Chapter 230 Carmel's Gift
"These officials are more afraid of death!" After receiving the news of the temporary suspension of the operation, Yan Keshou slapped the table and said angrily, "It has clearly agreed to let us handle it with full authority, but when the matter comes to an end, I am afraid that it will be like this because something happened to the Americans!"
"Fortunately, they didn't touch the Americans, they just scared them," Chen Lei said while frowned, "This shows that they are still worried."
"I'm just a temporary concern. Haven't you heard of the story of how to lose your skills? When they see the Americans' moves clearly, they may not be so polite."
After saying that, he complained unwillingly: "Even at this time, the leaders of our country still failed to make up their minds. Now, for temporary comfort, the key is to act quickly."
"In this regard, Americans are just as unpromising as Country Z. They are all a group of guys who only care about immediate interests, short-sighted politicians. What is the reason and plan, and the voters are so scared that they are like..."
Zhao Zhenxue looked at the electronic map on the tablet with her eyes fixedly, looking at the blue dots on the map that seemed to be gradually getting darker, and her brows almost twisted into a lump. Song Qiang sat opposite her, smoking cigarettes one by one. In this small room, the two kept talking, the two remained silent, the atmosphere was depressed and irritable, and the dullness before the summer rainstorm came.
Song Qiang just received an email from his son, and he told him that he was there - he lived a good life in the space station. Now he works in a supermarket and has no worries about food and drink, so he can rest assured.
But if anyone puts this kind of thing on his head, he can't rest assured. Working in a supermarket? Is this the so-called future? Song Qiang felt angry when he thought about it.
The main development of consciousness networks is now mainly in two directions - developed countries in Nordic areas, as well as underdeveloped countries in Central Africa, West Asia, and South America. These two countries have no resistance to the spread of consciousness networks. Countries like the Netherlands, prostitutes, marijuana, and homosexuality are allowed, and there is no possibility of opposing consciousness networks. Other countries like Denmark and Switzerland with high public rights are the same. In those underdeveloped countries, consciousness networks are even a cheap entertainment tool. Even in countries with strong religious atmosphere like Arabia and Pakistan, this special experience of consciousness networks is regarded as a tool of faith...
After looking at the world map, Zhao Zhenxue actually discovered that most countries in the world are actually natural breeding grounds for the development of consciousness networks. At present, in addition to traditional powers such as China, the United States, and Russia, the global development of consciousness networks is simply running forward.
According to news from Wang Ming, recently, Ivan has been looking for the spell casters he thinks are qualified. In this email, Wang Ming mentioned that so far, the spell casters Ivan has found have basically satisfied Wang Ming. Perhaps their abilities are not outstanding. For example, Lin Quan was just an ordinary college graduate before and knew almost nothing. For example, Feng Jingting, except for the content of this major, he also didn't understand anything else. Anna was stubborn and didn't know how to adapt to many things...
But he had to admit that he really felt comfortable working with these people. What these people said was what they thought in their hearts. They always had their own principles in doing things. He used to think that the rights that might bring harm to them were all in place. So far, everything was working normally. From this point of view, Wang Ming had vaguely admitted that the rule of the man he supervised by Ivan did have its specific advantages.
For example, they decided to "start a war" with the United States, seize power in Chad, and establish a country. Such things that seem very big, under the hands of the five of them, are as simple as children playing house. Except for Li Litian, until now, Wang Ming has not seen what these spell casters have done for him with their rights. Although they have a lot of opportunities, some time ago, Li Litian took out Lin Quan's salary and everyone joked about it, but every other person laughed out loud. Until Li Litian said that everyone knew that they were "working" here and they had wages.
Some time ago, Zhang Sheng, who was under Wang Ming, asked himself curiously what requirements were for becoming a spellcaster. Wang Ming thought about the commonalities of these spellcasters at that time, and finally said to him: "Honest, rationality, principle, and personality. When you feel that you personally meet these four points, go and try it out with Ivan Ivan."
To be honest, even Yan Keshou himself complained that he wanted to try it. He had been in contact with Li Litian for a while. Now, after comparing it, he found that being a prisoner under Li Litian was even more comfortable than being free here.
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With the rapid stability in Chad, Li Litian quickly started to work hard in this poor country that was almost an agricultural society.
In a country, no matter what it is to do, the first bottom line to ensure is to let the people have enough food. For a country that is almost living in the agricultural era, this is especially the top priority.
Although Chad has a huge territory of millions of square kilometers, you can tell from a glance on the map that most of the northern part are part of the world's largest desert, the Sahara Desert, and can be described as almost as if it is not born.
