Because the asphalt road is melting and the solid road surface turns into liquid, even car tires can be stuck. As a result, Jinyiwei had to send people to put detour signs on many road sections where melting accidents occurred, and sent people to squat to prevent Some bad guys were blind and rushed straight in to die.
This caused a series of chain reactions. The most typical case is that major road sections in major local cities not only have morning and evening peak hours, but also have afternoon peak hours in summer!
Taking Nandu as an example, the morning peak is from 7 to 9 o'clock, the afternoon peak is from 11 to 3 pm, and the evening peak is from 5 to 7 o'clock.
Because of the forced detour, the second and third-class roads cannot accommodate the traffic flow of the first-class roads. As a result, people will be late for work in the morning, late to meet clients at noon, and still late to go home or attend banquets in the evening!
So much so that the yamen are reminding families who are about to hold weddings not to choose to hold weddings in the summer. Once the wedding time exceeds 12 noon, it will be unlucky... This is still a small thing. What's more terrible is that the high temperature in summer has caused a surge in electricity consumption.
The Ministry of Industry is happy. The more electricity they use, the higher their income will be. However, local government offices are suffering terribly. The local power grid has a power transmission limit. If it exceeds the power transmission limit, the whole line will be paralyzed.
Except for large households equipped with generators, most people, including the middle class, rely on the power grid to provide power to their homes.
In the south, to be precise, the area south of the line from the Qinling Mountains to the Huaihe River, the power grid is paralyzed once or twice a week in the summer.
It turns out that the dividing line between the north and south of the mainland is from the Qinling Mountains to the Huaihe River. Now, even the dividing line where the power supply is paralyzed is like this!
The further south you go, the more serious the paralysis is, and the reason is simple: household appliances also use more electricity.
Many households in the north and south have televisions, refrigerators, electric fans, washing machines, drying barrels, and even air conditioners and water heaters.
However, the summer in the south is long and the humidity is high, which means that clothes must not only be washed but also dried frequently, especially if you live in coastal cities.
The places where power grid outages occur most frequently are almost all in southeastern coastal cities. There are also some smart rich people who come to Beidu to escape the summer heat and take a trip... In this regard, Emperor Haojing really wanted to tell them that Beidu is a sauna day from June to August!
So much so that after reading the temperature forecast in the newspaper that morning, a certain fat house prince decided to stay in his home all day and did not even plan to go out at night, otherwise he would be sacrificed to the mosquitoes!
The buildings in the back mansion are all air-conditioned, and the indoor temperature is completely livable, unlike outside. It’s really a good time to buy cold drinks!
As long as the construction site is not close to Jumin District, work will be suspended from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The most popular products on the street are naturally popsicles, sorbets, ice cream, and iced drinks. They can sell as much as they buy.
Drivers who drive cars on the road not only have to worry about melting, but they also have to be constantly vigilant about the spontaneous combustion of their cars... These are all trivial matters. What is important is that reports of deaths caused by high temperatures are increasing in various places.
Before industrialization, of course, similar incidents occurred, but not as many as today. The difference between having an electric fan and not having an electric fan is obvious, but for some elderly people who are used to enjoying air conditioning in the middle of summer, if their power is suddenly cut off, it becomes a big problem.
You can still go out to enjoy the coolness at night. Although you are likely to be fed by mosquitoes, as long as you take protective measures, such as spraying more toilet water, it will still have a certain effect.
It becomes much more difficult during the day. The indoor humidity is high, the outdoor radiation is strong, and the elderly with weak legs and feet cannot even go out.
Most of the people who die from the heat are these people. Young and middle-aged people do not have this problem. Roadside barbecue stalls are the best way to cool down.
The first floor on the street side of Jumin Building is almost filled with all kinds of commercial services. In summer, it is dominated by barbecue restaurants. With its own generator and fuel, it can even be crowded with customers.
Even if Emperor Haojing didn't go out to have fun, he could still know the general situation outside through the images taken by the factory guards' cameras. This was basically the same as in later generations.
Dishes such as beef and mutton, pork ribs, chicken wings, grilled oysters, shabu-shabu tripe, vegetable rolls, steamed bun slices, and the bizarre roasted leeks, together with soda, beer, and black tea, constitute the basic menu for the common people.
As long as the local government offices and Jinyiwei increase patrols, even if the stalls and night markets continue to increase in size and area, there will not be a sudden increase in cases.
