Become a super arms dealer with the workshop system

Chapter 156 Strange Traces
Although Majib had roughly talked about the situation in Yilizi with Han Feng when he was in Algiers before, as the deputy prime minister, Majib's understanding of this place is obviously impossible to compare with that of Mokhtar, so After listening to the latter's introduction in the car, Han Feng realized that what the other party planned to hand over to him was not just a factory building, but an entire industrial area close to the oasis.

Although it has been abandoned at present, the basic things such as hardened ground, factory water and electricity are still there. In any case, it is much more convenient than starting from scratch.

"Senior Mokhtar." Han Feng looked out of the window through the car window. Due to the existence of several nearby oases, the land near Yiliji is not completely in a state of desertification, but more similar to the desert oasis area: "Haven't you considered developing some agricultural production locally? As far as I know, the current water-saving agricultural technology is actually quite developed. It can not only obtain agricultural output, but also control deserts through vegetation."

"This..." Mokhtar also glanced out the window: "I wonder if Boss Han has heard of the Gaul Domestication Association?"

Han Feng shook his head, then signaled Mokhtar to continue.

It sounded like something related to colonial history, which completely touched his blind spot of knowledge.

"At the end of the 19th century, Gaul at that time hoped to build North Africa into a new tropical crop production area with its own science and technology and sufficient labor force, so it introduced a large number of tropical cash crops to regions including our Algeria."

Just like the Chinese people are familiar with the history of the Anti-Japanese War, the Algerians are also very familiar with the history of the French colonial period. Mokhtar talked about these things very well:

"This is one of the few good intentions that the Gauls have done in North Africa. They introduced a lot of Spanish cork oaks that can be used as raw materials for wine corks and eucalyptus trees that can produce eucalyptus oil, hoping to improve local production. climate and land, but the attempt ultimately failed completely and provided ample habitat for the native Spanish sparrow, resulting in a long-lasting finch infestation."

"Hmm..." Han Feng lowered his head and pondered for a moment: "So apart from the technical problems, the people in the local area, or your country, are not psychologically willing to accept the new type of agriculture?"

Mokhtar scratched his head and took a few seconds to organize his words: "To be precise, farmers in our country are very wary of crops other than traditional wheat and grapes. On the other hand, because the local climate and life are highly dependent on oasis Mr. Han, you know that the oasis is a fragile ecological environment, so Ilizi Province itself does not have many agricultural populations, and they are even hostile to agricultural production."

After learning about the situation, Han Feng was not so worried. The failure of Gaul’s attempt more than 100 years ago was due to a dogmatic error—in places with better soil and climate conditions, afforestation can certainly serve as a windbreak. Sand fixation can improve the environment, but the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea itself is already experiencing severe desertification. In this case, planting tall trees with strong water absorption capacity such as oak and eucalyptus will only squeeze out all the water that is not much around. , further deteriorating soil conditions.

If this kind of planting is carried out near the oasis, it may even completely destroy the originally stable but fragile ecological environment. It is no wonder that the local people are still worried about this after more than a century.

But it is already the 21st century, and more importantly, Huaxia already has very complete water-saving agriculture and desertification climate improvement technologies, so Han Feng is not worried about these technical problems at all.

The only possible obstacle is the local people. After all, Han Feng wants to set up a factory here for long-term production, and it is not good to have a too stiff relationship with the locals.

"Senior Mokhtar, if my company wants to start agricultural production here in the future, can you help me settle the local objections?" Han Feng asked bluntly: "Of course, we can provide detailed technical information The route description will ensure that it will not cause damage to the local oasis ecology, and it can even expand the area of ​​​​the habitable area.”

"Mr. Han, I don't want to talk empty words." The expression on Mokhtar's face was extremely tangled, but he finally shook his head: "To be honest, I have provided this industrial zone to your group for free this time, which has already caused a lot of trouble. Some local families are dissatisfied, and the southern region still retains certain tribal characteristics, so the authority in Algiers is not so absolute here."

"How strong are the local opposition forces?" Han Feng raised his eyebrows and looked at Mokhtar next to him.

The latter also knew that there was some ambiguity in what he just said, so he quickly explained: "It can't be said that it is an opposition force, but as the local person in charge here, I must also consider the feelings of the local people. You know, the establishment of trust requires a process. Now You have just arrived here, and it may be difficult to touch the oasis that the locals regard as the lifeblood, but if you wait until your factory really brings benefits and development, and let them benefit from it, then no matter your prestige or mine It will rise accordingly, and if we do this at that time, the resistance will be much smaller.”

