Chapter 364: Replacement
"Let Mr. Long's people pretend to be To'afa's family?"
"How long do you think Tuvalu will be able to survive now? Ten years, or twenty years.
Over the past few years, the sea has become more and more submerged.
According to the news at last year's island gathering, our Governor General has announced to the outside world that the efforts to save Tuvalu have failed, and all the people of the country will gradually find a way to evacuate here.
By then, whether we were going to New Zealand or Australia, it was no longer there.
Is it possible for Tuvalu to exist after losing all of its territory?
The country no longer exists, and it is ridiculous that there is still any immigration policy. ”
Yes, the country is almost gone, and there are still policy matters to consider.
On this small island, as long as we don't say it, don't object, and have the identity of the aborigines here, it doesn't matter how long they want to live.
The future, and only when there is a future, can we talk about the future.
Moreover, they can continue to receive the annual aid funds allocated by the government to other countries.
Long Hao and the others didn't care about the aid funds of almost two thousand dollars per person per year, and it didn't matter if they took it out and let other islanders share it.
With all benefited, there was not a single voice of opposition, and the inhabitants of the whole island agreed to Tomani's approach.
Then everyone confirmed the relevant matters with Long Hao, and signed a written agreement, in which all the residents of the island pressed their fingerprints and signatures.
Although this paper agreement was not recognized by the Tuvaluan state, Wei Minsheng did not care, he just wanted the identity of the more than 20 Tuvaluans and their commitments.
No matter how the future regime of Tuvalu changes, even if they emigrate to other countries, as long as these Tuvaluans are still here, it means that the state of Tuvalu will still exist.
When the other islands become uninhabitable, the artificially filled island will become the last of Tuvalu's territory.
Any Tuvaluan who wants to live on this small island must abide by the rules of the island and obtain the consent of the original inhabitants of the island, otherwise Wei Minsheng will not mind using extreme methods to protect his rights and interests.
Wei Minsheng believes that one day, the state power in Tuvalu will fall into their hands, and that time is not far off.
The content of the agreement stipulates the obligations that Long Hao should assume and the place where they live.
Moreover, no matter what happens in the future, the islands they fill out belong to Wei Minsheng's private ownership, and Wei Minsheng will not be restricted by Tuvalu in doing anything on his private territory.
There was only one condition for these promises, and that was that Wei Minsheng must do his best to raise the altitude of the current island of Nuraquita to ten meters.
Tomani and the others also know how difficult it is to raise the elevation of an island in the middle of the ocean.
Tuvalu's main island, Funafuti, has maintained an altitude of less than 5 metres above sea level, and the land is still being drained so much that the earth and rocks are not being filled in at a rate that can keep up with the speed at which the waves wash away.
They were also afraid that their demands would be too high and scare away Long Hao's "eldest brother" Wei Minsheng.
For Wei Minsheng and his family, it is also a great achievement to be able to obtain the right of permanent residence on Nulaquita Island in Tuvalu in disguise in this way.
Wei Minsheng believes that as long as Long Hao can live on the island and has some right to speak, with the increase of his investment here, it will not be difficult to change the status quo of the island.
The piece of land that Long Hao had been allocated for living had actually been submerged under the surface of the sea for most of the time, and it was impossible to build a house if it was not filled in.
Of course, this is also a test for Long Hao from Tomani, if you can't even figure out where you live, how to fulfill your promise in the future.
Obviously, Long Hao's next move did not disappoint these islanders.
On the evening of the second day after the agreement was signed, Wei Minsheng's cargo ship came to the vicinity of Nyurakita Island.
It was still the same ship, but there were no more vegetables on board, the hold was full of large stones, and with it came two water transport platforms.
Of course, these things are used to hide people's eyes, but they only make them feel that they are really capable of transporting earth and rock from other places to this small island.
The unloaded water platform moves briskly through the rough waves, and its special design and engine allow it to dock anywhere on the island.
The process of reclamation is very boring, nothing more than constantly pushing large and small stones from the platform to the place where the sea is submerged.
Due to the onlookers of the island's residents, Wei Minsheng also had a hard time using the ability to share the space.
But it's just a place where you can build a facility, and there's no strict requirement.
After all, this is only a temporary place to live, and it is better to retain their reclamation ability, and if it is too simple, it is easy for these islanders to feel psychologically unbalanced.
In order to improve the living environment of these islanders at the same time, and also to fulfill the promise in the agreement, every day or two, Wei Minsheng will change a cargo ship to bring some earth and rock, so that these islanders can help to transport these earth and stones to the island.
Large stones were placed on the outermost part to block the direct erosion of the dirt behind the sea, which was preferentially piled up on the higher ground of the island.
For these islanders, who are often threatened by the waves, the only way to reassure them is to fill in the elevation of the island.
Of course, it should be Wei Minsheng's job to raise the elevation of the island, but in order to keep these islanders having something to do and not staring at their own reclamation actions in other places for a day.
At the same time, they are also given a certain amount of remuneration to improve their lives.
The more dependent they are on themselves, the more freedom they will have to do things on their own in the future, so Wei Minsheng is happy to let them taste some sweetness first.
As the island grew higher and higher, Tomani became more and more glad that he had made the right decision.
The islanders, who were immersed in joy, did not notice that in the place with this small island as the center and a radius of about 800 meters, Wei Minsheng and his people had invested a large number of large boulders through the shared space as a buffer zone against the waves on the seabed.
Although these boulders did not come out of the sea, the undercurrent impact around the island became weaker and weaker due to their presence.
The reclamation of the island cannot be completed all at once, as it will certainly cause a sensation in the world.
Therefore, after Wei Minsheng and his team fenced off the island with boulders, they suspended the work of using the shared space capacity to fill the island.