Great time travel

Chapter 82, Summer in the Equatorial Ocean

At the same time, in the north of Guadalcanal Island, in the strip-shaped "Trough Sea" waters wrapped by the Solomon Islands, on the giant ship "Ocean Oasis" with a displacement of 30 tons, our protagonist Wang Qiu is also While watching the tropical scenery of Guadalcanal with a telescope, he looked at the maps, photos and documents on the table about the islands in the South Pacific occupied by the Japanese army in this time and space.

——As a super giant ship with unprecedented tonnage, equivalent to four Yamato battleships, the draft of "Ocean Oasis" is too deep, and it is impossible to get close to the docks of the fishing ports of these small islands, or even too far from the coastline of the islands. Otherwise, there is a danger of being stranded on the rocks.

On the other hand, having lived on the Coral Island in the South China Sea on the main plane for so long, Wang Qiu was already tired of seeing beaches, coral reefs, coconut trees, and tropical fish, and lacked interest in the tropical scenery on Guadalcanal Island. On the contrary, I was quite worried about the various poisonous insects in the dense jungle on the island, so I didn't plan to change to a small boat and go to the island to have a look.What's more, he didn't come to visit the mountains and rivers, but shouldered a very meaningful social investigation task.

——Investigate how the Japanese in different time and space established a modern industrial country on a tropical island in the South Pacific.

A group of experts and professors from the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences are very interested in the tropical Nanyang colonial country "Orb" established by the Japanese in this time and space. It is when the new China of the 21st century is investing heavily in the world, trying to share the Pacific Ocean with the United States.You know, the world on that side has never had the experience of building an industrialized country on a tropical coral island.When mentioning tropical islands, ordinary people’s first reaction is tourist resorts, beaches and beauties in bikinis. At most, they think of tropical fruits and plantations. As for modern industry... this term seems to have little to do with tropical islands.

However, the "Orb" in this time and space seems to provide a counterexample—although it is with the participation and help of super-era black technology.

Therefore, in recent days, Political Commissar Guo led a visiting delegation under the banner of the "Commintern" to visit the islands in the Southwest Pacific Ocean occupied by the Japanese army to investigate the economic operation and social development of these places.After trekking through mountains and rivers and walking in the streets and alleys all day long, several pairs of shoes were worn out.However, Wang Qiu did not wander around with them. In his opinion, it is better to use satellite photo identification and computer modeling analysis to wander around under the scorching sun and mosquito bites like this. More vivid and intuitive.

Besides, I am not a professional social surveyer, so if I am really interested in something, just look at the information they have collected.

——To put it simply, it is a sentence, Wang Qiu's laziness has committed cancer.

In fact, Wang Qiu couldn't help feeling deeply moved just by looking at some superficial information displayed on the information.

— Copper, oil and natural gas in New Guinea, nickel in New Caledonia, bauxite in the Solomon Islands, and geothermal resources scattered across the volcanic islands, and struvite fertilizer in Nauru, are all effectively exploited Utilized, it becomes electricity, fertilizers, metals, machinery and factories.The oil rushing out from the shallow sea continental shelf has injected fresh blood into the industrial development and transportation of this land.

Just within a few years of the raging wars, millions of Japanese immigrants poured into this new world, overcame the test of the hot climate and tropical diseases, and another wave of large-scale construction boomed vigorously.Ports, farms, mines, plantations, salt pans, power stations and small reservoirs have sprung up like mushrooms, allowing these wild islands to rush into the industrial society at the speed of a rocket.

The coal hidden deep in the ground was excavated like black gold, and the dark oil spewed out like the blood of the earth, and was transported away by boats to feed the rapidly forming industrial system; blast furnaces sprang up one after another , spewing flames and thick smoke day and night, spit out hot molten iron, and then smelted into molten steel by converters, cast into steel ingots, rolled into various steel products, and used in the industrial construction that has been fully rolled out.

