Chapter 42 Natural Energy is Coming (Please vote for support!!)

Half a month later, in early August, Jinta County, a construction site for the saline-alkali beach.

Lao Xiang is training five new employees of Muhe.

“The soil salt composition in the project area is mainly chloride, accompanied by sulfate or dehydrated gypsum, indicating that the project area is mainly saline soil rather than alkaline soil.”

"This type of saline soil has strong solubility and salt expansion, which poses a great threat to the stability of the quality of roads and irrigation and drainage projects in the project area."

"So the field roads need to use gravel pavement and crushed stone cushion, while the production roads use plain soil pavement."

The new employees responded one after another, but they were all a little absent-minded, looking to the side from time to time.

There, several large excavators were plowing the soil back and forth, and the rumbling sound of the motors was eardrum-shaking.

No matter how obsessed a man can be with excavators, from the age of ninety-nine to the age when he can just walk, no man can resist the temptation of an excavator.

If you give him an excavator, he'll watch it all day.

As for why it is an excavator, and not a deep tiller or deep plow to turn the soil.

This brings us to the experience that has caused great grief to several major construction parties.

Because the soil is too hard and various hard stones and pebbles appear in the soil from time to time, the blades of deep plows and deep tillers are often broken after a short period of operation.

Domestic machinery lacks power and the quality of its parts is also lacking. However, as veterans of land reclamation, Xinjiang Agricultural Reclamation and Gansu Agricultural Reclamation do not believe in evil!
Even if the engine is emitting black smoke, you have to keep plowing.

It was not until the drive shafts and beams of tractors were forcibly broken one after another that the stubborn agricultural reclamation units finally took the lead in using excavators to turn the soil.

Seeing that the young men's attention was all attracted by the excavator, Lao Xiang felt a little helpless. Young men nowadays are unwilling to learn theoretical knowledge.

But he still stepped forward, pointed at the excavator and taught diligently:

"Deep plowing and sun drying can loosen the tillage layer, break up the plow bottom layer, reduce capillary action, and improve soil permeability and water retention."

"Therefore, deep plowing of saline-alkali land can accelerate soil salt leaching, inhibit the evaporation of soil water and groundwater, and prevent the upward movement of bottom salt and cause salt accumulation on the surface."

I saw that the new technicians listened carefully this time and compared and thought about the printed construction technical plan from time to time.

Only then did Lao Xiang laugh.

The saline-alkali land management plan for Alfalfa was mainly surveyed and designed by the Planning and Design Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture.

However, he made many major adjustments to the specific technical implementation plan in accordance with Guo Yang's instructions.

To be honest, even he sometimes couldn't understand Guo Yang's thoughts.

After adjusting the plan, the progress of the project was indeed greatly accelerated, but the expectations for the quality of governance became worse!

It is no wonder that Dr. Zhou and others from the Planning and Design Institute complained to the Ministry, making the matter a hot topic. Many other provinces and cities also inquired about Alfalfa's project through various channels.

As a result, the provincial and municipal governments sent people down to conduct research many times, and everyone could see the concerns they expressed.

Fortunately, all of Muhe’s project advance payments were disbursed on time, and there were no abnormalities in the special funds in the supervision account.

This dispelled the doubts of the provincial and municipal governments, and the construction of the irrigation canal system gradually got on track.

In the plan that Lao Xiang adjusted according to Guo Yang's instructions, mechanical desalination is required in the initial stage of project implementation.

That is, use an excavator to scrape the salt layer within 10 cm of the surface, peel off and remove the salt crust, and then bury it deep in a fixed area.

The advantage of doing this is that it can save water resources and improve the flushing effect.

After mechanical desalination, in order to meet the needs of mechanized forage planting, irrigation, salt washing and other technical measures, the terrain of the project area needs to be reshaped and leveled, and the flatness requirement is that the height difference is less than ±5cm.

