In the midst of mountains and mountains

A group of heavily armed cavalry made their way along the mountain path, and the cavalry on the march felt small due to the tall valleys on either side.

Li Fushou led his entourage to inspect along the railway line and traveled for more than ten days to this place.

"Mr. Lord, please come here."

The German-born architect Feuerbach-Kant stood on a rock halfway up the mountain, waving vigorously at the cautiously advancing cavalry below, his tone filled with irrepressible joy.

For a famous architect, there is no greater sense of accomplishment than to create a more magnificent building, and in the eyes of the architect, every great building is alive, like the reservoir of the Red River Valley.

Li Fushou looked up at the field survey team members standing on the mountainside, the visual height was at least more than 700 meters, and the steep path was hidden in the dense weeds, and it was definitely impossible to go up on horseback.

"Leave some people here to watch the horses, and we'll hike up the mountain." After Li Fushou finished speaking, he jumped off the horse vigorously.

"It's finally here, and my ass is turned in half." Xin Changjun smiled bitterly and climbed down from the horse, and the guard next to him hurriedly gave him a hand, otherwise he might have sat on the ground with weak legs and weak feet.

Pan Shoudao and Wu Mozhou, who were traveling with them, were no better, these mainland officials who were good at making sedan chairs, they had no sedan chairs to sit on when they came to the Australian mainland, except for carriages and horseback riding.

"A few brothers, you have experienced the magnificent mountains and rivers of the Red River Valley along the way, how do you feel?" Li Fushou's tone was full of pride.

Wu Mozhou looked at Pan Shoudao, the two of them felt the same in their hearts, and they both arched their hands and said; "There is no word, only worship."

"The land here is so fertile that you can pinch out oil by grabbing a handful of black soil, and you can grow the best crops by sprinkling some seeds, and it is a pity that it has been abandoned for many years." Xin Changjun patted off the soil in his hand, and he was really emotional.

Not far away, a group of fat rabbits, which were alarmed by the horse team, ran out of the bushes and crashed into each other in a panic, both rolled over and did not move on all fours, each weighing six or seven pounds, while the other hares scattered and fled.

The entourage only glanced at it, and then began to arrange the harness indifferently, and it was obvious that the hares did not arouse their interest in the slightest.

Looking at all this, Xin Changjun and the others were silent.

The Creator loved this vast land so much that the coastal areas were not only blessed with abundant sunshine and rain, but also with their luxuriant flora and fauna, and the wild creatures in the forests were not afraid of people at all, and they would not run away until they came to them.

There are schools of big fish in the clear lake and stream, standing on the shore and knocking them away with a stick, and no one has caught them for countless years, and a big fish can weigh dozens of pounds at every turn, and it has to be carried by two people to take it away.

Having such a vast treasure land, is it really not enviable?

Li Fushou pointed with a horsewhip to the endless forest swamp in front of him with great interest, and said;

"The hilly area here is the place where several turbulent rivers in the Great Dividing Range mountain range must pass, and every time there is a flash flood, it will overflow here, forming a vast water area of hundreds of square kilometers, which we call Hongze Lake.

Hongze Lake is a seasonal lake, which turns into a swampy area when the water recedes during the dry season, and becomes a vast lake when the flood season comes.

Several streams converge into a huge lake more than 0 miles away, we call it Taihu Lake, and Songjiang Town is built next to the lake, with a unique geographical location.

From Taihu Lake to the southeast, a wide river is formed, which stretches for more than 0 miles and finally flows into the ocean, and this large river is named Huangpu River.

These familiar names contain our nostalgia for our homeland, and I think several brothers also feel that we can still hear such affectionate place names on this distant continent. ”

Xin Changjun, Pan Shoudao and Wu Mozhou nodded frequently, evoking a touch of nostalgia for no reason.

Experienced a trip to Europe

These three pillars of the feudal bureaucracy who had been working in the feudal bureaucracy for many years became the first batch of elites of the Qing Dynasty who opened their eyes to the world, and they underwent a tremendous transformation from ideology to body and mind.

After returning to Australia, he once again saw the abundant resources of this vast and fiery land, and saw the vigorous and resolute methods of the Earl of Queensland, which made Xin Changjun and others sincerely impressed, and they were ready to do a big job with ambition.

According to the arrangement;

Xin Changjun was elected as a Queensland Member of Parliament and was appointed as the Mayor of Red River Valley, Vice President of the Red River Valley Group Development Promotion Association, in charge of all government affairs of Red River Valley City.

Van Ah Seng was also elected to the Queensland MP as Deputy Mayor, and as Xin Changjun's assistant managed the expanding and prosperous city of the Red River Valley.

Poon was elected as a Queensland Member of Parliament, Vice President of the Red River Valley Group Development Promotion Association, and one of the Earl's main staff members, overseeing all judicial construction in the territory of the Red River Valley Ranch, the Royal Mounted Police and the Coast Guard.

Nan Huaiyu and Liu Shan, as his deputies, assisted Pan Shoudao to familiarize himself with the work as soon as possible, and each took control of one side's forces.

Wu Mozhou was elected as a Queensland Member of Parliament, Vice President of the Red River Valley Group Development Promotion Association, and one of the main staff members of the Earl of Queensland, in charge of the economic development and planning of enterprises within the group, coordinating all aspects of relations, and discussing and formulating further development strategies.

