Chapter 497: Flexibility
Although Lucia is a vast country with a sparse population, the price to be paid is still high due to its large area.
However, for safety reasons, Caesar came up with a solution, which was indirect exchange.
Carmen Lopez, who was stationed at the Diting Company on Java Island, was somewhat surprised to see the cooperation conditions offered by Lucia.
He smiled and said to Bose: "People say that the Russians are careless, but now it seems that they are also flexible and adaptable!"
In 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 what kind of PY deal Lucia made with the Gauls, that is none of Sapiens' business.
In fact, this matter is very easy to understand.
At present, the operating areas of Zhiren Company are all in the equatorial region and the southern hemisphere. There are only two relatively isolated branches in the northern hemisphere - the Nemanya Branch in the Balkans and the Jinghai Branch in the northwest of Japan.
The core areas of the four major forces are all in the Northern Hemisphere. Obviously, they will not allow the Sapiens Company to continue to extend its hands into the mid- and high-latitude areas of the Northern Hemisphere.
However, Lucia’s islands in the Pacific Ocean or the Arctic Ocean are not suitable for sale to the Sapiens Company, and they do not want to get too close to the Sapiens Company at all.
After all, the attraction of Homo Sapiens Company to human resources is like a black hole. If you get too close to Homo Sapiens Company, you will be sucked dry in minutes.
The European Union could only accept Lucia's exchange agreement.
The other side.
America, which was devastated by the California earthquake, had no interest in interfering with the business cooperation between Sapiens and other major forces.
Due to the impact of the California earthquake, the entire west coast of North America is now almost paralyzed.
Due to concerns about large aftershocks, repair work has not been carried out and is waiting for the safety announcement from Diting Company.
Generally speaking, the safety announcement of Diting Company will only be issued after it is confirmed that there will be no earthquake above magnitude 7 in the local area within the next 6 months.
It is obviously not appropriate now, because after the Cascadia fault zone broke, the residual stress has not been completely released. At the same time, the big earthquake has also triggered instability in several surrounding fault zones. It will take at least half a month to determine whether it is safe.
Due to the earthquake, all ports on the west coast of North America were shut down.
Currently, the only way for sea transportation from Northeast Asia and Kangaroo Country to North America is through the Central American Canal.
Fortunately, there are now three canals in Central America.
A single-line San Juan Canal was just opened two months ago. It is located in the lake-volcano country of Central America. The canal makes use of the natural waterways of the lake and the San Juan River and can now accommodate ships of 50,000 tons.
Many ships that were originally going to the American Canal Country are now diverted to the canal in the Lake and Volcano Country.
As for the New Granada Canal developed by Sapiens, although the canal can accommodate giant ships of 300,000 tons, how could ships from the free world possibly use the canal of a giant company? This is not free.
After seeing off Lucia's negotiation team, Carmen received another powerful negotiation team in the reception room.
The two parties conducted an in-depth discussion on the cooperation agreement and then signed a "win-win" cooperation agreement.
In front of the floor-to-ceiling window, Carmen Lopez looked at the figure walking away with a smile.
"In order to survive, humans can sometimes go to any lengths without any bottom line."
Bose, who was pouring coffee at the side, joked: "It depends on how hard your fist is. If your fist is not hard enough, there is no way to make the other party compromise without any bottom line. Instead, the other party will attack without any bottom line."
"Yes! Mr. Chairman has seen through everything." Carmen strongly agreed with Li Qingye's series of preparations at the time.
Without those preparations, the Homo Sapiens company would have been devoured alive by various major forces long ago.
Carmen took a sip of coffee and said, "I will go to Meroe tomorrow. You can make your own decision about things here."
"OK." Bose nodded.
Now that all major forces have signed cooperation agreements with the Homo Sapiens Company, there is no need for Carmen to receive the remaining small fry here. They can just be left to Bose to handle.
The next morning.
A supersonic Phoenix airliner took off from Java and flew directly to the Meroe region of Africa.
The airport in the Oasis City of Atlon.
The Phoenix airliner landed steadily on the runway.
When Carmen got off the plane, the view that came into her eyes was an endless expanse of lush greenery.
“What a big change!”
When he came to Atlon Oasis City last year, there was only a small oasis here. Now, everywhere you look there are lush green forests and grasslands.
Liu Zhifan, who was traveling with us, explained with a smile: "Because of the terrain here, the precipitation has increased by more than ten times."
"Terrain?" Carmen reacted immediately.
The area where the oasis city of Atlon is located is the Darfur Plateau, with an altitude of 500 to 1,000 meters, and to its east is the northern plains of Meroe.
This vast plain used to be a semi-grassland and semi-desert area. Especially due to overgrazing and reclamation in recent years, many places have completely become deserts.
It was not until the arrival of the Homo Sapiens Company and the extension of the seawater canal here that this place turned into rice fields and plantations.
This desert grassland, which covers an area of about 400,000 square kilometers, has become a seawater agricultural area except for the Nile River Valley Plain in the middle.
The vast water area, coupled with the local high temperature climate all year round, brings about huge evaporation.
These water vapors are blocked by the Darfur Plateau and form precipitation on the eastern edge of the plateau .
The Atlon Oasis is located on the eastern edge of the Darfur Plateau.
Even though there is no seawater canal connected to this area, it still receives considerable rainfall.
Some drought-resistant trees are planted around the city, and areas far away from the city are large areas of artificial drought-resistant grasslands.
As vegetation covered the surface and the water area became much larger, the local temperature became 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, the maximum daytime temperature in the Sahara tropical desert could easily exceed 40 degrees Celsius, and at midnight, the temperature suddenly plummeted to near zero degrees, and it would even snow in some highland desert areas.
This is the significance of the existence of vegetation and water bodies, which have a very good regulating effect on the ambient temperature.
Carmen and Liu Zhifan did not feel too hot at the open-air bus station at the airport. This is why a large number of trees are planted in Atlon Oasis City. Trees can better regulate the city's temperature.
After a while, the shuttle bus arranged by the airport took the two to Li Qingye's villa.
In order to carry out the Pangu Project, Li Qingye has been living in seclusion in Atlon Oasis City recently.
After continuous excavation, the Pangu project is now more than half completed. The outline of the underground base has been dug out and some supporting facilities have also been completed.
The huge amount of earth and rocks produced by excavating the underground base are recycled as raw materials for the Meroe branch to build houses, dams and roads.
In addition to the excavated earth and rocks, the Sapiens company has already formed a complete set of plans to ensure that they will not be dumped or piled up at will.
After all, some underground bases are very large, and if the excavated earth and rocks are piled nearby, satellites in the sky can easily detect the problem.
Therefore, it is very necessary to dispose of these wastes properly and concealedly.
