Qingdao Town

At first glance, it looks like no different from other ordinary northern towns, with dozens or hundreds of wooden houses standing along a street or cross street, full of the rough smell of the northern wilderness.

The only difference is that the 800-meter-long thin stone-paved road in the center of the town is tight and tight, with stone-slab rainwater ditches on both sides, and a complete sewage culvert, which can make this town center street not muddy and sewage flow cross-stream on rainy days.

This kind of perfect sewerage facilities are very common in the towns south of the Red River Valley, for example, Songjiang Town has perfect sewerage facilities throughout the city, and in the northern part of New South Wales, where the average rainfall exceeds 1000 mm, it can do not accumulate water in rainy days, do not raise dust in dry days, the streets are neat and clean, the roads are lined with green trees, and the verdant landscaping is beautiful, as if it is a city in the garden of the south of the Yangtze River.

To do this, the cost of infrastructure investment is undoubtedly expensive.

It is precisely because of the investment of the Red River Valley at any cost that Songjiang Town has attracted a large number of immigrants in the rapid development, not only because of the abundance of job opportunities and better prospects for urban development, but also because it is a beautiful garden city, which is particularly clean and tidy, which is impressive.

In this regard, Songjiang Town has done the best, and other towns in the south of the Yangtze River are not much worse, because the hardware facilities are there, and there is no water accumulation on rainy days and no dust on dry days.

These are all territories under the direct jurisdiction of the Earl of Queensland, and it makes sense that each piece of infrastructure must be a century-old plan, and it is reasonable to spend a lot of money on construction.

From the Red River Valley to the south of the 23 towns are like this, the only difference is the intensity of municipal infrastructure investment, Songjiang Town, Beilun Town and other star towns invest as much as 100,000 pounds a year, the next little one has 35,000 pounds a year, the least remote villages and towns have 7 or 8 thousand pounds a year, for many years, perseverance.

Urban construction is a major investment, the city of the Red River Valley alone, the annual construction expenditure in the municipal government is as high as more than one million pounds, the continuous expansion of the sewer network system, all made of large stones in the mountains, the height can easily allow maintenance personnel to stand up straight and easily enter, no matter how large the rain and domestic sewage will not be affected.

This large-scale underground pipe sewage culvert facility is the only one in the Red River Valley in the whole of Australia, and it belongs to the construction standard of a megacity.

The target for the next 20 years is to target a population of 3 million, and the target of 5 million people is planned for a longer period of time, so the construction standard is particularly high, and the cost is naturally huge.

Even if the Earl of Queensland is so wealthy and rich, such a high-standard urban construction can only be the Red River Valley, and no matter how much it has to be bankrupt.

The second is road facilities, now the asphalt residue produced by the coking plant has become the best material for paving urban roads, and the city of the Red River Valley has taken the lead in using asphalt pavement to replace the time-consuming and time-consuming stone pavement, and the public response is excellent.

The four-wheeled carriage is driven on a wide asphalt road with large rubber wheels, which is stable and quiet, fast and very comfortable.

In particular, the four-wheeled heavy carriage, which could carry 5,000 pounds of goods, can now carry up to 7,000 pounds of goods on asphalt roads without worrying about axle breakage and deformation, longer service life, heavier haulage and faster speeds, so asphalt pavement is widely acclaimed.

According to the planning of the Hongshan Coking Plant;

It will further expand asphalt production, turn waste into treasure, and become another important source of income for coking plants in addition to gas.

In the next step, Hongshan Coking Plant will further expand the field of coal chemical industry, in addition to the main product coke, the existing liquefied gas, coal tar and asphalt products, the next step will be to introduce foreign equipment to produce calcium carbide and synthetic ammonia, and continue to deepen the coal profit value chain.

Based on its own resources, the coal chemical industry has a lot to offer, only coal tar can develop hundreds of chemical products (limited by the times), and synthetic ammonia is one of the main components of chemical ammonia fertilizer, with a wide range of agricultural uses.

Returning to the urban construction of the Red River Valley, in addition to roads, there are also urban gardens, landmark buildings, street lamps on both sides of the road, flower bed separation belts, bridges and docks, etc., all of which have been invested in the construction at no cost.

