Chapter Twenty-Six: The Desert Becomes a City

After two years of transformation, the Hunshandak Sandy Land and the Horqin Desert have become two green cities, rows of mother trees with a height of no more than three meters are firmly rooted in the desert land, and the ground is crawling with Chameleon No. 1, the grass named Chunfeng No. 1 has taken this place as its home, swaying in the wind, full of green.

I named this place Hunshandak City and Horqin City, so that it could be managed in the future and have a unified name, so I followed the old place name. The whole city has set up four city gates, designed as the entrance of the city in accordance with the Ming and Qing dynasties, it is divided into three areas, the outer city, the inner city and the central city, the outer city is divided into four districts, called by the southeast and northwest, each area has a unique style, the business projects are also different, after each city gate enters, there is a large reception hall, and each service area is clearly marked.

The reception hall is a building with integrated service functions, and the top of the 200-meter-high building can accommodate 20 helicopters at the same time, and there is an elevator leading directly to the underground city transportation station, because aircraft are not allowed to fly in the sky above the city, unless it is authorized by a concession. It is also a station, and there are four places in the city where sightseeing buses, taxis, and subways depart from this terminal.

There are not many buildings on the ground in the outer city, and there are hotels, commercial streets, and administrative service centers on both sides of the four city gates, and the buildings are very concentrated. The inner city also has four gates, divided into eight districts, with eight luxury hotels and 30 residential communities, all of which are garden-style private estates. It will be home to one of the most powerful families in China.

Why is it positioned this way? Because when the World Tree in Central City becomes an adult, a unique living environment will be formed here, and the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi will be concentrated in this area, which will be extremely beneficial to the body of ordinary people. As for Canterlot's arrangement, there are no plans for the time being.

In addition to the urban ground planning, its real secret is in the underground construction, the underground city up to a thousand meters deep has a total of ten floors, each floor is as large as the ground, equivalent to ten city areas, each floor is perfectly planned and designed, mainly agriculture and animal husbandry, supplemented by industry. There are tungsten ore and lead-zinc ore underground in Hunshandak City, and copper, tin and gold mines underground in Horqin City, and the ore veins are all 300 meters underground, and these five factories are also built underground. The oil and coal at the bottom of the city will not be extracted for the time being, because it is not of much value at the moment, and the gas extraction equipment has been installed for the city gas.

The agriculture and animal husbandry of the dungeon uses the highest technology of the sixth-level civilization, and it is fully mechanized, and it is necessary to make a good food reserve for the 200 million people of the empire here, which is temporarily kept secret and not open to the public.

Just as the city construction is about to be completed, the international market grain prices fluctuate frequently, especially the prices of corn and soybeans are surging, the only ten remaining soybean enterprises in the country are under the pressure of foreign capital and joint ventures, facing a survival crisis, if the government does not take effective measures, the domestic edible oil market and corn-related industries will be controlled by international giants, these two industrial chains involve a wide range, carelessly will cause domestic prices to rise wildly, the inflation rate exceeds a certain value, will cause economic turmoil and lead to political instability, China's newfound system will collapse.

The Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Commerce and Trade quickly reported the situation to the Prime Minister's Office, hoping that the central government could help them solve practical problems. At this time, the prime minister thought of me and told me about the situation, and I immediately nodded and agreed, asking these enterprises to promise to reduce the domestic prices of edible oil and feed, supply soybeans and corn to them at 70% of foreign prices, give as much as they want, trade in cash, deliver them to their homes, and strive to regain the domestic market in two years.

When the chairman and the prime minister asked me about the origin of soybeans and corn, I took them directly into the underground planting base of Desert City without saying a word, revealed some secrets for them to know, and by the way took them into a closed experimental field, so that they could taste a new variety that they had never seen before, this is a strange corn, its plant is only more than a meter high, and there is only one fruit on each plant, the fruit is thirty centimeters long, in the form of corn on the cob, each flesh is the size of a thumb, and the color is lilac. The ripe fruit has a faint fruity aroma and smells refreshing.

I found a ripe fruit, broke it off, tore open the wrapped leaves, and revealed the rows of flesh inside, took three of them with my hands, handed them one to each of them, and said, "Taste the corn." ”

"This is corn? Is there corn that big? The two looked surprised.

"Just take a bite and you'll know." I laughed.

The two of them carefully took a bite with their mouths, a strong aroma of corn spread in their mouths, and then a burst of sweet and sour fruit smell made saliva secrete quickly, and the appetite was great, the two of them hurriedly swallowed half of the pulp in their hands, snatched the whole stick of corn from my hand, opened the bow left and right, and after a while, the stick of corn pulp disappeared.

"It's so delicious, when will this thing be on the market?"

"This is called Ziyu No. 1, a small amount of market after three months, it has a spleen and stomach, promotes intestinal peristalsis, and has a good effect on constipation, but the price is expensive, the cost of each stick is 200 yuan, which is a high-end food." I said.

After visiting the underground base, I picked 20 sticks from the experimental field and asked them to take them back to Beijing to taste for others, who knew that a few days later I received a call from two people, wryly asking me to get more Ziyu No. 1, and said that the Standing Committee members unanimously demanded that the supply should be fixed every month, otherwise I would not be finished.

"Robber ······" I couldn't laugh or cry.