"This ...... I'm just here to plant trees, why is there such a big battle?"

On the way down from Chang'an Airport and on the way to the train station, Gu Biao was shocked by the local scene.

He saw the team led by the idle deputy provincial who was not in the top ranking, as well as the leaders of the Zhengxi Association who were engaged in the unification work in the province, and brought a large group of people from relevant departments of agriculture, forestry and environment, and media reporters from all walks of life to pick up the plane at the gate of the airport.

Gu Biao can be regarded as a "well-known Wudang patriot" at the moment, so to win over people like him, it is indeed necessary for the main local leaders who are engaged in the work of unification and occupation to come forward.

The Xinhua News Agency has branches in all provinces, so they can send people on the spot, but CCTV and "Renren Daily" have to send special people.

A banner was also displayed at the exit of the terminal, "Warmly welcome Mr. Gu Wei, a well-known patriotic Hong Kong businessman, to come to the province to donate funds for afforestation."

However, this kind of welcoming scene, Gu Biao has not met for several years, and he was not greeted by him - he only brought a Sony executive to show with him this time, and the other is Shinichi Watanabe and Professor Lin Renze. Sony has not sent Akio Morita himself.

It is said that if it were in Gu Biao's hometown of Qiantang, or in open areas such as Beijing, Hujiang, and eastern Guangdong, with the vision of the relevant leaders in 1985, they would never have gone to such great lengths for the charity that donated 10 million US dollars. At the latest, it will be 82 years at the latest.

After all, China's development has been very rapid in recent years, and the vision of relevant leaders has also increased by more than single digits every few years.

However, it now seems that Gu still underestimated the size of China and the differences in the degree of development in different places.

He has been a human being in two lives, including before crossing in his previous life, although he ran to more than a dozen provinces and cities across the country, the closest place to the mainland in the past is estimated to be Luzhou - and he has been to it when he was a "college entrance examination immigrant" in this life, and in his previous life, he has been to the farthest city from the sea in China, which is only Jinling and Jeju in Lu Province.

"It turned out that 10 million dollars of charity was such an important thing for the northwest provinces, and it was miscalculated. Gu Biao secretly thought in his heart.

"Thank you very much Mr. Gu for his righteousness and wealth, and a patriotic heart. It is not easy for our mainland provinces to hope for a patriotic Hong Kong businessman. ”

The leaders concerned shook hands tightly with Gu Biao, and it was relatively simple to listen to each other's words. It should be the kind of people who have cleared up the unfair treatment they received in their early years, reassigned to a deputy position in a leadership position, and enjoyed their old age according to their treatment.

"Professor Watanabe and Commissioner Hirai, thank you very much for your strong support, and I hope that the seedlings of China-Japan friendship will be evergreen. As long as the Japanese side is willing to develop together, we Chinese will also look forward. Cadres from other places also talked very happily about the person brought by Gu Biao, and what they said was very old-fashioned.

In the short journey from the airport to the railway station, Gu Biao was bombarded with words by many people, and asked him to consider investing in Yunyun in the local area. It was impossible for some high-ranking leaders to accompany him to the north of the province, so they insisted on giving him a banquet at the provincial guest house near the railway station.

Gu Biao also refused very hard. It's not that he doesn't want to invest, it's that there is really no industry to invest in and the infrastructure is too poor.

In the end, he really couldn't prevaricate, so Gu Biao had to use the relevant knowledge about Ant Forest that he had accumulated when he worked at Alipay in his previous life to cope with the past.

Gu Biao was in a showdown: "This time, the afforestation plants that Tiansuo Environmental Protection Fund is preparing to promote in Yuzhou are mainly Shuttle trees. The root system of the Axon tree can parasitize Cistanche. If the local people really want to help the poor and benefit the farmers, organize the tree farmers to allocate some manpower and energy to take care of Cistanche.

As long as the local government can approve enough train capacity, we can use our business network in Yueben, Xiangjiang and Nanyang to help underwrite, which is the maximum I can do. ”

"Cistanche? Is this thing very valuable? It seems that I haven't seen this medicinal herb made in China, can't you afford to eat it?" asked the relevant leader kindly but not daring to believe it.

Gu Biao can only explain: "At present, China really can't afford to eat, so there is not such a big market." However, in terms of the area and output of our Tiansuo Environmental Protection Fund, the Japanese, South Korean and Nanyang markets are definitely digestible. ”

Everyone in the local area was in high spirits, and the accompanying reporters naturally couldn't help but write a special book, and they also filmed the process of Gu Biao's conversation with the leaders of relevant departments.

This incident is similar to the shock of those tropical mountain and forest provinces in the southwest two years ago when they suddenly heard that "matsutake mushrooms are very expensive to sell instinctively".

When the poor mountain people in the southwest who only earn a few cents a day suddenly saw that Japanese businessmen could pay 30 or 40 US dollars a kilogram to buy mushrooms that were originally "only slightly tastier than other mushrooms" in the eyes of the mountain people, everyone in the local area went crazy. Picking a mushroom is worth the original month's income, who doesn't desperately grab it.

Mr. Gu is assured that the local government will definitely coordinate the railway capacity to ensure that the seedlings and other materials can be transported smoothly. After smoothing out the situation, the local leader immediately patted his chest and assured.

This invisibly saved Gu Biao some trouble.

Originally, he still had scruples about doing environmental charity in China in the 80s - mainly in these years, it is difficult for you to do good deeds without money. At least the planned freight of the railway is relatively cheap, but the wagons are not easy to approve, if you want to transport saplings and get enough capacity, you have to take a little bit and get the wagons at the black market price.

