19/10/15.

After a storm, about 63 kilometers southeast of Banton Island, the famous Battle of Sibuyan was the famous battlefield of World War II.

The battleship Musashi of the Toei people sank in this sea area.

On the north side of the Sibuyan Sea is Sibuyan Island, a medium-sized island with an area of 445 square kilometers.

The island is also one of the core areas of the Fernando family.

Sibuyan Island, San Fernando Township.

With a population of just over 20,000 people, this small town was a small place engaged in traditional agriculture just over eight months ago.

It wasn't until Zhang Cianming brought people over here and established the 606 laboratory directly under the Homo sapiens company that some changes appeared here.

After more than half a year of boring scientific research, Zhang Cassia Ming's team has completed an obvious transformation from the beginning of the rush to the current mastery.

Zhang Cianming, who was born as a scientific research migrant worker, has been engaged in the work of genetically modified organisms before, although he has made many achievements, but after all, he is not his own.

Seeing that he is almost thirty-five years old, and his parents are also old, not to mention his little income, even if he buys a house in his hometown of Jinyang, it is a little difficult.

After thinking about it, he resigned from his previous company, and was finally fooled to Luzon.

At first, he thought he had been cheated, and it wasn't until his job stabilized that he felt he had come to the right place.

As a scientific researcher, the treatment within the company will be one level higher than that of employees at the same level, and the company allocated him a house in San Fernando Town, Zhang Jianming, who is not married, does not feel troubled.

The thing that this 606 laboratory is studying is genetically modified bamboo.

At the beginning, Zhang Jieming didn't understand the company's use of genetically modified bamboo, after all, what is the genetic improvement of bamboo?

But when they successfully cultivated Tiezhu No. 5, Zhang Cianming understood the company's idea.

Of course, they were able to quickly develop Tiezhu 5, not only because of their efforts, but also because of the powerful supercomputing center of Homo sapiens and some genetic modification ideas provided by Li Qingye.

At present, Homo sapiens has built the world's strongest supercomputing center - Fuxi Supercomputer No. 1 in an uninhabited desert island, with a floating-point operation limit of 3 million megabits per second.

You must know that Tianhe-1, which currently ranks first in the world's supercomputing, has only reached 2.57 gigabits per second in its floating-point operation.

Fuxi Supercomputer No. 1 is composed of 30,000 biochips, with a total cost of only about 6.73 million US dollars, and the daily operating cost is about 6,271 US dollars per day.

This is the advantage of biological computers, once developed, the production and operating costs are several orders of magnitude lower than traditional electronic computers.

Zhang's team can rub the company's supercomputing all day long, and use this huge computing power to brute-force many problems.

Coupled with Li Qingye's guidance behind the scenes, this led to their success on Tiezhu 5.

Tiezhu No. 5, which has been castrated to reproduce seeds, has been planted on 10 hectares of mountainous land.

Zhang Cianming and several assistants used a high-pressure waterjet to cut a large piece of iron bamboo, and then wore a working exoskeleton to bring the bamboo back to the laboratory.

Lab 606 is right next to the bamboo forest.

Today, in addition to the members of Zhang Cianming's team in the laboratory, there are also Harlem Lopez, the general manager of Coral Building Materials Company, and his party.

Haring looked at the iron bamboo that had been processed in the laboratory, picked up one of the bamboo sticks, and twisted it vigorously in his hand.

It's just that this two-finger-wide bamboo strip is a little stronger than he imagined, and his face turned red, but he still didn't break the bamboo strip.

"Whew...... This thing is almost as strong as the steel bar, right? ”

In this regard, Zhang Cianming shook his head with a smile: "The strength of ordinary steel bars is only 300, and Tiezhu No. 5 can reach about 650." ”

"So high? Wouldn't that be a substitute for rebar? Haring's eyes were filled with excitement.

Zhang Cianming nodded: "It can indeed replace the steel bar, and after deep processing, replace a part of the steel bar in the building." ”

Haring is not interested in knowing how to process iron bamboo deeply, after all, he is not an expert in materials science, so there is no need to study too deeply.

He turned his head and said in a low voice to Ji Xingchen, the head of the building materials market research department who came over: "Xingchen, what do you think of the performance of this iron bamboo?" Can it replace the function of rebar in construction? ”

Ji Xingchen did not answer immediately, but asked Zhang Cianming about the specific material parameters of iron bamboo, as well as the planting cost and processing cost.

After writing and drawing in a small notebook for more than ten minutes, Ji Xingchen finally figured out the performance, cost, and use of iron bamboo.

"General manager, I think this iron bamboo can replace a large part of the steel bar, its strength is higher than the steel bar on the market, flame retardant, corrosion resistance is not less than the steel bar, in the unit weight, it is only one-third of the steel bar, and its unit cost is only a quarter of the steel bar, this iron bamboo is promising."

Haring thought for a moment and asked, "If it is launched on the market all at once, will it be difficult for customers to accept it?" ”

"This ......" Ji Xingchen was suspicious: "It is indeed possible, after all, bamboo has always been inferior to steel bar, and this concept has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people." ”

Holding the iron bamboo strip in his hand, Haring suddenly laughed: "It's too early to think about this problem, our company's products are supplied to brother companies, and the market does not accept it, and it has little to do with us." ”

"That's just as well." Ji Xingchen almost forgot that about 70% of their company's products are supplied to Coral Construction Company.

Harlem immediately announced that Tiezhu had entered the commercial promotion.

Coral Building Materials Co., Ltd. will invest in the construction of an iron bamboo plantation on Sibuyan Island, with an estimated planting area of 150 square kilometers, divided into three phases over three years.

In fact, as the general manager of Coral Building Materials, Haring has been under great pressure recently, mainly because the production capacity of steel mills cannot keep up with demand.

At present, after integration and expansion, Coral Building Materials has a total of 3 steel plants with an annual output of 2.4 million tons of crude steel.

This kind of small steel plant in China is a backward production capacity that needs to be shut down.

But in Luzon it is the leading heavy industry.

However, the crazy scale of infrastructure construction of Homo sapiens makes the annual production capacity of 2.4 million tons of crude steel unable to meet the construction needs.

Roads, docks, bridges, staff dormitories, factories, and Haitian projects have led to Coral Construction having to import 840,000 yuan of construction steel from China this year to fill the demand gap.

This situation can be solved by imports, but it is not a wise move to rely on imports for a long time.

What's more, Homo sapiens will also raise a new Luzon shipbuilding company, and in the future, shipbuilding steel and military steel will definitely be self-sufficient.

Continuing to expand steel mills is also not a good idea.

Because the iron ore in Luzon is all pyrite with relatively low iron abundance, it is notoriously inferior iron ore, and the tens of millions of tons of pyrite controlled by Homo sapiens have been suspended.

Therefore, the steel mill of Coral Building Materials can only import cheap and easy-to-use iron ore from Australia.

The problem is that Li Qingye can't believe in Australia, and in order to avoid being stuck in the future, coral building materials can only be prepared with both hands.

On the one hand, double the import of iron ore, and at the same time suspend domestic iron ore mining, do a good job in iron ore reserves.

On the other hand, it is to find alternatives to steel.

Iron bamboo is in this context, was the project research and development, now the construction steel occupies the majority of the steel, as long as you can use the iron bamboo to replace a part, the saved steel, can be used in military industry and shipbuilding.