The construction of the port of Hongku is in full swing.

Wharf facilities, warehouses, staff dormitories, staff canteens, power distribution stations, highways, waterworks, and large gas storage tanks are expanding at a speed that is visible to the naked eye.

Meanwhile.

Xu Yingcheng, who is the person in charge of the port management company, is not in the port area at this time, but in the northwest direction of the port area, which is about 5.3 kilometers away.

On the armored car, Xu Yingcheng opened the roof of the car, stood on the roof of the car, and looked around with binoculars.

In front of you is a dry sandy field, and instead of looking at the Red Sea, you will think that this side is a warm and humid coastal plain.

In fact, it is one of the driest regions in Egypt, with a typical tropical desert climate controlled by the subtropical high pressure zone.

Except for some drought-tolerant weeds and small shrubs along the seashore, the closer to the interior, the bare sand, the Gobi desert, and the rocky mountains are basically the area.

In front of him, a special team is busy in this barren land.

They are an agricultural technology brigade from Haitian Agricultural Group, which is also a size of 500 people.

Miliang Aragon, the captain of the Agricultural Technology Brigade, also stood on the roof of the car: "At present, we have reclaimed 20,000 acres. ”

Putting down the binoculars, Xu Yingcheng looked at the planning map handed over by Mi Liang.

The coastline of the entire Red Sea province is about 1,200 kilometers, the coastal lowland plain is about 20,000 square kilometers, and the inland sub-plain is also about 20,000 square kilometers.

These 40,000 square kilometers are all within 45~90 kilometers of the Red Sea coast.

Homo sapiens has reached an agreement with Egypt to lease the area for agricultural production for a period of 50 years, with a rent of 15,000 gold dollars per square kilometer per year, for a total of 600 million gold dollars per year.

As for how Homo sapiens develops and utilizes this 40,000 square kilometers of desert plains.

In front of him, the agricultural technology brigade of Haitian Agriculture is responsible for the construction of the first batch of 100 square kilometers of experimental fields.

"Manager Xu, the power supply equipment must be improved as soon as possible, otherwise we will not be able to pump water."

Xu Yingcheng waved his hand: "Don't worry, the next batch of transport ships will bring the equipment of a gas-fired thermal power station, with a power generation of 500 megawatts, which is enough for you to use." ”

"The farmland that has been leveled on my side can start releasing water in the near future."

Mira pointed to one of the farmlands where drainage ditches and dams had been dug.

"By the way, the New Luzon Shipyard will send two nuclear-powered canal ships in a week."

"What's that?" Mira looked surprised.

Xu Yingcheng took out his tablet, called up an internal device profile, and handed it to Mi Liang.

Mira looked at it carefully.

The design of the canal-opening vessel is similar to that of the previous Haili, but the canal-opening vessel has special tracks, which can be used for amphibious use on land and sea, and use two thorium-based molten salt nuclear reactors with a total power of 100 megawatts.

The ditch opening equipment at the bottom of it can dig a huge ditch with a depth of 20~50 meters and a width of 80~120 meters.

The ditch opening ship that enters the working state of the canal, if it is a sandy and soil formation, its excavation speed is 2~3 kilometers per hour; If it is a rocky formation, the excavation speed is 500~800 meters per hour.

"This thing can dig canals, right?"

"This was originally developed for the excavation of canals, and to develop the coastal plains of the Red Sea provinces, and the deeper sub-plains, it is necessary to allow the natural flow of seawater into the farmland, so as to reduce the operating costs in the future."

Mi Liang also nodded: "Indeed, if you rely on the water pipeline, you will definitely need a pressurized water pump, which will consume a lot of energy. ”

"And the river with a width of 120 meters and a depth of 50 meters can completely run a 10,000-ton transport ship, which is also of great help for transporting grain and agricultural machinery in the future."

Mi Liang returned the tablet: "Or the company is more thoughtful." ”

After looking at the farmland, the two came to a seedling base built by the sea.

This seedling base is open-air, and you can see lush rice seedlings at this time, in order to facilitate the next planting, the agricultural technology brigade has raised seedlings in advance.

Xu Yingcheng walked to the side of the nursery field, all the nursery fields were soaked in seawater, but these rice seedlings were not affected by the sea water at all and still grew well.

He squatted down and pulled up a rice seedling: "I heard that this is the latest improved variety?" ”

"Well, this is a genetically recombinant perennial seawater rice—Haidao 14."

"Perennial? Is it the kind that can be harvested again after planting? ”

Mi Liang nodded: "Yes, with the tropical desert climate of the Red Sea Province, you can achieve three crops a year and harvest for 5 consecutive years. ”

"Good stuff! But what about the yield of this rice? ”

"As long as the top dressing is enough, the yield per mu is about 800 kilograms."

Xu Yingcheng calculated a little: "800 kilograms per mu? Three crops a year...... That is, with an annual output of 2,400 kilograms, 40,000 square kilometers is 60 million mu, and 144 million tons of rice can be produced every year. ”

"If all 40,000 square kilometers are renovated, this output can indeed be achieved."

Xu Yingcheng's eyes narrowed slightly: "Is this rice anti-theft?" ”

"Don't worry! The company was prepared. Mira smiled and shrugged.

As a genetically recombinant special rice, Haitian agriculture will not be unguarded.

Not only did the genetic treatment of sterility of seed retention, but also deliberately inserted three high-temperature resistant toxic proteins into the rice genes, which not only made the rice leaves full of poison, but also the rice itself contained toxic proteins.

The reason for inserting toxic protein is called "insecticide".

Insecticide is indeed one of the purposes of inserting poison protein genes in Haitian agriculture, and ordinary insects will be directly poisoned if they eat the leaves and rice of Haidao 14.

Frequent outbreaks of locusts in Egypt are not immune to these toxic proteins.

Another purpose of Haitian Agriculture is to make Haidao 14 impossible to steal.

These three toxic protein genes are the core genes in the gene sequence of the rice, and if these three toxic protein genes are knocked out, the rice will lose its saline-alkali tolerance and insect resistance, and at the same time, it will not be able to grow rice.

What's even more terrifying is that these three toxic proteins are resistant to high temperatures, can withstand temperatures of about 240 degrees Celsius without decomposing, and their toxicity is equally effective for humans and livestock.

Ordinary adults who eat 3 grams of Haidao No. 14 rice will be poisoned and die.

If the toxicity is so violent, why does Haitian Agriculture grow this kind of rice?

The reason for this is that Haitian Agriculture has a technology to process these toxic proteins, which is called "virus fermentation technology".

As long as some special genetic recombinant viruses are used, these three toxic proteins can be destroyed, and the toxic proteins can be turned into ordinary amino acids, water and carbon dioxide.

After this harmless treatment, sea rice can be eaten directly, or further processed and refined into rice flour, starch, and rice bran oil.

Farmland irrigated with seawater will inevitably become completely salinized in the future, and only sea rice can be grown, and no other crops can be grown.

The actions of Homo sapiens are obviously full of malice.

Of course, the Red Sea province itself is a tropical desert, and the salinization of the land doesn't really matter, and Egypt should be grateful to Homo sapiens for developing it.

Once the 40,000 square kilometres of coastal plain are developed, it will add 144 million tonnes of rice to Egypt proper.

Moreover, Egypt has a total area of 1 million square kilometers, of which 950,000 square kilometers are deserts, and these deserts have the potential to be developed into sea rice fields.

Although Homo sapiens will inevitably occupy the vast majority of the profits, those leftovers are enough for Egypt to eat.

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