The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Chapter 1811 a group of harmony, all benefits

In the international civil aviation industry, there is a strict definition of airports in high-altitude areas. Airports located above 1500 meters (5000 feet) above sea level and below 2483 meters (8000 feet) are called plateau airports;

As for airports above 2,483 meters (8,000 feet), they are called "high plateau" airports. Correspondingly, the routes involved are also called plateau routes and "high plateau" routes.

There are many types of passenger aircraft in the aviation industry, but there are only a few that can fly "high plateau" routes, especially at airports above 3,500 meters above sea level. Many famous large aircraft simply cannot adapt to such extreme take-off and landing conditions.

The Boeing 757 that Zhang Nan and others will take is one of the few models that are suitable. This model itself has a large thrust. After certain special modifications, it is very suitable for "high plateau" routes.

For example, in China's domestic fleet, which specializes in flights to Sunshine City Airport on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, there are similarly modified Boeing 757s to perform flight tasks.

As for the content of this modification, there are many, the simplest of which is: the oxygen reserve in the aircraft has been greatly increased compared to before the modification.

This is to prevent in case of high-altitude loss of pressure, the general airline aircraft descends to an altitude of 3,000 meters, and the aircraft can breathe normally without oxygen supply.

But if it is on the "high plateau" route, the plane can't descend at all, 3000 meters?

The altitude of the horizon is more than this!

Just like this Uyuni Airport where a plane will land, let alone hitting a mountain, 3000 meters is still more than 600 meters below the horizon!

After getting off the plane, the Great Salt Lake was just a few kilometers northwest of the airport. Zhang Nan, who was standing on the tarmac, was not in a hurry to get on the bus, and stood there to observe the surrounding environment.

As expected before it came out, it was a barren land!

The long, slightly green mountains are ten kilometers to the east of the airport, and the small town in the southeast is less than one kilometer from the end of the airport runway.

The whole area is bare, and there is almost no elevation difference for dozens of miles outside the salt lake. The gray-white main tone of the land also presents a weird state of yellow, red, and white mottled and intertwined.

Zhang Nan encountered such an environment. That year, he and Guan drove the Grand Cherokee to 315 National Road, which is almost no man’s land. Many sections of the road are more than 3000 meters above sea level. There are hundreds of kilometers on both sides of the road with this bird. Not shit.

The air is dry and slightly salty.

At this moment, a few local officials were busy welcoming the president and did not get here. It was not that they looked down on the world's richest man and did not come to say hello, but were blocked by the bodyguards.

The bodyguards know the boss’s habits too well. Once they are in a new environment, they always love it. This may seem like the idea of ​​wanting to be alone for a while.

Block it.

"It would be great if Brother Guan was here, and I can talk about running away in no man's land that year. It's really fast, it's been more than 7 years..."

The bodyguards were not wrong. Zhang Nan was briefly caught in a trace of memory in his mind. It has been more than eight years since he came back. In retrospect, this life was a blink of an eye, and it was like a big dream.

The small apron, twenty or so steps to the side, is muddy soil. There is a thin layer of water on the large salt lake in the distance, and there is no trace of water vapor on this piece of gray mud.

The soil is dusty and very dry.

Zhang Nan bent down and made a strange movement. He gently touched the ground with his fingers, and saw a thin layer of grayish-white dirt stuck to his fingers.

Gently add the ash on the finger, it's salty!

A bit of dust can't eat your stomach, you even spit out your saliva, looked up and looked around: This is all super saline soil with extremely high salt content!

The terrain is flat. Hundreds or thousands of years ago, the place where I was standing should be part of the Great Lagoon. This kind of crops can't be used for crops, nor can it be herded. Some are just metal deposits in the Yantong Mountain.

Residents here can only eat in the mines and the Great Salt Lake, and the level of mining development here is still very primitive. It is strange that the economic conditions are good, and they typically hold a golden rice bowl and beg for food.

Satisfied his curiosity, he turned into the car.

It was not his own big red flags, but the modified land cruiser, which was driven by the driver yesterday. This will not ride in the same car as President De Losada, and the local city hall of Juniu has prepared a motorcade for the President and guests.

There is no shortage of how good the car can be, as long as it can run.

The convoy headed southeast into the small town, and then separated. A few vehicles headed to the Andina Hotel Salcazar near the train station in the centre of the small town. They will stay there for one night tonight.

