Boliva personally led the Ming army into Boliva city.
In the name of the king, all subordinates and subjects are required to surrender.
After the news spread, the order in Boliva City stabilized.
Because Ming Dynasty accepted the surrender, there should be no more bombing.
Then, in the next few days, the Ming army gradually took over Boliva City completely.
All soldiers and residents in the city were given numbers in order and taken out of the canyon in groups.
After marching 150 kilometers eastward, we took a river boat on the Cement River and went to sea along the Cement River.
Once you reach the estuary, transfer to a sea boat and go directly to the Panama Canal construction site.
Most of this march was by water, and the survival rate of these half a million residents must be higher than that of the prisoners of Sun Martin Kingdom.
For the captives in Sun Martin Kingdom, it was not that Ming Dynasty did not want them to take the waterway, but that the local waterway conditions were too poor.
It is too dangerous to enter the swamp directly. The river in the swamp is like a nine-turn ileum, and the wasted route is too long.
To get around the swamp, you have to walk hundreds of kilometers overland before boarding a boat.
Calculating the distance, we have actually traveled more than half of the land route.
The old and the weak who will die on the road will die within a few hundred kilometers and will not last long enough to board the ship.
It would be better to just take the overland route to the end.
Zhu Di Jin, the manager of Panama Royal Villa, and Wang Jinpeng, the great engineer of the Yinzhou Canal project, had returned to Panama at this time.
The canal project has officially begun.
Of course, they must be informed in advance that the two groups of rebels, Boliva and Sun Martin, finally surrendered and all the prisoners were sent to dig canals.
Both of them were shocked when they received the news.
Then they were all overjoyed.
Wang Jinpeng rubbed his hands and said happily:
“More than 500,000 people from Boliva came by water, and most of the population should be able to reach Panama.
"Sun Martin's side...as long as they give you enough food on the way, you should be able to get more than half of it.
“That leaves us with nearly eight hundred thousand captive laborers.
“Coupled with our own workers in Ming Dynasty and the laborers recruited from other regions, there will be a total of millions of laborers.
“With proper planning and deployment, it should be completed within five years, maybe even three years.
“The key point is that most of them are prisoners and forced to work. They don’t need to be paid, they just need to eat.
"That should leave a lot of engineering costs."
Zhu Zhujin is also very excited. If the canal can be opened to navigation as soon as possible, he will be able to achieve a great success as soon as possible.
After hearing Wang Jinpeng's words, Zhu Zhujin nodded excitedly in agreement:
"Yes, so our current goal is to ensure completion in five years and strive to complete it in three years!
"However, what Mr. Wang said is not completely right. We may not even need to give these captive workers food.
“It is impossible for hundreds of thousands of people to go to the construction site in the early stage, so some people can be allocated to open up wasteland on both sides of the canal first.
“After the canal project was launched on a large scale, the young and the strong were left to dig the canal, while the old and the weak were left to farm.
“This is the tropics, and the temperature is enough to harvest three crops of rice a year.
“After the reservoir is built, there will be no water shortage during the three months of the dry season, and farming can continue.
“Or plant two crops of rice every year in the rainy season and one crop of wheat in the dry season.
“We keep clearing land and planting all the time, and we farm cyclically throughout the year, so there is no slack season.
“Self-sufficiency in food should be achieved within a year at most.
"This way we only need to pay workers in Daming."
Wang Jinpeng thinks Zhu Zhujin’s plan should be feasible:
"The boss is wise, so we can use the wages of 100,000 people to do the work of millions of people..."
Wang Jinpeng and Zhu Zhujin became energetic and immediately split up to re-plan their tasks.
Wang Jinpeng calculated the amount of work.
The entire canal route is about 80 kilometers, and it is expected that there will be 800,000 laborers able to work in the future, excluding the elderly and the weak.
On average, there are ten workers per meter of canal.
This makes it impossible to work in groups of two, or even three or four.
Instead, the entire canal was excavated simultaneously.
The total earthwork volume is estimated to be around 500 million, which will be divided evenly among 800,000 workers, with each person receiving 625 cubic meters.
If equipped with a handcart, each worker should be able to push one or two cubic meters per day.
If we simply count the earthwork in this way, it can even be completed in one year.
If such a canal were dug in the Great Plains, it could really be completed within a year.
In a special historical period, without large-scale construction machinery, a group of people relied on shovels and wheelbarrows to dig 1.7 billion earthworks in three years.