Zhu Cixiang was too lazy to care about trivial matters. The focus was on solving the power supply problem in the southern coastal areas.
The first is to build new power plants, add unit capacity to existing power plants, and expand transmission lines. The second is to transport coal from various places to the south. Inland provinces can use railways, while coastal areas can accept sea transportation.
The third is to increase the intensity of relocation. People who can't stand the heat can move to other places with lower temperatures.
The last point here is no joke. If the south is hot for four to five months every year, and there is no heating supply in winter, it will be absolutely difficult now.
The reason why hydropower stations are not considered is that the technology of dams is not yet mature. If the dams are destroyed by the huge pressure brought by high water levels, the people on both sides of the downstream bank will be devastated.
At present, if a dam failure occurs in a large hydropower station, the destructive power it will cause is no less than that caused by an eight-magnitude earthquake in a big city!
This is also the main reason for the widespread power shortage in the south. For the safety of the people, Emperor Haojing will not let the Ministry of Industry rashly start hydropower station projects.
Now we need to play with thermal power in a low-key manner, supplemented by a few wind power projects. There is no need to build hydropower stations for the time being. It is better to be exposed to the heat than to be directly washed away by floods.
The power shortage in many cities in the Yangtze River Delta region is relatively easy to solve because the Lianghuai Coal Mine is nearby, and fuel supply problems can be alleviated by increasing mining volume and increasing the number of shipping operations.
Refined oil imported from the Ottoman Empire can also be transported upstream via tankers and supplied to areas as far west as Wuhan.
The coal problem in the Pearl River Delta must be solved by transporting coal from the East Indies. The displacement of freighters engaged in sea transport far exceeds that of water transport, so the unit cost of transportation is naturally lower.
The advantage of this area is that large and medium-sized cities are relatively concentrated, all located along the Pearl River. Quanzhou, Xiamen, Fuzhou and other places are all coastal cities, so it is more convenient to obtain fuel supplies.
Generally speaking, winter in Lingnan is relatively easy. What is really sad is that people in the areas along the Yangtze River have no heating at home and the outdoor temperature is not high.
In winter, the roads will still freeze, and crashes are common. In strong convective weather, there will also be heavy snowfalls. Rescue and disaster relief must be carried out every winter.
The governor's offices in southern Zhili, Jiangxi, Huguang, Sichuan and other places have already petitioned to install heating in residential buildings, and the court has approved it. However, this is a big project and cannot be accomplished overnight.
Emperor Haojing hoped that those people who couldn't stand the heat would move and settle in the northern region, where they would have cheap and complete heating in winter and not be too hot in summer.
It doesn’t matter if the people find it too far away, Emperor Haojing has prepared a very close summer resort for everyone – Three Cities!
It is the place upgraded from the original Twin City Guards. Three Cities is a place name, but it generally refers to an area, not a city.
It is mainly composed of North City (Shuangchengzi), South City (Vladivostok), and East City (Nakhodka), with the latter two cities being coastal cities.
Because Emperor Haojing led the royal division to conduct a landing operation in the east city, the bay was also called Haojing the Great Bay (Peter the Great Bay).
In the future, the imperial court will focus on the construction of the three-city area. The port in Dongcheng is a military port and is also one of the important anchorages for the North Sea Fleet.
Nancheng's port is used by both military and civilian people, and it is also the largest port nearby. Nancheng is the largest city in the region.
Compared to the sweltering southern China, the highest temperature in Nancheng in summer is only over 20 degrees, which is perfectly suitable for summer escape.
Zhu Cixiang has been to the area many times and has a deep understanding of the situation there. The construction of a summer villa area can be said to be a very good real estate project.
So far, most people who have been there have praised the local climate. Coupled with the low prices, it has become the first choice destination for southerners to escape from the mainland.
The current resident population in Nancheng and its surrounding areas is about one million, which is still half the distance from Zhu Cixiang's small goal. However, as time goes by, there will be further growth.
Regarding this aspect, Zhu Cixiang is not blindly confident, because there are good reasons. The local electricity price is much cheaper than that in the mainland because it is close to the Jixi coal mine and can be transported to the 30% area via railway.
With sufficient fuel supply, heating in winter will naturally not be a problem, not to mention that the seaside is warmer than inland.
The local seafood prices are also very attractive. As long as you get a job with a stable income, maintaining a living will not be a problem.