As for the main motorcade where Zhang Nan and Mr. President were, they turned westward and ran wildly to the southwest along the flat desert road.

Hurry up, this is to check the site of the previously selected lithium extraction plant-the site is located in the southernmost part of the Great Salt Marsh, nearly 100 kilometers away from the city of Uyuni, so that it will not affect the tourism industry of the Uyuni Salt Marsh in the future. .

The refinery is also a chemical plant, directly selected on top of the salt marsh. The first phase covers an area of ​​150 square kilometers. There is a railway passing by the lake, which will facilitate freight transportation in the future, which can reduce transportation costs.

That’s right, it’s 150 square kilometers, and it’s only the first phase, which is too big!

The lithium salt resources here are too rich. The simplest lithium brine method will be used to extract lithium. It is necessary to form a huge and connected "salt field" on the salt lake. Each block will be two to three hundred meters long, nearly one Kilometers wide!

The advantage of building a road on a flat saline-alkali soil is that the road can be built almost straight, there are few other cars, and no humans and animals: against the dazzling blue sky, the visibility is so good that you can at least see it at a glance. Ten to twenty kilometers, you can run away.

All off-road vehicles are almost all of the little devil's brand. The team ran at a speed of more than 80 kilometers per hour, which is a rush on the narrow road!

Hurricane all the way for more than 70 kilometers, arrived at a small village called Rio Grant.

Get off the bus for a short rest, and inspect the small railway station under construction next to the village.

In a bare village, you can see the head at a glance, and there are only a few trees.

In this large area of ​​saline-alkali land, I really don’t know where the water the villagers drink comes from!

The village is estimated to be over hundreds of people, and the house is broken, but Zhang Nan can see "hope" in the villagers' faces-the railway passed here a long time ago, but this place did not officially stop at the station.

According to the introduction of local officials, the people here first existed only for the maintenance of the railway line, so an additional line for maintenance vehicles was added.

There is actually only one railway class for this section of hundreds of kilometers of railway, and the maintenance is driven by a small diesel engine maintenance vehicle.

Now the station is under construction, and everyone here has heard that a large factory will be built in Salt Lake to the north, and this station will serve this purpose.

There are factories and stations, which means there is a livelihood. Now that the station has only started construction, there are more opportunities for local people to make money, and it will only get better in the future.

Speaking of attracting investment, the contract was only signed yesterday. The Bolivian government has done some work ahead of time, otherwise who will come!

Nowadays, the popularity of lithium batteries is not particularly high. The ore lithium produced in Australia can basically meet the market demand. For market estimates and the hard power required for investment, not all multinational companies can have the level of Sunshine Star. .

Just a salt lake can attract investment, and the conditions given by the Bolivian government in the contract are very favorable. This is still the current level of view.

As for looking at it in a few decades, the Bolivians are losing money to their grandma's!

Not only the Great Salt Lake lithium extraction project in Bolivia will lose money to the grandmother's home, other agreements signed at the same time for the mining of various non-ferrous metals and precious metals are actually similar.

One of the sorrows of poor countries is that they have no strength or funds and can only trade resources for development.

Besides, even with the current agreement, there are still Bolivians who can get crazy benefits;

As for the public, there are more job opportunities.

Conversely, even if the contract is signed in favor of Bolivia, the difference between the agreement and ordinary Bolivians will not matter much.

This is a magical place in South America, where the gap between the rich and the poor is similar to that of India!

As for the future, if the Bolivians feel that they have lost, what will happen to the new government to tear up the agreement?

Simple handling. For this kind of thing, the trust has always had a way, generally it is just a trivial matter of changing the president, simple.

People are selfish, and some are South American politicians who do everything to get rich.

I didn't stay in the small village for long, and continued to the north. A dozen kilometers away was the edge of the current salt lake, and the convoy drove directly to the lake.

Get off the bus, Zhang Nan and his group walked to the lake.

This piece of land is flat, and there is no obvious dividing line between the lake shore and the salt lake. Especially in the dry season, it is at most a distinction between "all white is a salt lake, and a place with half soil is considered a lake shore."

The rainy season has begun, and there is a layer of very shallow salt water on the lake. Seeing the sky perfectly reflected on the lake, it has a taste of the sea and the sky.

The future chemical plant will be built 10 kilometers to the north, and starting from a position 15 kilometers north of here, it will be an astonishing "salt field".

