Chapter 135 Groundwater Networks
Hong Xiaotian thought for a while and asked, "Grandpa Dongfang, have you mobilized satellites to search?"
"Of course, we have searched! We still mobilized all five satellites to search the waters of the South China Sea...... But it should be that there are too few satellites, so I didn't find it! Alas, the thought of the aircraft carrier that I bought for tens of billions of dollars is gone, and my heart hurts uncomfortably!"
When Dongfang Xiong said this, he slapped his chest three times, making a "bang, bang" sound.
Hong Xiaotian asked again: "Grandpa Dongfang, are those navies who drive ships reliable? and there are also marines to escort them?"
"The captain is one of my cousins, the captain of the Marine Corps is the nephew of Brother Ouyang, and the people from the Ministry of Security, they are all carefully selected by our five permanent members. Moreover, Brother Lan's security department has also conducted a special investigation on every person on the ship, including three generations of their families!" Dongfang Xiong replied.
Hong Xiaotian thought for a while: "It seems that they have no problem, then this aircraft carrier should be wrecked in a storm or destroyed by that country!"
The more Dongfang Xiong thought about it now, the more sad he became, he waved his hand, shook his head again and again, and said, "Impossible! The aircraft carrier is very tall and built very strongly, even if it is a tenth-level wind and waves, it is impossible to let it crash...... As for which country can destroy the aircraft carrier, the two countries in the South China Sea are the two countries with strong naval strength...... But it is impossible to destroy the aircraft carrier without being discovered by our cargo ships, merchant ships, and warships that are going to meet us!"
"Uh...... That's it!" Hong Xiaotian frowned, wondering if it could have been lost by a spell cast by the protector of a certain country.
But there are rules in the cultivation realm, and it is impossible for the protectors and their subordinates to go out of their own sphere of influence, let alone participate in the war between mortals!
"Xiaotian, have you thought of anything?" asked Ximencheng.
Hong Xiaotian shook his head: "I didn't think of it for the time being, but I guess it's not simple...... Why don't I investigate then?"
"Okay!" Dongfang Xiong nodded.
Hong Xiaotian thought about talking about more things tonight, and when he asked the six people if they knew about submarines, nuclear power plants, and nuclear weapons that would cause great damage if a small explosion could cause great damage, the five permanent members all shook their heads and said they didn't know.
Only Lan Yuanzheng thought about it and frowned: "Xiaotian, according to the news sent back by the agent lurking in Dongying, there is a secret base in Fukushima City in Dongying, and it seems that a weapon of mass destruction is being researched now...... But the agent can't get in yet, and I don't know what's going on?"
"Uh, Dongying?" Hong Xiaotian thought of this, he felt a little tricky, there was Amaterasu's sphere of influence, and it was difficult for him to blend in as a mid-stage spirit body!
"Yes, Dongying!" Lan Yuanzheng continued: "Dongying and our Great Xia have a feud for hundreds of years, if they have such a big killing weapon, and we Great Xia don't have it, it will be dangerous!"
Dongfang Xiong heard this, and said with a smile: "Brother Lan, don't be too long-term Dongying majesty, and destroy my Great Xia ambition! Our Great Xia missiles can completely cover their Dongying territory and carry out a saturation attack, if they dare to use any big killing weapon against our Great Xia, our missiles are not vegetarian!"
Lan Yuanzheng shook his head: "Brother Dongfang, although our missile technology is very strong, and our army can be called the first in the world, there are many gaps between our navy and air force and Dongying. In particular, the navy has four major fleets, Yamato, Dongying Sea, Pacific Ocean, and United Fleet, with seven aircraft carrier formations, and is known as the strongest navy in the world!"
Dongfang Xiong thinks about it, as a continental country, Great Xia has always neglected the construction of the navy, so two or three hundred years ago, it was invaded by many European countries from the sea, and later fought against the Rakshasa Empire and the Dongying Empire on two fronts, and had to endure various unequal treaties of European countries.
Fortunately, more than 100 years ago, there was a Guangxing Emperor, who married the princess of the Rakshasa Empire as a concubine, recognized the Rakshasa Empire's occupation of northern Asia, thus gathering the power of Great Xia, driving the Dongying army back to their homeland, and abolition the unequal treaties with European countries by winning the momentum of the Dongying army, and then recovering Xiangjiang Special City and Haojiang Special City one after another, so that Daxia was basically unified.
After more than 100 years, the army has become stronger and stronger, and now it has become a world-class army, but the navy has been relatively backward because of the lack of technology to build aircraft carriers and large cruisers.
Dongfang Xiong told Hong Xiaotian about this, and then he asked about the submarine.
"Submarines, as the name suggests, are ships that lurk under the surface...... It's made of all-steel, coated with a water-repellent coating, like a fish-like box with a seam and torpedoes and missiles as weapons......"
After Hong Xiaotian finished speaking, he quickly drew a sketch on the notebook in front of him, marking out the periscope and everything, and let Dongfang Xiong and the other five people take a look.
"I don't know a lot, you let the ship experts study ......"
In his previous life, Hong Xiaotian was just a person who liked to search for all kinds of information, and he was not a submarine designer, so he could only explain the basic principles.
"Well, it's a very good idea, after creating this thing, our navy can unexpectedly appear under those warships, launch torpedoes or missiles, sink their warships, and dive away again, which is really good!" Dongfang Xiong said with a smile.
"Xiaotian, don't leak this matter, otherwise we will have another good treasure in Great Xia!" Lan Yuanzheng admonished.
