Chapter 209: Big Ben Project
The landmark building of the city of London in later generations, Big Ben, that is, the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, all kinds of film and television dramas, what petty bourgeoisie, agents make trouble in London, always come to the Palace of Westminster to brush up on the sense of existence, and its status is almost equivalent to the status of the White House and the General Assembly Hall in the United States.
With the current strength of the elders, it is almost impossible to build a Palace of Westminster thousands of miles away from the ruling power, but by the way, it is very simple, convenient and cheap to build only a bell tower, at least in the experiment of the imperial capital, the construction of the bell tower is not difficult, and in the case of reserving space, it can also lay the foundation for future construction.
The key to this is that after the construction of the bell tower was funded, it quickly became a local landmark, and then attracted private funds as the main source of injustice, spending other people's money to build our own building, and the property rights belonged to the joint venture development company of the elders, but it was those who saw the money and saw the guys who did the work.
Of course, with the greed of the Jiangnan gentry, they must have wanted to swallow it directly and leave nothing behind, but it will be up to them to see if their teeth match their ambitions.
For this, the elders even secretly eagerly wanted to try, hoping that these gentlemen would find trouble for themselves, and then the reason for doing things would be found.
Of course, the team is huge, and there are dozens of people doing things, Chen Xiaoshui's apprentices are basically northerners, and many people have never gone south to the Yellow River in their lives, so they are very novel when they see this different scenery, and it is very lively for a while, and some people are also ignored when they peep secretly.
After a day's delay, on the third night after disembarking, Wu County was already in sight, which is also a good repair of the road near TOEFL, and there has not been much rain recently.
"In other words, there has been enough rain in the north this year, and some places have been waterlogged."
Chen Xiaoshui said: "Well, in fact, the rainfall is quite normal, but the drought and famine in the past few years destroyed many vegetation, so some water and soil cannot retain the rain. โ
"Understand, after a great drought there will be a great flood."
There must be a great flood after a great drought, which is a common saying, but in some ways, it is an empirical statement, of course, for the situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty, this is the case.
The Xiaoice period has just ended, the rain is already normal, relying on the wind and rain, the prosperity of potatoes, and the crazy slaughter in history, "I Daqing" has accumulated a huge wealth, and the taxes that the Ming Dynasty could not get are simply easily obtained under the butcher's knife, how terrible is this money?
Under the rebellion of the three feudatories of the "My Great Qing Dynasty", the entire south of the Yangtze River fell into war, but the "Ming Jun" of the imperial capital of the Great Qing Dynasty was still cultivating all kinds of Zhuangzi and almost never stopped all kinds of extravagant enjoyment.
The palaces of those later generations were really carved and beautiful, and in the end they all became the so-called meritorious wealth of "my Qing Dynasty", but I don't know what is so proud of it.
The hateful and ignorant elders illegally occupied the imperial capital city, and also preserved the old imperial capital, all kinds of gorgeous buildings in the future, what noble buildings such as the Summer Palace and Wangfujing are in vain, so what else does Chinese civilization do? My Qing Dynasty is the pinnacle of proper slavery civilization.
In the future, the Louvre, the imperial capital of China, which was established by looting cultural relics from all over the world, will occupy a huge area, filled with the treasures in the Taj Mahal and the pyramids, which will make countless people around the world who love peace regret, and also make me look down on the Qing Dynasty.
But on the other hand, it also shows that the Ming Dynasty is not without money, but the money is in the hands of bastards.
Similarly, the Xiaoice period has long since ended, but hungry people have long eaten up the bark they can eat, and this is the case everywhere in the northwest, and it will take time for the trees and grasses that can stop soil erosion to redevelop.
Even if the tax exemption is implemented and the investment is huge, but there is a lack of seeds and farm tools, it is difficult to imagine how difficult it is to recover slowly.
The drought will be followed by a great flood, not because of the depleted vegetation, but because there is no one to support the people who are still wailing between heaven and earth to resume production.
