Homo sapiens.

Faced with such a situation, they were also very helpless, and finally chose to compromise, and could only reluctantly sell part of the island to Homo sapiens.

Chapter 498 Be Flexible

Although Lucia has a vast land and few people, the price she has to pay is still not small due to the large area.

However, for safety reasons, Caesar thought of a way, that is, indirect exchange.

Carmen Lopez, who was stationed at the Java Listening Company, was a little surprised to see Lucia's terms of cooperation.

He smiled and said to Bose: "It is said that Maozi is careless, but now it seems that they are also flexible!"

According to the cooperation agreement, the Gauls used all the islands in the Ceylon Ocean to pay for Lucia's earthquake prediction services for the next 30 years.

As for the PY deal between Lucia and the Gauls, it has nothing to do with Homo sapiens.

In fact, this matter is also very easy to understand.

At this stage, Homo sapiens operates in the equatorial region and the southern hemisphere, and there are only two relatively isolated branches in the northern hemisphere—Nimanya branch in the Balkans, and Whale Sea branch in the northwest of Dongying.

The core areas of the four major powers are all in the northern hemisphere, and obviously they will not let Sapiens continue to extend its hands into the middle and high latitudes of the northern hemisphere.

Lucia's islands in the Pacific Ocean or the Arctic Ocean are not suitable for sale to Homo sapiens, and they don't want to get too close to Homo sapiens at all.

After all, the attraction of Homo sapiens to human resources is like a black hole, too close to Homo sapiens, and it will be sucked up every minute.

The Europa Federation can only accept Lucia's exchange agreement.

the other side.

America, which was devastated by the California earthquake, has no interest in interfering in the business cooperation between Homo sapiens and major forces at this time.

Because of the impact of the California earthquake, the entire west coast of North America is now almost in a state of paralysis.

Restoration work has been held off for fear of large aftershocks, pending a safety bulletin from the company.

Generally speaking, the safety announcement of Diting Company is to confirm that there will be no earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above in the local area in the next 7 months before issuing a safety announcement.

It is obviously inappropriate now, because after the Cascadia fault zone collapsed, the residual stress has not been completely released, and at the same time, the earthquake also stimulated the instability of several surrounding fault zones. It will take at least half a month to determine whether Safety.

Affected by the earthquake, ports on the west coast of North America were shut down.

Now the shipping from Northeast Asia and the Kangaroo Country to North America can only go through the Central American canal.

Fortunately, there are now three canals in Central America.

A single-lane San Juan Canal was just opened two months ago. It is located in the lake and volcano country of Central America. With the help of the natural channel of the lake and the San Juan River, the canal is already navigable for 5-ton ships.

Many ships originally going to the canal country of the Americas are now diverted to the canals of the lake and volcano country.

As for the New Granada Canal developed by Homo sapiens, although the canal can navigate giant ships of 30 tons, how can ships from the free world go to the canals of giant companies? This is not free.

After sending off Lucia's negotiating team, Carmen received another negotiating team from a big force in the living room.

The two parties conducted in-depth discussions on the cooperation agreement, and then signed a "win-win" cooperation agreement.

In front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, Carmen Lopez looked at the fading figure with a smile.

"In order to survive, human beings sometimes have no bottom line."

Bose, who was pouring coffee at the side, joked: "It depends on whether the fist is hard or not. If the fist is not hard enough, there is no way for the opponent to compromise without a bottom line, but the opponent has no bottom line to attack."

"Yes! Mr. Chairman has seen through everything." Carmen very much agrees with Li Qingye's series of preparations.

Without those preparations, Homo sapiens would have been swallowed alive by the major forces long ago.

Carmen took a sip of coffee: "I'm going to Melroy's tomorrow, and you can make up your own mind about things here."

"OK." Bose nodded.

Now that all major forces have signed cooperation agreements with Homo sapiens, the remaining shrimps do not need to be received by Carmen here, and can be handled by Boss.

the next morning.

A supersonic Phoenix airliner took off from Java and headed directly to the Meroe region in Africa.

The airport of Atlon Oasis.

The Phoenix Airliner landed steadily on the runway.

