Chapter 141 Build a Second Artificial Island!

Do whatever comes to mind.

Jiang Cheng, who has always been vigorous and resolute, immediately took action after realizing the necessity of expanding the territory.

First of all, of course, it is necessary to build a large number of cutter suction dredgers, so as to greatly speed up the progress of blowing sand and adding islands.

Jiang Cheng came to the Future Ship Laboratory and discussed the recent production plan with the chief designers and engineers here.

For more than half a year, Emerald Island's shipyard has been busy producing high-speed transport ships and some military ships. Due to the limited production docks, there is no way to spread all types of ships across the board.

For the various types of ships exhibited at the last science and technology expo, only a few production plans were arranged, and they were ready to be sold to some close partners who had already booked.

After learning about the current shipbuilding status of Emerald Island, Jiang Cheng realized that it is necessary to expand the production scale.

Nowadays, all shipbuilding industries are concentrated on Octopus Island, and Octopus Island is small in size, which undoubtedly limits the scale of the shipyard.

And Jiang Cheng was reluctant to expand the shipyard to other islands, because he had already made plans for those islands, and they would be used as Emerald Island to build an "island city" in the future.

Therefore, if you really want to build a new shipyard, you can only build a new island like Nanyao Island.

In the end, after some discussions, Jiang Cheng decided on the most important task at the moment.

That is, gather all the cutter suction dredgers, look for new reef areas around Emerald Island, and open up new territories.

After the order was issued, the marine exploration ship docked at the port of Octopus Island was dispatched, and careful exploration activities began in the surrounding waters of Emerald Island.

For a long time, Jiang Cheng has never carefully surveyed the seabed around the Emerald Island. He just took this opportunity to find out the topographic map of the nearby seabed and prepare for the future deep ocean development.

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Under the exploration of three high-tech exploration ships, the exploration work in the surrounding waters of Emerald Island was declared over after three days, and brought back a super-detailed topographic map of the seabed for Jiang Cheng.

Through this seabed topographic map, Jiang Cheng has a clearer understanding of the sea area he controls.

Moreover, after some observation, he really found many shallow water areas worth using.

Among them, the area that Jiang Cheng values ​​most is located in the northern part of Emerald Island, about 120 nautical miles away from Emerald Island.

This is a submerged reef. The highest point is only 3 to 4 meters away from the sea surface at low tide. Most importantly, the area of ​​this reef is very vast. If it is really filled, the area will even exceed 15 square kilometers, which is comparable to The largest outlying island of Emerald Island, the area of ​​Ivory Island!

Of course, the amount of money needed to fill such a submerged reef will also be a super astronomical figure!

However, what Emerald Isle lacked most at the moment was money!

Therefore, Jiang Cheng was not worried about the money issue at all.

What really made him hesitate was the geographical location of this underwater reef, which was very close to the sun!

According to the map, this submarine reef is almost only 100 nautical miles away from the Ryukyu Islands in the southernmost part of Japan!

This distance is already closer than the Emerald Isle!

In other words, if this artificial island is really refilled, then the sphere of influence of Emerald Island can be expanded to 120 nautical miles away!

The buffer zone between Emerald Island and the nearest military power will also be reduced by more than half!

This is definitely a dangerous behavior!

It is almost predictable that once the cutter suction dredgers of Emerald Island start working on that submerged reef, the entire Japanese nation will definitely fall into madness!

This is the strategic space for Chiguo to compress the sun!

If it were any country in the world, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to bear it.

What's more, the opponent Jiang Cheng provoked this time is a maritime power with a very strong military strength. In terms of naval strength alone, it will destroy the existence of Han Guo!

Therefore, the decision to make such an open territory was not so easy.

However, after some inner struggle, Jiang Cheng still decided to make a move!

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Half a month later, taking advantage of the twilight, eighteen cutter-suction dredgers that looked like giant steel beasts slowly departed from Port No. 3 of Octopus Island and headed for the northern sea.

Not long after the twelve dredgers set out to sea, a large number of military vessels also left the port and followed them.

For this operation, Jiang Cheng joined hands with all the high-level officials of Emerald Island to carry out meticulous preparations.

Including how to respond once the Japanese side strongly protests after the official start of construction, and what kind of posture Emerald Island will take to prepare for a counterattack after the other side adopts tough military measures.

In short, after various preparations, today's action was taken.

These twelve cutter suction dredgers are all the island-building equipment currently owned by Emerald Island. In addition, there are four new dredgers under construction, and it is believed that they will be officially put into use soon.

With these twenty-two dredgers, the reclamation process of the new island is bound to be greatly improved.

According to efficiency calculations, in just one day, these island-making artifacts can blow and fill an island of 80,000 square meters. Therefore, the construction speed is still very amazing.

The reason why all of them were dispatched was that Jiang Cheng used lightning raids to build the artificial islands as soon as possible to create established facts, thereby reducing the pressure in the face of Japan's challenge.

Jiang Cheng believes that as long as the island owner can be built as quickly as possible, he will be able to take the initiative by then.

Jiang Cheng is not afraid of the other side's military provocation.

This is where his greatest confidence lies!

With regard to the reclamation construction of the island, Jiang Cheng has already formulated a careful plan, and it is not the first time he has reclaimed an island. Nanyao Island is a very successful case, which has accumulated a lot of experience for him .

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After a few hours of sailing, a dozen dredgers finally arrived at the target sea area at dawn, and a large number of military ships behind them spread rapidly, guarding the sea area. All around, there is a faint intention to block this sea area.

The military ships that Jiang Cheng brought this time are all new types of ships that integrate reconnaissance, exploration, alert, and defense, which are very suitable for the current situation.

In order to successfully complete the plan to build islands by blowing sand, adequate military force protection measures are still very necessary.

Moreover, Jiang Cheng believes that the intelligence department of Japan will soon discover the abnormal situation in this sea area, after all, it is not far from the other party's territory.

At that time, the Japanese side will inevitably send a survey ship to investigate. At this time, it will be the stage of real wrestling!