Homo sapiens.

Chapter 348 Homo sapiens speed
1 month 15 day.

the nile.

Kom Ombo, a big city along the river not far from the Aswan Dam.

Thousands of local residents are standing on the heights of the buildings in the east, overlooking the khaki desert in the east.

In the early morning sunlight, a huge monster was advancing towards the city of Kom Ombo little by little.

The visitor was the canal-opening ship Juxi 1. Thirteen days ago, Juxi 13 advanced all the way from the inland of Hongku Port, using four shifts to excavate towards Kom Ombo day and night.

After 13 days of hard work, the 315-kilometer canal finally came near Kom Ombo.

The captain Lin Shengbin looked at the planning map in his hand, compared the satellite positioning and the map, and quickly shouted: "Start turning around and deflecting south by [-] degrees."

"receive."

In the cockpit, everyone is busy in an orderly manner.

Giant Rhinoceros No. 1 turned at a position about 3.4 kilometers east of Kom Ombo City, and was about to dig a double-track canal back to Hongku Port.

Just now.

A 5000-ton passenger ship also came to the corner from Hongku Port. The specially-made iron bridge slowly stretched out and was placed on the relatively solid ground on the shore.

Officials of Kom Ombo, who had been notified a long time ago, had been waiting here for a long time. As soon as they saw the iron bridge extending over, they rushed over in a swarm.

The leader is a middle-aged man, with a clean and simple mustache, combed his hair back, and his eyes are full of complexity and envy.

After a while, the passengers on the passenger ship also came down from the iron bridge with their luggage.

A somewhat forced smile appeared on the middle-aged man's face: "Welcome all the guests of Homo sapiens to Kom Ombo. I am Sabu, the person in charge here."

Hu Mingliang (Aurang Hook), the manager of the Coral Construction Group sent here to set up a branch, smiled and held out his hand: "Hello, I am Hu Mingliang, the branch manager of the Coral Construction Group stationed in Aswan."

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while.

There are a total of 1200 construction teams and management personnel sent here.

They will be responsible for planning the intersection of the southern canal and the Nile, as well as improving the infrastructure of Kom Ombo port.

"Mr. Sabu, our company needs to recruit about 3000 temporary workers locally. Is there any wasteland close to the city? Deserts are fine too."

Sabu took out a local map and pointed to several areas: "These are wastelands relatively close to the city, and there is a Gobi Desert on the east side."

Hu Mingliang looked at the location on the map, and picked up the binoculars to observe the distance.

This is a Gobi Desert with an area of ​​4.7 square kilometers. To be precise, it is a rock weathered area. Except for some stones and sand, there are not even a few weeds.

Hu Mingliang turned his head and asked the leader of the planning team, "Beiyang, what is the location of this Gobi Desert?"

Kamijou Beiyang is also checking the map, but he is consulting the satellite topographic map provided by the company. This topographic map with an accuracy of 0.2 meters has already marked the contour line.

He looked at the location and altitude of the Gobi Desert: "The average altitude of the Gobi Desert area is about 72 meters, and there is a low-lying salt marsh area on one side, with an average altitude of 26 meters. It can be considered to dig deep into the salt marshes to become An artificial lake."

"How much is the project?" Hu Mingliang asked.

Kamijou Beiyang did some calculations: "The area is 7.6 square kilometers. If you want to dig to 45 meters below sea level, it will take about 6 days to complete it with a giant rhinoceros-shaped canal-opening ship."

Hearing this, Hu Mingliang shook his head helplessly: "There are two giant rhinoceros canal-digging ships on the Egyptian side, and Haitian Agriculture borrowed one, and the other is digging the canal's double-track, and it can't be transferred for the time being."

"Where's the new ship?"

"The headquarters is urging the shipyard. It is estimated that the next batch of 5 canal-opening ships will be in service, but that will not be available until May."

Kamijou Beiyang scratched his head: "This Gobi Desert is the most suitable place, other places are either wheat fields or cotton fields."

After thinking for a while, Hu Mingliang still made a decision: "Then let's go here! Let's do other construction first."

Sabu on the side reminded: "Manager Hu, there are no roads in this Gobi Desert, and there are no running water pipes around. Life may be very inconvenient."

Hu Mingliang waved his hand: "Don't worry, we will solve it ourselves."

Although he didn't know how the other party would solve it, Sabu also knew that it was best not to inquire casually about such things. He continued to introduce the customs and customs around Kom Ombo.

The two sides chatted for more than half an hour, and finally Hu Mingliang sent the person in charge of the personnel team to follow Sabu to the city of Kom Ombo to prepare for the job fair.

And Hu Mingliang began to prepare for the construction of the Gobi Desert new area.

Some armored vehicles, pickup trucks and engineering equipment were unloaded from the passenger ship's cargo hold.

The first is to build a temporary dock to facilitate the unloading of the next transport ship.

Although the canal currently only has a single line, but with a width of 120 to 130 meters and some lakes formed in low-lying areas, as long as the scheduling of transportation tasks is well adjusted and the lake area is used as an intersection area, two-way transportation can be realized.

And canals with an average depth of 20 to 45 meters can easily pass through transport ships with a load of [-] tons.

However, considering that the width of the canal is still insufficient at this time, the Hongku Port Management Company only allows transport ships of 1 tons and below to sail in the canal.

Some pillars were erected at the temporary pier to enhance the stability of the stratum in this area, so as to prevent the stratum from being collapsed by seawater.

At the same time, a water purification truck is used to pump seawater from the canal and pass through the bio-nano one-way permeable layer to produce about 50 tons of pure water per day.

The power generation vehicle provided electricity to the temporary camp, the water purification vehicle provided drinking water, and the satellite communication vehicle provided network services.

noon that day.

A 1-ton bulk carrier arrived at the temporary dock.

The bulk carrier has self-unloading equipment to unload the transported engineering vehicles, mechanical equipment, and raw materials on the temporary dock.

All kinds of modular equipment were quickly built on the temporary dock to form a navigation lighthouse and a shipping deployment center.

Various supporting facilities in the temporary dock area are increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In less than three days, through the continuous supply of equipment and materials through the transport ship every 8 hours, not only the temporary dock was built in a good shape, but even in the new Gobi Desert area, a dock that can accommodate 3000 people appeared. Temporary worker town.

Sabu, who has been paying attention to this side, is also very shocked by the construction speed of Homo sapiens.

In fact, during these three days, the temporary wharf also supplied 2000 tons of prepared flour and 200 tons of palm oil to the city of Kom Ombo to alleviate the local food shortage.

At the same time, it is also to buy people's hearts and facilitate the next job fair.

The emergence of this new canal allows the Red Sea to transport materials to the Aswan area without detouring Cairo, reducing the transportation distance by nearly two-thirds.

Why did Sapiens Corporation open up the canal?
The purpose is to facilitate the transportation of bulk commodities.

The price/performance ratio of railways in Egypt is too low, or in other words, the price/performance ratio of railways in the entire Sahara Desert is very low.

The main reason is that the desert climate here makes it easy to damage the railways. In addition, many areas are uninhabited areas. The passenger transport value of the railways is not high, and they can only be used to transport minerals and food and other materials.

For example, in Egypt, its economic core area is the Nile Delta and the narrow Nile Valley Plain, and there is no need to build railways in other areas.

But the canal is different. The canal can revitalize the coastal areas.

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