When Carmen came down from the cabin, the scenery that greeted his eyes was endless greenery.

"What a big change!"

When he came to Atlon Oasis City last year, there was only a small oasis here, but now there are lush green forests and grasslands as far as the eye can see.

Liu Zhifan, who was traveling with him, explained with a smile: "Because of the terrain, the precipitation here has increased by more than ten times."

"Terrain?" Carmen responded immediately.

The area where the Atlon Oasis City is located is the Darfur plateau at an altitude of 500-1000 meters, and its east side is the northern Great Plains of Meroe.

This great plain used to be a semi-grassland and semi-desert area, especially the overgrazing and reclamation in the past few years, which caused many places to completely turn into deserts.

Until the Homo sapiens company entered and extended the seawater canal to this side, it changed from rice fields to plantations.

This desert grassland with an area of ​​about 40 square kilometers has become a seawater agricultural area except for the Nile Valley plain in the middle.

The huge water area, coupled with the local perennial high temperature climate, has brought a huge amount of evaporation.

The water vapor meets the barrier of the Darfur Plateau, forming precipitation on the eastern edge of the plateau.

The Atlon Oasis is on the eastern edge of the Darfur Plateau.

Even if there is no connection to the seawater canal here, there is still a very considerable amount of precipitation.

Some drought-resistant trees are planted around the city, and the areas far from the city are large areas of artificial drought-resistant grasslands.

As the vegetation covers the surface and the area of ​​the water body has become much larger, the local temperature has become milder.

The temperature during the day will not exceed 40 degrees Celsius, and the temperature at night will not drop below 10 degrees Celsius.

In the past, in the tropical desert of the Sahara, the maximum temperature during the day could easily exceed 40 degrees Celsius, and in the middle of the night, the temperature suddenly plummeted to close to zero, and some plateau desert areas even snowed.

This is the significance of the existence of vegetation and water bodies, which have a very good regulating effect on the ambient temperature.

Both Carmen and Liu Zhifan didn't feel too hot at the open-air station at the airport. This is also the reason why Atron Oasis City has planted a large number of trees, which can better regulate the city's temperature.

After a while, the pick-up car arranged by the airport took the two of them to Li Qingye's villa.

In order to carry out the Pangu Project, Li Qingye has recently lived in seclusion in the Atron Oasis City.

After continuous excavation, more than half of the Pangu project has been completed at this time, the outline of the underground base has been dug out, and some supporting facilities have also been completed.

The huge earthwork and rocks produced by excavating the underground base are used as waste and used as raw materials for the construction of houses, embankments, and roads by Merroy Branch.

In addition to these excavated earthworks and rocks, Homo Sapiens has long formed a complete set of plans within the company, and there will be no random dumping and stacking.

After all, some underground bases are very large in scale. If the excavated earth and rocks are piled up nearby, the satellites on that day can easily detect the problem.

Therefore, it is very necessary to properly and covertly dispose of these wastes.

Chapter 499 Ring the Equator

Inside Li Qingye's villa.

Sanji Bada Leyal has prepared black tea and refreshments.

"I've read the harvest of Di Ting Company, and it's a good job."

Liu Zhifan replied respectfully: "It is the company's technological advantages that can bring such huge gains."

Picking up the teacup, Li Qingye smiled at the two of them and said, "How do you plan to arrange those islands?"

Liu Zhifan quickly replied: "Mr. Chairman, this is my plan. Considering the location of the Kanak Islands, it can be divided into the operation area of ​​the Western Pacific Branch."

Glancing at the holographic earth, Li Qingye nodded.

"The Gilbert Islands, Ellice Islands, and Union Islands can set up a Central Pacific branch to manage these assets."

"Association Islands, Tua Islands, etc., can establish a South Pacific branch to manage the company's assets in this sea area."

"The Mascarene Islands, and other islands in the South Ceylon Ocean, set up a South Ceylon branch in Saint-Denis to manage the company's local assets."

Li Qingye thought for a while, then nodded: "Yes."

Carmen added: "Recently, we have successfully established a full-fledged branch in the equatorial countries of South America. Coupled with our layout in Africa, the entire equatorial region is currently the company's full-fledged operating area."

