Jiang Yan Hai was aboard a cargo ship on his way back. The entire journey would take around eighteen days, heading directly to the construction dock. However, having cargo ships meant they could assemble small escort vessels and the like. The railway project had already begun.
A railway line would extend directly to the riverside dock where the cargo ships were currently being assembled.
On the way back, Jiang Yan Hai looked at satellite images of this world's Yangtze River. He had to admit... this was an enormous challenge even for infrastructure fanatics. The Yangtze River in this world had an average width of 1.6 kilometers. That was its average width!
Even at its narrowest, the river was nearly 980 meters wide. Its widest point was not at the estuary, but in its middle reaches, where it spanned nearly sixteen kilometers!
According to the continuous data sent back by ripple-detection devices released upstream and carried downstream by the current, its average depth was close to twelve meters. Even its shallowest sections had more than seven meters of water.
River transport in this world was undoubtedly incredibly developed. In particular, since no bridges had yet been built, bridge clearances could be set much higher. When the first Yangtze River bridge had been built in reality, no one had considered future development, severely limiting navigation on the Yangtze.
But in this world, all those issues could be considered in advance.
Still, honestly... with this volume of water, building an entire Three Gorges Dam on this world's Yangtze River was probably impossible.
That thing was truly a bit absurd, and building bridges over this world's Yangtze River would probably be far more difficult than in reality.
Perhaps because vegetation was better preserved in this world, its water flow was so immense. Of course,