Most of the southern region is sparse tropical savanna, and the climate is much better than the northern region. The annual rainfall is about three to five hundred millimeters, which sounds like a lot, but these waters are concentrated in the rainy season, and agricultural production needs the most stability. But even so, Chad's overall freshwater reserves are not optimistic. The largest lake in the territory is also the source of the national name of Chad. Lake Chad has sharply decreased in 40 years, from the original 25,000 square kilometers to now only about half of the original 13,000 square kilometers. The fishermen of the past have now become farmers on the dry lake beds.
Knowing that most of Chad's residents still rely on groundwater for their livelihoods, and water resources are also the most important factor limiting the country's agriculture. Until now, Chad has not yet achieved basic food itself, and few disasters will lead to famine. As the temporary ruler of this country, Li Litian decided to start from this point.
Learning from the practices of those water-scarce countries on the earth, all of them are based on increasing revenue and reducing expenditure. The only means of increasing revenue is seawater desalination. But what is embarrassing is that Chad is precisely a standard landlocked country, with a border of more than 1,600 kilometers away from the nearest harbour.
The severance is to simulate a country like Israel, introduce advanced drip irrigation agriculture, and build a large number of hydraulic facilities in China, especially the most basic tap water pipelines or reservoirs. However, the cost of this construction is very embarrassing for Chad, a country with a small territory. It is typical thankless and expensive. Even if it is completed, it may not be able to solve this problem. The key is water. Without water, no matter how good the water conservancy facilities are, it is just empty talk.
There is no future for relying on groundwater. The reserves of groundwater cannot withstand large-scale use over the years. Not to mention that the national level may also have to support industrial water for countless factories in the future. Even if a well is dug in a village, it is only used for domestic water. If it does not fall below it for many years, the groundwater level will continue to drop.
From this point of view, although Chad's poverty and backwardness and corruption account for a large part of the reason, the harsh natural environment is also a very important factor. At present, the traditional pasture and cotton planting of Chadians are essentially a broad primitive agriculture. If this situation continues to develop, the already fragile southern grassland ecology will likely become the same barren land as the north in decades.
According to the logic of how several people do things, since water is short, just go to a place with water, because no matter what it is, for the Kingdom of Comer, the cost of transportation is basically 0.
On the afternoon of the same day, Brazil.
Because of Li Litian's performance in the United States, the Brazilian president did not dare to neglect. After learning about Li Litian's arrival, the female president gave Li Litian a high diplomatic standard. Just after the two sides settled, Li Litian, as the interim president of Chad, directly put forward "several suggestions on cooperation between Pakistan and Chad on Tamsui resources."
According to Li Litian's proposal, Cha's side will pay Brazil 30 million US dollars in "water resource usage fee" every year, and Brazil does not need to pay any price. It only needs to allow Chad to place a "water conservancy transportation device" at the estuary of the Amazon River at the Atlantic Ocean that does not cause any pollution or impact. After that, Li Litian also took out the "design drawing" for himself by Feng Jingting, which looks similar to a giant fine-hole sieve. Looking at the area on the drawings, it should be a little more than one square kilometer. Just when the Brazilian president thought this might be a "fishing" device, Li Litian smiled and shook his head, saying that these sieve designs were precisely to block fish and other impurities, and the entire device would not be horizontal to the estuary of the river, but would be placed flat on the seabed near the estuary, and would never have any impact on the local ecological environment or fishery resources. Freshwater is the only thing Chad needs.
But just relying on Li Litian's mouth, it is impossible to reassure the Brazilian president, because Li Litian's performance in the United States. Although the Brazilian president is polite, he always has lingering alert in his words. At the end of this talk, the Brazilian president hopes to get detailed arguments from domestic experts before considering this matter.
Li Litian did not give up. According to his list, he quickly found a second one, also a large freshwater reserve, Canada.
They are also in North America and are also developed countries, but Canadians have a much better reputation than the United States and their acceptance of consciousness networks is much better than that of the United States. As of the current situation, the Canadian government does not prohibit or encourage citizens to use consciousness networks, and treats them purely as an ordinary tool.
In terms of his attitude towards Li Litian, the Canadian government also maintained the same attitude as the consciousness network. Regarding Li Litian's plan to "buy fresh water", the Canadian government did not be as cautious as the Brazilian government and refused, but agreed to let Li Litian "try it". If it is really as he said, it has no harm to the environment, then they would be happy to accept the sale of water without any cost.
The St. Lawrence River is the outlet of the Great Lakes of North America. Its annual flow is stable, with an average of 14,170 cubic meters per second. It is the 19th largest river in the world. Its river flows through most areas of North America. The estuary is located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in eastern Canada. In addition to the water volume is much smaller than that of the Amazon River, it is only about one-fifth of the latter. However, its advantage lies in the fact that it is political and geographical location, it has considerable stability and reliability. In Feng Jingting's suggestion, he ranks behind the Nile River.
