Homo sapiens

Suez Branch.

Due to the obstruction of the Nile River, the southern canal has only completed the double line east of the Nile River, and is undergoing a second widening at this time.

After all, the 120-meter river width is too narrow. When Evergreen Shipping's container ship passed through the Suez Canal, the canal water surface was only more than 300 meters wide and the depth on both sides was insufficient, so it ran aground.

This is why the Suez Canal Management Company, a subsidiary of Homo sapiens, limits the navigation limit of the canal to 50,000 tons.

According to the plan, the main line of the southern canal has a single-line design width of 500 meters and a depth of 45 meters. It will need to be excavated at least four times along the canal to ensure a water surface width of 500 meters.

Fortunately, New Luzon Shipbuilding Company and Ceylon Shipbuilding Company will successively deliver 15 Jurhino-type canalizing vessels within the next year, which will greatly increase the speed of canal excavation.

North of Kom Ombo City at this time.

There are not many large ships in the calm surface of the Nile River. This is mainly because the Nile River is in the dry season at this time. In addition, industrial and agricultural water use on both sides of the river has increased year by year. As a result, the water depth of the Nile River at this time is less than 5 meters, which greatly affects its navigation. value.

The Gobi Desert New Area is located on the south side of the Southern Canal and on the east side of the Nile River, 5.7 kilometers away from the main stream of the Nile River.

The person in charge, Hu Mingliang, and the leader of the planning team, Kamijou Hokuyo, were standing on the bank of the Nile River, inspecting how to let the canal pass through the Nile River.

If it is a freshwater canal, there is no need to worry too much and it can be connected directly.

The problem is that the Southern Canal is a seawater canal. Once it is connected to the Nile River, since the altitude of this section of the Nile River is about 58 to 60 meters, while the Southern Canal is at the same level as the sea level, the consequence is that the water from the Nile River quickly pours into the Southern Canal, causing a direct flow of water to the lower reaches of the Nile River. Cut off the flow.

Hu Mingliang turned around and asked, "Kamijo, have you come up with the plan?"

"I have discussed with the planners at the headquarters that if the overhead bridge solution is adopted, the canal will only be able to pass ships of less than 100,000 tons in the future."

Hu Mingliang took the tablet from Kamijou Hokuyo, which contained the design plan for the aerial bridge.

The specific plan is to build two very large bridges over the canal, allowing the Nile River water to pass over the bridge, while the canal passes through the overhead bridge.

This solution is the most time-saving and labor-saving, and at the same time avoids the intrusion of water from the Nile River and the contamination of fresh water by canal seawater.

Other ship lock plans and four-sided lock and dam plans are not as good as the overhead bridge plan.

Although the overhead bridge is good, its shortcomings are also very obvious.

The altitude of the Nile River here is 58 to 60 meters, and the altitude of the river bottom is 50 to 55 meters. If an overhead bridge is built and the thickness of the overhead bridge is added, the height of the bridge bottom from the canal water surface will be compressed to about 40 meters.

With a passing height of 40 meters, a 100,000-ton transport ship can barely pass.

The design upper limit of the Southern Canal is 300,000 tons.

Hu Mingliang frowned and asked, "Is there any other way?"

Kamijou Hokuyo thought for a moment: "There is a more troublesome plan."

"Tell me."

Kamijou Hoyoyo called up another design plan on the tablet: "Construct two seven-level ship lock-type overhead bridges, and at the same time dig a drainage tunnel to connect the upper and lower reaches of the Nile River separated by the overhead bridges."

Hu Mingliang looked at the new plan, which had been expanded several times in size, and fell into weighing the pros and cons.

In this plan, the aerial bridge passing over the canal in the middle will be raised to a height of 100 meters above the water surface of the canal. The length of this section of the aerial bridge is 1 kilometer.

The bottom of the bridge is 100 meters above sea level. In addition to the 12-meter-thick bridge structural layer and the 12-meter water depth, the bridge dam height is required to be about 30 meters, and the overall altitude is 130 meters.

There is a gap of nearly 70 meters between this height and the water level of the Nile River on both sides.

Therefore, three ship locks are designed on both sides to ensure that 50,000-ton transport ships can pass smoothly through the locks.

Two other locks were also designed to connect the Nile River with the Southern Canal.

Two drainage tunnels pass through the bottom of the southern canal and connect the upper and lower reaches of the Nile River, mainly to avoid blocking the water of the Nile River.

Obviously, the cost of this solution is several times higher, and the complexity has also reached a higher level.

But the benefits are also very obvious. The southern canal can be used by 300,000-ton transport ships without obstacles, which will have a very important acceleration effect on the future development of the Sahara Desert by Homo sapiens.

After weighing the pros and cons, Hu Mingliang made his decision: "Let's use the second option. Deduct and search now. It will be more troublesome to upgrade in the future."

"Okay then! I will use the second plan as a basis and communicate with the headquarters planning and design company."

Hu Mingliang nodded: "I'll leave this matter to you."

Suddenly Hu Mingliang's assistant came over and whispered a few words in his ear. He raised his eyebrows, and then shrugged to Kamijou Beiyang: "Something happened again."

"Haha, it doesn't matter, you go ahead and get busy! I also need the geological exploration team to survey the surrounding geology."

After bidding farewell to Kamijou Beiyang, Hu Mingliang drove his armored vehicle back to the Gobi Desert New Area, and then hurried to his office.

At this time, there were two people in the office.

An old Slavic man with a rough face, and a middle-aged man wearing a space gray uniform.

"Dr. Mikoyan! Major General Du Hai! Hello, I am Hu Mingliang, the person in charge of the Gobi Desert New Area of ​​the Suez Branch."

Dr. Mikoyan, who previously worked in the aircraft manufacturing department of Qingye Aviation Group, has been transferred to the third design office of Qingye Aviation Group.

"Hello! Hu, this time we are here to help you." Dr. Mikoyan gave him a bear hug.

Major General Du Hai took out a piece of white paper and handed it to Hu Mingliang.

Hu Mingliang took it, tore off the special film on the surface, and read the special pheromone code on the paper through the pheromone decoder of the biochip.

After 30 seconds, the pheromones on the white paper had completely dissolved and turned into an ordinary white paper.

After browsing the confidential information, Hu Mingliang replied seriously: "I understand. I will fully cooperate with your work and keep it confidential and protected."

"Then I'll trouble you." Major General Du Hai saluted immediately.

Open a virtual map of the office.

Du Hai circled an area on the virtual map: "Right here."

"The east side of Jage Manor in the Harij Oasis area? No problem, but the southern canal needs to wait until the Nile River hub project is completed before it can advance to the Harij Oasis area."

Du Hai asked: "How long will it take?"

Hu Mingliang thought for a moment: "The main ship lock and drainage tunnel will take about seven months. It is expected that the canal can be advanced to the Harij Oasis in a single line by the end of this year."

Upon hearing this time, Du Hai quickly made a decision: "It seems that we must dispatch a group of transport planes to go to the Harij Oasis area in advance for layout."

Then he turned his head: "Doctor, you and the planning team of the space base will be in Kom Ombo for the time being! I will personally take people to the Harij Oasis area. As for the planning and layout, we will communicate via satellite phone then."

"No problem." Dr. Mikoyan has no idea of ​​going to the Harij Oasis now. After all, he is almost sixty, and he can't help much now.

The three communicated for a while, then left and started busy with their tasks.

This time the layout of the space base in the Suez area was also one of Li Qingye's instructions.

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