Chapter 342: Moa
**The king is in the Potala Palace, his heart is in Beijing, where the climate is not good, often affected by the sand and dust blown by the northwest desert, the Great Wall of sand control seems to be a little useful, but I don't know the exact situation, but the Great Wall of sand control has turned out 120,000 acres of fertile land This is true.
The agricultural reclamation along the Brahmaputra River has just begun, and the 120,000 acres of fertile land of the Great Wall of Sand Control have already achieved remarkable results.
In order to further test the effect of the Great Wall, Tang Ning decided to continue to build the Great Wall, enclosing the entire 800-kilometer desert to the west, and pushing the 800-kilometer Great Wall 1 kilometer to the west, to test whether high-quality grasslands could be formed between the two Great Walls.
In other words, if the Great Wall is rebuilt for another 3,200 kilometers, all the proceeds of the 120,000 acres of new fields created by the 800-kilometer Great Wall will be invested in the construction of the new Great Wall, which will form an encirclement of the entire desert in Inner Mongolia and at least play a role in preventing the expansion of the desert.
In the same way, Xinjiang has a larger desert, twice the area of Inner Mongolia, and the king's big money is ready to enclose the desert of Xinjiang, which is the 6,400-kilometer-long Great Wall. Combined, the water stored by these two projects can create 1.44 million mu of new land and solve the problem of expanding the two desert areas once and for all.
To deal with the desert, it is not possible to plant trees, the bad wind and sand will kill the trees and grass, but to blow down the Great Wall, it is impossible not to spend tens of thousands of years. The 800-kilometer Great Wall took only two years, and the construction period of the new project was also set at two years, because the king had to increase the number of workers and machinery by more than 10 times.
The success of the 800-kilometer Great Wall has attracted a large number of journalists and tourists who want to see the miracle of the mega project. Here, the west side is full of yellow sand, but the east side is blown by the wind and wheat waves, forming a strong visual contrast, which is really beautiful.
** Wang told the BBC: "I hope that the project of enclosing the desert can continue forever, circle after circle, and finally use farmland and grassland to turn all the desert into green space." In the long geological time of the earth, it is likely that there has been a scene where the whole world was green. We can recreate this beautiful landscape with a big project. ”
"If we turn all the deserts into green spaces, will the animals that live in the desert become extinct?" ”
His Holiness smiled, "It's possible." But that's not something our generation cares about. Greening is a long process, when the day comes, you can stop the greening project, and even blow up the green city wall, anyway, it is easy to destroy, and the greening takes 100 years, and it may only take 10 days to blow up. ”
Listening to His Royal Highness His Holiness say this, everyone feels the absurdity of a certain extreme environmentalist.
There are also people who say that His Royal Highness is plotting to rule Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, because this is obviously an act of the state, and the King of France does not mean to drink.
Hehe, it seems to have been put to the point, even if the warlords on the ground have no opinion on this project now, it is hard to guarantee that they will have no opinion in the future. Now it is a large desert, and in the future it will be 1.14 million acres of fertile land, and it may be a big deal.
Therefore, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia are the next targets, and the territory of the Qing Dynasty has now occupied more than 2.7 million square kilometers of Kazakhstan, and therefore, it is the royal way to take the territory of the Kazakhs first, and the French king pointed at the power of Shi Dakai, the governor of Gansu and Shaanxi.
At the same time, Shi Dakai reinforced the Tibetan army by several thousand, causing our Great Nepal Expeditionary Force to lose 38 warriors, and the new and old accounts were counted together. If it weren't for Shi Dakai, maybe the Tibetan army would have surrendered as soon as possible.
The Soviet Red Army was very interested in invading Kazakhstan, but the French king believed that the Soviet Union could not be allowed to sit on the throne, and now the Soviet Union had already moved towards the ranks of the great powers under the leadership of General Secretary Marx, and could be prevented in advance.
