Chapter 34: An Unexpected Island (3,000 words)

"It's good here, it should be able to put about 5,000 people." Li Zhen is very satisfied with this place, this Cuyo Island is located in the north-central part of the Sulu Sea, the nearest to the west is Palawan Island, the distance is at least 100 nautical miles, the east is Panai Island, which is about this distance, and the north is Minluodu Island, which is also about above this distance. As for the south, the closest to this is Borneo, the distance is at least five hundred, and you don't even have to think about escaping from this direction, so you don't have to worry about them running out of this island - in this era, without sturdy ships and reliable navigation equipment, it would be like looking for death to drift out of an island more than a hundred nautical miles away on a raft alone.

Especially although this is an archipelago, most of them are actually coral islands and reefs, and only the main island of Cuyo has a little land, which can barely live for people, but if you want to rely on such a little land, you don't have to think about how good your life is, you can only ensure that you don't starve to death.

Li Zhen remembers, even in the later generations, there will be less than 30,000 people at most - only 25,000 people to be exact, you must know that the technology in the later generations is very developed, and under such conditions, there is only a little bit, and the current 5,000 people may already be the limit.

"My subordinates also think this is the best." Lin Fa also laughed and said: "As long as we set up a little guard around to prevent people from coming to save people, it is impossible for anyone to get out of here alive...... Besides, if they can really get out of such a Jedi...... Such people are really talents, even if we forgive their sins, what can we do? ”

"That's true, but one island isn't enough." Li Zhen knocked on the map, he will not make the previous mistake again this time, the main reason why Coconut Harbor has become the capital of crime is that the criminals are too concentrated, and the number of criminals is large, in addition to ganging up, more importantly, they will gather people to make trouble, such as group fights or something, and over time, Coconut Harbor has become synonymous with chaos and crime.

So Li Zhen learned the lesson of Coconut Harbor and was not ready to put all the criminals together. Although it is said that on a desert island, it doesn't matter if the criminals gather together, but with their rebellious character, they will definitely not wait for death easily, especially when the number increases, God knows what they will do. You must know that the reason why these criminals have reached the point where they are today is because they have a high IQ - in fact, some people in later generations have raised the question, where in the world is the most concentrated talent? Some people give two answers, one is in the Academy of Sciences, and the other is in prison, which shows that there are still many talents in prison.

Therefore, one Cuyo Island could not satisfy Li Zhen, and they must all be dispersed, so Li Zhen set his sights on the remaining four islands to understand the situation of the remaining islands......

"Where is this island?" Li Zhen swept his eyes and then stared at another island, the reason is very simple, because this island is the largest, almost the same as Jiaoma Island (Basilan Island, rich in Jiaoma), you must know that the area of Jiaoma Island is more than 1,000 square kilometers, such islands may not be rare in the world, but almost every one has a corresponding name, Li Zhen can't be impressed, but he carefully compared the map he drew according to the memory of later generations, and found that this island actually did not have the slightest impression.

In particular, the location of this island is even more remote, actually outside the Luzon Islands, located 500 kilometers east of Golden Island (Mindanao, because of the gold mine, hence the name) - according to Li Zhen's memory, although the interior of Luzon is messy and mostly small islands, but the eastern boundary is very neat, especially the periphery of Golden Island, because of the existence of the Luzon Trench, let alone large islands, there are not even a few broken small islands.

In later generations, the nearest big island from here should be more than 880 kilometers away, the island of Babeltuap in the Republic of Palau, but the area of this island is only more than 300 square kilometers, but now in between, there is an island with an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers, which is simply incredible.

"Is this also an island that could sink in the future?" Li Zhen speculated that this speculation is very likely to be true, after all, it is only half of the seventh century, and there are still more than 1,300 years before the 21st century in the future, and no one can say what disasters have happened in the Pacific Ocean during this period.

It may be that a larger tsunami may change the topography of a sea area, and it is certainly impossible to say that no islands have sunk or reborn during this period (the Indonesian tsunami has caused the magnetic field of the nearby sea to change, and even some islands have shifted their positions, and it is simply nonsense to say that there has been no tsunami or tsunami stronger than the Indonesian tsunami in history, but the technology was not developed at that time, and the part of the South Seas was also a wild place at that time, so it was not known).

