Just Walking Makes You a Millionaire - Chapter 215



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◈ 215. Vaccine Development (3)

The war that was designated World War III was not a war in which the enemy and the allies were clearly identified.

Wars were fought in East Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America.

There were many reasons, but as the war continued, animosity between people caused them to lose sight of the original purpose of the war.

Now, it was getting to the point where we were fighting each other because we were enemies.

Wars within Africa were fiercely fought between nations and between tribes within nations.

In fact, because the nation as a group was collapsing, the war here even led to massacres without even the slightest rules.

While past world wars were divided into the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers, with numerous countries participating, this World War III was a war fought in each region according to the interests of each country.

However, so many countries and peoples were involved in this complex war that it was questionable whether it would ever end like the previous world wars.

The brilliant civilizations that mankind had created over the years were falling apart.

“We can no longer physically increase food. Furthermore, we have lost the farmlands on the new map. The overall harvest has decreased. Even though we made a new new map. Phew! We have to make new farmlands.”

Jincheol sighed deeply at the food requests coming from all directions.

It was a situation where even if you had money, you couldn’t get food.

It created a huge underground lake comparable to Lake Baikal in the Cheongnyangni Desert, creating vast amounts of farmland.

A significant amount of the food produced in this way was supplied to countries around the world, but since the lake did not receive its water from somewhere else, if water was continued to be extracted, it would be depleted.

In Korea, too, the water shortage was so serious that the country had to use water from the earth due to the prolonged drought.

If there had been no war, the situation would have been a little better, but even general production activities were difficult due to the war.

Eventually, large-scale famines were occurring all over the world.

But ironically, Jincheol’s wealth was increasing day by day.

Because the Korean Peninsula was spared from the ravages of war, massive investments were being made.

Of course, problems could arise later due to overproduction, but even with the massive investment, supply was running out and more investment was needed.

The Korean Peninsula was becoming a huge production base.

Whether it was food or war supplies, it was sold all over the world as soon as it was produced.

“At least that’s fortunate. North Korean citizens won’t have useless thoughts.”

“I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not.”

North Koreans who lived in a communist society were not actually very diligent.

Since my life was one where nothing would change no matter how hard I tried, I just had to do things roughly.

Productivity was not high, and wages also increased with unification.

Although South Korea’s minimum wage law has not yet been implemented, significant wage increases have been made to ensure a minimum standard of living.

At least if the North Korean people were guaranteed the rice and meat soup they wanted, riots could be prevented.

Meat soup with large chunks of meat on white rice could provide immediate satisfaction to North Korean residents.

Fortunately, as South Korea’s rice consumption decreased, North Korea was producing enough rice to feed its people.

Of course, South Korea was consuming wheat produced in North Korea, so food consumption between the South and North Korean regions was quite dramatically divided.

In any case, Jincheol’s wealth was now so great that even he could not measure it, and Jincheol was extending his reach to develop farmland not only in the Korean Peninsula and Qingya but also in the Manchurian region of the Later Qing.

Jin Cheol, who had begun developing farmland in Manchuria despite opposition from the Chinese government, pushed forward to increase food production based on new varieties and special fertilizers.

Drought also struck Manchuria during the Qing Dynasty, but the Qing Dynasty invested enormous amounts of money to create underground lakes.

Farming is done using the groundwater extracted in this way.

In fact, Manchuria has been experiencing various problems due to excessive extraction of groundwater.

Groundwater depletion was a problem, but ground subsidence was so severe that sinkholes resembling pockmarks became a problem not only in farmland but also in cities.

The problem arose when more food was extracted from Manchuria than could be extracted.

The Chinese government also knew this fact.

That is why they built numerous dams on the Mekong River in Tibet and Southeast Asia, which has abundant water, in order to create large-scale farmland in those regions.

With the severe population decline coupled with the decline in food production in Manchuria, it may have been natural that they would lose their control over the Manchurian region over a long period of time.

Jincheol wanted to breathe life into that land again.

But it wasn’t easy.

The drought brought sandstorms of unimaginable magnitude to the Manchurian plains.

The yellow dust blowing in from the deserts of Mongolia and northwestern China has become increasingly serious year after year.

As the drought worsened, many of the trees planted by the Chinese government died, causing yellow dust to spread across Korea, Japan, and even the Americas.

In fact, yellow dust was a rather beneficial phenomenon for the Korean Peninsula.

This is because it supplied the Korean peninsula with loess soil that was good for farming.

Of course, as China’s industrial development progressed, heavy metals and various pollutants came over, which became a problem, but the yellow dust itself did more good than harm.

But that was only to a certain extent.

“This is driving me crazy. What kind of yellow dust is this?”

It wasn’t just yellow dust, but a sandstorm swept through the area, burying farmland and villages in sand.

Even if there were trees a dozen meters high, they could not block a huge sandstorm that was tens, or maybe hundreds, of meters high.

“If things continue like this, it seems difficult to guarantee a successful harvest this year.”

“I heard that desertification is happening all the way to Beijing.”

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The Gobi Desert was growing in size day by day.

The desertification was progressing all the way to the northeastern Samseong region, and if things continued this way, it was difficult to guarantee that the Korean Peninsula would be safe.

