My encyclopedia entry has come true

Chapter 145

The car driven by He Xiao is the Polaris K8 independently produced by Hawke Island. It is worth 60 pounds and fits the status of "Huang Chao".

Polaris Motor Company is headquartered in Rum City, the fifth largest city on Hawke Island. This city is located in the middle of the southern plain and has a population of 92. It is also He Xiao's next destination.

Once, Hawke Island was one of the largest sugarcane and sugar production areas in the world. At its peak, the sugarcane plantation area accounted for 60% of the total arable land area, and the output exceeded 4000 million tons. It was a famous sugar island at that time.

A by-product of the sugar industry is rum.Rum is a kind of distilled wine produced from sugarcane molasses. It is made by fermenting and distilling the sugar juice pressed from sugarcane.

Rum City was the center of sugar making and rum production at that time.

However, this single industrial structure is very risky. When the international sugar price falls, the economy of Hawke Island will be greatly affected, and due to the large amount of sugar cane planted, the grain plantation is relatively small. In this case, even There have been famines.

During the reign of the old Duke Hawke, he consciously changed the industrial structure of Hawke Island, reduced the planting area of ​​sugarcane, and expanded the planting area of ​​grain, coconut, banana, natural rubber, coffee, cocoa and other tropical cash crops.

In recent years, due to the promotion of HKP012 potatoes and HKS027 soybeans, the original sugarcane planting area has been further squeezed.

Along the way, He Xiao could hardly see the sugarcane fields. Instead, there were large fields of potatoes and soybeans intensively planted.

He Xiao got out of the car and interviewed the farmers working in the fields. It turned out that as early as three years ago, Umbrella contracted almost all the arable land here at a high price, provided technology and seeds, and hired local farmers to grow potatoes and soybeans.

Compared with the sugar cane planted before, their income has increased by about 2 times now...

No wonder no one grows sugar cane anymore.

However, He Xiao discovered that these farmers would drink a bamboo tube of rum every day at noon.

He Xiao took a few sips and felt that the taste was very pure.Very top.

Although the sugar cane industry has declined, the bamboo tube rum culture has long been a tradition on Hawke Island. The 50 pound banknote issued by Hawke Island has a pattern of bamboo tube rum on it.

Storing rum in bamboo tubes is also a unique custom formed on Hawke Island in the colonial era. Even the entire Hawke Island holds a rum festival every year. The rum festival has been applied to UNESCO for inclusion in intangible culture. List of heritage.

It's a pity that now is not the time, otherwise it must be a very wonderful choice to experience the carnival of Rum City at the Rum Festival.

The Polaris car was slowly driving in Rum City, and the legendary sugar factories were no longer visible, replaced by a series of new factories.

They are concentrated in the industrial parks in the northern suburbs. There are light industries such as textiles and electronics that have been transferred from the suzerain country since the time of the old Duke Hawke, and there are also emerging industries that have settled in in recent years.

The headquarters of Polaris Motor Company is here. Today, its automobile manufacturing plant and supporting factories are the pillar industries of Rum City. The annual output of automobiles is 220 million, accounting for more than two-thirds of the entire Hawke Island. Get on the number.

Rum City is not a sugar center now, but a world-famous Motor City.

Although Polaris Motors is not as well-known as Fuso and Western car brands, in recent years, Polaris Motors has made great technological breakthroughs in new energy vehicles, especially hydrogen energy vehicles, which are at the leading level in the world .

It is worth mentioning that Hawk Island's hydrogen energy lunar rover and Mars rover, as well as the engine of the mobile armor, are all masterpieces of Polaris Motors, which is why it has gained fame in recent years.

Many Hawk Islanders have given up imported cars and replaced them with Hawk Island's own cars, especially hydrogen energy vehicles.

At present, the hydrogen energy vehicles of Polaris Automobile Company have accounted for one-third of its production.

Previously, Huang Fei was driving a Polaris hydrogen energy vehicle.

The hydrogen energy vehicle launched by Polaris consumes about the same per kilometer as an electric vehicle, and is half cheaper than a fuel vehicle. At the same time, its power, battery life and energy replenishment time are already comparable to fuel vehicles. It only takes 1 minute to complete the hydrogenation.

The success of Polaris hydrogen energy vehicles seems to prove that electric vehicles are a wrong way, and hydrogen energy vehicles are the right way.

However, at present, only Hawke Island can reach this level. Although Fusang country researched hydrogen energy vehicles earlier, there is no breakthrough at present. Their hydrogen energy vehicle technology is still far behind electric vehicles.

Speaking of which, Polaris also introduced the hydrogen energy technology from Fusang, but now it has beaten the master to death.

This is not the first time this has happened on Hawke Island.

At least the Hawk Islanders firmly believe that their current scientific research capabilities are the number one in the world, not in one aspect, but in all aspects.

A student of Rum City University said to He Xiao very proudly: "We would like to thank the old Duke Hawke, who tried every means to promote education when the economy of Hawke Island was not yet rich. Now Hawk Island’s technological explosion provides the foundation, he is really the greatest person in the history of Hawk Island, and one of the best and most visionary people in human history..."

Indeed, Rum City University is one of the "38 key universities" that the old Duke Hawke focused on building. They are grateful to the old Duke Hawke, which is a matter of course.

Leaving Rum City, He Xiao walked along the third-line expressway to the bank of a big river.

This is the largest river on Hawke Island, the George II River, with a total length of 1100 kilometers. Although it is incomparable with those big rivers in the world, it is already one of the longest island rivers in the world.

And because in tropical rainy areas, the amount of water is particularly large.

He Xiao noticed that the river sign beside the highway had been vandalized, and the word "George II" had been splashed with paint.

It must have been done by those Hawk Island independents again, as long as it has something to do with colonization, they strongly oppose it.

He Xiao has long received many proposals to change the name of this river, including "Madame Michel River", "Sugar Cane River", "Rum River", "General Hu River", "Monkey River, etc." ...

There are even proposals to name it "Xiao River", "Roger Andre River" or "Einstein River"...

This is outrageous...

Due to too many related proposals, the administrative office and the parliament are reviewing and reconsidering.

They have a headache because Hawke Island is just a colonial island with a shorter history than the United States.

It is really not advisable to rename too many at once, and it is difficult to find such a suitable and meaningful name.

(End of this chapter)