Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2264 Pampa (38)

513 Pampa (38)

A considerable part of the road from Mingfu County to Luoyang Prefecture has been opened to traffic.

Because it communicates with important manufacturing cities, important river ports and the new capital of the country, this traffic artery known as the Luoming Highway is a veritable first-class national highway.

First-class national highways, according to the standards of the east coast, are roads connecting the capital or important cities and special lines for national defense.The width of the road surface must not be less than seven meters - of course this is a theoretical value. Some first-class national roads actually do not meet this standard, but Luoming Highway is obviously not one of them - it is divided into sidewalks and driveways, with a total length of more than [-] kilometers. It is the most important and only traffic artery between Fu and Bianhe.

A large number of willow trees are planted beside the drainage ditches on both sides of the road. Because of the rapid growth, this will be quite impressive, which is pleasing to the eye.Pu Shitang and his party rode in a specially rebuilt passenger carriage, driving on a straight asphalt road—in fact, it is not completely straight, the road has a slope of 7% as required—it is light and fast, which makes people feel Intuition this kind of travel is simply a kind of enjoyment.

The only thing that makes people uncomfortable is probably that there is no physical separation between the sidewalk and the driveway, causing many pedestrians to cross the road at will, ignoring the carriages approaching at high speed, swaggering, unhurried, so angry that you want to go down and whip he.That's fine, of course, but you'd be mad if you saw someone crossing the road with a herd of cattle and sheep.On a good first-class national highway, the traffic efficiency is often seriously delayed by these things, which is also helpless.

But you can't mess with these people yet.Just like the shepherds driving a large herd of cattle and sheep that Park Shitang and others met on the road, you have to wait for them to pass first.Otherwise, if you hit someone's livestock, you will have to pay a lot of money.No compensation?What do you think agricultural cooperatives do?This is not only a production and management organization, but also a grassroots solidarity organization with strong cohesion. Just wait to be surrounded by a group of angry villagers.

"The cost of building the Luoming Highway is huge. The asphalt is either shipped from the Caribbean Sea or bought from a chemical factory, and the cost of laying is very high. Street trees on both sides, drainage ditches (both clear and hidden), Bridges and so on will cost a lot of money. Considering that the railway will be built between Luoyang Mansion and Mingfu Port in the future, the standard of these roads must not be low, and they must be able to pass construction vehicles, which further increases the cost. Inside the carriage, the accompanying officials from the East Bank carefully explained to Park Shitang the various aspects of the Luoming Highway.

The design width of Luoming Highway is seven meters, and the actual effective width is six meters. The designed load capacity is: 12 tons of steam rollers, and 500 kg of personnel load per square meter, in order to facilitate the construction of railways in the future.The construction of the entire road is basically based on local conditions. Areas with rich stone materials are paved with stones, and cement or asphalt is used for paving where there is no stone. In short, one principle is to minimize unnecessary expenses and repair the road.

Pu Shitang nodded silently.In his opinion, these roads are good enough, and North Korea cannot find a better road than this one, not even close, the gap is not usually large.Moreover, he could see that the construction of these roads cost a lot, which was not affordable by North Korea, so he just looked at them with a strange look, but he didn't really care.

After driving for several hours, the convoy encountered a section of unhardened road surface, where a bunch of engineering vehicles and personnel were working.Like roller compactors, scrapers, bulldozers, etc., Park Setang has never seen a lot of equipment, or even imagined it. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is an eye-opener.

These devices are basically driven by small steam engines, so they are very heavy and may encounter many difficulties when walking on dirt roads, so you can now understand why people on the east coast have to build this road first, and then The Malaysia Railway project has been launched, and it is all linked together.

The labor component of building roads is very complicated.Among them are farmers from nearby settlements, who come to do odd jobs during the slack season to earn cash income, and there are also a large number of non-national laborers. The term "non-citizen" was only understood by Park Shitang after he arrived on the east coast.In his cognition, non-nationals are also divided into two classes. The first class is white indentured slaves or blacks from the Old World, and the lower class is Indians or Mestizos. People with aboriginal ancestry have a particularly low status and have always undertaken the most dangerous and heavy physical labor.

There are many Indians on the road construction site in front of him. Pu Shitang doesn't know where they come from and whether they are voluntary.He knew that the East Coast had been "ruled" for decades, so most of these Indians came from other places, and most of them were taken captive by the East Coast people.But so what?Even the Koreans have done it to bully weak and small nations.Back then, the Jurchens lived in difficulty in northern North Korea, and North Korea repeatedly sent out large armies to conquer them. In the end, some were expelled, some were killed, and some were enslaved.Otherwise, how do you think their border was pushed to the banks of the Yalu River?It's not snatched from the Jurchens!Therefore, even though he was a Confucian, Park Shitang still didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the conquest of the Indians by the People's Congress on the East Coast, and there was no turmoil in his heart.

It took them four days to finish the journey of more than 400 kilometers.Fortunately, along the way, the people on the east coast had already established many settlements, and there were many engineering teams, so it was more convenient to buy fresh water and maintain vehicles, so they finally arrived at the Shendu District of Luoyang Prefecture on the evening of the 15th.

