Chapter 52 Grass, Vines, and Trees

At the gate of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, an old man who was over the age of sixteen led more than a dozen old people about the same age as him were waiting for something, since he received a call from the prime minister a few days ago, his heart has been looking forward to it.

At half past eight in the morning, several small cars slowly drove over, and after the cars stopped, Secretary General Xie of the Prime Minister's Office walked out, took me to the old people, and first introduced me to Ouyang Fenqiang, president of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

"Hello, Dean Ouyang."

"Hello, Mr. Dugu, welcome to our Academy of Agricultural Sciences, let me introduce to you, this is Professor Hu, a plant expert, this Professor Song specializes in desert plants, this is Professor Qi, an expert in ecological environment, and Professor Chen, an expert in plant genes..."

"Dean Ouyang, professors, let's enter the laboratory and talk about it, we can't do anything at the gate."

In the midst of a burst of harmonious laughter, the group slowly walked along the tree-lined path of the academy to the laboratory building. A few minutes later, a five-story experimental base appeared in front of my eyes, behind the building is a large plant base, with a wide variety of flowers and trees, dozens of students are busy in the base, some are pruning branches, some are taking notes, some are watering and turning the soil・・・・・・

After entering the building, I opened a box I had brought, took out three sealed glass bottles from it, and said to the professors: "Ladies and gentlemen, I will bring the seeds of three plants this time, and first talk about the seeds of this grass, which I named Chunfeng No. 1, which means that the wildfire is inexhaustible, and the spring breeze blows and grows." The seeds of this grass are similar to sesame seeds, and after germination, its root system grows quickly, up to three meters deep into the soil, its root system has the function of splitting and propagating, and the leaves are evergreen all year round, and it is extremely adaptable to drought.

The second is the seed of the vine, I named it Chameleon No. 1, which means that it can change its color with the climate change of the environment, its seeds are like soybeans, its taproot can penetrate deep into the soil for more than six meters, the ground part grows like a spider's web, each vine has a secondary root system at the joint, firmly grasp the ground, and each section of the vine can be cut into life.

The third is the seed of the tree, a bit similar to a nut, the height of the adult trunk is about three meters, the diameter of its trunk can reach one meter, the crown coverage can reach about ten square meters, its root system can reach less than ten meters, it can flower and bear fruit in the year, each tree can bear up to 10,000 seeds, I named it the mother tree. ”

After I finished speaking, I took out a bottle of light blue liquid: "Of course, the seeds of these three plants need this water of life to germinate, and they need to be soaked in the water of life for one minute before planting, and it is only effective to plant them in the soil within thirty minutes. ”

After I finished my introduction, the guards who came with me had already assembled several transparent cabinets of different specifications and were filling them with soil.

"Professors, in order to better observe the development process of seeds, I have prepared these cabinets for you, a fluoroscopy instrument, and a soil composition analyzer to track the growth process of plants throughout the process." I said, "Dean Ouyang, these three vials of seeds and one vial of eaux-de-vie are the result of twenty years of research by nearly a hundred experts, and now I give them to you, hoping that they can make the desert clothed in green." ”

"Mr. Dugu, on behalf of everyone at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, thank you." Dean Ouyang said.

Before leaving, Secretary-General Xie whispered a few words in the ear of the dean, and then left the Academy of Agricultural Sciences with me.

A week later, Dean Ouyang reported to the Chairman and the Prime Minister as scheduled: "Chairman, Prime Minister, after the research of several of our experts, there is no way to decipher the genes of the seeds, and the composition of the water of life is not something that our current technology can analyze. ”

"How's those seeds growing?"

"What an astonishment! Those seeds germinated the next day, and they grew very quickly, and I experimented with other seeds that soaked the water of life, and found that it grew dozens of times more than usual, and it seems that the water of life is the key. ”

"Dean Ouyang, if these three plants are used for desert management, what is the success rate?"

"Now I can't answer, if used in an area with water, the success rate is very high, but I have a hunch that these seeds will change the whole world."

A month later, one hundred and eighty kilometers northeast of Beijing, Hunshandak Sandy Land, covering an area of more than 20,000 square kilometers, is dominated by fixed and semi-fixed sand dunes, which used to be green grasslands, but due to overgrazing, the grasslands have become sandy land, and most of them have been transformed into deserts, and most of Beijing's wind-blown sand is caused here. To the northeast of the Hunshandak Sandy Land, there is another Horqin Desert, which is more than twice its size, and these two deserts are the areas that the Chairman has entrusted me with full authority.

The Beijing Military Region and the Shenyang Military Region each sent a division of more than 20,000 men to cooperate with our desert transformation plan, and the Academy of Agricultural Sciences was led by two professors, Hu Song, and 50 graduate students cooperated in the action. Our base camp is located next to a river 10 kilometers from the Hunshandak Sands, and the camp is under construction, but since it is winter, the renovation plan has been postponed until the beginning of next spring. This is the right time for the Academy of Agricultural Sciences to cultivate a large number of seeds for use in the coming year.

Before the desert was renovated, I demanded that the troops put up steel pillars five meters high on the periphery of the renovated area, with steel pillars spaced 10 meters apart, and a barbed wire fence in the middle, prohibiting anyone from entering, and opening four openings in the four areas of east, west, south, and south, and setting up barracks. In the middle of the two deserts, I asked the moon base to send a large number of engineering robots and engineering equipment in the middle of the night, and first built a square castle 10 kilometers long in the center, with a wall wall 100 meters high and 30 meters thick, and the sand in the desert was made into square wall tiles, which were just for waste use. A kilometer below the castle, designed as the desert city's energy supply center and central hub control center, this area will be built into a massive dungeon.

In my planning, two giant trees will be planted in the center of these two desert castles, one male and one female, which is the national tree of the Alpha Empire, with an adult trunk of 1,500 meters high, a diameter of 100 meters, and a canopy covering up to 100 square kilometers. When the giant tree grows in 30 years, it will become a desirable holy place.

After several days of detailed exploration by satellite detection and exploration robots, it was determined that there is an oil and gas field with reserves of more than 100 billion tons at a depth of 2,000 to 3,000 meters, a coal field with reserves of more than 20 billion tons at a depth of 2,000 to 3,000 meters, and two tungsten ores, one copper ore, one lead-zinc ore, and one tin ore. In the contract with the government, I have the right to operate this land of nearly 100,000 square kilometers for 70 years, including the resources under the desert, and the government will not interfere in my operation.

At present, there is no technology in the world to exploit oil and gas fields and coal fields at such depths, and even if they know that there are resources underground, they give up because of the high cost of extraction.

What if one day the desert becomes an oasis・・・・・・