To be honest, with the increase in time entering this world, the memories of the past world are gradually fading. This is the law of nature. Forgotten is a human instinct. If there is no forgetting, just what you see in this world is enough to make your brain collapse. Even if most of the brain is not used, if there is no forgetting, countless useful, useless, or even repeated messages will fill the human brain and the head will explode.

This is what Yang Yuanzhao knew from the moment of traveling through time. In order to maintain the advantage of traveling through time, Yuanzhao has recorded some important information as much as possible. However, people's energy is limited, and it is impossible to copy all the memories in full. Only those that can be recorded can be recorded. Whether this is important or not is Yang Yuanzhao himself. Everyone has one-sidedness, not to mention that in later generations, he was just an ordinary team engineer. During the stage of consulting and explosion, the information he mastered was almost astronomical. At most, he could make some necessary records in the development of science and technology, materials, and motivation. The rest could only wait for things to come, and there was nothing he could do if he forgot it.

The Kra Canal is such a thing. I saw it at that time, but I just read it with a curious mind. There was a piece of news, but it was still very hot news. I didn’t know it. I didn’t realize it at all. However, memory has the characteristics of forgetting and memory, and there was a new stimulation. In addition, Yang Yuanzhao worked hard to recall it. Soon, in the depths of my memory, a news that I read occasionally came to Yang Yuanzhao’s heart. It was when I was browsing the news, and even in Yang Yuanzhao’s heart, there was no deep memory left. It was Singapore’s proposal to conduct an internationalization proposal for the Strait of Malacca in Malaysia.

Out of curiosity, when I saw the news, I read it. This news tells the story of Singapore's proposal, mainly based on the environmental deterioration of the Strait of Malacca, the piracy crisis, and some rescue situations. In order tolls for passing ships from a low level, this seemingly reasonable proposal was opposed by China, South Korea and Japan. The Strait of Malacca is a world-wide waterway, but the most used ones are from these three countries, which has a direct impact on their navigation and will increase many unnecessary costs.

The Strait of Malacca can be said to be one of the busiest waterways in the world, but its influence is not as huge as the Suez Canal and Panama Canal. Those canals are on the rush of the mainland and the mainland, and they control the connection between the two continents. Malacca is within Asia. Although it connects the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, it is not a waterway to other continents. It is just a necessary way from East Asia to West Asia, and there is no intercontinental.

The most popular ships here are the three countries in China, Japan and South Korea. These are also the three countries with the most prosperous development of Shanghai transportation in the world after World War II, and are also the countries where the world's shipbuilding companies mainly migrated, first Japan, Hong Kong, then South Korea and China. Especially after entering the new century, China's navigation industry gradually rose, the economic environment was growing rapidly, and it also had huge ships.

At a time when ocean transportation has declined, some world-class shipping companies are gradually going bankrupt, and ship kings are no longer glorious, even if the operating costs of tens of thousands of dollars increase, it is a very big deal. If an improper response is likely to cause a new round of reshuffle in the sea operation industry, the result will be catastrophic. Singapore at that time seemed determined to charge tolls, but the amount was not large, but for merchant ships. A 10,000-ton merchant ship always had tens of thousands of dollars, and 100,000 tons of oil tankers were not many, and only hundreds of thousands of tons.

Although there are only so many, it is relative to the tanker itself, but the total amount is a huge number. According to the nearly 100,000 ships per year in Malacca, even if it is tens of thousands of dollars per ship, it is almost billions of dollars. This is not a small number. It will cost more than escort and clear the waterway. This will bring huge benefits to countries near Singapore and Malacca.

When they have received support from Malaysia and Indonesia, and when both sides are preparing to divide such a huge profit in a certain proportion, it depends on whether other countries are willing. After China, Japan and South Korea protested, Singapore insisted on doing so and even formulated a toll roadmap, which angered China, Japan and South Korea. Japan threw out the plan of the Kara Canal and directly hit Singapore on the head with a stick. Singapore originally wanted to get some benefits, but of course it also held the idea of ​​clearing the Melaka channel, but unexpectedly, Japan actually wanted to overturn the table.

