Millions of square kilometers are no man's land, and the terrain of that land is so strange that it is difficult for outsiders to understand - densely packed and intertwined with countless lakes and rivers, which cannot be seen on a large-scale map, but as soon as you open Canada's own small-scale map, you will immediately find that it is impossible to build roads and railways in that area!

Moreover, the so-called islands between the lakes are actually wetlands in summer, and the shallow position below is permafrost, even if Zhang Nan goes crazy and wants to build a highway with all his wealth, it will not work by using viaducts!

There are no roads and no railways, and if you rely on air transportation alone, unless there are so many diamonds there that they can be easily obtained like the sand in the Three Realms Battlefield in Yan County, anyone who goes will lose money!

The three engineers quit their jobs, to put it bluntly, to make a lot of money. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info the geographical location and environment of this mining area are terrible, and Xiang Zhangsheng has to have a headache: the boss can make money, and their efforts will be rewarded.

To open a diamond mine, you need oil, explosives, and daily necessities...... Working with stones, these daily costs are a huge number.

What's more troublesome is the machinery and equipment to be used, even if a smaller model is used in the mine, the volume and weight are not something that small and medium-sized seaplanes can bear, even if it is disassembled and transported!

The excavators used in mining alone, the commonly used ones will weigh hundreds of tons, even if they use about 360 type, it is still thirty or forty tons.

If you want to get rich, build roads first: if the traffic is not good, everything is in vain!

The three engineers were digging out their minds there, and after the others listened to the analysis of Xiang Zhangsheng and others, their brows also furrowed.

This seems to be an unsolvable puzzle.

But!

Zhang Nan took a ruler and drew a straight line directly between Huangdao City and the first mining site.

"First the reserves are surveyed, and the small drilling rigs are dismantled and can be transported by seaplane. When large-scale construction and mining begins, we will build an ice highway on this line!"

Everyone's eyes lit up.

Still, okay?

One thing that was overlooked was that there is a long winter, and you can take advantage of the frozen lakes and wetlands.

People can't get into the horns, and besides, no one here has ever seen the cold life in the Arctic, and I really can't think of doing this just now.

Faced with everyone's questions, Zhang Nan said: "Don't you know that that's what Canadians do?"

There was already more than 400 kilometres of ice roads, served by large Viagra gold mines, but it wasn't visible on the map, and we could only use a small section of it. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Nan also sighed, and said: "Actually, we still need to do it ourselves, because the existing ice road will completely disappear in the spring, and there will not even be an axle print." ”

As soon as she heard this, Nicole cursed over there: the negotiator she sent over did not report the incident at all.

Xiang Zhangsheng didn't understand Nicole's swearing: they only knew a little English, and they had to be translated by Alyosha to talk. It seems that in the next year or two, these three old and young people will have to practice foreign languages hard.

Ice roads, the only solution.

Northern Canada is rich in mineral resources, but there are so many lakes and rivers in the region that it is impossible to build conventional roads. The goldfields were isolated in spring, summer and autumn, and had to rely on helicopters and seaplanes to transport supplies.

However, in winter, the continuous lakes form hundreds of miles of ice, which Canadians use to create unique and unusually wide "ice highways".

Zhang Nan knows that the world's longest and largest transportation volume of the "ice highway" before the rebirth is the one he wants to open up now: 85% of the nearly 700 kilometers of winter transportation lines in the whole field are thick ice surfaces formed by the freezing of lakes and rivers in winter.

The ice-surface highway is now in existence, first appeared in 1983, and was used for a gold mine, about 450 kilometers long, but the gold mine is purely a loss-making business, and it is expected that investors will soon shut down.

"Alan, that requires a lot of transport vehicles and drivers who can drive on the ice. ”

It's a huge project, and Nicole is a little worried.

Zhang Nan smiled and said: "We don't have to worry in two or three years, the original gold mine there has already prepared vehicles and drivers for us, and their production is close to collapse, and some are trucks and drivers looking for jobs."

However, this can only cope for a while, and in two or three years there will be a shortage of manpower, and there will be enough dispatchers and maintenance workers for the road. ”

What do you want dispatchers and workers for?

Because that's driving on ice!

Heavy trucks of all kinds, fuel trucks, flatbed trucks, trailers, etc., are all available: the maintenance of the ice highway is more difficult than the asphalt road – workers are required to brave the cold to constantly splash water on the ice to increase the thickness of the road.

Moreover, Zhang Nan knew that the pressure generated by the truck's pressure on the ice would cause the water under the ice to flow, and sometimes even break through the ice to form large holes, which could only be repaired with water - in such a place, you could not stop, you could only move forward, otherwise the car would definitely sink into the ice.

Know what Dalbis did before: trucks carrying goods on the ice highway in groups of four, leaving every 20 minutes, day and night, in order to bring in as many supplies as possible before the end of winter.

But even if it's cold and the ice can easily exceed 1.2 meters thick, and it's okay to drive a 70-ton truck, the ice road still often undergoes unexpected changes: the ice surface bends, cracks, brittles, and inexplicably expands and shrinks......

Therefore, the speed of the vehicle is not fast, and it can only drive 10 to 20 kilometers per hour.

In this way, it is a killer of truck drivers - not only because of the unstable ice, but also because of the drowsiness and delusion caused by boredom!

Nicole frowned and said, "That place is too remote, hard, and dangerous, even if the salary is high, it is estimated that there will not be many Canadians who can drive there." ”

Yes, her worries are not unfounded: although Yellowknife City has the highest per capita income in Canada, not many people really want to work and settle in such a northerly place.

Paul interjected: "Miss Nicole, don't worry too much about this, Canadian immigration and restrictions on foreigners working there are relatively loose, especially in the northern region, and there are still non-Canadian citizens who earn hard-earned money." ”

The land is vast and sparsely populated, and there is a serious shortage of labor, otherwise there would not be so many people immigrating to Canada.

When Zhang Nan heard this, he smiled and said, "Will you go to open it?"

"If I hadn't been a bodyguard before, I could earn a year's basic salary in the United States by driving a truck there for three or four months a year, and I would have gone back. ”

If you don't make a year's worth of money in a few months, that American fool will go there to work?

"The insurance will be high, and the estimated driver mortality rate and vehicle damage rate will also be high," Nicole said. ”

It's an economic accounting.

Zhang Nan smiled, "Since Canada has relaxed restrictions on foreigners' work, we will have the world's most skilled drivers in cold areas, and we will definitely not be paralyzed and careless when driving." ”

Jenny, who was joining in the fun, heard that the words "the best in the world" were so big that they couldn't be said nonsense!

"My brother-in-law!"

"Huh?"

"Yes, as far as my brother-in-law is concerned, he definitely has a way. ”

Now Zhang Nan's Huaxia bodyguards are all smiling, they already know who they are looking for: the automobile soldiers on the Sichuan-Tibet line, the heroic automobile soldiers who have been demobilized from the first difficult road in the world!

As long as you drive on the Sichuan-Tibet line for 3 years, there is no road condition that you can't deal with.