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Since diplomatic means will not work, then Datang is ready to use military means. The navy has already prepared several combat plans. Once it is actually mature, it is estimated that the military will implement it.

Compared with the troubles of the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal is much simpler, and it has already entered the preliminary construction stage.

Because Datang had already reached a deal with Spain before, Datang could build a canal in Panama and have sovereignty over a range of 20 kilometers on both sides of the canal.

Because of this agreement, the Panama Canal area officially belongs to Datang.

After Datang got this place, it was preparing for the construction of the canal, but the construction of such a huge canal was not a matter of one or two days, and the preliminary survey took a lot of time.

The subsequent construction is also very troublesome.

In order to dig the Panama Canal, the Datang Empire specially established the Panama Canal Company, which is invested by many large domestic enterprises and has loans from the Royal Bank.

At the same time, it also cooperated with the American Labor Service Company, and the specific construction was carried out by the American Labor Service Company.

After all, Panama is located in a relatively remote place, and the construction of the canal is a high casualty project. The empire will not organize hundreds of thousands of workers from the country to run over to dig the canal. It can only hire local labor.

Originally, the Datang Empire also considered building a canal in Nicaragua, but the Spaniards did not agree, because this place was further north than Panama, which also meant that it was closer to Mexico, the core area of ​​the Spanish colonies in the Americas.

The Spaniards are also afraid that Datang will go south and go north, and finally swallow the whole of Mexico.

At the same time, considering the engineering difficulties and other issues, the Panama region was finally chosen to build the canal.

However, even though construction has started now, the progress is actually very slow, and it is estimated that it will take more than ten years or more to complete.

Now the Datang Panama Canal Company is busy killing the local mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes in that place are too powerful, and the resulting yellow fever and other diseases are quite serious. Nearly 10,000 workers were killed or injured in just half a year in the early days.

Although the American Labor Service Company also generously stated that this casualty is nothing, as long as the project continues, they can organize more labor from more places in minutes.

And no salary!

When the Canal Company declined, they came to persuade them several times.

Speaking of which, don’t slow down the progress just because of the mosquito control. What I have is, let’s continue to engage in crowd tactics. Anyway, you don’t need to pay pensions or anything, not even wages. What are you worried about?

In the end, the Canal Company was annoyed. The death and injury of these indigenous workers is none of our business. However, dozens of employees of our company died of illness in just six months, and many of them were technicians.

Pensions are trivial matters. The most important thing is that the pressure of domestic public opinion is extremely high, and their reputation is stinky. As soon as they hear that they are going to work in Panama, they immediately shake their heads. The grumpy ones will even yell at their recruiters to get out on the spot!

It's hard for their company to recruit staff in the local area.

So recently their focus has been on killing mosquitoes, and they have also consulted a number of scientific research groups at the Royal Institute of Technology.

Some professors of the Royal Institute of Technology have been researching anti-mosquito drugs. Several anti-mosquito drugs have been developed, and the effect is not bad, but the production cost is high and the price is relatively expensive. Can be applied on a small scale.

But for the sake of the canal, they couldn't care less about it. They spent a lot of money to buy a lot of drugs and went to the local area to kill mosquitoes...

According to the estimates of experts and scholars in the empire, the construction of the Panama Canal will take more than ten years even if everything goes well, and it may take twenty years if one fails.

Therefore, for a long period of time in the future, ships traveling between the Atlantic and the Pacific will still only be able to bypass the Strait of Magellan. However, in order to facilitate communication between the two sides of the strait, the American Affairs Office has already built a dirt road in this isthmus in advance to operate across the strait. The isthmus's long-distance stagecoach, and then there are also port boats on both ends of the canal.

This can be regarded as an initial relief of personnel exchanges and a small amount of material exchanges between the east and west coasts of North America.

The digging of the canal is very troublesome, and it takes more than ten years at every turn, so whether it is the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal, don't expect it in a short time.

At present, Datang's ships travel all over the world, but it is very troublesome to go around Africa and South America.

The longer the voyage is, the more time it takes for the round-trip luxury liner to travel around the world, and the tickets for the few luxury liner will naturally be in short supply.

However, these are nothing to the Palace Affairs Office. They have the wealth and wealth to directly package the New Atlantic.

This is not the first time they have done this kind of thing. In the past, when royal family members traveled, most of them used similar methods.

For example, when a few princes were in North America a few years ago, the palace affairs office not only chartered ships, but also a whole fleet. As for the **** of warships, that is a matter of the military, and it has nothing to do with them. .

Sometimes the feudal lords who were in other places traveled to and from the mainland, and most of them also adopted the mode of direct chartering.

Of course, people will not give less money, on the contrary, they will give more. After all, this will affect the normal operation of the shipping company, and it is necessary to give some appropriate subsidies.

Anyway, the royal family is not short of money, it's just a boat, how much money can be spent, the royal family's assets under the royal family have a lot of money.

Compared with all kinds of expensive investments, these daily expenses are not worth mentioning.

The New Atlantic arrived in Ceuta soon. After the ship arrived in Ceuta, the New Atlantic was maintained in Ceuta on the spot, but some officials from the Palace Affairs Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Secretariat that accompanied it as a welcoming mission have already The first step is to take the ferry to Cadiz.

According to the plan~www.wuxiaspot.com~ the welcoming embassy will go north from Cadiz, go to Madrid to read the canonization edict, then return to Cadiz after receiving Elizabeth, then arrive at Ceuta, and finally return to Datang on the New Atlantic.

The Spaniards also attached great importance to this pick-up, and sent hundreds of well-dressed troops to Cadiz to greet and **** them early.

However, the people of the Tang Dynasty have always had little trust in these indigenous troops, and the mission will not hand over their safety to them, but will bring their troops to greet them.

Among them is a company of Guards, and the troops stationed in Europe will also temporarily send a battalion to accompany them.

After leaving the embassy district of Cadiz, the embassy did not even dare to enter the city of Cadiz.

Not afraid of the Spaniards, but afraid of entering the native city and contracting infectious diseases.

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