Chapter 378 Opening and Reclamation
April 1st.
The other side of the earth.
On the east side of the Suez Canal in the Suez region, a canal parallel to the Suez Canal has been doubled and widened.
It is slightly longer than the Suez Canal, with a single-line width of 550 meters and a depth of 25 to 45 meters, which is enough to accommodate giant ships of 300,000 tons.
The opening of this canal immediately attracted a large number of large transport ships.
Although the European Union and the Gulf countries are very wary of Sapiens, the Second Suez Canal is really attractive. Not only does it have excellent navigation capacity, but the navigation costs are also lower than those of the Suez Canal.
Although the Europa League has reached an agreement with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom of Judah to build a new oil pipeline.
But at their infrastructure construction speed, even if they grit their teeth, it will take three to five years to complete it. What's more, the European Union, the Kingdom of Judah, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia all have their own ulterior motives, so it would be impossible for the project to be implemented quickly.
As for the Dead Sea Canal that America is building in the territory of Judah, it will also take at least four to five years, or even more than ten years.
Now the two Suez Canals are the lifeline of maritime transportation between West Asia and Europe.
However, for the Sapiens Company, the importance of the Second Suez Canal is actually not as great as that of the Northern Canal and the Southern Canal in the Suez region.
After all, there is relatively little trade between Sapiens and the Europa Union.
If the European Union dares to act recklessly one day, the Sapiens Company may even dare to directly cut off the Suez Canal.
This is also the reason why the Europa Union is determined to build an overland oil pipeline, because there is not much trade between Sapiens and the Europa Union, and closing the Suez Canal will not cause any loss to Sapiens.
After the full entry of the Homo Sapiens company into the Suez region, canal tolls are no longer a pillar industry.
The pillar industries of the Suez region are now agriculture and mining, textiles, animal and the trade center of northeast Africa.
Three new giant canal-dredging ships arrived in the Suez area. Except for two ships responsible for digging the Second Suez Canal and one ship responsible for digging the Southern Canal, the remaining two ships were digging sea water channels in the coastal plains of the Red Sea Province.
Currently, the area of seawater rice fields in the Red Sea Province has reached 420,000 hectares, a quarter of which has been planted.
Around Hongku Port.
Xu Yingcheng was leading a working group from the Demand Division to the first reclamation site.
Along the sea channel about 130 meters wide, the passenger ship slowly sailed towards the first reclamation point.
Kadir, the leader of the investigation team, looked at the endless rice fields on both sides of the river with a telescope. It was hard to imagine that four months ago, this place was still a vast expanse of yellow sand.
Kadier turned around and asked with a smile: "Manager Xu, there should be birds coming here to eat the rice! Will it cause ecological problems?"
Xu Yingcheng, who was leaning against the railing and chewing gum, shook his head and said, "Don't worry, we have set up pheromone repellent devices around the area. The birds will automatically stay away from here when they sense the stimulation of special pheromones."
"I see."
After finishing speaking, Kadier continued to use the telescope to browse the surrounding scenery.
Not far away, hundreds of large rice transplanters similar to hovercrafts are working in the muddy seawater rice fields.
In order to supplement the organic matter in the soil here, a large amount of organic fertilizer will be added as base fertilizer during the leveling process of the rice fields.
After each harvest, the cut rice straw will be sent to the organic fertilizer fermentation factory for fermentation, and then returned to the fields to ensure that the organic matter content of the soil is maintained at a certain level.
As long as the planting stage begins, the accumulation of organic matter in these rice fields will quickly enter a virtuous cycle.
About two and a half hours later.
The passenger ship arrived at the small pier of the first reclamation site.
This is actually one of the subsidiary towns of Hongku Port.
Coming down from the dock, Kadier saw neat houses and streets, as well as busy workers. This was a typical agricultural city.
The surrounding 80,000 hectares of rice fields and 2,000 hectares of aquaculture farms are all operated by this small city.
The entire city has a small population, it is about the size of a small town, with only about 8,000 people, most of whom are employees of Haitian Agriculture.
Kadier turned around and said, "Manager Xu, thank you for leading the way. We will be busy now."
"You're welcome. Just passing by."
After Xu Yingcheng said goodbye to Kadier, he continued to take the passenger ferry northward. His destination at this time was the second reclamation point.
At the same time, he was also thinking about the next arrangements.
Having a canal is not enough. The canal is fine for transporting goods, but it is too slow for passenger transport, which is not conducive to the strategy of the parent company.
He looked at the rice fields with dense river networks and thought that building ground highways and railways would not suit the situation here.
After all, we can’t build a fifty-meter-high overhead bridge for every seawater channel!
Therefore, the subway becomes the best choice.
This kind of large agricultural area will definitely be sparsely populated in the future, and the distance between each small town and the main city will become an issue that must be considered.
Why should you consider this issue?
The reason is very simple. The Sapiens company does not want to have township branches .
To a certain extent, towns and villages are naturally closed, clannish, exclusive, conservative and corrupt.
If the transportation problem between small towns and main cities is not solved, it will be difficult to curb the deterioration of township branches even if the employee mobility of the Intelligent Company is good.
Therefore, the problem must be solved fundamentally, which is to destroy the isolated characteristics of towns and villages, integrate them with the main city, and turn them into a block of the main city.
Sapiens is working hard to promote urbanization in the locations of its branches in order to eliminate isolated townships and villages and avoid the formation of the concept of "locals" due to long-term isolated island living.
Xu Yingcheng understands the head office's concerns very well. It is human nature to stick together for warmth. He is from the Xu family of Luzon.
The existence of large families has both advantages and disadvantages.
There is no doubt that large families are more resistant to various disasters than ordinary people when faced with harsh living environments.
However, the internal structure of a large family sometimes leads to various problems, and the family may even resist the company's management for the sake of family interests.
The new cities currently being planned will not have towns, only affiliated blocks, in order to reduce the breeding ground for large families and conservative forces.
More than two hours later, Xu Yingcheng's passenger ship finally arrived at the second reclamation point.
This is a small town under construction, 103 kilometers away from Hongku Port, which is just within a half-hour traffic circle.
The half-hour traffic circle set within the Sapiens company is the area that can be reached by high-speed subway within half an hour.
At present, the average operating speed of Zhiren Company's high-speed subway is 241 kilometers per hour, which is 120.5 kilometers in half an hour.
In other words, after the subway is built, it must be possible to travel back and forth between these reclamation sites and Hongku Port within about half an hour.
If it is beyond the half-hour traffic circle, it cannot be included in the scope of the Hongkugang branch, but must be handed over to branches in other cities, or a new branch will be established.
Isolated island towns are not allowed to exist unless they are special secret bases.
Xu Yingcheng took a tour of the second reclamation site and did not find too many problems, mainly communication problems between some migrant workers who had just come from the Nile Delta and Southeast Asian employees.
As for other construction, supporting facilities, daily management and the like, a complete set of processes has already been formed within Zhiren Company. Even if the management ability is poor, as long as it is executed according to the script, there will be no major problems.
After inspecting the place, he hurried back to write a report, requesting the headquarters to approve the Hongkugang Branch to build a high-speed subway.
