Regardless of the quality of the diamond ore they are about to discover, they will make a lot of money. After years of bad luck, once they turn around, everyone is so happy that they almost have no sleep all night.
The next morning, at dawn, all the team members went up the mountain. The result did not disappoint them. The diamond mine was indeed found. Although they could not estimate the mineral reserves, what they saw was already very impressive.
Zhang Qiang and Qiu Rui carefully placed the signs of their pioneering team near the mine. Then the pioneering team canceled the planned rest, and everyone stopped slowly exploring and inspecting. They rushed to Sydney as quickly as possible. Qiu Rui wanted
Report the matter to the company as soon as possible, and at the same time demarcate the area and apply for mining procedures.
"Young Master, a huge diamond mine has been discovered in the wild continent." Lin Feng broke into Fang Xiaoyu's study excitedly. He knew that Fang Xiaoyu had always been concerned about diamond veins. Although he didn't know why, on the first day of receiving the news,
In no time, he rushed over to tell Fang Xiaoyu.
"Really? It's really great." Fang Xiaoyu rubbed his hands excitedly in the room. Since Xiaofeng's level gradually increased, because Fang Xiaoyu's brain could not bear the impact of the large amount of information brought by the scan, he no longer scanned.
If Xiaofeng is allowed to scan by himself, due to the rigidity of the machine, Xiaofeng can only scan an area at a time, and the scanning objects must be specified. Such scanning is very inefficient, and Fang Xiaoyu will not carry out such scanning unless it is absolutely necessary.
, so he didn’t know that there was such a big treasure hidden in the wild continent.
The emergence of diamond mines means that Xiaofeng can be upgraded, and it also means that space research is fully launched. Therefore, Fang Xiaoyu attaches great importance to these mineral deposits. When he heard that a large mine was discovered, he hurriedly asked: "How big is this mine? Who discovered it?"
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Lin Feng said: "That boy Qiu Rui discovered it. According to preliminary estimates by experts, there are at least one billion tons of mineral sand there."
Fang Xiaoyu laughed and said: "Okay, great, this guy is really good, help them establish a mine immediately, and we will buy all the diamonds produced." According to the agreement, 70% of the diamonds mined belong to the consortium.
But Fang Xiaoyu still felt that it was not enough. For him who was eager to upgrade Xiaofeng, the more diamonds, the better.
Although the mining of diamonds is very slow and cannot meet Xiaofeng's upgrade requirements for a while, it will not take too long. As long as there is hope, Fang Xiaoyu will be very happy.
Fang Xiaoyu had many things on his mind, and he couldn't just think about the diamond. Before Lin Feng came to tell him the good news, he was planning to change the strategic situation of the Chinese Empire.
Before the Chinese Empire entered the war, in addition to making huge war fortunes, what Fang Xiaoyu wanted to do most was to clear obstacles for the Chinese Empire and eliminate all hidden dangers, so that there would be no worries after the Chinese Empire entered the war in the future.
Luring the Japanese country into a sneak attack was only the first step for Fang Xiaoyu to improve the strategic posture of the Chinese Empire. In order to completely eliminate the hidden dangers around the empire, his next step was to target New Guia and New Asia.
It is very simple to deal with New Asia. It is still a primitive society, but because it is too far away from the major powers and has no interests, no powerful nation has ever paid attention to it.
New Asia is located in the south of the wild continent. It is two isolated islands standing in the ocean. It is not too far from the Sydney Waterway. It has no mineral resources and is not on an important waterway. It is indeed worthless to other countries.
, but not for Fang Xiaoyu.
As the wilderness continent's products become more and more abundant, and Fang Xiaoyu cannot use Xiaofeng's transmission function to suppress his own shipping industry, the huge maritime transportation volume is restricted by the Moore Waterway, which is still not wide, causing a lot of inconvenience.
Years ago, the divers who completed the cleaning work of the Moore Channel began to clean up the new water channel.
The waterway that was cleaned up this time is located in the Sydney Waterway near New Asia. There was no waterway in this place originally. However, after many detection ships used sonar to explore along the coast of the Wild Continent, it was discovered that the area off Sydney is owned by the Wild Continent.
Among the reef groups, the reefs are the sparseest, so this was chosen as the location to open a waterway.
The divers spent several years using underwater blasting to finally open up this wide Sydney waterway. Since there are far fewer reefs than near the Moore Channel in the north, it is less difficult to open this waterway, so this
After the opening of the Sydney Waterway, it was more than three times wider than the Moore Waterway, which resulted in the emergence of a new harbor city, Sydney.
Since the war began, a large amount of supplies have been sent to all parts of the world through Sydney Port. The increasingly busy shipping has accelerated the expansion of Sydney Port, allowing this small town that was just established a few years ago to quickly develop into an area of dozens of square meters.
This major maritime city has a tendency to catch up with Port Moore.
As the strategic location of Sydney Harbor becomes more and more important, Fu Mingcheng, the commander of the Iron Blood Army who is responsible for the defense of the Wild Continent, becomes increasingly worried about the safety of Sydney waterways. Although the Iron Blood Army has established a powerful coastal fort near Sydney Harbor and stationed a
Fleet, but all this still does not make Fu Mingcheng feel at ease.