"Very good." Li Qingye was very satisfied with the work of the company's management.

Liu Zhifan called up a document, projected it in the air, and explained: "Mr. Chairman, this is a big project we formulated last year. We considered that some areas in the equatorial region did not establish full-power branches, so we put it on hold. , and now I think the time is ripe."

Li Qingye looked at the content of the projection.

The project is called: Circum-Equatorial Railway.

At first glance, it may be very surprising.

Around the equator?railway?

These two terms don't match at all. After all, the equatorial region not only has three pieces of land, but also the Pacific Ocean, the Ceylon Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean.

There is no problem in building railways on land. It is impossible to build railways that can span the Pacific Ocean, the Ceylon Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean.

Even Homo sapiens' tunnel technology is the world's number one, but it can't stand the trenches along the way, and the seabed with an average depth of 4000 meters.

So this plan seems a bit far-fetched.

However, the engineering department of Homo sapiens proposed this plan because of its special technical background.

The technology of the Circum-Equatorial Railway is not tunnel technology or bridge-building technology, but airship technology.

That's right, it's airship technology.

The Engineering Division plans to use a vacuum airship to build a high-altitude railway around the equator at a height of 20 kilometers above the equator.

And this railway, because of the buoyancy of the vacuum airship, does not need to build bridge piers, and does not need to worry about bad typhoon weather.

After all, the altitude area of ​​2 meters belongs to the stratosphere with thin air. Weather such as storms, typhoons, and thunderstorms are all unique weather in the troposphere, and the stratosphere does not have such weather.

In the high altitude where the air is thin, even vacuum tracks are not needed, the resistance of the air itself is very small, and the train can run at a speed close to the speed of sound.

The length of the earth's equator is 40075 kilometers. At this time, it is not difficult for Homo sapiens to produce vacuum airships with a length of several kilometers. As long as the airships are connected, a railway can be laid on the airships.

Some people may think that this kind of railway is of little value.

After all, airplanes can be transported quickly, and there is no need to build tracks.

The problem lies in the cost performance.

Among the various means of transportation currently owned by Sapiens Corporation.

Aircraft: The economic speed is 700-900 kilometers per hour, and the maximum transport volume is 200 tons.

Ground-effect aircraft: The economic speed is 200-300 kilometers per hour, and the maximum transport capacity is 1500 tons.

Nuclear-powered transport ship: The economic speed is 40 kilometers per hour, and the maximum transport capacity is 50 tons.

Transport airship: The economic speed is 300 kilometers per hour, and the maximum transport volume is 1.5 tons.

Sub-vacuum high-speed rail: The economic speed is 240-360 kilometers per hour, and the maximum transportation volume is 1.5 tons.

Aircraft and ground effect flight obviously do not have an advantage in terms of transportation volume, and their energy consumption is relatively high.

The most cost-effective mode of transportation is nuclear-powered transport ships.

Transport airships have obvious advantages in land transport, and can be compared with sub-vacuum high-speed rail. No matter in terms of transport volume, speed, or energy consumption, there is not much difference between the two.

When the equatorial railway was first conceived, it was considered that the transportation speed of the airship could not compete with the airplane, and the transportation volume could not compete with the large nuclear-powered transport ship, so it could only compete with the sub-vacuum high-speed rail.

Homo sapiens needs a very fast transportation mode with relatively large transportation volume and relatively low transportation costs.

Among the large number of proposals solicited internally, the high-altitude railway proposal around the equator stood out and became a very suitable proposal.

On the one hand, the cost of the vacuum airship is relatively low.

At present, the ex-factory price of the airships of the Motor Island Branch is 0.0022 to 0.0024 gold dollars per cubic meter.

A vacuum airship with a length of about 3 kilometers has a vacuum chamber of about 40 billion cubic meters, and the total cost is about 880 million to 960 million gold dollars.

The high-altitude railway platform around the equator requires about 13360 vacuum airships with a length of 3 kilometers, and the cost is about 1100-1200 billion gold dollars.

What's more, once it is really mass-produced, the production cost will be further reduced.

Including other supporting facilities, the total cost of the high-altitude railway platform around the equator is about 2400-2600 billion gold dollars.