Xia Baocheng found General Liu, the director of Senhua Forest Farm, and shook out the irrationality of planting trees in Tianming Valley, and insisted that General Liu change his mind.

General Liu is also a native of the "second generation of Lin" in Senhua Forest Farm, and his age is similar to Xia Baocheng, and the two grew up together.

He looked at Xia Baocheng's excited appearance, shook his head with a wry smile and said: "Do you think you can bear it, how can I not know that Tianming Valley is a sandy land that has been barren for twenty years? However, this order was directly issued by the province, do you say that we are a small forest farm worker who has the right to stop it?"

"What?" Xia Baocheng stared dumbfounded. He works with trees all day long, and it is difficult for him to understand, why should he give instructions from the province if he just planted a tree.

General Liu looked at Xia Baocheng's tangled face, patted him on the shoulder, and said:

"Don't worry, the officers and soldiers in the military headquarters should come here just for an experiment, not for real afforestation. Choose Tianming Valley, just because the sun is good and it's easy to camp. You just lead the way. ”

"Oh! that's okay!" Xia Baocheng listened before his heart fell.

In fact, his fears were not unfounded.

In this area, water resources are scarce and the ecological environment is fragile. In the past decade or so, with the support of the state, the call for afforestation has been called, but unfortunately the method is wrong, and the uncontrolled pumping of underground water sources and the planting of new tree species have caused serious damage to the fragile ecosystem.

Over the years, the situation has only improved slightly in the face of worsening environmental threats, and the situation has only improved slightly by changing methods.

Xia Baocheng, who had gone through that stage, was particularly sensitive to this when he saw the efforts of several generations of Senhua Forest Farm being destroyed under the influence of blind afforestation projects.

Since it's not a large-scale tree plant, it doesn't hurt.

More than 100 officers and soldiers of a company followed Xia Baocheng's guidance and came to the destination Tianming Valley.

The old ranger, who ran around the woodland every day, was very curious about what kind of trees needed so many soldiers to escort to this place where the birds did not lay eggs.

What disappointed Xia Baocheng was that the three soldiers in charge of planting picked up iron hoes, dug three large pits almost two meters deep, put a seed that didn't look special into the deep pit, and then filled it to cover up.

Xia Baocheng watched it for a long time, and according to his experience, he felt that these people were just fooling around.

Anyone with a little common sense of planting knows that under normal circumstances, seeds should not be sown too deep, let alone in a two-meter-deep pit.

It's hell around.

Even if the seed can germinate with good luck, how can it "crawl" out of this man-made "big trap"?

"Eh, how can you plant trees like this?" Xia Baocheng couldn't help shouting, "If you plant trees like this, the seeds won't sprout! ”

"Uncle Xia, don't worry!" The soldier in the training uniform wiped a handful of yellow sand on his face, spit out the sand in his mouth, and then said with a smile, "This is the planting method explained by the experts to ensure that it can grow." ”

Three large pits, at least two meters apart, were put in the seeds, and they were quickly filled.

The wind and sand blew the dust, and the location of the kung fu pit only looked no different from other places for a while.

The soldiers who dug the pit placed a few heavy stones next to the three large pits that had been filled in as a marker for this planting area.

Xia Baocheng's heart was itching, and he was curious about this kind of plant that needed to be planted to a depth of two meters.

However, these soldiers were tight-mouthed and did not reveal anything to him.

When the planting is completed, the troops will set up camp, and they will be stationed here in a posture.

Xia Baocheng reluctantly looked at the eye-catching big stones, followed the car that the troops went out to procure, and left the Tianming Valley.

He also had to take them to the nearest county seat to purchase daily necessities.

When leaving, Xia Baocheng made up his mind that during the interval between patrolling the mountains, he must go to the valley to see what kind of plants can grow, and he still needs to shoot troops to guard them.

As time passed, Xia Baocheng often visited the officers and soldiers stationed in the Tianming Valley, but became familiar with them.

The three plants didn't seem to move.

However, these soldiers did not let go of their fatigue in the slightest, and at least one squad of soldiers guarded the plantation 24 hours a day.

A month passed, and Xia Baocheng got up again and followed the vehicle that sent supplies to the troops to this barren valley near the edge of the desert.

"Platoon Commander Liang, it's your turn to be on duty today!" Xia Baocheng grinned and greeted the familiar officer.

"Haha, Lao Xia, go over there and take a look, the tree you are thinking about in your heart has grown buds. The platoon leader Liang in Xia Baocheng's mouth was a burly strong man with dark skin, and when he saw Xia Baocheng, he said with a smile.

"Huh?" Xia Baocheng glared, like a rabbit jumping, kicking his legs and running over there, "Let me see, it's really strange!"

Although this company is stationed here to guard the planting land, the attitude towards these plants is not particularly strict, and forest farm workers like Xia Baocheng can still know some inside information.

It is said that this is a new plant variety.

It grows with extremely low water requirements.

In sandy land with less than 5% water vapor content, it can grow normally.

It is said that this plant has a high demand for sunlight.

It takes more than 10 hours of light to make it grow faster.

Xia Baocheng looked forward to it, and then saw three small purple-red shoots, growing ten centimeters from the ground, which looked a bit like asparagus.

"Ahh

Able to grow shoots from two meters deep to the ground, this plant is really tenacious.

Although Xia Baocheng never believed that the three seeds planted could germinate, when he saw the tender purple-red sprouts grow with his own eyes, his heart was full of great joy.

He can still see plants growing in this desert, and he feels that he has no regrets in this life.

Not only Xia Baocheng, but also the officers and soldiers of the military department who have eaten yellow sand here for more than a month are also full of joy in their hearts.

In fact, not only Xia Baocheng, but also those soldiers stationed here, except for some people with particularly big hearts, there are not many people who believe that plants grow here.

What's more, this month, they neither fertilized nor watered.

Guarding in this desert valley, they are all about to be blown into air-dried meat, and no matter how handsome a young man is, if he lives for a month, he will become an old man.

It's really surprising that this can still grow seedlings.

I can see the seedlings showing their heads, and more than 100 people have been exposed to the wind and sun for a month, and they have not tossed in vain.

After the saplings emerged, Xia Baocheng ran more often towards the Tianming Valley.

He just ran there every once in a while.