Chapter 1324: Map Pit
The boss wanted to go to Mongolia for a while, and Pavel was able to tell him very clearly: there was no problem with safety, but there was a big problem in life, and the place he was going to could almost catch up with the no-man's land of Siberia.
Nobody, unless you can get the boss's somewhat exaggerated bulletproof off-road RV over, you have to live in a tent.
Actually, even if you get there, it's not much better, you can't buy anything there, because there is only one city in the whole of Mongolia, and it's four or five hundred kilometers away from the place where you want to go.
Fortunately, with the boss's financial resources compared with the poor sour image over there, as long as you spend some money, it is estimated that you can't starve him, just think about living in a five-star hotel, don't think about it, sleeping in the open is the right way.
Besides, Mongolia can't come up with a five-star hotel.
"Boss, Ulaanbaatar is a city there, and the country has a population of more than 2 million, and this capital accounts for almost half.
Where are you going to go to Hangai Mountain, it would be better if it was close to Checherleg, there can be 15,000 people there, and there can be a simple hotel in the provincial capital.
If it's in the county down there, you'll have to bring your own tent. ”
As soon as he heard this, Zhang Nan looked at the few words he wrote in his notebook after contacting Nong Bosheng before.
"It's still a hundred kilometers away from what you said, in this...
Oh, and to the west of this Checherleg, there is a place called Gol Mautus, where archaeologists have intermittently discovered that they have been working for several years, and it is a large group of ancient tombs. ”
Nan said as he pointed out the approximate location on a map of Asia on the table, making a small circle with a pencil.
Well, this will Pavel smiled bitterly and said: "Boss, there you only have one thing to worry about, mosquito protection when the weather is warm."
However, the altitude of Hangai Mountain is high, and there will not be many mosquitoes in late August, at least not much more than in the wild on Long Island. ”
"Don't worry about anything else?"
"There are a lot of wild beasts, but they have to be afraid of you, it's almost a no-man's land, and the nearest settlement can be hundreds of kilometers away, and at most some herders will occasionally pass by.
Those herdsmen would never dare to provoke us, no matter how poor they were. ”
It is extremely vicious, and only those who have encountered it to understand it understand that it is possible to experience this extremely poor area once you visit it.
It's good, it's okay to be safe.
At this time, Andrei interjected: "Boss, if you really want to go there, the garrison still has to contact us, at least a few helicopters can be prepared for us."
The roads over there are super bad, and the cars they can provide are even worse, and the reliable ones are off-road trucks, which are estimated to be able to turn you upside down, or helicopters.
As long as there are helicopters, we can use the civil aviation station in Cherleg to make a transfer, and it will be convenient for us to go anywhere at that time. ”
Since he asked the two of them, it meant that some red devils had to go with him this time, and Andre had to know that he had to ask.
Now Zhang Nan said: "You can arrange it, the United States only established diplomatic relations with Mongolia five years ago, and the relationship here is unreliable."
By the way, do you need to send someone there first?
I've heard that the temperature will be below freezing in the morning and evening in October, so I need to arrange it as soon as possible. ”
Pavel nodded, "Yes boss, it's best not to go there as soon as it's past mid-October, there will be heavy snow and cold spells at any time." ”
The Red Devils are Russian and don't care about the cold, but the boss is a southerner from China, and now he lives in New York, which is not too cold.
But Andrey and the others can be sure that the boss will definitely not like the winter in Forte, the Mongolian plateau!
Then Pavel noticed an interesting and amateurish action of the boss: he took a ruler and measured the distance on the map, as if trying to determine the proportion of the distance of the Hangai Mountain area on the Asian continent.
"Boss, what are you?"
"Oh, look at the distance from the north and south of the continent, you see how far away this is from the Arctic Ocean, that ghost place is said to be able to freeze cattle to death in winter, and it is not as high as the northeast dimension of Huaxia. ”
"Boss, your error will be very large, and you can't do it accurately. ”
Hearing Pavel's words, Zhang Nan was a little puzzled and said, "Why?"
Why is it not accurate, not all of them are measured in this way using the map scale.
"You don't know?"
Pavel looked a little embarrassed to ask.
"What should I know?
Something to say, I'm careless, what's wrong with this measurement?"
Zhang Nan already felt that something must be wrong.
Speaking of this, Pavel had to say: "Boss, the earth is round, and the projection method is used to draw a plane map, and the higher the latitude, the greater the stretch of the projection.
The Soviet Union is the northernmost part of the Asian continent, and because of the high latitude on the plane map, this kind of large-scale map is much more stretched and expanded than the actual size, and it looks very large. ”
This map was printed a few years ago, and the Soviet Union is still there.
Zhang Nan said in his heart, "Huh?"
Funny, what's the situation?
His high school geography teacher didn't teach him what Pavel said, and now he feels like a fool!
Yes, it's a bit strange to think about it: the area of the Soviet Union is more than twice the size of China, but it seems to be more than three times the size of this map, so the problem is here!
It seemed that the boss really didn't understand, Pavel simply continued: "Boss, if you want to measure the actual distance, you can refer to the globe, and the actual distance on the globe is the standard..."
After Pavel's explanation, it became clear that it was no wonder that Russia and Canada looked so big on this map, and it turned out that it was pitted by the map itself!
By the way, I complained about my own geography teacher, obviously I didn't teach it well, so that Zhang Nan would be ugly that could be regarded as harmless.
Fortunately, he really doesn't care much about his lack of knowledge, and he lives to learn all the time, no one is born to be an all-rounder.
This is the beginning of the action, to go to Mongolia, which has to be prepared in advance.
If you want to say hello to your allies in Washington first, this is not to Africa, but to Mongolia, which is sandwiched between Russia and China.
This will have a greater impact than going directly to Moscow!
Andrei first sent someone to South Korea, and then rushed to Ulaanbaatar to arrange, but the United States did not have a direct flight there.
Zhang Nan will not take ordinary civil aviation transfers, there is far enough, and enough to detour, then the approval of private jet routes along the way also has to take some thought, it is best to fly ordinary civil aviation routes, and send people to contact the relevant air traffic management departments in advance.
And Ulaanbaatar also has to take care of it, which is also a big deal for them!
The Wall Street giants are coming, and if they don't say hello in advance, God knows how they'll be going to be brainstorming.
This period of busyness, when everything is arranged, the time is in mid-August.