That's right, it was just overturning the table. This was written in the report at that time. It seemed to be to prove his argument. I also wrote some introductions about the Kra Canal. This was a canal that had been put on the agenda more than 300 years ago. If it weren't for the successive outbreak of World War I and World War II, it might have been completed. After several twists and turns, it had become a canal that had been planned for a long time but had been placed on paper.

No matter how much paper things are, if China, Japan and South Korea unite to build them together, the fake will become real. Once designed in this aspect, it will have a huge blow to Malacca. For Singapore, tolls, even refueling and water are nothing. The key is the material for transportation. With the convenience of transportation, Singapore has carried out petrochemical processing and refined oil processing. Relying on the convenience of waterways, if it is invested in the processing field, it can save oil transportation to East Asia, and the finished products can also be reduced by a lot. Singapore relies on this and has developed heavy industries such as petrochemicals and metallurgy on a large scale. With this, it has become a developed place. One of the four Asian dragons has been developing continuously.

Out of curiosity, Yang Yuanzhao also conducted in-depth research on the Kara Canal. Indeed, this is indeed a rare canal for Asia, especially East Asia. Of course, it is a nightmare for Singapore. As long as the canal is built, Singapore's influence will be reduced by more than double. Alcohol tankers transported from the Middle East to East Asia will almost pass through the Kara Canal, not Malacca. At that time, the cost of the petrochemical industry in Malacca will increase a lot, which will directly cause petrochemical companies to go bankrupt on a large scale. In addition, some other steel smelting and other industries will be fatal to Singapore. Maybe Singapore will survive this crisis like Thailand and will not recover.

After reading the news, Yang Yuanzhao learned that the guise of the Kra Canal has been thrown out in the past, and China has thrown out all of them. Singapore is a Chinese country and speaks Chinese, but in the world, it is also the one that dislikes China the most. Many relatively strict bills are basically related to him, especially some proposals that restrict China. At the beginning, China could only tolerate it. When China learned about the Kra Canal, it basically began to dominate. In some more excessive areas, this proposal is like a stabilizing needle, which is terrible. Singapore does not dare to gamble at this time. Once the canal is opened, Singapore will face recession. Once the canal is built, Singapore's economy will collapse.

Before, it might have been just a means to restrict Singapore. At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, China began to substantially promote the Kara Canal because this canal was too great for China. China has accumulated huge capital through nearly 30 years of reform and opening up. This capital has been wasted in China. China is also eager to go out. However, when going out, it often endured a series of failures due to experience and many problems and moved forward in a winding manner. It is very necessary for a large-scale project to boost morale. The Kara Canal is close to China, which has great benefits to the entire China. Even in the 21st century, the currency depreciation and the construction cost has increased to more than 30 billion, but the cost saving is even more. Just a 1,200-kilometer voyage can save US$300,000 in transportation costs for ocean freighters. Over the years, it is a huge supplement for ships specializing in the Middle East route.

As far as Yang Yuanzhao knows, the project had not been started when he crossed the Kara Canal. In fact, in 1997, it was the closest time to its establishment. At that time, Thailand's economy flourished and became one of the four Asian dragons. The per capita income was higher than that of China, and he also had the ability to promote the Kara Canal plan. Even at that time, this plan had already entered preparations.

Unfortunately, things went against my wishes. The financial crisis in 1997 suddenly collapsed Thailand's backbone. Next, Japan and South Korea also began to decline. Japan focused more on industrial upgrading and replaced manufacturing with microelectronics and semiconductors. After the attack in 1997, South Korea was again competed by China and began to turn to the entertainment industry. Taking this as the foundation of its country, its desire for the construction of the Kra Canal began to weaken. On the contrary, China, China's economy continued to grow and began to create miracles one after another in the world, with the ability to promote this canal project, and it has truly entered the planning and early exploration.

However, the turbulent situation in Thailand has always been undecided. If China wants to take the lead, it must take the right of the canal in its hands. Just like the Panama Canal, thousands of miles away from the United States, but the United States has always been in its hands for many years. After the national liberation and cognitive height are improved in the future, it has returned it to Panama. This has also become the focus of the problem, directly causing the canal to go from attention from multiple parties to difficult labor. In the end, it has been unanimous to Yang Yuanzhao crossing, but he has not heard of the start of construction of the canal. (To be continued.)

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