"Mr. Qingyang, I recently went to investigate and found that there is no way to mine the canal."
Qin Changfeng sighed. The order to mine the canal was given by Liu Zheng.
He is not questioning Liu Zheng's strategic vision. Indeed, after being opened here, the route distance from the Pacific to the Atlantic can be greatly shortened.
Played a vital role in the fight for the Americas.
However, after his investigation, he found that the land there was at least ten meters higher than the sea level, and even more than twenty meters higher in the planned area.
He took out the plan for the canal and after spreading it out, Qing Yangshuo looked at it carefully.
"This place is called the Isthmus of Panama by the locals. According to the plan of Lord Shouxian, our river is going to penetrate here, but Lord Qingyang, look at it."
Qing Yangshuo frowned slightly, looking at the place where Qin Changfeng pointed, his brows became tighter and tighter.
You can see from the map that there are still mostly forests and mountains here.
If it is to be mined, the forest is not the focus. The main thing is mountain rock, which is hard and difficult to mine.
In addition, Qin Changfeng said that the land there is nearly 20 meters above the sea level. If the mining method of the Suez Canal is followed.
All these twenty meters of rock must be dug out to reach the same height as the sea level. For the canal, the water depth must be at least twenty meters.
So speaking of it, they have to dig this rock to a depth of at least forty meters.
"I didn't expect the terrain here to be so complicated."
Qing Yangshuo has not personally surveyed the Isthmus of Panama. Long Yan has already dug several canals and has rich experience.
But I didn't expect that mining this canal would be several times more difficult than before.
Qing Yangshuo originally thought that such a canal would be dug soon, but now it seems that he has overthought it.
"Mr. Qingyang, if it were just this kind of problem, I wouldn't come to you. The most important thing is that most of the places we want the canal to pass through are Spanish colonies."
Spain?
Qing Yangshuo was stunned. He didn't expect that the country that was once the overlord of the world and the first country to colonize would now reach the southern part of America.
"Have you ever exchanged opinions with them?"
Qin Changfeng looked startled and recalled that he saw the Spaniards when he was mining the canal.
Although I didn’t understand what these people were saying, I could tell from their body language and raised middle fingers that they were scolding them.
Moreover, they have weapons in their hands and want to give Qin Changfeng a try.
Qin Changfeng exchanged opinions fiercely with these Spaniards.
The result was that three of the Spaniards were killed and two were seriously injured, while Long Yan suffered no major losses and ran away in a mess, shouting something while running.
"Um, we have communicated." Qin Changfeng said with a guilty conscience.
Qing Yangshuo's order to him was not to be too public and let the French and British know about it.
In the Americas, Longyan's territorial power is too small and it will take some time to develop.
Qing Yangshuo glanced at Qin Changfeng and shook his head. Now that the matter had come to this, there was no point in blaming him. He looked at the map of Panama and pondered.
Seeing that Qing Yangshuo didn't mean to blame him, Qin Changfeng breathed a sigh of relief.
"General Qin, what do you think of Spain now?" Qing Yangshuo said calmly, still looking at the map.
Qin Changfeng was stunned for a moment, then thought for a moment and continued: "The local indigenous people are still Indians, but they are very afraid of us. But since I took a group of Indians to build the city."
"Probably after they discovered the difference between us and Spain, they were actually willing to help us build cities, especially after we broke up a pair of Spaniards a few days ago, and some Indians even moved to live nearby."
Qing Yangshuo nodded: "The world is as dark as crows."