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It has been a full year since I returned from Europe, and it has been ten years since I first set foot on Australian soil in 1876.

Looking back on the cautious and cautious journey all the way to create the situation of today's Nuoda, the heart suddenly rises with pride, overlooking the prosperous metropolis of the Red River Valley, and the high victory tower soars into the sky, symbolizing the indomitable fighting spirit of overseas Chinese immigrants.

Turning your head and looking in the other direction, among the lush green mountains, the magnificent Dream Castle stands tall, with its white figure standing out against the blue sky, and the towering towers stand out as if it were the crown of the metropolis, adding to the charm of this new immigrant metropolis.

Designed by the famous French architect Villeb Duque, this magnificent castle is an ingenious imagination that is three times the size of the famous Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany, and even more magnificent and majestic.

As a result, we have to admire the unbridled imagination of today's architects in France.

They are the best and most outstanding designers in the world, whether it is the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe, the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, or the Château de la Dream, all of which are architectural treasures that can be passed down to future generations, all by French architects.

The concept of the Anglo-French undersea tunnel was also first proposed by French designers, and it was strongly supported by the French Emperor Napoleon in history, but it was stirred up by the British.

When he thought of the Anglo-French Undersea Tunnel, Li Fushou immediately thought of the tunnel project that is under construction to cross the Brisbane River, which has been started for 14 months, and the amount of earthwork completed is less than 1/3, and it is far from completion.

The Brisbane River Tunnel is constructed using the latest shield method, but there is no shield machine, but on the excavated working face, a shield-like shape is built with thick wood, and several meters are excavated forward, and the excavated working face behind it is poured with reinforced concrete, and so on.

The most used in the whole project are iron picks, shovels and hammers, and almost all of them use manpower to dig forward, and they must always be on guard against roof rising, water leakage, and need to be reinforced in the geological loose area, and the progress is really slow.

With the deepening of the construction, the working face gradually advanced to the depth of the bottom of the Brisbane River, and the possibility of encountering sudden engineering accidents greatly increased, and the progress of the project slowed down more and more.

Okay, the quality of the project is a hundred-year plan, and this thing can't be impatient.

Surrounded by mountains to the north and east and south, the city is now developing westward, and has started construction of the Second White Creek Bridge to relieve traffic pressure on the increasingly congested White Creek Bridge.

With the development of the city

The headquarters of the University of the Red River Valley, which was originally located on the edge of the city, has become an elegant institution of higher learning in the urban area, cultivating more young talents.

Due to the shortage of land in the urban area, the main campus of the University of the Red River Valley has already been moved to Qinglong City, and there are spacious asphalt roads connecting the two places, and the roads along the road are lit by street lights, and all kinds of beautiful buildings have sprung up, and there is a tendency to connect the two as one.

Qinglong City is located in a narrow valley area, and there was not much land available for development, but after years of rapid development, it has gradually become saturated, and there is less and less room for development.

Xuanwu City is located in the mountains of steep terrain, there was no room for urban development, to reach today's population of 5~60,000 is the extreme, it guards the northeast gateway of the Red River Valley City, is built as a fortress-type fortress city.

According to the urban development plan, Baihu City will develop to the west and Suzaku City to the south, and try to distance itself from the core metropolis of the Red River Valley.

With vast plains as far as the eye can see, both cities have plenty of room to grow.

The major transportation infrastructure projects in the plan have been completed one after another, contributing to the economic construction and playing a huge role in the immediate impact.

After more than two years of reconstruction and expansion, the coastal railway double-track project and the old line renovation project is about to come to an end, the new line has been put into use, the old line is still in the double-track transformation, and it is expected to be completed and put into use before March next year.

At that time, the new high-horsepower steam locomotive can tow more than 30 carriages and run on the railway line at an average speed of 35~40 kilometers, which is twice the original speed and the cargo capacity is increased by nearly 70%.

This is undoubtedly a great benefit for the towns along the railway line, whether it is the transportation of goods or passengers, can be reached in a shorter time, greatly improving efficiency and saving time.

In the planning, there are three horizontal and one vertical "Feng" shaped railway line, this longitudinal railway line is the coastal railway double line, which is the main artery of the entire Queensland economic transportation, and crosses almost the top 10 towns in the top 10 (only Queensland range) from north to south, and its importance is incomparable.

The three horizontal railway lines are all from east to west, extending from the economically prosperous and developed areas of the eastern coast to the western inland, connecting an inland agricultural and pastoral town through the railway.