Because in history, people have received joint investment with the United States to sort out the St. Lawrence River waterway, which cost a huge amount. Until now, this waterway is still relied on tolls to pay off debts, which is considered a debt operation. Although Li Litian's 30 million US dollars a year is a drop in the bucket, the Canadian government does not need to pay any price. It is just that a so-called "water conservancy device" is placed at the estuary. Although Li Litian said that this device may have an impact on the water level and salt content in the estuary, several Canadian water conservancy experts who accompanied him did not agree. As long as the entire device does not contain any electronic equipment and pollutants, there will be no problems.
The next day, in southern and central Chad, the suburbs of Mongo.
Ivan turned around and looked behind him. Behind him was a black turbanned woman, old man, young man, and children. In front of him was a vast yellow area. The soil under his feet was as hard as a stone. In the air, Ivan seemed to be able to smell the smell of sand.
In Chad, the northern deserts have never stopped attacking the southern grasslands, and the dryness and lack of precipitation make this process even more shocking. Because dryness makes the plants unable to survive, and without plants, the soil lacks cohesion. When a strong wind blows, the already thin layer of soil will disappear quickly. It may not take long. This town that can barely plant drought-tolerant plants will become part of the Sahara Desert. All the houses and buildings here will become the spoils of war between nature and mankind, like the rock paintings of ancient civilizations in the Sahara Desert, and will grow under the yellow sand.
The descendants of these people will be forced to migrate further south. If this situation in Chad does not fundamentally improve, this large area of land may become a real place of death in hundreds of years, and the heart of death in Africa will be worthy of its name.
One of the wizards' responsibilities is to solve these problems for civilians.
Do you still remember the Klein balloon before? From the perspective of civilians, this bottle is perfect, but it cannot hold a little air, and anything that goes in also means that it comes out in an instant, and there is no difference between inside and outside.
Ivan raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
In front of him, a circular water surface with a diameter of about half a meter suddenly appeared. The blue waves shone with a moving luster in this dry world. Some people even saw strange fish swimming in it. Among these onlookers, those who saw this scene couldn't help but lick their lips.
Ivan reached out his hand, his fingers sank directly into the existence of a mirage in the air. When he took it back, a drop of crystal water droplets slid from his fingertips and penetrated into pieces of soil under his feet. Everyone widened their eyes and watched the small water droplets gradually spread on the ground, fading, and disappearing quickly.
There was a hint of commotion in the crowd, but it quickly calmed down. Everyone widened their eyes and looked at the clearness in the air in front of them greedily.
Ivan turned around and smiled at everyone. With a snap of his fingers, his figure disappeared, and at the same time, the "wow, wow" sound suddenly sounded.
The magic penetrated the space at this moment. Soon after, a less obvious vortex suddenly appeared on the sea surface about one kilometer away from the estuary of the St. Lawrence River, just as if a hole was drilled into the seabed.
When the cool fresh water fell from the sky and poured into this dry land, the blue light on the wrists of everyone behind him flashed with dazzling light. On the spot, more than half of them fell directly into the wet and cold mud, shouting the name of Allah in the direction where Ivan disappeared.
On this day, Ivan appeared in most cities or important towns in Chad. Every time a spell cast, the huge square "water conservancy device" at the bottom of the sea estuary of St. Lawrence, a hole with a diameter of dozens of meters or dozens of meters will be opened. At the same time, near every city he stepped into will form a lake of stable size due to these continuous emergence of water. These lakes will be built into reservoirs for local water in the future, and these reservoirs will have a common name - Carmel's gift.
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With this miraculous behavior alone, Li Litian's temporary rule immediately changed from being stable to being supported by the whole people. People spontaneously took to the streets, shouting "Long live Carmel" almost frantically. They flocked to the communicator sales point in the city center, and almost robbed them to buy communicator that might have been grudges. The National Welfare Forces, which were originally ignored by them and even a little scared, have now been presented with garlands by local residents...
What made Li Litian even more wryly smile was that a large number of residents began to actively ask in the consciousness network how these waters were charged. Li Litian knew their concerns. If these waters were sold for money, then the two parties had a transaction relationship. Perhaps Li Litian would not easily cut off the source of these waters for the sake of money.
The people of Chad were like crazy, calming in the craze of the miracle coming. That night, in the newly formed mud lakes near various cities, countless young people and children rolled around the ground like rhinos in African wetlands, taking excitement, fighting each other with mud, and after washing, they carried the water back with large and small buckets of plastic buckets without any disgust. Li Litian couldn't understand this behavior, but looking at the exaggerated smiles on their faces, he understood a little bit what these water meant to the lives of these people.
Chapter completed!