Shendu District is still relatively desolate.Because the New Capital Development Leading Group spent a lot of money on Beicheng District, other districts were more or less "short for growth".Among them, Nancheng District is not bad, at least there are blocks that the Spaniards have already prepared, and the upper management also allocates more than 20 yuan for repairs and renovations every year.Coupled with the fact that it is defined as a commercial area, social funds from all walks of life rushed to build buildings and museums, and improved some road surfaces along the way, so the city seems to be passable.

The distance between Yuquan District and Luoyi District is a bit.The former is slightly better, because Luoyang University, Army University, Academy of Natural Sciences, and Engineering Technology Research Institute—these three were all relocated from Dongfang County as a whole. Needless to say, the local area has lost a considerable number of high-paying jobs—— Driven by the construction of a series of teaching and research institutions, the scene is not bad.But Luoyi District, which is defined as an office area, has really made no progress. Except for some roads and apartment buildings that are slowly being built, there are no landmark buildings, which is very shabby.

Of course, there is no good news for Luoyi District.I heard that Oleg Naryshkin, a well-known real estate businessman on the east coast, has received a preferential loan from the Southern Railway Bank. Coupled with the large amount of funds he owns, the second Naryshkin Building in the country will be built in the future. It rose from the ground in Luoyi District.I heard that this office and commercial building is eight floors high and covers a very large area. Once it is completed, it will definitely become a landmark building in Luoyi District and everyone will be amazed by it.

Compared with the two districts along the Yuquan River, the construction of the Mingjing District in the mountains to the west is slower, and it still focuses on agricultural production.As for the leisure and health facilities that were hyped up in the past, the foundation has just been laid, and it is still too early to be completed.The reason is still inseparable from the cost factor.The transportation here is really inconvenient, the cost of transporting various building materials is too high, and the construction cost is not low. The developer must carefully weigh it and control his own expenses so as not to cause financial pressure-you spend a lot of money Isn't it funny that no one comes to consume after finishing the work?

Well, now we are going to talk about the last district of Luoyang Prefecture, which is also the largest district, Shendu District.Well, in fact, there is nothing to talk about. It is a barren land with grass all over the ground, which is unsightly.Whether there are 3000 people living here is a question, but it is really inconspicuous that they are scattered over such a vast area.The mules and horses market, which was originally located in Nancheng District, was moved here. It is regarded as the largest source of income in Shendu District. Customers who travel from east to west, from south to north, gather here to rest, buy and sell livestock, and occasionally trade some low-value goods. That's it, nothing special.

If Shendu District really wants to develop, the higher-level relevant departments have to officially start the plan of the transportation equipment manufacturing base, that is, to relocate some of the R&D and manufacturing businesses of carriages, trains and other special vehicles to drive the local manufacturing industry, so that the economy can be justified. There will be improvement.I heard that the Ministry of Communications is planning to set up a factory and research and development institution here to specialize in the research of power systems using new liquid fuels, so as to improve the level of transportation equipment on the east coast.The current steam engine-driven tractors, roller compactors, bulldozers, etc. are so heavy that they cannot go to many places, or even if they go, they will lie down at every turn.Historically, after the steam tractor was invented in Europe, it was basically a commercial failure, and it was only used on a large scale in a small part of the central United States in the world. The main reason was that it was too heavy, so it had to be It can only be walked on hard land, and it is very land-destroying, which really does not arouse the desire of farmers to purchase it.

The steam vehicles on the east coast also cannot get rid of this pattern.The weight is too large, the reliability is not strong, the land is destroyed, etc., making its sales very limited.Therefore, it is imperative to study a new power core and reduce the overall weight.Therefore, if the research institutes and factories moved to Shendu District and achieved some results, it would indeed boost the local economy more than anything else, and it could even be said to be decisive.

Park Shitang's delegation really had nothing to see in Shendu District.Therefore, they only stayed for one day, and then went to the North District of Luoyang Prefecture, the core center of the future East Coast Republic. They visited the construction of this urban area planned according to the "Millennium Plan", and were amazed by it.

The city cannot be built in disorder, and it cannot grow wildly. It must be well planned in advance. This is the deepest impression Park Shitang got here.He couldn't help but think of Hanyang City, which was messy in planning, cramped and cramped. Compared with Luoyang Mansion, it was really shameless.But the east bank is a modern country, a heavenly motherland, and it is normal for North Korea to be inferior. I can only say that I will learn slowly and improve slowly in the future, provided that I have money to improve!

After spending three days carefully walking around the northern city, they crossed a newly repaired steel structure bridge across the banks of the Luo River—this almost made them stare blankly again—and went to the southern city to have fun They spent two days and purchased a batch of books, clocks, musical instruments and other rare things in North Korea.

At noon on the 22nd, they left Nancheng District and returned to Shendu District.Here they bought some Laschek horses suitable for walking in the mountains, and packed their luggage.Next, is the arduous journey across the Andes.The hard work along the way, the accompanying people from the east coast have already said goodbye to them. At that time, they will follow an official transport team, pass through a low pass in the west of Cordoba, and finally arrive in Chile. All the best!

(End of this chapter)