Chapter 199: Area and Production

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Seeing Lin Meiqi's movements, Li Lan didn't say anything, and her eyes didn't wander anymore, but turned around and took out a suit jacket from the glove box and draped it over Lin Meiqi's shoulders.

The thunderstorm came suddenly, and the temperature in the air also plummeted, and he could already see goosebumps on Lin Meiqi's arms.

“xiexie!” As if to cover up her impulse just now, when Li Lan put on her coat, Lin Meiqi's face was flushed, her head was lowered, and she whispered xiexie.

"Just wait." Li Lan turned on the heater in the car and smiled.

At this time, there was no scene to be seen outside the window, and there was an endless curtain of rain that blocked everyone's view. This visibility, even on a foggy day, is nothing more than that.

Pressing the intercom, Li Lan ordered the driver in the front row: "Go back!" ”

Under the driver's notice, the convoy slowly started and drove towards Bagua City.

Inside the car, the atmosphere was very quiet, and the sound of raindrops hitting the bulletproof glass did not reach the car.

The three of them were silent, and under the effect of the heating, the slightest coolness disappeared, but they were still very uncomfortable when they were wet.

"I remember you said that when everything calms down, the two of us will find a time to talk alone." After about ten minutes, Lin Meiqi said to Li Lan.

Li Lan nodded and said, "Then do you have time at night?" ”

"Yes." Maggie Lin nodded.

Soon, the atmosphere fell silent again.

Until the convoy slowly stopped in front of Lin Meiqi's house, the two sides just said goodbye briefly.

"Lin Meiqi is very worried!" This was the only thing Natasha and Li Lan said after they separated. And she didn't wait for Li Lan to ask, and left.

on this. He just sighed helplessly, this time. He has been busy, and rarely thinks about his relationship with Lin Meiqi, and he can't think of a reason in this regard. After returning to the base, he just washed up and walked to the base.

As soon as he entered the console, Li Lan asked, "Assistant, how much precipitation is there now?" ”

"Twenty-four hours of rainfall is expected to reach between 300 and 320 millimetres, which is already at the level of extremely heavy rain."

"Twelve hours later. Control the amount of rain to less than 5 millimeters per hour, wait for the ground to absorb a little more rain, and then continue to increase. Li Lan thought for a while and said.

The northern part of Somalia is a desert and the land is very dry, and it will not take long for this rainfall to be absorbed by the map. Therefore, for the rain to continue, at least the land must be fully drunk. so that it will not continue to absorb moisture from the ground.

And this time, Li Lan brought enough precipitation here, and if he needed it, he could immediately turn the entire territory into Zeguo. However, since then, it is sabotage. Rain can be heavy. But not overdosed.

The rainfall of 24 hours and 3 centimeters is simply not enough to meet the needs of this perennially dry land. Groundwater sources, in particular, have long since begun to dry up. It needs rainwater to replenish it. So, it will take several days of rain to make it suitable for planting. According to the assistant's calculations, in order to change, it will take ten days and a half months of continuous rainfall, and the rainfall should not be too urgent at one time, and in order for the soil layer to have sufficient moisture, at least three meters of total precipitation is needed.

If you want to meet the needs of planting, it will take up to three or four months of non-stop rainfall to completely change the geology of the land. This allows the soil to store as much water as possible so that it can last until the next rainy season.

"Do you calculate how much land is available for cultivation in your territory?" Li Lan continued to ask.

"At present, the territory has 78,000 square kilometers of land, and the arable land area can reach 24,000 square kilometers, and the arable area is 18,000 square kilometers, excluding the salty land by the sea. In terms of acres, that is 180 million mu. The assistant replied.

"If it's all used to grow corn, how much can one acre produce? How much is rice? Li Lan continued to ask.

"According to reasonable calculations, planting environment and excellent varieties, if it is large-scale planting and poor management, 18,000 square kilometers can produce about 90 million tons of corn, and rice can produce about 150 million tons of rice according to the calculation of one season per year, with sufficient rainfall."

Hearing the figures given by the assistant, Li Lan's heart trembled slightly. There are only four cities in the entire territory, and the Surud Mountains occupy nearly half of the land area, and nearly half of the land belongs to the plains and deserts. These places can be built, and after deducting the land occupied by the four cities and the land under planning, then about a quarter of the entire territory is arable land.

