Chapter 500: Altitude Datum

Director Zhou's words were not shocking.

Fan Yang was attracted by the compass, as a Chinese, especially the people of this era, they are very familiar with this thing, in the countryside to see a good house, set a tomb, measure a good luck, the countryside to kill a pig is particular, almost every village has one or two feng shui gentlemen.

One of the daily necessities belonging to the common people, with a barefoot doctor is a truth, is a profession, learned to look at feng shui, recite the sacrificial text, look at the face, look at the palm prints, look at the time, name the child, look at the eight characters for talking about friends, in the village is also a respected person, a little bit of marriage and funeral things, can be mixed with some food.

So Mr. Feng Shui endures.

Later, all of them were cremated and buried in the cemetery, and the progress of urbanization accelerated, and this ancient profession gradually became scarce.

But don't say it, some of them are quite spiritual, the average rural person has gone unlucky, was hit by a stone, and his family is sick, he will ask Mr. Feng Shui to come and see the evil qi, what centipede yarn, King Kong sha, in short, there are many names, there are also corresponding methods to remove evil qi, or burn some paper talismans, set up a magic altar, change the fortune, and some are slowly getting better.

This compass is also specially made, and it is sold in the market, and it is very expensive.

However, what rural people do by themselves is generally not accurate.

A good feng shui gentleman will spend a lot of money to buy a piece of Taibend, which can be sold for one or two hundred yuan in the sixties and seventies, which is an heirloom-like object.

In short, it's very mysterious.

And in addition, the dragon ruler is no stranger to people in this era.

This thing is a probe rod made of brass, with a handle underneath, and a movable one on top, and a 20-centimeter-long copper bar, which is used in the countryside to dig wells for water.

This is also Mr. Feng Shui's standard utensils, it is used to find things, pigs in the countryside are lost, they will use this thing, generally two together, one on the left hand, one on the right hand, Mr. Feng Shui uses spells to urge the dragon ruler, where the ruler points to, where to find.

This seems to be an unfounded thing, but in the countryside it is used to find water and dig wells, and once you find one, after being measured by Mr. Feng Shui, he said that if you dig a well in this place, you will be able to dig water.

Fan Yang is a reborn person, of course he won't believe these things.

To sum up two words, ignorance.

But I didn't expect Director Zhou to be a dignified geological expert, graduated from the University of Petroleum, or a middle-level cadre of a state-owned enterprise, and more importantly, a professional prospector, so he actually said that he could use this prospecting?

Fan Yang was confused: "Can you find gold here?"

Stretched out his hand and pulled the compass in Director Zhou's hand, which was the size of a basin.

But I didn't get it.

Director Zhou hurriedly deviated: "What are you doing, why are you so reckless, take it lightly." ”

Xiao Lu glanced at it and said, "This is a feng shui compass, right? Director Zhou can read feng shui?"

Quality inspector Xiao Liu still didn't forget to pat himself on the back: "Hehe, our Director Zhou is a feng shui master." ”

"A bullshit feng shui master. But Director Zhou still had a smug face: "There is a little research." ”

As soon as he spoke, Farabi sent someone to pick it up, and the battle was quite large, a total of 7 Gas69s, the first three were empty, and the last four were exaggerated, all of them were fully loaded soldiers, a total of more than a dozen soldiers, and all of them were carrying guns.

There was also one with a soft-brimmed hat, who looked like an officer.

Fan Yang and they have long been accustomed to it, the streets of Almaty are full of this kind of gas 69, a car can carry 4 soldiers, they are all patrols with loaded guns and ammunition, and the atmosphere of war is very strong.

Director Zhou and the others were not adaptable, and said in surprise: "What's the matter, are we going out hunting? Why are all the troops pulled out?"

Li Qilin explained: "No, we are on the outskirts of the city, a little far, there are wild beasts on the mountain, and there are soldiers accompanying us to ensure our safety." ”

The beast is a fart, Fan Yang scolded in his heart, now the opposition in Almaty is rampant, a guerrilla unit has been formed, and when he goes to the countryside, it is all Crimean and C-ministers, and it is okay to be close, but something will really happen if he goes far.

