Qin Di said again: "The picked spirit-gathering beads must be buried near the Spring and Autumn Palace to change the surrounding environment, otherwise the mountain will be bare and not suitable for human habitation. Then pick a few of them to bury them in Guloulan, and we will pay 1 billion yuan a year to transform them earlier to benefit earlier."

"Sir, how are you going to develop Guloulan?"

"I'm going to open a spiritual field there and then transform the lake."

"There is also a potassium salt factory in Lop Nur! If the lake water becomes weak and they can't produce it, what should we do?"

"This is a problem, but it is only a temporary problem. After one or two years, the spiritual energy of the whole country will be restored. How can we still need potassium fertilizer? This way, you go to Kunlun Palace to pick a few spirit-gathering beads, and then we go to Lop Nur to discuss with the potassium salt manufacturer to find a solution."

So, Yan Xue entered Kunlun Palace and came out after a long time, with a look of surprise on her face: "Sir, you are right. Four of the five fairy veins have been restored! I found more than fifty spirit gathering beads, blue, red, yellow, white and black, and all of them are five colors."

Qin Di said: "The red ones are the fire veins, the green ones are the wood veins, the black ones are the water veins, and the yellow ones are the earth veins. Pick a few veins here. By next year, the Spring and Autumn Palace will be full of spring."

Yan Xue acted as she said, carefully selected the place and buried the spirit gathering beads.

Then the two of them jumped down to Yuzhu Mountain and ran towards the northwest.

They came to Lop Nur and found the director and chief engineer of the potassium salt factory.

Although the factory manager Qian Litong knew that the Qin family had contracted Lop Nur, he was a state cadre and had his own responsibilities and was not afraid of the power of the Qin family.

He entertained Qin Di and Yan Xue in the office, accompanied by chief engineer Luo Ping next to him.

Qin Di said: "We came here today to discuss something with you. I want to transform Lop Nur and turn it into a freshwater lake, but I am afraid of harming your interests, so I came to find a solution."

Qian Litong and Luo Ping both felt incredible and asked, "Mr. Qin, do you have a way to turn Lop Nur into a Tamsui Lake?"

Qin Di nodded, but did not give a detailed explanation.

Luo Ping said: "Mr. Qin, Lop Nur has long dried up! The lake you see now is the brine that our factory extracts from the underground. Lop Nur is very large, and our brine lake is very small. You can't talk about turning Lop Nur into a freshwater lake."

Qin Di asked: "So, can you adjust the location of the brine lake?"

Luo Ping said: "Yes. The brine lake is divided into two types. One is what we just pumped up, and there is also plastic to prevent penetration underneath; the other is the refined wastewater, which also contains a lot of salt, but the potassium fertilizer has been pumped out, which makes no sense to us."

Qin Di said lightly: "I am afraid that after transformation, it will affect the salt of the underground brine. In other words, the concentration of the brine you extract will decrease, thereby increasing the difficulty of refining."

"How is this... possible? This will happen unless you can attract a lot of fresh water and penetrate into the ground."

"I am going to develop Guloulan, and first use the northwest corner of Lop Nur as a freshwater lake. But over time, the freshwater lake may become larger and larger, and eventually occupy the entire Lop Nur, so your potassium salt factory will have no room for survival."

"If this happens, we have no choice but to report it to the country..."

"With fresh water from Lop Nur, it means that the entire desert has vitality, which is more meaningful than the existence of your potassium fertilizer factory."

"What you said is lightweight. Without a potassium fertilizer factory, you can only import potassium fertilizer from abroad. Do you know how much it costs?"

"I'm just here to inform you to think of a solution in advance. It will take time to transform Lop Nur. I will build a dike and surround a lake area..."

The two sides parted in disagreement and no agreement was reached.

Qian Litong and Luo Ping did not take Qin Di's words to heart.

In their opinion, it is very difficult to restore Lop Nur, and it is probably just a rich man who dreams in his daytime.

In the early days, Lop Nur received incoming water from many rivers such as the Tarim River, Peacock River, and Cheerchen River, so its waters were very vast. In the Han Dynasty, when Zhang Qian went on a mission to the Western Regions, the Lop Nur (called Puchanghai at that time) he saw was a super large lake with a 300-mile radius, abundant lake water and lush water. At this time, the lake water covered the entire lake basin including three depressions. Loulan Kingdom, one of the 36 countries in the Western Regions, was once a famous trade station on the "Silk Road".

During the Jin Dynasty, its main water source, Tarim River, was diverted to the south. Lop Nur lost the water source of the Peacock River at the same time. The lake water gradually dried up, the lake surface shrank, and a large area of ​​the lake bottom exposed, becoming a vast saline-alkali beach and swamp. The ancient city of Loulan was silently abandoned in the desert and became a ruin, about 330 AD.

In Qianlong's "Imperial Yu Quan Map" completed by surveying and mapping the Xinjiang region in the 24th year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1760), it can be seen that the Tarim River has diverted to the north, and its downstream converges with Kaidu River and pours into Lop Nur through the Peacock River. The Lop Nur water body moves northward and returns to the old place near the ancient city of Loulan.

In the early years of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1875), when the Xinjiang governor sent personnel to explore the ancient road, he found that the main body of Lop Nur "Hei Ni Haizi" moved south to the center of Kalakushun. This was because the Tarim River and its tributaries were blocked by sand dunes, and they diverted the route to the south and poured into Taitma Lake. The Lop Nur water body moved south again. There was no water near Guloulan!

In 1921, a rich man in Shaya County built a dam on the Tarim River in Qiongmaili Village, Yuli County, to build a grassland, causing the river to flow into the Peacock River, causing the Peacock River to break through the river bank in Tiemenguan, return to the ancient riverbed, and pour back into the Lob depression again. Lop Nur once again reappeared, forming Lop Nur in modern history. In 1942, the lake area was 2,520 square kilometers.

In 1952, Yuli County built a dam in the middle of the Tarim River. The Tarim River was diverted to the south again, and the end was changed to Taitma Lake. Only the Peacock River still poured into Lop Nur. Later, because people developed agricultural reclamation in the Peacock River in the middle of the Peacock River, the water consumption increased greatly, which greatly reduced the amount of water entering the lake downstream, resulting in the gradual shrinkage of the Lop Nur Lake.

Around 1959, the Tarim River flooded many times, breaking through the Taitma Lake District, and once again appeared in the Lob Depression with a large and extremely shallow water depth. At that time, when the Xinjiang Comprehensive Expedition Team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was inspecting here, Lop Nur was still vast and the waves were vast. The expedition team members had arrived at the northern lake area by rubber boat.

After the 1960s, several reservoirs were built in the lower reaches of the Tarim River, and six dams were built in the upper reaches of the Peacock River. The water in the Lob depression was completely cut off, and the surface of the Lop Nur Lake gradually shrank and completely dried up in 1964. The vast Lop Nur finally disappeared from the entire lake basin, and the Xihaizi Reservoir of the Tarim River Manchu "come to an end."

In short, Lop Nur has not always been without water. If the country makes overall plans, save water upstream and removes a series of embankments, it can still inject lake water. However, because the overall climate in Xinjiang is drought, the water volume is insufficient, and it is difficult for Lop Nur to fully recover.

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