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Something did happen today.

Because the mother tree is placed in the lawn area of the villa, it has sufficient water, sunlight and nutrients, sprouts, grows, and grows to the size of a thumb and more than half a meter high.

According to the hint of the light brain assistant Xiaolan, it is almost ready to be transplanted into the desert.

Chen Dong checked some things about contracting deserts on the Internet, and then checked the relevant regulations of the state on contracting deserts.

Deserts can be contracted, and it is feasible to engage in agriculture in the desert, in fact, there are many people who have done this, and some people have managed the desert out of public welfare.

There are also people who contract the desert because of the economic benefits that the desert can produce, such as planting Salix in the desert, which is extremely adaptable to the desert environment, and has a strong sand fixation ability, which is very effective in the management of the desert, and this plant can be used as livestock feed, and straw can be used to make paper.

There is also breeding rabbits, rabbit manure can improve the alkalinity of the soil, meat can be eaten, and fur can be processed as raw materials.

I heard that Turkey and Israel are engaged in aquaculture in the desert.

Just do what you say.

The next day, Chen Dong flew from Dinghai to Qingning Yin/Chuan Airport, and then from Qingning Yin/Sichuan Airport to the Tengger Desert in Zhongwei area.

Speaking of the Zhongwei area, in history, it is very famous, an important hub station of the 'Silk Road', which has prospered in commerce and trade since ancient times, and relies on the Yellow River for animal husbandry and agriculture, and was called 'plugging the south of the Yangtze River' by the people at that time.

Chen Dong came to this small northwest city near the Tengger Desert.

First of all, the relevant departments of the local government/government were contacted and offered to contract a desert.

The head of the local government/government is a section chief on this side. The surname is Wang, and his name is Wang Ze.

After listening to Chen Dong's request to contract a piece of desert, Wang Ze did not feel strange.

Because, there are many people who have come here to contract deserts before, and there are generally two kinds of people, one is young people, especially college students who have just graduated from university, have received a good education, have enthusiasm, and are willing to do social welfare. Not far away. Coming here from all over the country. Contracting the desert, planting trees, laying grass, on this land. Dedicate your youth and blood.

There are also people who come here to start a business, contract the desert, plant sand willow, raise rex rabbits, etc., sand willow and rex rabbits can provide good economic benefits.

That's a good thing, whether it's for the common good. Or to start a business, for these people, he welcomes them with both hands.

In the end, though, not much persisted. They all retreated.

It's normal to retreat, because the heat, drought, lack of water, and the difficult living environment here are very few young people from the mainland.

In addition, young people have less grinding and have enthusiasm, but they are often hot for three minutes and are easy to give up.

Until now, very few have remained here.

"This little brother, is he a college graduate this year?" Walking in front, Wang Ze asked Chen Dong.

Chen Dong nodded.

"Which school."

"Dinghai University."

"It turned out to be a junior, I graduated in 06, majoring in environmental and resource protection law, and after graduation, I was admitted to the civil service and assigned to work here." Wang Ze smiled, and his tone was much more polite to Chen Dong.

With that, the two came to a jeep.

Chen Dong sat in the passenger seat, Wang Ze sat in the driver's seat, started the car, and drove towards the edge of the desert.

The two chatted about school in the car for a while, and the relationship became close.

Half an hour later, the car drove to the edge of an arid desert and stopped.

The two got out of the car.

"You look at how this land is, in the past, it was a dense forest, but in the past few decades, the local government/government has only focused on economic development, neglected environmental protection, and destructively cut down these trees, and in less than a few decades, the trees have been cut down, exposing the surface, coupled with sun exposure, wind and sand invasion, and gradually become what it is now." Wang Ze said to Chen Dong.

There was some embarrassment in his tone.

Chen Dong looked around, the surroundings were barren, only dry tree stumps remained, the soil was dry and hard, and he picked up a piece of mud, which was black, but when he pinched it with his hand, the wind blew and raised a cloud of sand.

The soil is black soil, very fertile, but, too arid, nothing can be grown.

However, there is no solid soil with roots and leaves to block the wind, and when the wind blows, it rolls up sand and dust, blowing everywhere, and gradually desertification.

Dig a little deeper, and from time to time, you can see some desert shrubs, weeds, some oases, and some small animals.

Desertification is not too serious, and the land is fertile.

Wang Ze lifted his glasses and said to Chen Dong, "I checked some information, this place used to be part of the Qingning Plain of 'Saishang Jiangnan', the Yellow River channel is vertical and horizontal, and the countryside is dense..." ”

Chen Dong nodded.

Chen Dong took a shovel and dug a small pit of about 3 or 40 centimeters on the ground, put his hand into it, felt very cold, grabbed a handful of soil and came out, it was very wet and damp.

Suddenly, I knew it in my heart.

Although the surface of the land is very dry, there is plenty of groundwater, and the land is fertile, so it is no problem to be a mother tree.

