The pattern of the second east-west main stream is basically the same as the first, with living rivers, transportation, electricity, telecommunications, and four-season fruit trees running parallel to it.

And the biggest job that Mai Ke has added here is the connection with the first east-west trunk line.

On the east and west sides of the Mekong River, there are 10 rivers between the second and first transverse arteries connecting the two east-west transverse waterways, and at the same time providing a vast area between the two rivers, improving the convenience of water, electricity and transportation.

Since this second east-west route to the Andaman Sea passes through Bangkok, Bangkok has since become a famous water city, and more than half of the traffic has changed from the original land route to the water route, and many residents of the city walk when they are not away, but take boats.

And these boats are special boats - the transportation professional team from Kong Waterfall, which is a catfish with a team member and a means of transport.

Pangasius transportation services have since expanded to a large scale, with one-tenth of all pangasius concentrated in Bangkok alone, bringing the total number to half a million.

If it is said that solving the problem of catfish and building the east-west waterway has reflected the wisdom and strength of Mai Ke, then solving the retrograde course of ships in the stage of the waterfall is the biggest challenge!

Although Kong Waterfall has the largest flow in the world, its drop is not the highest; the drop is only 15 meters during the flood season, and even the drop is only 24 meters during the dry season, which is far worse than those waterfalls that often fall by several hundred meters.

However, the height elsewhere is just a large drop, and the problem here is that this is the main channel, and the ship has to go upstream. to continue sailing upstream.

This problem could not be solved at the time, but even in future generations, so that it has been a great obstacle to Mekong navigation.

Now Mai Ke has drawn up a countermeasure, and he wants to use local materials to solve this problem permanently.

There are two key conditions to solve the problem of drowning boating, one is to have the strong power needed to promote the big boat to go backwards, which must test the manpower rowing.

If it is on the river that is slowly flowing downward, it is still possible to row a boat by manpower, provided that the boat is not particularly large; if it is the huge boat that Mai Ke and the others are sitting on now, it is possible to row a boat with manpower. Or pull with a rope. It's absolutely not going to work.

Moreover, this waterfall is a vertical drop, not a slide upstream, but a vertical lift, that is. It doesn't matter what the weight and load of the boat is. It all have to be added together. Lift from the surface of the water and then lift to the top of the waterfall to continue the ascent.

So. Once you have the strength of the force, the second key is how to overcome this vertical height of 15 to 25 meters.

The first problem, which Mai Ke has actually solved, is that he has installed a generator, because of the huge amount of water here, the drop is already high, and he installed the generator underground, so the drop is even larger, increasing the power generation capacity, therefore, a lot of electricity is gathered here.

The second key, McCurry uses the elevator principle, the boat goes to the waterfall, which is equivalent to going directly to the elevator, but this elevator is open, you can drive directly in, and you can also drive directly out of the elevator.

Mai Ke built a platform of several tens of meters long and wide for ships of the same size, and then continued to expand outward, increasing by ten meters at a time, until each was 100 meters long and wide.

In the case of small boats, only the small platform in the middle is activated, and as the ship grows larger, it is transported on a larger platform until the largest platform is responsible for the large ship they are on today.

At the top of the waterfall, the current becomes gentle, and the boat is propelled upward with its usual power.

For boats coming from upstream, the principle of operation is basically the same, except that after getting on the platform, the boat is sent to the bottom of the waterfall, and from there it is carried out of the waterfall and continues downstream.

In order to allow navigation to flow unimpeded at this waterfall, Mai Ke separated the waterways from the downstream, and according to the principle of right up and left down, the waterfall on the east side was designated as a special upward trend, and the waterfall on the right side was specially used for descending.

The two waterways are separated by a rocky mountain that was originally there, almost submerged during the floods, and in the dry season, it is clear that this section of the waterfall is naturally separated.

After the diversion of the east and west trunks above, there is almost no difference between the flood season and the dry season, so this isolation rock becomes a permanent marker, just to guide the passing ships not to stray into the opposite lane.

Mai Ke built a lift at Kong Falls, and tested the big boat they were on, as long as the boat could go up, all the boats could go up.

Because by far this ship is the biggest giant in the world.

Speaking of this boat, it was a gift from the shipbuilding expert of the Shengshan Shengcheng Academy of Sciences who worked day and night to make it for the establishment of the Mekong River Alliance.

The day before the celebration, it was transported by Mai Ke with a spirit rhino.

The ship weighed 20,000 tons, and the total weight was 100,000 tons when fully loaded.

In order to measure the load of the lift, Mai Ke deliberately loaded the boat with full loads, and then drove onto the platform, and then there was a prickly sound, and the big boat swayed off the water and rose.

At first glance, after the big boat left the water, a large amount of river water was brought up, and the big boats at the bottom of the boat were still connected together, and there were waterfalls pouring from top to bottom, and the bottom of the boat was still in chaos, and nothing could be seen clearly.

When it was about ten meters above the water, there was no current at the bottom of the boat, and a huge rotating pillar could be seen supporting the platform, on which the large boat lay flat, and it continued to rise towards the platform.

Just over fifteen points later, the sound of Zaza could be heard getting heavier, and the rotating pillar seemed to be bent and a little overwhelmed.

At this time, the rising platform suddenly moved outward by one meter, and the hull closest to the waterfall was out of the impact of the waterfall, and suddenly escaped the impact of more than 10,000 tons of flowing water!

It turned out that when Mai Ke was designing, he deliberately added such an emergency measure, and when there was a sign that the elevator was overwhelmed, the hull was pushed out one meter to reduce the weight of the elevator.

Sure enough, this trick was very effective, and the rotating pillar immediately stopped bending and shaking, and in one fell swoop, the big boat was brought to the top of the waterfall.

The connection here is very smooth, as soon as the big ship reaches the top, it does not stop at all, and immediately uses its own power to start the big boat and continue to drive upstream.

Mai Ke didn't follow immediately, but stopped and boarded the elevator platform, he asked for this key equipment to increase the power to avoid the recurrence of the lack of force just now.

According to the measurement of Lingxi Yidong, it needs to increase the efficiency by at least 10% to safely lift the 100,000-ton ship; Mai Ke gritted his teeth and increased by 20%!

After solving the elevator problem, Mai Ke caught up with the big ship and sailed to another extremely difficult area.

Gu Jizhi had already recounted their experience of encountering the savages there, and the location was at the famous natural hazard in front of them - Jinmalat Dangerous Beach! (to be continued......