What the elders can do is actually quite limited, they can collect all the gold mines in the world, but for what the ordinary people really need, in fact, the people have to produce it themselves, from this point of view, it is not the elders who raise the people, but the people who feed the people.
In later generations, China took a terrible detour about environmental protection, because it mistakenly took the environmental protection strategies developed by Europeans as the truth, but completely forgot that with countless colonies, it was possible to move all kinds of factories away, and at the same time, population density, that is, the number of people per unit area, is a fraction of the European standard of China.
Since the beginning of the summer, there have been floods in many places, and the elders' response is by no means to fight the flood and rescue them, because with the manpower and material resources they can mobilize at present, it is slightly insufficient, and at the same time, when the train is not passable, it is not enough to transport things over, but it is not difficult to find a way to relocate people.
Liaodong has undertaken a large number of people, and it is not a dream to exceed one million people in a few years, but the cost of population migration and land reclamation during this period is very huge.
Fortunately, the money can still be handled.
In the future, according to the prediction of the elders, those areas under the high slopes of the loess will begin to close the mountains and cultivate forests, and it will take decades to restore the landscape of the mountains and rivers of the Han and Tang dynasties.
In later generations, if you look at the satellite map, you can find that in the territory of China's traditional eighteen provinces, it is basically green, and it can be said that its forest coverage rate is qualified, and the only problem is that place.
That kind of people, as long as they occupy a place, basically that place that was originally full of greenery and forests, will become a desert, and this is them.
This is a social model problem.
Of course, Li Xiangqian is not in a hurry about foreign immigration, anyway, the land is there without running or making trouble, and the Europeans are completing the process of running and jumping in this era with population, but they are far from reaching the highest peak, and China is just right for overtaking in corners.
What is needed, then, is a large group of people who are motivated, who have received a rigorous and qualified education, who can take charge of their own productive life.
Unfortunately, there are few such people in China.
It's not nothing, but the organizational skills are too weak.
The simplest thing is that there is still no perfect consensus on the Australian mixed-race incident: "What do the imperial capital think?" โ
Chen Xiaoshui sighed: "What else can you think, even how South America was lost back then, it has already begun to be launched, anyway, heheda." โ
Li Xiangqian smiled bitterly, how to compare the South American example, it is just a little panic in people's hearts.
South America is such a problem, white people from the Portuguese-speaking family of Europe, with Catholicism as a link, began to invade and colonize South America, compared to the British old watch who went to North America, Portugal lived a much more nourishing life, probably because the South American place is more suitable for indigenous life, and the jungle is also easy to fight, the Aztecs, the Inca Empire are rich and stupid, and they are simply the best enemies that the Chinese dream of crying and can't find.
The way of immigration is also different.
North American immigrants are mainly Protestant British, basically many of them are husbands and wives running together, in life, at least in the early stage, there is still a bit of Puritan temperament, of course, Pizarro led 168 down-and-out Spaniards to conquer the Incas, this is 169 bachelors, that is, 169 people who are full of people, they are full of women, it is said that after a large number of massacres of Indian men, Lao Pi and his men, before Lao Pi was burned and killed, He and his men impregnated thousands of Inca women, which led to the transformation of South America into a mixed-race world.
In later generations of South America, there were only 20% purebred whites, most of whom were immigrants from Europe later, and were basically descendants of white and indigenous women, while indigenous males were ......
In the chapter on Nation and Race in Mein Kampf, the great Fรผhrer praised the extermination of Indians in North America, the segregation of colored peoples, and the preservation of the "purity" of the Germanic race; After the implementation of the butcher's knife and chicken policy in Latin America, which produced a mixed race of Latin Americans, the Latin race is no longer "pure" has been criticized, and the bad review! Bad review!
Of course, there are big problems.