The trip to the expedition

Li Fushou deliberately brought all three of them with him, so that he could personally feel the vast territory of the Red River Valley pastures, inspect the first-hand information of industry, agriculture and animal husbandry, and try his best to instill the importance of railway transportation.

Without the coastal railroad connecting the String of Pearl towns, these immigrant towns were just a patch of sand, at best a large pasture.

No further ado

The trail up the mountain was steep and weedy, and the group was already sweating and slightly red when they climbed halfway up the mountain.

"Welcome, noble Earl, please come here and take a look, and you will be amazed by the wonders of nature."

As soon as he climbed halfway up the mountain, before he had time to catch his breath, Feuerbach-Kant impatiently dragged Li Fushou to see with his own eyes the site of the reservoir dam found by the field survey team.

Lei Xiao, who was standing behind him, saw that this person was so rude, and he raised his eyebrows and stepped forward, but fortunately, Xin Changjun hurriedly called out to him; "Master Lei, this foreigner has no malicious intentions, he is an architect hired by the lord with a lot of money."

"I don't care what kind of architect he is, if he dares to do anything to the master, I'll chop off his dog's paws." Lei Xiao replied sullenly, and followed forward to protect.

Xin Changjun was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and shook his head with a wry smile.

Master Lei Xiao's skills are first-class and strong, but his age is a little older, so he can only understand simple greetings in foreign dialects, and he can't understand them if they are a little more complicated.

He was an illiterate old man, and it was impossible to learn foreign dialects, so he had to let him go.

Master Lei Xiao's three sons have laid a foundation since childhood, and their kung fu is better than the other, and now they are all sent to the Red River Valley Affiliated Middle School to study, and the old wife in the family also arranges servants to serve them, so they don't have to worry about food and clothing.

The so-called, every righteous slaughter of dogs.

Originally, Master Lei Xiao was a loyal old man who had followed Gu Yanchuan for more than ten years, and he was carefully arranged by Li Fushou, not to mention this gratitude in his heart, it was really uncomplaining.

Stand on a large raised rock on the mountainside

The vast scenery in front of you is unobstructed, which makes people feel comfortable from body to heart, and they can't help but want to shout to vent the joy in their hearts.

Look into the past

The endless green peaks stretch to the end of the horizon, which is the dividing ridge between the humid coastal climate of the Australian continent and the semi-arid climate of the interior.

The Great Dividing Range range, which stretches south for nearly 2,060 miles from Queensland, across New South Wales to Victoria's southernmost point into the sea, then winds its way to the northwest like a super-large "J" symbol.

The Great Wind and Water Range divides the entire southeast coastal continent of Australia into two, and the southeast of the continuous mountain range is undulating hills and plains, with abundant and lush water and grass, and vertical and horizontal streams, which are blessed with pastures and fertile fields.

The Great Wind Ridge acts as a high wall to block the abundant water vapour from the Tasman Sea in the east, and the southwest side of the mountain range has seen a sudden decrease in rainfall, creating a semi-arid heath area.

Continuing to the southwest inland, we will enter the Gobi Desert area, where the water and grass do not grow, and the yellow sand is long, and it is a land of the Gobi Desert with an area of 4 million square kilometers, which is deserted and uninhabited.

met Li Fushou's eyes;

It is a vast valley terrain that forms a rapidly shrinking canyon in the distance, and it is unknown how far it stretches.

A wide gorge river winds its way from afar, rushing southeast at the foot of the valley, presumably through Hongze Lake and eventually into Taihu Lake, and then down the wide Huangpu River to the Tasman Sea.

According to the field survey team

This huge valley basin in front of you is more than 40 square kilometers in circumference, and if the mouth of the canyon here is piled up into a reservoir, a large reservoir with a water area of more than seven times that of the Red River Valley Reservoir can be established, and the water storage capacity is 9.6 times that of the Red River Valley Reservoir, which contains extremely rich water energy resources.

Instead of the narrow first-line canyon reservoirs of the Red River Valley, the reservoir spreads out in the form of branches, and the huge valley area in front of you is the root of the tree, and after the water is impounded, a series of large and small lakes will appear in front of it, stretching out in all directions like tree trunks.

The amount of water is staggering, and so is the amount of earthwork.

Moreover, due to the gentle slope of the mountain peak in the dam site area, it is impossible to quickly form a dam by blasting to form an artificial dammed lake, so the construction period is at least 3~4 years, and the project cost is also quite amazing.

It is tentatively estimated that it will cost at least one million pounds or more to catch up with the most expensive coastal rail project.

Moreover, there are no coal mines and iron ore resources within more than 100 kilometers nearby, and there is no long-distance high-voltage power transmission technology at this stage, which is a major difficulty at present.

Even if the dam is completed on schedule, the main function is to store flood water and generate electricity, who will use such a huge amount of electricity? What is the best way to get the most out of it?

This is where the difficulty lies in the engineering feasibility study.

Looking at the magnificent mountains and rivers in front of him, Li Fushou was full of energy in his heart, and he had a kind of ambition and pride in the vast land, who is the master of ups and downs.