Zhou Yang did not explain too much, but just waved his hand and asked Platoon Leader Zhang to execute the order.
Preventing Platoon Leader Zhang and others from shooting too many wild wolves was not the fault of Our Lady Zhou Yangduo, who still wanted to protect wild animals at this time.
What's more, there is no wildlife protection law at the moment. This law has not yet been released.
The reason why he warned the soldiers like this was mainly because Zhou Yang did not want to damage the already fragile ecological environment of this grassland too much because of their existence.
In the eyes of many people, beasts like wolves, insects, tigers and leopards are relatively evil because they eat people when they are angry.
But Zhou Yang is very clear about the importance of these carnivorous animals to the ecology. Take wolves, for example, their positive effect on the grassland is that the existence of this animal will balance the balance between pasture, yellow sheep, rabbits, mice and other species. relation.
And if there were no wolves, the ecology would quickly become unbalanced, and the destruction of this grassland would not be far away.
For example, the famous Yellowstone National Park almost caused an ecological disaster due to the extinction of wolves.
At that time, wolves disappeared from Yellowstone Park due to hunter shooting.
After that, the ecology of Yellowstone Park was out of control. There were more and more elk, and other wild animals began to disappear. There were no new trees, and the birds also left.
Before our eyes, Yellowstone Park is becoming more and more desolate.
Until fourteen wolves came here, they were escorted to Yellowstone Park by special personnel.
Here, they need to hunt elk if they need to survive.
When the ice and snow melted, they survived here and gave birth to wolf pups. The pups grew up and the wolf pack continued to expand.
At the same time, the numbers of elk and coyotes began to decline, while the numbers of antelope, badgers, foxes, rabbits, and mice continued to increase.
Because of the presence of wolves, elk began to migrate, trees began to take root, grow, and flourish, and then the birds returned, insects became more abundant, and even the rivers changed their shapes, and Yellowstone came to life again.
At present, whether it is the Xilingol Grassland in the east, the Hulunbuir Grassland in the northeast, or the current Urad Grassland, the ecology of these places has become particularly fragile due to long-term irrational grazing and herdsmen's unrestricted claims on the grassland. .
Especially the wolves in these places are almost extinct.
In the past few decades, under the organization of the government, we have to go deep into the grasslands and mountain forests to hunt wolves almost every year, and the wolves are gone.
In the relatively densely populated grasslands in the east, it is rare to see dozens of wolves hunting together. That is to say, here near the border, wolves of this size can still be seen.
Therefore, even though the threat to life has been removed, Zhou Yang still hopes not to cause too many killings on this grassland.
After giving the order, Zhou Yang returned to the tent again and waited for the soldiers to return.
Half an hour later, Platoon Leader Zhang and others came back, and then reported the results of the battle to Zhou Yang: 17 wild wolves were killed, 18 were injured, and about 20 were driven away.
Later, Platoon Leader Zhang asked for instructions on what to do with the dead wild wolves.
Since it was already dead, it couldn't be wasted. Zhou Yang immediately asked the soldiers to skin it and get the meat overnight.
Although these wolves are generally thin and many are skin and bones, they are still meat after all.
After dealing with this matter, Zhou Yang fell into a deep sleep...
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Early the next morning, Zhou Yang woke up to the sound of banging.
When I got up, I saw that Professor Tao was no longer in the tent.
When he came outside the tent, Zhou Yang saw Professor Tao and several students continuing to dig in the pit dug out last night.
At the same time, they dug out baskets of various ores from the pit.
"Professor Tao, how is the situation?"
Hearing the sound, Professor Tao looked up and found that it was Zhou Yang. He immediately said happily: "Comrade Zhou Yang, your inference is correct. This is indeed an open-pit gold mine!"
"What about the reserves? Are they worth mining?"
"Although the excavated ore has not been tested and the gold content of these gold ores is not clear, judging from the current digging situation, the gold ore reserves here should be quite large, at least tens of millions of tons. As long as gold If the content is not too low, it will be valuable for mining!" Professor Tao said.
"Professor Tao, how big do you think this mine is and what its gold reserves are?" Zhou Yang asked again.
