January 15th.

Nile.

Not far from the Aswan Dam is a large city along the river - Kom Ombu.

Thousands of local residents stand high above the buildings to the east, looking out over the earthy desert to the east.

In the early morning sun, a behemoth was advancing little by little in the direction of Kom Ombo.

Thirteen days ago, the Giant Rhino No. 1 had been advancing all the way from the interior of Hongku Harbor to four shifts in the direction of Kom Ombu.

After 13 days of hard work, the 315-kilometer-long canal finally came to the vicinity of Kom Ombo.

Captain Lin Shengbin looked at the planning map in his hand, compared the satellite positioning and the map, and hurriedly shouted: "Start to turn around and deflect ninety degrees to the south." ”

"Roger."

In the cockpit, everyone was busy in an orderly manner.

The Giant Rhino 1 made a turn about 3.4 kilometers east of Kom Ombo City, preparing to dig a double canal line back to the port of Hongku.

Right now.

A 5,000-ton passenger ship also came to the corner from Hongku Port, and the special iron bridge slowly stretched out and placed on the relatively solid ground on the shore.

The official personnel of Kom Ombu, who had already received the notice, had been waiting here for a long time, and as soon as they saw the iron bridge extended, they rushed over.

Led by a middle-aged man, with a clean and concise mustache, a big back comb, and his eyes were full of complexity and envy.

After a while, the passengers on the passenger ship also carried large bags of luggage and walked down from the iron bridge.

The middle-aged man had a somewhat reluctant smile on his face: "Welcome to all the guests of Homo sapiens to Kom Ombu, I am the person in charge of this side, Sabu." ”

Hu Mingliang (Oranghoek), the manager of the branch sent by Coral Construction Group, stretched out his hand with a smile: "Hello, I am Hu Mingliang, the manager of the branch of Coral Construction Group in Aswan. ”

The two chatted for a while.

There are a total of 1,200 construction teams and management personnel sent here.

They will be responsible for planning the staggering of the Southern Canal and the Nile, as well as improving the infrastructure of the port of Kom Ombo.

"Mr. Sabu, our company needs to recruit about 3,000 temporary workers locally, is there any wasteland close to the city? Deserts can also be. ”

Sabu took out a map of the area and pointed to several areas: "These are wastelands that are relatively close to the city, and on the east side, there is a Gobi Desert. ”

Hu Mingliang looked at the location on the map, and then picked up the telescope to observe the distance.

This is a 4.7-square-kilometer Gobi Desert, to be precise, a rocky weathered area, on which there are not even a few weeds to be seen, except for some stones and sand.

Hu Mingliang turned his head and asked the head of the planning team: "Beiyang, what is the location of this Gobi Desert?" ”

Kamijo Beiyang is also looking at the map, but he is looking up the satellite topographic map provided by the company, which is accurate to 0.2 meters, and the contour line has been marked.

He looked at the location and altitude of the Gobi Desert: "The average altitude of the Gobi Desert area is about 72 meters, and there is a low-lying salt marsh area on one side, with an average altitude of 26 meters. ”

"How much is the amount of work?" Hu Mingliang asked.

"The area is 7.6 square kilometers, and if you want to dig 45 meters below sea level, it will take about 6 days to complete the excavation of a giant rhino canal boat." ”

Hearing this, Hu Mingliang shook his head helplessly: "There are two giant rhino canal opening ships on the Egyptian side, Haitian Agriculture has borrowed one, and the other is digging the canal double line, and it can't be transferred for the time being." ”

"Where's the new ship?"

"The headquarters is urging the shipyard to estimate that the next batch of five canal-opening ships will be put into service, but that will not be in place until May."

Shangjo Beiyang scratched his head: "This Gobi Desert is the most suitable, and other places are either wheat fields or cotton fields." ”

After thinking for a while, Hu Mingliang still made a decision: "Then here!" Let's do other construction first. ”

Sabu on the side reminded: "Manager Hu, there are no roads in this Gobi Desert, and there are no water pipes around, so life may be very inconvenient. ”

Hu Mingliang waved his hand: "Don't worry, we'll solve it ourselves." ”

Although he didn't know how to solve it, Sabu also knew that it was best not to ask casually about this kind of thing, and he continued to introduce the customs around Kom Ombu.

The two sides chatted for more than half an hour, and finally Hu Mingliang sent the person in charge of the personnel team to follow Sabu to the city of Kom Ombo to prepare for the job fair.

Hu Mingliang began to prepare for the construction of the Gobi Desert New Area.

A number of armored vehicles, pickup trucks and engineering equipment were removed from the cargo hold of the passenger ship.

The first is to build a temporary dock to facilitate the unloading of the next transport ships.

Although there is only a single line of the canal at present, the width of 120~130 meters, plus the lake area formed by some low-lying areas, as long as the scheduling of transportation tasks is regulated, with the help of the lake area as the intersection area, two-way transportation can be realized.

The canal with an average depth of 20~45 meters, 50,000 tons of deadweight tons of transport ships, can easily pass.

However, considering that the width of the canal was still somewhat insufficient at this time, the Hongku Port Management Company only allowed transport ships of 10,000 tons or less to sail in the canal.

Some pillars were first erected at the temporary pier to enhance the stability of the stratum in the area, so as to prevent the stratum from collapsing by the sea.

At the same time, a water purification truck is used to pump seawater from the canal, and through the bio-nano one-way permeability layer, about 50 tons of pure water can be produced every day.

Generators provide electricity to makeshift camps, water purifiers provide drinking water, and satellite communication vehicles provide network services.

Noon on the same day.

A 10,000-ton bulk carrier arrived at the temporary terminal.

There are self-unloading equipment on bulk carriers, which unload the engineering vehicles, machinery and equipment, and raw materials transported on the temporary wharf.

A variety of modular equipment soon set up a navigation lighthouse and shipping dispatch center on the temporary wharf.

The various supporting facilities in the temporary dock area are increasing at a rate that is visible to the naked eye.

In less than three days, through the eight-hour transport ship, a steady stream of equipment and materials were supplied, not only the temporary wharf was built, but even in the Gobi Desert New Area, a temporary staff town that can accommodate 3,000 people has appeared.

Sabu, who has been paying attention to this side, is also very shocked by the speed of the construction of Homo sapiens.

In fact, during the three days, the temporary wharf also supplied 2,000 tons of prepared flour and 200 tons of palm oil to the city of Kom Ombo to alleviate the local food shortage.

At the same time, it is also to buy people's hearts and facilitate the next job fair.

The advent of this new canal has reduced the transportation distance of goods from the Red Sea to the Aswan region by nearly two-thirds without the need to detour to Cairo.

Why did Homo sapiens open the canal?

The purpose is to facilitate the transportation of bulk commodities.

Railways are too cost-effective in Egypt, or very low in the entire Sahara Desert.

The main reason is that the desert climate here is easy to damage the railway, and many areas are uninhabited areas, so the passenger value of the railway is not high, and it can only be used to transport materials such as minerals and food.

For example, in Egypt, the core economic area is the Nile Delta and the narrow Nile Valley Plain, and there is no need to build railways in other regions.

Canals, on the other hand, can revitalize the coastal areas.

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