On the Isthmus of Panama in Central America, a winding cobblestone post road is filled with wheelbarrows, transporting bags of sand and gravel to a construction site next to the road, which is almost three feet wide and is being rammed. 【】

An old man with gray hair, over fifty years of age, and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, was standing on the avenue that had just been grouting for several hours, carefully pressing his hand to the ground, nodding with satisfaction, and then looking up at the busy scene ahead.

"Mr. Carlos, today we are already laying the 25th kilometer lot, and the construction of the 39th and 47th kilometers is not going well, because this cobblestone post road is too narrow, although we have opened several sand factories near those lots, but other materials can only be transported from this side, which affects the progress of the construction." Nearby, his Chinese deputy was speaking fluent Spanish to the old man.

"It doesn't matter, dear Ye, our speed has greatly exceeded my expectations, according to this momentum, at most by the end of next year, we can complete the construction of this cement avenue, and by that time, the excavation of the canal will be able to proceed smoothly. Before the canal is built, this avenue will become a golden road. Tons of Peruvian silver and European goods could be traded profitably here, without the need for the two sides to travel another six or seven thousand kilometers by sea. Carlos stood up, took out a handkerchief and wiped his hands, his eyes filled with joy at success.

Jose. Carlos, a Spaniard, a famous road designer in Spain, has designed many roads near Panama, and is very familiar with the geography of this area, and was finally hired by Liang Pengfei to spend a lot of money to build the Panama Canal and Panama Avenue.

In fact, back in the fifteenth century, the Spaniards Vasco conquered Mexico. Cortés proposed the construction of a canal, but he did not specify a suitable location for its excavation, and later, in Wasco. Nuneri. After Balboa's conquest of Panama, in 1523, King Charles I of Spain (Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire) explicitly proposed the construction of a Mesoamerican canal.

In 1534, King Carlos I of Spain ordered a survey of the Isthmus of Panama, and the Spaniards paved a post road through the isthmus with cobblestones along the ridge in preparation for the excavation.

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However, after the inevitable decline of the Spaniards, the idea of digging a canal became unrealistic and almost forgotten.

Beginning in the eighteenth century, the colonial government had the idea of digging a canal, and had already visited four places: the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico; a location near the Atrato River in northwestern Colombia; Isthmus of Nicaragua and Isthmus of Panama.

However, now, it has become a Chinese colony, and naturally, Liang Peng, who had run business in South America in his previous life, flew to Spain to ask for the Isthmus of Panama, naturally for this canal.

And it is precisely because of the information obtained by the Spaniards in the early stage of exploration, and Liang Pengfei knows some stories about what happened when the Panama Canal was excavated, so the correct excavation plan was determined from the beginning: the excavation was a sluice lifting canal.

In the Qin Dynasty of China, such a canal was already dug up, and the Guangxi Ling Canal was such a canal dug in the Qin Dynasty.

However, Liang Pengfei stubbornly believes that the sea surface of the Isthmus of Panama near the Pacific Ocean is five to six meters higher than the end of the Caribbean Sea, and it is necessary to dig the canal according to this idea, so that everyone has to follow his instructions to do it, and interfere with Liang Pengfei's arbitrariness to let Jose. Carlos was very dissatisfied, but the conclusions obtained after some scientists' field measurements were very similar to Liang Pengfei's predictions, which not only made everyone more convinced of Liang Pengfei's prophetic conclusions, but also made those people more motivated.

"His Excellency the Führer is indeed a genius, and he actually thought that using such a method to construct multiple sections of road at the same time can indeed greatly improve efficiency and shorten the time for completion." Jose. Carlos looked at the carrier, and along the ridge, the post road shaded by trees, was the figure of the endless stream.

"It's nothing, Your Excellency just doesn't want to waste time, and you don't want so many laborers to come here and have nothing to do." The Chinese assistant Ye Qingyan explained with a smile.

"Originally, I expected that it would take about 10 to 15 years to complete the canal with 40,000 to 50,000 laborers, but if a road is built first and then the canal is built, with the support of the road, the excavation of the canal can be at least a third of the time." Jose. Carlos laughed. "Unfortunately, all we have to do now is build roads, after all, we have only built one fortress and a few villages and towns along the Isthmus of Panama, and the population and labor are too small."

