Chapter 325 "Protecting Five and Fighting for Three"

Boliwa personally led the Ming army into the city of Boliwa.

In the name of the king, all his subordinates and subjects were asked to surrender.

After the news spread, order in the city of Boliwa stabilized.

Because Daming accepted the surrender, then there should be no more bombing.

Then, over the next few days, the Ming army gradually and completely took over the city of Boliwa.

All the soldiers and inhabitants of the city, register their numbers in turn, and take them out of the canyon in groups.

After marching 150 kilometers to the east, take a river boat on the cement river and go out to sea along the cement river.

When you arrive at the mouth of the sea, you will transfer to the sea ship and go directly to the Panama Canal construction site.

The vast majority of this march was by water, and the survival rate of these 500,000 inhabitants must have exceeded that of the captives of the Kingdom of Sun Martin.

Those captives in the Kingdom of Sun Martin were not because Da Ming didn't want them to take the waterway, but because the local waterway conditions were too poor.

It is too dangerous to go directly into the swamp, the river in the swamp is like nine turns, and the wasteful route is too long.

To get around the swamp, you have to walk hundreds of kilometers overland before boarding a boat.

In terms of distance, the land route has actually been covered for more than half of the time.

The old and weak who will die on the road are already dead within a few hundred kilometers, and they will not have time to get on the boat.

It's better to just go overland.

Zhu Dijin, the treasurer of Panama Huangzhuang, and Wang Jinpeng, the chief engineer of the Yinzhou Canal Project, have returned to Panama at this time.

The canal project has officially begun.

The rebels of Boliwa and Sun Martin finally surrendered, and all the prisoners were sent to dig the canal, and of course they had to be informed in advance.

Both of them were taken aback when they received the news.

And then they were all overjoyed.

Wang Jinpeng rubbed his hands together and said happily:

"More than 500,000 people from Boliva have come by water, and the vast majority of the population should be able to reach Panama or not.

"Martin Sun...... As long as you have enough food on the road, you should be able to come for more than half of it.

"So we have nearly 800,000 captive laborers.

"Coupled with our own workers and laborers from other regions, there are millions of laborers in total.

"With proper planning and allocation, it should be possible to do it in five years, maybe even three years.

"The point is that most of them are captives, all of them are forced labor, and they don't need to be paid, they just need to be fed.

"That should leave a lot of money for the project."

Zhu Dijin is also very excited, the canal can be navigable as soon as possible, and he will be able to get a great achievement as soon as possible.

Zhu Dijin listened to Wang Jinpeng's words, and nodded excitedly in agreement:

"Yes, so our goal now is to ensure that it is completed in five years, and strive to complete it in three years!

"However, what Wang Gong said is not entirely right, for these captive laborers, we may not even have to give food.

"Hundreds of thousands of people, it is impossible to go to the construction site in the early days, and some people can be assigned to go to both sides of the canal to open up wasteland.

"After the canal project was launched on a large scale, the young and strong were allowed to dig the canal, and the old and weak went to farm.

"It's tropical, and it's hot enough to harvest three crops of rice a year.

"After the reservoir is built, there will be no shortage of water during the three months of the dry season, and farming can continue.

"Or plant two crops of rice in the rainy season and one crop of wheat in the dry season every year.

"We have been cultivating all the time, and we have been cultivating in a circular way all year round, and there is no agricultural slack season.

"Food self-sufficiency should be achieved in a year at most.

"In this way, we only need to pay the workers of Daming."

Wang Jinpeng thinks Zhu Dijin's plan should be feasible:

"The big shopkeeper is wise, so that we can use the wages of 100,000 people to do the work of millions of people......"

Wang Jinpeng and Zhu Dijin came to the spirit and immediately went separately to replan the work in hand.

Wang Jinpeng calculated the amount of work.

The entire canal route is about 80 kilometers, and it is estimated that there will be 800,000 laborers who can work in the future, excluding the old and weak.

On average, there are 10 workers per meter of canal.

It is impossible to work in two groups, or even three or four groups.

Rather, the entire canal was excavated at the same time.

The total amount of earthwork is estimated to be about 500 million, which will be evenly distributed among 800,000 laborers, each with 625 cubic meters.

With a trolley, each laborer should be able to push one or two cubic meters per day.

If you just count the earthwork like this, it can even be done in a year.

If such a canal were dug in the Great Plains, it would really be able to be completed in a year.

