In 2024, Lin Mo, a student from the Department of Civil Engineering, was struck by a thunderstorm while traveling through the Zhenguan Tang Dynasty while working on a project all night! When he first arrived, he was regarded as a spy because of his strange clothes, but he made a name for himself by cleverly repairing collapsed houses with "reinforcement of sub-beams".
When the Chanhe Stone Bridge collapsed, he defied all opinions and used the "variable cross-section arch bridge" design, simple concrete and lifting tools to build a stunning stone bridge, which shocked Taizong. When he met the emperor, he proposed a national infrastructure blueprint, and even proposed "segmented construction" and "merchant investment" to overcome financial difficulties, and was appointed minister of the Ministry of Industry.
Later, he overcame the difficulties of raw materials, kiln temperature, and grinding to create the first barrel of cement in the Tang Dynasty. He then transformed the Weishui official road and built a standardized cement highway. See how modern civil engineering knowledge traveled through thousands of years and set off an infrastructure construction craze during the Zhenguan era, reshaping the mountains and rivers of Datang!
