Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 287 Impossible, this is absolutely impossible
1909 was a peaceful year for the world, but it was the year of Xuantong for Daiqing.

The countdown can already be counted in days.

Since the birth of Wang Shouliang's eldest son Wang Wufang on January 1, the cooperation with the Dutch has been pleasant. Faced with the subsequent wave of congratulations from the major powers and within China, the prince's mansion has been lively for a month or two.

This year was the period of great immigration outbreak for the Sihai Escort Agency.

Among the four provinces of Canada, Sarawak is dominated by Sibu and Kuching, and Sabah is dominated by coastal cities or archipelago cities such as Kota Kinabalu, Tawau, Lahad Datu, and Semporna.

Eastern California Province is dominated by offshore and coastal cities such as Samarinda and Balikpapan, while Western California Province mainly includes cities such as Pontianak, Singkawang, and Samfa.

A series of more than a dozen coastal areas, not to mention future development, are aimed at the reconstruction model and expansion of Sibu Harbor City and Sibu Plain City to accommodate immigrants.

If you walk around the waters of Kalimantan, you can connect all the cities.

This area of ​​more than 47 square kilometers is composed of offshore base cities and inland development models.

Sibu is the fastest-developing city. It already has urban agglomerations and more than 200 million immigrants. It builds roads and relies on various fuel and steam power to tear down tropical rainforest and convert it into rice fields, rubber, oil palm, cocoa and other cash crop plantations.

Fortunately, new era bureaucrats such as Bai Xiongqi and Jin Quan who were transformed from the old traditional gentry... more or less have their own abilities.

Sibu and Kuching, the two most important cities in Sarawak, have no shortage of waterways, but land routes are also essential. The waterway between the two places is only more than 300 kilometers apart, but building roads is another matter. Detours and repairs are another matter. Bridge etc...

It would take nearly 25 hours to run a free truck at a maximum speed of 20 kilometers per hour. The Pearl River T can run at a maximum speed of more than 70 kilometers per hour, so the speed is much faster. It can be completed in six or seven hours one way.

The cement road, which can only accommodate two free-wheeling trucks in both directions, took more than two years to complete.

The roar of the engine passed by. Sitting in the back seat of the Pearl River T, Cao Yun was amazed, "Although there are still many rainforests and forests on the roadside, you can occasionally see farmland and plantations."

After this new round of large-scale recruitment expansion, the elite soldiers and escorts belonging to the Sihai Escort Bureau, plus the Security Bureau, have reached the 20 mark among the elite sea and land soldiers under the Sihai Escort Bureau.

Starting from the city, one plantation after another, coupled with highway and river transportation, the Chinese are crazy about infrastructure and have the attributes of farming emperors. In this era, they are creating another new miraculous landscape in the four provinces of Canada.

In the land of four provinces, each province has at least one operational handling office with a land division of 1.3 people, and each province has at least one fleet with 4200 people.

The Sibu-Kuching highway is more than 400 kilometers long.

Wang Shouliang is a bit busy as the governor of four provinces. He is also based in Shanghai and travels to eastern Guangdong, the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta, North China and the Northeast Plains.

"This is more than 400 kilometers one way. Many villages and towns can be born along the way, right?"

This was also the acceptance process when the highway was first built. As the governor of the four provinces, Wang Shouliang personally took the guards on a trip to take a look.

In the summer of 1909, a huge convoy was driving on the Sarawak Coast Highway. The convoy consisted of more than a dozen Pearl River Ts and more than Liberty trucks, which could be called luxurious.

After all, this is land, and the Sibu-Kuching highway requires land reclamation and clearing of tropical rainforest, including road construction across rivers. When encountering mountains, it requires detours or the construction of short tunnels.

Railways also need to be built, but it is not too late to start railway construction in the 10s.

As early as September 1906, at the earliest stage of the development of Siwu, he, Luo Sanpao and others arrived in Kuching for the first time. Later, Lao Luo was left to preside over the earliest immigration and development on the island.

From now on, 6.88 land and water elites will be permanently stationed in these four provinces.

That will all have to wait until the inland areas of the four provinces of Canada are developed into counties and large towns, and then it will not be too late to build them. The shipping traffic between offshore city groups is enough to support the earliest exchanges.

Recruitment for the escort agency is also essential!

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In addition to the large multi-million immigration plan planned by Canada in 09.

Wang Shouliang smiled and nodded, "A one-way journey of more than 400 kilometers is enough to provide rest and supplies for long-distance convoys and to create a number of commercial towns."

“And in the future, we will have more and more cars!!”

Now is no longer the time for manual DIY. As early as the summer of 1907, the Baoan Automobile Factory and the Shanghai branch could produce 20 Liberty trucks and 40 Xijiang light trucks every month. The savings for one year were 240 Liberty trucks and 480 Liberty trucks. Xijiang light truck, more than 700 vehicles.