The most typical is the silver island, this island located in the South China Sea in the later generations did not have any records at all, let alone an island in later generations, not even a piece of silver was found - this is an island made of pure silver, if it survived to the end, or even only need to be left in the Song Dynasty, it is impossible not to be found after the development of the navigation industry, and once it is found to say that there is no record, it is simply impossible, even if there is no classic record, there should be folklore to circulate.

But this is the case, there is no trace of information about this island in later generations, which means that this silver island must have undergone too much change in the next two or three hundred years, and then completely sank into the sea, and there is no trace of it.

There are too many similar islands, and even Li Zhen saw an island about to sink into the water when he discovered the Spice Islands a few years ago, and when he found the island, there was only a small tip left on the island, and it was about to be completely submerged in the sea, Li Zhen also rescued some plant specimens from above, and later after returning to Lingnan, he sent a special exploration team to look for it, but found that there was no shadow of the island, and it was obviously completely sunk into the sea.

So such islands are not uncommon, but seriously, whether it is Silver Island or the nameless island that has sunk into the sea, the area is not very large, and the reason why they sink into the sea may just be an ordinary undersea earthquake, but the island that Li Zhen is paying attention to now has an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers, such an island may not be a big island, but it should be regarded as a medium-sized island - Li Zhen can't imagine what kind of power can sink such an island into the sea? What he didn't dare to imagine was that if one day such an island sank into the sea, how devastating it would be. Maybe the entire Luzon and even the coastal area of Datang may be affected, and everything that Datang builds here may be destroyed by the sea, and I don't know how many people will die at that time......

In particular, this is Luzon, the archipelago itself is located in the western Pacific seismic zone, the archipelago has more than 300 volcanoes, there are dozens of active volcanoes alone (21 active volcanoes in later generations, but now it is a thousand years ago, it is normal for the number of active volcanoes to be a little more), the continental plate is violently active, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur from time to time.

In particular, the eastern part is adjacent to the Luzon Trench, one of the deepest seas in the world, and the depth of the Luzon Trench has reached more than 10,000 meters, which is one of the deepest trenches in the world, ranking second in the world after the Mariana Trench.

And if Li Zhen is not mistaken, this newly discovered island is located in the eastern part of the Luzon Trench, facing the Golden Island in the middle of the trench - which means that if the island sinks, the most likely is the activity of the Pacific plate, which will cause the entire island to capsize and fall into the Luzon Trench...... It is no wonder that no trace of this island has been found in later generations, and later generations of technology have not developed to the point where it can detect the underwater environment at a distance of 10,000 meters.

Of course, things may not be so bad, because there are many reasons for the sinking of islands, in addition to strong factors such as large tsunamis or earthquakes, there are also some islands that are actually slowly sinking into the sea - for example, the Maldives, is about to sink because of rising sea level, in addition to this, there are also sea erosion and other reasons can also cause the island to sink slowly, this sinking is hundreds of thousands of years, the environmental impact on the nearby sea is very low, there is no need to worry...... It's just that it's not very likely.

Lin Fa didn't know what Li Zhen was thinking, and when he saw that Li Zhen was focusing on this big island, he immediately smiled: "Your Highness, this island is newly discovered by our fleet, and I have not been afraid in front of my subordinates for this Situ Ke - and this island is strongly recommended by him to Your Highness, and this island is used as a prison for the prisoners' exile sword." ”

"Why? Are the conditions here harsh? Li Zhen was very strange, and looked at the map again, this is an island of more than 1,000 square kilometers, and it is located in the tropics, coupled with the vast territory, it can be said that there are mountains, rivers and speeds, and there is no shortage of food, such an island should be a good place worth developing in the eyes of others, and it is simply too luxurious to be a penal colony for prisoners - such a good environment, what is it to let them go up and punish them? Or let them be blessed?

But why did Situ Chen strongly suggest it to himself?

Could it be that this is a volcanic island?

Volcanoes often erupt and cause an extremely harsh environment?

It's not impossible.

(End of chapter)