Professor Tao pondered for a moment, and then said: "It's not clear yet. I plan to divide the entire team into three teams later and explore the small water pool, northwest and southwest directions to see the distribution of this gold mine. As long as the distribution of the mineral deposits is roughly understood, the gold reserves of this mine can be calculated!"
"Okay, you are always professional in this regard, we will follow your arrangements!"
Zhou Yang knew about the reserves of the Changshanhao Gold Mine, but he knew it was useless because he was not a professional in this field, so what he said had no basis and others would not believe it easily.
But it would be different if these words came from Professor Tao's mouth.
Because they are professionals, the data on mineral deposits are obtained based on their professional vision and years of prospecting experience, and can be used as evidence.
Therefore, even if Zhou Yangming knows the reserves of the Changshanhao Gold Mine, the corresponding data must be revealed by Professor Tao and others before he can report it to the military.
Afterwards, after everyone had a simple bite, according to Professor Tao's idea, everyone was divided into three teams, commanded by Zhou Yang, Professor Tao and Platoon Leader Zhang respectively, to explore in different directions.
At the same time, everyone agreed that no matter what the outcome of the exploration was, they would all return to the camp on time to meet up at night...
Zhou Yang and others were responsible for exploring the northwest direction, where the terrain gradually became higher as they went up. They walked forward for almost seven or eight kilometers before climbing onto a mountain ridge that was not too high.
Standing on the ridge and looking down, I found that the back of the ridge turned out to be a small basin.
The basin is surrounded by mountains, but the mountains are not high or steep. You can easily get in and out of here even without professional climbing tools.
Looking from top to bottom, you can see that the bottom of the basin is very flat, like a pan.
After seeing this small basin, Zhou Yang knew he had found the right place.
In their previous life, they chose this place to build a radar monitoring station because of its terrain conditions. However, they didn't expect that the gold mine would get there first, so they had no choice but to leave it alone.
After standing on the mountain ridge and observing for a long time, Zhou Yang asked Professor Lao Tao's favorite student Jirimutu to immediately lead people to explore the basin.
And he took a few soldiers to draw a map of the nearby terrain...
In the blink of an eye, several hours passed.
It was already past seven o'clock, the sun was already heading west, and it would set in a few hours.
Zhou Yang immediately ordered the team to assemble and return to the camp!
When they returned to the camp seven or eight kilometers away, the other two teams had not returned yet.
At this time, the sky had darkened. Just when Zhou Yang was hesitating whether to send someone out to look for them, a burst of exclamation came from outside the tent.
It turned out that the soldiers saw a bright light in the distance. It seemed to be from a flashlight. It should be Professor Tao and others who had returned.
Sure enough, half an hour later, Professor Tao, Platoon Leader Zhang and others returned to the camp one after another.
Taking advantage of the time when the soldiers were cooking rice, Zhou Yang called Professor Tao, Platoon Leader Zhang, Jiri Mutu and others to the fire and held a short meeting.
Everyone first talked about their respective explorations today, and then Zhou Yang looked at Professor Tao and said, "Mr. Tao, can you estimate how many reserves this mine has?"
Professor Tao Lao thought about it secretly and said: "Judging from the current situation, there should be a lot of gold reserves here. Although I am not sure whether there are large mines reaching 100 tons, there should still be 50 or 60 tons." of."
Zhou Yang knew that a mine with a gold reserve of fifty to sixty tons was already considered very good. In addition, it was an open-pit mine, so mining was very difficult.
Thinking of this, he immediately said: "So, this mine has mining value?"
"have!"
After hearing this, Zhou Yang nodded with satisfaction. This was what he wanted.
"Okay, I'll be relieved if you say this!"
Then Zhou Yang said to Professor Tao again: "Tomorrow you will continue to explore the situation here with your comrades, and by the way see where it is more suitable to start mining. I will go back and report the situation to my superiors first!"
"OK..."
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PS: I just buried my grandpa in the morning. Although there are still some trivial matters, it will not affect the update.
So, starting today, updates are fully resumed.
