Chapter Seventy-Four: Forging the Remains of the "Ao-Song Empire" (I)

On the southwest coast of Australia, on the banks of the Swan River, Perth City in the modern world

Of course, in the spring and summer of 1632, it was just a wild green field surrounded by desert and sea. Flocks of kangaroos roam the vast grasslands and sparse woods, and the world's only black swans swim in the river.

-- After a long wait, Doraemon finally succeeded in importing the topographical and geographical data of the 17th century into the newly purchased batch of [random doors], and the people who had been confined to Hainan Island until now finally had the ability to move freely around the world.

Then, their first travel destination using the [Random Gate] is the wild and unexplored Australian continent.

In fact, the 10,000-ton modern all-metal sailing ship "COSCO Star" that traveled through time and space initially landed with hundreds of people not in Perth, but in the port of Darwin, thousands of miles to the north. Now the only decent civilization stronghold in the entire Australian continent, the landing camp established by the future travelers, is naturally located there, and at the rough glance, it seems that it can directly inherit the legacy of the travelers and set the capital of the Huameng here.

The problem is that Darwin Harbour, while a bountiful sea fishing destination in the 21st century, known for its crystal clear waters and colourful tropical fish, is not a place to live – first of all, it is surrounded by desert and has insufficient fresh water resources to meet the daily needs of a large city. Secondly, Darwin Harbour is too far north, close to the equator, and has a tropical climate that is not only very hot, but also has a humidity of more than 70% during the rainy season, which is very uncomfortable. In addition, several large areas of flat land suitable for urban areas are too low-lying, and the coast is covered with large tidal flats, which is very difficult to drain, and if there is heavy rain and high tide at the same time, it is very easy to waterlog, and from time to time it will become a "water city Venice".

In addition, the city is often hit by tropical storms, thunderstorms and tornadoes, such as the 1974 tornado, which nearly destroyed the entire city. So even in the 21st century, the total population of Darwin Port is only 100,000.

Perth, also in Western Australia, is a seaside oasis surrounded by desert and the sea, although it is also a seaside oasis surrounded by desert and sea, but the green area around Perth Harbour is much larger than that of Darwin Harbour, and the arable land and pastures that can be developed are much larger enough to feed a larger population. As far as freshwater resources are concerned, the gurgling Swan River not only brings a beautiful scenery to Perth Port, but also provides Perth residents with abundant domestic water and agricultural irrigation water, and the coastal hills and the upper reaches of the Swan River are full of towering ancient trees, and provide sufficient timber resources for city residents, so the development potential of Perth is much stronger than that of Darwin Port.

In terms of climate and environment, Perth, which is relatively southerly and has higher latitudes, already belongs to the Mediterranean climate, similar to Italy and Greece. The climate may not be suitable for agriculture, but it is full of flowers, sunshine and sand, and is definitely suitable for human habitation - the summer is hot and dry, but it is a little more refreshing than hot and humid. And the reason for the hot summer is caused by the heat wave blown by the eastern desert wind, which usually does not heat for a few hours, and then there will be a cool sea breeze blowing from the southwest, because the hot wind blows in the morning when the sun is not too strong, and in the afternoon when the sun is fierce, it blows a cool breeze, so the heat is not much hot. In winter, the climate is mild and rainy, with an average temperature of more than 18 degrees Celsius.

So in the modern world, Perth is a very famous tourist destination, ranking first in the annual selection of the world's best cities to live in, with a total population of 1.6 million...... Of course, compared with places like Sydney and Melbourne in eastern Australia, Perth's natural environment is still much worse - the former is the essence of later Australia, gathering most of the country's arable land, pastures, industry and population, equivalent to the hinterland of China's Central Plains. Perth, on the other hand, is just a larger oasis surrounded by desert.

But at the plenary meeting, after confirming the establishment of a headquarters in Australia, the delegates finally circled the relatively isolated place of Perth, after some fierce quarrels...... We are choosing the location of the headquarters of the Chinese League, a place similar to the headquarters of the European Union and the United Nations agencies, rather than trying to swallow the entire Republic of Australia in one go. So just one municipality is enough, and Perth's environment is just right - it's a good harbour, it can be connected to the world by sea, the natural resources are enough to supply a city of a million people, and although it is on the same continent, it is separated from the vast desert by the essence of Australia, and it can avoid future conflicts of interest for a considerable distance......"

