Homo sapiens

The construction project of Hongku Port is in full swing.

Terminal facilities, warehouses, employee dormitories, employee 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.

As the head of the port management company, Xu Yingcheng was not in the port area at this time, but in the northwest about 5.3 kilometers away from the port area.

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

There is a dry sandy land in front of you. Even if you look at the Red Sea, you would think that this is a warm and humid coastal plain.

In fact, this is one of the driest areas in Suez, with a typical tropical desert climate controlled by the subtropical high pressure zone.

Except for some drought-resistant weeds and small shrubs on the seaside, the areas closer to the inland are basically bare sandy land, Gobi Desert, and stone mountains.

In front of us, a special team was busy in this desolate land.

They are the agricultural technology brigade from Haitian Agriculture Group, also with a size of 500 people.

Miliang Aragon, captain of the Agricultural Technology Brigade, also stood on the roof of the car: "We have cultivated 20,000 acres so far."

Putting down the telescope, Xu Yingcheng looked at the plan handed over by Mi Liang.

The coastal plain areas of the Red Sea Province of Suez are listed above. The coastline length of the entire Red Sea Province is about 1,200 kilometers. The coastal lowland plains cover an area of ​​about 20,000 square kilometers, and the inland subplains also cover an area of ​​about 20,000 square kilometers.

These 40,000 square kilometers of area are all within a range of 45 to 90 kilometers from the Red Sea coast.

Homo sapiens has reached an agreement with Suez to lease this area for agricultural production. The lease period is 50 years and the rent per square kilometer is 15,000 gold yuan per year, totaling 600 million gold yuan per year.

As for how the Homo sapiens company develops and utilizes these 40,000 square kilometers of desert plains.

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 improved 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 plant with a power of 500 megawatts, which is enough for you."

"The farmland here has been leveled and water can be released in the near future."

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

"By the way, the New Luzon Shipyard will send two nuclear-powered ditching vessels over in a week."

"What?" Mi Liang looked surprised.

Xu Yingcheng took out his tablet, called up an internal equipment introduction, and handed it to Mi Liang.

Miriam looked through it carefully.

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

The trenching equipment at the bottom can dig huge trenches with a depth of 20 to 50 meters and a width of 80 to 120 meters.

When the ditching ship enters the working state of canalizing, its digging speed is 2 to 3 kilometers per hour if it is a sandy soil formation; if it is a rocky formation, its digging speed is 500 to 800 meters per hour.

"Can these things be used to dig canals?"

"This was originally developed for digging canals. To develop the coastal plains of the Red Sea province and the deeper sub-plains, seawater must be allowed to 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."

"And the river with a width of 120 meters and a depth of 50 meters can fully transport 10,000-ton transport ships, which will also be of great help in transporting grain and agricultural machinery in the future."

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

After looking at the farmland, the two came to a nursery base built on the seaside.

This nursery base is open-air, and you can see lush rice seedlings at this time. In order to facilitate the subsequent planting, the agricultural technology team has already nursed seedlings in advance.

Xu Yingcheng walked to the nursery fields. All the nursery fields were soaked in sea water, but these rice seedlings were not affected by the sea water at all and 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? The kind that can be harvested repeatedly after planting?"

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

"Good stuff! But how is the yield of this rice?"

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

Xu Yingcheng did a little calculation: "800 kilograms per mu? Three crops a year...that is, an annual output of 2,400 kilograms. 40,000 square kilometers is 60 million acres, which can produce 144 million tons of rice every year."

"If all 40,000 square kilometers are transformed, we can indeed achieve this output."

Xu Yingcheng narrowed his eyes slightly: "Is this rice protected against theft?"

"Don't worry! The company has already prepared." Mi Liang smiled and shrugged.

As a genetically recombinant special rice, Haitian agriculture is naturally not without precautions.

Not only did they perform genetic treatment to preserve seed sterility, but they also deliberately inserted three high-temperature tolerant toxic proteins into the rice genes. These toxic proteins not only make the rice leaves full of poison, but even the rice itself contains toxic proteins.

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

Killing insects is indeed one of the purposes of inserting poisonous protein genes in Haitian agriculture. Ordinary insects will be directly poisoned to death if they eat the leaves and rice of Haidao No. 14.

Even the locusts that frequently break out in the Suez area are not immune to these poisonous proteins.

Another purpose of Haidian Agriculture is to prevent Haidao No. 14 from being stolen.

These three toxin protein genes are among the core genes in the rice gene sequence. If these three toxin protein genes are knocked out, the rice will lose its 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 of about 240 degrees Celsius without decomposing. Their toxicity is equally effective on humans and livestock.

Ordinary adults will be poisoned and die if they eat 3 grams of Haidao No. 14 rice.

If it is so toxic, why does Haitian Agriculture grow this kind of rice?

The reason is that Haitian Agriculture has the technology to process these toxic proteins. This processing technology is called "virus fermentation technology."

As long as some special genetically recombinant 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, farmland irrigated by seawater will inevitably become completely salinized in the future, and only sea rice can be grown, and no other crops can be grown.

The behavior of the Homo sapiens company is obviously full of malicious intent.

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

As long as the development of these 40,000 square kilometers of coastal plain is completed, it means that Suez itself will increase its rice production by 144 million tons.

Moreover, the Suez region has a total area of ​​1 million square kilometers, of which 950,000 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 profits, the leftovers are enough to feed Suez.

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