"This, is this Yizhou City?" Hong Chengchou pointed to the city in front of him that seemed to be bizarre, looking disbelief.

The subordinates were also confused, although the route they took was not wrong. The landmark showed that it was indeed Yizhou City, and there were no cities in other places. However, after Hong Chengchou asked this, his subordinates were even a little confused: "Yes, yes, yes."

Of course, the four big characters of Yizhou City on the city wall clearly came into everyone's eyes. The city gate under Yizhou City is the Yongqing Gate of the South City Gate.

When Hong Chengchou saw it, he was completely shocked. Could it be that the crown prince repaired Yizhou City in such a short time?

Impossible, absolutely impossible. Hallucinations must be hallucinations.

Hong Chengchou's heart was pounding. He clamped his legs and wished he could fly into the city immediately to see what was going on.

No need to look, no need to enter the city. Hong Chengchou was already very sure, it was done by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Because he immediately understood that outside the bare city, he could no longer find a stone with a fist outside the Yizhou city within a radius of several miles.

All the stones were transported to the city walls to repair.

Shocking, it's incredible. Even if these people don't eat, drink, or sleep, it's impossible to do it in such a short time.

The Eastern Palace Guards on the city wall had already seen that the team of cavalry coming in front were their own people. When Hong Chengchou and the others walked in, someone even found that the person who came was the Governor of Ji Liao.

So the soldiers at the city gate hurriedly opened the city gate. Hong Chengchou and his group rushed into the city.

The soldiers in the city quickly went to report to Zhu Cilang, and as soon as Hong Chengchou entered the city, he was completely shocked by the scene in front of him.

Not only the south city wall, but also the entire west city wall and the east city wall were repaired intact. The huge city wall was as solid as a rock, and some of the mud on the city wall was not even dry. How could this be possible? What method did they use to build it?

Could it be that there were giants from the Giant Kingdom to help, or that there were gods who used magic? This ruined Yizhou City suddenly changed its appearance overnight.

The magical gods did not see them, and the giants from the giant country did not appear. However, Hong Chengchou saw a huge big guy, which was much taller than the city wall. This was a tower crane made of wooden brackets, which used the principle of leverage.

At the bottom of the tower crane are various winches and pulleys, as well as some gears similar to Western clocks. Various strange combinations form this huge tower crane.

We always feel that the Ming Dynasty seemed very far away from modern technology.

In fact, as early as the middle of the Ming Dynasty, with the opening of European missionaries' trade in China and Guangzhou, Western clocks and watches began to enter China as gifts and commodities.

Even in the ninth year of Wanli, Italian missionary Luo Mingjian introduced water bells and prisms to China as a stepping stone to open the door of Chinese government. In the 29th year of Wanli, another Italian missionary came to China. This person is very familiar to readers. His name is Matteo Ricci, and he gave two self-tone bells to Emperor Wanli. From then on, the self-tone bells entered the palace.

During the Wanli period, Luo Mingjian entered Guangdong from Macau and gave "a watch to the general officer of Guangdong Province Huang Yingjia; this is a timer tool that uses many small metal gears to install a complete set of timer tools."

Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty even found four eunuchs to learn how to adjust and operate the self-tone bell from the missionaries within three days. Later, he ordered the construction of a luxurious bell tower with large self-tone bells near the imperial city according to the Li family's drawings. The self-tone bells and other gifts given by Matteo Ricci became the object of relish at that time.

The Ming Dynasty described the self-tone bell in detail: "The instrument made has a self-tone bell, made of iron, with silk ropes intersecting, hanging in a chi, rotating up and down, and the bells are constantly stopped, and the bells are sound in time. The instrument is also very skillful, and it has many such types."

After Matteo Ricci brought Western clocks into Beijing, the Ming Dynasty quickly mastered the production technology of self-tone bells. Zeng Dezhao, a Portuguese missionary who lived in Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou and other places for many years. This year, when Zhu Cixuan came to Liaodong, the book "Travel Notes" written by this person after returning to Europe: The handicraft they admire most was gear clocks. They have made it very well now. They can be placed on the table. If the price is the same as ours, they can make the smallest one.

In other words, the self-ringing bell at this time has become popular among the great officials and nobles of the Ming Dynasty.

Hong Chengchou naturally saw this thing, so he felt that this huge wooden tower crane had similarities with the self-ringing bell.

What surprised Hong Chengchou even more was that the wooden tower crane was still working at this time. He watched helplessly, the hemp rope placed on the tower crane slowly lifted a huge iron cage full of stones.

This made Hong Chengchou, who had seen such a monster for the first time, feel his hair standing up. How did this thing be hung up with such a huge iron cage?

Moreover, it seems like a matter of hanging such a large iron cage is easy.

Sure enough, the iron cage moved slowly. After the craftsmen on the city wall adjusted the direction, the iron cage fell quietly on the city wall.

While he was stunned, several fast horses ran all the way from the north city. The horsemen arrived in front of Hong Chengchou, hurriedly grabbed the horse, then turned over and dismounted, bowed to Hong Chengchou: "Governor Hong, Your Highness, the Crown Prince, I heard that you are here, and the last person will come to greet you."

Changping General Li Shouyan, with Yuan Xiaoxiao and others beside him, also dismounted and saluted Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou was still in a dream. He pointed to the huge tower crane and asked in shock: "General Li, this..."

Li Shouyan smiled slightly: "It is His Highness the Prince's masterpiece. His Highness draws the drawings of this divine object and lets General Cao lead the carpenters to make it."

Hong Chengchou looked at the strong city walls around him and couldn't help but take a breath: "The Qiansui Master is far-sighted and has his own blessings, which is not something that we ordinary people can understand."

Li Shouyan didn't tell him, what a mere wooden tower crane is. Wait a minute, when you see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, you will be so scared that you will be so scared that you will be so scared, because Zhu Cilang has developed a larger killing weapon.

"Governor General, His Highness the Crown Prince is waiting for you in the north of the city. You can follow the officials here to visit."

Hong Chengchou nodded, then Li Shouyan and others turned over to the horse, leading Hong Chengchou and others to run north of the city.

Hong Chengchou thought that Zhu Cilang was building the city wall in the north of the city, but he didn't know that after he arrived, he only saw Zhu Cilang on the city wall, with a group of people studying something.
Chapter completed!