Chapter 267: Air
Next, Tang Ning showed off in front of his wife and daughter the ...... "Exotic Garden Palace" in the middle of the sea of wild flowers comparable to the Palace of Versailles, which can also be called the "Yihua Palace". The Palace of Versailles and Schönbrunn Palace are both Baroque buildings, and since my wife likes Baroque so much, let's be Baroque.
One of the hallmarks of Baroque architecture was the huge frescoes, and in this regard, the School of Science had already flourished for some time under the auspices of Downing, who could hire his favorite masters of the School of Science to create magnificent works for the Palace of Flowers.
In order to rejoice in the achievement, Tang Ning also specially designed a magnified printing technique for mural art, scanning the original painting and transferring it, which can be magnified by 5 to 10 times, which is really touching for painting the wall. In particular, the "Monster Corridor" is dedicated to imaginative paintings inspired by ancient monster fossils.
In the distant Paleozoic Era, animals were not as prosperous as later, and the oxygen content in the atmosphere was very high, so that the newly evolved insect phyla was huge, with a wingspan of more than one meter of large dragonflies, and super-large mayfly insects, such as: scorpions, millipedes, giant spiders. These things, if painted on the wall with magnification and transfer, are truly intoxicating and grandiose, and of course, can frighten the faint of the faint of heart.
However, Mrs. Tang, who is skeptical of science, still has to get some Christian gods, otherwise the palace will seem to have no "culture". She even had half of the quota for her to personally select artists to create the art corridors and murals that belonged to the princess.
The plants in the 2,000 wild gardens in the desert lifeline are completely determined by the local environment, but in the central garden, about 100 botanists will be hired to cultivate 1,000 thousand plants, because according to the initial estimate of scientists in South Africa, there are at least 1,000 species of unique plants in the Namaqualan Desert Flower Sea, and the 1,000 small gardens in the central garden are specially prepared for these thousand exotic plants, or how to call it "Yihua Palace".
The cost of the central garden can be called extravagant, and the botanists' salaries alone cost them £50,000 a year, not including their assistants. This may last for 5 to 10 years, and the number of botanists can be reduced by thoroughly studying all the plants of Namaquaran. Therefore, this thousand botanical gardens are also a thousand plant rooms, and according to Downing's values, the luxury is completely worth it.
This is probably the most beautiful room in the world, and after learning about Boss Tang's plan, botanists from all over the world have signed up like crazy, a bit like the wildflowers of Namaquaran to welcome the rainy season. To rival the Palace of Versailles, this palace in the desert also covers an area of 100 hectares, or 1 million square meters, of which only 100,000 square meters are used up by 100 square meters of each botanical garden.
The palace is flanked on all sides by a 30-meter-high brown glass wall, sprayed with perovskite photoconverters, and used as a solar power station. In order to replenish the water in the palace, the four corners of the city wall are 30,000 large water towers, all of which have a large airship, hung with a high-altitude dew net, the air here is dry, but there are clouds and mist formed from time to time, which is a big reason why Tang Ning has the confidence to build a palace in the hinterland of the desert.
These four corners are also home to the arrow towers of traditional castles, where military forces are deployed to ensure the security of the palace. The fighters looked more like a rational arrangement dedicated to the protection of water sources. How precious the water in the desert is. Downing plans to build a five-star hotel on the edge of a thousand gardens, each of which is a single villa named after the Botanical Garden, such as the Quiver Tree Hotel. This is a plant of the genus Aloe Vera, a rare tall plant in the Namaqualan Desert, also known as bifid aloe vera, which the indigenous Bushmen would hollow out to make a quiver.
And the place where the staff live is an apartment, such as the Maricorn apartment. When the rainy season passed and the flowers withered, only the milkweed continued to prosper proudly. Due to the lack of food, the united and friendly meerkats often fight for the scarce plant seeds, regardless of family affection, but they stay away from the fat-looking mali, which is a highly poisonous plant that contains high doses of cyanide.
In the eyes of the gods, there is nothing that is not a lovely friend, and the milkweed is still a friend, which can extract cyanide and act as an extraction method in the metallurgical industry. Because the oxidation potential of gold is reduced by the complexation of cyanide ions, it can be oxidized by oxygen in the air under alkaline conditions to form soluble goldate, which can effectively separate gold from slag, and then reduce gold from solution to metal through a displacement reaction with an active metal such as zinc.
South Africa's gold mines are world-class, so it was only natural to build a chemical plant in the Malaquaran desert. However, due to Downing's positioning of the Yihua Palace, the chemical plant will be far away from the palace, and the only process in the desert is to continuously collect malivines.
The grand palace is too big to be without the corresponding means of transport, and it is a place where all the roads are paved with fluorescent "navigation lines" that can be used to recharge the vehicles, and the marble tiles of different colors are paved on a very regular artificial marble pavement to show the charm of elegance and modernity. In addition to the most commonly used unicycles, Downing has also set up a factory in Cape Town, 500 kilometres away, to produce models specifically designed for fun.
