Nanming: I can build wonders

Louis XIV said with certainty: "Of course the secret alliance is aimed at Ming, and only Ming can force me and Kangxi Khan to conclude a secret agreement!"

"Your Majesty," the foreign minister didn't know what kind of medicine Louis Li was selling, "then what is written in the secret contract?"

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

In order to contain Ming Dynasty, it is indeed necessary for France to help Kangxi build a powerful navy.

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

Kang Mazi has been trying to build a strong navy all these years.

He always believed that the Indian Ocean was the Indian Ocean of the Qing Dynasty!
However, the Qing Dynasty's navy did not go well, and the gap with the Ming Dynasty Navy seems to be getting bigger and bigger!
In addition, Kangxi did not understand shipbuilding and the navy at all, so he could not grasp the construction of the navy at all.

If Shi Lang hadn't been executed by him, it might have been a different situation.

"By the way, we still need to help the Raksha country carry out the necessary reforms and build a strong army. We have to talk to Sophia about Raksha's problems, and we can't let her lead Raksha to the wrong route. The Raksha country has great potential. Great, their conditions can be properly agreed.”

The Raksha Kingdom is at the crossroads of reform. Is it the reform of Westernization or the reform of Qing Dynasty?
For example, Sophia prepared the nobles to weave the Raksha Eight 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 Luocha, and test the Bible stereotypes. No matter who they are, they can be an official if they write the Bible stereotypes well!
This Rakshasa country seems to have the intention of breaking away from the big family of Western civilization!

Although including Louis, almost all Westerners look down on Raksha, a poor relative, and do not want to admit that it is a Western country.

But if Rakshasa really wants to become an oriental country, they can't stand it!
Where is the guy from the Raksha Kingdom!

So Louis XIV must go and talk to Kangxi's wife Sophia, not to let Rakshasa become the Golden Horde!
Louis said: "In addition, we need to discuss with the Qing Dynasty and Mongolia, so as to adopt a common position when negotiating with the Ming Dynasty!"

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

To be honest, this new order is quite difficult to establish!
Because the basis of any new international order is actually force, and Ming's force is obviously superior, and it can even beat France, the two major powers of the Frank Empire and the Qing Dynasty.

In any case, the situation of one super two strong is a foregone conclusion.

In the spring of 1695, the development of Ming Dynasty was changing rapidly.

The Lantern Festival has just passed.

As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Ke Zangzheng and his officials stood in the spacious hall, staring at the huge sand table in front of them.

This huge sand table was made by dozens of people after more than a month of busy work. The sand table covered the whole world at present. At this time, Zhu Kezang was staring at the American continent on the sand table. Thoughtful.

He remembered the plan submitted by Liu Junqing.

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

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

Now, apart from Zhongyinzhou, the Northern Yinzhou Daming basically controls the west coast.

And Liu Junqing's plan is to build a railway connecting Daming Yingtianfu and the west coast of Yinzhou.

This railway goes all the way north to Eastern Siberia, then arrives at Alaska on the Bering Strait Railway Ferry, and then leads all the way to the core area of ​​the West Coast.

This Pacific Rim Railway plan is indeed a bit tempting.

But there is a serious problem.

That is, the Bering Strait does not have the conditions for railway ferries, 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. The freezing period of the strait is very long, seriously affecting navigation.

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

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

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 the level of technology in later generations is not certain.

So this Pacific Rim Railway project, which attracted investors from Ming Dynasty, was regrettably killed by Zhu Kezang.

But Liu Junqing has a second proposal.

On the continent of Yinzhou, the best place to have meat is in the east!
In the west, there are mountains blocking it, making it necessary for Daming to pay a huge price if he wants to open up the eastern part of Yinzhou.

Therefore, Liu Junqing's suggestion is to build a railway with a length of less than [-] miles on the Isthmus of Panama. Through this railway, the East and West Pacific Oceans and the Atlantic Ocean will be connected.

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

Have to say, this idea is very good.

Much more reliable than the Pacific Rim.

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

After all, there is a great plain that stretches as far as the eye can see!

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

This is the fertile land of Yinzhou Continent!

Swallow it in one gulp, enough fat for future fate!
Right now, Zhu Kezang is really moved by this suggestion.

In particular, the enemies on the Yinzhou continent are quite fragile.

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

Of course, the Panama Canal is one of the seven wonders of the world, and it can't be built just by thinking about it.

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

As a student of civil engineering, Zhu Kezang naturally knew how to overcome this technical difficulty in the United States, but he spent a lot of money.

Rao is such a rich and powerful country like the United States, and the cost of building such a canal is huge. After spending more than 2 million U.S. dollars, employing more than 50 laborers and 10 years of construction, the Panama Canal was finally opened to navigation in 1914.

And 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 long time, fixed his eyes 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 not?"

(End of this chapter)