Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 512
Historically, the French hired Egyptians to dig the 300-mile Suez Canal for 11 years.

And the Panama Canal, which is more than 100 miles away, the French and the Americans hired labor from more than 50 countries and dug it intermittently for 31 years!
This canal seems to be quite difficult to dig.

So how long would it take Daming to dig a canal less than two hundred miles away?

This can refer to Tonghui River, because Tonghui River is about the same length as this canal.

The construction of the Tonghui River was presided over by Guo Shoujing, the Taishi Ling and capital water supervisor of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. The construction started in the 28th year of the Mengyuan Zhiyuan period and was completed in the 29th year of the Mengyuan Zhiyuan Period. During this period, about [-] laborers were mobilized.

That is to say, for the Tonghui River with almost the same length, it only took about a year to mobilize [-] ordinary young and strong buildings during the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties.

If calculated at this speed, 30 Shenji Battalion and Shenwu Battalion infantry can dig this canal in at most four months!
This difference seems a bit big, can Daming be so much faster than the French and Americans?

In fact, the construction of canals in the Sui Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Mongolian Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty is fundamentally different from that of the French and Americans.

Because they are contracted by private capital, mainly for the sake of profit, to put it bluntly, to make money.

Therefore, whether it is exploration, preparation, or hiring someone to excavate, etc., the cost is always calculated.

In order to save costs, they are even stingy enough to deduct the investment in accommodation, medical care, food, and even drinking water for the laborers who dig the river.

That is to say, let people live in the worst, eat the worst, don't give treatment when they are sick, and don't have enough drinking water!
In this case, even if you are exhausted, you will not be able to achieve any efficiency!
In the history of building the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal, tens of thousands of laborers died of exhaustion and illness!

In fact, each time they hire not many people, they also hire [-] to [-] laborers to work at the same time, and wait for people to die of exhaustion or illness before continuing to add people!
This is the terrible thing about capital.

They don't care about the lives of ordinary people at all, even if they are exhausted from working for them or die of illness, they don't care!

They only care about profit, and they can do anything in order to save a little cost.

It's no wonder that efficiency can be achieved in this way.

The construction of canals in the Sui Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Mongolian Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty was different. The canals built in these dynasties were all for the convenience of water transportation, and they were all decreed by the emperor, presided over by the court, and were in charge of by officials in charge of water conservancy.

What they consider is not cost and profit at all. What they consider is to facilitate waterway transportation, how to operate efficiently and fix it quickly.

The starting point and purpose of the two parties are different, and the efficiency is naturally very different.

This time, the Emperor Ming personally presided over the canal, and he also mobilized 30 elite soldiers. How amazing will the efficiency be?
On the small plain on the west coast of the Spanish Caribbean colony, thousands of cavalrymen from the Shenwu Battalion were guarding Peng Bin, a doctor of the Ministry of Industry, and a group of officials from the Ministry of Industry's Repair and Cleaning Department and the Dushui Cleaning Department.

They would stop from time to time, take a look through the binoculars, look at the topography of the coasts and mountains on both sides, or take people off their horses to dig a hole to look at the soil structure.

On the surface of the sea, hundreds of ships are also about ten miles away from the coast, following like shadows, they leave when they leave the fleet, and stop when they stop.

To be honest, it is indeed a bit difficult to dig a canal here, because there is an obvious watershed in the middle of the land in Central America. If you want to dig through the two banks, you must consider how to cross this watershed.

Naturally, they had seen the group of lakes on the hillside, and they would not even think about such a place.

It is not allowed to dig near the lake in the mountain, not to mention the serious water seepage, if the lake water will rush down like a torrent, if you dig it, you will be asking for trouble.

They are quite clear about this, so they are not within the scope of their consideration at all.

They searched for several days, and finally found a place with relatively flat mountains and a valley running through the entire watershed.

This kind of place can be dug!

Peng Bin and a group of officials from the Ministry of Industry carefully scanned the terrain of the nearby coast with binoculars, discussed again, and then decisively pointed to a mountain in the distance and said: "General Ma, we need to go up to that mountain. Take a look down the nearby valley."

The commander-in-chief of the Shenwu Battalion, first-class Dongshan Bo Ma Xianglin, heard the news and immediately ordered most of the cavalry to stand by on the spot, and then took Qin Yiming, Qin Gongming and a group of white-armed guards to protect Peng Bin and other officials from the Ministry of Industry. Go in the direction of that mountain top.

When they reached the dense forest at the foot of the mountain, they got off their horses one after another, took out black scarves wrapped with herbs to cover their mouths and noses, and put on bamboo hats wrapped in tulle wrapped around their necks, and then walked carefully into the woods.

The reason why they are dressed this way is not to pretend to be cool, it is a necessary item to enter the deep mountains and old forests.

Ma Xianglin, Qin Yiming, Qin Gongming and others were originally born in the mountains and rivers of Bashan and Shushui, and they also led white soldiers into the deep mountains and old forests in the southwest to quell the chieftain rebellion. They naturally knew how to protect themselves in this kind of mountains and forests.

A group of people lined up in a rough formation after entering the mountain forest.

Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming each led a team of white soldiers to open the way in front of the left and right sides, while Ma Xianglin led Peng Bin and a group of officials from the Ministry of Industry to file forward in the middle. Everyone was very careful.

Suddenly, Qin Gongming raised his hand and whispered, "Stop."

Everyone stopped immediately.

No one asked why.

Immediately afterwards, Qin Gongming rushed forward like a phantom, and slashed at a branch as thick as an arm above everyone's heads.

With a "crash", the branch fell.

Seeing this, Qin Yiming immediately rushed forward to stretch out his hand and pulled out a poisonous snake half a foot long.

This venomous snake is so colorful that it looks almost heart-stopping.

Obviously, this snake is highly venomous.

However, at this time, the snake's head had already been chopped off by Qin Gongming.

He dug a deep hole on the ground with a knife, picked the snake's head in, covered it with soil, stepped on it a few times, and finally said excitedly after confirming that the step was solid: "Hahaha, we have delicious snake soup again tonight."

Well, they all agree that the more venomous the snake, the tastier it is.

Moreover, the toxin of poisonous snakes is mainly between the snake's head and seven inches, as long as it is cut off, it will be fine.

Qin Yiming nodded excitedly, turned around and swiftly wrapped the snake body in his hand around the neck of the guard behind him to form a wreath-like collar, and then waved: "Go."

Ordinary people entering this kind of primeval jungle are probably full of dangers, and they are close to death, but these people walk in as if they have returned to their hometown, walking briskly and happily!
Not long after, a group of people came to the top of the mountain.

Peng Bin and a group of officials from the Ministry of Industry picked up binoculars and scanned the valley below carefully. After discussing for a while, they nodded solemnly and said, "Well, this is here, General Ma, let's go back."

They are experts in this mountain forest, but they know nothing about building canals.

Hearing this, Ma Xianglin nodded without hesitation, then waved his hand and said, "Go, protect the adults down the mountain, be careful."

(End of this chapter)