In the summer of 08 last year, when Lu Yuesheng and other big brothers went to Tokyo to grab land, polyester mixed cotton spinning and solid fabric made an impact in East and Southeast Asia, the production capacity of the two automobile factories doubled again.

40 Free Trucks and 80 Xijiang Light Trucks are launched in one month, and after another year, the number of trucks is 1500. The Zhujiang Automobile Factory only produces trucks, and now it has about 3000 trucks.

Talking about Zhujiang T more, last summer, the two factories produced 500 cars per month, and the annual production capacity soared to 6000 cars.

This has significantly boosted demand for gasoline, diesel and rubber and nylon tires.

Not to mention the momentum generated by the tens of thousands of cars and thousands of trucks running across the mainland provinces. In the future, more and more immigrants will come to the four provinces of Canada, and there will be more and more oil refineries and gas stations.

The construction of offshore highway groups can lead to the birth of major cities, small towns and county-level units.

"The land distance from Sibu to Kuching is more than 300 kilometers, and the land distance from Kuching to Pontianak is about the same. Along the way, you can also pass through Samfa and Singkawang, which were the main cities of Lanfang Republic..."

"The best parts of Western California were already there. In the future, more people and more engineering vehicles will be needed to develop further inland."

This is an era similar to the great development of western North America. The Sihai Group only relies on the Sihai Group to pick up and transport disaster victims and refugees in the inland provinces, and the progress is still a bit slow.

The next moment Wang Shouliang considered, "I plan to open up the mining development in the four provinces. As far as I know, Western Canada has abundant bauxite resources. There are also some ownerless gold mines in the four provinces. As long as the gold rush is stimulated, , a crowd of people attracted by the mineral deposits."

"Even the birth of mining cities will rise one after another. This is a more brutal and vigorous growth than operating according to a group, designating transporters, and planning development."

Is the development of western North America possible without the gold rush? Why is San Francisco called San Francisco?
In the earliest days of Los Angeles, it was the gold rush that attracted generations of immigrants.

Is bauxite important? Even in the Genesis Plane of 1994, bauxite is still the second most important metal after steel. It has very important properties in the fields of national defense, aviation, automobiles, electrical appliances, chemicals, etc.

In addition to bauxite, Western Canada also has many gold mines, coal mines, iron sand mines and other resources.

After uninterrupted transportation in the first half of 1909, more than 300 million more immigrants have been sent to Canada. Combined with those who arrived before 09, there are currently more than 600 million Chinese.

Within the four provinces, Dayak, Malay, Madura, Java, Bugi, Bajau, Mutlu, Cocos and other ethnic minorities total only about 50...

600 million versus 50 have been completely transformed into ethnic minorities.

Not to mention the rich oil and gas deposits in offshore areas such as Sarawak and Tonga, the gold, silver, iron ore and bauxite mines in these provinces are just dazzling golden caves.

Cao Yun was stunned, "There is really a gold mine. Let the news be released and let people freely search and develop it? Will this be coveted by Yalun, Hansi Mao and other powers??" Wang Shouliang nodded, "Of course, but after the discovery of big gold In front of the mine, there shouldn’t be much of a problem, and they are all buried in tropical rainforests…it’s too difficult to develop.”

"It's not as attractive as a large bauxite mine."

At this stage, aluminum alloy has just been hailed as a flying metal, various airships and fighter jets have just been included in the most advanced arms race, and bauxite is in high demand around the world.

Whether aircraft are fighters, transports, bombers or passenger planes, they are far less important and even less influential than they were during World War II.

The world's first all-metal aircraft was born in 1915, 6 years later.

So everyone knows that aluminum and bauxite are good things, but their value and importance are still not as strategic as oil.

In the 19th century, aluminum was once much more expensive than gold!

In 1852, one ounce of aluminum was worth $34, and in the same year, one ounce of gold was worth $19.

But since the emergence of electrolytic aluminum technology in 1886, aluminum has begun to be commercialized on a large scale. Now in 1909, it is very common for both aluminum and aluminum alloys to be used in the manufacture of battleships, automobiles, and aircraft.

For example, in 1895, North America produced more than 450 tons of aluminum. Today, technological industrialization produces aluminum, and the annual production figure is more than the tons of oil pumped out of the oil fields.

Aluminum prices plummeted.

But this thing is still much more expensive than coal and the like, and it is not on the same level at all. For example, the anthracite coal from the island country only costs five or six oceans per ton when transported to Shanghai.

The price of aluminum is still more expensive than serious armor steel! A ton of armor steel costs about 100 pounds, which is equivalent to more than 1000 oceans.

