Chapter 1057: A profitable canal

"Brother Peng, are you too cruel?" Sun Pengcheng put an egg on his eyes, and now he has become a panda eye directly.
Xiao Peng pointed to Yang Meng: "If you are wronged, you have a debt, and you have to find a tough guy. He did it."
Sun Pengcheng swallowed, "Oh, let's forget it. Alas, I'm a gangster, right? Why did I become a bug in your place?"
"Um, are you sure you want to use your identity to scare people?" Xiao Peng asked back.
Sun Pengcheng hurriedly waved his hand: "Don't, it's good. This will show that you treat me as your own person."
Yang Meng just entered the cockpit with the two of them, and almost laughed when he heard Sun Pengcheng's words: "Hey, this kid is still happy to be beaten? Are you cheap? The guide is here, we can enter the Panama Canal. "
Xiao Peng gave up his driving position and looked at Sun Pengcheng: "How long has your kid been here? Run here to hide from the winter, but your kid can figure it out."
Sun Pengcheng smiled bitterly: "I can't help it, I also want to save money?"
"Why?" Xiao Peng handed the boat to Yang Meng, and sat next to Sun Pengcheng.
Sun Pengcheng shrugged: "Why do northerners in our country have money less than southerners? Think about it, when winter comes, the heating bill will be paid, and it will be dry for two months. Down jackets, autumn clothes, long trousers, cotton shoes, and everything is money. , I cook a piece of meat every three times, if I catch a cold or have a fever, I will get another two injections. Basically, in winter, my savings for half a year will be thrown out."
Yang Meng was happy after hearing this: "You kid pretend to be poor with me?"
Sun Pengcheng shook his hands fiercely: "Why am I pretending to be poor? I'm not my unreliable brother. There is a lot of money for business at home. I still eat myself now, and I dare not take the money before me!"
Xiao Peng gave Sun Pengcheng a white look: "Then you didn't get any good things when you came to me."
After hearing this, Sun Pengcheng didn't even think about it and said directly: "Oh, my grandpa said, taking yours is not considered taking."
"... Mengzi, stop sailing, keep beating!"
"Don't, I was wrong! That was what my grandfather said, you guys find my grandfather."
Xiao Peng sighed and said, "...You are definitely not your grandfather's own birth, you two are just selling each other... By the way, your kid just came here? Didn't give it to us? Prepare gifts?"
After hearing this, Sun Pengcheng took the straw hat beside him and said, "Boss, it’s not that I don’t bring you gifts. I really don’t know what to bring. This Panama’s specialty is this'Panama straw hat', but this straw hat is called a'Panama straw hat'. It’s not made in Panama, but in Ecuador."
Xiao Peng was speechless: "Your kid is just careless. There is nothing fun to present as a gift in such a big country?"
Sun Pengcheng shook his head: "Fun? All kinds of silver jewelry, handwork is called a bad one. You must not look down on it. Oh, it's very cheap to buy famous brands here, but I can't afford it!"
Yang Meng drove the bow and said without turning back: "Fuck off, Panama has such a canal. It belongs to the kind of country that can make money while lying at home. It makes you speak like a primitive country."
Sun Pengcheng snapped his fingers: "Mengzi, you are really right. Panama has money. That is the financial center of the entire Central America and the Caribbean! You can go to Panama City to see it. It is an absolutely modern city. But this country has nothing but the financial industry. Others outside the service industry are really not good. The gap between the rich and the poor is too big here. There are mines and no one is digging, and there are no people to plant. There is no heavy industry at all..."
When Yang Meng heard this, he looked disgusted and said: "What the hell? There is no land to grow it? That is because our Huaxia people did not come, otherwise they have been fully planted! It is shameful to waste land! Why do people here also learn like Africa? Come out a flower?"
Xiao Peng gave him a blank look after hearing this: "How do you say it? What does it mean to be lazy? The real lazy has been eliminated by the earth, right? He must have other reasons in it."
After hearing this, Sun Pengcheng said: "Brother Peng, you are right, there are really other reasons. Brother Mengzi, it's not that there are no Huaxia people here. Don't think he just established diplomatic relations with Huaxia last year, but he had always had a good relationship with Baodao before that. There are also Chinatowns in Panama City, but...I don’t know what Chinatowns in other countries look like. They are really deserted anyway."
Yang Meng asked, "Why? We can go farming! Have you forgotten the racial talent of our ancestors?"
Sun Pengcheng smiled bitterly and explained: "Mengzi, things are really not what you think. Modern agriculture is not hundreds of years ago. You want to engage in agriculture, starting with the land, what kind of seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, manpower, agricultural machinery... .. Do you all need money? But when you have a good harvest, you find that you can’t sell your things and you can only lose money, so will you still farm?

"How can the food not be sold?" Yang Meng asked curiously.
