With Luo Chong coordinating operations from Tohai Commandery, all the Han Tribe's construction projects were completed at a rapid pace. At the same time, officials and Golden Crow Guard Special Agents from every region continuously compiled intelligence and sent it up, allowing Luo Chong to survey the overall situation of the entire tribe.
In the fourth month of Great Mandate Year 3, at the beginning of summer, the people Ye Ying had brought back from the Youqiao Clan Main Branch had long since settled in the Eight Commanderies of Hanyang. They had already harvested their first season's crops, thoroughly integrated into the Han Tribe, and become part of the hundreds of thousands of registered households.
At the same time, a major event had also taken place in the south.
The Cross-Sea Bridge project, which had been under construction for nearly five years, had finally reached its last step—the critical moment when the sections were joined together!!!
Originally, when the Cross-Sea Bridge had been designed, it had been required to allow large ships to pass beneath it. Above, it had to accommodate horse-drawn carriages and tractors, as well as Heavy-load Trains. However, to allow Three-Masted Sailboats to pass beneath it normally, they had to build several enormous-span Arch Bridges, raise the space beneath this section of the bridge deck, blast away the reefs below, and clear a navigable channel.
The Engineering Command Post had originally been fretting over how to build the several Arch Bridges in the middle. The key problem was that they had never built Arch Bridges with such enormous spans before. Unexpectedly, they learned the necessary techniques from the Canyon Bridge on the Qi-Tai Line Railway.
They adopted the Canyon Bridge's construction plan as well: first erecting tall towers on both sides of the broken bridge, then using