Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 129 Songjiang Reservoir

  In the mountains

  A team of heavily armed cavalry marched along the mountain path. Because of the tall valleys on both sides, the cavalry on the march gave people a sense of insignificance.

  Li Fushou led his entourage to inspect along the railway line and came to this place after a long journey for more than ten days.

  "Mr. Lord, please come here."

  German-born architect Feuerbach-Kant stood on a rock halfway up the mountain and waved vigorously at the cavalry squad below, which was filled with uncontrollable joy.

  For a famous architect, the greatest sense of accomplishment is to create more magnificent buildings. In the eyes of the architect, every great building is alive, just like the Red River Valley Reservoir.

  Li Fushou looked up at the field survey team members standing halfway up the mountain. The height of the field survey was at least 700 meters. The steep path was hidden in the dense weeds, and it was definitely impossible to go on horseback.

  "Leave some people here to watch the horses, we hike up the mountain." After Li Fushou finished speaking, he jumped off the horse vigorously.

  "Finally, I got to the place, my **** was turned in half." Xin Changjun smiled bitterly and climbed down from the horse, and the guard next to him hurriedly gave him a hand, otherwise he might sit on the ground with soft legs and soft buttocks.

Pan Shoudao and Wu Mozhou, who were with them, are not much better. These mainland officials who are good at making sedan chairs come to the Australian mainland without a sedan chair to sit on, except for horse-drawn carriages and horse-riding.

   "Several Xiongtai, how do you feel about the magnificent mountains and rivers of the Red River Valley along the way?" Li Fushou's tone was full of pride.

  Wu Mozhou looked at Pan Shoudao, the two felt the same in their hearts, and both folded their hands and said;

"The land here is too fertile. You can squeeze out the oil with a handful of black soil, and you can plant the best crops by just sprinkling some seeds. It's a shame that it has been left unused for many years." Xin Changjun patted his hand. The mud, I really feel very emotional in my heart.

Not far away, a group of fat rabbits that were alarmed by the horse team ran out of the bushes and bumped into each other in a panic. Both of them rolled over, all four feet were still in the sky, each weighing six or seven catties, and the other hares were scattered and scattered. escape.

  The entourage just glanced at it, and indifferently began to tidy up the harness. Obviously, these wild rabbits couldn't attract them half interest.

  Looking at all this, Xin Changjun and others were silent.

  The creator loves this vast land too much. The coastal areas not only have plenty of sunshine and rain, but also the flora and fauna are flourishing. The wild animals in the forest are not afraid of people at all, and will run away happily until people come to the front.

  Farms of big fish in the clear lakes and streams, standing on the shore can knock them away with a stick. No one has caught them for countless years. A big fish weighs tens of kilograms at every turn, and two people can carry it away.

  Is it not enviable to have such a vast treasure land?

  Li Fushou excitedly pointed at the forest swamp in front of him with his riding whip, and said;

"The hilly area here is the place where several turbulent rivers in the Great Dividing Range must pass. Every time a flash flood occurs, it will overflow and form a vast watersse with an area of ​​hundreds of square kilometers. We call this place Hongze Lake. .

  Hongze Lake is a seasonal lake. After the water recedes in the dry season, it becomes a swamp area, and when the flood comes in the rainy season, it evolves into a vast lake.

  Several streams converge into a huge lake more than 10 miles away. We call it Taihu Lake. Songjiang Town is built next to the lake and has a unique geographical location.

  From Taihu Lake to the southeast, it forms a wide river, which stretches for more than 110 miles and finally flows into the ocean. This river is named Huangpu River.

  These familiar names contain our nostalgia for our homeland, and some of my brothers must also have feelings. We can still hear such cordial place names in this faraway mainland. "

  Xin Changjun, Pan Shoudao and Wu Mozhou nodded frequently, arousing a touch of homesickness for no reason.

  Experienced a trip to Europe

  These three pillars of the feudal bureaucracy, who have been in the feudal bureaucracy for many years, became the first elites of the Qing Dynasty to see the world with their eyes open. They have undergone tremendous changes in their ideology and mind and body.

  After returning to Australia, he once again saw the abundant resources in this vast and fiery land, and saw the resolute and resolute methods of the Queensland Earl, which convinced Xin Changjun and others, and prepared to do a big job with ambition.

  According to the arrangement;

  Xin Changjun was elected as the Queensland State Councillor, and was appointed as the mayor of Red River Valley, the vice chairman of the Red River Valley Group Development Promotion Association, in charge of all government affairs in Red River Valley.

  Fan Asheng was also elected as the Queensland State Councillor and deputy mayor. As Xin Changjun’s assistant, he manages the ever-expanding and prosperous Red River Valley City.

  Pan Shoudao was elected as the Queensland State Councillor, the vice chairman of the Red River Valley Group Development Promotion Association, one of the main staff of the Earl of Queensland, in charge of all judicial construction in the Red River Valley ranch territory, the Royal Mounted Police and the Coast Guard.

  Nan Huaiyu and Liu Shan, as his deputies, assisted Pan Shoudao to get familiar with the work as soon as possible, and control their respective forces.

  Wu Mozhou was elected as the Queensland State Councillor, the vice chairman of the Red River Valley Group Development Promotion Association, and one of the main staff of the Earl of Queensland. He is in charge of the economic development and planning of the enterprise within the group, coordinating all aspects of the relationship, discussing and formulating further development strategies.

