Chapter 1555: The Canal of Difficult Birth
To be honest, with the increase of time to enter this world, the memory of the past world is gradually fading, this is the law of nature, forgetting is human instinct, if there is no forgetting, just what you see in this world is enough to make people's brains collapse, even if the vast majority of the brain is not used, if there is no forgetting, countless useful, useless and even repetitive information will be filled in the human brain, and the brain will blow up. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
This is what Yang Yuanzhao knows from the moment of crossing, in order to maintain the advantage of crossing, Yuanzhao has recorded some important information as much as possible, but people's energy is limited, it is impossible to copy all the memories completely, only the more important ones that can be written down, whether this is important or not, or Yang Yuanzhao himself to evaluate, anyone has one-sidedness, not to mention that in later generations he is just an ordinary team engineer, in the stage of consulting the explosion, the information he has is almost astronomical, At most, you can make some necessary records in terms of scientific and technological development, materials, and motivation, and the rest can only wait for things to come, and there is nothing to do about it.
The Kra Canal is such a one, I saw it at the time, I just watched it with the psychology of hunting, there is such a news, it is still very hot news, I don't know if I can't say it, I don't realize this benefit at all, but memory has the characteristics of forgetting, there are also characteristics of memory, there is a new stimulus, plus Yang Yuanzhao's efforts to recall, soon, in the depths of memory, a news that I occasionally saw, floated to Yang Yuanzhao's heart, that was when I was browsing the news, I took a look, and even in Yang Yuanzhao's heart, None of them have left a deep memory, but it was Singapore that proposed to carry out an internationalization proposal for the Strait of Malacca tolls in Marancia.
At that time, out of curiosity, I saw the news, and I saw it, this news is about Singapore's proposal, mainly based on the environmental degradation of the Strait of Malacca, the piracy crisis, and some rescue situations, in order to charge tolls for passing ships, this seemingly reasonable proposal, has been opposed by China, South Korea and Japan, the Strait of Malacca is a worldwide shipping lane, but the most used, are these three countries, which has a direct impact on their navigation, It will add a lot of unnecessary costs.
The Strait of Malacca can be said to be one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, but its influence is not as large as the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal, those canals are on the key points of the continent and the mainland, and they control the communication between the two continents, but Malacca is within the scope of Asia, although it connects the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, it is not a shipping route to other continents, but only a necessary route from East Asia to West Asia, not any intercontinental.
The most passage here, is the ships of China, Japan and South Korea, these are also after World War II, the world's most vigorous shipping three countries, but also the world's shipbuilding enterprises mainly migrate to the country, first Japan, Hong Kong, then South Korea and China, especially after entering the new century, China's navigation industry is gradually rising, the economic environment is growing rapidly, and it also has a large scale of ships.
At the moment when ocean shipping has been in decline, some world-class shipping companies are gradually bankrupt, and the king of ships is no longer glorious, even if it is the rise of tens of thousands of dollars in operating costs, it is also a very big thing, and a bad response will easily cause a new round of reshuffle in the shipping industry, and the result will be catastrophic. At that time, Singapore seemed to be iron-hearted, and wanted to collect tolls, the amount was not much, but for merchant ships, a 10,000-ton merchant ship, tens of thousands of dollars were always available, and 100,000-ton oil tankers were not much, just hundreds of thousands.
Don't look at only so much, that is relative to the tanker itself, but the total amount is a huge number, according to Malacca's annual traffic of nearly 100,000 ships, even if it is tens of thousands of dollars, it is almost billions of dollars, this is not a small number, escort and clean the waterway, it will cost much, which will bring a huge scale of benefits to Singapore and the countries near Malacca.
It has the support of Malaysia and Indonesia, when the two sides are ready to divide such a huge profit according to a certain proportion, it also depends on whether other countries are willing, after China, Japan and South Korea protested, Singapore insisted on this, and even formulated a toll roadmap, which angered China, Japan and South Korea, Japan threw out the plan of the Kra Canal, directly hit Singapore on the head with a stick, Singapore originally wanted to make some benefits, of course, also held the idea of cleaning up the Malacca waterway, but I didn't expect it, Japan actually wants to flip the table.