"There is no way to do this, after all, the most important goal of our adults is the New World, this canal, as long as it can be successfully excavated within the time limit." Ye Qingyan's eyes also fell on those laborers, who were all shaving like the Mediterranean, and all of these laborers were Japanese laborers who were transported from the Japanese country, and the number of Japanese laborers working in the Isthmus of Panama has reached 30,000.

However, the number of labourers will not increase for the time being, at least until the food and goods of those settlements in the New World increase greatly. After all, the focus of development is now on the New World, and there is a United States of America on the East Coast.

Another point is that a large number of prospectors are now prospecting in the Panama area, trying to find a coal mine in the area, and then a cement plant can be built here, and at that time, not only can the progress be accelerated, but also the gravel road can be paved with cement and become a more durable avenue.

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After Liang Pengfei, a rogue gangster, and the Tokugawa shogunate and the emperor have become mortal enemies, and the Tokugawa shogunate is far stronger than the daimyo lords of Kyushu, Shikoku and the southwestern island of Honshu who support the emperor.

However, with the support of the Liang family's army, the two sides fought fiercely in the Kansai region, and the Kansai region, which was originally the richest on the island of Honshu, was almost thousands of miles away, so that the emperor's faction and the Tokugawa shogunate faction had to continue to sell their country's interests and increase trade with the Liang family's army, and those displaced Japanese people fled one after another, and under the temptation of the Liang's army's clever tongue, a large number of Japanese people left their homes and boarded ocean-going ships to the New World or Australia. Make their due contribution to the expansion of the Chinese nation.

The Korean people, who could not bear the oppression of the noble class, fled their homes and went to the northern region controlled by the Liang army, and later became the new force of the Liang army's expansion into Siberia.

After a long war between the White Lotus Sect and the Qing court officers and soldiers in the past two years, at least nearly 10 million people have been displaced in several provinces in the central part of the land of Shenzhou, and the Liang Jiajun has successively moved to the New World, Nanyang and Annam, and other regions to more than 2 million Chinese people.

And this tide of displaced people not only did not stop after the head of the Manchu political axe was put to death by Liang Jiajun, but also had an increasingly fierce momentum.

Although in many places, the landlords and gentry who owned countless lands found that their tenants and hired workers were running out, and were very angry, and asked the local officials to restrain the matter, but the local officials were busy worrying about whether they could keep their official positions in the new deal, and those Liang Jiajun officials who had begun to set foot in the local area not only did not oppose the flow of displaced people, but acquiesced, and even supported these displaced people to migrate to the periphery of the mainland, to open up those newly occupied land, naturally, The officials simply ignored it.

The landlords and gentry had to repeatedly reduce their land rents and harvest commissions, but they did not let their land become barren.

In addition, Liang Jiajun in Guangdong, Fujian, and the newly occupied Liangzhejiang area, through the relationship between the thirteen merchants and merchants from all over the country, began joint ventures or joint ventures with merchants from all over the country to build a large number of factories, and also digested some of the displaced people.

And at this time, Liang Pengfei heard the news that Liu Zhixie, the head of the White Lotus Sect, was proclaimed emperor in Xiantao, Hubei, at that time, Young Master Liang was playing with his own Shi Xianggu, who gave birth to a big fat boy for himself, in the house teasing the little guy who was only three or four months old.

After receiving the news from Pan Bingjie's hands, Liang Pengfei, who was holding his youngest son, really felt that there was a feeling that made people laugh and cry. "Damn, shouldn't this girl let the thunder split her head? is still called the emperor, I think he can't even be called a provincial governor, but he still dares to be called the emperor? ”

"What's this, the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, at that time, it was not the emperor who was flying all over the sky, today you are the emperor, tomorrow he is the emperor, and the world is in chaos." Pan Bingjie hugged the little guy from Liang Pengfei's arms and kissed him, with a loving look on her face, but she still let Shi Xianggu hug her. "Sister, you can be careful, you have to pay more attention when your body is heavy."

"Oh, I'm dying of pain with a big belly, I don't know how long this little guy is going to stay inside before he comes out." Pan Bingjie's small mouth pursed high, her watery eyes were full of coquettishness, Liang Pengfei couldn't help but smile and stretched out his hand to scrape Pan Bingjie's face. "Don't worry, it's almost over, when the child is born, I'll take you around, don't let you hold back, it's done, right?"

"Really?" Pan Bingjie's eyes widened, and her face was happy.

"Of course! I don't dare to lie to you guys. Liang Pengfei helped Pan Bingjie sit down and said.

(To be continued)