A large number of water projects have been built and a large number of flooded rivers left over from history have been managed.
But in the tropical rainforest of Panama, the biggest problem in allowing the project to reach this speed is the infrastructure and tools surrounding the canal project, including roads, dams, explosives, vehicles, food, etc.
There are 800,000 people. On average, there are ten people per meter of construction site. But if these people can't get in, spread out, or even have shovels to dig the soil, then there's no need to talk about work.
There might even be one person working while ten people watch.
So within three to five years, half of the time may be spent preparing infrastructure and tools and materials.
At the same time, when the infrastructure and tools are ready and the work efficiency of the 800,000 workers is basically brought into play, the amount of earthwork in the project itself is not particularly important.
At that time, if the work is in good condition, the standard of the canal can even be increased further.
To further widen and deepen it, we can even consider digging double lines to allow simultaneous traffic in both directions.
Wang Jinpeng and Zhu Zhujin once again adjusted the canal project plan.
Zhu Jingyuan once again looked at the entire Nanyin Continent as a whole.
The "Bosun Rebellion" that lasted for more than ten years has finally come to an end, and the situation in Nanyinzhou has finally stabilized.
The entire Nanyinzhou continent was finally completely under the control of the Ming royal family.
Nanyinzhou is the hottest and humid continent on earth.
More than 80% of the area is in the tropical and subtropical range, and 20% of the area is in the temperate range.
The tall and narrow mountains are located on the westernmost side of the continent, allowing the entire continent to trap warm water vapor from the Atlantic Ocean.
The cold snap from the east can only affect a very narrow area on the west side of the mountains.
Areas with an annual rainfall of more than 1,000 millimeters across the continent account for more than 70% of the continent's area.
It is the second-to-last continent in terms of continental area, but among the top five rivers with the largest runoff volume in the world, Nanyinzhou ranks third.
The most outrageous thing is Yajiang, a super-sized river, with a runoff equivalent to the second to tenth place combined.
Nanyinzhou is the continent with the least desert except Antarctica.
It is also the continent with the highest forest coverage rate.
Most of these forests are virgin jungles and there are no sparse plantations.
The tropical rainforest in Nanyinzhou is not limited to the Yajiang River Basin.
There are also primeval forests in the northwest of the continent, in the Panama and Colombia regions, and on the southeastern coast of the continent.
Much of it is also tropical rainforest in nature.
Nanyinzhou has one-fifth of the world's forests and half of the tropical rainforests.
The world's second industrial revolution has just begun, and efficient logging tools like gasoline saws have not yet appeared.
In the past, manual logging had relatively limited damage to the original forest.
The original forest area of Nanyinzhou is now one-third larger than that of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.
At present, more than 60% of the entire continent is virgin forest.
The forest area is estimated at 10 million square kilometers.
These forests would be wasted in an agricultural society and would not be used up for thousands of years.
Historically, after entering industrial society, almost one-third was cut off in more than a hundred years.
Now Zhu Jingyuan is engaged in rainforest protection in the League of Nations.
The protection of the Mozhou Rainforest is supervised by the Ming Dynasty, and also by the European and Western countries supervising each other.
The protection of the Nanyinzhou rainforest was decided by Ming Dynasty himself.
Zhu Jingyuan decided to completely retain the rainforest in the Yajiang River Basin as a royal forest farm, and completely prohibit logging.
The forests in the southeastern coastal areas and northwest regions are subject to selective and controlled development, prohibiting traditional slash-and-burn cultivation.
The Ming Dynasty does not need to develop these virgin forests in the short term.
The grasslands of the Milky Way Basin, the grasslands of the Brazilian Plateau, and the grasslands of northern Venezuela can easily accommodate five or six billion people.
As industrialization and urbanization accelerate into cities, the fertility rate will continue to decrease.
The tens of millions of people in Nanyinzhou now may not be able to reproduce five or six billion people.
On this basis, Zhu Jingyuan reorganized the overall planning of Nanyinzhou.
After taking complete control of this continent, how to integrate the entire continent into one, truly manage and utilize it.
Historically, the United States truly integrated the two oceans after the east-west railway was connected.
For Xintianfu, it is not just two oceans, but also connecting the north and the south.
However, compared with the United States in history, Xintianfu has a huge disadvantage. The rainforest in the central part is insurmountable.
But there is also a huge advantage. New Tianfu completely controls a continent.
