Homo sapiens.

Suez branch.

Gaitala Lake Agricultural Area.

Li Qingye is currently in the lakeside city of Qatara Lake - Sirat Port.

Since the Homo sapiens company dug the northern canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Qattara Depression, two huge canals with a width of 550 meters and a depth of 35 meters have brought huge Mediterranean seawater into the Qattara Depression.

After nearly two years of continuous injection, the entire Gaitala Depression was completely submerged, forming a saltwater lake with an area of ​​up to 1.8 square kilometers, which is the Gaitala Lake in front of Li Qingye.

This huge lake with an area of ​​1.8 square kilometers and an average depth of 62 meters has 1 trillion cubic meters of seawater and because it is directly connected to the Mediterranean Sea, Lake Gaitala will basically not dry up.

Standing on the 500-meter-high Sirat Broadcasting Tower, Li Qingye looked down at the surroundings. Apart from the blue sea and blue sky, Li Qingye saw endless green fields.

"Mr. Chairman, with our efforts, the Numidia desert will become the granary of North Africa." As the general manager of the Numidia branch, Hu Mingliang was beside Li Qingye at this time.

"The terrain here is very flat, so there should be a lot of usable area for agriculture, right?"

"Yes, the province of Matruh in Suez and the northeast of Numidia is a flat desert area with an area of ​​60 square kilometers. The altitude is lower than 200 meters. All of them can be transformed into seawater farms."

"Do they all grow rice?" Li Qingye didn't know much about the agricultural industry of each branch recently.

Hu Mingliang shook his head: "No, the climate here is suitable for wheat. Through genetically modified technology, we inserted the root gene of sea rice into the wheat gene, as well as the perennial gene."

"That is to say, you plan to plant genetically modified wheat in this 60 square kilometers plain?"

"Yes, but not all of them. About 30 square kilometers are planted."

"That's not a lot. After all, it's 4.5 million mu. By the way, is this genetically modified wheat harvested once a year?"

Hu Mingliang hurriedly replied: "It is harvested twice a year, Chairman, because of the perennial gene, genetically modified wheat can be seamlessly connected, so one season of winter wheat and one season of spring wheat can be realized."

"How about the yield?" Li Qingye picked up the binoculars and looked at the lush wheat fields in the distance.

"The annual yield per mu is about 850 kilograms. If all desert transformation is completed, it is estimated that the annual output of 30 million tons of wheat can be achieved in 3.825 square kilometers."

Li Qingye is quite satisfied with this production capacity.

After all, Homo sapiens now has 26 billion employees, and this number is still rising year by year. Based on the average annual per capita grain of 500 kilograms, at least 13 billion tons of grain are needed.

The agricultural potential of the Southeast Asia branch and the South Asia branch has almost been squeezed out. If we continue to cultivate, we will need to build terraces and cut down a lot of forests.

Therefore, the current agricultural development direction of Homo Sapiens is, on the one hand, focusing on genetically modified seawater crops, and on the other hand, indoor matt farms.

The Sahara Desert in North Africa is a large agricultural area that Homo sapiens focuses on developing. After all, the low-altitude desert here is very suitable for large-scale mechanized production.

The transgenic technology endows crops with the ability to tolerate salt and alkali, which can be directly planted in seawater, and solves the congenital defect of lack of fresh water resources in North Africa.

Under the condition that seawater can replace freshwater as agricultural water, the agricultural potential of the North African region has been increased dozens of times at once.

Just now.

woo woo woo...

A rush of sirens came from the direction of the port.

Li Qingye turned the direction of the telescope, and found a cruise ship was docking.

"Is there a shortage of manpower in Matruh Province?"

"Yes, at present, there are only 352 million employees in the secondary branch of Matruh. We are cooperating with the personnel department to transfer staff from the Nile Delta and Cairo."

Li Qingye nodded slightly: "More than 300 million is indeed less, 1000 million is more reasonable."

"The manpower here is good, but the Numidia branch is even more short of people." Hu Mingliang felt helpless.

"Where did the northern canal between Numidia and Suez go?"

Hu Mingliang took out the tablet and projected a construction progress map.

"At present, the northern plains of Numidia have been opened up, and the westernmost point is the port of Hassan Pond."

Li Qingye looked at the road map and found that the northern route of the northern canal was almost completed.

If you continue to dig the canal to the west, you will encounter the Nafusa Mountains and the Hamra Stone Desert with an average altitude of more than 500 meters, and continue to the west, and you will be the Abdwad Republic. Therefore, the northern line of the northern canal is now There is no need to continue digging west.

Judging from the progress map of the canal provided by Hu Mingliang, it can also be seen that the Numidia branch does not plan to continue westward, but is digging the central and southern lines of the northern canal.

Among them, the middle line of the northern canal is from Lake Gaitala to the west, passing through the southern part of the Numidian Desert, Tazierb Oasis, Sabha Oasis, Obari Desert, and finally arriving at the border city of Atshan Town.

The southern line of the northern canal is heading south from the Tazierb Oasis, passing through the Rabyanai Desert and the Kufra Oasis in turn, entering the business area of ​​the Chad Branch, and successively passing through the relics of Lake Unianga, Bo The Delai Depression, the Wadi Bahr el-Ghazal area, and finally the city of N'Djamena.

This large-scale construction is a huge boost for the entire northeastern region of the Sahara Desert.

Why are Chad branch and Merroy branch the slowest among all branches?
The reason is that transportation and infrastructure are extremely backward.

Especially the Chad branch, it is really poor and poor, there is no railway, no canal, and there are few decent roads, and it is located inland, and the surrounding area is either a big desert or a place that is also poor and poor.

Therefore, the southern line of the northern canal is a vital lifeline for the Chad branch.

Fortunately, the Ceylon Ocean Transport Group, a subsidiary of Homo sapiens, has recently put into service hundreds of large transport airships, and 50% of these transport airships have basically been invested in the Chad branch and the Meroy branch.

It is precisely by using this large transport airship that the economy of the Chad branch has barely improved, without long-term blood transfusions from the head office.

"Liangming, over there at the Chad branch, your Numidia branch should give more support."

Hu Mingliang nodded quickly: "I will strengthen cooperation with them."

The reason why Li Qingye gave this order was because he planned to set up some important industrial and scientific research bases in the hinterland of the Sahara region.

And the location he chose was the northern part of the Darfur Plateau among the four places of Suez, Meroy, Chad, and Numidia.

This place is surrounded by deserts, itself is a plateau, and the local population is sparsely populated. It is very suitable for setting up secret bases and conducting some relatively dangerous special experiments.

He had always wanted to carry out a special project before, but there was no suitable place. This time, he finally had a wide enough experimental area.

Therefore, he had to develop several surrounding branches to support the material consumption of that project.

He came all the way to North Africa, not just to inspect the industry, but to have more important things.

After more than a week of inspection around Gaitarahu, Li Qingye, escorted by the Aerospace Fleet, entered the operation area of ​​the Numidia branch westward.

At the same time, the project that Li Qingye secretly prepared in the Darfur Plateau is also in the early stages of preparation.

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