Li Qi is also old now, and according to the rules of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, he will retire in three years.

"Tatsukawa! I will retire in three years, and the construction of Chenhe Fort will be the last thing I can do for the Chamber of Commerce. Li Qi sighed.

Yang Xi also felt that time passed really fast, he was busy every year, and he thought of Huang Sanlao and Wang Mastiff, who were already dying.

"Lao Li, although you are retired, you still have a lot to do. If you can't go into politics, you can still do business. In the past few decades, you have worked hard for our Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, and you have been able to show Wuchang City on a par with Chenhe City, which is almost the same, which can be regarded as a great achievement. After retirement, you can use your experience and vision to make a difference in business. ”

Li Jue nodded, he did have this idea.

"By the way, you said that you want to build a country without an emperor in the future, why do you want to build a Chenhe Fort?" Yang Xi happened to Li Qi, Gu Yong and others, and also talked about the general political pattern in the future.

"There is no emperor in the country, but there must be a center of power. In the future, this Chenhe Fort is a hotel-style palace. Yang Xi can only explain it like this.

"A hotel-style palace?" Li Qi was inexplicable.

"You will know this in two years at most, and I can't say it clearly now, but when the specific system comes out, you will naturally understand."

Li Qi was indeed very puzzled, but Yang Xi didn't explain for the time being, and he didn't ask much.

Along the way, every step that Yang Xi brought them was incredible.

The two chatted while looking at the map, and finally, Yang Xi took a fancy to the open space by the lake in the north of Chenhe City.

Li Jue said: "Chenhe! Why don't you choose to build Chenhe Fort in Wuchang County? This Wuchang County, on the Han River, the right is Shaxian Dongting, the Yangtze River crosses, the future prospects, than Chenhe City has potential. ”

Yang Xidao: "The political center and the economic center do not have to be in the same city. And Lao Li, you must know that Chenhe City and Wuchang City will merge sooner or later. Just because we can't do it now doesn't mean future generations can't do it. You see, Wuchang now has a population of 1.3 million, Xiling City on the other side has a population of 600,000, and Shaxian County on the west has a population of 300,000. According to my expectations, it is estimated that in another 20 years, Wuchang, Xiling, and Shaxian will have a population of five or six million, and at that time, as long as the Yangtze River Bridge is repaired, you think about it, the largest city in the world is this real big city. But although Chenhe City is a little away from Wuchang City, it is also adjacent. Now the population of Chenhe City is 1.6 million, the population of Jia'e County is 2 million, and 20 years later, it will also be a big city of 5 or 6 million. You've got to live well, haha, don't be out of sight then. ”

Li Jue thought about it and felt terrifying.

"Chenhe, what do you mean is to use the convenience of transportation to show Wuchang, and to show Exian County with political advantages, so that it can become the two pearls in the south of the world, and when the time is ripe, the two will be combined into one to complete the grand event of the world?"

"Haha! Within 20 years, it will be done. ”

"Good! I'm going to try to live another 20 years, and then you won't forget your ambitions today! ”

"Lao Li! You have to believe me, remember the promise I gave you more than 20 years ago, is it true today? ”

"It's still the same old saying! I believe in you! ”

"Good!"

The two hands are clasped together, it is no longer the rootless dream of a middle-aged and a teenager, but a solid skyscraper today.

Li Qi didn't know that everything Yang Xi said was actually very simple, but people at this time couldn't imagine it.

Yang Xi said that the three cities of Wuchang, Shaxian and Xiling add up, which is most of the Wu and Han cities in later generations, and the Chenhe City next to it is the Hubei and Zhou cities of later generations.

In July, the construction of the Chenhe Fort began, and on the other side of the ocean, the Martin Canal was officially opened.

The Martin Canal is a lock-type canal, and the water level of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans connected by the canal is quite different, and the water level of most sections of the canal is higher than the sea level, because it has to pass through a large lake, so it cannot be directly connected with the sea.

To adjust for the difference in water levels, several locks were built on the canal. When importing from the Pacific side, the ship is raised from sea level by about 20 meters through double lock steps to enter the lake, and the other end is lowered by a three-stage lock, which is flush with the Atlantic Ocean.

Martin mobilized the whole country to complete this monumental project, and it is said that he spent twenty years digging to complete it.

The Martin Empire had an army of 30,000 men, and between South and North America, a large number of indigenous people were captured and used to build canals, and by the way, domesticated them.

Martin knew his actual situation, and in the Americas, a huge country with an estimated indigenous population of only a few hundred thousand people,6 it would be extremely difficult to compete with others, because he positioned himself as a peacemaker, and he would have to make friends with either side in the future.

Martin believes that everyone else is also a civilized person, and he should not do anything to himself.

And if you want to start, it's not convenient, he is simply an independent world here, and when the canal is opened, it will usher in a big exhibition.

In July, Lu Dazhi's global fleet entered the mouth of the Martin Canal, and to Lu Dazhi's surprise, the canal could not be directly entered by boat.

Originally, the water level of the Pacific Ocean was higher than that of the Atlantic Ocean, and if the canal was directly connected to the Pacific Ocean, the lakes connected by the canal would directly pour all the water into the Pacific Ocean, and then there would be no rivers, not even the original lakes.

At great expense, Martin built a lifting platform made of all steel, and operated the lifting platform with a long inclined platform and large steel wheels to transport the ship to the canal, so that the ship could sail freely.

To put it bluntly, the lifting platform is a huge car with pulleys and huge iron chains to pull the huge car up the slope and transport the ship to the canal.

This whole process, a big ship, needs to pay a lot of gold, Lu Dazhi did not frown at all.

This is to take more than 10,000 kilometers of sea routes, and to take less than I know how many risks.

This is the first business after the opening of the canal, and Martin is very happy, in the future, this canal can feed tens of millions of people. This is a direct benefit, as well as an increase in economic efficiency due to convenience.

After more than half a year of operation, Lu Dazhi obtained a large number of seeds and plants of potato, sweet potato, rubber tree and other endemic species in the Americas, and planted them in the big ship by special personnel.

Lu Dazhi said goodbye to Martin and headed east across the Caribbean coast and further southeast to meet a huge estuary, which is too iconic.

Because this is the estuary of the Amazon River, such a large river, Yang Xi has long explained, there is only one in South America.

Across the Amazon, thousands of miles away, you can go east into the sea at any time, across the Atlantic.

In order to prepare for crossing the Atlantic, Lu Dazhi had to replenish enough fresh water and food on six places to meet the severe challenge.

And Cao Zhi and other hot-blooded young people felt more and more that Yang Xi's conjecture was not actually a conjecture.

Every day I go out, every animal and plant I see, I can find the answer in that "Conjecture".

Some of the members of the Conjecture Club were convinced that this conjecture would come true.

The descriptions of sweet potatoes, potatoes, and rubber trees mentioned by Yang Xi, including various South American animals and geographical descriptions, are all similar, and even some of the fine works sent by the princes feel incredible, and they begin to doubt their own lives.

(End of chapter)

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