  This inspection trip

  Li Fushou deliberately brought all three of them to let him personally experience the vast territory of the Red River Valley pasture, inspect first-hand information on industry, agriculture and animal husbandry, and tried his best to instill the importance of railway transportation.

  There is no coastal railway connecting the Pearl-Chain towns. These immigrant towns are just a pile of scattered sand, at best they are nothing more than larger pastures.

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  The trail up the mountain is steep and weeds are crisscrossing, and a group of people climbed halfway up the mountain with sweat, and their faces turned red.

  "Welcome, honorable Lord Earl, please come here to take a look. You will definitely be amazed by the magical workmanship of nature."

  Just climbed halfway up the mountain, before he had time to catch his breath, Feuerbach-Kant hurriedly pulled Li Fushou to see with his own eyes the site of the reservoir dam found by the field survey team.

Seeing that this person was so rude, Lei Xiao stood behind him, so he raised his brows and waited forward. Fortunately, Xin Changjun hurriedly called him; "Master Lei, this foreigner has no malice. He is an architect hired heavily by the master. "

   "I don't care what kind of architect he is, and if I dare to do anything to the master, I will chop off his dog's paws." Lei Xiao replied dullly, and then stepped forward to protect it.

  Xin Changjun was taken aback after listening, and shook his head with a wry smile.

  Master Lei Xiao’s skills are first-class high-strength, but his age is a bit too old, so he can only understand simple greetings in foreign dialects.

  He is an illiterate boss, it is impossible to learn foreign dialect, so he can only let him go.

  Master Lei Xiao’s three sons have laid the foundation since they were young, and their kung fu is better than one. Now they are all sent to the Red River Valley Affiliated Middle School to study.

  The so-called, every time the righteousness slaughters the dog generation.

  Originally, Master Lei Xiao was a loyal old man who had followed Gu Yanchuan for more than ten years, and he received Li Fushou’s thoughtful and meticulous arrangements. Let alone the gratitude in his heart.

  Stand on a raised boulder on the mountainside

  The vast scenery in front of you is unobstructed, which makes people feel comfortable from the body to the heart, and I can’t help but want to shout out to vent the joy in my heart.

  Look in the past

  The endless green mountain peaks extend to the end of the horizon. This is the boundary ridge that blocks the humid ocean climate and the inland semi-arid climate of the entire coast of the Australian continent.

The Great Dividing Range, which stretches southward from Queensland for nearly 2060 miles, runs through the entire state of New South Wales to the southernmost point of Victoria, and then twists to the northwest, like a super large "J" shape symbol.

  Da Feng Shui Ling divides the entire southeast coast of Australia into two. The stretch of mountains to the southeast are undulating hills and plains, with lush and lush water plants and crisscross streams. It is blessed with pastures and fertile fields.

  Dafeng Shuiling is like a high wall, blocking the abundant water vapor from the eastern Tasman Sea. The rainwater in the southwest of the mountains has dropped sharply, forming a semi-arid wasteland.

  Continuing to travel inland to the southwest, we entered the Gobi Desert. There are not long aquatic plants and thousands of miles of yellow sand. It is an uninhabited Gobi desert with an area of ​​4 million square kilometers.

   caught Li Fushou’s eyes;

   is a very wide range of valley terrain, forming a sharply narrowed canyon in the distance, and I don’t know how far it extends.

  A wide canyon river meanders from afar, rushing towards the southeast at the foot of the valley, it should pass through Hongze Lake and finally merge into Taihu Lake, and then flow along the wide Huangpu River to the Tasman Sea.

  According to field survey team investigation

The huge valley basin in front of us is more than 40 square kilometers in size. If the mouth of the canyon here is piled up into a reservoir, a large reservoir with a water area seven times more than the Red River Valley Reservoir can be built, and the water storage capacity can reach 19.6 that of the Red River Valley Reservoir. Times, contains extremely rich hydropower resources.

The reservoir here is different from the narrow first-line canyon reservoir in the Red River Valley, but spreads like branches. The huge valley area in front of you is the root of the tree. After the water is stored, a series of large and small lakes will appear in front of it, just like The trunk extends in all directions.

  The amount of water resources is amazing, and the amount of earthwork in the project is also amazing.

  Because the **** of the mountain in the dam site area is relatively slow, it is impossible to quickly build the dam by blasting to form an artificial barrier lake. Therefore, the construction period is at least 3 to 4 years, and the engineering cost is also quite amazing.

  Preliminary estimates are that the cost will be at least one million pounds and will be invested to catch up with the most expensive coastal railway project.

  Moreover, there are no coal mines and iron ore resources within a hundred kilometers nearby, and there is no long-distance high-voltage power transmission technology at this stage. This is a major current difficulty.

  Even if the dam is completed as scheduled, its main function is to regulate and store floods and generate electricity. Who uses such a huge amount of electricity? How can we play the best benefit?

  This is the problem of engineering feasibility demonstration.

  Looking at the magnificent mountains and rivers in front of him, Li Fushou was full of anger in his heart, quite a kind of lofty ambition of whoever controls the ups and downs of the vast land.

  (End of this chapter)