In a special historical period, in the absence of large-scale construction machinery, a group of people relied on shovels and wheelbarrows to dig 1.7 billion earthworks in three years.

A large number of water projects have been built, and a large number of flooded rivers left over from history have been treated.

But in the rainforests of Panama, the biggest problem with getting the project to this speed is the infrastructure and tools surrounding the canal project, including roads, dams, explosives, vehicles, food, and so on.

800,000 people, on average, there are 10 people per meter of the construction site, but if these people can't get in, can't spread, and don't even have shovels to dig the soil, then there is no need to talk about work.

There may even be only one person working and ten people watching.

So in three or five years, maybe half of the time is spent preparing infrastructure and tooling materials.

At the same time, when the work efficiency of 800,000 laborers is basically brought into play when the infrastructure and tools are ready, the amount of earthwork in the project itself is not particularly important.

When the time comes, if the work is in good condition, the standard of the canal can even be further increased.

Further widening and deepening, it is even possible to consider digging double lines and passing through both directions at the same time.

Wang Jinpeng and Zhu Dijin once again adjusted the planning of the canal project.

Zhu Jingyuan once again looked at the entire Nanyinzhou as a whole.

The "Bosun Rebellion" that lasted for more than ten years finally came to an end, and the situation in the entire Nanyinzhou was finally truly stabilized.

The entire Southern Yinzhou Continent was finally completely controlled by the Ming Dynasty.

Nanyinzhou is the hottest and wettest continent on earth.

More than eighty percent of the regions are in the tropical and subtropical ranges, and two percent of the regions are in the temperate range.

The tall, narrow mountain range is located on the westernmost side of the continent, allowing the entire continent to withstand the warm water vapor from the Atlantic Ocean.

The cold snap from the east can only affect a very narrow area on the west side of the mountain range.

The region with more than 1,000 millimeters of annual precipitation on the entire continent accounts for more than 70% of the continent's area.

The mainland area is the second to the last, but among the top five runoff rivers in the world, Nanyinzhou occupies the third.

The most outrageous is the Yajiang River, an oversized river, with runoff equivalent to the sum of the second to tenth places.

South Yinzhou is the continent with the fewest deserts outside of Antarctica.

It is also the continent with the highest forest coverage.

The vast majority of these forests are primeval jungles, and there are no sparse plantations.

The tropical rainforests of Nanyinzhou are not just in the Yajiang River Basin.

The northwestern part of the continent, the Panama and Colombian regions, as well as the southeastern coast of the continent, also have primeval forests.

Most of them are also tropical rainforests in nature.

Nan Yin Chau is home to one-fifth of the world's forests and half of the tropical rainforests.

The world's second industrial revolution has just begun, and gasoline saws, a highly efficient logging tool, have not yet appeared.

In the past, manual logging caused limited damage to primary forests.

Now the area of primeval forests in Nanyinzhou is one-third more than when Zhu Jingyuan was in his previous life.

At present, more than 60% of the entire continent is primary forest.

The forest area is estimated at 10 million square kilometers.

These forests are placed in an agrarian society, and thousands of years of waste will not be used up.

After entering the industrial society in history, almost one-third of it was cut off in more than 100 years.

Now Zhu Jingyuan has engaged in rainforest protection in the League of Nations.

The protection of the Mozhou rainforest is supervised by the Ming Dynasty and the mutual supervision of the Taixi countries.

The protection of the rainforest in Nanyinzhou was decided by the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Jingyuan decided to completely preserve the rainforest in the Yajiang River basin as a royal forest farm, and completely prohibit logging.

Forests in the southeastern and northwestern coastal areas, selectively and controlledly exploited, prohibit traditional slash-and-burn farming patterns.

Daming does not need to develop these primeval forests in the short term.

The grasslands of the Silver River Basin, the grasslands of the Brazilian highlands, and the grasslands of northern Venezuela can easily accommodate five or six billion people.

As industrialization and urbanization accelerate, fertility will continue to decline.

At present, tens of millions of people in Nanyinzhou may not be able to reproduce five or six hundred million people.

On this basis, Zhu Jingyuan re-straightened out the overall plan of Nanyinzhou.

After completely controlling this continent, how to integrate the entire continent into one, and truly manage and utilize it.

Historically, the United States truly integrated the two oceans after the east-west railroad was completed.

For Xintianfu, it is not only the two oceans, but also the north and the south.

However, compared with the historical United States, Xintianfu has a huge disadvantage, and the rainforest in the middle is insurmountable.