The Eiffel Tower alone has invested as much as 187,000 pounds, as well as more than 300,000 pounds for the Dream Castle, more than 90,000 pounds for the Martyrs' Shrine, 223,000 pounds for the second phase of the Brisbane Docks station area expansion, and 117,000 pounds for the comprehensive road hardening project this year......

Every year

The investment in the construction of the Red River Valley city has been in the millions of pounds for several years, and as the city continues to expand, the scale of investment will continue to expand in the future, and it is expected to exceed 2 million pounds in 1884.

This is because in 1884 there was a major project to be launched, the Red River Valley Tram Network, which was a long-term project that would continue to be built for five to eight years, with an investment of more than £200,000 a year, including the construction of tracks, the purchase of trams, the construction of signal lights and a network of transmission lines, the payment of the cost of the tram company, the training of tram drivers, and so on.

And on the desk of Lord Earl of Queensland is an ambitious plan for municipal construction, the "Brisbane River Tunnel Plan".

Located on the south bank of the Brisbane River, the city of the Red River Valley, the city's initial rapid development is inseparable from this wide river, including the heavy industry city of Baihu in the west, and it is also very dependent on the Brisbane River to transport bulk export coking coal and ore products, boosting the economic development of the entire urban agglomeration around the Red River Valley, and closely connecting the world's major seaport cities.

However, the Red River Valley City also has shortcomings, because the Red River Valley is a wide Brisbane River on one side, and a continuous mountainous area is separated by more than ten kilometers on the other side.

With the increasing development of the city, Christchurch, which is more than 10 kilometers away from the city, has been included in the west, and continues to extend to the west, with the east-west distance of 34 kilometers, and the narrowest part of the north-south direction is less than 10 kilometers.

Such a long urban structure will put great pressure on longitudinal arterial transportation.

If the population reaches a million, it will be a complete disaster, and severe congestion will be inevitable.

It is on this basis that the urban tram plan will build several tram arteries running through the city's east-west arteries to alleviate the growing number of people and transportation conflicts, but this approach will not cure the root cause.

And on the north bank of the Brisbane River, there are endless farmlands and pastures and a handful of villages, even with few houses.

This is where the Red River Valley is the base for the supply of milk and vegetables, with three villages dedicated to the production of vegetables and five dairy farms.

Every morning in the wee hours of the morning

Vegetable farmers bring fresh vegetables in boats to wholesale vegetable markets on the south bank, and dairy farms also use boats to deliver fresh milk across the river and through the distribution channels of milk stations to households in the Red River Valley.

That's the only role of the North Shore area, the food basket and milk bottles for the whole city.

So there is a saying that has been circulating very early; I'd rather have a room on the south bank than a big farm on the north bank.

The rapid development of the city highlights the importance of developing the hinterland, which has become the primary problem restricting the development of the Red River Valley into an international metropolis.

This dilemma is not unique to the city of the Red River Valley, but also to Sydney.

The construction of the Sydney Bay Bridge was conceived on the basis of this, and the vast Kongsby Plateau (Beilun Town) is the hinterland of the Sydney metropolis and the hope for further development in the future.

Returning to the city of the Red River Valley, French architect François proposed an ambitious "Brisbane River Tunnel Project", which is a very bold idea, which is expected to cross the Brisbane River with a length of 3.2 kilometers through the river bottom tunnel scheme, connecting the south bank and the north bank together, and turning the moat into a thoroughfare.

Seriously, this isn't something new.

In 1802, the French engineer Matthew conceived the idea of connecting the two ends of the English Channel in the form of a tunnel, which was very popular with Napoleon, who liked the "Anglo-French Tunnel Plan" spanning 36.7 kilometers.

In this way, the French dragoons across the continent could easily go to London to show the might of the Continental Army, and thinking about it made His Majesty the Emperor smile crookedly.

During the Treaty of Amiens, the French Emperor Napoleon openly marketed to the British the bold idea of oil lamp lighting, horse-drawn carriage hauling, and the construction of a wooden ventilation tower jutting out of the sea, and called it; "A testimony to the friendship between France and England."

