Dalu Kingdom, Lizhou City.

There is a big river running through the city, named Lishui.

Lizhou is named after Lishui. This river not only crosses the city of Lizhou, but also divides into two rivers downstream, one to the north and one to the south. The north enters the Song Kingdom and the south enters the sea. It can be said that it extends in all directions.

, is a very important waterway transportation artery in Dalu Country. Except for winter, it is extremely busy in other seasons. Hundreds of large ships and small boats pass through here every day.

Therefore, there is a poem from ancient times:

"If the Lishui River can be used for boating, it can go south to the Canghai Sea and north to the Song Dynasty. If the waves are piled up, the ointment can be sent. A single water can make the country rich."

It is obviously the time of winter and spring, the river has just thawed, and it is still the season when cold winds are blowing. However, the pier is very hot and crowded. The heat of the laborers and trackers gathers together, and the stench and heat rush out together. It is extremely strange.

fierce.

Today is the beginning of spring. Lishui has been freed from the winter freeze. Even if it has not been freed, the people will be called on to break the ice and force the boat to pass. This process is called "opening the river."

Every year when the river is opened, people who rely on Lishui water transportation will gather here to cut the ice and weaken the ice. Then trackers will pull a heavy boat to crush the ice and completely dredge the river.

The trackers carry the boat, work hard to break the ice, the wind blows blood and sweat, the sun basks in the skin, and the chants are endless.

"The rope on the shoulder is nine feet three! Hey!"

The trackers roared and worked together to pull the big ship. The thick bottom of the ship raised the sails and blew the wind. There were also sailors above who echoed, using the force of the wind and manpower to crush the ice layers.

"You have worked hard and are tied to your shoulders! Hey!"

This ship is not an ordinary ship, but a special ship that is brought out every year when sailing on the river. It has an iron bottom and a hull made of century-old wood. No ice can withstand it.

"Step on the stone and use your hands to dig the sand! Ho-ho!"

The ice layer was pushed open, cracks appeared everywhere, and some large ice lumps somersaulted in the water, even creating small icebergs.

"Don't say you can't sail against the current! Hey!"

A big river like Lishui is five miles wide. Opening the river is a big project. It takes a whole day, and even the prefect of Lizhou will come to supervise it personally.

The iron-bottomed ship rushed towards the ice with astonishing force, and the ice was knocked away with a frightening crackling sound, like a battering ram. The ice fragments were projected high into the sky, falling around the trackers like hailstones, and

Some fine dust and ice mist reflect sunlight and cast rainbows one after another.

Ice mist steamed in the air, and people's bodies were steaming. Hot and cold mixed together, emitting bursts of white smoke.

The first group of trackers were exhausted, and soon the second group caught up, took over the burden, and continued to pull the icebreaker.

The first group of trackers who had unloaded their heavy burdens quickly left, wanting to rest.

There was only one person standing there, not moving.

His skin is brown and black, and he appears to be extremely healthy. His muscles are bulging and his figure is well-proportioned due to years of training in boat pulling.

What makes him stand out even more is that most of the other trackers have rough looks and stooped backs. He is the only one who stands upright and has a handsome appearance. At first glance, he does not look like a tracker at all.

His name is Li Qi.

Li Qi, who had just put down the rope, looked at the big ship and the glacier in front of him and sighed. Even though it was the third time he saw it, he still thought it was spectacular.

However, before he could finish sighing, an old tracker next to him had already hugged him and pulled Li Qi away, who was standing there blankly admiring the scenery.

"Let's go, Xiao Li, it's Er Dao's turn, let's take a few sips of hot soup first!"

"Uh, ah... okay, Uncle Six." Li Qi nodded and walked to the shore with a group of shirtless trackers with only a loincloth in their pockets.

Li Qi is also a tracker, but he is different from others in that he has not been a tracker for generations.

On the shore, other people had already cooked hot soup and prepared clothes to warm up the trackers and sailors who were coming down the river, because after a while, they would have recovered their strength and would have to go up a second time.

Sitting together, the trackers changed their clothes, held the broth, and started to cook. They didn't look good while eating.

Only Li Qi squatted by the river. Although he was very tired, covered in sweat, and had scars from being pulled by the rope, he still waited quietly and did not grab the broth cooked by the government.

After everyone in the crowd had grabbed it, he walked up, took his own bowl, and returned to the river. While watching other trackers pulling the big boat, he sipped the soup in small sips.

"Brother Li! Come on, I'll find a stool for you!" A tracker brought a stool over from a distance. He didn't know where he got it.

"Thank you for your hard work. It's not necessary. We all don't have a stool..." Li Qi just wanted to say something, but was pushed down by the tracker next to him.

"Uncle Six also has one. Brother Li, please don't refuse. You and Uncle Six helped us get the opening of the river this time. It's just a chair. Why can't we sit on it?!"

