Chapter 343: The Sydney Waterway

Regardless of the quality of the diamond ore that is about to be discovered, they will not make less money. After many years of bad luck, once he turned over, everyone was so happy that almost everyone didn't sleep all night.

The next morning, just after dawn, all the team members went up the mountain. The results did not disappoint them, and the diamond mine was found, and although they could not estimate the reserves of the minerals, what they saw alone was very considerable.

Zhang Qiang and Qiu Rui carefully placed the logo of their pioneer group near the mine, and then the pioneer group canceled the rest in the plan, and everyone was not slowly exploring and investigating, they rushed to Sydney as fast as possible. Qiu Rui should inform the company of this matter 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 excitedly broke into Fang Xiaoyu's study, he knew that Fang Xiaoyu had always been very concerned about the diamond vein, although he didn't know what it was for, but as soon as he received the news, he rushed to tell Fang Xiaoyu.

"Really? It's just wonderful. Fang Xiaoyu rubbed his hands excitedly in the room. Since Xiaofeng's level has gradually increased, because Fang Xiaoyu's brain cannot withstand the impact of the large amount of information brought by the scan, he has stopped scanning.

If Xiao Feng is allowed to scan by himself, because of the rigidity of the machinery, Xiao Feng can only scan one area at a time, and it is necessary to stipulate the scanning object, such a scanning efficiency is very low, and all Fang Xiaoyu will not carry out such a scan unless he has to, so he doesn't know that there is such a big treasure hidden in the Wild Continent.

The appearance of diamond mines means that Xiaofeng can be upgraded, and it also means that the research of the universe is in full swing, so Fang Xiaoyu attaches great importance to these mineral deposits, and when he heard that a large mine has been discovered, he hurriedly asked: "How big is this mine?" Who found out? ”

Lin Feng said: "It was discovered by that kid Qiu Rui, and according to the preliminary estimate of experts, there are at least one billion tons of mineral sand there. ”

Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Okay, great, this guy is really good, immediately help them set up a mine, we will buy all the diamonds produced." According to the agreement, seventy percent of the diamonds mined are owned by the consortium, but Fang Xiaoyu still feels that it is not enough, for him who is eager to upgrade Xiaofeng, the more diamonds, the better.

Although the mining of diamond is very slow, it cannot meet the requirements of Xiaofeng's upgrade for a while, but this time will not be too long, as long as there is hope, Fang Xiaoyu is very happy.

Fang Xiaoyu has a lot of things, and he can't just think about diamonds, before Lin Feng comes to tell him the good news, he is planning to change the strategic situation of the Chinese Empire.

Before the Chinese Empire entered the war, in addition to making a lot of war money, what Fang Xiaoyu wanted to do most was to clear the obstacles for the Chinese Empire and eliminate all hidden dangers, so that the Chinese Empire would have no worries after entering the war in the future.

Luring the Japanese State to attack was only the first step for Fang Xiaoyu to improve the strategic posture of the Chinese Empire, and in order to completely eliminate the hidden dangers around the empire, the next step was to target New Guinea and New Asia.

It is very simple to deal with the new Asian countries, which are still in a primitive society, but because they are too far away from the major powers, and there are no interests, no powerful countries have paid attention to them.

New Asia is located in the south of the wild continent, is two isolated islands standing on the ocean, not too far from the Sydney waterway, it has no mineral resources, and it is not on an important shipping lane, for other countries it is indeed a chicken rib existence, but not for the other party Xiaoyu.

Due to the increasing abundance of production in the Wild Continent, Fang Xiaoyu could not use Xiaofeng's transmission function to suppress his shipping industry, so the huge sea transportation volume was limited by the Moore waterway, which was still not wide, causing a lot of inconvenience, so a few years ago, the divers who had completed the Moore waterway cleanup work were put into the cleanup of the new waterway.

The cleaned waterway is located in the Sydney waterway near New Asia, which originally had no waterway, but after many exploration ships used sonar to explore along the coast of the wild continent, it was found that the area off Sydney was the most sparse place among all the reef groups around the wild continent, so it was chosen as the site to open up the waterway.

It took divers several years to use underwater blasting to finally open up this wide Sydney waterway, because the reef is much less than near the Moore waterway in the north, this waterway is less difficult to open, so after the opening of this Sydney waterway, it is more than three times wider than the Moore waterway, which has led to the emergence of a new harbour city of Sydney.

Since the beginning of the war, a large number of supplies have been sent to various parts of the world through Sydney Harbour, and the increasingly busy shipping has accelerated the expansion of Sydney Harbour, so that this small town that has just been established for several years has quickly developed into a maritime city covering an area of tens of square kilometers, and has a tendency to catch up with Moore Harbour.

As the strategic location of Sydney Harbour became more and more important, Fu Mingcheng, the commander of the Iron Army, who was responsible for the defense of the Savage Continent, became more and more worried about the safety of Sydney's waterways. Although the Predators had built a powerful coastal fort near Sydney Harbour and garrisoned a fleet, none of this reassured Fu Mingcheng.