The security of a long waterway is very fragile. If any fleet blocks the outlet of the waterway, whether it is Sydney's coastal defense artillery or the garrison fleet, it will only become a turtle in the urn. By then, no matter how powerful the fleet is, it will only be able to
If you can be manipulated by others, at least the harbor will be completely blocked and you will not be able to leave.
Although this was just a precautionary measure, as the Savage Continent became more and more important, Fu Mingcheng did not dare to be careless at all. The best solution to protect the absolute safety of this waterway was to occupy the area one hundred nautical miles south of the waterway.
New Asia outside the country.
As long as this island nation is used as a naval base, a warning radar station is established on the top of the mountain in the middle of the two islands, and a sufficiently powerful fleet is equipped, the safety of Sydney's waterways can be completely ensured. For this reason, Fu Mingcheng made three reports and requested
Occupying this important strategic position, Fang Xiaoyu suppressed them.
The reason why Fang Xiaoyu disagreed with Fu Mingcheng's proposal was not that he could not see the importance of Xinya's geographical location. On the contrary, he could see through the importance of various strategic locations better than anyone else. It was just because the international situation at that time was too subtle and he did not
Dare to touch the sensitive nerves of major powers.
However, with the development of the Western Continent, the international situation has changed. The major powers have been mired in war and have no energy to pay attention to Fang Xiaoyu's strategic actions, let alone set their sights on the barbaric continent that has nothing to do with their interests.
The Boston Empire, the only one that can pose a threat to the Chinese Empire, has just suffered a heavy loss and does not dare to provoke the Chinese Empire. Now is a good opportunity to annex this place.
After receiving Fang Xiaoyu's order, Fu Mingcheng did not immediately send troops to capture New Asia. Even if a powerful country invades and expands, it still needs an excuse to start a war. Otherwise, it will leave a bad reputation in the international community and have a negative impact on the future of the Chinese Empire in the world.
Expansion will cause a lot of inconvenience.
The Iron-blooded Army cannot invade other countries for no reason, even if they only represent a financial group. For this reason, Fu Mingcheng sent his confidant Liu Wei to New Asia to provoke domestic conflicts in the other country and provide an excuse for the Iron-blooded Army to intervene.
New Asia is the country closest to the pole in the southern hemisphere. Apart from the wild continent, there is no other land within thousands of nautical miles. It consists of two large islands, South Island and North Island, with a total area of 268,000 square kilometers.
Both islands are inhabited by Maori, with a total population of nearly 800,000.
Although New Asia is called a country, its political system is closer to a tribal alliance. The two large islands are managed by two tribal alliances. The North Island is ruled by Chief Labroli, with a population of nearly 300,000, while the South Island is less than
The North Island is powerful, with a population of nearly half a million, and is governed by Chief Cabrades.
Although the two sides admit that they belong to the same country, the relationship is not good. Fights often break out between fishermen on both sides because of the ownership of fishing areas. The smell of civil war between the two sides is very strong. It is only because the two chiefs put the overall situation first and tried their best to suppress it that they did not break out.
Large-scale conflict.
Liu Wei is a staff officer of the Iron-Blooded Army Staff Department. He is usually smart and full of clever ideas, so Fu Mingcheng sent him to handle this task that cannot be completed by conventional methods.
Fu Mingcheng's original intention was to ask Liu Wei to meet with the two chiefs to sow discord and let them fight among themselves. But Liu Wei was never a stickler for rules. Fu Mingcheng's task for him was to stir up trouble anyway, so he simply didn't do it.
To meet some chief.
Liu Wei directly brought several assistants with him, dressed as Maori, and went to North Island to buy a Maori fishing boat. They pretended to be fishing and rowed the boat to the place where the two tribes often had disputes.
After the fishing ground was set aside, he wanted to check the situation first and make sure he knew what was going on before taking action.
"Commander Liu, what should we do?" A soldier asked while rowing a boat with a simple oar.
Liu Wei looked at him with a smile and said: "Don't you all speak Maori? Let's take a look at the situation later. If there is a chance, we can stir up trouble and try to kill a few of his people to complete the task."
"I listen to you, this time we will do the next best thing." The soldier chuckled. One of the two soldiers rocked the oar, and the other rowed. The small fishing boat moved forward as fast as an arrow, and soon approached Maori.
People’s traditional fishing grounds.
Liu Wei put up a pergola and looked around. Many fishing boats were busy. After careful observation, Liu Wei discovered the difference. The fishing boats here have a total of two colors. One kind of fishing boat is dark brown, which is the Maori of the South Island.
The fishing boats are like this because they use black walnut to build their boats. On the contrary, the Maori people in the North Island use sequoia, so their boats are all dark red.
Liu Wei and his party bought a fishing boat from the North Island, which was naturally dark red. If they wanted to cause trouble, they had to look for the black and brown fishing boat from the South Island. After two rounds, Liu Wei quickly located his target, which was one of these fishing boats.
The largest one is nearly twenty meters long and nearly four meters wide.