Chapter 424: Southern Capital (4)
With the arrival of spare parts, the progress of Jinwu Type B No. 003 is getting faster and faster, and Zhang Huaide and others are working overtime to install and debug.
It is estimated that the installation and commissioning work can be completed before May 20, and a steady stream of cheap electricity will be transmitted to Nandu and the surrounding areas.
Abundant and cheap fresh water and electricity can make Nandu an economic hot spot.
On the road from South Australia to Walkerton, a Nissan pickup truck is heading towards Walkerton.
"Doctor, why are we going from Walkton to the Giles Weather Station? Wouldn't it be quicker to get past from Ameta?" A young man who was driving asked suspiciously.
The bespectacled doctor smiled and said, "Aditya commissioned me to take a look at the situation in the Victorian Desert. ”
"Oh? Professor Aditya at the University of Melbourne?"
"Yes, Dean you should concentrate on driving." Another brown-haired white young girl reminded.
"Don't worry, Julie, there are no cars on this road, of course there are quite a few hares and ostriches." Dean smiled wryly.
Horn Horn Horn ...... Suddenly, a huge horn sounded in front of them, and Dean was startled nonchalantly.
"Why are there so many cars?" Looking at the rows of construction vehicles on the side of the road, as well as the workers at work, Dean had a ghostly expression.
"They're building roads, but why are there so many Tang people?" Julie University took Chinese, and although her grades were average, Chinese was still visible.
Suddenly, a traffic controller came up and knocked on their window.
Dean pressed the window, "Sir, what's the matter?"
"After changing lanes on the left, turn right." The traffic controller reminded.
"Thank you."
"By the way, drive carefully, there are a lot of construction vehicles running on the road."
"I'll take notice." Dean quickly hit the steering wheel.
After changing lanes, after driving about half a kilometer, I turned right onto a brand new road.
"Oh my God! Why did they build the road so big, did anyone drive here?" As soon as Dean drove onto the new highway, he was frightened by the one-way six-lane road in front of him.
The doctor also raised his glasses, looked at the green belt on the side of the road and frowned, this is a typical desert area, planting so many flowers and trees, obviously not in line with the local ecology, isn't it a waste of taxpayers' money?
As they head north, the road is 12 lanes in both directions, and the green belt is covered with flowers and trees, and from time to time you can see automatic sprayers spraying water mist on the green belt.
At the same time, the traffic is also a little denser, if they didn't meet one car in an hour, now they meet one or two cars in a few minutes.
Suddenly they saw a gas station in front of them, Dean hurriedly turned on the steering wheel, he was going to go to Workton to refuel, but he didn't expect that there would be a gas station here.
Dean went to refuel while the Doctor looked at the desert to the north with a telescope, and after a while he saw some workers working in the desert.
"What are they doing?" Julie was also watching with a telescope.
"It seems that they are building something, but what are they going to do with such a large-scale construction?" The doctor looked at the continuous sand control dikes and wondered.
"Doctor, Julie, there is water and fruit for sale here, do you want it?"
Hearing Dean's call, the Doctor and Julie gave up on the idea of finding out for the time being.
After entering the convenience store inside the gas station, the doctor bought a bottle of water, took a sip of cold mineral water, and asked the clerk as if he had inadvertently:
"It doesn't seem like there was such a gas station before?"
"Yes, sir! We only opened half a month ago. The clerk replied with a smile.
"There's not a lot of traffic here, can you make a profit by opening a gas station here?" The Doctor did not believe that capitalists would do such a thankless task.
"Just because it's bad now doesn't mean it's bad in the future." The clerk continued with a smile.
"Why?"
"See those concrete dikes on the north side?"
"I just saw, what are those concrete dikes for?" The doctor nodded and replied.
"These dikes are used to transform the desert into patches and then convert it into pasture or farmland, or residential areas, factories and so on." The clerk explained.
"Transforming the desert? That's a very big investment, right? How could the council approve such an investment?" The doctor was puzzled.
The clerk shook his head and explained: "NO, NO, this is not invested by the government, it is invested by the Galaxy Foundation, they have contracted the Victoria Desert, the Gibson Desert, the Great Sand Desert, the Northern Desert, and the Simpson Desert, and are ready to transform these deserts into areas suitable for human survival." ”
"The Galactic Consortium?" Of course, the doctor knew about the Galactic Foundation, and then he thought of the desalination technology that the Galactic Consortium possessed, and the Galactic Consortium could indeed transform the desert.
In the northwest desert of the Eastern Tang Dynasty, you can only see the desert when you go to the nature reserve.
"Dean, let's keep going." The doctor patted Dean on the shoulder.
“OK。”
Once again, the three of them set out on their way to the north.
Soon their vehicles were within the confines of the checkered transformation area.
"Oh Maiga, are these Tang people planning to wipe out the desert completely?" Julie exclaimed.
Huge squares completely divide the desert into pieces, and countless pipes are connected to them.
From time to time, the Doctor picked up a telescope and observed that the people of the Eastern Tang Dynasty were trying to overcome nature, and they were reversing desertification, which was literally changing the world.
As their pickup truck got closer to Walkerton, some of the squares that had been initially transformed also appeared in the eyes of the trio.
Sparkling man-made lakes, glass greenhouses like jewels, some yellowed and decayed pastures, forests, and square residential areas.
"It's unbelievable that this was a desert before, and what else the Tang people couldn't do?" Dean was nothing but admiration and admiration.
The transformation of the environment, coupled with the significant investment of the Galaxy Foundation, has made the Walkton area more and more vibrant, like a magnet, attracting many people with dreams here.
Not only immigrants, but also a large number of locals are flocking to Walkerton, and there is a demand for people, and if there is demand, it will promote business prosperity.
Soon, the pickup truck of the three entered the first town in the Walkton area, "Southgate Town", and the road was on the side of the town.
"Dean, let's go inside the town and have a look." The doctor commanded.
“OK。” Dean flicked the steering wheel lightly, and the pickup truck drove into town with a nice turn.
They saw that there were not a few Tang people, of course, this could also be Heren or Gaoli people, after all, face blindness is a universal existence.
In the eyes of Westerners, Easterners all look the same, and vice versa.
"If it weren't for the navigation showing that we were still in Australia, I would have thought I had come to Dongtang." Dean smiled wryly.
"Would you like to eat here? There seems to be Chinese cuisine here. Julie pointed to the Wang Ji restaurant not far away.
The doctor looked at his watch and saw that it was almost half past eleven, so he nodded: "Let's eat Chinese food here!" ”
After parking the car in the underground parking lot, the three of them walked into Wang Kee's restaurant, which was filled with many customers, including local whites and Tang people.
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