One acre is about 4,000 square meters, and 200 acres is 800,000 square meters.

If it is close to a large oasis, it may be useful, but if it is too far away, it will be worthless due to the high development costs and dangerous living conditions.

Two hours after a phone call with a senior bureaucrat at the Ministry of National Defense, Mr. Zhang drove into a small oasis that the federal government had deemed undeveloped.

The jeep knocked down clumps of dwarf bushes, and its heavy, gripping tires ran over patches of green grass, and swooped into the desert to the source of all the miracles of life, a small river that was only two meters wide from north to south and ran east-west but ran through the entire oasis.

The young man opened the car door and jumped out of the car.

The breeze was cool, the water vapor was moist, he stretched his muscles comfortably, and was about to speak, when he suddenly saw thirty or forty busy or special board houses by the ditch;

or in measuring water quality to study the growth of riverside plants;

Or in the figure of being idly idle, an old Caucasian man dressed in a dusty blue canvas denim overalls and a wide-brimmed cowboy hat rushed over, incoherently, and rebuked him with great excitement: "My God, do you know what you have done, do you know what you have done!"

Those dwarf shrubs, those dwarf shrubs are the most rear-end barrier to protect this oasis from wind-blown sand. You actually broke a dozen of them like this, I hesitated for three days and was reluctant to conduct destructive research on them, you, you..."

"I let you get your wish, didn't I, old man," Zhang Lisheng stretched out his hand, interrupted the old man's words, and pointed to the dwarf trees scattered in the distance, "Look, the sap from the broken bushes is still fresh." It still retains its basic activity. It's still too late for you to go and collect the materials that will serve as 'test materials'. ”

Hearing this, the old man's expression became even more angry, but he didn't care to shout at the young man anymore, and hurriedly shouted to several assistants and students around him: "Daming starts the generator;

Emily takes the freezer;

Donaldson prepares the gathering utensils...". While striding towards the broken tree in the distance.

Looking at the back of the old man running wildly. Zhang Lisheng shrugged his stunned agent on the side and said, "Good afternoon." Charlie, is this the geology expert you got for the farm?

Judging from the friendly 'academic conversation' between the scientists I and he just had, the temper was not very good. ”

"Boss. Professor Konneki is the best person we can find at the moment," Charlie said with a wry smile when he came back to his senses, "The environmental and geology experts who specialize in soil and water conservation are now 'hot', and we don't have many options." ”

"You misunderstood me, Charlie.

As a biologist, I really appreciate such a scientist who is so focused on academic research and seems unapproachable, and you are doing a great job. Zhang Lisheng smiled at Charlie and turned his gaze to the LS legal officer beside him, "Edward, it's great to see you."

Two hours ago, I received a phone call from a director of the Logistics Support Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense, Philips Edwards, asking for a meeting, and I had made an appointment to meet him tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock in the lobby of the Neptune Building, and I hope you will accompany me at that time. ”

"Yes, boss," Edward said respectfully, "I will be prepared to make any unreasonable demands that make him legally untenable." ”

The young man nodded with a smile, stopped talking about business, looked around at the vibrant environment that was very different from the desert, and chatted: "Speaking of which, this is the first time I have come to this oasis, the environment is really good, and I don't see that the desertification is at all. ”

"It's the same feeling when I first came to this oasis, boss," Edward said regretfully, "but unfortunately the amount of water from the river on which the oasis depends is indeed decreasing.

Federal environmental assessments predict that the oasis has been around for at least a millennium, has entered a 'decay period', and is expected to remain ecologically unchanged for another 70 to 100 years, with a rapidly deteriorating environment once water consumption increases. ”

As soon as his friend's voice fell, seeing Zhang Lisheng frowning slightly, Charlie hurriedly explained from another angle, "Of course, we can improve the quality of vegetation by manually digging deep wells, and establish a more complete ecological cycle system to reverse optimize the environment here."

Only if you are willing to spend money at any cost, any miracle can happen, boss. ”

That's not a bad thing, anyway, the last thing we need in the future is money. Zhang Lisheng stretched his eyebrows and nodded, looked down at the ditch that was as quiet as stagnant water under his feet, and suddenly a trace of curiosity rose in his heart, muttering to himself, "What has this small river been doing for so long, but now it is going to dry up...", his hands opened and stroked the water.

