Chapter 1127 The Standards are Harsh
“The middle line road can be completed because there are two resting points, Xiaotang and Minfeng Crossing, between Luntai and Minfeng.” Sun Gong said with a smile: “I want to go along the Hotan River Valley. Connecting Alar and Hotan is a bit whimsical, the distance is too far, and there is no rest stop in between.”
Zhou Zhi took out the atlas and looked at it. Looking at several major routes in northern Xinjiang, I confirmed that I remembered correctly, but they were roads of later generations, and they are still there: "It would be enough if a highway was built. Cars can drive at speeds of more than 100 kilometers per hour on the road. If it's twice as long as it is now, Hotan and Alar won't be too far away."
"How much does it cost to build the highway?" asked Sun Gong.
“I know that the cost of the Chengdu-Chongqing Expressway is more than 20 million per kilometer.” Zhou Zhi said.
Now it is more than 20 million kilometers. In ten years, it will be 50 million.
“Then I don’t dare to think about it.” Xu’s father smiled and said: “In our northern Xinjiang, if we want to build a highway, we must first build it from Urumqi to Hami, then connect Yumen and Jiayuguan, and build a highway from Hotan to Alar. , That’s not a good deal.”
“One day, the country will build all these roads into high-rise buildings. "It's fast."
"Hahaha, that's a good thing." Xu's father smiled and said, "I don't know what time it will take for the naan and meat to be ready." It's delicious. After eating it, Zhou Zhi discovered a problem, that is, the intake of vitamins and fiber was not enough.
Fortunately, there was a lot of pork belly and celery in the dry mixed lamb tripe, which allowed Zhou Zhi from the mainland to maintain his basic needs.
The sunrise over the Gobi Desert Valley is magnificent, and the Populus euphratica forest is like a thousand-year-old immortal statue, telling the vicissitudes of history.
The thoughtful camera finally had the opportunity to come in handy. He clicked a lot of film and asked his father to take a few photos of himself by the poplar euphratica forest in the desert, covered with golden light in the morning light.
I have decided in my heart that in the future, I will take a self-driving trip to Northern Xinjiang with Jiang Shuyi.
Due to filming, everyone rested for half an hour longer. Even if they were eating hot food and wearing thick down, even if it was sunny, they were still frozen. They quickly got in the car and continued on their way.
Next it was Zhou Zhi's turn to drive. After two hours of driving, it was already bright, and there was finally some frozen ice on the bed of the Chelchen River beside the road.
Most of the rivers in the desert are seasonal inland rivers. The Chelchen River originates from the snowy peaks of the Altyn Mountains, then flows out of the snowy mountains, and runs along the river valley from Qiemo to Ruoqiang, and finally ends up It flows into a lake next to Luobu Village, Hetma Lake.
Of course, this is only a scene that will happen after the snowy mountains melt in summer. The desert itself has strong water absorption and transpiration. Unless the water is the largest in summer, there will be water flow to form lakes. When autumn is over, even the rivers will The lake disappeared altogether, leaving only traces of the former river bed and large tracts of saline-alkali land.
You have to drive close to QM County to see some intermittent small streams of water flowing stubbornly under the river that has been frozen into ice.
The surrounding area is basically snow-colored, or else it is the Gobi Desert. The only plants are Populus euphratica, tamarisk, camel thorn, splendens, white thorn and other Gobi plants.
However, even in such a desolate place, it is still full of signs of life. On the slopes of the Altyn Mountains on one side of the road, some magical animals can often be seen.
Along the way, Zhou Zhi saw antelopes, yaks, wild horses, blue sheep and other animals, as well as the most fat marmots and hares on the roadside.
In addition to mammals, there are more birds. A large number of cranes and herons live in some reed wetlands, as well as eagles and eagles that are always circling high in the sky. Altun Mountain is known as a paradise for plateau wildlife, and it is indeed well-deserved.
While admiring the wonders of the snow-capped mountains and river valleys, he thoughtfully handed over the steering wheel to Gong Sun halfway through, until at two o'clock in the afternoon, the Big Overlord finally drove into a small county town.
So far, they have been marching non-stop for twenty-two hours and arrived at Qiemo, a place more than 1,200 kilometers away from Urumqi.
Qiemo is a place rich in water resources. The county has eight rivers including the Cheerchen River that come from the Altun Mountains and the Kunlun Mountains.
The mineral deposits here are extremely rich, and huge copper-zinc ores, magnetite, and oil and natural gas will be discovered in future generations.
Equally famous is jade. In more than ten years, when Hotan jade materials are completely exhausted, Qie will eventually succeed Hotan and become the birthplace of the new "Jade Road".
Because a very fine jade species will be found here, which is different from the top "sub-material" and the second-level "shanliushui" material discovered in Yutian in 1995. It is mined directly from the mountains. , known as "mountain material".
Hotan seed material is produced in the river beds of two rivers and is extremely rare; upstream in Yutian near the origin of the Yulong Kashgar River, more mountain water than hotan seed material is found along the small streams, but it cannot support the huge domestic market demand. , resource depletion occurred quickly.
However, the output of Qiemo mountain material is much greater. What was dug was a "jade vein". The annual output of jade mountain material is as high as one hundred tons, and the jade material is huge in volume. It later became the mainstream. It has supported market demand for many years.
The Chinese have played with "Hetian White Jade" for thousands of years. In a narrow sense, there are only these types. The Qinghai material discovered later was a little bluish in color, and the luster was much greater than the greasy feeling. The Russian white jade discovered in Russia was a little yellower in color, and the luster was weakened a lot, but it became plasticky again. It has a much greater greasy feel and is never as good as Hetian White Jade.
However, the jade material from Qiemo has not been discovered yet. Currently, a better jade material produced here is called "Qiemo Sugar".
Modified sugar jade has high oil content and good quality. Although it is not as good as Zi material and Shanliu water material, it is far better than the later Russian material and Qinghai material. The oil content is even better than Hotan mountain material. Be high.
The disadvantage is that the color is not pure. Because it is a weathered material from mountain materials, it has many cracks and is not easy to produce aniseed. The jade color is white with a slight bluish tint, and most of them have a honey-like reddish sugar-colored cortex, so it is called "Qiemo sugar". ".
Twenty or thirty years later, after the Hotan jade material was exhausted, the Qiemo sugar material with better flesh color was often used and sold as jade material because of the existence of the skin.
Even if you don't pretend to be fake, the best quality sugar has become a hard-to-find good thing with its quality between mountain materials and mountain water materials.
Especially the beautiful sugar-colored leather shell and the sugar-colored color that occasionally bites into the jade flesh are particularly suitable for making colorful carvings. They are very popular among carvers and even have many aspirational geniuses. Work Award, Hundred Flowers Award.
However, it was such a good jade material. When Zhou Zhi and the others found a restaurant and started eating, several elders from ethnic minorities came over to sell it, and Sun Gong even denounced it as "fake".
In Sun Gong's eyes, all materials that do not come from the two rivers are fakes. This evaluation standard is too harsh.
(End of this chapter)