Chapter 415 New Immigrants (I)
Suez Branch.
Red Sea Province.
Hongku Port.
The Hulu family, who came across the ocean,
Two months ago, he and several colleagues escaped from Saigon, Annan, on a fishing boat with their families and arrived at the coast of the Siam branch.
After some twists and turns, he and several colleagues were separated, and his family was arranged to go to the Suez branch.
The initial assignment of new immigrant employees by Zhiren Company is compulsory after training. New immigrant employees are not allowed to choose where to go, unless they are senior technical personnel, who have the right to choose.
Therefore, the Hulu family had no choice but to accept the arrangement of the Human Resources Department and settle down in the Suez branch.
The immigrant cruise ship transported a total of 6,382 people, all from Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia.
He and several young Annan people who were traveling with him were leaning against the railing, watching the cruise ship slowly dock at the passenger berth of Hongku Port.
"Is this really the Suez region?" a young man who was missing three fingers asked curiously.
Hulu shook the phone in his hand: "Of course it's the Suez area. Doesn't the phone have a location function?"
The young man with the severed finger looked out at the lush greenery in the distance: "When I was in school, the geography textbooks said that most of the Suez region was a tropical desert, even the Red Sea coast was a desert."
"It should be sea rice." Hulu guessed.
In a cabin not far away, about 1,200 people were disembarking with a small amount of luggage.
However, the destination of Hulu and others was not here. Their destination was the Geta Lake formed in the Geta Depression.
More than an hour later.
More than 1,200 new immigrant employees disembarked and were picked up by staff from the Personnel Department of Hongku Port.
The immigrant cruise ship weighed anchor and entered the Southern Canal.
The very straight canal channel, after several expansions, formed a grand canal with a width of 520 meters and a depth of 35 meters.
Because the canal is deep enough and wide enough, ships can travel at a speed of about 12 knots.
Standing on the deck, you can see another canal 500 meters away on the south side, which is the double line of the canal.
In the more distant areas, there is an endless expanse of emerald green . Hulu, who has lived in Annan for more than 20 years, is very familiar with rice.
However, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, it cannot avoid being monotonous.
The vast plain before him was extremely monotonous with nothing but endless sea rice. He didn't even see any birds.
But after sailing for more than two hours.
The immigration cruise ship entered the river valley area, and the surrounding terrain began to gradually rise.
There was no initial plan to transform areas with terrain higher than 200 meters into seawater irrigation areas.
During the previous excavation, dense cutting marks were left on the rock walls on both sides. Since there is no irrigation area and it is composed of stones and Gobi desert, the colors here are grayish white and khaki.
After seeing this scene, everyone felt the desolation and barrenness of the Suez region.
We sailed for more than two hours.
"There is a city..." The young man with the broken finger pointed to the canal on the west side.
The city is located on a flattened mountain.
Next to the city is an artificial lake, which was previously transformed from a valley. The area of the lake is about 28 square kilometers. The two double lines of the canal both flow into this artificial lake and then separate again.
This is standard in every city along the canal.
Artificial lakes not only provide water surface for ships to dock, but also have the function of regulating water levels and supplying water resources to cities.
"This is Shanyang City. According to information from the Internal Affairs Department, this is a mining city." Hulu said as he walked into the cabin.
Because it’s almost time for dinner.
About 600 new immigrants will disembark here.
The entire Shanyang City has a small population of only about 135,000, most of whom are employees of the mining group.
The area within a radius of 50 to 80 kilometers is the scope of Shanyang City, which can also be said to be the mining area.
As for the local mineral resources, there are mainly three types: a surface bauxite mine, two magnetites at depths of 1,200 meters and 3,460 meters, and a phosphate mine at a depth of 1,500 meters.
Iron ore and bauxite are fine, and the production capacity of Sapiens headquarters in Southeast Asia is very sufficient.
But phosphate mines are very important because among the three core fertilizers of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, nitrogen fertilizer can be directly extracted from coal mines or atmospheric nitrogen; potassium fertilizer can be extracted from seawater.
The only raw material for phosphate fertilizer requires specific phosphate mines.
Among the regional branches of Sapiens, only the Suez branch has large-scale onshore phosphate mines, with shallow reserves of 2.8 billion tons, middle reserves of 7.6 billion tons, and deep reserves of 38.6 billion tons.
Although Sapiens purchased phosphates on a large scale from the Alawi Kingdom, in order to lower the price, Sapiens itself had to maintain a certain production capacity.
Currently, the Suez branch mines 170 million tons of phosphate ore each year, and purchases an additional 50 to 80 million tons from the Alawite Kingdom, which is almost half of the world's production capacity.
The reason why the production capacity is so huge is very simple. Because the agricultural industry of Zhiren Company has a very large production scale, the consumption of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium naturally increases.
However, the scale of phosphate mining at the Suez branch may decline in the near future.
Because the Jade Mining Industry has discovered a huge phosphate mine on the seabed near the Gwadar Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It is estimated that the total reserves can reach about 17.3 to 20 billion tons, and the ore grade is very high.
The deep phosphate mine in Shanyang City will most likely be sealed as a reserve.
For a mining city, closing a mine means losing a pillar industry.
Fortunately, this happened within the Sapiens company. If it was somewhere else, it would not be so easy to shut down. After all, the vested interests would not allow it.
Shanyang City is currently strengthening its bauxite mining and deep processing, and is also opening a coral cement factory to upgrade its industry into a heavy industrial city.
However, this strategic adjustment of the city has little to do with new immigrant employees like Hulu.
He came to the second restaurant area of the cruise ship.
Many people are already eating.
The food supply on the ship is pretty good. Except for the waters in the northwest Ceylon Ocean, there are ports of supply companies in other waters along the way. In addition, nuclear-powered ships are relatively fast, so they can eat fresh vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs and milk.
Hulu simply took his employee card and received a C meal package.
I found a dining table and sat down with Broken Finger and others.
He opened the stainless steel lunch box, which contained two dishes, two pieces of meat and rice as the staple food. As a drink, he took a bottle of oolong tea directly from the vending machine.
Food and drinks on the immigration cruise are free. As long as you don't waste, you can eat and drink as much as you want. However, most immigrants are quite self-conscious and do not eat and take at the same time.
This situation can only happen to the Sapiens company.
If other places allow free food and drinks, many people will definitely be greedy and not only eat and drink, but also take things back.
This is mainly because the internal management of the Homo sapiens company is very strict, but there is no need for it.
What's the point of taking a few cents worth of beverage back home? Sell it? You should know that within the company, if you sell things to other employees privately, you will be severely punished.
Once discovered, the first punishment would be flogging and a fine of 500 gold yuan; the second time, they would be sent directly to a development site with extremely harsh environment, deprived of many benefits and no salary, and would need to work for 5 years before their normal employee status could be restored.
At the training base, Hulu and others were repeatedly told by the instructors to abide by the company's regulations.
Now everyone wants to enjoy a good life. Who would ruin their own future? No one is a fool.
