Australian Storm 1876

   Chapter 135

  Fan Zhongzhai introduced here, and politely nodded to everyone present; “This is the main difficulty faced by coastal railways. Please brainstorm and share your worries for the master.”

The entourage of this trip is led by Wu Mozhou, Chief Logistics Officer Fatty Chun, Manager Jia Donghe of the 19th United Shipping Company, and a secretary. The two officials, Xin Changjun and Pan Shoudao, are located in Honghe Valley City, but they are not together. Come.

  Wu Mozhou thought for a while and said;

  "The key to the first and second difficulty lies in the Songjiang Cement Plant, which has now entered the equipment installation stage. After years of research and verification of large-scale projects, these advanced equipment in France have a low probability of failure.

  In order to prevent accidents, I will go to Songjiang Town to take command in the near future, personally solve difficult problems in the project, and try my best to provide logistical support for imported equipment, including those French.

  The 3rd and 4th difficult points can also be looked at together.

  As long as the ownership of the remaining three ranches is resolved, the remaining is some infrastructure, including ports, wharfs, warehouses and railway branch lines. As long as the funds are in place, they should be able to keep up with the progress of the project.

  And these three pastures..."

Wu Mozhou said that there was a cruel look in his eyes, and he quickly glanced at Li Fushou, and continued: "The Billy kid gang is making a lot of trouble in this area. As a ranch with few left, I think it's easy. Become their goal."

  Everyone understood this, and subconsciously focused their gaze on Li Fushou's face, and saw that he stared at the large planning map with relish, as if he could see a flower from above.

  A brief silence in the living room

   "pop"

Li Fushou slammed his fist on the map, and then drew a circle on the north bank with his hand, saying: "In a short period of time, in the face of many obstacles from conservatives, it is definitely impossible for the Parliament of New South Wales to be connected by the coastal railway. The motion to enter Jackson Seaport has created a lot of difficulties for us invisibly.

  Without Butcher Zhang, do you still want to eat pigs with fur?

  The Kangsby Plateau on the north shore is a completely blank drawing. After we get it, we can let us plan and build a new port city that is not inferior to the Red River Valley. It will be completely dominated by us.

  Let those diehard whites go to hell, since they don’t know what is good or bad, then give them a taste.

  Mo Zhou, you can make overall arrangements. In this shearing season, give me the price of wool and drop it to 3.5 pounds a penny.

Let the white ranchers who are against me drink the northwest wind, and expand the impact to Victoria. There are not many good things in Melbourne. If the white ranchers don’t sell it, they will be moldy in the warehouse, and they will lose money when they sell it. .

  Hmph, you must pay a heavy price to fight against me. They must understand that the glory of the nobility cannot be tarnished, and I must get what I want. "

  In Sydney, New South Wales, the stronghold of white Australians, and in Melbourne, Victoria, which has been run by the British for many years, it is difficult to start the situation without resorting to harsh methods.

  Now the Lord of Queensland is very angry. He is not afraid to upset the troubles in Australia. There are naturally big trees in London to shade the sun.

  This way

   is equivalent to the Red River Valley forces on the north bank of Sydney to build a new type of harbor city, which is different from the old city.

  1879

The city of Sydney occupies the Cumberland Gorge area, which is located to the west of Jackson Harbor and extends to the south, while north of Jackson Harbor is the Consby Plateau area, with an average elevation of about 656 feet (about 200 meters), which is called the North Shore .

  Today's Constance Plateau is completely undeveloped. It is a wasteland with crisscross streams and belongs to the Brothers Grimm Ranch.

  After the death of Old Green, the North Shore Ranch was divided into two.

The area near the Jackson Harbor on the east belongs to the older brother McGuire Green, and the west in the inland direction belongs to the younger brother Tom Green. The Green family is of Scottish descent and attaches great importance to family relations. Although they are separated, they often celebrate mass together and have relatives with each other. Move around very often.

  After Green Ranch falls into the hands of Li Fushou, he will invest a huge amount of money to build a new city on the north bank, which was originally one of the two main urban areas of the later Sydney metropolitan area.

  A narrow bay is separated from the north and the south bank. The famous Sydney Bay Bridge spans north and south, becoming one of the best backdrops for the Sydney Opera House, and it is also a landmark of Sydney.

  The current Sydney Bay Bridge has not been seen yet, but as early as 1815, engineers proposed to build the Bay Bridge and designed the corresponding drawings. Unfortunately, it did not get the approval of the Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan, and it finally ended.

  Engineer Peter Hudson proposed a design drawing of a bridge across the harbour in 1857. It is one of the earliest design drawings. A detailed design plan for a single-hole cross-sea iron bridge was completely planned.

  The proposal to build a truss bridge was put forward in 1879. After expert argumentation, the cost of the Sydney Bay Bridge was about 850,000 pounds, but it was not approved by Parliament for financial reasons.

The importance of   The North Shore is relative to Sydney, just like Pudong’s importance to the entire Shanghai Sea, it is the only way for the expansion of the metropolitan area.

one week later

The wealthy Earl of Queensland acquired the Kangsby Plateau area on the north coast and announced a series of large investment plans, including the introduction of Chinese immigrants to build a port warehouse area, a railway hub area, and a new Beilun wharf, which will be directly connected through a railway branch. The coastal railways are connected together.

