The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Millions of square kilometers are no man’s land, and the terrain on that piece of land is so strange that outsiders can’t understand it—the densely densely intertwined lakes and rivers can’t be seen on a large-scale map, but as soon as you open it With Canada’s own small-scale map, it’s a fantasy to want to build roads and railways in that area immediately!

Moreover, the so-called islands between the lakes are actually wetlands in summer, and the shallow location below is permafrost. Even if Zhang Nan is crazy to use all his wealth to build a road, all viaducts will not work!

There are no roads or railways. If you only rely on air transportation, unless there are so many diamonds as easy to obtain as the sand in the Sanjie Desert in Yanxian County, otherwise everyone will lose money!

The three engineers have quit their jobs, and to put it bluntly, they are making a lot of money. "August One Chinese Language"?? W? W? W?. ㈧ 8? 1? ZW. The geographic location and environment of the COM mining area are terrible, and Xiang Zhangsheng has to have a headache: the boss can make money, and their efforts will be rewarded.

To open a diamond mine requires oil, explosives, daily necessities... and stones. The daily consumption is a huge number.

What is more troublesome is the mechanical equipment to be used. Even if a smaller model is used in the mine, the size and weight are not acceptable for small and medium-sized seaplanes, even if it is disassembled for transportation!

The excavators used in mines alone can weigh hundreds of tons. Even if you use a 36o type, it will weigh 30 to 40 tons.

If you want to get rich, build roads first: traffic is not good, everything is useless!

The three engineers were digging their heads and thinking about ways, and after listening to Xiang Zhangsheng and others' analysis, their brows were also frowned.

This seems to be an unsolvable problem.

but!

Zhang Nan took a ruler and drew a straight line directly between Yellowknife City and the first mine.

"First survey the reserves. The small drilling rigs can be transported by dismantling the seaplane. When large-scale construction and mining begin, on this line, we will build an ice high road!"

Everyone's eyes lit up now.

But is it okay?

We have overlooked one point before: there is a long winter, and frozen lakes and wetlands can be used.

People can't get into the horns, besides, everyone here has never seen life in the Arctic region. I just couldn't think of how to do it like this.

Faced with everyone’s questions, Zhang Nan said, “Don’t you know that Canadians do this?

There used to be a 4oo-kilometer-long icy road and the Weige large-scale gold mine service, but it is not visible on the map, and we can only use a small section of it. "

Speaking of this, Zhang Nan also sighed, and said: "In fact, we still need to do it ourselves, because the existing ice road will disappear completely in the spring, and not even a single axle mark will be left."

After listening, Nicole cursed people over there: The negotiator she sent in the past did not report the incident at all.

The three Xiang Zhangsheng didn't understand Nicole's curse: They only knew a little English, and they would have to translate this conversation with Alyosha. It seems that in the next two or two years, all three of them will have to work hard to practice foreign languages.

Ice road, the only solution.

The northern part of Canada is rich in mineral resources, but because the local lakes and rivers are so many, it is impossible to build conventional roads. Those gold mining areas became isolated from the world in spring, summer and autumn, and they had to rely on helicopters and seaplanes to transport supplies by air.

However, in winter, contiguous lakes will form ice surfaces that stretch for hundreds of miles. Canadian locals use these ice surfaces to create unique and unusually wide "high ice roads."

Zhang Nan knows that the world’s longest and most transported “high ice highway” before the rebirth is the one that he wants to open now: the winter transportation line of nearly 7oo kilometers in the whole site, 85% of the roads are lakes and rivers in winter. Thick ice surface formed by freezing.

This icy highway exists now. It first appeared in 1983. It served a gold mine with a length of about 45o kilometers. However, the gold mine was purely a loss-making business. It is estimated that investors will soon stop working.

"Allen, that needs a lot of transportation vehicles and a driver who can drive on ice."

This is a huge project, and Nicole is a little worried.

Zhang Nan smiled and said: "We don't have to worry in two or three years. The original gold mines there have already prepared vehicles and drivers for us. Their production is close to collapse. Some are trucks and drivers who are looking for jobs.

But this can only cope with it for a while, and there will be a shortage of manpower in two or three years. Besides, there will be enough dispatchers and maintenance workers on the highway. "

What do dispatchers and workers do?

Because it was driving on ice!

All kinds of heavy-duty trucks are constantly running, fuel trucks, flatbed trucks, and trailers are all available: Compared with asphalt roads, the maintenance of high ice roads will be more difficult-in order to increase the thickness of the road, workers need to risk The severe cold kept pouring water on the ice.

And Zhang Nan knows that the pressure generated by the truck pressing on the ice will cause the water under the ice to flow, and sometimes even break the ice to form large holes, which can only be repaired with water-in this kind of place, it is not possible to stop, but to move forward. , Otherwise the car will definitely get stuck in the ice.

Know how Delbis did it before: a group of four trucks transporting goods on the high ice highway, a batch of them every 2o minutes, and going forward day and night, in order to transport as much as possible before the end of winter. Supplies.

However, even if the weather there is cold and the thickness of the ice can easily exceed one meter two, driving a 7o-ton truck is no problem, but the icy road still often undergoes unexpected changes: the road composed of ice will bend, crack, and brittle. Swelling and shrinking inexplicably...

Therefore, the vehicle speed is not fast, and it can only drive 1o to 2o kilometers per hour.

In this way, there is simply a killer of truck drivers—not only because of the unstable ice, but also the sleepiness and illusion caused by boredom!

Nicole frowned and said, "The place is too remote, difficult, and dangerous. Even if the salary is high, there are probably not many Canadians who will drive there."

Yes, her worries are not groundless: Although Yellowknife has the highest per capita income in Canada, not many people really want to work and settle in such a northerly place.

Paul interjected: "Miss Nicole, don't worry too much about this. Canadian immigrants and foreigners have relatively loose restrictions on working in them, especially in the northern region. There are still non-Canadian citizens who make hard money."

The land is sparsely populated and the labor force is severely insufficient, otherwise so many people will not immigrate to Canada.

When Zhang Nan heard this, he smiled and said, "Will you drive?"

"If you didn't work as a bodyguard before, and you can earn a year's basic salary in the United States by driving a truck there for three or four months every year, I will go back."

If you don't make a year's money in a few months, that American fool would go there to work?

Nicole said: "Insurance will be very high, UU reading www.uukanshu.com and it is estimated that the driver's death rate and vehicle loss rate will also be very high."

This is calculating economic accounts.

Zhang Nan smiled, "Since Canada's restrictions on foreigners' work are loose, then we will have the world's best-skilled drivers in the cold zone, and we will never be paralyzed when driving."

Jenny, who was joining in the fun, heard that she was so big, "the best in the world" is generally not to be said nonsense! Asked: "Where can I find it?"

"My brother-in-law!"

"what?"

"Yes, just my brother-in-law, he definitely has a way."

Now Zhang Nan's Chinese bodyguards all smiled. They already knew who they were looking for: the auto soldiers on the Sichuan-Tibet line, the heroic auto soldiers demobilized from the most difficult road in the world!

As long as you drive on the Sichuan-Tibet line for 3 years, there is nothing you can't deal with.