In short, according to the predetermined plan, with the assistance of the central government of modern time and space in the 21st century, the Chinese League will establish a capital of the alliance called "China City" in Perth, which will be carved out of the territory of the Republic of Australia as an independent autonomous city-state. And the Republic of Australia, one of the five founding members of the Chinese League...... Unfortunately, since the Confederate capital has absorbed what little manpower there is on the Australian side, it is expected that for a considerable time the republic will remain on paper, with nothing but vast expanses of undeveloped wilderness......

However, even Perth at this time, or the "China Town" of this time and space, is still a barren place, without any trace of civilization.

Because, before the groundbreaking of Chinatown in Perth, the travelers of this world will also carry out another "cultural project" on the Australian mainland - that is, to forge their origin in this world and concoct a "lost capital of the Australian and Song Empire": Song City!

To put it simply, it means that before the city that can really live in people has not had time to build, it is necessary to find a piece of desert to build a fake city that cannot live in people......

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In the northwest of Australia, more than 50 kilometers southwest of Darwin Harbour, a hot and dry desolate desert

Although it is not far from the ocean, the air here is so dry that there is hardly a trace of moisture.

Under the crimson sun, the desert wind was like the heat of a furnace, and it could not reduce the overwhelming heat in the slightest. The sand and dust carried by the breeze covered everything with orange-yellow sand. A green field full of life, which has stretched to the end here. As far as the eye can see, there is an endless sea of sand, rocky mountains that have turned reddish-brown from the sun, and rugged rocks covered in gravel, dotted with a few drought-tolerant thorn shrubs. At the end of the yellow sand and blue sky, next to the rolling sand dunes, on the horizon slightly distorted by the scorching air, a lifeless white salt lake can be faintly seen, reflecting dazzling light in the scorching sun.

Like all deserts in the world, Australia's deserts are also full of murderous motives - the sun that can stun people alive, the poisonous snakes and poisonous insects that sneak out at night, and the quicksand that eats people without spitting out bones...... Even if a traveler carries plenty of water and food, they can still be swallowed by the desert.

If it's in the desert of the Old World, there may be desert nomads wrapped in turbans, leading long caravans of camels to and from the vast sea of sand, relying on the rich experience accumulated over generations to avoid the risks of the vast desert. But at this time in Australia, there were only kangaroos, no camels, and the aborigines were still in the Stone Age...... So in this desert, there are almost no human footprints, and naturally there is no guide.

Fortunately, the traversers did not need to cross the desert on their own feet, as long as they could reach the edge of the desert.

At this moment, Wang Qiu was sitting in a desert off-road vehicle, the whole person felt drowsy, although the air conditioner on the car had already been turned on to the maximum, but the air in the car was still extremely hot, like a flowing flame, so that sweat seeped out along his forehead...... Next to the car is a dry riverbed that has been dry for an unknown number of years, and on the high ground next to the riverbed, a group of construction workers wearing hard hats and windproof headscarves are breaking ground and throwing all kinds of construction waste everywhere - really littering all kinds of construction waste everywhere!

Sitting in the car, Wang Qiu's eyebrows jumped and he saw that they were going through a few open [random doors], coming and going from the Sanya base on Hainan Island all the time, throwing stone pillars, stone gates, statues, relief panels, tattered and rough machines, broken bricks and tiles in cars, and all kinds of rotten wood and broken pottery that I don't know what they were, all kinds of messy and rotten wood and broken pottery that I don't know what they were, littering everywhere in this scorching desert and the Gobi......

In addition, there is a very strange construction team, sweating profusely under the scorching sun, building walls and houses on the Gobi Desert, but most of them only lay a foundation, build the wall to a height of more than one meter, and then give up halfway. Then he turned around and continued to build this kind of "unfinished house" in another place...... Another, even stranger team was busy erecting stone piers in the middle of the long-dried riverbed......

Due to the use of Doraemon's 22nd century black technology props, the construction project in the desert progressed quite quickly, but unfortunately the last thing that appeared in front of people's eyes was some remnants of bridges with only piers and no bridge deck - and they were built on a dry riverbed with no half drop of water at all; Then there is a section of the dead-end road that leads to the cliff; Then there are dilapidated houses with roofs, palaces with only a few pillars, and fake stone wells that have not dug water at all...... What's more, they worked hard to build a decent bunker on a certain high ground, and even bothered to decorate it with statues and reliefs, but then stuffed it with mine explosives, and the whole bunker was blown apart with a bang......

At first glance, these guys who went to the Australian desert to beg for hardship seem to be doing completely useless work.

But they don't think it's a wasted effort, but it has a lot of significance.