Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 511 Canal Site Selection
Taichang has been busy in the Wacht Department for more than a month, and finally handles the matter of the formation of a vassal state by the Sioux people.

At this time, it is also approaching winter.

When he brought a group of people back to Xinyin Capital, the weather was already quite cold, and the river next to it began to freeze.

This weather is just right for building canals in Central America.

Because Central America is located near the equator, winter happens to be neither too hot nor too cold.

Taichang didn't stop after returning to Xinyin Capital. Early the next morning, he recruited a group of civil servants and military generals to the meeting hall.

He briefly introduced the situation of the three Sioux tribes, and then asked, "Bo Ya, how is the division of the six tribal alliances on the Algonquin tribe?"

Sun Chuanting quickly replied: "All the chiefs of the Algonquin tribe have been consulted about their opinions, and the six tribal alliances are almost divided, but the weather is too cold at the moment, and it is a bit unbearable to ride horses and gallop. I am afraid that the formation of a vassal state by the Algonquin tribe will have to wait until the next year."

Taichang nodded slightly and said: "Well, it's really too cold here in the north, so I'm going to take most of my troops to build a canal in the south, Boya, you stay here and build a battle, you lead 30 infantry to follow me To build a canal."

Next, he roughly discussed the deployment of materials with his ministers, and then he ordered Lu Xiangsheng to take 30 infantry to carry the materials on board and prepare to set off.

At this moment, the newly promoted concubine Su Yi is visiting the palace accompanied by Wang Chengen.

She was like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, amazed at everything she saw.

To be honest, she really didn't expect such a big city to exist in this world, let alone that she could live in such a majestic palace.

Of course, there are many more that she didn't expect.

Taichang was about to set off to build the canal, so naturally it was impossible to leave her here alone.

Soon, she was taken to the port and onto the dreadnought ship.

This time, she was even more excited, running around like a curious baby.

It was only at this time that Wang Chengen realized how tiring it is to walk around with a woman. Although he is fake, he can be considered a master, and his physical strength does not seem to be as good as others.

When a group of civil servants and generals saw such a lady, they were even more frightened, and hurriedly bowed to say hello.

Seeing this, Taichang could only shake his head and give a wry smile.

There is no way, once he goes out, he has to bring all the master guards with him, and he is really worried about leaving this little girl in the capital of Xinyin.

It took 30 infantry to carry the materials for the construction of the canal onto the ship. It was a full two or three hours. It was not until noon that the huge fleet slowly left the port and headed south.

As expected, the weather was getting hotter and hotter as it went south. At this moment, the rivers near Xinyin Capital were frozen, but when the fleet arrived near Mexico City, it felt very warm.

If you go to someone else's site to dig a canal, you will naturally have to tell them.

It just so happened that the fleet had to replenish fresh water after sailing for more than ten days. Taichang simply sent the fleet into the port of Acapulco where Zhang Zhiji and the others stopped last time. Go to Mexico City and tell Cordoba that we are going to build a canal, and if he is free, let him go with us."

Zhang Zhiji and Xu Yunzhen hurriedly said "obey the order", and then they got off the boat with hundreds of riders and headed straight for Mexico City.

However, this time Cordoba was unwilling to follow them to choose a place to build the canal no matter what he said.

Because these two guys really screwed him up last time, if he hadn't pulled back more than 1000 million taels of silver to relieve His Majesty the king's urgent need, he estimated that he would definitely not be able to be the king.

Such a large piece of land, if you say you lose it, you will lose it. If you go with these two guys again, you may lose the whole of Central America!
In the end, he just signed an official document, strictly according to what His Majesty said, and only allocated a [-]-kilometer-wide land for the construction of the canal. As for where to choose, he didn't care, anyway, this time Give such a big place.

So, where is this canal built?

Taichang knew that there was a canal here in later generations, but he didn't know the exact location.

He could only lead the fleet to the approximate location of the later Panama, and then let Peng Bin take the officials from the Ministry of Industry who were in charge of building the canal to go ashore to select the site.

To be honest, it is a good thing that he does not know the exact location of the Panama Canal in later generations.

If he knew the exact location, he would be in big trouble.

Because the location of this canal in later generations was wrong.

At that time, the continental European countries would not build canals at all. They thought that they could just copy the model of the Suez Canal.

Moreover, in order to save money, they chose an area densely populated with lakes, in an attempt to save tens of kilometers by directly using lake waterways.

As a result, digging and digging, they found something was wrong.

Because the several lakes they selected are actually on the hillside, the height is much higher than the sea level, and the heights of the several lakes are not the same, some are more than ten meters higher than the sea level, and some are higher than the sea level more than 20 meters.

In this case, if they directly dig through several lakes and connect these lakes with the sea on both sides, the lake water will inevitably flow back into the sea.

Not to mention the great danger at that time, most of the bottom of the lake will be exposed, and the boat will not be able to pass at all. They have to continue digging at the bottom of the lake!

It can be said that this is a typical failure, but in the end, it was blown up by them as if it was very successful.

They lied about what they measured and found that the sea level difference between the two sides was [-] centimeters. If they were directly connected, it would cause danger to passing ships.

This is simply nonsense. The sea has tides. When the tide ebbs and flows, the sea level may fluctuate by several meters. A drop of [-] centimeters is nothing!
In fact, they chose a lake area on a hillside by mistake in order to save money.

As a result, something went wrong with the digging, and they had to adopt the mode of sluice storage to raise the water level section by section, so that passing ships could pass through these lake areas and thus cross the American continent.

Such a huge mistake was blown up by them because they discovered that there was a difference in sea level between the two sides, so they decisively adopted the mode of sluice storage to raise the water surface to ensure the safety of passing ships.

I have to say that the mouth of the European barbarian is really deceiving.

These barbarians are dedicated to deceiving people, and they have been like this until later generations. They don't know how many lies they have fabricated to deceive people.

Their specialty is that they are obviously wrong, but they try their best to put money on their faces, as if they are right.

This kind of shameless face has existed since hundreds of years ago or from the very beginning of their birth.

This group of things is just helping shameless barbarians, even if they put on the cloak of civilization, they are still shameless barbarians in their bones!

Fortunately, Taichang didn't know their wrong location, otherwise it would be really troublesome.

If he knew the location of the canal in later generations and ordered people to dig directly from the site chosen by others, it would be useless to dig, because it is impossible to build a sluice tens of meters high at this time, even if it is built Come out, the sluice can't move!
The officials of the Ministry of Industry under him would not make such a mistake when they went to choose the site themselves, because there are too many canals in the Ming Dynasty, and they have carefully read the records left by the construction of the canals.

They wouldn't do stupid things like digging up a mountain.

Just kidding, digging a mountain is much more troublesome than digging a canal dozens of miles long.

They would rather go around the valley for dozens of miles than think about shortening the distance with some lake on the hillside.

That means that the brain has flooded, and a lot of lake water has entered!
(End of this chapter)