In the Age of Discovery, the Portuguese and Spanish colonists were mainly male sailors who explored and sailed across the sea to the Americas, and few European women followed the harsh living environment, and the colonists eliminated most of the Indian males, and a small amount remained in the depths of the mountains and dense forests, so the Latin American descendants were mainly Indo-European mixed, such as Mexicans are ninety percent of European male genetic markers plus seventy percent of Indian maternal genetic markers.
Protestantism and Catholicism, English Saxons and Spanish and Portuguese Latins painted in such a different way that the consequences were different.
The descendants of South Americans, for their native Portugal and Spain, have no attachment and affection, and have gone to a state of independence under the leadership of countless people.
The style of painting in North America is different, they themselves come from the richer Britain and France, and after the British drove out the defeated Spaniards, the war never stopped, and a large number of Indians were killed. Finally, there is the westward expansion movement of US imperialism, and the price of killing a red man's scalp is clearly marked. In this way, after repeated exterminations, after the eradication of the roots by the American imperialists, the North American Indians were almost wiped out.
As for infectious diseases killing Indians? Is it possible.
The percentage of white Protestant women who come to North America with their husbands has always been staggering, unlike the Portuguese Spanish dogs who have always been in the Iberian Peninsula in South America, who come to South America on their own, and families come over and their husbands are not allowed to Indians.
Later whites were so interested in the little black girls whose skin was lubricated and black that in later generations in the United States, 30% of black males were the paternal descendants of white slave owners...... Maybe that's why these Puritans really have a bit of a taste...... Weird?
The concern of the elders is simple: if these prisoners are allowed to run away in large numbers and have children with indigenous women, how many will agree with Chinese localism?
Later generations of Chinese, and even Chinese scholars, are basically representatives of reverse nationalism, and they naturally look down on Chinese.
To what extent is it reversed? There is a book called the Ugly Chinese, which gives an example of how the Chinese is very inflated, and the content of the example is that once, the Roman emperor invited a man to perform flying, and this man made a pair of wings himself, so that he could fly, and then he swelled to the point that he could not restrain himself, and he felt great, and thought that he could fly without these two wings, so he fell to his death......
After the story was told, the topic changed, "So, the Chinese are very inflated......"
Even this book will become a means for some people to attack the Chinese, even if the examples in it do not stand up to scrutiny, replacing the other 99 with the phenomenon of 1%.
Therefore, it is indispensable to strive to establish Sinocentrism before the Eurocentrism of later generations is established.
The latitude and longitude of the observatory will be based on the Chinese standard, and the equator will of course be 0 degrees of latitude, but the longitude must be based on a certain line in China as the original data.
Of course, this will consume huge resources, the elders are few people, and in their massive data, the data on longitude and latitude must be like mountains and seas, so because the longitude line becomes 0 in China, the resources that need to be consumed must be huge.
But Li Xiangqian himself spoke impassionedly about the benefits of Sinocentrism: "Don't you want your children and grandchildren, even the most disdainful little villains, to go abroad, be treated as guests, and be a casual foreign teacher can break the body of a little girl in a class, and go to the days when the police dare not take care of beating people and committing crimes!" โ
This policy has been supported by all members, but the problem of shooting themselves in the foot is also very serious for those mixed-race children.
The same Sinocentric product is this big clock.
The indication of the clock is black iron, because it is transported thousands of miles away, so it is still in a state of disassembly, Li Xiangqian can occasionally see the inside of the wrapping paper, the design of the clock face, of course, the shape is very beautiful, but what he wants to see is not this.
In later generations, the 12 o'clock position of the clock was written as a son, and at the original 6 o'clock position, it was a noon character.
In other words, in this kind of Big Ben, the time for the hour hand to make one revolution is exactly one day.
This advantage is naturally different from the 12-hour rotation of the Europeans, Li Xiangqian does not understand why they design it this way, but communicate with several elders who understand the mechanics, they have clock manufacturing technology, although they may not be able to go to the new fashion direction, but it is still possible to make a large clock that turns every 24 hours.
In this era, there were already Westerners' clocks, but for the elders, it was not the cost that mattered, but the initiative.
(End of chapter)