open sea

Chapter 861 Water Conservancy
It stands to reason that the way back is always faster than the way back, but Chen Mu's luck is not so good.

On the way back to Panama City from Qilinwei, Chen Mu and his party caught up with the rain, and the road that was not easy to walk became more southward. It took him ten days to get back to the other side of the isthmus.

The humid air made Chen Mu more irritable. The first thing he did when he returned to Panama City was to have someone boil hot water and take a good bath.

"This ghostly place is definitely not Daming's Youjing. Daming's Youjing should be in Mexico City, not here."

Hearing the news of Chen Mu's return, Deng Zilong rushed to the military mansion in Panama City at the first time, but he didn't expect to push open the heavy western-style gate carved with complex religious patterns, and Chen Mu was sitting cross-legged on the Ottoman carpet with his bare back. He rubbed his arms, his whole body was red like a steamed prawn.

There was hysteria in his face, very much like the desperate fanatics Deng Zilong had seen in Haojing, he couldn't stop muttering words, as if he wanted some god to give him strength.

Sensing Deng Zilong coming in, Chen Mu stopped his hands, elbows resting on his knees and turned his wrists meaninglessly as if trying to grab something, gritted his teeth, and said with a bit of exhaustion and unknown embarrassment: "I'm just a little bother."

Deng Zilong lowered his hands and was speechless. He picked up Chen Mu's plain robe from the back of the seat and handed it out. Then he asked, "Have you seen Panama?"

Chen Mu nodded one after another, took the short robe and draped it on his body. He didn't intend to get up. He propped his chin and said blankly, "I've been soaking in the rain for two days, and my whole body smells of damp. This place is different from what I imagined." Same."

There are two problems before Chen Mu, the first is the location of Youjing, and the second is the construction of the canal. Neither of these two things is what he imagined.

"I know that the Westerners built roads here, but I didn't know that they built the roads on the ridge. It was hot, rainy, and miasma was rampant. Originally, I wanted to build a city in the middle of the isthmus. As Youjing, the imperial court, the distance from the coast to the north and south is six or seven. It's ten miles away, and I plan to lay wooden tracks on the road...It's all bullshit, this place has highs and lows, and there are forests and mountain peaks that can't be seen everywhere, nothing can be repaired."

"And the canal, your report."

Chen Mu raised his head to look at Deng Zilong, raised his finger to point to the thick stack of letters on the table, and said, "Are we going to dig a mountain?"

The entire Panama region does not have the possibility of having a large city at this stage. Although there is an isthmus that can bring extraordinary commercial transportation, even though it connects the two oceans from the north to the south, it is only possible to have a little prosperity near the two ends of the coast.

In the distance of more than 100 miles, it is impossible to build a city.

This problem can be explained by Deng Zilong's report submitted to him after surveying and mapping the terrain near the road.

The entire isthmus can be imagined as a mountain. The south side of the mountain is the Bay of Panama in the Pacific Ocean, and the north side is the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean. The way up is to climb from the south foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and then walk down from the top of the mountain to the north foot of the mountain.

It's just that because the terrain is elongated and the mountains are not high in altitude, people don't realize that they are climbing mountains during the mountain climbing process. They only feel tired and slower than usual, but they are actually climbing mountains.

But this mountain is made up of stacked hills. The mountains in front are only a little higher than the mountains in the back, but the accumulation of these points is much higher than the sea.

Chen Mu thought that digging a canal was just building a canal. Wu Zixu was the No. 2000 canal in the world 1 years ago. The Spaniards had a good idea to build a canal, but no canal comparable to the Xu River has been dug up to now in Europe. Perhaps, Chen Mu didn't think he couldn't do what the Spaniards couldn't do.

In the end, you told me that I was not building a canal, but digging a mountain?
The north and south of the Isthmus of Panama are very close. Digging a river like this is not a big problem even for the current Oriental military mansion, let alone the Ming Dynasty behind the military mansion.

The splendid Chinese civilization was bred in the Mesopotamia, but the great river did not look kind in the mouth of the ancestors. It flooded day and night, and the person who first controlled the great river became the founding monarch of the Xia Dynasty. become a country.

They have the largest number of water conservancy experts in the world and the richest water conservancy project construction experience in the world. Is it difficult to build a canal with a total length of up to [-] miles in Asia?

The report from Deng Zilong's department explained to Chen Mu that it was really difficult.

Because the ground is uneven.

If the difficulty of digging canals in plain areas is one and the engineering volume is two, then the difficulty of digging canals here is ten and the engineering volume is between [-] and [-].

Chen Mu was flabbergasted by such a huge project, shook his head and said to Deng Zilong: "I'm afraid we can only go by land here in the future. What about Master Xu, let him come back."

"Do you really want him to come back? Seven days ago, he sent someone from Dahu in the west to send a message, asking me to send him some carpenters, and also sent someone to Changsheng County Magistrate, asking him to send some skilled pickers from the people. Pearl come here."

Deng Zilong sighed, then smiled easily, and said: "No matter what, Panama is a battleground for military strategists, even if there is no canal, why not let him try?"

"Pearl divers?"

Chen Mu pondered, pearl divers were poor people who dived into the sea and took pearls for a living. The chance of accidents in this occupation was very high. It is specified that those with strong diving ability are required, and the person is next to the big lake.

Then his purpose was ready for Chen Mu.

He wants to be like Yu the Great in ancient times, planning to open mountains in Fengshan and build dikes in Yuwa in Yazhou.

Chen Mu shook his head slowly, and said: "It's not that this canal has to be built, at least not now. Even if we really want to do this, it will be difficult for our generation to see the canal being built. Without the canal, the interests of Ming Dynasty It won't be damaged much, Xugong is very old..."

Before Chen Mu finished speaking, Deng Zilong continued: "He will do this now, maybe he can only do this in his life."

"Can Xu Gong serve His Majesty for another ten years? After ten years, what status will he have, Minister of the Ministry of Industry or Minister of the Ministry of War? Maybe after three or five years, he will be transferred from the Beiyang Branch to the Ministry of Industry to be the head of the Ministry of Industry. "

As he said that, Deng Zilong changed the subject, he didn't see any regrets, but he was excited, and said: "Since ancient times, there has been no shortage of people who have made great achievements in the present age and benefited the future!"

"I don't know about flood control, but if there is an opportunity for Deng to seize the opportunity to become an official, let alone a mere ten years, even if he fights for his life, Deng will not miss it—at least give him a year In half a year, let him measure out all the topography, terrain, water, depth, mountains and heights, and if there is no other way, it will not be too late to call him back."

Chen Mu pondered for a moment. He is not a short-sighted person, and he knows better than anyone else what will be brought about after the Panama Canal is built. But after knowing the difficulties and the sharp increase in the amount of work, he doesn't think it is necessary to rush to do this.

His resources are limited, but there are many roads, whichever one he takes is good, and it will not be bad, and the return will be faster than building a canal.

But what Deng Zilong said was right, before Xu Zhenming found out everything, he didn't need to invest too much in it, he could let Xu Zhenming try it.

"If a person can really do one thing well in his life, it's worth it. Let him try."

Chen Mu was rubbing his jaw, and he had to use the same spirit to do one thing well: "I, I have to find a way to bring Mexico City into Daming's arms."

(End of this chapter)