The security of the long waterway is very fragile, if any fleet blocks the exit of the waterway, whether it is the shore defense artillery of Sydney City or the garrison fleet, it can only become a turtle in the urn, and at that time, no matter how powerful the fleet is, it can only be slaughtered, at least it will be completely blocked and the harbor will not be allowed to get out.

Although this is just a precaution, as the status of the Wild Continent becomes more and more important, Fu Mingcheng does not dare to be careless, and the best solution to protect the absolute safety of this waterway is to be able to occupy the New Asian country located a hundred nautical miles south of the waterway.

As long as this island country is used as a naval base, a warning radar station is established on the top of the hill in the middle of the two islands, and a fleet is strong enough, the safety of the Sydney waterway can be completely guaranteed.

The reason why Fang Xiaoyu disagreed with Fu Mingcheng's proposal was not that he could not see the importance of the geographical location of the new Asian country, on the contrary, he could see through the importance of various strategic places better than anyone else, just because the international situation was too delicate at that time, and he did not dare to touch the sensitive nerves of the major powers.

However, with the development of the Western Continent, the international situation has changed, and the major powers have been mired in war, and they have no energy to pay attention to Fang Xiaoyu's strategic moves, let alone set their sights on the vicinity of the Barbarian Continent, which has nothing to do with their interests. And the Boston Empire, the only one that could pose a threat to the Chinese Empire, had just suffered a loss and did not dare to provoke the Chinese Empire at all, and now was a good opportunity to annex here.

After receiving Fang Xiaoyu's order, Fu Mingcheng did not immediately send troops to capture New Asia. Even if the great powers invade and expand, they still need a pretext for war, otherwise they will have a bad reputation in the international community and will cause a lot of inconvenience to the future expansion of the Chinese Empire in the international community.

The Predator Army cannot invade other countries for no reason, even if they only represent a consortium, so Fu Mingcheng sent his confidant Liu Wei to New Asia to provoke the other party's domestic contradictions and provide an excuse for the Predator to intervene.

New Asia is the country closest to the polar regions in the southern hemisphere, there is no other land within thousands of nautical miles except for the wild continent nearby, it is composed of two large islands, the South Island and the North Island, with a total area of 268,000 square kilometers, and the two islands are inhabited by Maori people, with a total population of nearly 800,000.

Although the New Asian State is called a state, its form of government is closer to that of a tribal alliance, and the two large islands are governed by two tribal alliances. Of these, the North Island is ruled by Chief La Broli with a population of nearly 300,000, while the South Island is stronger than the North Island with a population of nearly 500,000 and is governed by Chief Cabrades.

Despite the recognition that the two sides belong to the same country, relations are not good. Fishermen on both sides often broke out into fights over the ownership of the fishing area, and the smell of gunpowder was very strong among the people on both sides, and it was only because the two chiefs put the overall situation first and tried their best to suppress it that no large-scale conflict broke out.

Liu Wei is a staff officer of the General Staff of the Iron Army, and he is usually clever and has a lot of ideas, so Fu Mingcheng sent him to deal with this task that cannot be completed by conventional methods.

Fu Mingcheng's original intention was to let Liu Wei go to meet with the two chiefs, sow discord from them, and let them fight on their own. But Liu Wei has never been a conformist, anyway, Fu Mingcheng gave him the task of stirring up trouble, and he simply didn't go to see any chiefs.

Liu Wei directly brought a few assistants, dressed as Maori, and went to the North Island to buy a Maori fishing boat, and a few people pretended to be fishing, rowing the boat to the fishing grounds where the two tribes often had disputes.

"Staff Officer Liu, what are we going to do?" A warrior asked, holding a rudimentary oar, rowing a boat.

Liu Wei looked at him with a smile and said, "Don't you all speak Maori?" Let's take a look at the situation in a while, and if we have the opportunity, we can provoke an incident, and try to kill a few of his people to complete the task. ”

"Listen to you, we're going to do the next big thing this time." The warrior laughed. Two warriors, one rowing and the other paddling, the small fishing boat sped forward like an arrow, and soon approached the traditional Maori fishing grounds.

Liu Wei put his hand on the pergola and looked around, and many fishing boats were busy. Upon closer inspection, Liu Wei noticed the difference, there are two colors of fishing boats here, one is black-brown, which is the fishing boat of the Maori people in the South Island, because they use black walnut wood to build their boats, on the contrary, the Maori people in the North Island use redwood, so their boats are dark red.

Liu Wei and his entourage bought a fishing boat from the North Island, which was naturally dark red, and if they wanted to provoke trouble, they had to find a black-brown fishing boat from the South Island. After two turns, Liu Wei quickly locked on to the target, which was the largest of these fishing boats, the whole boat was nearly 20 meters long and nearly 4 meters wide.