However, Li Lan also knows very well that such a cultivated area cannot be reached, and it is already remarkable to be able to open up 100 million mu of land. After several months of preparation, he prepared a planting area of 28 million mu, and it was simply impossible to achieve it in one step.

And not all the land can be used, and when the time comes, it will be great for him to open up 100 million acres. If you count the whole of Somalia, it will not be difficult to open up two billion acres of cultivated area, as long as he can solve the problem of drought. Because in a large area, there is not the slightest human population at all.

There are more than 10 million Somalis living in an area of more than 600,000 square kilometers, and on average, the number of people living in one square kilometer is only about 17. And these people are gathered around the big cities. It's like the current territory, there are only four cities with some people, Bossaso 1.5 million, 700,000 territory, 500,000 in Erigabo, and 100,000 in the city of Karin. Together with the more than two million refugees who have settled in the city of Kalin and around Erigabo, there are ordinary Somalis, who are gathered in the territory.

It is conceivable that the average number of people living in the remaining Somali land is less than ten.

Therefore, the assistant helped Li Lan calculate a long time ago that the prospects for the development of agriculture in the entire Somali land are good, and as long as there is a weather controller, this land can be planted on a large scale sooner or later, and all kinds of agricultural export products will become very promising at that time.

Moreover, the creation of more than 100,000 acres of pasture land can also allow the rapid development of Somalia's natural livestock industry. As long as there is water, it is not difficult to make miracles here.

Of course, it will not be easy to achieve these things, at least after the reunification of Somalia, it will take a year or two to plan. However, Li Lan can afford to wait.

According to the assistant's calculations, if all of the 28 million mu planned at present are planted with corn, about 14 million tons of corn can be obtained every year. If rice is planted with the help of rain, then in three or four months of this rainy season, you can harvest one season early. (If I'm not mistaken, it took about 100 days from the time of rice planting to the harvest, and I asked the old people in my hometown in the last book.) )

Although the exact yield is not yet known, according to the assistant's calculations, the yield per mu should be six or seven hundred kilograms in the case of sufficient rain. After all, it is an excellent seed sent by China, and under the rain brought by the weather controller, this yield problem, Li Lan thought to herself, it should not be worse than that in China!

In this way, more than 10 million tons can be harvested. According to the current consumption of grain in the territory, this more than 10 million tons is enough for everyone to eat for five or six years.

Moreover, Li Lan also specially prepared a lot of cultivation machinery, and also specially asked those agricultural scientists to manage it, check the planting status every day, and deal with it in time if there is any problem. The problem of pests in fertilization is naturally left to those scientists, anyway, their abilities are put there, and there is no need to use them in vain.

Anyway, regardless of the harvest, the territory will be free from food difficulties after this heavy rain. And all of this can only be brought by a weather controller. Otherwise, even if Li Lan has three heads and six arms, there is no way, in this place, if he does not have the ability to call the wind and rain, he is simply helpless.

However, to accomplish this move, the cost is not small. If it weren't for the fact that the electricity is supplied by nuclear power plants, the unreasonable consumption rate of the weather controller alone could be a headache for any country.

The same is true for Li Lan, if it weren't for the nuclear power plant, even if it were to build a thousand magnetic energy reactors for weather controllers, it would be completely insufficient.

The rest time of the weather controller is also very painful, as long as the energy stored in it is consumed, it will take up to half a year to replenish it. At present, the two nuclear power plants are completely unable to keep up with consumption, and the engineers inside have put the power output to the maximum, and all of them are running at full power.

However, a large part of the consumption of weather controllers still comes from their own storage. According to the assistant's calculations, if the weather controller is running at full power, it will run out of energy and come to a stop for a maximum of three days.

If it is full, it will take half a year. And during this time, Li Lan also needs to send many engineers to overhaul the various transceiver devices inside. Anyway, once the energy inside is exhausted, it will take at least half a year.

And once the weather controller is turned on, there is no way to stop, unless the signal strength is weakened, so that the energy consumption can be greatly reduced, and under the continuous energy delivery, the minimum power can last for about two months, and all the energy will be exhausted.

The rainy weather brought by the weather controller will continue for a month after it stops working, and the precipitation before and after is about 100 days. If it is used to execute offensive means and generate hurricane or lightning attacks, a different algorithm is required.

Anyway, in Li Lan's opinion, this guy has a lot of functions, but there are also a lot of restrictions. If you look at a country that is unhappy one day, a hurricane directly in that country is enough for the other party. Of course, this needs to be within the scope of the weather controller. (To be continued......)