Farabi walked over, hugged Director Zhou warmly, and invited them to get into the car.

Gas69 is an open-top jeep, this weather to take a convertible up the mountain, how comfortable this feeling, several people's interest was also fully mobilized, grabbing Gas's grip on the car.

This kind of gas can only sit 4 people, the co-pilot jumped up with a soldier carrying an AK, Fan Yang and Director Zhou sat in the back row together, and the seven-car convoy passed through three checkpoints before finally leaving Almaty.

Outside the city is a circle of rice fields, planted with rice and oil-wheat vegetables, and the cauliflower grows to the height of more than a person, and the ground is full of golden yellow.

After the wheat field circle, there is the company road leading to the Central Asian Military District, which is simply built at the foot of the mountain.

After passing the gate of the military region, there is another road, which is the way to climb the mountain.

In fact, the growth of plants is closely related to altitude, Fan Yang has been traveling south and north for a long time, and he has to participate in trade, especially agricultural and sideline products, and the basic knowledge is still relatively abundant.

Geographically, the altitude starts from sea level, but the criteria for identification vary from country to country, for example, he takes the sea level of Tokyo Bay as the starting point, and Taiwan is the starting point for the east coast of Keelung Port.

This altitude starting point is called the 0 scale.

On the Chinese side, the Yellow Sea level where the Qingdao tide gauge station is located is used as the starting point, and the Qingdao Guanxiang Mountain Rice is used as the altitude benchmark.

The low altitude is suitable for growing angiosperms, rice, wheat, vegetables, cotton and linen, that is, the main food crops.

For example, China's grain producing areas are concentrated in the three major plains along the coast, the Northeast Plain, the North China Plain, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain, plus the Pearl River Sanjiangzhou Plain, the average altitude of these places is only meters, which is China's four major granaries.

Then there are several large basins, the altitude is also relatively low, like the Sichuan Basin is very good, the average altitude is about 500 meters, the land is fertile, the grain is rich, the temperature is suitable, and it is also suitable for planting grain and cash crops, known as the country of abundance.

In addition, the important production areas are mainly concentrated in Xinyi, Tarim Basin, Qaidam Basin, Turpan Basin, and Junggar Basin.

The basin of Xinyi is extremely special, his altitude is negative, the average altitude is -155 meters, the international common altitude reference point is located in Xinin, it is reasonable that the grain production in this place is more than the four plains, but the key reason is that it is inland, lack of water, insufficient rainfall, so cotton has become the best choice.

Except for the four plains and the five major basins, the rest can be said to be all mountainous hills and plateaus.

Like Shaanxi, Guangxi, Hunan, Yunnan, the Great Xing'an Mountains in the northeast, the small Xing'an Mountains, these places are 600-1200 meters above sea level, and they enter the range of the forest line.

At an altitude of meters is tropical rainforest, 1200 meters is evergreen broad-leaved forest, and above 2500 meters is deciduous broad-leaved forest, fir, pine, cypress.

Above 2,800 meters, it is called the snow line.

At 3,000 meters, only alpine shrubs can grow, and above 5,000 meters above sea level, there is no grass, and it is a snow-capped mountain.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the natural conditions are extremely harsh, the average altitude is 0 meters, so this place is very barren, are all bare mountains.

Therefore, China's geography has a three-level ladder structure, the first ladder is the three plains, the second ladder is the mountainous forest line, and the third ladder is the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

As for Almaty, it is from the newly reined Tarim Basin, over the Tianshan Mountains, Alatau Mountains, and into the Central Asian steppes, with an average altitude of about 0 meters.

The location of Almaty is the junction of the steppe and the mountains.

Almaty is about 1,000 meters above sea level, and Mount Medeo is almost 2,000 meters.

At this height, the plant is still quite long, the mountain is full of all kinds of wild trees, locust trees, purple shirts, and pines and cypresses, in addition to the most artificially planted apple trees, each is four or five meters high, the sun is abundant, this apple grows out of a particularly sweet, so Almaty is also called Apple City.

To put it simply, it is similar to the terrain of Wenchuan.

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