Before moving others, move yourself first!
Liberate them and send them back to their hometowns as free men.
Zhu Xianhai, who had proclaimed himself the liberator of slaves, even picked up a map himself in the following days and chose a suitable landing location at the mouth of the Congo River.
In fact, just use doctrine directly.
What about Brazzaville? What about Kinshasa? Whether they are Belgians or French people, they must have their reasons for choosing there, and it can develop there, which shows that their choice is right.
After having the experience in Nanhua, when planning again, it was naturally easier and easier to do without. Of course, during this period, he also came into contact with several scholars who knew about Africa, and he was happy to learn from them that Europeans were very familiar with Africa.
Africa is simply... not interesting at all!
It’s not that there is no interest, it’s because of diseases and other reasons that Europeans view Africa as a fearful journey. Of course, all this will change in the next ten years, facing the reality that the world has been divided up, coupled with the advancement of medical technology
, the Europeans finally blew the clarion call of conquest into Africa, the last borderless land.
But right now - Africa is still ownerless.
Well, actually you can’t say that, there are still some in the area... But according to the standards of this era, can those barbarians... be considered masters?
"This is to prepare for the liberation of millions of black slaves!"
Finally, after lightly drawing a stroke on the south bank of the lower reaches of the Congo River, Zhu Xianhai couldn't help but sigh, we went to Africa not for colonization or expansion, but for the liberation of black slaves!
However, this requires a long period of preparation work, such as preparing ships, collecting rubber seeds from Brazil, and even training the black slaves.
Great careers sometimes start so inadvertently, but even the most magnificent facts are essentially based on interests.
rubber!
Everything starts with rubber, but Nanhua's first street light circuit did not use expensive rubber wires, but the most common rubber-coated wires.
As usual, in the early morning, as soon as it was light, Zhu Zhenwu went down to the sewer of Zhuque Street with his workers carrying bamboo pipes. As the first street in Nanhua, Zhuque Street is also one of the widest streets. Not only is it nearly 100 meters long
wide, it also has the most modern sewer system in South China.
In fact, the 1850s and 1860s were the era of large-scale sewer renovation in Europe and the United States to reduce the spread of diseases such as cholera. Before that, what did the sewers in Europe and the United States look like? The better ones were ditches on the roadside, and the worse ones were just ditches on the roadside.
The water is discharged directly on the street, and the sewage flows like cars and horses in the center of the street. After flowing for a considerable distance, it enters the sewer. The overflow of sewage in the street not only makes it difficult to travel, but also brings about the epidemic of diseases such as disorder.
Both Paris and London suffered from sewage and disease. In 1858, Chicago even raised the entire city nearly ten feet to build underground water pipes.
In fact, Nanhua was the same at the beginning, just digging a few ditches on the roadside to fill with sewers. However, when city planning began in 1861, at the suggestion of several European engineers, Zhu Xianhai was determined to imitate the large-scale sewer pipes built in Europe.
Due to the relatively high altitude of the system and the fact that the city was first built, sewer pipes were dug out and covered with soil before being covered with soil.
However, in the early planning, only Zhuque Street had a large sewer planned. However, after Araucanía returned, Zhu Xianhai changed his mind - not because all kinds of new things can be installed in the large sewer - running water, cables and wires, etc.
Gas and so on can be stuffed into this huge sewer.
The more important reason is war!
In the simulator, the British and American navies attacked Nanhua. Although they did not attack Nanhua, the shelling caused a lot of casualties. In the simulator, only a few main street sewers and building basements in Nanhua could escape the shelling.
, in most places, citizens have nowhere to hide when faced with shelling.
In the era when there were no subways, the spacious sewers were the best air-raid shelters. Therefore, with the support of Zhu Xianhai, engineers from the United Kingdom and France took advantage of the terrain characteristics of South China, which is high in the northeast and low in the southwest, and learned from Paris and London.
As well as the successful experience of Chicago and other places, we designed a plan to discharge domestic sewage to the suburbs, and established a relatively complete set of technologies for the development, removal and maintenance of sewer systems.
The sewer on Zhuque Street is very spacious, with a drainage channel about 3 meters wide in the middle, and sidewalks about 1 meter wide on both sides for maintenance personnel to pass. Now, Zhu Zhenwu and the others are fixing bamboo tubes to the sewer wall along the sidewalk, and wires are connected from the bamboo tubes.
This is not only to protect the wires, but also to mark the wire routes. After all, the bamboo tube is marked with the route number and the corresponding street.
Although it is in the sewer, there is no peculiar smell here. Listening to the sound of running water, after fixing hundreds of meters of bamboo pipes to the wall, Zhu Zhenwu would occasionally involuntarily stare at the sewer in a daze while resting.
He asked, looking at the closed iron gate at the sewer intersection of Taiping Road and Zhuque Street.
"Uncle Li, what is this door for?"
Under the light of the oil lamp, Li Mingquan took a look and said.
"Isn't there something written on it... read it carefully."
"Taiping Road 113 War Ready Room...what is this?"
"What the heck is that? You don't understand. This war preparation room is in the basement of No. 113 Taiping Road. If during a war, the people dive into the sewers, they won't have to worry about artillery fire, but there will still be a war.
Ah, you haven't seen it. Our building on Nanhua Road has a three-foot-high half-story below. The walls are two feet thick. Guns and cannons can't hit them. The soldiers beat people from the basement and through the windows. I told you.
You, don’t look at our Nanhua as a city, but when it comes to fighting, this Nanhua is just a... Well, what is it? A fortress, yes, a fortress!"
Li Mingquan even pointed at the street sign and said.
"Look, there are no street signs here. They are all the same on the ground and underground. Just follow the street signs and you won't have to worry about getting lost. The most important thing is to wait for the war. Even if there is a lot of artillery fire outside, we don't have to worry about staying here. I
Let me tell you, even the fort at Nanhua Bay is nothing more than that!"
fortress!
A fortified city, of course, is a fortified city in a certain sense, but it just builds more sewers, but these sewers are given a certain special meaning...
This chapter has been completed!