Chapter 418: The Desert of the North

In those years, because their husband and wife had money in their hands, their status in their mother's family rose and they received a lot of respect. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

However, this good times did not last long, in recent years, when the money in the hands of their husband and wife gradually ran out, the attitude of the mother's family began to decline gradually, especially in the past few years, but the money in their hands was completely spent, and the mother's family could not borrow money from them, and their attitude towards them became worse and worse, and they didn't even say hello when they met.

In addition, in the past two years, especially last year and this year, stimulated by Lin Quan's fortune in Africa, my aunt felt even more sad.

The Lin family was originally a relative who didn't move around at all, in their eyes they were poor relatives, they were dragging oil bottles, they didn't bother to come and go at all, and they actually made a fortune in Africa, which made my aunt's heart even more jealous and uncomfortable, but after she was uncomfortable, she began to ponder.

Since that kid from the Lin family, an inexperienced hairy boy, can gain a foothold in Africa, why can't the men of their family?

In addition to the fact that the men in their family have a little more stinky problems, they are not bad at having skills and connections, and there are many comrades-in-arms back then, and many of these people are very related and have backgrounds in public, if they use the relationships of these people, they may not be able to gain a firm foothold in Africa, and Lin Quan can make a fortune in Africa, so they can naturally do it.

"How do you know so clearly?"

When his aunt said this, Lin Quan's uncle was also a little tempted.

What he is most worried about is that he has now changed jobs and left, if he can't mix outside, his current job will be gone, although the current job is not good, but it is better to be stable, and it has been accumulated for more than ten years, it is a pity for him to lose him.

And if he really goes to Africa to get a higher salary as his mother-in-law said, but also keeps his job here, it means that he has no worries.

It's just that there is one more thing that my uncle is more worried about, and that is his age.

He is forty years old, people are not confused, naturally can not advance and retreat as freely as young people, he wants to be face-bearing, he can't be as hard-working as young people, and he doesn't care about the reprimand of his boss and the difficulties of outsiders, young people are very angry, compared to the ability to endure hardships, that is to hang them these old guys, and they are thin-skinned, and they often will not be treated by the boss when they go out, unless they are very capable people.

Otherwise, the boss will definitely appoint younger, more malleable and more potential young people.

Thinking like this, my uncle began to hesitate again, his weakness is that he is a little indecisive, it is difficult to make up his mind to do something, and even the front foot has a hot head, he made up his mind, and after a while, he regretted it again, so many years because of this character, he has missed an unknown number of opportunities.

As soon as my aunt saw his expression, she knew his thoughts, she really knew her man too well, she had no choice, she could only continue to enlighten.

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In the north, the winter has been the coldest period, and after 3949, the temperature in the north has begun to rise slowly.

However, after a sandstorm hit, the yellow sand blown from the Mongolian steppe in the entire north caused most of the cities at the foot of Yanshan to suffer, and the entire sandstorm affected even Hebei and Shandong.

The dust weather in the capital has lasted for more than a year or two, as early as the Yuan Dynasty, since there were meteorological records, there were records of yellow sand raging.

The grasslands in the north are degraded because of overgrazing, and after the grassland is degraded, the bare land is easily formed into yellow sand when the north wind blows, and the Kubuqi Desert in Inner Mongolia is the closest desert to the capital.

The Kubuqi Desert is the seventh largest desert in China, with a total area of 14,500 square kilometers, this area of the desert is basically not worth mentioning in the Middle East, however, those countries in the Middle East have been deserts for thousands of years, their population density is very low, and they are not comparable to China at all, so although the Kubuqi Desert is not large, the impact and damage caused are very large, from Zhangjiakou to Tianjin, more than a dozen cities in the entire north are affected by it, affecting more than 100 million people, and causing economic losses of billions of yuan every year!

Since the fifties, the state has begun to pay attention to the management of this desert, but it is very difficult for human beings to overcome nature, not to mention that in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, China was poor and white, and there was no technology or capital, and only manpower was relatively abundant, so it could only be filled in by people.

However, this kind of efficiency is relatively low, although this kind of governance controls a part of the desert, so that it will not expand further, you must know that 60% of the Kubuqi Desert is a mobile desert, and it is not easy to block its southward advance, and those first and second generations of desertification prevention and control people have completed this impossible step.

Their job is to set up sand barriers with grass squares, then plant shrubs, irrigate them regularly, and then form biological soil crusts on the surface of the fastsand that develop over time. After that, there is no need for too much manual management, and the succession can be carried out naturally. However, due to the limitations of the natural conditions in the desert area, mainly the limitation of water, the number of vegetation that can be carried is limited, and the whole system can only develop to the state of moss, crust and shrub herbs, which is far away from the so-called oasis, but the sand dunes are fixed, and will not further erode other areas, and this work to achieve the final result, it is necessary to keep repeating the first step and the second step, that is, the grass grid should be continuously consolidated and strengthened, and the shrubs planted in the grass grid should be regularly irrigated, so that the shrubs planted in the grass grid can survive.

There are two difficulties in this, one is that the density of grass squares is very large, so the amount of work required is very amazing, and the working environment in the desert area is very bad, blowing sand, the sun is burning, the lack of water environment, etc., is simply a torture for workers to work here.

In addition, after the grass grid was established, the water source needed to irrigate the shrubs inside was also a problem.

Not every desert has groundwater, and not every desert can be exploited, if the groundwater is abundant, it is good to say, just like the Sahara Desert, direct access to groundwater will not cause any problems, but like those areas where groundwater is not very abundant, if you take groundwater directly, it will cause the groundwater level to drop, and if the groundwater level drops, the planted plants need to be irrigated for a long time, until their roots grow long enough to come into contact with the groundwater level, and they can ask for dependence on artificial irrigation。

And this brings the uncertainty and extension of the entire construction period, the construction period is extended, the manpower consumption will be greater, the water consumption will be greater, and the rainfall in the desert area is very small, but the water evaporation is very serious, which is equivalent to the more water extracted from the ground, the more water consumed, the more water evaporated, the more water lost, and the groundwater level will drop even more, which is a vicious circle!

What to do to avoid this?

The answer is to bring water from other places, the north of the Kubuqi Desert is the Yellow River, although there is still about ten kilometers away from the Yellow River, but this is not very far, because it is close to the water source, so the management of the Kubuqi will be possible!