Taking public resources at a black market price is really more serious, and it can be regarded as "benefit delivery", and people like Gu Biao are more resistant in their hearts.

Now, the local government feels that this matter is not only environmentally friendly, but also profitable, and at the same time benefits the people and increases income, and is willing to approve the planned train capacity wagons, but it saves Gu Fei dirty hands.

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After getting rid of some of the reception staff in the province, Gu Biao and his entourage finally boarded a train with only two passenger wagons and 20 freight wagons dragged behind them, and set off north from Chang'an.

Two wagons, a total of less than 100 people. The wagon in front of it was relatively empty, mainly Gu Biao and his party and those Japanese businessmen and professors. The latter section is devoted to local escorts, journalists, and local scholars.

As for the wagons of the 20 wagons, they were full of small seedlings of the shuttle trees. It was Gu Biao who made people prepare more than a month in advance.

In later generations, Alipay's Ant Forest generally required breeding to a total weight of about 20 kilograms of soil for the whole tree and root system before planting it in the desert. However, Gu Biao does not have this condition now, so he only cultivates it in an excellent environment for a month or two, and plants it when he gets about 5 kilograms of roots.

The biggest trouble with the planting of the Saxon tree is that the survival time of the seeds is too short, if the seeds are mature and exposed, they do not survive within a few hours and take root in the water, then they will die directly. However, as long as the root system grows slightly, the subsequent mortality rate is not so high.

The Mu Us that Gu Biao went to govern had already gone through more than ten years of grass and windbreak sand, which was better than the environment of the ant forest in later generations, so after those experts evaluated, they felt that this size could be planted.

A train wagon is equivalent to the capacity of an extended heavy-duty container, and counting the packaging and soil cultivation of the shuttle tree, 20 wagons have transported about 10 tens of thousands of saplings, which is only enough for a show.

Planting 100,000 seedlings of H. amon, even the cost of hardware to the follow-up employment of labor, supporting grass grids, is estimated to cost hundreds of thousands of yuan. It covers more than 1 square kilometer of desert.

According to the scale of the Tiansuo Environmental Protection Fund, in the future, it will be necessary to plant at least ten times this amount every month, and eat 20 square kilometers of desert in a month, which is enough to see.

According to "10 million US dollars invested in replacing 200 square kilometers of desert", Mu Us still has more than 30,000 square kilometers of desert left, and if Gu Biao wants to rely on his own money to eliminate it, it will not be enough for him to invest his current cash and family property.

Therefore, the main credit and contribution still have to count on the country, and Gu Biao can only be willing to make a show and take a small half of the credit.

After all, the Ant Forest of Jack Ma in later generations was engaged in for several years, but in fact, it only wiped out four or five thousand square kilometers of desert, which was only one-tenth of the area of Mu Us in its heyday. The country's investment in environmental protection is not just a mu usu, it can be seen that the power of Jackma's family is still relatively small compared with the national team, at best it only accounts for 3%~5% of the national team.

He hopes to take advantage of the fact that the country is still poor and the amount of investment in environmental protection is small, so that the investment of the Tissot Fund can exceed 10% of the national team, which is better to say.

Even if the country has money in the future and represses the percentage, it will be "once wider".

The train gradually traveled north, and when it was almost to Yuzhou, it was already full of wind and sand on both sides of the railway.

Yuzhou is close to the Yellow River and the Great Wall in the north, but it is not an old border area, because the "Ganning" area was only until the fat, and Yuzhou further north was the territory of the Jin Sui Army Yan before the war.

Just a few kilometers north of the city, there is an endless desert, and the worst thing is that these deserts do not appear in places where water is scarce - the rolling Yellow River runs south along the east side of this desert.

If you can trace the river for one or two hundred kilometers, you can see that the Yellow River is still very clear, it is a "silver CHUAN", but after passing through the more than 100 kilometers of river in the north of Yuzhou City, it will instantly turn yellow, and it will carry away one billion tons of sand every year.

"I didn't expect that in a place with such abundant water, there can be deserts. ”

"Yes, yes, this is the rolling Yellow River, just the desert of the big river, doing evil. ”

The reporters from the "Renren Daily" and CCTV from the capital obviously had never been to such a harsh environment and such a contrasting place, and they were shocked to see it from afar when they stood on the desert by the Yellow River.

They couldn't imagine that there was such a place in China.

"Mr. Gu, why is there a desert by the Yellow River? Is this why you chose to come here to engage in charity and sand control?"

"Well, these deserts are ready for transformation, and there is no shortage of water here, but it is only caused by the erosion and loss of soil nutrients and the complete loss of soil viscosity after the destruction of vegetation.

Therefore, as long as the root system is developed, good at accumulating humus and clay, and the soil is consolidated and improved, it may not be impossible to restore to the state before the five dynasties and ten kingdoms 'harvesting Qinlong big wood and Weibei is all bad'. From the Qin and Han dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Loess Plateau was a rich place that gave birth to ancient civilizations, not a natural desert. Although I have now taken the right of abode in Xiangjiang, as a descendant of Yan and Huang, this is what I should do. ”

As he spoke, Gu Biao carried a shovel tied with a red ribbon-cutting ribbon, and dug a pit on the bank of the high Yellow River, where local farmers had already laid grass lattices in advance, and then poured a lesson of Suosuo saplings down and watered them with some water.

The reporters of CCTV and "Renren Daily" chose the angle that best highlighted the height of the character, and clicked the shutter.

Behind Gu Biao is the Yellow River rolling south, and the wind on the bank blows his hair like an artist.