The combined inhabitants of the two islands are no more than 500 people, and they are still islanders far from the center of power, and they are not at all able to influence the policy of a country.

But Wei Minsheng's integration path must not be too radical, otherwise it will cause a lot of unnecessary trouble once it gets out of control.

Moreover, if the reclamation project is progressing too quickly, it is easy for people to cross the river and tear down the bridge, and when you are not needed, they have the final say on whether some promises can be fulfilled or not.

Therefore, the work of island reclamation can only be hung slowly, so that they can see hope before their promises are fulfilled, and at the same time reflect their own value.

Besides, Wei Minsheng is not a fool, and those boulders under the foundation are also a secret move of his.

If the time comes for these Tuvaluans not to fulfill their promises, they will simply remove these monoliths and everything they are doing now will come to naught.

Without boulders to resist the waves, the soil will be slowly carried away by the sea, and the island will face the doom of "sinking" again.

But such an outcome is something that Wei Minsheng and all the islanders do not want to see, so they need to try their best to avoid such a thing.

The island reclamation can't be too fast, and some construction must keep up, which makes Wei Minsheng very entangled.

In the end, I got inspiration from the water transportation platform that can be spliced together.

There is no fixed place, but it should not be difficult to use multiple specially designed large water platforms to stitch together a relatively stable "floating island".

However, unlike rivers, seawater is very corrosive to metals, and seamless steel pipes, which are the main components of the buoyancy unit, are not suitable.

Therefore, Wei Minsheng can only think of another way.

In the process of selecting floating island materials, various plastic products with wide applications have entered Wei Minsheng's sight.

On the dock of another world, a two-meter-diameter polyethylene pipe is cut into a five-meter-long short pipe.

At the ends and in the middle of each stub, a two-centimetre-thick rubber ring is fastened to the appropriate place as a cushion.

A hundred of these short pipes are neatly arranged vertically in a ten-by-ten platform.

Due to the presence of rubber rings on the pipes, there is a little room for movement between all the pipes, which can prevent the damage that may be caused by the friction between the pipes.

A small hole is made under the rubber ring where each pipe is fixed, adjacent to the others.

Then, using hardwood attachments, all the pipes are connected and fixed by means of riveting falcon connections.

Due to the "hard" connection between the pipes, all the pipes that make up the platform become a whole, and the force in any direction will be borne by all the pipes, ensuring the strength of the platform.

On this square platform, which is five meters high and has a side length of more than 20 meters, a deck of the ship is installed.

At the corresponding deck position of each pipe, a 40-centimeter-diameter access opening was designed, and a movable door slightly larger than the access opening was installed under the access opening.

This movable door is actually a deck as well, and it can only be opened downwards.

Of course, such a platform is leaking everywhere, and it is impossible to float on the water.

After all, the real buoyancy unit of this platform is not yet in place.

The entire platform was transferred by Wei Minsheng to the shallows of Nuraquita Island at night, and then a large number of empty plastic bottles were dropped into the pipes through the access openings on the deck.

These empty plastic bottles were collected through the Minsheng canteen, including mineral water bottles and larger cooking oil drums.

These empty plastic containers, which are tightly closed and packed into those pipes, become the buoyancy units of the offshore platform.

There is a limit to the buoyancy that an empty plastic container can provide, but when you add up to thousands of containers, the total buoyancy is considerable.

Moreover, the amount of its own buoyancy can also be determined by the amount of empty plastic containers placed in the pipe.

Due to the peculiarities of the space inside the tubes, those damaged plastic containers, after losing most of their buoyancy, sink to the lowest level of these buoyancy units under the action of the waves.

The open pipe opening makes it easy to clean up these damaged buoyancy units, and the buoyancy units within the individual pipes can be adjusted from below the water surface to ensure the balance of the platform.

Even if only two-thirds of the space is filled in those tubes, it can provide a load capacity of nearly 1,000 tons after removing the weight of the platform itself.

Although such a load capacity does not look good, such a platform can be easily spliced on the wide sea.

This means that the platform, which is almost unsusceptible to seawater corrosion, has extremely scalable performance.

But now Wei Minsheng, there is no need to build a huge maritime empire.

All he needed was a rationalization of all material sources.

This kind of offshore platform, which is simple to manufacture, easy to maintain, and can be moved, can obviously do this.

The first offshore platform was designed by Wei Minsheng as a desalination platform.

Due to the vast expanse of Tuvalu's sea and the abundance of solar energy, the desalination platform uses the method of heating and evaporating seawater to obtain pure water.

The platform is divided into three areas, with a corrosion-resistant boiler and associated vapor separation equipment installed in the middle row.

The two rectangular areas, separated by boilers and other equipment, are all equipped with solar thermal collectors.

This kind of solar thermal collector device is different from the common solar water heater because it needs to reach a higher thermal collection temperature.

The collector parts are rows and half-barrels of condensers that use the reflective mirrors on the condensers to concentrate sunlight onto a black steel tube located at the focal point of the spotlight.

Due to the flexibility of the offshore platform, it is easy to keep the longitudinal direction of the concentrator facing the sun's diurnal orbit to obtain stable thermal energy.

The black steel pipe flows a kind of high-temperature resistant oil, and a large area of concentrator can easily heat the oil in the steel pipe to more than 300 degrees Celsius.

This high-temperature oil flows through a pipeline into a closed boiler, causing the seawater in the boiler to boil.

The high-pressure steam is continuously fed into the back of several boilers through a water pipe, and the temperature of the seawater in the boilers is raised, and the steam is condensed into pure water for storage.

The seawater in these boilers, which is gradually raised in temperature, also enters the boiler with a higher temperature from the lowest to the highest in the role of the communicator.

Since the amount of seawater injected into the boiler producing steam is fixed at a time, when the amount of fresh water produced each time reaches a certain weight, it means that the brine in the boiler has reached a saturated concentration.

Coarse salt and a high concentration of brine can be obtained by passing the saturated brine from the boiler through another steel pipe that passes through the multistage boiler and into a cooling tank.