Chapter 227: The Panama Canal in China (2)
The Huaxia Guild wanted to open a canal in Panama, but the international community was not technically optimistic.
This is also one of the reasons why the people of the United States acquiesced to the Huaxia Guild to obtain the right to build, and the people of the United States planned to wait to see the jokes of the Huaxia Guild.
The vast majority of the Chinese people believe that once there is a problem with the construction of the Panama Canal by the Chinese Guild, they will still have the opportunity to snatch the Panama Canal, and the Panama Canal under the control of the Chinese people is very important to the security of the United States.
Most Europeans also believe that even the white people of Europe have failed in the construction of the Panama Canal, and that the construction of the Panama Canal by the yellow people in Asia will certainly not end well, and even if the construction goes smoothly, it will take 30 or even 50 years to complete the construction at the earliest, and realize the purpose of the ship sailing between the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean.
The world is questioning whether the Huaxia Guild is capable of building the Panama Canal, but Hu Zhen plans to complete the construction of the Panama Canal in three years.
Even Chen Yixi, Zhan Tianyou and others, who are very familiar with engineering infrastructure work within the Huaxia Association, are not optimistic that Hu Zhen will complete the plan to build the Panama Canal within three years.
But Hu Zhen still insisted on his plan, because he knew that the mistakes in the early days of the Panama Canal had provided experience, and he also had two treasures that he did not have in the world:
1. The supercomputer system in the nuclear submarine stores the construction plans and drawings of the Panama Canal, and can screen and design the best plans;
2. Borneo began to produce various internal combustion engine-powered construction machinery as early as two years ago, and now it can be mass-produced and can be used for the construction of the Panama Canal.
Hu Zhen appointed Chen Yixi, who had an experienced experience, as the general manager and chief engineer of the Panama Canal Company, and took more than 1,000 young Chinese engineers who had just graduated from European countries and more than 100,000 Chinese workers to cross the Pacific Ocean from the South Seas in a fleet and stationed in the Panama Canal construction area, and at the same time used large ships to transport more than 10,000 sets of excavators, bulldozers, transport cars and other construction machinery.
When these unprecedented construction machinery vehicles appeared in the Panama Canal Zone, the whole world was shocked again: when did these yellow people from the Far East come up with such tall mechanical products!
Hu Zhen also surprised Chen Yixi and the engineers: in front of them, Hu Zhen asked someone to send exquisite construction drawings weighing more than ten tons!
According to field mapping. Chen Yixi carefully checked with everyone and found that these drawings were not wrong at all, and even more accurate than the data they measured on the spot after they wore out the skin of their feet. The engineers concluded that the drawings provided by Hu Zhen could be used for actual construction!
According to the opinion of white Europeans and Americans. When the Chinese people took over the construction of the Panama Canal, it would take a year just to survey and measure the terrain, and then it would take another year to demonstrate the design. It will not be possible to complete the survey and survey in three or five years, and it will take at least 30 years to complete such a thousand-year project as the construction of the Panama Canal.
However, the construction army of China entered the Canal Zone and began large-scale construction in only 20 days, which was an efficiency that no one in Europe and the United States dared to imagine.
During the construction process, Hu Zhen ordered the doctor to use Chinese herbal medicine to regulate and maintain the health of the workers, if anyone was sick. Antibiotics are used immediately.
With this scientific medical method, the Chinese people built and constructed in Panama, and the proportion of people who fell ill due to climate, water and soil and other factors was greatly reduced, ensuring that the construction progress was extremely rapid.
In just half a year since the construction began, the progress of the French company has been achieved in three years, which has shattered the glasses of white observers in Europe and the United States.
In order to ensure the safety of the Panama Canal construction area, Hu Zhen transferred Chen Qishan to the Panama Canal Zone with 80,000 troops and established the Panama Canal Garrison, with Chen Qishan as the governor and commander of the garrison.
The 180,000-strong army of the Chinese Army set up camp in the Caribbean Sea and the Panama Canal Zone and set up defensive positions. It attracted 300,000 Chinese living in North and South America, including 160,000 in Cuba, 60,000 in Puerto Rico, and 80,000 in the Panama Canal Zone.
The influx of Chinese people. Sufficient human resources were provided, and the land was cultivated in the local area, and even the whole family thrived in the local area, which made the progress of the canal construction extremely guaranteed.
According to the habits of the Chinese people, once a certain place has a fellow villager to gain a firm foothold, there will inevitably be more clan relatives and fellow villagers who will continue to come to make a living.
Hu Zhen estimated optimistically. Within 10 years, more than 3 million Chinese will come to these places, and in half of the towns will have an advantage over the proportion of the local indigenous population.
In order to speed up the relocation of the Chinese people to the above-mentioned places, Hu Zhen decided to set up a settlement assistance fund for the Chinese people with 4 million pounds sterling, equivalent to 28 million taels of silver, to encourage more Chinese people to settle down in these strategic places, and to take root and spread out in the future.
When arranging the large-scale construction of the Panama Canal, Hu Zhen did not forget to arrange for large-scale sabotage.
The object of breaking the ring is, of course, the United States.
The United States is the largest and most promising country in the Americas.
But this rich country is actually built on bloody massacres.
Almost all Latin American countries live with a large number of Indian descendants, but in this largest and most "free and equal civilization" country, the Indians were almost slaughtered, and the remnants of the tribes were driven into remote reservations to survive, with a population of less than 2% of the total population of the United States.
In Hu Zhen's view, the United States has developed the best, because it has implemented Plato's ideas most resolutely, you can look at what Plato said in "The Ideal Republic", civilization discriminates against the weak, "justice is the interest of the strong", and South America does not have the resolute cruelty of the United States, and retains a large number of Indians, but the development is not as good as that of the United States.
In many people's mouth, the so-called equality, freedom and civilization of the United States was only a hundred years after the killing of tens of millions of Indians, and an apology to the Indians was passed in Congress.
But this kind of apology is as hypocritical as a person who has killed his entire family and plundered and enjoyed all his property.
Therefore, Hu Zhen was determined to help the Indians of the United States, but at this time, the Indians of the United States were less than two million, and in the face of the more than 60 million people and highly developed industrial strength of the United States, could they be helped up?
It was with such suspicion that Hu Zhen personally met with Zuo Niu, the leader of the Indian Cheyenne tribe, and Da Jiao, the leader of the Great Sioux tribe, who were found in the Panama Canal construction area by Chen Zichao of the Ministry of Intelligence.
"Hello!" Seeing Zuo Niu and Da Geo appear from afar, Hu Zhen walked out to greet him. (To be continued.) )