On those islands with rich resources and convenient shipping, a series of modern industrial, mining, shipbuilding and fishing towns are rising at an unprecedented speed.The flickering of bright electric lights and the roar of various machines completely broke the silence of the tropical desert island.

The prototype of a giant industrial zone centered on the petroleum and metallurgical industries and transported by sea has been fully developed in the Pacific Ocean.

——According to the video data in front of me, in Rabaul, New Britain, a huge steelmaking plant has been put into operation by taking advantage of the excellent local port. In the huge factory area, ironmaking blast furnaces can be seen everywhere calling. Thousand-degree-high-temperature molten iron wriggled in the furnace, and billowing thick smoke filled the sky.A row of tram cars roaring on the rails, and the flames of the blast furnace made the night glow red...

In the west of Australia, closer to the ore producing area, there is another larger steel plant that already exists.

"...Looks like, even on a tropical island that makes people lazy all day long, they can still make a splash in the industry!"

Looking at the series of industrial areas and mining areas marked on the map, Wang Qiu said with emotion, "...the same piece of land falls into the hands of different peoples, and its fate will be completely different! Our Nanyang Could it be that the failure to rise was due to the inferiority of some tropical nation?"

"...Well, it seems that I can only think so. The same piece of land is indeed completely different in the hands of the Japanese and in the hands of monkeys in Southeast Asia! For example, New Guinea is so rich in mineral resources. There are booming big markets like Japan and China not far away, and Papua New Guinea over there is actually poorer than some African countries, and it can’t even sell resources well, which is simply wasteful.”

Ma Tong, who was also sitting on the side and reading the information, pouted and said, "...However, although industrial agriculture and modern transportation have been developed, the ensuing environmental pollution is also very serious. Look, this palm grove They were all suffocated to death by industrial waste gas, and the river water was also polluted badly. Next, those Minamata disease, Itai disease, and photochemical smog will also come out! Uh, no, it has already happened !"

Sighing, she pulled out a few photos from the folder, all of which were filled with all kinds of tragic scenes that could make environmentalists rage—gray and yellow smoke that covered the sky, colorful muddy rivers, withered and dead trees and crops, and Workers and children suffering from various strange diseases due to environmental pollution, "...if there is a Greenpeace environmental protection organization here, I am afraid that there will be a lot of troubles already?!"

"...Don't worry! There will be no trouble! If they appear in this time and space, then what they have to face is not the European and American White Left Virgin who fooled themselves, but the Nazis who make Arab terrorists tremble , Fascists and Bolsheviks!"

Wang Qiu shrugged his shoulders, "...every year, tens of millions of human beings die from killing each other, and the political leaders of various countries are cold-faced butchers who casually slaughter tens of thousands of people. Any terrorist leader in that era was far behind. If there is such a green environmentalist with a broken brain who dares to jump out and shout, he would be considered lucky to be stuffed into a concentration camp or a labor camp, and he might go directly to a mass grave!"

Ma Tong thought about the scene of the green environmental protection organization protesting in front of the Nazi SS or Soviet Cheka soldiers, and suddenly felt that the scene was too unbearable to look directly at, "...uh...it seems to be true—could it be Is it an era in which you will surely die if you die?"

"...cough cough, in fact, this kind of environmental pollution is also the necessary price for the progress of human society. Many times, we look shockingly at the photos, hoping to see the green mountains and green waters again. I don't know how much the local residents hate seeing it from generation to generation. Tired of the green mountains and green waters, I look forward to living the life of the people in the city! Pollution doesn’t matter at all. For example, a bunch of foreign experts are looking forward to Tibet’s original ecology all day long, without electricity, driving, watching TV, etc. Engage in infrastructure construction. As for whether the local Tibetans are willing to live such a pitiful and poor life, it is not within their scope of consideration.”

