Chapter 349: The Beautiful Rhine

Li Xiaoye watched Ye Chao get a luxury cruise ship like this, in addition to being helpless, he was shocked. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Moreover, they also sent him money......

When Ye Chao went to find the rich, he didn't take Li Xiaoye there, anyway, she couldn't run away under the control of heart magic.

Li Xiaoye was taken onto the boat by Ye Chao.

"Will Tang Ru and Xiaoxi know your whereabouts?" she asked suddenly.

"Yes, the Tang family's power is all over the world...... Ah, that's not a good way to say, I should say that they have semicolons all over the world. Ye Chao pulled her to the top of the cruise ship, where she happily enjoyed the beautiful scenery on the Rhine River and its banks.

The Rhine is the largest river in Western Europe, originating in the northern foothills of the Alps in Switzerland, flowing northwest through Liechtenstein, Austria, France, Germany and the Netherlands before emptying into the North Sea near Rotterdam.

With a total length of 1,232 km, the Rhine is a well-known international river in Europe, with Liechtenstein, Austria, France and the Netherlands leaving its footprints along the way.

Since the Congress of Vienna in 1815, it has become an international shipping waterway, some 869 kilometers (540 miles) long, as far as Rheinfelden on the Swiss-German border. The basin area (including the delta) is more than 22,0000 square kilometers (85,000 square miles).

The Rhine is the longest river in Germany. The Rhine River flows through Germany for 865 kilometers and accounts for 40% of the total area of Germany, making it the cradle of Germany.

It's a beautiful river.

As early as 200 years ago, the poets and thinkers of the German Romantic period were captivated by the charm of the Rhine and dedicated countless beautiful poems to her, so there is a saying "200 years of Rhine Romance".

In 1802, Clemens von Brentano and Achim von Arnim, who later became his brother-in-law, embarked on a literary journey to the Rhine, collecting folk songs and legends from both sides of the Strait along the way, which were later compiled into a collection of folk poems, "The Magic Trumpet", including the famous "Lorelei the Witch".

Loreley, the banshee in the mythical and legendary story of the famous German poet Heine's poems.

This section of the river has many twists and turns, and there are often accidents with boats.

Legend has it that this is because there was a beautiful banshee, Lorelai, who fascinated the boatman with her sweet singing voice.

Next to the river there is a statue of Lorelei with long hair.

More than twenty years later, Lorelei became a symbol of the romance of the Rhine through the pen of the romantic poet Heine. William Turner, the greatest British landscape painter of the 19th century and pioneer of Impressionism, carried his sketchbook from Cologne to Mainz in 1817.

Countless poets, painters, and musicians have filled this valley with magical colors dotted with ancient castles.

The volcanic rocks of the medium mountain range give rise to many mineral springs.

The German "Wine Route" (Weinstrasse) passes along the Palatinate Forest. The state's many beautiful landscapes attract a large number of tourists throughout the year for sightseeing, vacations and recuperations.

However, the Middle Rhine (the stretch between the German cities of Bingen and Boon), with its cliffs and numerous castles such as the Lorelei rock, is still a picturesque sight to behold.

The Rhine in Switzerland is located in the Alps, from below Basel to the Lauter River downstream, which forms the boundary between western Germany and France. It then flows through Germany as far as Emmerich, below which it divides into a delta that reflects the unique Dutch landscape.

On the island of the Rhine, in the heart of the Rhine outside Bingen, there is a "rat tower". It is said to have been built as a customs tower by Roman Field Marshal Deluvius in 8 BC. Legend has it that in the 10th century, the Bishop of Mainz, Hato II, was a stingy and cruel man, and he hid a large amount of food in the tower despite the hunger of the people.

The people could not bear it. Imprisoning him in the tower, the Bishop ends up being a feast for a swarm of rats.

As a result, the "Rat Tower" became another name for the Tariff Tower, which has been passed down to this day.

Today, the "rat tower" serves as a signal tower on the Rhine to guide the navigation of incoming and outgoing ships. Across the river from the tower is the city of Asmanshausen, known as the "Land of Red Wine".

The Niederwald Monument stands tall at the foot of the Niederin Hills.

The monument is 35.5 meters high and was built to commemorate the unification of the German Empire in 1871.

Down the Rhine, between Saint-Goa and Saint-Goahausen, there is a very treacherous narrow section, and on the right side there is a huge boulder protruding from the sky, which is the "Lorelei cliff".