Aluminum is still more expensive than oil, but it is not as strategic as oil.

This is still peacetime. When World War I and World War II break out, aluminum alloys will be in great demand for various aircraft during the war, and prices will skyrocket.

Kalimantan’s bauxite is a strategic resource that is much higher than ordinary iron ore and coal mines.

Wang Shouliang’s four provinces in Canada, the largest bauxite resources are Western Canada and Sabah.

After thinking for a while, Wang Shouliang said to the guard in the passenger seat, "Pull over and let the Liberty Truck radio broadcast. I will entertain the Governor of Malacca in Malacca at a banquet at the Kuching Palace tomorrow night."

They want mining development to become a North American-style western development craze in Canada. They actively attract a large number of Chinese immigrants to hunt for treasures and build various gold rush towns, such as San Francisco and Los Angeles in North America...

The attitude of the Yalun powers also has to be taken seriously.

Therefore, to draw Yalun’s attention away first, exploration data from the 90s showed that global bauxite reserves were 230 billion tons, and Australia had 79 billion tons.

Damn, a kangaroo country accounts for more than 3% of global bauxite resources!

Although the exploration results in the 90s do not represent the exploration results in the 21s, everyone knows that until the founding of New China, the whole of China was once known as a country without oil fields.

But regardless of whether it is true or not, this does not prevent Wang Shouliang from casually drawing a bauxite resource for Yan Lun in Australia and asking them to support Wang Shouliang in guarding the bauxite resource on the island.

Until the end of World War I, without Wang Shouliang's intervention, North America would have been a global oil giant and aluminum giant!
It can be said that North America really had too many advantages in the strategic resources most urgently needed by various world powers before and after World War I.

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July 1909, 7, Slight Heat.

As early as 1906, Kuching, the former capital of Sarawak, had a permanent population of less than 5. Now it has changed greatly. It is still the same densely populated rivers and bridges, just like the water world of Venice, with many new buildings.

In a Suzhou garden building covering an area of ​​40 to 50 acres, there are two running waters flowing through the interior. Small bridges, flowing water, rockeries and strange stones set off the houses full of Chinese style.

When night fell, street lamps and garden lamps lit up the light. The Governor of the Straits of Yinglun, Andersen, walked in and looked at the garden view. He couldn't help but sigh, "In the period of the outbreak of the steel jungle, Wang, Your Oriental Garden Villa is really a nostalgic place."

After such a long period of rapid development on the island, Kuching has transformed into a large town with a permanent population of more than 20.

Incomparable to Shanghai Beach and Sebu City, it is also pursuing the style of Guangcheng and Hong Kong Island before development. Kuching is also a water city located near the sea with freshwater rivers interspersed by it. It has the same climate as Xingjiapo. livable environment.

It's nothing more than the developable area, which is much larger than Xingjiapo.

Xingjiapo is an archipelago city with a total area of ​​more than 700 square kilometers. Kuching is developing all the way inland, which has a huge land area. The thousands of square kilometers it has opened up are just new urban areas that are not cities on the water.

Wang Shouliang smiled and smoked, "Andersen, my technology and that of Sihai's exploration team have improved a little. This time I invite you to discuss the development of a bauxite mine with an annual output of more than 2000 tons."

Andersen was confused, then ecstatic, "What do you want?"

As early as 1895, 14 years ago, North America's annual output of more than 450 tons of aluminum was already the strongest in the world, but this was in 1909...

You must know that in 1916, the annual global aluminum production was 10 tons! !
In 1909, the annual output was 2000 tons. It would not be too exaggerated to say it was large, but it was definitely not a small number.

Wang Shouliang smiled brightly, "I heard that you are developing a super-dreadnought?"

Andersen's face darkened and he shook his head hastily, "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible. If we only trade two or three dreadnoughts, we can still talk about it."

When the First World War broke out, Yan Lun invested about thirty dreadnoughts and super-dreadnoughts. So far, it has only traded one Kunlun to the Sihai Group.

There is also land reclamation in Sarawak and Sabah.

The super-dreadnought is really still in the design and development process and has not been built yet.

But it had been months since construction of the Titanic began! !

The next moment Andersen couldn't wait to ask, "Where is the bauxite? On our territory, or in disputed areas, such as Sumatra and Java in the Netherlands?"

Wang Shouliang nodded, "In your territory, there is no dispute."

Nobun Ande took a long breath, "I can help you get 3 dreadnoughts as much as possible, so that your big fleet will be the th Fleet, not the th Fleet that went to Tokyo last time."

Six dreadnoughts and nine Shikai-class pre-dreadnoughts!

This is a national war with North America to determine the ownership of the Pacific. It is best for both sides to finish together. Without a war, the Tsar will kneel down even if he comes back.

(End of this chapter)