Chapter 721 Eight-Year Construction Starts! (Thanks for the Monthly Ticket, More Updates

Chapter 721 Eight-year construction, started! (Thanks for the monthly ticket, more updates!)

After all the construction work of the canal is completed, the next most important question is where will the workers for the canal construction come from?

Nearly 90,000 workers were mobilized when the Kiel Canal in Germany was built, and the Lake Eyre Canal will mobilize even more.

If the entire Lake Eyre Canal is divided into three sections and built together, the good news is that the construction time can be shortened exponentially, and the bad news is that more workers are needed.

For the source of these workers, Arthur already has a basic plan. The United States, which has just perished, actually has a large number of unemployed workers. These workers are not only a high-quality source of immigrants, but also can be used as labor in the construction plan of the Lake Eyre Canal.

By building the Lake Eyre Canal, a large number of unemployed people can be attracted from the eastern United States, and those suitable for immigration can be selected from them, so that they can come to Australasia with their families.

The construction of the Lake Eyre Canal is expected to mobilize 150,000 workers, which also means that 150,000 families will come to Australasia.

Even if each family has only 3 to 4 people, 150,000 families represent more than 500,000 immigrants.

Given Arthur's careful selection of immigrants, these 150,000 families must have been selected, and British immigrants were given priority.

When the canal is built, they can settle around the canal and prepare for the future development of the Great Artesian Basin.

Of course, these are just workers prepared for the excavation of the canal. Other construction companies will be responsible for the related facilities supporting the canal.

In general, the canal project is very large. Even if it is divided into three sections and built together, it is impossible to complete it without 5 to 8 years.

And with the development of the weight and volume of ships in the future, the canal may have to undergo a new round of widening, just like the Kiel Canal built by the Germans.

However, this is a problem that later monarchs should consider. According to the current design plan, the Lake Eyre Canal does not need to be widened within 20 to 30 years.

The Lake Eyre Canal is only one part of the construction plan. Although it is very important, it is definitely not the whole construction plan.

After discussing the construction plan of Lake Eyre, the government then launched other key construction projects, and launched several at one time.

Among these key construction projects, transportation construction is definitely a very important part.

It is worth mentioning that there is a familiar word in transportation construction, that is, the highway that is expected to be built first in Australia.

Of course, there is still a big difference between the current highway and 100 years later. As mentioned before, the current vehicles have corresponding speed limits in urban and suburban areas.

With the development of science and technology, the current speed of cars has been increased to a level far exceeding the speed limit.

But whether in urban areas or in suburbs, the highest speed limit is only 60 kilometers per hour, which has greatly limited the traffic efficiency of cars.

After discussion by the transportation department, the urban speed limit will not be changed for the time being, and the speed limit in the suburbs has been modified to a certain extent.

Of course, the biggest change is the highway proposed by the transportation department.

The highway is naturally a road specially used for high-speed driving. The current highway is not as complicated as in later generations, that is, it is a road that is paved as much as possible and wider.

The first batch of highways in Australasia will be built in Australia first, and will be built into a ring highway as much as possible to increase the efficiency of automobile traffic.

The speed limit of the highway is currently expected to be increased to 90 kilometers per hour, and some particularly flat areas will be increased to 100 kilometers per hour, which is almost the maximum speed that cars can currently support.

As for the speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour, current cars may be able to reach it. It is a great challenge for the current car structure to maintain such an exaggerated speed for a long time.

The original intention of the highway design is to improve the efficiency of traffic, and naturally the probability of car failure should be reduced as much as possible.

In addition to highways, the construction of railways and ordinary roads is also an important part of transportation construction.

The importance of road construction is quite high in every era, and road construction is often a gold-eating beast that the government is worried about.

Although the key construction plan proposed by Australasia this time is very large, in fact, most of the funds for scrapping construction are not much.

Only the gold-eating beast of transportation construction quietly occupies 21% of the total investment and a full budget of 63 million Australian dollars.

But transportation construction is definitely not useless. When all the roads are completed, the economy of Australasia will also be greatly boosted.

Of course, these road constructions are definitely not just done by the government. The specific road construction will be divided into main roads, branch roads, ordinary roads and rural roads for bidding and contracted to different private capitals.

Among the many constructions, there is another one that is related to the canal, that is, the construction of hydroelectric facilities on the canal.

As mentioned before, Lake Eyre is more than ten meters below sea level, and seawater will naturally flow into Lake Eyre.

Such a huge kinetic energy is naturally impossible to waste, not to mention that it is relatively cleaner hydroelectric power generation.