In the eyes of the British, this big project of "two hours by horse-drawn carriage to France" is full of French malice, and it simply distorts the invincible Royal Navy of the British Empire, which is invincible across the English Channel, with its nose crooked, as a naked unfriendly action.

The following year, the two countries fell out again, and the proposal for the strait project was naturally lost.

After 30 years, in 1834, a 27-year-old young French engineer Aimé Tome DeGarmond became interested in the great project of the Anglo-French Undersea Tunnel, compared to the predecessor engineer Matthew, Aimé Tome DeGarmond paid the price of everything he had, exhausted his property and hard work, until his death, so he was called the "father of the undersea tunnel"

Until his death in 1876, Aimé Tomei DeGarmond did not see the slightest possibility of the Anglo-French Strait Tunnel, and remained on the drawings.

It is difficult for Li Fushou to understand why a "paper engineer" can be called the "father of the undersea tunnel", if the standard is set so low, then what should the imaginative Da Vinci say?

As a pioneer in the construction of hydroelectric power stations, he is known as the father of hydroelectric power by the world press, and enjoys high prestige in the field of electric power engineering, which is a great plus in addition to the title of earl and nobility.

Even the arrogant Royal Society of England had to admit the outstanding contribution of the Earl of Queensland in this field.

The French engineer Matthew's vision of the "Franco-British Undersea Tunnel" misses an important question: how to excavate the tunnel under the sea?

With the technology of 1802, this was simply impossible, and the French engineer Aimé Tome de Garmond came up with a practical solution, which was perhaps his greatest contribution.

His scheme is;

The construction of the tunnel was carried out by laying a huge undersea belt of bricks and then digging holes in the inside, thus eliminating the need to pre-assemble iron pipes and reducing the cost of the project to less than 170 million francs, or less than seven million pounds (purchasing power in 1851), over a period of 30 years.

This method can be called the shield method, and this is not a new thing.

Engineer of French origin. Brunel completed a masterpiece that shook the whole of London in 1843, and it took 18 years to complete the 396-metre-long Thames Tunnel, which connected the cities on both sides.

Brunel used the groundbreaking tunnel shield method, which used the principle of using a huge frame with a gap for 36 workers to dig at the same time.

At the bottom of the riverbed is a thick layer of blue clay, and this frame is pushed forward by extrusion, and each worker digs out the clay that is squeezed into the frame in front of him, so that the whole structure can continue to advance.

At the same time, another group of workers stabilized the space made by the moving of the frame. Brunel's shield tunneling was a technological breakthrough in tunnelling and laid the foundation for modern shield tunneling.

Shortly thereafter. Barlow built a tunnel at the bottom of the Thames in 1865 with a circular shield with a diameter of 2.2m.

In 1847, during the construction of the southern line of the London Underground Railway City, England, the British. Grethead adopts the pneumatic shield method for construction, and creatively adopts the grouting technology behind the lining to fill the gap between the shield tail and the lining, creating a relatively complete pneumatic shield construction technology, laying the foundation for the modern shield construction and promoting the development of the shield construction.

Shortly thereafter. Barlow built a tunnel at the bottom of the Thames in 1865 with a circular shield with a diameter of 2.2m.

Technically, there are no insurmountable hurdles for the Brisbane River Bottom Tunnel, all that is required is a huge financial investment and the consideration of decision-makers.

Such an ambitious project, like the Sydney Bay Bridge, has become one dream after another in the architectural world.

The Earl of Queensland, Lord Li Fushou, has a good reputation for respecting and loving science, and is also a major financier of science and technology in Britain, Germany, the United States and other countries.

The world's first Red River Valley Hydropower Station, innovative diesel engine series, walk-behind tractor series, diesel generator set series are one of his masterpieces.

Now that Piaget's interest has extended to the world of architecture, it is undoubtedly a great boon for architects around the world.

It is the construction of a large city that has created the beautiful and magnificent migrant city of the Red River Valley, which shines in the central region of Australia and Brisbane.

Therefore, don't underestimate the more than 800 meters long sewage road with a perfect sewer network, which others don't know, and Lao Mike can count it in his heart.

Qingdao Town will become an important town in northern Queensland in the future, and this time may be 10 or 20 years, but it will definitely not be wrong.