If you are happy, the off-road vehicle will be able to drive into the salt lake. The water is only a few centimeters deep, and the salt layer below is very solid.

Mr. President suggested that everyone take a group photo by the lake. This is a good idea, and Zhang Nan readily agrees.

The two took a group photo, a group of officials and the CEO took a photo together, and it took a while to get everything done.

I never thought that President Delosada, who was over 60 years old, was still a hobbyist. As soon as the photo was taken, he suggested to Zhang Nan: "Mr. Allen, we can drive a few dozen kilometers into the salt lake on the return trip and then turn out. It feels great!

Don’t worry about safety, as long as you don’t drive too fast, it’s okay. The entire salt lake is completely flat..."

Security Zhang Nan is not worried at all. There are many car races held in salt lakes all over the world. Very few "cars" equipped with supersonic fighter jet engines have ran supersonic speeds on the salt lake!

But in general, what is so dry on the salt lake must be a completely dry salt lake. The Great Salt Lake in front of you has a very thin layer of salt water. I don't know what it feels like when the car is running, and how good it is?

Soon Zhang Nan knew it, as if driving on a huge mirror!

It is not that the friction coefficient is like a mirror and slippery, but the mirror feeling of the upper and lower landscapes. People and cars are like moving in an animation world.

This feels great, Mr. President did not brag!

This meeting, Mr. President, is in the same car with Zhang Nan, sitting next to Zhang Nan.

The official business was temporarily finished, and the place was looked at, and it was considered an acquaintance and friend. It was only then that Zhang Nan discovered that President De Losada could speak English, at least to the level that he could understand it.

It’s a very interesting ride. Unfortunately, this cruiser is bullet-proof and has no sunroof at all.

The off-road vehicle swept across the mirror-like lake surface at a speed of forty yards, and there was a little urge to stand up and stretch out to blow the air. That kind of visual experience would definitely be better!

This ran happily, and Zhang Nan said to Delosada on one side: "Mr. President..."

"No, Mr. Allen, please call me Gonzalo in private, we are friends."

"Haha...well, just call me Ellen, or just one word, I'm a Chinese.

Next time I will tell William that Gonzalo and I are good friends. Let him guess who Gonzalo is. It must be very interesting. "

"William?"

"It's Bill."

Now Mr. President laughed too, he knew who it was.

This seems to be a really interesting game, guess the president.

He was also guessing that he didn't know if the President of the United States would be the president of this plateau country.

Zhang Nan continued: "I will come again when the factory is almost built next time, and I will bring a reliable convertible for a while. It's a pity not to take a convertible in such an environment!"

"This..." Mr. President paused, then said: "In Bolivia, there are only broken trucks for convertibles, but no convertibles can be found.

Sports cars can't run on mountain roads, and our salt lake is flat, in fact, there are still slightly grid-like salt shell undulations. The ground is too low to super run here. It is estimated that the riding effect is not as good as these off-road vehicles. "

Upon hearing this, Zhang Nan smiled and said: "My car must be suitable, but when it is delivered to La Paz Airport, it will be transported here by a flatbed truck. I am not willing to come back and run on the plateau highway for nearly a thousand kilometers.

Moreover, my friend, that car is still a bulletproof antique. When I ask you to ride in that car, it can only be in the deserted Great Salt Lake. If it is in La Paz, it is very inappropriate. "

Mr. President is not a fool. By now I understand that the car must be even more special than the "Big Red Flag" or the Soviet bulletproof Gil. Otherwise, could there be any car that the President could not ride with?

Gonzalo De Losada said: "Ellen, your car is probably very special. If I guess right, it's about politics!"

"All right! Original ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Good things I found in the Eastern European warehouse.

It is well preserved, and after thorough maintenance, it is the same as when it leaves the factory, but it does not show up well.

By the way, Gonzalo, I see you riding in the little devil's car, it seems that it is not bulletproof.

Next time, I will ask the group to send you a few bulletproof vehicles. What name do you think is more appropriate? "

Mr. President hurriedly refused: He is promoting an image of being close to the people in China. Besides, he has only been president for more than a year, and he is too high-profile.

Forget it. Zhang Nan invited him to visit Star Manor as a personal friend if he visits the United States next time or when he goes to a meeting at the United Nations.

A group of kindness.

It's all benefits!

Two-in-one, I was so busy today that I won't be able to get it done until this meeting.

(End of this chapter)