The rhizomes of the mother tree are very wide and deep, and the stems can effectively preserve and utilize water, and the leaves are rolled up during the day and are needle-like to reduce the evaporation of water, and at night, they stretch out to absorb the moisture in the night air.

With these conditions, it is perfectly fine to seed a mother tree in this arid and inhospitable land.

"Senior Wang, is there a water source near here?" Chen Dong turned his head to Wang Ze and asked.

"Yes, there's a small lake about 1 km from here." Wang Ze said.

"Can you go and have a look?" Chen Dong said.

"Okay!" Wang Ze said briskly.

After starting the jeep and driving for more than ten minutes, it came to a small lake and stopped.

The two got out of the car.

"The lake is the only source of water in the vicinity, and many of the desert animals that come with it come here every evening to drink." Wang Ze pointed to the lake in front of him and said.

Chen Dong looked at it, the lake was relatively small, about a few hundred square meters, and there were aquatic plants growing next to it.

Wang Ze smiled and said, "Don't look at this lake is relatively small, but. It is very deep, someone has measured it on the surface of the lake by boat before, it is hundreds of meters deep, and experts say that the bottom of this lake is connected to an underground river, which is connected to Qingning Lake, so the water level of this lake has never dropped no matter how arid it is. ”

Chen Dong nodded.

"Senior Wang, I don't know how big this place is." Chen Dong asked Wang Ze.

"This place is called the Helian area. Including this lake. The area is probably a few dozen square kilometers. Wang Ze said.

"Can it be all contracted?" Chen Dong asked.

"Yes." Wang Ze said. "We welcome everybody to come here to contract desert tourism, planting and breeding."

Chen Dong nodded, and immediately decided to choose this place.

95 mother and child trees. Each mother tree can form an oasis of several hundred square meters after more than ten years or decades, so it is necessary to plant a mother tree every few hundred square meters, so that a total of more than 10 square kilometers of area is needed, and dozens of square kilometers are enough.

The groundwater source is sufficient, and there is a small lake in the Helian area, which can be irrigated nearby by installing some irrigation equipment.

The land is fertile.

Plenty of sunshine. (Can it be called a desert if the sun is not sufficient?) ）

Immediately, drive back to the county seat.

The next day. Chen Dong signed a contract with the county/magistrate in charge of this area.

Since then, dozens of square kilometers of desert in the Helian area have been contracted to Chen Dong for the longest period of 70 years.

In the afternoon of the same day, a truck commissioned by a transportation company to transport 95 seedlings of the mother tree arrived, accompanied by poplar forest.

The trio unloaded 95 saplings from the truck.

And then. Chen Dong found some local villagers through Wang Ze's relationship and began to plant trees.

Everything is in order.

95 saplings, the work is not big, in less than 2 days, all the saplings were planted.

Although many people wonder why a tree is planted so far apart, they don't ask much.

In order to facilitate management, Chen Dong set up a company, whose business is planting trees and breeding trees in the desert.

Company manager: Hu Yanglin.

After looking for Hu Yanglin, after hearing that Chen Dong gave him a salary of 1w2 for a month, Hu Yang agreed without saying a word. Bitter is a little bitter, but, 1w2 a month salary is a lot, you know, he used to work in Nanwan a month can only get 2, 3000, now he can get 1w2 a month, save 10 tens of thousands a year, in his hometown can build a beautiful three-story building with decoration, how can such a beautiful thing not agree.

The company has 12 employees.

Among them, there are 6 'tree guards', all of whom are sturdy middle-aged people, 2 of whom have been soldiers, and their main responsibilities are 'tree protection', staring at the protection of saplings from being destroyed by large beasts or man-made, although, it is a little hard, 2 shifts, and the day shift must often withstand the scorching sun, drive a jeep to patrol, keep watch night, and the desert is cold at night, however, the salary is not low, 5, 6000 wages a month, in Ning/Xia here, it can be regarded as a super high salary.

There are also 5 watering employees, mainly responsible for watering 95 saplings, the work is not easy, although there are only 95 saplings, but the distribution area is more than ten square kilometers, but fortunately, there is a watering truck modified with a small truck, so that everyone can easily come down, otherwise, with only 5 loads of water, it is basically impossible to water 95 saplings in 1 day, Chen Dong also gave them more than 6,000 wages.

In addition, there is a clerk who is responsible for handling the company's housekeeping, documents and some things.

After almost a week, I finally got done.

These 95 saplings can be regarded as experimental, the fruit can be sold for money, the fruit of the mother tree because of the desert environment, hot during the day, extremely cold at night, helps the fruit to store sugar, especially sweet, is a superb fruit, can be sold for hundreds of dollars a kilogram, for high-end restaurants, clubs, rich and powerful people.

The fruit produced by the mother and child also costs dozens of dollars and 1 kilogram, which is also a high-grade fruit.

This is a very large amount of profit, which can make countless people blush, however, Chen Dong never thought of monopolizing it, if it wasn't for the fact that the light brain suddenly gave him a mandatory task, Chen Dong would not even exchange the seeds.