The first transverse railway at the top is a double-track railway, which runs southwest from Brisbane through the Great Watershed to Xuanwu City, and then from Xuanwu City to Red River Valley City.

The new extension runs west from the city of the Red River Valley, passing through several inland towns to the Thylacine Rocks, an old battlefield where the "wolf Bilken" was killed, and now a rocky town with a population of more than 22,000 people, and then continues more than 100 kilometers west to Jihu Lake near the Gobi Desert, with a total length of about 270 kilometers.

The middle horizontal railway is a single-track railway, which runs west from Songjiang Town to Songjiang Reservoir, where there is a new town called Reservoir Town, which continues westward into the mountains and mountains until it reaches the strategic reserve base hidden here.

With a total length of 57.7 km, the railway line is the shortest of the three transverse railways.

The third horizontal railway line starts from Beilun City, extends westward through several inland agricultural and pastoral towns, goes deeper than 100 kilometers and then turns to the southwest, goes about 300 kilometers along the direction of the river, and ends at a nomadic point in the westernmost part.

The line will continue to extend westward, traversing Australia's southernmost peninsula from east to west, eventually connecting with Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, as a major artery for rail transport.

To the south of this railway line is Victoria, the stronghold of white conservative forces, and in this autonomous state famous for its gold mining, Melbourne, the largest city in Australia, has the highest standard of living in Australia because of its abundant resources.

Now, with the birth of Queensland, everything has changed.

The Red River Valley and Brisbane successively took Melbourne's first place in the city rankings, and the city of Songjiang suddenly emerged, surpassing Melbourne as the third largest city in Australia in the first half of 1885, squeezing Melbourne to the fourth place.

Watching these economically booming cities surpass one after another, Melbourne's mood is mixed, and sour sarcasm and complaints have become the mainstream of public opinion, but they have never seriously reflected on themselves, but have more stubbornly refused the entry of Chinese overseas immigrants, and white conservatives have intensified their suppression and bullying of Chinese settlers in the state.

More than 80% of Victoria's economic output comes from the city of Melbourne, and more than 70% of Melbourne's economic output comes from gold mines, and the rest is livestock and commercial trade, so that the city can maintain a high standard of living and live a leisurely and affluent life, without looking at the faces of northern Queenslanders.

Wool prices rise or fall, and the impact on Victoria's economy is minimal, and it is a big deal to mine more gold.

In this regard, NSW is relatively passive, due to the large number of white ranchers in the territory, livestock accounts for more than 7% of NSW's economic output, and is the most important pillar industry.

As a result, NSW is highly dependent on woollen mills from the north, which makes them uncomfortable.

Searching for a solution to the problem turned out to be futile.

In the face of the northern forces, the limelight is becoming more and more popular. New South Wales and Victoria have tightened their fences to prohibit Chinese overseas migrants from entering.

This means that they can only rely on the natural growth of the population, and the situation of more men and fewer women is even more severe, and the contradiction of employment is extremely prominent, and it is impossible to find enough female workers to operate the wool machinery.

So in Australia, there is such a strange phenomenon.

With Beilun Town and Sydney across the strait as the dividing line, it extends from east to west into the inland arid area, forming a clear dividing line.

In the area north of the demarcation line

Queensland continues to increase the intensity of the introduction of Chinese immigrants, thereby greatly expanding the consumer market and demand, strongly driving the economy to rise step by step, the economic level of various industries to flourish, the income of residents to increase year by year, in the money to consume at the same time to expand the consumer market, thus forming a virtuous circle.

In the area south of the demarcation line

It is mainly the white conservative rulers in New South Wales and Victoria who stubbornly introduce various bills to restrict the inflow of immigrants, deprive the Chinese of normal business and wealth rights, discriminate against and suppress the Chinese chambers of commerce in their own regions, and run wild all the way on the road of making a big without looking back.

For a variety of reasons, there is a strange downward spiral in the economic level of these two states, one hot and one cold compared to Queensland in the north, as if they are in two worlds.

You can't wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep, and now it's this situation where the North and the South are out of place.

As for the so-called Tasmania, there are no more than 5,000 people in that remote ghost place, and with the loss of a large number of Chinese, the population here has broken through the 3,000 mark, leaving only 2,000 white descendants of the hundreds, and it is very likely to develop into an inaccessible trend.