Chapter 266: Desert soybeans with falsified data?
At night, Chen Jue, who had just finished dinner with the leaders of YT County, took advantage of the dark and windy night.

We took the car back to the Flying Rubik’s Cube parked in the closure area of ​​the edge locking project.

However, he did not get into the Flying Cube. Instead, he took advantage of the fact that there was no one around in the desert and there was no electric wire or living person within several kilometers.

Then he switched into Steve’s form, took out a pixelated shovel, and dug the quicksand beneath his feet.

Every time he swung the shovel twice, the quicksand underneath would suddenly sink one block.

[Shovel: Tool, Attack Damage 4.5, Durability (251/251). An MC tool used to make the collection process of soil and other blocks easier. ]

In MC, the tool used to dig sand and make glass is basically this [Shovel].

Because compared to the [Pickaxe], the [Shovel] has a faster digging speed in sand and soil.

If you start with nothing, you can also go and grab the sand with nothing, but be careful that the sand above your head may collapse and bury you to death.

Fortunately, Chen Jue is a hardcore MC player, and he can use the shovel very skillfully.

It only took him a few minutes to drill underground in a vertical shaft and join the group of iron golems that were building the karez.

“boss!”

The idiots stood still and saluted, their eyes glowing scarlet in the darkness.

Chen Jue took out a few sets of torches and lit them nearby, then began to inspect the newly built MC karez.

The so-called “Karez” is an underground water conservancy project created by the working people of Xinjiang during the long history of development in arid areas.

Due to the high evaporation and low precipitation in the desert, water is essential to survive in this land.

Through the “Karez” which includes four systems: vertical wells, culverts (underground channels), open channels (surface channels) and small reservoirs, groundwater resources can be effectively drawn out and the desert can be turned into an oasis.

Of course, the main working principle of the karez is to use the natural slope of the mountain to bring the large amount of rainwater, glacier and snowmelt that seeps into the ground in spring and summer to the surface for irrigation, so as to meet the production and living water needs in the desert area.

The reason why Chen Jue came to YT County to dig the MC karez this time was entirely for the 1 square kilometers of contracted land he had just signed.

Through the early trial planting experiments, the bean variety ‘Chaosa No. 1’ showed ‘good’ adaptability in the slightly better Gobi Desert and its growth was very gratifying.

But when we arrived at the real Taklamakan Desert, we felt a little uncomfortable with the climate.

After all, no matter how amazing “Super Sand No. 1” is, it is still a plant and must rely on its roots to absorb water from the ground.

But here in the Taklamakan Desert, except for the edge area where the green belt locks together, where some water can be seen 10 to 20 meters down, the area becomes increasingly drier as you get closer to the center of the desert.

Sometimes you may not find underground water even if you dig 100 meters down.

In such a harsh environment, if you plant ‘Super Sand No. 1’ soybeans, all of them will die.

So we have this scene before our eyes, the emergence of MC ‘Karez’ which uses the MC system to completely transform the desert environment.

However, the MC karez built by Chen Jue and the Iron-Han people is even more buggy than the traditional karez.

This thing is buried about 100 meters under the desert. A new channel is dug every 10 meters, and there is no upward vertical shaft.

There is no need to intercept glacial meltwater as the water source, just pour MC block water directly into the canal.

Due to the “unlimited water” bug, it only takes 1 or 2 months to build a super long karez that runs through the Taklimakan Desert.

Moreover, once this thing is built, it can create the illusion that groundwater resources are endless. Even if a construction team accidentally digs up these MC karez in the future, Chen Jue is not worried at all.

Firstly, if you want to drill to a depth of 100 meters, you must have large-scale drilling equipment.

This type of equipment only appears when drilling wells or exploring for mineral oil and gas resources.

The Taklamakan area had been almost fully explored by our predecessors in China half a century ago, so there was basically no need to worry about anyone being so stubborn as to come here to dig for resources.

Secondly, while digging these MC karez, necessary camouflage efforts were also not omitted.

Like Tie Jiushiliu who was at the front, he was wielding not MC’s pickaxe, but a brushless electric pickaxe purchased on the market, which was hammering the edges of the karez into an uneven shape dug by humans.

Afterwards, some dried and rotten wooden frames were placed on the dug ditches every few dozen meters.

When someone discovers this place in the future, they will exclaim that this is another world wonder of ancient China comparable to the Great Wall!

It will even hype up archaeological activities on the ancient kingdom of Loulan.

Maybe it will even give rise to several popular new tomb-raiding works.

Of course, the reason why Chen Jue came down was to see the evaporation of MC block water in the desert.

In the MC setting, water blocks can penetrate sand and cobblestone blocks. Even when the two come into contact, there will be visible water droplets seeping through.

Players who like mining, whenever they find that the blocks in front of them are leaking water or magma underground, there is a layer of water source or magma pool behind the surface.

“Boss, look! The water can really evaporate!” The lackey Lao Shang, who followed him, touched the soil layer above his head with a sly smile on his face.

The water droplets hanging on it made Chen Jue look happy: “This way, the evaporation rate of the desert can be guaranteed.”

The desert is dry all year round and vegetation cannot be grown.

This is because its evaporation far exceeds its precipitation.

Take the Taklimakan Desert for example. Its average annual evaporation is as high as 2500 to 3400 mm, while its average annual precipitation is only 10 to 20 mm.

In such a ghost place where you can only exit but not enter, it is a miracle of life that plants can grow at all!

Of course, the large-scale contracting and trial planting of desert soybeans in YT County is just the beginning of the entire plan to short U.S. soybeans.

The Loess Plateau, far in the north-central region, has also been carrying out large-scale farmland reclamation and transformation projects since December.

A large amount of barren yellow soil on the mountaintop was flattened by the construction vehicles that arrived.

It even became a hot topic several times, and various self-media outlets started publishing short articles, hyping up the idea that the authorities were going to completely transform the 30 square kilometers of the Loess Plateau into 4500 million mu of fertile farmland.

The official authorities tried their best to refute the rumor and denied it, saying it was completely false and that people should not listen to the fabricated stories made up by the self-media.

In short, all the sources are actually due to the emergence of “Super Sand No. 1”, which completely changed the direction of domestic soybean farming planning at the end of 2024.

After inspecting the newly opened underground karez, Chen Jue looked back at Lao Shang with some resentment: “Did they really not dig out the ancient city of Jingjue? I also want to see how beautiful the Queen of Jingjue is.”

The old merchant said with a face like a Bengbu resident: “Boss! The ruins of Jingjue Kingdom are in Hotan County! This is Yutian, even if we can dig up the ruins, they are from Loulan Kingdom!”

(End of this chapter)