"Well, you have a point."

Han Feng realized that he was indeed too hasty. Just as Mokhtar said, it would not be too late to make other plans after the industry developed and had a driving effect on the local economy.

The atmosphere in the car returned to calm, and about half an hour later, Mokhtar's convoy finally arrived at the gate of the abandoned industrial area.

Since the oasis is closer to Yiliji City, the natural conditions here are better than the airport just now.

"Look, there is BP's abandoned natural gas processing plant. You shouldn't need the equipment in it, but there is still a plant in good condition. It can be put into use directly after cleaning up." Mokhtar pointed to the Cheng in the distance. Slice of natural gas storage tanks and pipelines presented.

At this time, the entourage in the co-pilot position turned around and handed Han Feng a telescope.

"What downstream products could be produced here?" Han Feng took the telescope and looked into the distance: "I seem to have seen a few reaction devices."

"If you can't produce downstream products, those companies won't put the deep processing process here." Mokhtar shook his head: "There can only be some natural gas pretreatment here, such as drying and desulfurization."

"If that's the case, the area of ​​this industrial area seems to be too large, and most of the area seems to be vacant?"

"Yes, the previous senior officials planned to attract further investment from BP, and even planned supporting equipment, but they were rejected by the latter."

During the time spent talking, the convoy finally came to a slow stop in front of the huge factory building.

To be honest, in terms of the scale of production that Han Feng is currently preparing, the area of ​​this plant is really too big. He even thinks that the LME aircraft production plant he saw in the Czech Republic before is not much bigger than this one.

"This workshop is indeed much bigger than I imagined." Han Feng's voice echoed in the empty workshop. There are still some machinery and equipment left here. From the nameplate, it may be a pumping station in the past.

"It doesn't matter, you can only use part of it for the time being, which will also facilitate the expansion of production scale in the future." Mokhtar thinks very long-term.

Han Feng saw a row of electric switches on the wall next to them, all of which were disconnected. It seemed that the people at BP were quite safety-conscious when they left, and as far as a factory that had been built for more than 20 years was concerned, the electric switches The equipment doesn't look outdated.

"Where does the power in this industrial area come from? Is it delivered by the power plant in Yiliji City?" He said, pushing the switch marked "main switch" up.

"no……"

Mokhtar had just uttered the first word when the emergency exit sign on the nearby wall lit up following Han Feng's movements.

"Ok?"

"What's wrong?" Han Feng looked back at Mokhtar, who was astonished, thinking that there was something wrong with his power-on action: "Uh...can't electricity be used here now?"

Then he turned around and prepared to turn off the switch again.

"No, wait a minute." Mokhtar stopped Han Feng: "The power supply of the power plant in Yiliji City is already very tight to supply residents with electricity, and this is a natural gas processing plant, so there was originally a steam turbine for power supply. , but the equipment should have been deactivated a long time ago, after all, there is no fuel here now."

After hearing this explanation, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. A few seconds later, Han Feng pushed up the lighting switch again, and several lights inside the factory also turned on.

Obviously, there is indeed electricity here.

"Forget it, anyway, it seems that the electrical equipment here can still be used. I don't think this should be a bad thing for you." Mokhtar decided not to think about this strange thing.

"That's right, it can save a lot of money." Han Feng nodded, and then started to stop and go to check around the whole factory building. Although the others don't know what's interesting here, they can only follow Behind Han Feng.

"Mr. Senior Official, does this factory only have an above-ground part?" Ten minutes later, Han Feng finally walked to the other side of the factory building, and then suddenly turned around and asked.

"According to what we know, there is an underground structure, just in..." Mokhtar took out his mobile phone to confirm the direction, and then pointed to the door where Han Feng was standing: "It's just to the north of the factory building." The underground on the side, where you are standing, but because we don't have a detailed design drawing, if you want to go down and have a look, I can ask someone to go nearby and find out where the entrance is."

When this factory was established, Algeria was in the midst of an extremely chaotic civil war. I am afraid that it never thought of asking BP for design drawings from the very beginning.

"Then don't bother." Han Feng shrugged: "Anyway, we have to clean up and renovate later, and it won't be too late for construction workers to find them by then."

(End of this chapter)