Chapter 258: Shanxi

Pingyao County is located to the east of the Fen River, which is a clear river, the second largest tributary of the Yellow River, itself does not belong to the Loess Plateau, plus the wealthy Jin merchants, Pingyao City is quite rich. Tang Ning is not interested in rich people, but is interested in the Loess Plateau, the poorer he is, the more he seems to have divine power, he just wants to exert his divine power to make the poor countryside sky.

The great god and the hair came to the desert in the northwest of Shanxi, the Mu Us Desert, which is of course worse than the Loess Plateau, perhaps this is the best place for him to exert his divine power, standing on the mobile sand dunes, looking at the desolation of thousands of miles of uninhabited, sighing: "Wow, this place is so beautiful!" ”

The days of the airship are really happy, where can ordinary people go to the desert no man's land to enjoy the scenery, Fa Xiao is also admired, but the words changed: "Beauty is beautiful, but not suitable for people to live, tourists are just passing by, and we will leave in a while...... Heard that Arabs often live in the desert? It's amazing. ”

Tang Ning smiled and pointed to the sky: "See those white clouds?" Actually, it's all water, and I can take it down, and with water, you can live in the desert, and the Arabs are a fart! ”

Qi Taiyu nodded: "I have also heard of your integrated water and electricity equipment, it turns out that you can also take it in the desert." ”

Downing: "That's right! However, the integrated hydropower equipment needs fog and clouds, and the water content of clouds is ten times higher than fog, as long as we can reach it. And these deserts, all these sands, I can make them more precious than gold, believe it or not? ”

Qi Taiyu: "Huh? It's true? I know that you can endure greatness, but ...... Why? ”

Tang Ning: "I'm going to tell you a secret that only I know in the world...... Because you don't understand it. ”

Qi Taiyu was very excited, although he was damaged: "What secret?" ”

Downing: "The main ingredient of these sand is silicon dioxide, after melting at high temperatures, you can get pure silicon, which is a crystal structure very similar to diamonds, and I add a little selenium or arsenic to the pure silicon crystal, which can turn it into a semiconductor between an insulator and a conductor, and can make a computer, and in the future, the computer can become so small that you can hold it in the palm of your hand, so all these sands can become treasures." ”

Qi Taiyu was very embarrassed, and he really couldn't understand a word, okay, anyway, it would be good to know that it could be turned into a treasure, and he became excited again: "So, you plan to build such a factory in our Shanxi to turn waste into treasure?" ”

Tang Ning smiled: "Yes, but don't worry, this project needs a large number of scientists and engineers, and I am ready to build a world-class university in your hometown of Pingyao." Folklore scholars told me that the myth of the sage that has been circulated in China for thousands of years came out, and the Yellow River was clear. Well, I'll just take a name, muddy waters become Tsinghua, and this university is called Tsinghua University. With Tsinghua University, the Treasure Factory can become a reality. ”

Qi Taiyu laughed: "Great, great, this sounds like it is more powerful than Guangdong Tower, and we are expected to surpass Guangdong in Shanxi." Belch...... What can I do? Donate some money to Tsinghua University? ”

Tang Ning: "You have to rely on my signboard to run a university, you can do something else, well, there is, I changed the route of the earth's main artery, after Henan came out, I did not go to Hebei, but to Shanxi, from Shanxi to Inner Mongolia, Northeast China, this route has become a more uninhabited area, the landscape is more peculiar, this Loess Plateau is a good example." What about you, you can help build a branch of the main artery, the pattern is enlarged a little, not only Shanxi, but also the entire Loess Plateau to establish a traffic network that kills the sheep intestine trail, as long as the traffic is convenient, the development of Shanxi is a different scene. ”

Qi Taiyu clapped his hands: "Great! Thousands of ravines are no longer a problem, Shanxi people are going to be really developed, to be honest, without science and technology, no matter how much money there is, it is useless, no matter how much money can compete with God, right? ”

Tang Ning: "Shanxi's agriculture is underdeveloped, but a large number of farmers are crowded in that barren field, no, we can also ask meteorologists to investigate the entire plateau, to see where the clouds and fog are more concentrated, the use of air water method to improve the agriculture of the Loess Plateau, this time we must not use traditional agricultural technology, but like the Madagascar plateau high standard terraces, let the Germans to help Shanxi farmers develop mechanization."

Also, if the climate changes dramatically in the highlands, you can set up Taiyu Agricultural Insurance Company to spread the risk of drought over a longer period of time, and you will be very merit for that alone. In the past, this kind of disaster relief depended on the imperial court, which was not good, and the imperial court was inefficient, so it gave up some porridge to the victims, which was too miserable. Don't you have a good relationship with the governor? He can be allowed to do this, and he can quickly popularize agricultural insurance without the peasants' money, as long as he takes a part of the agricultural tax and gives it to the insurance company.

