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Chapter 815 Pacific Rim Railway

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Author: Linjiangjun

Louis XIV affirmed: "The secret alliance is of course aimed at the Ming Dynasty. Only the Ming Dynasty can force Kangxi Khan and I to conclude a secret agreement!"

"Your Majesty," said the Foreign Minister, who didn't know what kind of medicine Louili ​​was selling, "then what is written in the secret agreement?"

"The first thing is to write about how we can help the Qing Dynasty and Mongolia build a powerful Mongolian navy!"

In order to contain the Ming Dynasty, France really needed to help Kangxi build a strong navy.

After all, Kangxi was the first island chain to deal with Ming Dynasty.

Kang Mazi has been trying to build a powerful navy over the years.

He always believed that the Indian Ocean was the Indian Ocean of the Qing Dynasty!

However, the Qing Dynasty's navy was not very successful, and the gap with the Ming Dynasty's navy seemed to be getting wider and wider!

In addition, Kangxi did not understand shipbuilding and navy at all, so he could not focus on naval construction at all.

It was a black eye. If Shi Lang had not been executed by him, it might have been a different situation.

"By the way, we also need to help the Rakshasa Kingdom carry out necessary reforms and establish a strong army. We need to talk to Sophia carefully about Rakshasa's problem, and we can't let her lead Rakshasa on the wrong path. Rakshasa Kingdom has great potential.

Big, their conditions can be agreed appropriately.”

The Rakshasa Kingdom is at the crossroads of reform. Is it a Westernized reform or a Qing-oriented reform?

For example, Sophia planned to organize the nobles into the Eight Rakshasa Banners, and also planned to borrow money from Kangxi to compensate the nobles in exchange for the abolition of serfdom.

Moreover, he also plans to hold an imperial examination in Rakshasa country, and test the eight-legged essay in the Bible. No matter who is good at writing the eight-part essay in the Bible, he can become an official!

This Rakshasa Kingdom seems to have the intention of breaking away from the family of Western civilization!

If a tunnel is built here, its length is expected to exceed 103 kilometers. It is definitely not something that the New Ming Dynasty can handle, and even the technological level of later generations may not be certain.

So Louis XIV must have a good talk with Kangxi's wife Sophia, and he cannot let Rakshasa become the Golden Horde!

Louis added: "In addition, we also need to discuss with the Qing Dynasty and Mongolia in order to adopt a common position when negotiating with the Ming Dynasty!"

This railway goes all the way north to Eastern Siberia, then reaches Alaska by rail ferry on the Bering Strait, and then all the way to the core area of ​​the West Coast.

This plan is very grand and huge, but it requires a lot of investment.

As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Kezang was standing with his ministers in the spacious hall, staring at the huge sand table in front of him.

This huge sand table was made by dozens of people who worked hard for more than a month. The sand table covered the whole world at the moment. At this time, Zhu Kezang was staring at the American continent on the sand table.

Something to think about.

Therefore, the Bering Strait basically does not have the ability to navigate ships. Because of this, the Bering Strait once became one of the least well-known straits in the world.

In the spring of 1695, the Ming Dynasty was developing rapidly.

There is only one way to build a road to the Bering Strait, and that is to build an undersea tunnel.

Although almost all Westerners, including Louis, look down upon Rakshasa, a poor relative, and do not want to recognize it as a Western country.

Moreover, the eastern part of the North American continent is obviously more conducive to immigration and construction than the western part.

Lewis paused and then said: "After the Versailles Summit, we still have to send people to the gate to establish a new international order that is more beneficial to us and the Qing Dynasty and Mongolia, but is acceptable to the Ming Empire!"

However, Liu Junqing's imagination was not rich enough and he did not propose the Panama Canal plan.

Therefore, the Pacific Rim Railway plan, which attracted investors from the Ming Dynasty, was unfortunately killed by Zhu Kezang.

Now, except for the Central Yinzhou and the North Yinzhou, the Ming Dynasty basically controls the west coast.

That is, the Bering Strait does not have the conditions for a railway ferry, because the northern part of the Bering Strait leads directly to the Arctic Ocean. The winter is long and cold, and the temperature can be as low as minus 50 degrees. In addition, the cold seawater of the Arctic Ocean continues to gush southward, making the White Sea

The icing period in the strait is very long, seriously affecting navigation.

The biggest technical difficulty is that the sea surface on the Pacific side is at least 20 centimeters higher than the Atlantic side.

He remembered the plan Liu Junqing had submitted.

It is much more reliable than the Pacific Rim Railway.

As a civil engineering student, Zhu Kezang naturally knows how the United States overcomes this technical difficulty, but it costs a lot of money.

I have to say that this idea is very good.

Therefore, Liu Junqing's suggestion is to build a railway with a length of less than a hundred miles here in the Isthmus of Panama, through which the East and West Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean can be connected.

It is a huge land that is much larger than the North China Plain, the Northeast Plain, the Yangtze River Plain, and all other plains in China combined.

After all, it is an endless plain!

To be honest, this new order is quite difficult to establish!

Because the basis of any new international order is actually force, and the Ming Dynasty's force is obviously superior, and can even defeat France, the Frank Empire and the Qing and Mongolia, two powerful countries.

This is the blessed land of Yinzhou Continent!

On the Yinzhou continent, the really good place for meat is in the east!

In the west, there were mountains blocking the way, so Ming Dynasty had to pay a huge price if it wanted to open up the eastern part of Yinzhou.

Liu Junqing's plan was to build a railway connecting Yingtianfu in the Ming Dynasty and the west coast of Yinzhou.

No matter what, the situation of one super and two strong is a foregone conclusion.

In this way, only one ship is stationed on the east coast, and people can be transported to the Americas at a relatively low cost.

But if Rakshasa really wants to become an Eastern country, they won’t be able to stand it!

Where is the big guy from Rakshasa Kingdom?

This Pacific Rim Railway plan is indeed a bit exciting.

If you swallow it in one bite, it will be enough fat for your future destiny!

At this moment, Zhu Kezang was really moved by this suggestion.

Even for a wealthy country like the United States, building such a canal was costly. After spending more than 200 million U.S. dollars, employing more than 500,000 workers, and taking 10 years of construction, the Panama Canal was finally opened to navigation in 1914.

The Lantern Festival has just passed.

But there is a serious problem.

Of course, the Panama Canal is one of the seven wonders of the world, and it cannot be built just because you want to.

But Liu Junqing had a second suggestion.

Ask yourself, Liu Junqing's proposal is very conducive to local control of Yinzhou.

In particular, the enemies on the Yinzhou Continent are now quite vulnerable.

President Theodore Roosevelt also entered President Hill by virtue of the great achievements of this canal.

In this regard, Zhu Kezang chose to wait for the first-hand system miracle.

Zhu Kezang stared at the sand table for a while, his eyes fixed on the large eastern plain, and then said to Chen Yonghua, Qiu Hui, Lu Fan and others who were watching the sand table with him.

"My dear friends, do you think Liu Junqing's suggestion is good or bad?"
Chapter completed!
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