What exactly did the USSR come to? It can be said that it has reached a very terrifying point, the national GDP has reached 1.3 billion pounds, which is not much different from the 1.6 billion pounds in the United Kingdom. Because the Soviet Union had a larger population of 44 million, although it was twice as small as Britain per capita, it caught up in general.
Tsarist Russia in the Russian-speaking region was in decline, with only 40 million people left in the Russian-speaking region, who originally accounted for two-thirds of the population, most of whom went to the Soviet Union to make a fortune or enjoy themselves. Russians are poor, with a per capita GDP of only £12, far worse than the Soviet Union's £30, and the overall economy is more than twice as bad.
It can be said that now the position of the Soviet Union has surpassed that of Russia, and a large number of Russian-speaking elites have begun to flow eastward, which is regarded by Marx as the victory of communism. Of course, the general secretary boasted about it, and the Soviet Union bought it very much, but foreign countries believed that it was the result of the assistance of the Windsor consortium.
Marx's so-called co-shovelism could not be as pure as he imagined, because he was above the big capitalists. A compromise between the two turned out to make the Soviet economy conform to the optimal tax rate of 50 percent for a welfare social economist. A tax rate of more than 50% will have a negative effect on the country's economy, because this is the psychological bottom line of capital, and if it exceeds 50%, your government earns more than I get by working hard and investing, which is too much to lose.
And the high welfare and high egalitarianism made the Soviet people happier and more aware of the country, and now they all have the capital to despise the Russians under the rule of the tsar. The average person is almost three times richer than you, and whoever you change will have a huge sense of superiority.
With such a strong sense of national identity, where did the French king dare to let the Soviet Union continue to grow. Historically, Kazakhstan is the strongest member country other than Russia, and it will never let the Soviet Union get involved again. This is a 2.7 million square kilometer grain-producing area.
The grain-producing area is extraordinary, Shi Dakai has deployed an army of 30,000 people here, which is close to Russia, and it is fully equipped with Russian-made K1 assault rifles, and the strength is not weak. More importantly, the Qing army deployed tunnel fortifications, will there be another "dragon's kiss" to capture?
I don't know if I've heard the rumors of the Tianjin Tunnel Massacre, but the army deployed by Shi Dakai in Kazakhstan is actually a semi-tunnel, that is, a dark fort and secret outpost with better ventilation that can return to the ground at any time, and it is more difficult to attack. It seems impossible to stage Tianjin's dragon kiss again.
It was only by this time that the Great of Windsor came across a real fortress.
The emperor didn't have much to crush for a while, so he decided to sneak into the Kazakh wasteland to find out, not to go to the fortress to find discomfort, but to have fun and find inspiration in the wasteland. Of course, two satellites must be placed in this area to observe the movements of the other side at any time, and when it comes to field warfare, the Qing army is not afraid of 30,000, and the Tang army is not afraid of 3 million.
The Russians occupied most of the Kazakh territory for a long time (the Lesser Yuz and the Middle Yuz, much larger than the Greater Yuz), so they were able to find good guides in the Soviet Union who were fluent in the Kazakh language, and Downing went with them to hunt for curiosities.
The prototype of Tangning's artificial falcon for hunting large wild herbivores turned out to be in Kazakhstan, and there are many masters of falconry in Yuzi and Xinjiang. The best falcons of these wonder hunters can even directly grab large prey that weighs ten times their own, such as wolves, sheep, deer, etc., and seem to be more powerful than the Down's artificial eagle.
Of course, falcon training is also very difficult, the best eagle has to start training from a young age, let it get used to grabbing meat on the ground indoors, and then put it outdoors to try, the secret is to tie the 16 feathers of the eagle's tail, so that they can not fly high, after a long time, the falcon thinks that it is not flying at all, and will only move in a small area.
At the end of the day, the 16 feathers are untied, a long rope is still tied around its feet, and as soon as it notices that they are showing signs of going away, they immediately rush up and grab the lower part of the long rope. The whole process can't be completed in three or four years.