The cliff is 132 meters high and 90 meters wide, and the steep rock wall stands like a beautiful maiden at the corner of the Rhine. Whenever the river falls, one can also clearly see the dangerous "Seven Maidens" reef, which is said to have been transformed by a stone-hearted beauty.

These strange reefs are like maidens dressing up in the afterglow of the setting sun, and their posture is charming and charming.

Since ancient times, the reefs and whirlpools have brought disaster to countless ships, and the moving legend of the boatman who was bewitched by the beauty and beautiful song of the enchantress Lorelei and died in the river.

It is a symbol of the romance of the Rhine, and whenever a boat passes by, the song of Lorelei is heard, and the beautiful song transports people into a fairytale dreamland.

On both sides of the Rhine there are still the ruins of more than 50 castles and palaces, each with its own name. Each castle has an ancient story and legend that chronicles the heroes of their devouring deeds and the romance of their children. Ancient castles and fascinating legends accompany visitors throughout their journey to the Rhine.

On the upper reaches of the Rhine, where northern Switzerland meets Germany, there is a 110-metre-wide Rhine waterfall. Brave visitors can take a small boat ride to the bottom of the waterfall. The Middle Rhine, from Bingen to Bonn, Germany, is a spectacular canyon with many ancient legends about the Rhine.

There are 867 km on the territory of Germany. The most scenic section of the route is in the middle of the Rhine Valley, from Mainz to Koblenz in Germany. The river here is meandering and the water is crystal clear.

People sit on white yachts, looking at the beautiful scenery of the Rhine River in the distance, green vineyards are arranged in an orderly manner on both banks, and small towns with truss buildings and more than 50 castles and palace ruins are dotted among the green mountains and green waters.

From time to time, old legends take people's minds back to the distant past, and people are deeply enchanted by the colorful beauty of the Rhine, which is full of romance.

In order to preserve the natural landscape, there are no bridges in the Rhine valley and ferries are used to travel between the two banks. The scenery on both sides of the strait is a bit like China's Three Gorges, but the mountains are not as high and steep as the Three Gorges. The hillsides along the river are dotted with vineyards and dotted with numerous castles from the Roman era.

No other major river basin in Europe is as dense as this 50-kilometre-long stretch of the Middle Rhine that combines nature and humanity with such a history of centuries.

However, even if the Rhine River is so beautiful, Ye Chao also caught fish in the river, but he didn't roast them to eat them immediately, but used his magic to find out if these fish had become inedible due to the pollution in the past.

Heart magic can even kill cancer cells, and it's easy to check if the river fish are contaminated.

The Rhine was once polluted......

The Rhine pollution event refers to a series of severe pollution events in the Rhine River since the middle of the 20th century.

Since the middle of the 20th century, with the rapid development of industry, the Rhine has become the largest sewer in Europe. In Germany alone, around 300 factories dump thousands of pollutants such as acids, bleach, dyes, copper, cadmium, mercury, detergents, and pesticides.

In addition, the water quality is seriously polluted by waste oil discharged from ships in the river, sewage and waste residue poured in by residents on both sides of the river, and fertilizers and pesticides from farms. It is estimated that there are more than 1,000 harmful substances in the river.

In the middle of the night on November 1, 1986, a fire broke out in a chemical warehouse of the Sandoz chemical company in Basel, Switzerland, and a steel tank containing about 1,250 tons of highly toxic pesticides exploded, and toxic substances such as sulfur, phosphorus, and mercury flowed into the sewer with a large amount of fire-fighting water and discharged into the Rhine River.

Sandoz later admitted that a total of 1,246 tonnes of various chemicals, including 824 tonnes of pesticides, 71 tonnes of herbicides, 39 tonnes of fungicides, 4 tonnes of solvents and 12 tonnes of organic mercury, were washed into the Rhine with fire water.

The toxic substance forms a 70-kilometer-long reddish streamer that flows downstream. The next day, the chemical plant blocked the sewer with a plastic plug.

Eight days later, the plug fell off under the pressure of the water, and after dozens of tons of toxic substances flowed into the Rhine, it caused pollution again.

As a result of the accident, most fish died in an area of about 160 kilometres, and well water in a radius of about 480 kilometres was polluted and undrinkable.

Pollution alarms were transmitted to cities along the coast of Switzerland, Germany, France, and the Netherlands, and all waterworks along the river were shut down and water rationed to residents by car.

Since the Rhine is the most important river in Germany at 865 km, it suffers the most.

The Netherlands, which is close to the mouth of the sea, has closed all the locks that connect with the Rhine.