Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1849 Desert Control
With money to be made, everyone is highly motivated, and construction work in the Luosha District is in full swing.

During this period, considering that there was a large project in the Luosha District and many internal matters, Zhou Xu sent Karl to Luosha District as the district head.

There are also differences between districts.

The Saint Laurent region, with its combined old and new districts, is comparable in size to the former Great Zhou Dynasty. To govern this region, a capable governor is naturally needed.

However, regions like the former Northeast and the current Rakshasa District, although clearly defined as separate areas, are actually quite small and cannot be compared to the Saint Laurent region at all.

To create a special official for this purpose seems like making a mountain out of a molehill; simply assigning a district head to manage it would suffice.

Karl was sent here because the Rakshasa District had just submitted, and there were a lot of complicated matters to handle. It was necessary to have a capable and decisive person stationed here to deal with problems directly and ensure efficiency.

After the Rakshasa District was running smoothly, the rest was left to the governing department, and Zhou Xu took the opportunity to transfer Karl back to the Hall of Diligent Governance.

Now that this huge project has been launched, the entire Luosha District will be renovated in the next few years.

There were many issues involved, so to avoid any mishaps, Zhou Xu simply transferred Karl over to handle the scheduling as well.

Compared to back then, Carl has matured a lot and his work ability has become increasingly outstanding.

In addition, he is considered a senior leader in the Luosha District.

Many of the officials in the governing bodies here were his former subordinates. When he sat there, no one dared to disobey him.

From taking over the position to starting to schedule and arrange various tasks, everything proceeded in an orderly manner.

At the same time, inside a side hall of the palace, Zhou Xu was discussing the issue of sand prevention and control with Zhang Xuemei, the director of the Geological Exploration Bureau.

Although their main job is geological exploration, Zhang Xuemei and her geological exploration team often go to the desert to carry out exploration tasks, so they are quite familiar with the desert.

"Currently, the work on sand control and desertification prevention along the Saint Laurent border and the Russian border can be said to have reached its limit. It is unrealistic to expect large-scale expansion of green areas into the desert, at least not at this stage."

Zhang Xuemei explained as she spoke.

"Our efforts to prevent and control desertification mainly refer to preventing land desertification and managing desertified land."

"Take the grasslands for example. That land was not originally a desert, but due to overgrazing by herders, the land has become desertified, or it is close to the desert and affected by extreme weather, which has also led to desertification. These are all things that can be managed."

"It's like when someone gets sick. As long as it's not a terminal illness, they can always recover with proper care."

“But natural deserts are different. Natural deserts may have existed for hundreds or thousands of years. This is like an incurable disease or a stubborn ailment that cannot be cured unless there is a new breakthrough in medical technology.”

"At the same time, deserts also have an ecosystem, the butterfly effect. Your Majesty, you must have heard of it. If deserts were to disappear completely, it would inevitably cause some kind of invisible impact. And some of these impacts, we may not be able to determine at all before they actually happen."

After listening to Zhang Xuemei's words, Zhou Xu pondered for two seconds.

"I'm not aiming to turn the desert into a completely green area, but rather to expand the area of ​​oases within the desert. Do you think that's feasible?"

Zhang Xuemei thought about it.

"That should work." In an extreme environment like the desert, an area that can form an oasis is itself a special ecological zone.

The situation is no less than suddenly discovering a patient in a terminal ward who doesn't have a terminal illness; of course, that patient can be saved.

"Okay, that's good enough."

Just as Zhou Xu himself said, he never thought of turning the desert into a green area. Even if it were possible, the amount of work would be too great, and the financial investment required would be countless.

He doesn't have the energy to do such a thing right now.
But those oases in the desert were very important to him!
Their Great Zhou troops carried out various missions in the desert, and these oases were important rest stops and supply points for them.

If they want to conduct more in-depth exploration in the desert in the future, or mine resources in the desert, they may even need to build towns in the desert so that they can carry out their subsequent work.

Based on this, Zhou Xu believed that the larger the area of ​​an oasis that could support human habitation, the better.

At present, the work on sand control and desertification prevention along the Saint Laurent border and the Russian border has reached a bottleneck. What needs to be done next is to maintain the status quo and continue to fight against the desert environment next door.

However, the subsequent work will not require as many people.

In addition, the people in that department all have rich experience in sand prevention and control, so sending them to the oasis outposts in the desert to start a new round of work and expand the oasis area is undoubtedly a good choice.

On the Saint Laurent border, the personnel from the sand control department were the first to receive the order. After making some preparations, they led their camel transport team and moved directly towards their Great Zhou's No. 1 oasis outpost in the desert.

Having long been familiar with the desert environment, they were all wrapped up tightly, with only their eyes showing.

Even so, the extreme environment of the desert is still unbearable.

"Minister, when do you think our Great Zhou will be able to install a steam train in the desert? With a steam train, we won't have to go through so much trouble."

Upon hearing this, the minister rolled his eyes.

"That's nonsense. It's easy to say, but it's not that easy to do."

As the minister spoke, he gestured around.

"Look at the sand in the wind. If you were to lay a railway in the desert, you wouldn't even need a sandstorm. The tracks would be completely buried by sand within a day. How would the train run then?"

“We can’t send people to patrol and clean the railway 24 hours a day, can we? That would be too expensive in terms of labor costs, and who can endure such strenuous work in the desert? It’s better to rely on camels for transportation like we are now.”

The members fell silent, while the minister shook his head speechlessly.

Does this kid think he's the only one who came up with this idea?

A common problem among young people is that they haven't experienced much, but they have a lot of ideas.

Little did he know that others had already considered his idea.

At the same time, many ideas that you think are feasible may not be implemented in the end, or no one may even mention or do them. There are always underlying reasons for this, after all, nobody is a fool...

(End of this chapter)