That's right, it's a tablelift, in the report at the time, it was written like this, as if to prove his argument, and also wrote some introductions about the Kra Canal, which was a canal that had been proposed as early as 300 years ago, and was really put on the agenda more than 100 years ago.
No matter what kind of paper things, if China, Japan and South Korea unite and build together, the fake will become true, once the design is in this aspect, it will be a huge blow to Malacca, for Singapore, the toll fee, even refueling and water, these are not anything, the key is the transfer of materials, with the convenience of transshipment, Singapore has carried out petrochemical processing and refined oil processing, relying on the convenience of the waterway, if it is put into the field of processing, It can save the oil transportation to East Asia, and at the same time, the finished product can also reduce a lot of distance, Singapore is relying on this, large-scale development of petrochemical, metallurgical and other heavy industries, with this, has become a developed place, one of the four Asian tigers, and continues to develop.
Out of curiosity, Yang Yuanzhao also made an in-depth study of the Kra Canal, which is indeed a rare canal for Asia, especially East Asia, of course, it is a nightmare for Singapore, as long as the canal is built, Singapore's influence will be reduced by more than double, and the oil tankers from the Middle East to East Asia will almost all pass through the Kra Canal, not Malacca, when the time comes, the cost of Malacca's petrochemical industry will rise a lot, directly making petrochemical enterprises go bankrupt on a large scale. In addition, some other steel smelting and other industries will be fatal to Singapore, and perhaps Singapore, like Thailand, will not be able to survive this crisis and collapse.
After watching the news, Yang Yuanzhao learned that the guise of the Kra Canal, in the past time, has been thrown out a lot, China has thrown out, Singapore is a Chinese country, also speaks Chinese, but in the world, the most undesirable for China is also it, many of the more stringent bills, basically related to him, especially some proposals to restrict China, at the beginning, China can only endure, when China knows about the Kra Canal, basically began to dominate, in some more excessive areas, This proposal is like a needle in the sea, terrible, Singapore at this time, do not dare to bet, once the canal opens, Singapore will face a recession, once the canal is completed, Singapore's economy will collapse.
In the end of the first decade of the 21st century, China began to essentially promote the Kra Canal, because the benefits of this canal for China are too great, China has passed the reform and opening up for nearly 30 years, and has accumulated huge capital, which is placed in the country, just a waste in vain, China is also eager to go out, but when going out, often because of experience and many problems, it has experienced a series of failures, and moved forward in the winding. It is very necessary to boost morale with a large-scale project, the Kra Canal is close to China, which has huge benefits for the whole of China, even if in the 21st century, the currency is depreciated, and the cost of construction has risen to more than 30 billion, but the cost savings are more, just 1200 kilometers of voyage, you can save 300,000 US dollars in transportation costs for ocean-going freighters, and over the years, it is a great supplement for ships that specialize in running Middle East routes.
As far as Yang Yuanzhao knows, the Kra Canal has not yet started when he crossed, in fact, in 1997, when it was the closest to its establishment, when Thailand's economy was booming, it became one of the four Asian tigers, and its per capita income was higher than that of China, and it also had the ability to promote the Kra Canal project, and even at that time, this plan had entered the preparations.
Unfortunately, it backfired, the financial turmoil of 97 years suddenly collapsed the backbone of Thailand, and then, Japan and South Korea also began to decline, Japan put more thought on industrial upgrading, replacing manufacturing with microelectronics and semiconductors, South Korea in 97 years after the blow, and was subject to China's competition, began to turn to the entertainment industry, as the foundation of the country, the heart of the construction of the Kra Canal began to weaken, but China, China's economy continued to grow, began to create one miracle after another in the world, It has the ability to push forward with this canal project, and has really entered into the planning and pre-exploration process.
However, the turbulent situation in Thailand has made China undecided, China wants to lead, and must hold the rights of the canal in its hands, just like the Panama Canal, thousands of miles away from the United States, but the United States has been in the hands for many years, until the national liberation and cognitive height of the later generations, it was returned to Panama, which also became the focus of the problem, directly making the canal from a multi-party concern to a difficult birth, and finally unanimously until Yang Yuanzhao crossed, did not hear the news of the canal construction. (To be continued.) )