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Because Director Wang was with them, Yang Jing and his friends avoided a banquet in the evening.
In fact, the news that Yang Jing and his team airdropped into Urumqi and donated 20 million US dollars spread throughout Xinjiang Province within a day. Now that this great god of wealth has come to Korla, the leaders of Bayinguole League certainly want to curry favor with this great god of wealth. If he is happy, even if a little bit of the money slips out from between his fingers, it will be enough for our place to use.
But Yang Jing's mind was not here at all, he just wanted to get to Hotan as soon as possible. In fact, Yang Jing was a little regretful now, knowing that the road conditions were so bad, it would be better to take a military plane directly from Urumqi to Hotan.
Because he was in a bad mood, Yang Jing asked Director Wang to decline the invitation, had a quick meal, and went to bed early. After all, the bumpy ride of the day was very exhausting.
Because of its geographical location, although this place uses the national Yanjing time just like Yanjing, it is more than two hours behind Yanjing.
If it were in Yanjing, it would be light at 6:30 in the morning in mid-April, but here, the stars in the sky were still twinkling, and this was the darkest dawn of the day.
However, in order to save time, Yang Jing and his friends had their meal early and then set out in the dark.
The shortest way from Korla to Hotan is to go west along National Highway 314 all the way to Kuche, then take National Highway 217 from Kuche and continue to Hotan. This journey is about one thousand kilometers.
If there were expressways in the future or if the national roads were in good condition, a journey of one thousand kilometers would only take more than ten hours, but now, it takes two days to travel one thousand kilometers.
Yesterday, Yang Jing and his team only ran less than 400 kilometers of mountain roads, but it took them more than ten hours. You can imagine what the road conditions are like now.
Fortunately, the road conditions on National Highway 314 in the south of Tiannan are much better than those on the Aba Line. At least the car can be driven on it. Although the speed is only about 60 kilometers, it is much faster than the road we drove on yesterday.
The scenery along the way is extremely beautiful, because National Highway 314 is just south of the Tianshan Mountains, with snow-capped mountains on one side and the vast Gobi Desert on the other. Being between the snow-capped mountains and the Gobi Desert, it feels like flying in the sky.
This kind of pristine scenery will rarely be seen in thirty years, but now, any glance at it will be such a beautiful scene that can make people intoxicated. Even Austin and his five companions were amazed and even surprised by the beautiful scenery along the way.
The United States has developed rapidly in the past few decades, but the price of development is the pollution of natural resources. The United States has not yet moved its most important manufacturing and other heavily polluting enterprises out of the country. Even though the federal government has begun to vigorously rectify environmental pollution problems, it will take a long time. It will not be until the beginning of the 20th century that the natural environment of the United States will gradually recover.
Today's China cannot be said to be completely poor, but at least there is very little natural pollution. Especially in underdeveloped inland provinces such as Xinjiang, the scenery is extremely beautiful.
There were beautiful scenery along the way, so I didn't feel lonely. Besides, Director Wang was an absolutely wonderful person. He knew all kinds of local customs and legends at his fingertips. It was actually very interesting to walk, see and listen along the way.
Around six o'clock in the evening, the group ran nearly 600 kilometers and arrived in Aral. Yang Jing and his group planned to stay here that night.
Aral is not directly under the jurisdiction of the autonomous region government. In those days, Aral was actually under the Construction Corps, and the first division of the Construction Corps was stationed here. The famous bearded General Wang was stationed here.
After more than 40 years of construction, this place has become a paradise. Along the way, you can see large tracts of farmland everywhere. If you have not seen it with your own eyes, it is really hard to imagine that such a large area of green representing life would appear in the desolate Gobi Desert.
Although it will take more than ten years for Aral to become a county-level city under the jurisdiction of the province, now, with the deepening of reform and opening up, the regulations here are not as strict as before, and the people of the Corps have more contact with the outside world.
It seems that the local military corps allowed Yang Jing and his group to live here, which is actually a very open expression.
Moreover, the political commissar of the first division of the corps invited Yang Jing and his group to dinner in the evening. Yang Jing would never refuse this invitation. Even though he was very tired, he still happily accepted the invitation.
Political Commissar Lu didn't mean to ask this foreigner to donate money, after all, this is the army, but Political Commissar Lu knew that this foreigner donated 20 million US dollars to Xinjiang Province as soon as he arrived, and now he is here again. As a local snake, he should come out to entertain him. However, due to his status, the division commander did not come out, only the political commissar welcomed Yang Jing and his group on behalf of the First Division.
Although Yang Jing now looks like a foreigner, he is a Chinese at heart. He admires these soldiers who work hard on the frontier very much. They are the cutest and most respectable people.
Similarly, Yang Jing also knew that this place was actually quite sensitive, so he didn't let Austin and the others follow. Just kidding, there is absolutely no danger here! Yang Jing only took Director Wang and Wu Dawei to attend the dinner hosted by Political Commissar Lu.
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