At the same time, Guo Yang required that during the land leveling process, the deep gray-blue fertile reducing soil layer should be avoided from being deep-turned.

But in Dr. Zhou's plan, this soil layer with greater hazards needs to be treated by replacing the soil. After all, the proportion of this extremely heavy saline-alkali land is not large.

However, Guo Yang made some adjustments to this and emphasized that this soil should be handed over to "Alfalfa No. 1" two years later.

This caused Dr. Zhou and others to become extremely resentful.

After the land is leveled, the whole field is plowed 30cm deep and exposed to the sun. Then it is covered with sand.

Jinta County is located between the Badain Jaran Desert and the Kumtag Desert. It can choose pure quicksand ridges as sand sources, and the cost of sand extraction is relatively low.

According to the soil depth required for alfalfa growth, the project area needs to be evenly covered with 20cm of sand and deep plowed 30cm, so that the cultivated layer soil is mixed at a ratio of approximately 1:3 to increase soil porosity, prevent salt return, and increase the diffusion and flow of soil salt.

After sampling and testing, the salt content of the surface soil was found to have dropped to a level that would not harm the growth of alfalfa!

This surprised Xiang Tianshan a lot!
He was also a little confused. How did Guo Yang know that 20cm of sand covering could suppress salinity? It was exactly 20cm!

Overall, the governance project is moving in a positive direction.

The only thing that worries Xiang Tianshan is 'Alfalfa No. 1'. Will it be able to conquer the heavy salt soil in the middle and lower layers of 30-100cm as Guo Yang wishes in one or two years?

You know, salt will flow upward with groundwater.

If not, this saline-alkali beach, which has cost a lot of money to transform, may once again face the situation of salinization year by year.

……

Jiuquan City, in the office building rented by Alfalfa Company.

"Hahaha……"

The unbridled laughter coming out from the office attracted the attention of Muhe's employees.

The new receptionist curiously asked in the office of the administration department: "Sister Wan, what good news did Mr. Guo encounter? He is smiling so happily."

"Who knows? I've never seen the boss smile since I joined Muhe. He always has a stern face every day." Sister Wan is a young woman with exquisite makeup. She is sorting documents at the table.

"Why? Mr. Guo doesn't like to laugh?"

"Xiao Zhao, you are so silly, can't you hear the boss laughing so loudly?"

Sister Wan cursed, then pointed upward mysteriously and said, "I heard from my family that some time ago, the city, the province, and the higher-ups all expressed dissatisfaction with Mr. Guo's change in the construction technology plan."

Xiao Zhao was stunned for a moment before he said, "Sister Wan, which company is upstairs?"

Sister Wan covered her pretty face in pain.

"Ding, natural energy +1."

In the office, Guo Yang looked at the information from the seed store and couldn't suppress his joy.

After being busy for so long, when I came back, I was almost always busy with seed shops and natural energy.

In his previous life, he was just an ordinary farmer, but after traveling back in time, he expanded his business too much from the beginning.

Five hundred million yuan, two hundred thousand acres of saline-alkali land, and government leaders at all levels.

Layer upon layer of pressure was overwhelming him, making him feel almost suffocated. He dared not stop for a moment and was thinking about how to carry out the project every minute and every second.

He originally thought that natural energy would not begin to accumulate until this season's alfalfa was sown and germinated.

Unexpectedly, half a month after the saline-alkali land treatment construction, there was movement in the seed store.

Although there is only a little natural energy, it represents a completely different meaning
You should know that at this time, in addition to completing the scraping of all surface salt layers in the project area, deep plowing and drying had just begun, and sand covering materials only started to be delivered yesterday.

Just at this moment, another reminder sound came from the seed store.

“Ding ding ding…Natural energy +1…+1…+1…”

It took a while to stop.

Guo Yang looked carefully and saw the natural energy: 18 points.

"Hahaha..." The hearty laughter spread throughout the entire floor.

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