Chapter 627： 197th Political Art (1/2)

The French government's energy is much greater than that of several capitalists. After being authorized by the Paris government, Minister Tom's confidence was enough.

In less than a month, the Panama Canal development right was obtained from the Colombian government, and the price paid was only a batch of material assistance.

The main reason was the arms. The armed forces in Colombia did not fight. The main reason was external pressure.

Everyone is afraid of the outbreak of the civil war, and they will be able to take advantage of it and become a colony again.

Especially Austria, who is afraid of the next door, is a Central American colony, and already has military forces that threaten their survival.

Due to the lessons learned from the Central American countries, the Colombian government is even afraid to accept European immigrants at random, for fear of being crowned from within.

Colombia itself has a small population and does not dare to accept European immigrants in large numbers. Naturally, economic development is not fast.

Now that the Panama Canal is authorized to the French, in addition to material assistance, it also means introducing French forces to check and balance Austria.

These are minor issues, and neither France nor Austria treats Colombia as one thing. If you want to play balance, you also need to see if you can control it.

If the Panama Canal is already navigable, then for the benefit, conflict between France and Austria may indeed break out. Unfortunately, the current canal is only on paper.

It is impossible for two great powers to erupt for possible interests. To put it bluntly, pre-draining canals also requires prerequisites. If the geological conditions are not suitable, it is not surprising that digging is impossible.

Everyone is very realistic. If we can take into account the events in ten or twenty years, that is all far-sighted.

If you think about what will happen a hundred years later, that's nonsense. The world is changing so fast, who knows what will happen in the future?

The French offered a good price, and the Vienna government did not interfere.

The establishment of the Canal Company is very smooth. Nino, the president of the back-knight, is a spirited organization to explore the terrain.

The headquarters of the Paris Canal Company has begun preparations for listing and financing. There were no exploration reports and the design plan was not published, so the listing plan came out first.

This is not a joke, but reality. In the face of interest, these procedures are not important, and capitalists have ways to circumvent them.

There are still many such scams in the capital market. As long as you can make money, the success of the project does not matter.

Nino still has some abilities, otherwise he won't be able to carry the potboy. Looking at the investigation report in his hand, President Nino had a headache.

The Panama Strait has a tropical marine climate, with abundant rainfall and loose soil.

In terms of construction, loose soil seems to be a good thing, and it is easy to dig earthwork. But for the canal project, it was a disaster.

In the opinion of President Nino: ”Ample rainwater + soil looseness = landslide + silt”, which not only means that the cost during the development of the canal will increase, even the later operating costs will increase.

In addition, there are many poisonous insects in the local jungle, and diseases often occur, which is also a trouble to be encountered in the construction of the canal.

The ”dead man” Nino does not care. There is a classic case of the Suez Canal. He is very clear that if the Panama Canal does not have tens of thousands of lives, it may not be dug out.

The Panama Strait seems to be narrower. As long as it is only 61 kilometers, only a third of the Suez Canal, the construction is actually more difficult.

After a preliminary assessment of the incomplete information in his hands, Nino reluctantly reached this conclusion he least wanted.

Secretary Ralph Shen Shenghui reported: ”President, the embassy has just heard the news that the Colombian government has refused to provide us with an excuse for insufficient labor.”

Everyone knows that the casualties of the canal digging are huge. It is no secret that high-level personnel are involved in the construction of the Suez Canal and the death of more than 100,000 workers.

The Colombian government naturally heard about it. The Egyptian government just jumped this huge pit and made the domestic people do not talk about life. Only then did the French take advantage of it and occupied Egypt.

Colombia has a smaller population and it is simply impossible to provide them with hundreds of thousands of workers.