Mexico, which has no protruding obstructions, and the Yinzhou Canal is also under construction, can rely more safely on shipping.
The existing mature areas of Xintianfu are basically located near the coast.
After the opening of the Yinzhou Canal, the entire Xintianfu area was naturally integrated.
The development direction in the next few decades will naturally be planned along the coastline.
Except for the navigable Milky Way River Basin, we will not expand too much inland for the time being.
In the early days, maritime transportation was the main focus. As industrial production and construction capabilities improved, attempts were made to build roads and railways around the continent.
Zhu Jingyuan thought about it himself, recorded the main ideas, and then went to Cining Palace to find Zhu Zhongliang.
Specially and formally reported to the old man the news of the capture of "Bosun's two thieves" and the official end of "Bosun's Rebellion".
By the way, I briefly talked about my thoughts on the development plan of Nanyinzhou Xintianfu.
After Zhu Zhongliang listened attentively, he seemed to be very satisfied and nodded.
Then he didn't express any opinions on this matter, and opened his mouth to ask about topics that were completely unrelated to these things:
"How is your garden planning going? When will the construction officially start? I'm still waiting to move in.
"I also heard that you were planning to design a yacht yourself when you were in the Big Food Country, but why don't you believe it now?
"Before you came to Xintianfu, you said you wanted to take two concubines here, but there's been no movement."
Zhu Jingyuan's expression was one of astonishment.
I was originally going to discuss strategic planning with my grandfather and hear what he thought of his ideas.
As a result, he skipped the big-picture business.
Ask yourself directly about the garden and the yacht.
Just like the entrepreneurs of later generations, I went home and told my parents a lot about strategic plans.
As a result, my mother didn’t accept this kind of topic at all. When she opened her mouth, she asked about the house, the car, and the wife.
Zhu Jingyuan was stunned for a while before changing his mind.
From strategic layout to personal life.
"You can't rush into taking a concubine. My age is at stake here. It would be better if I did it a little later."
Zhu Zhongliang fully understood what Zhu Jingyuan meant, and was worried that the concubine he was taking now would be older in a few years and would suffer a disadvantage in giving birth to children.
But the old man can always find the reason to break the excuse at the right angle:
"Then you can take in the younger ones now and raise them at home for a few years before having children, just like the Orchids around you.
"It also saves your prince and his concubines from getting pregnant, and you have to waste your experience on those orchid girls."
Zhu Jingyuan opened his mouth and tried to explain but finally gave up:
"What you said makes sense. I'll go back and plan, prepare, and think about it..."
Zhu Zhongliang immediately said:
"Stop thinking about it. If you think about it, you won't believe it. I've completely seen through you.
"Three years ago I asked you if I wanted to introduce you to the princess.
"You told me to look for it yourself first, and it turns out it's been more than three years.
"I just keep a toy outside and have never seriously looked for a woman at all.
"On the contrary, you are willing to accept the prince's concubine arranged by the clan's mansion, and the Hu Ji as a gift from others.
"So I will arrange this for you, just wait."
Zhu Jingyuan was speechless by Zhu Zhongliang's words.
I have been doing whatever I should do in the past three years, and indeed I have never personally gone to find my wife.
In my subconscious mind, I should have intended to meet by chance.
Occasionally, he meets a girl who makes him attracted, and then he tries to find a way to get her to go home and become a princess.
Three years ago, when I just told Zhu Zhongliang about this matter, I was just a grandson of the emperor, or at most a prince.
According to my status and situation at the time, I did have the opportunity to meet him by chance.
But then the situation quickly changed, and my identity became more and more special.
The people who can get close to me now have been screened many times.
I spend most of my time in the palace reading documents, and rarely go out except to inspect farms and factories.
I have never had a hobby of running around or wandering around.
Under such circumstances, how could I accidentally meet a teenage girl?
This thing seems completely unrealistic.
After Zhu Jingyuan was silent for a few seconds, he said resignedly:
"Then you can make arrangements, but instead of choosing the princess, choose the prince's concubine. I'll wait for the princess myself..."
Zhu Jingyuan still didn't want to give up and wanted to wait and see.
Zhu Zhongliang said with a wide smile:
"Is this right? Since you don't have time yourself, you have to find someone to help.
“Others will choose the ones that suit your preferences and send them to you based on your requirements. In the end, it’s up to you to decide which one you want.
"There is actually no difference between this and you...looking for it yourself.
"Then what about the yacht? How did you plan it?"