"That's right!"

"The first rank was personally rewarded by the prefect. Brother Li helped us get this position. What's wrong with sitting on a chair?"

"Yeah!"

"Me too!"

When Li Qi saw this, he stopped refusing and sat down. While resting, he watched the trackers of the "Second Path" pulling the big boat.

Before I knew it, I had seen the opening of the river three times.

It has been almost three years since I came to this world.

Yes, he is not from this world. When he saw the big ship, he felt this emotion again.

That big ship probably has a displacement of several thousand tons, but with one or two hundred trackers and a sail, it can actually pull it and break the ice!

He looked at the tendon meat on his body again. Among all the trackers, he didn't look thin. How could he have such a physique when he was an ordinary researcher?

But here...

Thinking of this, he suddenly stood up and punched hard!

The air seemed to be compressed, and as the fist roared, the ground not far away was filled with dust, as if something heavy had fallen to the ground.

When other trackers saw this, they all praised: "Brother Li is so handsome with his powerful rows!"

"I've been practicing for ten years, but I can't compare to Brother Li's two or three years of effort!"

"Nonsense, who are you? Who is Brother Li?"

The trackers started laughing and joking, thinking it was just Li Qi suddenly wanting to move, and didn't think there was anything strange about it.

As a man, it is perfectly natural for a man to suddenly get up and punch the air twice. I don't believe anyone has never done it before.

But Li Qi was sighing.

More than three years ago, his plane crashed and after he lost consciousness, he found that he was here, and he was in his true form. He had a broken game console and his own travel backpack in his pocket, but most of the things inside were burned.

, there are only a few pieces of scrap metal left.

Even though I traveled through time, I still brought my body with me.

It’s not like I haven’t heard of time travel. What about the promised inheritance of memories? What about the promised original identity?

Nothing, not even a household registration.

Some people even brought their smartphones, but I only brought half a game console.

Fortunately, I met a local tracker and my life was saved. As a researcher, I had some brains. I established a solid foundation among the trackers. After gaining trust, my uncle Liu taught me some of the ancestral tracker training skills.

Dharma door.

However, in just three years, he was now able to walk with a heavy weight of 700 to 800 kilograms. He even doubted that he was still a human being? Can humans achieve this through exercise?

I heard from Uncle Liu that trackers' training methods are still very crude. Only the methods in the military, government, and sects are advanced, and they are not comparable to trackers.

At the beginning, he was extremely excited, thinking that he could achieve something big with what he had in his head!

Then he was mercilessly slapped in the face by reality, and he realized that this place was so developed that there was no need for his little cleverness...

He is good at mathematics. There is a sect in Lizhou City called Qianjimen, which is good at divination. The members of the sect analyze various mental arithmetic tables and are very familiar with probability theory.

It is true that there are no cars here, but people here can travel hundreds of miles a day on two legs. I heard that rich people have smart horses at home, so they can travel hundreds of miles a day.

This is still a mountain road, and there needs to be a highway. Can this horse race with F1?

Yes, there is indeed no machinery here, but what are those machinery used for?

The strange rules here have taken this world to a completely different path. Although there are no tools, almost all tools can be replaced by human power.

Truck trackers can weigh seven to eight hundred kilograms, and each of those strong men can carry two to three thousand kilograms for a day's work.

Precision machine tools? Li Qi personally saw a craftsman use a needle to carve a picture of a hundred-man battle on rice within a quarter of an hour to show off his skills.

Doing research? Just kidding, the Thousand Machine Sect that I mentioned before, not to mention mental arithmetic ability, is not considered a big sect among the upper echelons of Lizhou, but when Li Qi listened to them recruiting disciples, he found that these people were very familiar with probability theory and chaos.

The research on algorithms was even far beyond his own world, and he couldn't understand it.

Human power has been infinitely magnified in this world. Through things like "gongfa", humans have completely replaced all tools. No tool is as useful as humans themselves.

Even if it were weapons, Li Qi believed that even if an entire modern group army was released into this world, it would probably be completely wiped out by the Lizhou Armed Forces.

He had seen the people from the Armed Forces when he was pulling a boat for a big shot. At that time, the Armed Forces Commander performed martial arts for the officials on the boat. He held a long knife and cut off the flow of the five-mile-wide Lishui River for a few seconds.

bell.

That scene gave Li Qi a nightmare for three nights.

Moreover, productivity is not bad at all.

People from other worlds are said to have crazy brains, but they are still in a farming society after ten thousand years of development?

Farming is farming, but the question is, have you ever seen rice with a yield of three to four thousand kilograms per mu? And it is also spiritual rice. The energy is estimated to be frightening. At first, when Li Qi had not practiced Pai Bo Jin, he could eat half a bowl of rice.
To be continued...