Chapter 45 Turtle with a wooden leg - 7

"We still have a lot of problems to solve," Ethel Weizman said. "But what worries us the most is the issue of 'Gato' and the so-called town of Porto Negro." Setiniaz had no idea what 'Gato' meant.As for Porto Negro, it's even more... "'Gato' means cat. It's a nasty nickname for black-hearted brokers. They exploit workers like human traffickers. David, before Elias and I came here, the companies involved commissioned private Agency recruitment matters. The company has so many headaches that it is impossible to check all these agencies. As a result, those workers were deeply exploited and continue to be exploited. Some 'Gato' even demanded A commission of up to 50 percent of salary."

"Have you talked to Reber about this?" "Talked. He gave us carte blanche to handle the matter. He knew otherwise we wouldn't be here. Right now we're cutting Gallo's money. We're in Belem and south of Belem We have set up a recruitment office in São Luis, the capital of the state of Marañon. Two more will be opened in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to recruit the technicians we have trained. Pay close attention, monitor closely, and we will definitely do so." In comparison, the problem of Porto Negro town is more difficult, and it seems impossible to solve it at all.There is a shanty town popping up on the ground, with 15,000 people, and the number is still growing rapidly.

"David, we talked to Reber about this. But he didn't want to do anything about it. He said that Puerto Negro was beyond our reach geographically and politically (and I think economically as well). Jurisdiction, this is also reasonable. He thinks that place has nothing to do with his career. We can't convince him..." This spontaneously formed shantytown is home to impoverished homeless people from northeastern Brazil. They were rejected by recruitment agencies because they did not meet the recruitment requirements or for other reasons.The place where they lived could not be called a "house" at all, but some dilapidated shacks on piles.They huddled there, hoping to one day infiltrate that new El Dorado where there were jobs.The town of Puerto Negro is almost on the other side of the Negro River on the opposite side of the island of Dorada, only about fifteen kilometers apart.

"David, this situation can spread very quickly, it can become very scary, and it is quite scary now. We have seen many similar situations around the world and know how fast it can spread. Within three days In 2000, this situation will become unmanageable. But Reber will not even listen. He thinks that Porto Negro is located on the river, and not only the Brazilian Navy is responsible for it, but also the Brazilian government. He said that as long as he Give even a little help and the next day it will grow to a hundred thousand and then a million and more and all of them will be drawn here by his generosity. He says he can't save the world all the poor.

"David, Reber has changed. He's not what he used to be. He puts the realization of his dreams above all else. You know what we even think? We think he's seeing this malignancy right there in his I am afraid that he may not be very happy about the massive growth and rapid spread of his territory. Because in this way, the whole world can see what he has accomplished, while others are unwilling or powerless, so that he can be seen by the world. Than, make a judgment..." After 1974, David Setiniaz met with the Weizmanns several times, several times in New York.The Weizmanns have a small apartment in New York filled with photographs of children of all colors, including their own two sons, three daughters and the children of a vast contingent of children.As far as Setiniaz knew, Ethel and Elias Weizmann were the only two people in the world who knew Reb Klimrod on the one hand and how rich he was On the other hand, he can still maintain an objective attitude towards him, and what is especially rare is that he dares to express doubts about his consistent correctness.

The other princes were afraid of him from the bottom of their hearts, but they were still blindly loyal to him. Otherwise, how can we explain the unbelievable desperate spirit they showed during the thirteen years (1967 to 1980) when the construction of the kingdom was fully rolled out to the near completion?David Setiniaz himself had the honor of being a witness to this history. From 1950 to 1980, $9.15 billion was invested in Amazonia.Figures are courtesy of David Setiniaz.He was the only one able to make such an estimate (whether Klimrod himself kept such precise records is not certain).Six billion of this came from Leiber personally, and the rest was reinvested from his own profits.Since the kingdom has financial revenue, it has been self-sufficient.

At least, all of this is not fabricated by Xiang Bi. One day, Wang told Setiniaz and Taras that one of the original ideas that led to many other plans later was that he realized that the worldwide information explosion, by the 1980s at the latest, would inevitably lead to a paper shortage.The only solution is to develop forestry on a large scale in order to open the way for the paper industry. Events proved his foresight. In the 1950s, his desire to conquer the world was in direct conflict with his desire to help the Indians survive.He was simultaneously pursuing two conflicting goals.In order to get the trees he needed, and later the land where he could create his own world, he ingested the forests and lands of the ancestral Indians he wanted to protect.How could he be so contradictory?It's a mystery.Entrepreneurial urges overwhelm humanitarian sentiments.

Forestry expert Enrique Escalante began searching for fast-growing tree species in 1953.The reason is very simple.The forests of the Amazon Basin contain hundreds of species of trees, most of which are unsuitable for papermaking.Furthermore, it takes half a century or more for these trees to mature.Through research, Escalante and his assistants selected three trees: Eucalyptus of Mindanao, Caribbean pine found in Honduras, and Yunnan Shixinzi, a transplant from Asia.They decided to use the three tree species for final trials in Nigeria and Panama.The growth rate of these trees is unexpectedly satisfactory. The maturity period of Eucalyptus Mindanao is 20 years, Caribbean pine is 16 years, and catalpa is only 6 to 7 years.Development work began in 1954 with the clearance of some 100,000 hectares of land that Ubaldo Rocha had bought with diamonds.Twenty-five years later, the afforestation area has reached nearly one million hectares, of which two-thirds are planted with catalpa.

