It is one hour later than Japan.
I wake up one hour early every morning as Japan time.
And, in front of each house there are many motorcycles.
In order to enter the store, we have to go through between motorcycles carefully.
All the guys walking are smoking cigarettes.
And, there are quite a lot of people coughing.
Ryotaro Shima is expressing in such way in "Taiwan version of" Kaido-wo-iku ".
What is tilted with respect to what, it seems that the axis about which the earth turns is tilted with respect to the revolving surface around which the earth is traveling around the sun.
Here the sun may come directly above. It is not in Japan.
On the way back I will cross the Tropic of Cancer again between Changbin and Hualien and will be northward. Until then, I will be in a tropical area.
It’s just my imagination.
I will go to Hatta Yoichi Memorial Hall, Coral Lake.
It is so big that both Jiayi and Tainan jurisdictions enter the same plain.
Around the 1910s, there were lands suitable for about 150,000 hectares of fields here, but irrigation facilities were inadequate, so there was always a danger of drought.
It does not mean that it will not rain.
Rain falls lot. When it is rain, It fall enough to cause a flood.
In dry season,It does not rain at all. the drought season continues.
Next,the land near the coast was a situation that it was impossible to cultivate due to salt damage by groundwater and backflow of the tide.
"If we could even use fresh water・・・".Many people would have thought that this rough land will be reborn into a fertile land that can increase the production of food.
However, those who had concrete plans and execution power did not show up.
There was a record that the Dutchman made a brick dam at Kandenkei and pulled water. However, its scale was small.
I asked Kimco of the motorcycle store marked with K again to put in the air.
A Japanese who showed a concrete plan to draw water to Chianan Plain and to make irrigation equipment appeared.
In 1918, Yoichi Hatta conducted a survey of Chianan Plain in southern part of Taiwan.
Making a dam in Kandenkei and securing water is not enough.
It is designed to pass water through the tunnel from Zengwun River over the mountain and store once.
It is designed to efficiently distribute stored water to Chianan Plain.
Things will not proceed with ideas and design drawings alone. Support for funds and execution organization is required.
Japan was doing more than japan's ability in terms of national strength, such as completing water supply and sewerage system in Taipei. Although Japan may have invested more than the ability of the state in Coral Lake, but the result was good.
The budget was approved by the National Assembly, many people worked hot and the plan started to move.
In the construction project, beneficiaries formed the union and took effect, total construction cost was 54 million yen, and government expenses covered half the price. Taiwan Governor's Office is 26.74 million, union is 27.55 million yen. According to the current amount, it is 380 billion yen (1990, then, Furukawa Katsuzo - "Japanese who loved Taiwan - Civil engineer Haita Yoichi 's lifetime").
古川勝三 - 『台湾を愛した日本人 -土木技師 八田與一の生涯』より)。
Hatta's position became an engineer with association, and from 1920 (Taisho 9th) to 1930 (Showa 5th), he directed the construction until completion.
And the construction began.
① Construction of intake dam and intake channel, (This includes uzan tunnel construction)
② Storage dam (kanden River reservoir construction work)
③ Construction of a feedwater drainage channel.
④ Zhuoshui River Conduit system construction work (which is handled here by 50,000 ha) is also being conducted in parallel.
After many difficulties, construction was completed as Wushantou Dam in 1930 (Showa 5 years).
However, in fact, this water alone could only cover 70,000 hectares.
It was insufficient to cover 150,000 hectares of farmland.
In order to solve this problem, they tried carry out the farming method called "Three Wheel Production Water Supply Act" which changes the water supply area every year, but this farming method was accompanied with great difficulty in execution.
Construction of dams and waterways is also difficult, but agriculture can not be done just by supplying water. This area is mixed with peasant farmers and self-made farmers..
Peasants in this area are all ignorant about modern agricultural methods.
In the area where the old agricultural law continued for more than 200 years, we have to adopt the collective farming system called 3 tree-ring work water supply method instead of the conventional farming method.
It took a lot of hardships to execute, but somehow managed to get into orbit.
Before the dam was completed, the income of rice, sugar cane, miscellaneous cultivation etc was 14 million yen. It is 34 million yen after completion. Profit 22 million yen.
This amounted to return construction fee in 3 years.
There were other effects as well. The price of the land rose. It has added value of over 94 million yen as a whole. In addition, farmers' lives improved and It also made it possible for children to receive education.
Technical team makes it with hydraulic fill method (construction method which consolidates clay, earth and sand, gravel, brown stone, cobblestone in order from the center). If this is done, it will not be buried with earth and sand like ordinary concrete dam, and it will be stronger than concrete.
The material was carried by rail from the oouchi village of Sobun river 20 km away.
For that purpose a new railroad was laid.
On the way, Ocean Maru was sunk by a lightning strike by the US Navy's submarine Grenadier near the Goto Islands.Hatta was involved and died.Here
After the defeat of Japan, on September 1, 1945, his wife, Toyoki, followed her husband 's Hatta, threw herself to Uzantoudam' s water outlet,suicided.
After that, the statue of bronze continued to be concealed by the local volunteers, even when it was time to implement the metals collection ordinance, and even when the buildings and prize monuments left by Japan during the Chiang Kai-shek era were destroyed.
The bronze statue was set up in the original place overlooking the dam again on January 1, 1981 (Showa era 56). (When I visited there were flowers decorated.)
I passed carelessly, it was a small building that I come back again and managed to find out somehow.
古川勝三 - 『台湾を愛した日本人 -土木技師 八田與一の生涯』
司馬遼太郎 - 「珊瑚潭のほとり」(『街道をゆく 40 台湾紀行』
I went to Taiwan after reading the above three books.。
I could not find the location of the tunnel in the book. I was able to find a map here. Mr. Hatta made a tunnel in this place.
Again, I do not know well where I can run.
Dog was standing with drooling, the dog is looking at me in a blur.
I have heard a story in Taiwan that a dog chasing after barking.I was alert.
Contrary to my expectation, the dog was passing by ignoring me.
Itachi Badger 143 cases, 1 rat and 1 dog infection have been reported
Since infectious cases to humans have not been confirmed, it seems to be OK.
What I learned of that was after I returned from Taiwan and examined it online.
Motorcycles are two-seater common sense. There are also some people running with three people on board with more children.
