Military industrial hegemony

Chapter 819
Accompanied by Guo Chengye, Jiang Chen first went to the cafeteria to have some food.Sauerkraut gnocchi, served with deep-fried crispy steamed buns.Jiang Chen's appetite was huge, and he drank several bowls in a row, but he couldn't bear it anymore.This was specially prepared by Guo Chengye for Jiang Chen or someone who was drunk last night, because the sour and easy-to-swallow sauerkraut gnocchi can relieve the aftereffects of drunkenness.Of course, it is an exaggeration to say that it is specially prepared, and this is what these factories usually eat.It's not that Jiang Chen is stingy, but this kind of customs and eating habits.It must be a thin bowl in the morning, either noodles or coarse grain porridge.Of course, sometimes it will be a bowl of clear soup ramen, but this is troublesome, so I don’t do it often.And the chef here said hello to Jiang Chen, saying that it will be made tomorrow, and he must let Jiang Chen try the most authentic Northwest Ramen.

After the meal, Jiang Chen, who had regained his vitality, took Guo Chengye and other cadres here, and decided to take a good look at the base.He had never been here before, and all he knew was from the drawings.Although the volume of drawings is detailed enough, it is still not intuitive to actually see.And when Jiang Chen and the others came yesterday, it was already dark, so they couldn't see anything.When Jiang Chen walked out of the living area and came to an open space, he saw the lively scene of the construction site in the distance, and realized how big the base they saw on the blueprint was.Although this is only the first phase of the project, and only [-] mu, when you step into it, you will know how big it is, which is beyond your imagination.

Guo Chengye pointed to the ground that Jiang Chen and the others stepped on and said with a smile to Jiang Chen: "We are located right on the main road that connects the large functional areas in our plan. However, the various functional areas are still under construction. So this main road has not been built yet. After the construction of the main body of these buildings is completed, those who are free from the construction team can build here. The terrain here is flat and the foundation is relatively hard, so the construction is very fast. It will definitely be completed in half a month.”

"En." Jiang Chen nodded, then looked at the construction site in the distance and asked, "What stage is the construction going on now, and how is the progress?"

Guo Chengye asked the staff next to him to unfold a floor plan of the entire base and pointed to Jiang Chen: "At present, we have completed two projects. The first one is this water supply project. Before the Chinese New Year last year, we had completed The burial of more than 100 kilometers of cement culverts has been completed. Once the year is over, we have carried out dredging and embankment work on the lake, removing some of the silt, weeds, garbage, and those few The adobe houses where the herdsmen lived were all cleaned up. After all this work, the water storage began. At present, the entire lake has reached [-] to [-] mu. We expect that the entire lake will reach [-] to [-] mu after the completion of the water storage. , will fully meet our design requirements and water needs. Even with the nourishment of this lake, we have the ability to reclaim the nearby desert within hundreds of kilometers into cultivated land."

Hearing Guo Chengye's words, Jiang Chen shook his head and said, "Plowing the land, what do I want to plow the land for? I have worked so hard and spent so much money just to care about this little plowing land?"

"Isn't this incidental? If this development is successful, then the food here can be completely self-sufficient, and it can also be supplied to our company. Besides, if we want to farm, we must adopt full automation like those state-owned farms. , It doesn’t take a lot of people. I checked the soil quality, and it hasn’t been completely deserted yet. Under the thin layer of sand and gravel, there are rotten roots left by grassland plants withered in the past, and they are still quite fertile.” Guo Chengye hurriedly said.As a child from the countryside, he really has a deep affection for the farmland.So when he heard people say that the land here can be reclaimed into arable land, he was ecstatic.So I hurriedly inspected it myself, and even asked experts to do research.He was ecstatic when he learned from experts that this place is indeed suitable for arable land and drought-resistant crops such as corn and wheat.Having suffered from hunger as a child, he knows the value of these hundreds of square kilometers of arable land and how many hungry families it can feed.Now that Jiang Chen says he doesn't do farming, he doesn't care, how can he not be impatient.

hehe.Jiang Chen patted him on the shoulder, then looked at the desert in the distance and said, "Being a human being and doing things, we need to take a long-term view. It is true that plowing the land can provide us with more food, but there are more important things than it." , that is what we are building now. This will be an important production base for our country's aviation industry in the future, and its development is far more important than this grain. If we reclaim this place into arable land, according to the temperature here, It can only be ripe once a year. Then for the rest of the time, let it sit here, and then let the most authentic northwest wind lift up the fine soil in these cultivated lands, creating obstacles for the people who work and live here , to add to the blockage of the precision products produced here?"

"Then, what do you say? Just let it go unused?" Guo Chengye blushed when Jiang Chen said it, but he was still a little unwilling to say.

Jiang Chen shook his head and said, "Of course we can't leave it so barren. Since we are here, we must conquer this barren land and change its appearance."

"If you don't grow food, how can you change it and what to grow?" Guo Chengye asked doubtfully.

Jiang Chen turned his head to look at Guo Chengye and said with a smile: "Plant grass, plant trees. When the airport runway is completed, I will let people fly over the few planes we bought from abroad in Anxi for research. Then I asked someone to buy me some drought-resistant grass seeds from abroad, sow them with an airplane, and spread the grass seeds in the desert within a radius of hundreds of kilometers. By the way, this is also within the scope of infrastructure. Your office should also be responsible. Later, you used the trucks produced by our company to transform a few sprinklers, and you ran back and forth on this wasteland. I want to see that when spring next year, this place will be green."

"Growing grass?" Guo Chengye's brain was a little disconnected. If he didn't grow food and grass, it was his brain that went wrong, or Jiang Chen's brain that went wrong.Can grass be eaten? Is grass as valuable as food?Guo Chengye couldn't figure it out.

Looking at Guo Chengye's depressed expression, Jiang Chen smiled and did not explain in detail.In fact, this is the result of discussions between Jiang Chen and the others, Mr. Lu and the others.The northwest desert has its advantages and disadvantages.As for Jiang Chen and his manufacturing industry, the biggest enemy is the ubiquitous wind and sand.Although the important equipment has long been produced in various places, it only needs to be assembled when it is shipped here.Even the components produced here are produced in a fully enclosed environment, and when Jiang Chen and the others designed the entire production base, each production workshop was fully enclosed and all used ventilation systems.The incoming wind also needs to be filtered.But considering the production of the entire base and the lives of the workers, Jiang Chen and the others had to make relevant changes to the bad environment here, and planting grass and trees was undoubtedly the best choice.This is why Jiang Chen and the others expended so much effort to build such a large lake, and this is why Jiang Chen gave up food and planted grass.

(End of this chapter)