At first, pulp mills and thermal power plants supplying energy were built on decentralized principles.The plan called for a total of fourteen factories to be built.In 1978, Uwe Sobieski completed this task, but he soon replaced some of the plants with larger equipment.This new and larger piece of equipment will first attract the attention of the public and, to a lesser extent, the international press.Consisting of four massive units, it is effectively a mill that produces both pulp and electricity.The whole set of equipment is about 240 meters long, 45 meters wide, and 57 meters high, which is equivalent to a twelve-story building covering two and a half football fields.

The equipment was financed by three companies headed by Paul Soubis, Han and Tadoiz Tepfler, and was manufactured at a shipyard in Kure, Japan.In 1951, George Taalas signed some agreements with the shipyard.The Japanese built these behemoths directly on floating docks. Because these behemoths cannot pass through the Panama Canal, and in order to avoid the "roaring forty degrees" near Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America (note: there are often storms in the Atlantic Ocean between 30 and 50 degrees south latitude), Nick Petridis, who was in charge of transporting the equipment to the mouth of the Amazon River, chose another route: starting from the Inland Sea of ​​Japan, taking the Kii Channel into the Pacific Ocean, entering the Indian Ocean through the South China Sea, bypassing the Cape of Good Hope, and finally crossing the South Atlantic Ocean. Six thousand kilometers, which lasted three months.

These behemoths reached the Rio Negro and entered the docks that da Silva's men had built especially for them.The more than 7,500 pillars used to make the docks are made of "Macaron Durba" logs, a special product in the Amazon River Basin that is extremely hard and almost indestructible.The dry dock can be pumped as well as submerged, so these floating factories can be sent back to sea at any time and, if necessary, to other parts of the world. In 1967, the railway track for transporting logs was laid, taking over the heavy task of transporting logs originally undertaken by trucks.As of May 1, 1980, 480 kilometers of the 1,000 kilometers of railways to be laid in the overall plan had been laid.The bales of pulp were loaded onto the ships of the Petridis brothers and exported to Europe, the United States, Japan, and Venezuela.The production capacity of the pulp mill is 2,200 tons per day, or 800,000 tons per year. In 1954, the first batch of sawmill equipment was installed.But the most modern sawmill with laser technology was built in 1979.This factory alone can produce 40,000 tons of wood and fibreboard. In 1976, a newsprint mill with an annual output of 250,000 tons was also put into operation. In terms of developing underground resources, a plan to mine and process kaolin was launched in 1972, with an annual output of 250,000 tons.This is only mined from a vein with an estimated reserve of 60 million tons, out of a total of about 100 million tons.This fire-resistant clay is used as packaging material in cosmetic and pharmaceutical manufacturing.The production of bauxite refractory bricks for blast furnaces also started in the same year. The next year, a three billion dollar aluminum rolling complex was launched near Belem, just outside the kingdom.In addition to Wang's nine companies, which were reorganized into a holding company, there was also an American company, a Canadian company and a company in Sao Paulo, Brazil.Although the complex is located abroad, it processes the raw material from the kingdom's bauxite reserves, which are estimated at 260 million tons. Jean Colchesco's exploration team has identified, in addition to kaolin and bauxite, resources to be developed include phosphate, fluorine, nickel, thorium, rare earth metals, and platinum.Of course, gold, diamonds, emeralds and lesser gems are also planned.These latter deposits, however, were the king's secret property, and Kolcesko reported their reserves only to Reb Klimrod. Presumably the king relied on this income to enrich his "internal funds" ("internal funds" is what Seitiniaz said). In terms of agriculture, the eighteen companies that Escalante and Huang Sen are in charge of have done a very good job.Each company is chaired by a Brazilian junior trustee who is affiliated with Jorge Socrates and Nelson Coelho, the son of Emerson, by a trust agreement.Originally intended only to supply the kingdom's own needs, rice soon became the kingdom's main agricultural product.In 1965, rice began to be exported to the Brazilian market, which had been short of rice.The master plan called for 220,000 hectares of flooded or quasi-flooded land to be planted with rice. According to Huang Sen's estimate, five tons of grain could be harvested per hectare in half a year, an estimate that was later confirmed.In May 1980, halfway through the realization of this remarkable project, 140 more granaries (each with a storage capacity of 20,000 tons) were completed.Two mills that can process 30 tons of grain per hour complete the entire production process. Livestock farming developed in all the Caribbean pine areas, and by 1980 there were 120,000 head of cattle.Further south, near the Amazon, pigs and poultry are raised.In 1972, livestock products were able to fully meet domestic needs, and exports began the following year. In 1966, Escalante and Madeira, an outstanding Brazilian expert, founded an agricultural experiment center.The main research projects include cocoa, and other traditional economic crops, such as rubber tree, para fruit, citrus, oil palm, sugar cane, cassava, soybean, etc.Experiments have proved that cocoa is very suitable for planting in Shizi plantation. A scientific research institute was established in 1974.Since 1975, the agency has been engaged in natural gas development and research on how to extract combustible substances from a mixture of sugar cane and cassava, with a view to eventually obtaining formazan and methane.The main purpose of these scientific research projects is to achieve complete self-sufficiency in fuel and establish a reasonable energy development system. The first five-year plan was fully completed in 1962.In May 1980, the Fifth Five-Year Plan was being implemented, and 60 percent of its goals had been achieved. As of May 1, 1980, apart from Taras, Setiniaz, and Wangchen, there may have been no more than fifty or sixty men and women senior technicians, pilots, and radio operators. It is not known who Reber Michel Klimrod was. Newspapers and books have never even mentioned his name, let alone published his photo.