Taichang worked in the Waht tribe for more than a month and finally handled the matter of forming a vassal state of the Sioux people almost completely.

It's winter is approaching at this time.

When he brought his group back to Xinyin Capital, the weather was already quite cold, and the rivers next to him began to freeze.

This weather is suitable for building canals in central America.

Because the central part of America is near the equator, it is neither hot nor hot in winter.

Taichang did not stop after returning to Xinyin Capital. Early the next morning, he recruited a group of civil and military officials to the meeting hall.

He roughly introduced the situation of the Three Sioux Kingdoms, and then asked: "Boya, how are the six tribal alliances in the Algonquin tribe divided?"

Sun Chuanting quickly replied: "The opinions of all the chiefs of the Algonquin tribe have been roughly consulted, and the six tribal alliances are almost divided. However, the weather is too cold at this moment, and it is too cold to ride horses and run. I am afraid that the Algonquin tribe will have to wait until after the New Year."

Taichang nodded slightly and said, "Well, the north is really cold, so I am going to take most of my troops to build a canal in the south. Boya, you will stay here to stay and build a dou. You will lead 300,000 infantrymen to build a canal with me."

Next, he roughly discussed the allocation of materials with his ministers, and then he ordered Lu Xiangsheng to bring 300,000 infantrymen to carry materials on the ship and prepare to set off.

At this moment, the newly promoted Concubine Su Su Yi is visiting the palace accompanied by Wang Chengen.

She was as if Grandma Liu had entered the Grand View Garden, and she was amazed at everything she saw.

To be honest, she really didn't expect that there was such a big city in this world, and she didn't expect that she could live in such a majestic palace.

Of course, there were many more she didn't expect.

Taichang is going to set out to build the canal, so it is naturally impossible to leave her here alone.

Soon, she was taken to the port and onto the dreadnought.

This time, she was even more excited and ran around like a curious baby.

Only then did Wang Chengen realize how tired it is to follow a woman. Although he is fake, he is a master, and his physical strength seems to be not as good as others.

When a group of civil servants and military generals saw such an empress, they were even more frightened and quickly bowed to say hello.

Seeing this, Taichang could only shake his head and smile bitterly.

There is no way. Once he travels, he has to bring all the guards with him. He is really worried about keeping this little girl in Xin Yin Capital.

The 300,000 infantrymen carried the materials for building the canal on board the ship, and they worked for two or three hours. It was not until noon that the huge fleet slowly left the port and headed straight to the south.

The weather was indeed the Heat in Southwestern China. The rivers near Xinyin Capital were frozen, and when the fleet arrived near Mexico City, it felt so warm.

When you run to someone’s territory and dig a canal, you will naturally have to say something to them.

Just so happened that the fleet had sailed for more than ten days and had to replenish tamasu. Taichang simply entered the port of Acapulco where Zhang Zhiji and his team stopped last time. Then he recruited the two guys and told him: "You go to Mexico City again and say to Cordoba, we are going to build a canal. If he has time, let him go with us."

Zhang Zhiji and Xu Yunzhen quickly said "Abide by the order", then took hundreds of cavalry off the boat and headed straight for Mexico City.

However, this time, Cordoba refused to follow them to choose a place to build the canal.

Because these two guys really cheated him last time. If he hadn't brought back more than 10 million taels of silver and helped His Majesty the King solve his urgent problem, he would probably not have been able to be the king of his own.

Such a large piece of land, it’s lost if you say it. If you go to these two guys, you will probably lose the entire Central America!

In the end, he just signed a document, strictly according to what His Majesty the King said, and only drew a land of 100 kilometers wide for the people to build a canal. As for where he chose it, he didn't care. Anyway, he would give such a large area this time.

Gu Ting

So, where is this canal built?

Taichang knew that there was a canal here in later generations, but he didn't know where the specific location was.

He could only lead the fleet to the roughly position of Panama in later generations, and then asked Pengbin to take the Ministry of Works, who was in charge of building the canal, to go ashore to choose a site.

To be honest, he didn't know whether the specific location of the Panama Canal in later generations was a good thing.

If he knows the specific location, it will be a big trouble.

Because the location of this canal in later generations was wrong.

At that time, the continental countries would not build canals at all. They thought it would be enough to copy the Suez Canal model.

Moreover, in order to save expenses, they chose an area with dense lakes and tried to directly use the lake waterway to dig dozens of kilometers less.

As a result, as they dig, they found something was wrong.

Because the lakes they selected were actually on the hillside, the height was much higher than sea level, and the heights of several lakes were different. Some were more than ten meters higher than sea level, and some were more than twenty meters higher than sea level.

In this case, if they dig through several lakes directly and let the lakes connect directly with the sea surface on both sides, the lake water will inevitably flow back into the sea.

Not to mention the great danger, most of the lake bottom will be exposed, and they can’t pass the boat at all. They still have to continue digging at the bottom of the lake!

It can be said that this is a typical failure, but they brag about it as if it was very successful.

They lied that after measurement, they found that the sea level heights on both sides were 20 centimeters apart. If they were directly connected, it would cause danger to the passing ships.

This is simply nonsense. The sea has tides. When the tide rises and falls, it is possible that the sea surface has a height of several meters. The gap of twenty centimeters is nothing!

In fact, they chose a lake area located on the hillside in order to save money.

As a result, something was wrong while digging, they had to use the sluice storage mode to raise the water surface one by one, so that passing ships could pass through these lake areas and thus cross the American continent.

Such a huge mistake was blown by them, and they found that there was a height difference between the sea levels on both sides, so they decisively adopted the mode of sluice storage to raise the water surface to ensure the safety of the passing ships.

I have to say that the mouths of European barbarians are really a lie.

These barbarians have been lying to lie until later generations. They don’t know how many lie-it-all naughty words they have made up.

Their specialty is that they are obviously wrong and they try to gild themselves on their faces, making it seem like they are right.

This shameless face has been born hundreds of years ago or since their birth.

These things are just to help shameless barbarians, even if they are covered with the cloak of civilization, they are still shameless barbarians!

Fortunately, Taichang didn’t know their wrong location, otherwise it would be really troublesome.

If he knew the location of the canal in later generations, he ordered people to dig directly from the location where the person chose, then it would be in vain as he dug it, because it would be impossible to build a sluice dozens of meters high at this moment. Even if it was built, the sluice would not be able to move!

The officials of the Ministry of Works under his command would not make such a mistake if they went to choose a site by themselves, because there were too many canals in the Ming Dynasty, and they carefully read the records left by the construction of the canal in front.

They wouldn't do such stupid things as digging up the mountain.

Just kidding, digging a mountain is much more troublesome than digging a canal that is dozens of miles long.

They would rather go around the valley for dozens of miles than think about using the lake on the hillside to shorten the distance.
Chapter completed!