  After the plan is announced

  The North Bank area began to recruit laborers on a large scale, Daxing Civil Engineering began to build a new city, and Wu Mozhou was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Beilun Port, responsible for the corresponding urban planning and construction work.

  In Sydney, a group of upper-class people were shocked by the news and hurriedly asked to see the Lord Earl of Queensland. Who knew he had already left. This gave everyone a bad premonition.

as predicted

Entering the first sheep shearing season in 1880, the wool purchasing stations from north to south fell sharply. The price of wool dropped sharply from 2.5 pounds per penny to 3 pounds per penny. As a large amount of wool entered the market, the wool purchasing price dropped sharply again. To 3.5 pounds a penny.

  Red River Valley sacrificed a price butcher knife and began a large-scale clearance operation.

  From South Wales to Victoria and even South Australia, white ranchers are wailing everywhere, and the market is full of blood and blood.

  Market capital is ruthless.

   Now that Red River Valley came forward to lower the price, other wool traders followed up to lower the price, and the lowest was even 4 pounds a penny.

  Angry white ranchers and cowboys took up guns to defend their rights. There were continuous shootings at wool-purchasing stations in various places, and many **** cases occurred, making the sheriff and the Royal Mounted Police rush to fight fires everywhere.

  At this time, the upper class in Sydney and Melbourne reacted and went to the Red River Valley to request a meeting with the Lord Earl of Queensland, all of them closed their doors.

  Master Earl is in physical illness, and it is not convenient to see guests for the time being.

  As for when the body will be better, only God knows, maybe one or two months, maybe one or two years.

The meaning of   Red Fort is obvious;

  Oh, when you were in Sydney, you guys couldn’t do it one by one. Are you embarrassed now?

  No, I haven’t played enough yet!

  In the Lingxiao Pavilion

  Li Fushou took a copy of the overseas mail and looked at it with a smile, and there was good news from the United States;

The patent rights of the new series of diesel engines are generally registered in the United States and Europe. The Queensland Earl family obtained all the patent rights, including 76 innovative patents and 322 exclusive patents. Red River Valley paid a high price of 420,000 US dollars for this, one-time Buy out 30% of the patent rights in the hands of experts.

  These efforts are worthwhile. Experts and scholars have been enthusiastic about the huge dollar check. They have invested a hundred times more enthusiasm in the research and development of diesel engines. They spent the whole day and night in the laboratory and produced a lot of scientific research data.

Following the successful development of the 1.2-liter inline 4-cylinder diesel engine, relevant experts and scholars conducted trial production with Cargill Machinery Company. After overcoming dozens of technical difficulties in the trial production, the first batch was produced on January 22, 1880. Qualified new diesel engine.

  Cooperating with the small generators recently successfully developed by German Siemens, a perfect combination of diesel generators has been formed, and it has received snow flake orders from all over Europe and America.

  With the above successful experience

   The development of new 1.5L and 2.0L diesel engines has also achieved a breakthrough. It will soon enter the stage of engineering development and small batch trial production, and the prospects are promising.

  What made Li Fushou most pleased was that with the 1.2-liter 4-cylinder diesel engine as the power source, the engineers of Cargill Machinery Plant quickly developed a durable walking tractor based on the idea of ​​a walking tractor.

  The design ideas were provided by Li Fushou and realized by the engineers of Cargill Machinery Factory. The related product patents belong to the Queensland Earl’s family.

  This agricultural machinery has a simple structure and is 90% similar to later generations of walking tractors. The only difference is the use of solid rubber tires. The first batch of 60 vehicles has been sent to the Red River Valley in Australia by freighter.

  With this powerful iron cow, Red River Valley’s current large-scale construction of civil engineering will be even more powerful and more efficient.

What made Li Fushou even more pleased was the dawn of agricultural mechanization. Remove the large trailer behind the walking tractor and add agricultural machinery to plow the land, level the land, plant seedlings, remove weeds and shrubs, harvest crops, etc. Series of mechanized operation capabilities and efficiency are greatly improved.

A new series of leading products has been added to Australia. The new factory is located in Songjiang Town. With sufficient power and energy supply, it can be developed into a series of diesel engine production plants and supporting factories, as well as walking tractor factories and other enterprises. Here comes a new point of profit growth.

   "Master, why are you so happy today?" Gu Liuyan walked in gracefully, holding a celadon soup pot in his hand.

   "Naturally there is good news."

   "Oh, can I see it?"

"certainly."

  Li Fushou opened the celadon soup pot, which contained the simmering soup, and he drank it while it was hot.

Gu Liuyan's head turned to the desk and looked at the transoceanic mail from the United States, which talked about the new type of diesel engine and other things boring and boring, which did not arouse her interest, let alone where the strangeness was. .

  Miss everybody, chanting poems and composing the right poems, it’s okay to have a good time, and have no love for these purely science and engineering things.

  This does not hinder Gu Liuyan’s adoration of the master; "Master, you are really amazing."

  (End of this chapter)