"Don't worry!" Hong Xiaotian said with a smile.
Dongfang Xiong is still not satisfied, he asked about nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons again, Hong Xiaotian smiled and said that to make these things, there must be uranium, and it is a lot of enriched uranium, otherwise it is impossible.
As for uranium, Hong Xiaotian couldn't say clearly, and the six people didn't understand it, but they would let people study it.
Dongfang Xiong's mood is much better now than before, and now it is Shangguan Qingyun's turn, he is extremely appreciative of Hong Xiaotian's erudition and all kinds of whimsy, and he talked about the situation in Anxi Province with a smile.
Because the Guishan Kingdom is now on good terms with Great Xia, and there is no Guizhi Society to make trouble, the overall environment of Anxi Province is now stable, which is many times better than before.
Bactria has sent tens of thousands of Chinese teachers to various primary and secondary schools and Tianfang temples in Anxi Province, and has encouraged juniors to teach Chinese to the locals in Anxi Province and the Kushan Kingdom as trainee teachers.
As long as the results of teaching for one year are qualified, they will unconditionally obtain the graduation certificate of the university where they are located, and they will be paid a salary every month. If you have been teaching for three years, your salary will be doubled.
As soon as this notice was made, tens of thousands of junior college students soon proposed to go to Anxi Province to teach in order to easily obtain their graduation certificates, and signed the application form to teach in Anxi Province and the Kingdom of Kushan, but it would not be arranged until after the Spring Festival next year.
Hong Xiaotian listened to this well, he nodded, and put forward his own suggestion: "Grandpa Shangguan, I have been in Anxi Province for a period of time, and I have also carefully observed and thought deeply...... It is rich in resources, and the territory is vast, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and now the population is only 20 million, which is really a treasure land for the development of our Great Xia...... If 20 million to 50 million people could be relocated to the densely populated areas of the east, the development there would be very rapid, and it would also facilitate intermarriage!"
"Well, that's a good idea, but there are a couple of problems!"
Shangguan Qingyun said with a smile: "Brother Zhuge has the most say in this matter, but his House of Representatives National Investigation Department has investigated the situation in Anxi Province very thoroughly, let him tell you!"
Zhuge Ming nodded, and said to Hong Xiaotian with a smile: "Xiaotian, although Anxi Province is vast and sparsely populated, it lacks water, and the desert area is too large, and the wind and sand are very heavy all year round, I don't think there are too many people who want to settle in the eastern part of Great Xia!"
Hong Xiaotian said with a smile: "Grandpa Zhuge , I don't think there is a shortage of water in Anxi! The three major mountain ranges of Altai, Tianshan, and Kunlun have a lot of meltwater in the glaciers and snow-capped mountains, and there is also water under the desert.
Zhuge Ming nodded: "Yes, but how to use the water of these glaciers and snow mountains?"
Hong Xiaotian said with a smile: "I have seen the qanats, that is, the underground ditches built by the ancient Anxi people...... In this form, we can transport the water from the glaciers and snow-capped mountains in the three major mountain ranges to various cities and villages in Anxi Province, so that the problem of water shortage will be solved!"
"Well, Xiaotian said that is a good idea, we should indeed build a larger underground ditch. Excavators are used to dig multiple reservoirs under the snow-capped mountains to store meltwater from the glaciers. Then build a large canal with three sides of light concrete, and add a cover to reduce water vapor evaporation. Taking advantage of the natural drop, the ditch leaves many openings when passing through the city and countryside, which is convenient for residents to take water and use it for production and life!"
Ximencheng's Senate Public Intelligence Collection Department also has a lot of information about the situation in Anxi Province, so Ximencheng has long thought about such a problem.
However, in the past, there were people from the Guizhi Association in Anxi Province who caused trouble, so it was impossible for these ideas to be realized.
Shangguan Qingyun listened to it and nodded again and again: "Well, this idea is very good, but if there is water, and the people upstream use it to grow grain and feed livestock, this water will not be enough when it reaches the downstream, especially in the desert area!"
Hong Xiaotian actually had similar ideas to them, but in his previous life, after all, he lived in an era when the Internet information was very developed, so he naturally had more ideas than them, and he added with a smile: "We can build an underground water network!" The north of Anxi is not very short of water, especially the Altai Mountains are abundant, and it is the only source of a large river that flows into the Arctic Ocean in Great Xia, where the water can be transported to the Tianshan water network through multiple pipes and ditches, and then the Tianshan water network in the north and the Kunlun mountain water network in the south converge in the center of the desert, which should be able to meet the needs of at least 100 million people in Anxi Province......"
Seeing that the six people kept nodding in agreement, Hong Xiaotian said: "Let's plant vegetation suitable for growing in desert areas along underground ditches and pipelines, preferably medicinal herbs, fruit trees and other economically valuable ones, and use drip irrigation technology to facilitate water conservation...... The construction of roads, railways, small airports, and settlements, and the laying of communication cables, natural gas, oil and gas pipelines, and other facilities, I think this is similar to the living environment in northern Bactria...... In this way, people from the northern plains in the eastern part of Great Xia can be encouraged to settle there!"
Hong Xiaotian's eyes were sharp, and he saw that the six of them were all writing and drawing in their notebooks, all of which focused on "drip irrigation technology" and "settlements".
Anxi Province belongs to Liangzhou, and it has always been the Ouyang family's sphere of influence, Ouyang Feng is also very attentive to Hong Xiaotian's words, he first asked about drip irrigation technology and settlements, and then asked about what to plant in the desert.