Suddenly, on the originally calm river, ripples that seemed to be blown by the strong wind rippled silently.

After more than ten seconds, the young man's face suddenly changed, his eyes became brighter and brighter, and he was silent for a long time and asked in a low voice: "Charlie, I remember that you said that the company has invested a total of 20 million meters in this oasis, so how much did it cost to buy it from the Federation?"

"Boss, most of the 20 million yuan investment was spent on building farmhouses, farm machinery, and ordering advanced automatic irrigation systems, and the land price is only 370,000 meters, which is equivalent to the total value of all the timber in this oasis. ”

"So if there weren't such trees, wouldn't the land be worth much?"

"Yes boss, we bought this oasis that is closest to 'New Washington A' and is owned by the Washington State government under the new federal charter amendment.

The Washington Public Land Use Act stipulates that federal citizens or companies can apply for the purchase of all land in the state that is marked as unusable by the government at a price of 10 cents per acre of guaranteed minimum value.

After the application is issued, the state government must make a public announcement within 15 days, and within one month of the announcement, if other purchasers are willing to compete, the government will decide the ownership of the land by public auction within one week;

If there is no competition, the land will be owned by the applicant after one month.

So if you don't count the value of the land attachments, that is, the timber, the reasonable land price of this oasis is about 800 to 1,200 yuan. Edward replied in place of Charlie in a very professional tone.

"Ten meters per acre, this is too cheap Edward, are you kidding, how is it possible?" Zhang Lisheng said in surprise.

"In fact, this price is already on the high side, boss, ten meters per acre, one square kilometer is one thousand yuan, and the desert area that is also marked by the government as unusable, Louisiana or Nevada in peacetime more than ten years ago, the public sale price does not exceed 100 meters.

For the government, a hundred years of idle wasteland will not bring even a single cent of revenue, and selling it at a low price means an endless stream of tax revenue and jobs, no matter what kind of development it is carried out by private individuals.

At worst, the government will be left idle, and even then the government will be able to cash out a public fund from the 'waste', and the purchaser will have to pay an annual land tax to the government, so why not. ”

"That's not bad Edward, it seems that I haven't really learned your kind of pragmatic way of thinking until now. The young man opened his mouth but found that he could not refute it, shrugged his shoulders and said, "Well, is the land tax that you said you have to pay to the government every year expensive?"

"Very cheap bosses, different state laws, if you continue to waste, the maximum is only one percent of the purchase price of the land, and if it is successfully developed, there are various tax deductions. ”

"Oh, it seems that we are lucky in this case," Zhang Lisheng smiled excitedly and lowered his voice: "Charlie, after you go back, apply to the Washington State government to buy all the public land around this oasis, and buy as much as you want." ”

"All boss," Charlie asked, although he had already had a premonition of his thoughts from the various questions raised by the young man, "about three hundred and fifty kilometers northwest of this oasis is 'New York City', and part of the desert that extends out belongs to New York State, and to the southeast..."

"Okay Charlie, don't care about the little money, whatever state it belongs to, take all the land you can buy around it. Zhang Lisheng's face tense, and he said solemnly after thinking about the agent's words.

"I see, boss. Although he didn't know the intention of the black-haired young man in front of him, listening to his resolute tone, Charlie immediately replied respectfully.

Zhang Lisheng nodded silently, stood by the river and stopped talking, until a few minutes later, the old man who had collected the broken branches and leaves in the distance walked towards him with a gloomy face, and the young man smiled and took the initiative to stretch out his hand and said, "Good afternoon, Professor Cornegi, I am Zhang Lisheng." ”

"Professor, Mr. Zhang is the founder of LS Group and the owner of this oasis. "Lest the old man continue to defy his boss and the gods he believes," Charlie hurriedly added.

"I know who he is, Mr. Charlie. Corneki glanced at Charlie, stretched out his palm full of dirt and shook it with the young man, and said unceremoniously: "A geologist who studies soil and water conservation must also be a qualified biologist, and as long as he is a federal biologist, he will not know who Zhang Lisheng is."

But honestly, PhD, your attitude towards science and academic achievement are not proportional. ”

"Oh Professor, I drove in the desert for two hours straight in order to get to meet you as soon as possible, and I was almost 'sand blinded' and went straight into the oasis as soon as I saw it, and I was really sorry for the little bushes. (To be continued......)