Chapter 93: Is drinking a sip of soup a luxury?

After Martha repeatedly assured him that "I will never have any other ideas", Linklay half-believingly acted as a tour guide and took Lin Yan and Martha to visit the local sand control area.

From time to time, he would tell stories about his childhood and compare them with the current achievements in sand control, which made people sigh with emotion.

"In the past, even the main urban area of ​​Ak City was eroded by the desert? Every day when the wind blows, the room is covered with sand? This is too tragic. Is this a place where people can live?"

"Sandstorms like the one the anchor encountered on the train happen every now and then here? God, I remember China was still very backward back then! It was scary to be in a steel train, so who can tell me what it felt like to use a wooden thatched house to withstand a sandstorm?"

"In such a harsh environment, this person was able to overcome difficulties and study hard to get into college, go to Jinghai to study, and even join the army after college. This person is also a tough guy. It's not easy."

"Even if China has a university for all, it's the equivalent of us poor country folk getting into Ivy League schools. We can only see this kind of story in movies and TV shows. The cruelest thing is that he desperately fled his hometown, but not for the sake of enjoying life. He suffered so much just to bring back knowledge and build his hometown! God, may you bless these noble Chinese people!"

"So how did they do it? Aren't they deeply invaded by the desert? But I remember when the anchor introduced this city, he said that the desert is 6 kilometers away from the main city?"

"Could it be that they pushed the desert out 6 kilometers?"

"Wait! So according to what you said, the anchor and his team came here from the city, and the forests we saw along the way were actually..."

The live broadcast room was suddenly in an uproar!
Hear thunder in a silent place.

They originally thought that the desert in front of them was the "desert" that Lin Yan mentioned, and it was 6 kilometers away from the main urban area of ​​Ak City. Therefore, they thought the ordinary flowers, plants and trees along the way were "normal scenery" and never paid attention to them.

But the truth is, these normal scenery that they think there is no need to care about are the real "sand control and prevention demonstration areas"!
After decades of hard work, the military and civilians of Ak City worked together and endured great hardships to drive the desert out of their city!

“So it’s much better now.”

Linklei said lightly: "Brother Yan, do you still remember? One day I told you about how I ate at home."

Lin Yan also laughed at that time: "How could I forget this? You ate so fast, not only the class, but the whole platoon was wondering if you were afraid of choking to death? Later I found out that sand was flying everywhere, and you had to scoop up the food quickly when there was no sand. Even then you had to bend over to protect the food, for fear that an accident would leave the table empty."

"Yeah, so when I was a kid, I swore that I would let my parents eat slowly and sleep without masks, and I would drive all the damn sand and wind out of my house."

As he spoke, the tough guy who was two times stronger than Lin Yan suddenly couldn't hold back and sobbed, biting his lips and his voice trembling.

"But I only did half of it! When I was in college, in order to complete the goal of planting trees to fix sand one day earlier, my dad... that day my dad planted more than a dozen trees and only walked a little further. My dad just... "

Lin Yan, Martha, and the entire live broadcast room fell silent.

Lin Yan gently patted Lao Wu's shoulder, hugged his brother, and comforted him: "But you completed the other half, didn't you?"

"Correct!"

Linkley looked into the depths of the desert and said in a deep voice, "My dad is gone, but I'm back! Even if I'm gone, my son will continue to come here! Now is not the same as before. The government has developed many improved saplings. They are easy to survive and only need a little water! Moreover, they can take root very deeply, and no matter how strong the wind is, they can't be blown down! I will take my brothers with me to plant these trees one by one, build windbreaks, and get this damn desert out of our city!"

"Now, mom can cook and eat at home with peace of mind, and can sleep soundly without closing the windows. We can even drink soup! We can drink soup in a place like Ak City! Brother Yan, you have never been here before, so you can't understand how wishful it was for us to drink a sip of soup. We only dared to make a small bowl of soup to share during the Chinese New Year to celebrate the New Year!"

