Homo sapiens.

Chapter 178 Transportation
Hong Shavadi.

The eastern part of Kayin State is the junction of Hongshawadi and Siam, where there is a border river between the two countries-Dangweng River.

The river is also one of the tributaries of the Salween.

Before the Dangweng River was a boundary river, Qingye Group only dredged it to allow the upper limit of its ships to reach the 500-1000-ton class.

It's different now.

Because Siam has become the control area of ​​Sapiens Corporation, the boundary river naturally exists in name only.

The river channel, which had already been secretly explored, was blocked by a large amount of earthwork at this time, and the river was temporarily diverted to another location.

After the earthwork was blocked, a large number of excavators and transport vehicles were busy on the evacuated part of the river.

The Dang Weng River Dam is at the heart of the project.

After Liu Zhifan and Wu Nan cut the ribbon for the following, they were interviewed by the TV stations of the two places respectively. They were busy until noon before they ate together.

The place where the two of them ate was in the small town of temporary employees of the construction team, on a flattened mountain platform, standing on it overlooking the entire construction site.

"Although it is a temporary town, the infrastructure and service facilities are quite complete." After Wu Nan finished speaking, he picked up another chicken chop.

Liu Zhifan smiled: "The company has plans for large-scale engineering projects. This kind of project requires thousands of employees. There is no problem in building a new town. Anyway, here will also need to build a city in the future."

Since there were no other outsiders in the private room of the two of them, Wu Nan spoke more freely. He looked at the river construction site outside the floor-to-ceiling windows:

"The project is planned for three years, isn't it too late?"

"Don't rush, we have used new technologies, such as coral cement that does not require much maintenance, and iron-bamboo steel wire composite reinforcement, and the most important crack repair technology."

Wu Nan frowned, and put down the fork in his hand: "Another new technology?"

Su Jincheng, the chief engineer of the project, introduced to Wunan: "Well, during the construction process, even if there is no rush, cracks are common problems, especially for integrated dams, cracks are almost inevitable. question."

"And our coral cement is no exception. Although the maintenance can be reduced, cracks will still appear. Because in recent years, we have hurriedly launched a lot of hydropower stations, many dams have a lot of cracks due to improper construction."

Su Jincheng paused, took a sip of water:

"Therefore, the headquarters has developed a set of special crack repair technology in response to this problem. The core principle of this technology is to use genetically modified fungi, plus a special silicate and calcium solution, to allow the genetically modified fungi to grow in the cracks, and then form a bond. extremely strong calcium-silicon layer."

Wu Nan is very interested in this technology: "Does this technology also have the effect of repairing cracks in old reinforced concrete buildings?"

"Yes, as long as it is a crack-type damage, it can be quickly repaired in this way. Its bonding strength is much higher than that of the original concrete structure. After all, this is a molecular-level bonding." Su Jincheng nodded.

Liu Zhifan even said with a smile: "If it weren't for the fact that the unit cost is 2.7 times that of concrete and there is a risk of leakage, the company would have planned to use this method to build buildings."

"It's not bad. The combination of coral cement and iron-bamboo-steel wire composite reinforcement allows us to build quickly. In fact, three years is the time for installing hydraulic turbines, ship locks and other equipment in the later stage. The main body of the building only takes about 18 months." Su Jincheng added. road.

"Does it only take 18 months? This speed is really too fast, and technology is indeed the primary productive force." Wu Nan sighed.

You need to know the real data of the Dangweng River Dam, but there is a big discrepancy with the data they announced on the TV station.

The entire Dangweng River Dam adopts a gravity dam design. The length of the dam body is 1832 meters, and the height of the dam crest is 156 meters. It is a smaller Three Gorges Dam.

Its maximum water storage height is 132 meters, and its daily water storage height is 100 meters.

This is not the most critical point, the most critical is the navigable ship lock on one side of the dam, which is designed as a double-line 4-level ship lock, and the upper limit of the maximum passing ship is 2 tons (1000 standard container ships).

But the two announced the figures on the TV station, but the tonnage of the largest passing ship was only 3000 tons.

Obviously this is deliberately concealing from the outside world.

The reason for this is mainly to reduce external pressure.

Because the upper reaches of the Dang Weng River and the largest tributary of the Chao Phraya River in Siam - the Bin River, the minimum distance between the two is less than 20 kilometers, only separated by a low mountain in the Thanoin Thawong Mountains.

After the dredging of the river is completed in the future, as long as this mountain is dug, the two rivers can be directly connected.

At that time, the voyage of ships below 3600 tons from Yangon to Bangkok and Chiang Mai will be shortened from 4200 to 700 kilometers to 1000 to [-] kilometers.

This is why Liu Zhifan specially invited Wu Nan over.

If the navigable capacity of the entire canal is to reach the upper limit of 2 tons, Siam must also simultaneously transform the Chao Phraya River so that it can be seamlessly connected.

As for why the Kra Canal was not dug.

The main reason is that it is not necessary now, and there is also huge external pressure.

The existence of the Strait of Malacca itself involves intricate interests and strategies.

Once the Clark Canal is excavated, it will definitely attract the attention of America, and Xingdao will even be directly hostile to the Clark Canal.

Therefore, at this stage, the Kra Canal is not necessary.

After all, Homo sapiens has now controlled Malaysia, at least a quarter of the sovereignty of Malacca.

Siam is connected to Hongshawadi by land, and can connect Luzon and Malaysia by sea, so the Kra Canal does not need to be too anxious.

On the contrary, the Dang Weng River-Chao Phraya Canal is more important, because it can promote the integration of Hongsawady and Siam, and drive economic development along the route.

After all, this canal connects the northern inland of Siam, making the Thanointhaung Mountains, which originally blocked the traffic between the two sides, a smooth road.

The Daang Weng River dam is now being built to dredge the upper river, and the Chao Phraya River dam in Siam is for the final connection of the two rivers.

After Wu Nan knew about the plan, his expression was both excited and apprehensive:

"Mr. Liu, there is no problem with dredging the dam and the river, but it is easy for the eyes of the sky to see the part of the mountain range that is excavated in the Nyainthawong Mountains."

"Don't worry! They won't see it." Liu Zhifan replied confidently.

Wu Nan's eyes widened: "How can it not be detected? Even if it is covered with camouflage cloth, the satellite can detect the abnormality through the reflection band."

Liu Zhifan wiped his mouth, pushed the dinner plate aside, and then patted Wu Nan on the shoulder: "Let's go over to the site together next month to have a look, and tomorrow the construction team will go over to check the site."

"Mr. Liu really likes to show off." Wu Nan was tickled.

Liu Zhifan shook his head: "Seeing is believing, and you may be confused by the specific technical principles."

"Okay! Then I'll wait and see."

The group rested overnight in the employee town, and returned to their respective posts the next day.

And the other side.

The sky had just turned white, and the special engineering team, which had already packed up its equipment, boarded a dozen small 500-ton transport ships and headed towards the upper reaches of the Dangweng River.

Although it is the dry season, the Dang Weng River can still allow 500-ton ships to sail after dredging.

That low mountain ridge is in the middle of the upper reaches.

(End of this chapter)