The areas that are more suitable for building hydroelectric power stations are, first, the junction of North Lake Eyre and South Lake Eyre, and second, the junction of Lake Torrens and Spencer Gulf.

One is the kinetic energy of a large amount of seawater flowing into Lake Eyre, and the other is the kinetic energy of a large amount of seawater entering the Gulf of Torrens, both of which can generate a large amount of electricity.

The construction of the hydropower station and the canal was carried out almost at the same time. The hydropower station after construction will also be part of the canal facilities, making the canal have a greater probability of payback.

Various construction plans were merged into the "Eight-Year Plan", and even the expensive Lake Eyre Canal was included in it.

To be honest, only Australia can propose such a huge construction at present.

Such a huge project with a total cost of nearly 600 million Australian dollars and a construction time of nearly eight years would never be formulated by other countries unless it was a particularly critical moment.

Although eight years cannot change a country, it can basically change a government. That is, a powerful monarchy like Australia does not have to worry about the replacement of the highest decision-makers of the government within eight years.

Once this complete eight-year construction plan was released, it immediately shocked the entire Australia and even the world.

The huge construction plan, which cost 700 million Australian dollars, employed more than 700,000 workers, involved dozens of industries, and benefited the entire Australasia, is the largest and most expensive construction in the country's history.

Although the Australian dollar has depreciated a lot compared to before, 700 million Australian dollars is still a huge number that most countries cannot imagine.

This also directly confirmed the position of Australasia as the third power. The three major countries of Britain, France and Australia are collectively known as the world's three powers.

Arthur is naturally involved behind such public opinion. In fact, if we really talk about the comprehensive strength of the country, Australasia is obviously not weaker than France, and the throne of the world's second can also be competed for.

But the relationship between the world's first and the world's second is often not so harmonious. What does the world's second mean? It means that it is almost the world hegemon.

Such a huge title is still for the French to bear. If it is not the fourth power, it is an island country. Arthur is even willing to make Australasia the fourth power.

After the demise of the United States, the world ranking recognized by Europe has become Britain, France, Australia, islands, Russia, Italy, Germany, and Austria.

This ranking is based on population, economy, industry and other factors, and is combined with the military strength of each country for a comprehensive ranking.

Germany and the Austrian Empire are no exception. After all, both countries have a lot of industry and population, so it is not a problem to maintain their status as great powers.

In addition, more than ten years have passed since the First World War. Although Germany and Austria are not free from various restrictions, it is still okay to have certain diplomatic rights.

At present, both countries have joined the World Alliance, which has also made the World Alliance truly an international organization in which all great powers participate.

Because of the impact of this economic crisis, I went to Australasia to see the huge disadvantages brought about by overproduction.

Because of this, there are not many requirements for industry in the eight-year construction plan. It is only expected to invest in a large steel plant, including steel mills, coke plants, slag steel plants, iron mills, mining plants and other ancillary facilities, which is expected to increase the annual pig iron production by 750,000 tons and steel production by 450,000 tons.

Because of the addition of two kingdoms and a republic on the west coast of the United States, Australasia's industrial products can be sold to more regions.

However, the increase in steel production is almost the same. Unless there is enough demand in the market, it will maintain a stable growth in the next few years, and will not increase significantly.

After the Great Lakes Industrial Zone is separated, I believe that a large number of American industrial products will flood Europe in a short time.

A large part of these industrial products will be used to repay debts, which seems to be an advantage for European countries, but in fact it harms their industrial development.

However, it can only be said that the American industry is too attractive. The industrial heritage left by a country that was once the first industrial power is so attractive that even the British Empire is tempted.

The industry of Australasia also needs to wait and see the industrial situation in the United States. It is obviously more important to maintain relative stability.

In addition to canals, transportation and steel production, the eight-year construction plan also emphasizes the laying of power plants and power grids.

With the development of science and technology, electricity has entered thousands of households and has become one of the irreplaceable energy sources in people's daily lives.

As one of the great powers, Australasia is also one of the countries with the most widespread electricity.

The annual electricity consumption in Australasia is constantly rising. In addition to factory electricity consumption, the continuous growth of civilian electricity is also an important reason.

In order to ensure that the power generation is greater than the power consumption and that people in all regions of the country have enough electricity available, it is necessary to build more power plants.

After all, Australasia has no shortage of coal mines. At present, the mainstream thermal power plants only need to worry about environmental pollution.

It is precisely because of environmental pollution that the power plants built cannot all be thermal power plants.

At present, the most mainstream are hydropower and thermal power generation. The method adopted by Australasia is relatively simple.

Build hydropower plants in all places where hydropower plants can be built, and build thermal power plants in other areas where hydropower plants cannot be built.

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