Valley Emperor

Due to the harsh natural conditions of the Panama Canal, the casualty rate of construction workers has remained high in the early days, forcing the Panama Canal Company to spend a lot of energy on improving the local natural conditions.

In order to dig the canal and reduce the casualty rate, the Panama Canal Company directly cooperated with several major domestic chemical companies to develop specialized pesticides, herbicides and other specialized drugs, which were sprayed directly along the canal in large quantities.

But even so, the work of digging the canal in this place is still very difficult.

At present, the main project of the canal has not been completed. Even the people of the Tang Dynasty have accumulated over the years, and at least hundreds of people have died in this ghost place.

You must know that when people from the Tang Dynasty came to work here, they basically acted as managers and technicians, and the treatment in various aspects was not comparable to those of the workers at the bottom.

But disease is a thing, regardless of whether the Tang people or the natives, those who should be sick will still get sick, and those who get sick will still die.

The Tang people themselves have died so much, and even more are the casualties of those indigenous workers.

Fortunately, they all signed contracts with several labor service companies, and several labor service companies have been working hard to maintain at least 100,000 workers in the canal project. Otherwise, the canal would not be able to be dug at all.

The casualties caused by serious diseases have directly caused the progress of the canal project to be not great. That is to say, the canal company later gritted its teeth and spent a lot of money to purchase chemicals, directly spraying various chemicals in a large area indiscriminately, and at the same time from the domestic Applying for the use of various types of large-scale steam and gasoline engine machinery is the only way to speed up the progress of the project.

But so far, the Panama Canal Company has announced an estimated opening time that will take at least three years.

If it is successfully opened three years later, not only the shipping in the Americas will be more convenient in the future, but ships going to the Americas will be able to travel directly to and from the east or west coast of the Americas through the Panama Canal.

This will further stimulate the development of shipping in the Americas, while further strengthening the empire's control over the Americas.

From this perspective, the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal both have equally important strategic roles and are the core strategic locations for the empire to control the world.

There are also several natural straits with the same strategic role, such as the Strait of Malacca, the Strait of the Black Sea, the Strait of Gibraltar, the English Channel, and the Denmark Strait.

The Datang Empire, especially the Datang Navy, likes to control these strategic places, directly control these places, carry out immigration, and establish military bases for complete control.

The most typical example is the Black Sea Strait. For this strait, the coastal areas of the strait were cut off from the Ottoman Kingdom, and they didn't even care about eating.

You must know that the Datang Empire has paid more attention to eating in recent years, and it is rare to say that it will directly forcibly occupy a certain place.

Most of the time, the Datang Empire is more inclined to spend money to buy, or to exchange benefits with other conditions.

Colonies in America and Eastern Europe are typical products of this policy.

It seems that the purchase cost money, but in fact, the money for purchasing land is nothing to the huge Tang Dynasty, and it can also return funds through other channels such as military procurement. In the end, it is much cheaper than fighting to win. .

Eastern Europe is a direct exchange of benefits, so the cost is lower.

However, on the issue of the Black Sea Strait, the Tang Empire took very tough measures. It seemed to be a peaceful negotiation and finally purchased, but in fact it was done by staring at other people's foreheads with guns. trade.

It tastes a little ugly!

This also proves that the Datang Empire attaches great importance to these straits.

These straits represent routes, and routes represent global maritime hegemony, and the further extension of global maritime hegemony is global control.

This is why the Imperial Navy has been sparing no effort to control these strategic locations.

It can even be said that this has become an important policy for the navy to maintain a sense of presence in recent years. Otherwise, even with the support of the prince, it would be difficult for the navy to persuade the majority of citizens to continue to maintain its scale. Such a huge navy.

Today's Datang Navy is enormous in scale.

There are more than 150 warships of more than 1,000 tons in total...

But the problem is that so many large-tonnage warships are usually useless, and they will also cost a lot of military expenses.

As for maritime safety, in fact, some hundreds of tons of offshore patrol ships and even inland gunboats can complete these tasks.

However, the Datang Navy still maintains a large-scale ocean-going fleet, even if there is no clear threat at present.

And the prince has always been a firm supporter of the navy to maintain the scale.

why?

This is naturally to guard against overseas territories.

No one knows this, but everyone knows it.

But in fact, the size of the current main fleet is much smaller than in earlier years. Seven or eight years ago, the size of the ocean-going main fleet of the Datang Imperial Navy reached its peak, and the number of warships of more than 1,000 tons exceeded two Hundreds, this is not an auxiliary ship such as various supply ships.

In the next few years, through the upgrading of warships, a new generation of warships with more advanced combat power, better endurance and higher combat efficiency gradually replaced the backward old frigates and cruisers. This number is gradually reduced to One hundred and fifty ships now.

The current Datang Navy has entered a stable stage as a whole. Battleships and armored cruisers are maintained at a total of 16 ships as the main battleships. This main battleship is the core strategic deterrent force of the navy. The core naval base, at present, these main ships are only stationed in the mainland, the four major ports of Malacca Port, Ceylon Port, and Pearl Harbor. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

In overseas areas, the presence of the navy is manifested by a large number of cruisers and frigates. The scale of these two types of ships is relatively large, and the total number is nearly a hundred.

In daily life, part of it is overhauled and maintained in the local area, part of it is on the way to the predetermined sea area, part of it is on patrol in the target sea area, and part of it is on the way back.

Because of the need to patrol the global waters, this number is really not enough.

But, in fact, it is not these ocean-going warships that deal with the indigenous people on weekdays, but more of those small offshore patrol ships and inland gunboats.

However, in the future, if you want to effectively deter those feudal lords who have evil intentions, Prince Li Hao believes that these main battleships are still needed.

This is the purpose of Prince Li Hao's support for the Navy to maintain its scale and continue to upgrade!

The enemy of the Datang Navy has never been an indigenous person, but his own!

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