Homo sapiens

Suez Branch.

Qattara Lake Agricultural Area.

Li Qingye was currently in Sirat Port, a lakeside city on Qattara Lake.

As 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 brought huge amounts of Mediterranean seawater into the Qattara Depression.

After nearly two years of continuous injection, the entire Qattara Depression was completely submerged, forming a saltwater lake with an area of ​​18,000 square kilometers, the Qattara Lake in front of Li Qingye.

This huge lake with an area of ​​18,000 square kilometers and an average depth of 62 meters has 1 trillion cubic meters of sea water. Because it is directly connected to the Mediterranean Sea, Lake Qattara will basically not be depleted.

Li Qingye stood on the 500-meter-high Silat Broadcasting Tower and looked down at the surroundings. The scenery that greeted his eyes was not only the blue sea and sky, but also the endless green fields.

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

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

"Yes, the Matruh Province of Suez and the northeastern part of Numidia are a plain desert area covering an area of ​​600,000 square kilometers. The altitude is less 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. We used genetically modified technology to insert the root genes of sea rice into the wheat genes, as well as perennial genes."

"In other words, do you plan to plant genetically modified wheat in these 600,000 square kilometers of plains?"

"Yes, but not all of them. Only about 300,000 square kilometers are planted."

"That's a lot. After all, it's 450 million acres. By the way, is this kind of genetically modified wheat harvested once a year?"

Hu Mingliang quickly replied: "It's two harvests a year, Chairman. Because of the perennial gene, genetically modified wheat can be seamlessly connected, so it can achieve one season of winter wheat and one season of spring wheat."

"How's the yield?" Li Qingye picked up the telescope 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, the annual wheat output of 300,000 square kilometers is expected to be 382.5 million tons."

Li Qingye is quite satisfied with this production capacity.

After all, Homo sapiens now has 2.6 billion employees, and this number is still rising year by year. Starting from 500 kilograms of grain per capita per year, at least 1.3 billion tons of grain are needed.

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

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

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

Genetically modified technology has given crops the ability to tolerate salt-alkali and can be grown directly in seawater, solving the inherent shortcomings of North Africa's lack of freshwater resources.

When seawater can replace freshwater as agricultural water, the agricultural potential of North Africa is suddenly increased dozens of times.

Right now.

Woo woo woo...

A rapid whistle sounded from the direction of the port.

Li Qingye turned the direction of the telescope and found a cruise ship docking at the port.

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

"Yes, there are currently only 3.52 million employees in Matruh's secondary branch. We are working with the Human Resources Department to transfer manpower from the Nile Delta and Cairo."

Li Qingye nodded slightly: "More than three million is indeed too little, ten million is more reasonable."

"The manpower here is okay, but the Numidia branch is even more lacking." Hu Mingliang was a little helpless.

“Where was the northern canal between Numidia and Suez built?”

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

"At present, the northern plain area of ​​Numidia has been opened, and the westernmost end is the port of Hassan Pool."

Li Qingye looked at the route map and found that the northern line 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 continuing to the west, you will reach the Republic of Abdwad. Therefore, the northern line of the Northern Canal is now There is no need to continue digging to the west at this stage.

Judging from the canal progress map provided by Hu Mingliang, it can also be seen that the Numidia Branch has no intention of continuing westward, but is digging the middle and southern lines of the northern canal.

The middle line of the northern canal is from Qattara Lake to the west, passing through the southern Numidia Desert, Tazierb Oasis, Sabha Oasis, Obari Desert, and finally reaching the border town of Atshan.

The southern route of the Northern Canal goes south from the Tazirb Oasis, passes through the Raibyanai Desert and the Kufra Oasis, enters the operating area of ​​the Chad Branch, and passes through the Lake Unianga Heritage Area, Bo The Terai Depression, the Wadi el-Ghazal area, and finally the city of N'Djamena.

This large-scale construction will be a huge boost to the entire northeastern region of the Sahara Desert.

Why are Chad Branch and Meroë Branch developing the slowest among all branches?

The reason is that transportation and infrastructure are extremely backward.

Especially the Chad branch, it was really poor, with no railways, no canals, and very few decent roads. It was located inland, surrounded by either big deserts or similarly poor places.

So the southern route of the Northern Canal, for Chad Branch, was a vital lifeline.

Fortunately, the Ceylon Ocean Transportation Group, a subsidiary of Homo Sapiens, has recently put hundreds of large transport airships into service. 50% of these transport airships are basically invested in Chad Branch and Meroe Branch.

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

"Mingliang, over at the Chad branch, your Numidia branch needs 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 arrange some important industries and scientific research bases in the hinterland of the Sahara region.

The location he chose was the northern part of the Darfur Plateau between Suez, Meroe, Chad, and Numidia.

This place is surrounded by desert and is a plateau itself. The local population is sparsely populated, making it very suitable for setting up secret bases and conducting some more 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 large enough experimental area.

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

He traveled all the way to North Africa not just to inspect the industry, but because he had more important things to do.

After more than a week of inspections around Getarahu, Li Qingye, escorted by the aerospace fleet, headed west into the operating area of ​​the Numidia Branch.

At the same time, the project that Li Qingye was secretly preparing in the Darfur Plateau was also undergoing preliminary preparations.

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