It's a convertible car that costs £120 a year, but the average middle class can afford it, as it costs £10 a month to go out and play. With it, you can breathe in the fresh air that nature has generously bountied, and you don't have to be stuffed in a box to embrace your wild nature.
Now Downing's cars are all based on the median income of £400 for employees of the Windsor consortium, and if you look at the recent prices, the entry-level smart that everyone can afford is £40 a year, a little more expensive is £80, and a little more expensive, £120. Next up is the Maned Wolf Buggy, £200. The Continental GT and Jaguar are priced at the same price of £300.
From now on, the cars produced are all i-series and can be driven on smart highways, and a smart highway will soon be built from Cape Town to Springbok Town.
The creation of a global consumer goods factory is like magic here in Downing, which will drive the industrial economy of the entire city and even the country, such as the Continental GT in Milan, the truck in San Francisco, and the city economy in Guangdong. Guangdong's economic development is even faster than Shanghai's, because it drives more industries than Shanghai and is more profitable. Shanghai's steel-based heavy industry needs relatively few upstream suppliers.
After boosting South Africa's economy, Downing's real estate industry also entered the region. Taking stock of the types of houses invested by Downing, there are the following types: wooden houses of Japanese mortise and tenon construction companies, the price is moderate, 100 pounds to 1000 pounds (excluding land price), you can borrow for 30 years, at least 3 pounds per year, which is cheaper than buying a car, and people who have a car can buy cheap land in the suburbs.
Hell Construction's eggshell and shell building, the former was for slaves and could also be slightly beautified and converted into youth apartments for rent, which is less than £3 and only £1, which is comparable to the price of a Round Table Rider bike. The shell building is more high-end and can be made very exquisite, and there are also large shell villas totaling 1,000 pounds.
The cheapest is the building block type loess brick house invented by the Qing Dynasty. The lowest total price is only £3, note that this is the total price! When it comes to this kind of house, the house itself is no longer a matter for the buyer to consider, but the land. Downing's construction company also likes to level up land in the suburbs to sell, which is better than building houses directly. In addition to controlling water, electricity, garbage recycling and other links, it can also make money from shops in the community.
Downing's favourite neighbourhood plan is the Traveler's Plantain designed by a French architect in Madagascar, and he wants to do the same in Cape Town in order to provide good accommodation for his factory employees. This time, he also wants to develop high-end holiday villas in the desert lifeline, with a hexagonal square near every ten of the 2,000 small gardens, half of which will be built on six sides of six two-story villas, either wooden buildings or shell buildings, in short. These are premium properties that are selling for up to £7,200.
The other half of the small garden is home to six six-storey holiday apartments for those who don't have the budget to buy or rent. Available in 60mm, 120m2 and 180m2 sizes for £100, £200 and £300 respectively, these apartments add up to six times the size of the larger villas, with a total of 216 rooms and an average price of £4.3 million for a 200,100 neighbourhood. The same income can be obtained for the large villas, which is worth a total of £8.6 million. Real estate income is not bad, but only if you can really attract people to live and vacation.
If these properties are full of pits, they will bring 22,200 families, nearly 100,000 people, and Downing expects that to happen in a decade, with the construction of canals and the development of tourism taking time. Therefore, although the water supply problem for 100,000 people is stressful, it is not worrying.
It's also interesting to see that this is the first "strip city" in history, and it is likely to surpass Cape Town's current population of 60,000 in ten years' time. Of course, Cape Town has a convertible factory tailor-made by Downing, and I am afraid that the momentum is not weak. (http://.)。
In order to increase the self-sufficiency of the city in the future, Tangning also has to vigorously develop the fishing industry in the port of Noros, longline fishing and sonar harpoons go into battle, like the future desert garden owner who lives as far away as Yihua Palace and eats fresh sea fish, can equip the fishing boat with a delivery "peregrine falcon" drone, and the top fish can be sent to the palace kitchen by a drone with a speed of 400 kilometers per hour for the first time, and the 200-kilometer journey will be delivered in half an hour.
The underground of Namaquaran is also inhabited by a family of industrious ants, they are harvesting ants, when the flowers wither, the seeds are ripe, and the harvesting ants who specialize in collecting plant seeds come, and the entire hundreds of square kilometers of autumn colors are full of their small and immeasurable running figures. Theoretically, this semi-desert area can support only one-sixth of the animals of ordinary pastures (two rainy seasons a year), but with Tang's exclusive ant farm, this is equivalent to 10,000 hectares of pasture, which is equivalent to 100 large and medium-sized American farms, which is enough to meet the growing needs of the urban population in the belt.
In short, it is a romantic and majestic urban plan, full of sun, air, wildness, and fragrance. Beechcraft Tip: How to quickly search for the books you're looking for
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