Is even a sip of soup so luxurious?

Martha, who had always lived a comfortable life, felt more and more uncomfortable the more she listened.

On her way to Western Xinjiang, she had seen the harsh environment here, which was even worse and several times more dangerous than the desert in the Alian Chieftaincy. But even this level of danger seemed to have been managed.

How dangerous was this place in the past? Would one generation or several generations risk their lives just to have a sip of soup? But if we think about it from another perspective.

If even such a dangerous place can manage the desert properly, then can other more peaceful deserts follow suit?
"Abel, these improved seeds and saplings from China are listed as the most important imports. We will eat as much as China can provide."

"Yes, father."

Martha, who was present at the scene, was even more eager to try.

"Old Five, are these shrubs called Haloxylon ammodendron really that magical? Even a force 15 gale can't do anything to them?"

Martha squatted in front of a Haloxylon ammodendron seedling and touched it curiously.

Compared with other plants, the bark of the Haloxylon ammodendron appears dry and brittle, but if you pinch its branches hard, you can still feel the moisture contained in the branches, which is the most precious thing in the desert.

She even tried to pull out the seedling, but no matter how hard she tried, the seedling clung to the ground tightly. She couldn't even move it, let alone pull it out.

"Hey, sister-in-law, don't waste your energy. It's just a seedling. Who knows how many meters deep it has roots. You'd be in trouble if you can pull it out."

"rice?"

Martha looked at the young tree in front of her in amazement. The tallest one was just over 30 centimeters. She said in disbelief, "It's only 30 centimeters in total. How can it have roots several meters deep? It should be the other way around, right? Only trees several meters tall can have roots 30 centimeters deep, right?"

“This is the value of the Haloxylon ammodendron tree.”

Lin Yan dug up a layer of sand and pointed meaningfully at the bottomless roots. "The roots of the Haloxylon ammodendron are very deep, absorbing water from everywhere to ensure its own growth. At the same time, its developed roots also lock the loose sand tightly, making it stick together into relatively normal soil."

"After three to five years, or even more than ten years, the sand will continue to aggregate as the Haloxylon ammodendron trees grow. It will no longer be the sand that flies around when the wind blows, but real soil that is thick and sticky."

Listening to Lin Yan's explanation, Prince Abel suddenly slapped his thigh!
No wonder!
So that’s it!
Previously, Chief Allen had spent a large sum of money to import a batch of vegetation seeds, intending to plant them on the edge of the desert to prevent wind and fix sand.

But those plants are so precious that even if they are watered with enough water, they can only withstand small sandstorms at best. Once there is a super sandstorm that even the royal family has to take shelter from, they will be blown away and will not be able to provide any protection at all.

The reason is that afforestation is not only for preventing sand, but also for controlling sand! No matter how good a tree is at preventing sand, it will break sooner or later if it is attacked by sandstorms all year round, just like a bowstring that has been stretched for a long time. But trees like Haloxylon ammodendron not only prevent sand, but also control it, quietly transforming the desert into soil that does not produce sand, and gradually reducing the area covered by the desert!
This is the fundamental solution to desert control!

He unconsciously clenched his fists again.

"This is the difference between us and China. We only know how to buy sand-proof trees to prevent sand, but China can think of improving the seedlings to make them more suitable for the root cause. This kind of technology... no, this is a huge gap in thinking. We are really too far behind!"

It can be seen that China's method of desert control is definitely not as simple as planting trees! There must be something else! Something that cannot be seen in the tree planting area!
At this moment, Linklei also took Lin Yan, Martha and others around the demonstration area for a full circle.

In fact, there is not much else to say about this demonstration area except the Haloxylon ammodendron trees. After all, the focus of this area is to promote afforestation projects, and other systematic projects are not under the jurisdiction of this area.

But such a small view obviously could not satisfy Martha's extremely overflowing curiosity.

"Yan, I think..."

"No, you don't want to."

"TAT!!"

(End of this chapter)