Chapter 300: Transforming the Desert (4)
A hundred planes, carrying moso bamboos modified by Gao Yang's genetically modified technology, kept throwing them into the flooded desert.
These bamboos grow five to ten times faster than ordinary bamboos.
Under the action of the laser growth accelerator, these moso bamboos will grow faster, relying on the absorption of nutrients from seawater, these moso bamboos can grow into bamboo shoots in three hours, and grow to two meters tall in one day.
Hundreds of planes loaded with moso bamboo began to sow seeds in the desert, and a section of genetically altered moso bamboo fell from the sky and immersed itself in the seawater.
Each plane can be planted with five tons of bamboo seeds, each bamboo seed weighs only 20 grams, one ton is equal to 50,000, and five tons is equal to 250,000. One million plants are sown in one square kilometer, which is enough to cover all areas.
The plane kept sowing seeds, and a load of bamboo seeds fell into the water and germinated rapidly.
Aircraft formations kept going back and forth to the base, loading moso bamboo seeds and sowing seeds in the desert.
A few more hours had passed, the sun had risen, it was past nine o'clock in the morning, and after a hundred planes had passed four sowing seeds, the desert had been covered with seeds. The seawater above the eastern desert has seeped into the sandy bottom, the seeds have begun to sprout, and the bamboo shoots have begun to grow, and the sea water below the sand layer provides nutrients for these moso bamboos.
Gao Yang saw all this clearly through the picture transmitted back by Yan Huang, although the growth rate of these bamboos was very fast, it did not meet Gao Yang's requirements.
Gao Yang quickly issued an order to the Air Force: "Immediately send a hundred planes to use the laser growth promoter to scan all the deserts." ”
"Yes, sir."
After receiving the order, the military immediately sent 20 planes loaded with laser growth promoters and began to fly to Inner Mongolia.
From the Baijing military base to the desert of Inner Mongolia, it is only two or three hundred kilometers, and the plane has already arrived at the destination in dozens of minutes.
The plane began to reduce the speed of its flight, it was only a hundred meters high from the ground, the desert was flat, this kind of flight speed would not have any danger, and a series of blue pillars of light poked out from under the plane, these lasers slowly scanned the desert, and the plane had reduced its speed to the bottom.
Each aircraft scans an area of 20 kilometers, and they scan back and forth more than a dozen times to ensure that the laser growth accelerator can scan each moso bamboo and promote their photosynthesis.
Under the scanning of the laser growth accelerator, Gao Yang saw a magical picture, those moso bamboos that had a terrifying growth rate were growing at a speed that was almost visible to the naked eye. Moso bamboo absorbs nutrients from the seawater under the sand layer, and the bamboo shoots grow well under the stimulation of the laser growth accelerator to improve their photosynthesis.
In less than two hours, a miracle had already appeared, and bamboo shoots that were two meters tall and ten centimeters thick were scattered all over the desert for hundreds of kilometers, densely packed. The bamboo roots under the sand layer reach a depth of several meters. However, as the sea water beneath the sand layer began to seep deeper, the nutrients needed by the bamboo shoots began to be insufficient, and the growth of the bamboo shoots was limited.
Many bamboo shoots begin to lose their vitality without water and nutrients to support their growth.
All this is what Gao Yang wants, when these bamboo shoots die and rot, they will cover the desert, the plants will decompose into mud mixed with sand, and the desert will become fertile soil. In order to speed up the decomposition of these plants, Gao Yang gave another order, and let twenty planes, loaded with some chemicals, fly to the desert.
After five hours, all the bamboo shoots began to die without the support of nutrients.
Twenty planes soon arrived in the desert, and the planes began to spray chemical potions like super-powerful herbicides, and under the effect of those potions, the bamboo shoots that were one person tall quickly fell down, and after they decomposed, they turned into organic matter and water, covering the desert.
After a few hours, the surface of the 400-kilometer desert has been covered by black organic matter and water flowing out of the decomposition of bamboo shoots, and from the sky, the 400-kilometer desert has become a muddy swamp, and the surface of the desert is covered by ten centimeters of decomposed plant decomposition, and the surface of the desert has an extra layer of thin soil.
It was night again, the sun was gone, and the water on the desert evaporated slowly, and Gao Yang once again ordered the planes to sow grass and bamboo and other plant seeds.
After a night of sowing, the bamboo and grass take root again in these thin soils.
Gao Yang ordered twenty planes to apply fertilizer to the desert, and another twenty planes to use laser growth promoters to promote plant growth.
Five hours later, the second batch of plants began to grow. Two-meter-tall bamboo shoots and green grass began to grow on top of the desert, covering 400 kilometers of desert, which from the outside looked like it had been transformed into an oasis, but Gao Yang understood that a ten-centimeter-thick layer of soil was of little use. At that moment, Gao Yang once again ordered twenty planes to spray chemicals and kill all the plants.
After the bamboo and grass were killed by the drug and decayed, the desert was covered with 30 centimeters of plant decomposition.
Gao Yang made a plan for the military region, asking them to use 100 planes to constantly sow seeds in the desert, apply fertilizers, promote photosynthesis, and then kill plants to make them decompose.
