Selling oil across Libya

Chapter 28 Winter is Coming

Rashid designed the central axis of the new Tripoli as the Numidian Avenue.

The Numidian Avenue is approximately 30 kilometers long, with some sections designed as eight lanes in both directions, including non-motorized vehicle lanes, sidewalks, and green belts, and is over 80 meters wide.

After the expansion of Martyrs' Square, part of the Red Fort will be included.

On the other side of Martyrs' Square is a residential community designed by Rashid.

The residential area is 1 kilometer long and 1 kilometer wide, and is square in shape. The outermost two rows of four-story residential buildings are the parking spaces in the middle.

The community center is a huge park-like commercial center.

This business center includes a hospital, a junior high school with primary and middle school sections, a shopping mall, a library, and several sports plazas including basketball courts and fitness equipment.

To Ding Jian's surprise, Rashid did not design sidewalks or overpasses, but instead used underground passages with escalators to solve the pedestrian traffic problem.

However, this is not excessive for resource-rich countries.

At the very least, Tripoli doesn't need to invest heavily in greening like the Gulf states.

During his time in power, Colonel Libya devoted too much energy to international affairs and neglected the governance of Libya. As a result, Tripoli as a whole not only lacked forests and green spaces, but also lacked even roadside trees.

Rashid ordered that Mediterranean cypress and banyan trees be planted on both sides of Numidia Avenue as street trees.

Mediterranean cypress trees are upright and drought- and heat-resistant, often used as windbreaks or garden hedges, and are suitable for creating neat and orderly landscape lines.

The small-leaved banyan tree has a wide canopy, excellent shading effect, a well-developed root system, strong adaptability, and can quickly create a beautiful landscape.

Both of these are very suitable landscape trees for planting in Tripoli.

As street trees, these two types of trees are planted at different distances: Mediterranean cypress is planted at a distance of 5 meters, while small-leaved banyan is planted at a distance of 10 meters.

Considering the need for two rows of various trees along the Numidian Avenue, which will be 30 kilometers long, at least 6000 banyan trees and 1.2 Mediterranean cypress trees will be required.

Ding Jian decisively recommended the tree-planting machine to Rashid.

To ensure efficiency, Ding Jian suggested laying drip irrigation pipes simultaneously to improve the survival rate of trees.

"How much would it cost if you were in charge of this project?"

Rashid only asked about the price.

"Is it all-inclusive?"

Ding Jian was not used to this way of working.

During Colonel's era, state-owned enterprises suffered greatly from his fickle nature. Many projects had already been signed, and engineers had arrived in Libya with the necessary equipment, only to have the Libyan side renege on the contracts, resulting in heavy losses.

Ding Jian has reached more than ten cooperation agreements with Rashid, and both parties are very satisfied.

Ding Jian's construction team was very capable; the quality of the project was excellent, and the progress surprised Rashid even more.

Ding Jian was also pleasantly surprised by the speed at which Rashid made the payment.

"Yes, all-inclusive; it's a long-term project."

Rashid was not only in charge of planning the new Tripoli, but also of Libya's efforts to prevent and control desertification.

In 06, based on the successful experience of the desert highway shelterbelt ecological project, a domestic unit designed a sand control and desertification prevention plan for Libya, which included a 150-kilometer coastal highway, a 20-kilometer gravel desert highway, and a 4-kilometer mobile desert highway, and was deeply involved in the construction of the "Green Great Wall of Africa".

The project was launched in 09 but was interrupted due to the civil war.

Rashid retrieved the plan from the national archives in Tripoli, preparing to restart it to curb and even reverse Libya's desertification.

Desertification in Libya continues to worsen due to war and uncontrolled grazing.

If no action is taken to fundamentally curb the spread of desertification, then perhaps in just a few years, the semi-desert areas within Libya will be swallowed up by the Sahara Desert.

"Don't worry, I'll immediately notify the domestic department to calculate the costs and I'll definitely give you the best price."

Ding Jian was overjoyed; it was so easy to make money off the oil tycoons.

It depends on the person. It's not easy to make money from a colonel, otherwise he wouldn't have ended up in this situation.

Qin Rui was unsure how much "evolution value" he could gain from curbing desertification in Libya.

After the Numidian Brigade withdrew to Tripoli, although no large-scale battles broke out, the [Evolution Value] balance continued to grow slowly.

Qin Rui will no longer exchange soldiers.

After retaining the necessary [Evolution Values], all newly added [Evolution Values] will be used to exchange for military technical personnel.

A fully upgraded military worker is indeed very useful.

After two fully-trained military engineers arrived in Bengaldan, a batch of RPG-30 anti-tank rocket launchers was produced as quickly as possible and sent to Zawiya.

design?

There's no need for design at all; the blueprints are available online. You can buy nuclear bomb design blueprints as long as you're willing to spend the money.

While you might be able to buy it, whether you can actually make it is another matter entirely.

The RPG30 anti-tank rocket launcher is a man-portable anti-armor weapon developed by the Russian company Bazart in 08, based on the "Vampire" rocket launcher. It is capable of destroying main battle tanks within 200 meters.

In the era Qin Rui traveled through, the RPG-30's capabilities had already been fully validated on the Middle Eastern battlefield by tanks such as the M1 Abrams and Challenger 2.

To ensure the quality of Zehan's RPG30, Qin Rui specially redeemed 50 max-level workers from the system to produce RPG30.

These workers did not go to Bengaldan, but instead went to the Western Hills with the researchers.

The Western Hills, also known as the Nafsey Hills, are located about 100 kilometers from Tripoli, between the Jefala Plain and the Hamra Desert.

西山整体呈东西向延伸的石灰岩高原山地，顶部有宽约19-26公里的台地，北缘有一处陡峭的悬崖，从海拔700-750米的高原直降至平均海拔300-350米的杰法拉平原。

Qin Rui is having Nasser, who is in charge of exploration, find a suitable location in the Western Hills to establish an arsenal.

Xishan is an ancient human settlement, with traces of human activity dating back to the Paleolithic Age, 8 years ago.

The Western Hills contain many caves left by ancient humans, as well as castles built later, such as Nalut and Gaelyan, which are towns that were formed based on castles.

The combined population of Nalut and Gairyan is now less than 3000.

With a stroke of his pen, Qin Rui ordered the relocation of all the residents of Nalut and Gaelyan to Hums.

In Hums, they can easily listen to Haftar's broadcasts.

Haftar has gone even further recently, publicly declaring on the radio that in Benghazi, men can not only marry four wives, but also receive housing, land, and ranches, along with many other benefits.

According to Musa's latest statistics, Hums, which once had a population of 20, now has fewer than 4500 people.

These people are either mentally unstable and homeless, or they are old, weak, sick, or disabled. Even if they can marry four wives, they can only look at them but not use them.

Qin Rui asked Musa to set up a welfare home to take care of these people, since it wouldn't cost much money anyway.

Unexpectedly, Haftar claimed in a broadcast that the Numidian Brigade was carrying out the massacres under the guise of welfare institutions.

A few days later, Hums had only 1500 men left.

Amidst the chaos, on October 20, the colonel was dragged out of the bridge by the rebels and beaten to death.

Winter is coming.