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The sky screen video ends here.

And a new sky appeared amid the whistling yellow sand.

【Do you know the Taklamakan Desert? 】

[This desert is the largest desert in my country and the second largest mobile desert in the world.]

[From the map, the Taklimakan Desert occupies a large area of ​​Xinjiang. It can be said that its existence has seriously restricted the local economic development. ]

How was this desert formed?

What are the characteristics of this desert?

Ancient people were not unfamiliar with the desert as a landform.

Even those ancient people who grew up in beautiful places with mountains and rivers.

Even before the sky appeared, the concept of the desert was somewhat known.

After all, haven’t you seen a desert or sand?
If you enlarge the sand area and use your imagination, you can roughly understand what a desert looks like.

But most of the ancients,
It is not known where the Taklamakan Desert is located.

of course.

There were also some ancient people who had a relatively good understanding of the Western Regions, as evidenced by the markings on the sky dome map.

You will know.

This desert is the one known as quicksand, great desert, and vast sea.

The sky continues:

【Taklimakan means "the land of poplar trees."】

[This is a desert located in the center of the Tarim Basin in the Western Regions Province. It is 1000 kilometers long from east to west and about 400 kilometers wide from north to south. The total area reaches 33 square kilometers, which is almost the same size as the entire Vietnam.]

[This area ranks tenth among the world's deserts. ]

[So why was this huge desert formed? ]

[The desert was formed about 530 million years ago, and the reason for its formation is also very typical. 】

【First, let’s look at the location of the Taklimakan Desert. 】

[Located in the heart of the Eurasian continent, it is very far away from any ocean. By the time the water vapor from the ocean reaches here, it is already very little.]

[The nearest Indian Ocean moisture is blocked by the roof of the world. ]

[Looking at the surrounding areas of the Tarim Basin, it is surrounded by the Tianshan Mountains, the Pamir Plateau, the Kunlun Mountains, the Altun Mountains, etc. ]

[These high mountains block the moist air currents from the outside, greatly reducing rainfall. ]

[The entire basin is extremely dry, with little rain all year round, and the average annual precipitation is less than 100 mm. Sometimes there are only a few millimeters of rainfall in a year.]

[And the sinking air currents have their own foehn effect, with high heat and low water, which further dries out the basin.]

[Corresponding to the scarce precipitation is the terrifying evaporation. ]

【Annual evaporation exceeds 2500 mm! 】

[Strong winds continue to erode the mountains, carrying sand and gravel.]

[In addition, due to the strong sunshine, the temperature in summer can reach over 60 degrees, and once night falls, it will drop by dozens of degrees. The huge temperature difference will further cause the soil and stones to become sandy.]

[Eventually, in the central and eastern parts of the basin, wind-blown sand accumulated, forming sand dunes and eventually a huge desert.]

[It can be said that the Taklimakan Desert is an absolute forbidden zone for life. ]

[It is extremely dangerous for ordinary people, or even professional expedition teams, to enter. 】

[But this desert itself is also rich in resources and is an important potential transportation line. ]

[For this reason, our country has also been building roads in the desert. ]

[In September 1995, the first highway that runs through the Taklimakan Desert was officially completed and opened to traffic. The highway starts from Lunnan in the north and ends at Minfeng County on the southern edge of the desert in the south, with a total length of 9 kilometers.]

[This is also the longest road built in the world's shifting desert.]

[In 2007, the second lonely desert highway was opened to traffic, connecting Aksu and Hotan, further shortening the travel time between the two places by half.]

[In May 2022, the Hotan-Ruoqiang Railway was officially opened. This desert railway is 5 kilometers long and has greatly improved the transportation conditions in the Taklimakan Desert...]

After reading this popular science about the desert, the ancients have enriched their knowledge reserves. Especially after reading the latter part, the Chinese in later generations not only controlled the deserts in the Western Regions.

Even several roads were built in the desert.

This made Ying Zheng, the infrastructure fanatic, smile with satisfaction.

"How difficult is it to build roads in Mobei and the Western Regions?"

"I know it very well."

"It is truly remarkable that the Chinese of later times were able to build roads through thousands of miles of yellow sand."

"It is also very crucial." Ying Zheng thought for a moment, looked at the map hanging on his wall, and said:

"As a dynasty in the Central Plains, if we want to spread our influence to various border areas, the most important thing is transportation."

“Only when there is traffic can we have control.”

Ying Zheng naturally approved of building roads in the desert.

But at the same time, Ying Zheng was also a little confused.

Building roads in the desert!

This is a very difficult task.

The key is still the shifting desert.

Aren’t people in the future afraid that the roads they built with so much effort will be swallowed up by the flowing desert?
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Regarding the information currently available about the Taklamakan Desert.

The ancients had a relatively high level of acceptance.

Just think of it as a simple and easy-to-understand piece of science knowledge about the desert.

But then this piece of news flashed,
But the ancient people couldn't understand it.

[Lock the edge and close the joint! Taklimakan Desert: Damn it... I'm surrounded by vegetation! ]

A desert landscape appeared on the sky.

At first the desert landscape seemed quite normal.

It is the common yellow sand, sand dunes, sand storms, a few tough desert plants and so on.

But it seemed something was not right.

Because everyone saw it.

The desert has actually changed.

The entire surface of the desert.

It is a whole piece drawn by lines!
It looks very neat.

It's as if someone has divided the desert into pieces of fields.

Desert well-field system!
This marked-out sandy landscape is even more subdivided than traditional fields.

And if you look closely, you can see that there are many people working hard on these smooth and repaired sandy ground.

As the camera continues to zoom out.

The ancients saw that the square-shaped sandy ground of this well-field system was very large.

There is also a constant stream of people and vehicles working inside and outside this desert.

But what exactly is this doing?
In the well-field system, people went to the fields to grow crops.

With this well-field system in the desert, what can we do in the fields?
The desert is completely useless, but so many people are working there. Are they digging for oil in the desert?
Western Jin Dynasty.

The wealthy Shi Chong has been obsessed with oil ever since he was defeated in a competition of wealth by the oil daddy of later generations.

Also talking about the desert.

Now, seeing so many people in later generations digging in the sand, Shi Chong immediately thought of oil.

Basically, most of the ancients saw it in the video.

So many people are busy working up and down in the desert.

They all think that they are digging for oil or other resources in the desert. (End of this chapter)