Sun Pengcheng shrugged and said: "For grain dumping, farmers in western developed countries will give farmers a lot of subsidies, so the cost of food is extremely low. Let me give you an analogy. The cost of the rice you grow is one yuan per catty, and the result is imported. Rice is 40 cents per catty, so will anyone buy your rice? Will anyone grow rice? Now many countries like Africa, Central America, and many countries are facing this problem. Farmers want to survive, so they can only grow something similar to what Cash crops such as sugar cane and coffee. As for planting food? Let’s forget it! You pay as much as you plant. So in some countries in Central America and Africa, the land is very fertile and very suitable for growing food, but no one goes there. Kind of. It’s not that people here are stupid, there is really no way."
Xiao Peng smiled and said: "The people in our country who advocate food imports every day to reduce food prices should really come here to see. After all, our country is a large agricultural country with a huge agricultural population. If our country becomes like this, wow. I can't even think about it."
Yang Meng snorted after hearing this: "The current'public knowledge' are all those who fear that the world will not be chaotic. The most terrifying thing is that there are really stupid people who listen to them with rhythm."
Xiao Peng pointed forward: "Okay, don't be cynical here, the tugboat is here, you be careful!"
Yang Meng picked up the walkie-talkie: "Relevant staff went on the deck and connected to the tugboat. This Nima, we are not a 10,000-ton ship, and a boat with a thousand-ton capacity is a fart tugboat!"
After hearing this, Sun Pengcheng laughed and said, "For money, do you think tugboats don’t need money? Don’t look at the Panama Canal. The cost is really not low. It’s much more expensive than taking the Suez Canal. The Panama Canal and the Suez Canal are compatible with ships in terms of scale. There is a big gap between the numbers, so they try their best to make money, and the tugboat is one of them."
After the two tugboats connected to the'Vladimir' in tandem, Yang Meng was fine with it: "Brother Peng, give me a bottle of beer."
"Catch it." Xiao Peng threw him a bottle of beer: "In fact, no matter if you have this tugboat, it saves trouble. You don't have to do anything now!"
After Yang Meng handed the boat to the navigator, he said speechlessly: "These two tugboats are almost bigger than our boat... You said that our boat, through the Bosphorus, through the Suez Canal. At best, there is a guiding boat, and the tugboat is so grand here."
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "Here is different from where you go."
Yang Meng looked disgusted: "They are all canals, what can be different?"
Facts have proved that although they are all canals, taking the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal is really different.
When I first arrived at the Panama Canal, it was just like an ordinary river channel. It was actually very wide. The widest place could be two to three hundred meters wide, but as I walked, I arrived at the canal lock.
This Panama Canal lock is more like the Three Gorges Project: a ship enters the lock and seals the lock, fills or drains it, and then goes to another floor. There are three levels of such locks. The reason why the Panama Canal is difficult for a large aircraft carrier is because of these three locks, which are less than forty meters wide. Not to mention that the aircraft carrier cannot be put in at all. Even the large cargo tankers often scratched and bumped when they passed by. .
And as Sun Pengcheng said, Panama really racked their brains to make money. This lock is like a toll gate on a highway, but the toll here is much more expensive than the highway.
These two tugboats were towing the ship through the lock, and not only were these two tugboats, there were also four locomotives on both sides of the lock, and each locomotive was towed inward with two steel cables. It costs about US$1,500 in total. In addition to the cost of the ship itself, it is calculated based on the tonnage of the ship. Ships of less than 30,000 tons are US$5.25 per ton, although there are more than 30,000 tons. Discount, but only a few cents discount. Norway used to have a "Pearl" passing through the Panama Canal, and it cost 375,600 U.S. dollars to cross the river. Generally, it costs more than 100,000 U.S. dollars for a freighter to pass. The Panama Canal is definitely an old hen laying golden eggs. Xiao Peng and their fishing boat spent almost 10,000 US dollars on the lock once. . . . .
"This so-called seventh engineering miracle in the world refers to these three ship locks?" Yang Meng asked puzzledly: "What are they doing with this stuff? Just to collect money?"
Xiao Peng smiled and said: "It's really not the reason. It's because there is a water level difference between the north and south sides of the Panama Canal, which is about 50 centimeters. If there is no such lock on the canal, the water flow will become very fast. Navigating here becomes very dangerous. The project itself is good except for small points. Look at the dense tombstones by the river. Nearly 30,000 people died when the canal was excavated."
"Wait a minute!" Yang Meng interrupted Xiao Peng's words: "I read little, but don't lie to me. All the oceans in the world are interconnected. How can there be a water level difference? Besides, you have to say something. There is a water level difference of fifty centimeters on the side of the ocean, but I see that the three sluices add up to a water level difference of 30 meters! Are you sure this is not such a deceptive project for the purpose of charging for life?"