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However, Li Xuan knew that the diversion of the Yellow River was not easy to do, it was difficult to say, and with the current technical strength of the empire, the risk was also very high.

If there is an accident, then the trouble will be big. The Yellow River is not a small river, but a big river. Once an accident occurs during the diversion process, the Yellow River does not flow through a certain area according to the predetermined plan, but a gap occurs in some areas. If there is an accidental diversion, a large area will be affected.

And the scale of the disaster will definitely be the worst since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

This is also the reason why the empire would rather invest huge sums of money every year to maintain flood control projects in the lower Yellow River and Huai River and other areas, rather than divert it.

But Li Xuan knows that this will happen sooner or later. In the past, it was only technical ability, especially the large-scale construction ability was lacking, but now the construction ability has gradually improved, and it will take a while, especially the development of internal combustion engine technology matures. , when a large number of construction machinery appears, it is much easier to carry out large-scale infrastructure construction.

When the time comes to take the initiative to manually divert the Yellow River, the main preparatory work is done well, so it can be said that it can be done.

Large-scale infrastructure construction, especially such a project with a huge amount of earthwork, is not impossible to rely solely on manpower, but the time required will be very long.

Today, the Empire is building a canal in Panama, and the construction is basically dependent on manpower. Today, there are more than 100,000 people working on the canal construction site, and the mortality rate is extremely high. Every year, tens of thousands of people die...

This thing is completely taking human life to fill!

This is why the Panama Canal Company only recruits indigenous laborers.

If the people of the Empire died so much while digging the canal, all the management of the company would probably be shot dead.

The Egyptian Suez Canal, which the Empire is currently negotiating with the Ottoman Empire, does not matter what the follow-up negotiations will be, but it is expected that when the construction is due, it is estimated that it will be in the same model as the Panama Canal. It is to act as some managers, and it is estimated that even a supervisor will not be a supervisor.

But in the mainland, you can't do anything. If you haven't seen the Datang Railway Corporation build a railway, you have to be honest. You never dare to take human life to make progress. The only exception is criminals.

After all, there are very few prisons in the empire, so there are not many criminals who can get the chance to go to jail. Most of the sentenced criminals, except for the direct shooting of the death penalty, the rest are basically exile.

There are local exiles here, as well as overseas exiles. For local exiles, there are multiple modes, but in the past 20 years, they have been dispatched to remote and dangerous places to build railways.

If they are exiled overseas, they are sent to uninhabited overseas territories, such as the Alaska region of North America in the Arctic region, where there are not many natives, except for ice and snow.

There are other areas with harsh environments. Those islands not only have a harsh natural environment, but even the natives in some places are very ferocious. They eat people just like eating. No one wants to go to normal immigrants.

For the colonial development of these places, Datang often adopted special methods, exiled criminals to colonial development, and dispatched labor recruitment teams from several large labor service companies to perform escort, clean-up tasks, and so on.

As for ordinary immigrants, the imperial government will not send them to these broken places for immigration.

Of course, if you take your own initiative to immigrate to these places or go on adventures, etc., the imperial officials will not object, and even welcome them. Some places will even give you free weapons for self-defense.

It can be seen from this that the empire still cares about the life and death of its people, but it does not treat its own people as consumables and send them overseas to immigrate like some colonial countries, completely disregarding the huge casualties in the process of immigrant development.

This is the case overseas, not to mention in China.

When some large-scale projects are to be carried out, although it is also a tactic of human resources, it is absolutely not dare to engage in tactics of human life. When an enterprise engages in engineering, the death of a worker is a work-related injury, and a large amount of money must be paid to the family of the worker. If it is because of the management of the enterprise The casualties caused by the cause, the patrol police came to arrest people in minutes.

Because this is a 'production accident crime', it is against the law!

The huge and incomparable project of diverting the Yellow River, relying on the current technical means is very difficult and risky, Li Xuan will naturally not start it rashly.

So after approving Chen Lifu's document, Li Xuan called in his accompanying secretary: "How is the progress on the internal combustion engine now?"

The accompanying secretary in front of him heard this question, but he had a bad secret. He knew about internal combustion engines, but he hadn't paid much attention to internal combustion engines.

Seeing his expression, Li Xuan knew that this entourage did not know very well, but Li Xuan didn't say anything. His own entourage secretaries were also very busy people. They were busy helping Li Xuan with various important matters every day. There is little time to pay attention to the details of a project.

Immediately, he said, "Go and understand the current progress of the internal combustion engine project, and then report it!"

The accompanying secretary immediately said, "My minister follows the order!"

Each of Li Xuan's four accompanying secretaries is very busy and naturally won't handle these matters himself, so he didn't stop after he went out, and directly called a second-class secretary under him: "Song Tao, take me here. All the information on the internal combustion engine project has been collected, and a report will be made, which will be read by His Majesty in the near future."

Song Tao immediately stood up and said, "Don't worry, my lord, I'll start preparing now!"

Song Tao then immediately began to rush to collect data manually, but the data of the Hanlin Academy was not perfect. After collecting and sorting out, it was found that it was all old data from a few months ago~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and this is obviously not feasible.

This is the information to be shown to Your Majesty, and it's all old information.

Immediately, he dispatched another third-class secretary to Hangzhou overnight. There is the first and largest internal combustion engine manufacturer in the empire. Although they are still producing gas engines, they are still not internal combustion engines.

As for Song Tao himself, he went out with his subordinates and planned to personally go to the Internal Combustion Engine Laboratory of the Royal Institute of Technology to inquire about the situation.

In the afternoon, Song Tao and his men arrived at the Royal Institute of Technology in a carriage from the Hanlin Academy.

If it is other places, with the big three words 'Hanlin Academy' on the carriage and the pass, then it can pass without hindrance.

But at the Royal Institute of Technology, Song Tao still had to produce a document issued by the Imperial Academy to prove his identity and explain his purpose.

Otherwise, he wouldn't even be able to enter the gate of the Royal Institute of Technology.

Entered the Royal Institute of Technology, found someone from their school office, and was taken to the steam engine laboratory.

When I just arrived, before entering the door, I heard a strange sound coming from the inside, a bit like a steam engine, but not like it.

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