Homo sapiens.

Chapter 341
The construction of Hongku Port is in full swing.

Dock facilities, warehouses, staff dormitories, staff restaurants, power distribution stations, roads, water plants, and large gas storage tanks are expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye.

at the same time.

Xu Yingcheng, who is the person in charge of the port management company, is not in the port area at this time, but in the northwest direction of the port area about 5.3 kilometers away.

On the armored vehicle, Xu Yingcheng opened the roof, stood on the roof, and looked around with binoculars.

There is a dry sandy land in front of you. Don't look at the Red Sea on the side, just think that this is a warm and humid coastal plain.

In fact, here is one of the driest areas in Egypt, a typical tropical desert climate controlled by a subtropical high pressure belt.

Except for some drought-resistant weeds and small shrubs by the sea, the closer to the inland area, there are basically bare sandy land, Gobi Desert, and stone mountains.

And in front of him, a special team was busy in this barren land.

They are from the agricultural technology brigade of Haitian Agricultural Group, which also has a scale of 500 people.

Miliang Aragon, the captain of the agricultural technology brigade, also stood on the roof of the car: "We have reclaimed 2 mu so far."

Putting down the binoculars, Xu Yingcheng looked at the plan that Mi Liang handed over.

The coastal plains of the Red Sea Province of Egypt are listed above. The coastline of the entire Red Sea Province is about 1200 kilometers long, the coastal lowland plain covers an area of ​​about 2 square kilometers, and the inland sub-plain also covers about 2 square kilometers.

These 4 square kilometers are all within 45 to 90 kilometers from the coast of the Red Sea.

Homo sapiens has reached an agreement with Egypt to lease this area for agricultural production. The lease period is 50 years, and the rent per square kilometer is 1.5 gold dollars per year, totaling 6 million gold dollars per year.

As for how Homo sapiens developed and utilized the desert plain of 4 square kilometers.

The agricultural technology brigade of Haitian Agriculture in front of us is responsible for the construction of the first batch of 100 square kilometers of experimental fields.

"Manager Xu, the power supply equipment must be completed as soon as possible, otherwise we will not be able to pump water."

Xu Yingcheng waved his hand: "Don't worry, the next batch of transport ships will bring equipment from a gas-fired power station with a generating capacity of 500 megawatts, enough for you to use."

"The farmland on my side has been leveled, and water can be started in the near future."

Mi Liang pointed to a piece of farmland where drainage ditches and dams had been dug.

"By the way, the New Luzon Shipyard will send two nuclear-powered canal-drilling ships over in a week."

"What?" Mi Liang was surprised.

Xu Yingcheng took out his tablet computer, called up an internal device briefing, and handed it to Mi Liang.

Mi Liang looked carefully.

The design of the canal-opening ship is similar to the previous Haili, but the canal-opening ship has special crawlers, which can be amphibious on land and sea, and uses two thorium-based molten salt nuclear reactors with a total power of 100 megawatts.

The canal opening equipment at the bottom can excavate a huge trench with a depth of 20-50 meters and a width of 80-120 meters.

And the canal-opening ship that enters the working state of canaling, if it is a sandy soil formation, its excavation speed is 2-3 kilometers per hour; if it is a rocky formation, its excavation speed is 500-800 meters per hour.

"This thing can dig canals, right?"

"This was originally developed for digging canals. To develop the coastal plains of the Red Sea Province and the deeper sub-plains, seawater must flow naturally into the farmland to reduce future operating costs."

Mi Liang also nodded: "Indeed, if you rely on water pipelines, you will definitely need a pressurized water pump, which consumes a lot of energy."

"Moreover, the river channel with a width of 120 meters and a depth of 50 meters can completely carry a transport ship of the [-]-ton level. It will also be of great help to the transportation of grain and agricultural machinery in the future."

Mi Liang returned the tablet: "The company is more considerate."

After the two looked at the farmland, they came to a nursery base built by the sea.

This seedling breeding base is open-air, and you can see lush rice seedlings at this time. In order to facilitate the next planting, the agricultural technology brigade has raised seedlings in advance.

Xu Yingcheng walked to the side of the seedling field. All the seedling fields were soaked in seawater, but these rice seedlings were not affected by the seawater at all, and they were still growing well.

He squatted down and pulled up a rice seedling: "I heard that this is the latest improved variety?"

"Well, this is a genetically recombined perennial sea rice - Haidao No. 14."

"Perennial? Is it the kind that can be harvested repeatedly?"

Mi Liang nodded: "Yes, with the tropical desert climate of the Red Sea Province, it is possible to achieve three crops a year and five consecutive years of harvest."

"Good stuff! But how about the rice yield?"

"As long as there is enough top dressing, the yield per mu is about 800 kilograms."

许英诚稍微计算了一下：“亩产800公斤？一年三熟……也就是年产2400公斤，4万平方公里就是6000万亩，每年可以生产1.44亿吨大米。”

"If the transformation of 4 square kilometers is completed, this output can indeed be achieved."

Xu Yingcheng narrowed his eyes slightly: "Is this rice safe from theft?"

"Don't worry! The company has already made preparations." Mi Liang shrugged with a smile.

As a genetically recombined special rice, Haitian agriculture is naturally not defenseless.

Not only did the genetic treatment to keep the seeds sterile, but also deliberately inserted three kinds of high-temperature-resistant toxic proteins into the rice genes. These toxic proteins can not only make the rice leaves full of poison, but even the rice itself contains toxic proteins.

The reason for inserting the poisonous protein is euphemistically called "killing insects".

Insect killing is indeed one of the purposes of Haitian Agriculture's insertion of the toxin gene. Ordinary insects will be directly poisoned to death if they eat the leaves and rice of Haidao No. 14.

Locusts, including frequent outbreaks in Egypt, are not immune to these toxic proteins.

Another purpose of Haitian Agriculture is to prevent Haidao 14 from being stolen.

These three toxin genes are the core genes in the rice gene sequence. If these three toxin genes are knocked out, the rice will lose the characteristics of salt-alkali tolerance and insect resistance, and will not be able to grow rice.

What's even more frightening is that these three poisonous proteins are resistant to high temperatures and can withstand temperatures around 240 degrees Celsius without decomposing, and their toxicity is equally effective for humans and livestock.

Ordinary adults will die from poisoning if they eat 3 grams of Haidao No. 14 rice.

Since the toxicity is so strong, why does Haitian Agriculture grow this kind of rice.

The reason is that Haitian Agriculture has the technology to deal with these toxic proteins. This treatment technology is called "virus fermentation technology".

As long as some special genetically recombined viruses are used, these three poisonous proteins can be destroyed, and the poisonous proteins can be turned into ordinary amino acids, water, and carbon dioxide.

After this harmless treatment, sea rice can be eaten directly, or further processed and refined into rice flour, starch, and rice bran oil.

However, the farmland irrigated with seawater will inevitably be completely salinized in the future, and only sea rice can be grown, and other crops cannot be grown.

Homo sapiens' behavior is obviously full of malice.

Of course, the Red Sea Province itself is a tropical desert, and the salinization of the land does not matter. Egypt should thank Homo Sapiens for developing it.

As long as the 4-square-kilometer coastal plain is developed, it means that Egypt will increase its rice production by 1.44 million tons.

Moreover, Egypt has a total area of ​​100 million square kilometers, of which 95 square kilometers are deserts. These deserts have the potential to be developed into sea rice fields.

Although the Homo sapiens company will inevitably occupy the vast majority of the interests, the leftovers are enough for Egypt to eat.

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