But there is also a huge advantage, the New Heavenly Mansion completely controls a continent.

Mexico, which does not have protruding out of the way, and the Yinzhou Canal is also under construction, so you can rely on sea transportation more confidently.

The existing mature areas of Xintianfu are also basically close to the coast.

After the opening of the Yinzhou Canal, the entire Xintianfu surrounding area was naturally integrated.

The direction of development in the next few decades will also be planned along the coastline as a matter of course.

In addition to the navigable silver river basin, it will not expand inward for the time being.

In the early days, it was mainly by shipping, and with the improvement of industrial production and construction capacity, attempts were made to build roads and railways around the continent.

Zhu Jingyuan thought about it himself, recorded the main ideas, and then went to Cining Palace to find Zhu Zhongliang.

specially reported to the old man the news of the capture of the "two thieves of Sosun" and the official end of the "Sosun Rebellion".

By the way, I briefly talked about my thoughts on the development plan of the new Tianfu in Nanyinzhou.

After listening to it quite carefully, Zhu Zhongliang seemed to be very satisfied with his head.

Then, without expressing any opinion on the matter, he opened his mouth and asked about topics that had nothing to do with these things:

"How's your garden going?" When will it officially start? I'm still waiting.

"I also heard that you were planning to design a yacht by yourself in the Great Food Country, but now you don't believe it?

"Before you came to Xintianfu, you said that you would accept two concubines here, but there was no movement."

Zhu Jingyuan's expression was very stunned.

Originally, I was going to discuss strategic planning with my grandfather and hear what he thought about his thoughts.

As a result, he directly skipped the big business.

Ask yourself directly about the garden and the yacht.

Like a future generation of entrepreneurs, he went home and told his parents a lot of strategic plans.

As a result, my mother didn't answer this kind of topic at all, and opened her mouth to ask about the house, car, and wife

Zhu Jingyuan was stunned for a while before changing his thinking.

Shifted from strategic layout to personal life.

"You can't rush the matter of taking a concubine, my age is here, it's better to be a little late."

Zhu Zhongliang fully understood what Zhu Jingyuan meant, and was worried that the concubine who was now accepted would be old in a few years and would suffer a loss in giving birth to children.

But the old man can always find a reason to break the excuse from the right angle:

"Then you can take in some young ones now, raise them at home for a few years and then have children, just like those orchids around you.

"Your princes and concubines are all pregnant, and you have to waste your experience on those orchids."

Zhu Jingyuan opened his mouth and tried to explain that he finally gave up:

"What you said makes sense, I'll go back and plan, prepare, and think about ......"

Zhu Zhongliang immediately said:

"Don't think about it, if you think about it, you won't believe it, I can see through you completely.

"Three years ago, I asked you if I wanted to introduce you to the princess.

"You told me that you should look for yourself first, and it turned out that it has been more than three years.

"I kept a plaything outside, and I never looked for a woman seriously.

"On the contrary, it is the prince and concubine arranged by the Zongren Mansion, as well as the orchids sent by others, you are all those who do not refuse.

"So I'll arrange this for you, you just wait."

Zhu Jingyuan was directly told by Zhu Zhongliang that he couldn't open his mouth.

I have been doing what I have been doing for the past three years, and I really haven't gone to find my wife in person.

In my subconscious, I should have intended to meet by chance.

I met a girl who made me tempted, and then found a way to go home to be a princess.

Three years ago, when I just talked to Zhu Zhongliang about this matter, I was only a grandson, at most a prince.

According to his identity at that time, he did have the opportunity to meet by chance.

But then the situation soon changed, and his identity became more and more special.

The people who can be close to me now have been screened many times.

I spend most of my time in the palace reading documents, and I basically don't go out except to inspect farms and factories.

I've never had a penchant for running around or hanging out.

In this case, how did I meet a teenage girl?

This seems completely unrealistic.

Zhu Jingyuan was silent for a few seconds, and then said resignedly:

"Then you can arrange it, but don't choose the princess, choose the prince and concubine, the princess, I still wait by myself......"

Zhu Jingyuan still didn't want to die very much, and still wanted to continue to wait and see.

Zhu Zhongliang said with a smile:

"That's right, since you don't have time yourself, you have to find someone to help.

"According to your requirements, others choose the one that meets your preferences and send it to you, and in the end, it is up to you to decide which one you want.

"It's up to you...... You look for it yourself outside, but it doesn't really make any difference.

"And what about the yacht? How exactly did you plan it? ”