A katana takes a year, a falcon takes four years, you can see how expensive it is, and finally, similar to the katana test, the falcons have to see if they can catch their prey in the wild, maybe they have been tamed for a long time and lost their spirituality, and as a result, they have been blind for four years.
A falconer family that Tang Ning visited recently raised a falcon that was not very good, and the success rate of catching rabbits was low, and they were ready to let it go, and the two of them were very unhappy.
It's not easy to beat a rabbit with grass? The precision trebuchet invented by Downing can come in handy, it was used to fight mice, and even animals as agile as mice can avoid it, which shows how fast the trebuchet is. The previous range was limited to 20 meters by the line of the shock mechanism, which is not good for hitting rabbits, and can you get close to 20 meters, is that still called a hare? How sensitive its long ears were.
The Tang hunting trebuchet will be designed to an accurate range of 200 meters, with a loading weight of 100 grams to 1,000 grams, and a kilogram of "giant trebuchet projectiles" can be seriously injured even by a beast the size of a reindeer, which can be described as a high-level weapon for solo hunters. The trajectory of the trebuchet is affected by wind speed and altitude, so the team used both the technology and control chips of the latest howitzer.
It wasn't long before Downing returned with the trebuchet to visit the falcon family, and showed them the weapons of the hunters of the new age. This strange weapon performance hit a cantaloupe 200 meters away, which stunned the two of them, and Boss Tang was complacent, saying: "Compared with the most powerful falcon you have ever seen, how is my weapon?" ”
Unconvinced, the uncle smiled and said: "You are equivalent to a powerful shotgun, our traditional falconry has more meaning, they can chase the prey, sometimes they can chase a wolf to exhaustion, and then calmly lower their claws." ”
Alas, it is not okay to be dissatisfied, Boss Tang accompanied the two of them to hunt for two days, and then returned to Lhasa to study new weapons, this time, called the Munich artificial muscle team to Lhasa, and built a weapon room in the Potala Palace. In the past, artificial falcons were actually small airplanes, with a buzzing motor and artificial muscle fibers, which could flap their wings like a real eagle.
Thanks to the RV-style real yàn room that was extensively studied when the buried wood temple was trapped, the real yàn room of the Potala Palace was quickly built, and its powerful wings could produce terrifying power, even surpassing the golden eagle. To be able to theoretically grab a prey of up to 200 kilograms, a wingspan of up to 3 meters is required.
Such a terrible parameter that Downing named this artificial falcon a moa. It is a giant bird that has become extinct in New Zealand in 1800, with the largest being 3 in size. 6 meters. However, a true moa can't fly, and the Down Moa has a huge wingspan of 3 meters, which is enough for it to soar at an altitude of 1,000 meters.
This can be called a super mechanical falcon, when it appeared in front of the Kazakh falcon family, it almost scared them to death, and it was indeed a moa. Who is Nima, this showy amateur hunter? Those who can create such a divine creature cannot but worship it.
Downing referred to the claws of a real falcon and designed a claw shape to prevent the prey from slipping, this thing is the real air overlord, and the golden eagle has to call it big brother when it sees it.
In fact, when Tangning took an airship all the way from Lhasa to Kazakhstan, the mechanical falcon flew with him and was not left behind. When it hovers at high altitude, it is even more labor-saving to the extreme, and it can hover with full fuel for 10 days at a time without resting.
When it flapped its wings and took off, the wind from its wings almost knocked people down. It's a pity that when it comes to real combat, the cunning rabbit turns left and right, and the success rate is almost zero, laughing the two to death. And Boss Tang lost face.
It seems that it is not so easy to use just a few decades of technology to surpass the wit produced by tens of millions of years of animal evolution.
I don't know if the mechanical falcon and trebuchet that His Holiness has recently concocted would otherwise be used on the battlefield in Kazakhstan, it seems that there is a possibility of this, but Downing has not yet grasped the inspiration