Anyone who is willing to move to the local area will have work arranged by the court. Different from the mainland, where there are two days off every week, eight hours a day in summer and six hours a day in winter.
Full tax exemption for the first five years of employment, half tax for the next five years, and full tax only after that. A woman can enjoy one year of paid maternity leave for her first pregnancy, nine months for her second pregnancy, and six months for her third pregnancy.
For babies born locally, the mother can receive fifty silver coins in milk powder at a time after the baby reaches three months of age.
If you don't want to work, you can farm in the countryside, and the treatment you will enjoy is roughly similar to that in other places in the North.
If the family has money and moves there just to enjoy life, then the court will welcome them even more... These wealthy people are pure consumers, and one person's consumption can be worth hundreds of poor people.
In the local area, there are restaurants, teahouses, inns, casinos, shops, hospitals, pawn shops, cinemas and other service facilities.
If it weren't for the convenience of handling some affairs in Beidu, Zhu Cixiang would have wanted to move the summit to Nancheng.
Isn’t it the best of both worlds to have a meeting and escape the heat at the same time? A certain fat house prince inspected the local development situation on behalf of a certain royal brother, and the results were quite satisfactory.
I stayed there for two months. It can be said that the local climate is very suitable for some fat people... After rapid development, Beidu has already become the largest city in the world, and some problems that plague super cities have also emerged. .
The most typical problem is traffic congestion. High temperatures and heavy rains in summer will cause traffic jams, and the greater the snowfall in winter, the more traffic jams will occur.
The more people buy cars in Beidu, the worse the traffic situation in Beidu becomes. The convoys of heads of state coming to attend the summit had to pass through closed sections of road so as not to be blocked on the road.
Fortunately, the old city and the new city in Beidu are separated by the middle city. If they were next to each other, some cars would be stuck in traffic jams for several hours.
Vehicles traveling from the old city or the new city to their destination would rather take the roundabout road with less traffic volume rather than crossing through the central city.
The reason is that there are many cars and the road seems narrow, not to mention that there are traffic jams, accidents, blind people walking in the wrong direction, and direct collisions with people.
What's even more terrible is that there are some
"Skilled" female drivers, those who turn on headlights and windshield wipers during the day, and those who don't pull the handbrake when parking, or who don't distinguish between left and right, are all gods... Emperor Haojing could only laugh at this, We have seen this kind of thing too many times. Those who are ordered to be detained will pay for their lives!
The reason for this is because an armored unit had to take the highway when transferring to other places. A certain female driver dared to cut in line with her car and even dared to drive away from a tank. After the report was reported, it made people laugh and cry!
Zhu Cixiang was speechless for a long time after looking at it. Do you know what kind of car the other party is? Aren't you afraid that your car will be rolled into a sardine can?
In the end, after many protests, the imperial court could only order the relevant yamen to raise the driving license test threshold and strive to screen out those candidates who did not have driving skills and awareness... After Zhu Cihong said these things to Louis XIV, His Majesty the European Emperor also felt deeply I feel the same way, because French female drivers perform no worse than their counterparts in the Unknown Empire.
People can drive their cars directly into the Seine River in the Paris section, and they think it's because the signs are unclear and the responsibility has nothing to do with them... In order to strengthen the management of drivers, France also specially introduced them from the Ming Empire. According to the latest regulations, the content formulated by the province is always exploited by drivers.
When Louis XIV saw the thousand-meter-long traffic jam in the capital of the Ming Empire, he finally sighed that the traffic in Paris was still very good.
But he has no plans to move away from the Palace of Versailles. There is no traffic jam where he lives because it is in the countryside.
On the other hand, the more traffic jams a city has, the more developed its economy will be, otherwise transportation would have to rely on walking... According to economists' estimates, the economic scale of Beidu City is equivalent to that of a small country.
The economic scale of the two or three provinces in the Ming Empire was approximately equal to that of a medium-sized country. This is a very surprising thing.
What's even more frightening is that the economy of the Ming Empire's overseas territories is also booming. The Gold Coast in Australia and Long Beach in the United States have become large cities with a population of over one million.
The advantage of a large population is reflected at this time. Of course, France also has big cities such as Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Turin, Milan, Madrid, and Barcelona.
But in overseas territories, there are simply no big cities with a population of one million. This is closely related to the climate in mainland France. Since the mainland is very livable, why should we settle overseas?
Especially after France annexed Spain and Portugal, this situation became more obvious...