Seven days later, according to Gao Yang's order, the military region continued to transform the desert, and the surface of the desert was already covered with decaying plants, leaving behind two meters thick plant decompositor, these plant decompositants with water, like mud.
Once again, Gao Yang sent a small amount of rain to the desert, and the rain fell from the sky and hit the desert, mixing the sand and decomposed plant decomposition through the impact, and piling up a four-meter-thick mixture of sediment on the surface of the desert.
Gao Yang ordered the military district to rest for three days, let the sun expose the sediment to the sand, let it solidify into clods, and then sow plants.
Three days later, the desert had turned into mud under the sun, and Gao Yang ordered the military region to sow grass in the desert and put some genetically optimized earthworms, and the transformation of the desert was completed in the early stage.
After the plants grow and die, their decomposition products will be turned into nutrients, which will be mixed with the sediment, increasing the amount of material in the sediment. And an even more biological earthworm will be the hero of the desert transformation. These earthworms can grow up to 20 centimeters long and have thick fingers, and they can constantly devour plant decay, bacteria in the soil, and improve the soil.
Each earthworm can transform 0.3 square meters of soil in a day, making these soil quality and making it fertile. And earthworms have an extremely high reproduction rate, they can lay eggs once a week. In less than a month, the billions of earthworms dropped by the plane will successfully transform all the deserts, making the desert soil comparable to fertile soil.
Let the surface of the desert accumulate three or four meters of fertile soil, and the water under the desert will provide an endless stream of water to the plants, and then plant all kinds of plants in the desert, stocking some cattle, sheep, rabbits and other creatures, let them eat grass, remove feces, plus earthworms and other insects, after three to six months of ecological transformation, the desert will completely become soil.
To transform a 400-square-kilometer desert, it takes 100 planes to work for a month, and 10,000 planes can only transform 40,000 square kilometers of desert if all of them are dispatched, and if calculated on an annual basis, 500,000 square kilometers can be transformed in a year.
Of course, all this is at the efficiency of 10 hours a day for airplanes, and if the hours of airplane work are increased to 20 hours a day, 10,000 airplanes can transform 1 million square kilometers of desert in a year. It takes three years for all of China's deserts to be transformed into fertile soil.
If you just give the desert precipitation, 400 square kilometers, excluding the machinery, it will cost 300 million US dollars, and 12,000 square kilometers of desert precipitation a month is only more than 20 billion US dollars, but to transform the desert into a real oasis, it is also necessary to transform the soil.
Transforming the soil is the most expensive, which requires the plane to keep sowing plants, and after the plants die, let the plants decompose, and then sow seeds, and after the cycle reaches a certain extent, then let earthworms, cattle, sheep and rabbits and other organisms transform the soil.
Gao Yang calculated that in addition to the cost of machinery and the fuel money consumed by the aircraft, seeds, fertilizers, chemicals, super earthworms, cattle and sheep, growth promoters, nano metal powder, workers' wages, and other materials added up, the funds needed to transform 400 square kilometers reached 1 billion US dollars, which also included nano metal powder can be recycled.
Excluding the cost of machinery, the cost of renovation per 10,000 square kilometers reached $25 billion, and if China's 3 million square kilometers of desert were to be transformed into green, it would cost $7.5 trillion. If so many deserts are to be transformed, more machines will be needed, and the total expenditure will not be less than ten trillion dollars. It costs $30 billion per 10,000 square kilometers.
It's not that I don't know, but I'm shocked.
"I rely on 7.5 trillion US dollars, the market value of our Aihua company's stock is only 3.5 trillion US dollars, even if you add the oil money brought by the five maritime cities of 400 billion US dollars, the total is only 3.9 trillion US dollars, of which, I still have to pay tens of millions of people's salaries, grandma's per capita salary of 20,000 US dollars, a year's salary has to be nearly 900 billion US dollars, and the money I can actually use is almost 3 trillion US dollars."
"I can't use up all the three trillion dollars, I can only use up to two trillion dollars, otherwise Aihua will fall into a crisis. In other words, I can only use a maximum of $2 trillion, which is only enough to transform 600,000 square kilometers. Maritime cities require $50 billion per 10,000 square kilometers, and transforming deserts is almost half as cheap, and it can be used permanently, but the money is too large. ”
If you want to transform all the desert, there is still a gap of eight trillion US dollars, even if Aihua company adds more than a dozen new maritime cities next year, it can bring one trillion US dollars in revenue every year, and increase the income of three trillion US dollars in three years, it is still 4 trillion US dollars in funds, and this funding gap must be filled by the state. You can't empty your own family for the sake of the country.
Gao Yang asked Yan Huang to make a video of the transformation of the desert, and then rushed to Baijing with the plan, Gao Yang's purpose is very simple, he helps the country to transform the desert, and provides 3 million square kilometers of land for the country, so he can't contribute for free, the country must invest in itself, just tens of thousands of planes are not enough to support this plan.
The country's finances have reached $7 trillion this year, and will reach $9 trillion next year, and the country's foreign exchange reserves have reached $8 trillion. Always advanced money to engage in projects, Gao Yang felt very lost.
(To be continued)