Professor Guo, who has been tanned all over his body recently and lost more than a dozen catties, commented while drinking a cup of chrysanthemum tea leisurely, "...any nation in this world can of course return to slash-and-burn farming. The society is calmly and savagely waiting for the day of extinction. But if this nation still wants to survive in the cruel world competition, pursue more knowledge and truth, and enjoy better abundance and convenience, then We must embark on this road of industrialization, and we must not stop for a moment. Otherwise, even if the green mountains and green waters are preserved, they are nothing but spoils for foreign invaders—look at those beautiful islands in the South Pacific, How many have become trusteeships of European and American countries that are out of reach?

Therefore, it is already a great pioneering work for the Japanese nation in this time and space to industrialize these wild islands in the South Pacific.As for the incidental pollution and environmental damage, it is not worth mentioning against the cruel background of the world war!Think about how the Brits turned the Thames into a ghost in order to carry out the industrial revolution!All in all, after jumping out of the monster house of East Asia and swallowing such a vast strategic space in the Southwest Pacific, the Yamato nation is really going to soar, and will never be despised as a little Japan again! "

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——Indeed, Japan at the beginning of the 21st century, whether it is territory, population, industry, finance, technology, education, or even its military power that has been highly castrated, once it is placed in Europe, Africa, or even South America, it will be absolutely impossible. It is a first-class powerful country.Even in the middle of the nineteenth century, during the period of the "Black Ship Founding" period, Japan had a population of no less than 4000 million, which was more than the population of the United States (3300 million) at that time!However, due to Japan's geographical location, it has to become a "small country" facing China and Russia.This is really a bit of a twist.Regarding such an aggrieved surrounding environment, it is impossible for the Japanese to have no idea. It is just that Japan has no way to move the country away, and it is unwilling or unable to take the initiative to integrate with China like the Manchu Qing when it still has the advantage of force. Therefore, after China's rise, it is doomed to bid farewell to its dream of a great power.

However, even so, the Japanese nation is not completely hopeless.As the teachers of modern Japan, the British have already demonstrated to the Yamato nation a road to rise from a marginal island country to a world hegemony. In the Hundred Years War between Britain and France, the British islanders who aspired to dominate the European continent also galloped on the French battlefield for a hundred years. Occupy half of France.It's a pity that it was unfortunately blocked by Joan of Arc in the end, and failed to swallow the elephant with a snake, but lost all the strongholds on the European continent. (Isn't it very similar to the process of Japan's ambition to annex China and its initial victories, but ultimately its failure?)
However, at the same time that the British bid farewell to the European continent, they were also blessed by misfortune and were able to fully develop the cause of maritime colonization, no longer seeking hegemony on the European continent, and focusing on expanding overseas territories. The centuries-old reputation that has shocked the world.

In the same way, if Japan can recognize the reality, abandon the unrealistic mainland policy, jump out of the monster house in Northeast Asia, turn around and rush to the vast Pacific Ocean, then it may not be impossible to replicate the British Empire with the level of civilization and population of the Yamato nation It is a pity that in the Edo period, Japan was closed to the outside world for too long. When the modern Japanese began to open their eyes to see the world, the entire Pacific Ocean had already been carved up.And on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, there is already such an ultimate opponent as the United States of America.

As a result, the dream of the Japanese nation's empire was completely stuck - if you want to rush to Northeast Asia, you must defeat Russia and annex China, and if you want to rush to the Pacific, you must defeat Britain and the United States.With the size and background of Japan, an island country, in the case of fighting alone, just implementing one of the strategies is already stretched, and if it is left and right, it is purely a road to death.

Fortunately, in this time and space, relying on various cheating methods, the Japanese finally withstood the overwhelming offensive of the Americans, and launched their own Pacific Empire "Orb", thus flying like the Spaniards who discovered America back then. Soaring to the sky, he has truly become a world-class power and overlord.

At the same time, the Pacific Territory belonging to the United States of America is rapidly withering, collapsing and shrinking in the flames of war...