“There is a limit to just planting trees. The Korean Peninsula has its own set of citizens who have made efforts, but the country is basically small and the amount of water is abundant. But this place is too big. Furthermore, there is a shortage of water.”

The most important thing was water.

It’s not like the desert can’t support plants.

They also operated large-scale farms in desert areas such as the Middle East and Israel.

But there was a huge difference between that area and northern China.

The Gobi Desert in China and Mongolia is the most rapidly deteriorating desert in the world.

The desertification is engulfing Manchuria, one of the richest green spaces in the world.

Jincheol also knew that desertification could not be prevented by planting trees, as it was a global climatic problem.

It was a problem with the entire climate system of the Earth.

Even if rain began to fall in the Gobi Desert and plants began to grow, other green areas on Earth would become desertified because they would not receive rain.

Therefore, Jincheol’s efforts to stop desertification and turn the Gobi Desert into a green space ultimately ended up causing damage to other places.

Nevertheless, Jincheol had to solve this problem, and surprisingly, he found a fairly simple method.

Of course, that simple method was realistically impossible.

“If seawater could come in from this side to just the middle of the Gobi Desert, it would be possible to prevent desertification and change the climate of this region.”

“Are you talking about the canal?”

“It has to be much bigger than a canal.”

“Are you saying we should split the Eurasian continent now?”

“Well, if you listen closely, yes. That’s correct.”

I heard the absurd news that if the seawater of Bohai Bay were to create a channel through which it could flow into the continent, it would be possible to create green space in the Gobi Desert region.

“Of course it’s an absurd story, but you may know that there was an earthquake in Qinghuangdao a few years ago.”

“Yes. It was a major earthquake that destroyed one third of Qinghuangdao.”

“That’s right. A third of that is now under the sea. And did you know that aftershocks are still happening and the area is being torn apart?”

Like the Tangshan Earthquake in the past, the Qinghuangdao Earthquake this time also caused enormous damage and tore apart the border between mainland China and Manchuria.

“One of the reasons why China has no choice but to leave Manchuria alone is because the land is being torn apart. The roads and railroads that have been lost can be rebuilt, but the continued aftershocks make it impossible to restore them. On the other hand, going back north is blocked by a very rugged mountain range.”

“Even so, it is not realistic.”

“Yes, that’s true. It’s not that long.”

It was a plan more absurd and reckless than that of connecting the Yellow River in northern China with the Yangtze River in southern China.

Even if it were possible, there would be no economic benefit.

The Korean government and the Qing dynasty were also planning to nod their heads.

However, Jincheol decided to try his hand at this absurd plan to protect farmland in Manchuria.

“I can’t even imagine how many points it would cost. The only good thing is that the ground has weakened due to the earthquake, so it might cost a little less.”

From the ruined and abandoned Qinghuangdao to the inland city of Chifeng, nearly 300 kilometers of land had to be lowered below sea level.

Of course, that was the first plan, and it was necessary to create a waterway that would run almost 2,000 km through the Inner Mongolia region.

It also had to be at least 200m wide, larger than a large river, and quite deep, so if humans had attempted it, it might have been called the greatest mystery in history.

Jincheol began to build a giant canal, feeling as if he was playing a game.

To some extent, I was able to earn points by hunting zombies.

By spending points like that, the canal began to be created little by little.

“Almost 1 trillion points are lost in building a 1km canal. Jincheol was shocked at the situation where 2,000 trillion points might be needed to build a canal all the way to Inner Mongolia, but the important thing was that it was possible.

But these canals brought fear to the people around them.

“The ground is tearing apart.”

“It is clear that the heavens are angry!”

The residents of the northeastern province of Samseong were already anxious due to the great earthquake in Qinghuangdao and signs of an eruption on Mt. Baekdu.

Add to this the drought and the massive sandstorms that have followed, and the phenomenon has been enough to make the Northeastern Three Kingdoms the most dangerous region in the world.

Although it was not Jincheol’s intention, this accelerated the exodus of Chinese people from the northeastern Samseong region to mainland China.

In the end, the only people left were ethnic minorities from the three northeastern regions, such as the Manchus and the Koreans.

Even the Chinese government, while investigating the scene where the ground was being torn apart, simply shook its head as if it had no answer.

It wasn’t that hundreds of kilometers of land sank overnight, but tens of kilometers of land sank within a month or two, and the seawater from the Bohai Bay surged into the sank land.

Because it was salty seawater, it could not be used as drinking water.

The only advantage was that ships might be able to enter inland through this canal.

But physically, mainland China and the Northeast Three Kingdoms were divided.

Like the Great Wall of China in the past, the Qingdao Canal was built gradually over a dozen years.

Later, the Qing government also intentionally extended the canal.

The Houqing Canal was of great help in the independence of Houqing.

As the valley was formed and seawater surged inland, the surrounding inland environment also began to change drastically.

The cold continental climate began to be tempered by warm sea water, and desertification around the canal also began to ease.

There is now a perception that the formation of this sea canal is not entirely negative, as it has had some effect on the climate of the Korean Peninsula.

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