam surface. As the soil and rocks are wet and decrease, the bearing capacity of the dam surface will decrease. It will also increase the chance of pipe surges. Once a pipe surge occurs, the earth and rock dam will collapse quickly.

This is also the reason why many river embankments are piled with a row of flood prevention sandbags. Don’t underestimate these flood prevention sandbags, as they can greatly reduce the chance of landslide collapse and dam collapse.

After the wave came, Li Yuanai transferred all the flood prevention sandbags he had prepared in recent years to Hangzhou, and built an inclined sandbag on the original river embankment in the form of fish scales and the form-shaped stacking method.

According to his knowledge in his mind, this stacking method and form can resist floods and surges to the greatest extent.
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