Heck, if the governor really cooperates, it would be easy to do, he could make those areas that were overgrazed as forbidden areas, and use the grass seeds brought from the grassland by airships to scatter them all over the plateau, first by the Yellow River, then by the tributaries, and then by small watersheds, so that the grassland can spread, and maybe the entire plateau can be turned into a grassland. The Hetao area probably refers to the area along the Yellow River where the word "several" is covered, which used to be a grazing paradise with abundant water and grass, but now it is overused, and the government has to take care of it, and it is best to unite with the governors of Inner Mongolia and Gansu provinces to restore the vitality of the Hetao area. ”

Boss Qi is quite yearning for the scene described by Boss Tang, and he has made enough fortunes, so he wants to make a fortune and become a legendary Jin businessman. The subsequent investigation found a large area of desert and sand in the west, and Qi Taiyu also saw such a vast desert scenery for the first time, and sighed: "No wonder there are so many winds and sands in the northwest region, it seems that they are all blown from the desert, this ...... It's too damaging to the crops. ”

Tang Ning: "Yes, I now suspect that these hundreds of meters of loess were blown from the Badain Jarin and Tengger Deserts. If the impact of sandstorms on the Hetao is to be weakened, I am afraid that a great wall of sand prevention will be built...... Hey? Let me do the math......"

He took out the map, gestured it with his finger, and said: "The Great Wall of about 800 kilometers will be built on the Yellow River." A meter wide thick wall, 10 meters high, a kilometer needs 10,000 giant bricks, 800 kilometers is just 80 million giant bricks, I use loess to make bricks, then it is cheap, I see that most of the houses on the Loess Plateau are made after the loess bricks are tamped, and they are quite firm, I will ask architectural experts to design and design, and make a kind of bricks suitable for building walls, it is estimated that 100 bricks are a pound, 100 pounds to repair a kilometer, and the whole project is at most 100,000 pounds, which is very cheap. ”

Qi Taiyu laughed: "Really? According to the old Rothschild's arithmetic, you can earn 120,000 pounds a year even if you become a fisherman! But...... Boss, did you miss the labor cost? That's the big head! The First Emperor built the Great Wall and built the empire. ”

Tang Ning smiled and said: "The First Emperor has no technology, I will build the Great Wall, and I don't need a thousand workers to surround the whole of China, haha!" Let's think about it...... The scheme of the shield machine can be used as a reference, I calculate, the weight of water is one cubic meter and one ton, and the concrete is two .2 tons, I make the bricks into a hollow structure, which is similar to water, even if it is one ton, a Pisces crane can be loaded with 500 bricks, one kilometer only needs to run 20 times, the average distance of the brick factory is 50 kilometers, an hour and a round, just about a day. Just one airship can guarantee a construction speed of one kilometer a day. The construction site is simpler, a few cranes are busy, and it is best to add a beam when designing bricks, which is more efficient. ”

Qi Taiyu also calculated: "If there are ten airships, it will be 80 days to complete the project, which is about the same as the Siberian vein, wow, at this speed, even if the Great Wall is built again, it will only take four or five hundred days!" Powerful! ”

Tang Ning: "That's not right, there are still people walking on the Great Wall...... Hey? It seems that it is too wasteful to just build the wall, or we will also design the city wall as a highway, on the west bank of the Yellow River, there are already Bayannur, Wuhai, Yinchuan, Wuzhong, Zhongwei several towns, we build the Great Wall on their left side, in case the sandstorm prevention fails, at least a road is built. ”

Qi Taiyu: "Good idea! Then the wall should be at least 4 or 5 meters wide, and the Great Wall is like that. Therefore, the construction period should be increased by 4 times. After the edification of modern civilization, Boss Qi from the Qing Dynasty is also familiar with the concept of "rice".

Tang Ning: "It's not so difficult, our Great Wall is not for war, the hollow design is no problem, you can increase the cement and curing agent of the loess bricks, short, bigger, as big as 4 meters is okay, at most double the workload." Then the brick factory is designed to be mobile, and it will be relocated every 50 kilometers, and the workload is still the same! ”

Qi Taiyu gave a thumbs up, as if a magnificent Great Wall of sand control had stood on the edge of the desert, like an 800-kilometer-long giant god, guarding the farmers on the Loess Plateau.

Tang Ning: "I can't give up the 100,000 pounds for nothing, don't we just want to look for land in Shanxi to build a new farm with integrated hydropower equipment?" Let the government compensate the 100,000 pounds with land at the market price, so that the government will build a Great Wall without spending any money, how cost-effective? You can talk to the governors of Gansu, Inner Mongolia, and Shanxi. ”

£10 is a drop in the bucket for Downing, but he's used to doing things as cost-effectively, like an aunt worth tens of millions of dollars spitting and haggling in the wet market.

The soldiers and horses did not move, and the grain and grass went first. (http://)。 Public opinion is the bread and grass of policy, and the Daqing News is now almost a semi-public "party newspaper" of the Windsor Freemasonry, which makes the rumors that the Qing Dynasty was held hostage by the Windsor consortium more realistic, but the Freemasons don't care about these, and it is not bad to make the government and the opposition more awe-inspiring.

After Guangdong received the support of the Windsor Freemasonry, Shanxi, which has poor traffic, has been given a second place, and there is no better institution than the Windsor Consortium to completely improve Shanxi's traffic situation. The idea of the Great Wall of Sand Control is even more delightful, but almost no one is optimistic about it, not even scientists, who think that the sand control wall, which is only 10 meters high, is not a problem at all, and the wind and sand can easily cross the defense line.

The central government of the Qing Dynasty was more concerned that the Freemasons wanted to make the Hetao area a no-grazing area, and when they negotiated with the provinces, they asked the Freemasons to do this, so that they would have a paramilitary force quite close to Beijing, and the Li Hongzhang government objected. Therefore, Boss Qi's negotiation was only easy for Shanxi Province, because the governor of Shanxi was his friend, while the governors of Gansu and Inner Mongolia were more hesitant. Beechcraft Tip: How to quickly search for the books you're looking for

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