Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

"Old Ma, what happened just now?"

After the Hanjing captain Li Xianwei arrived and called the Kunpeng through the intercom, he asked Ma Jianping.

"It's nothing serious. It's just that the Rogue Eagle Waller destroyer, which just left a while ago, discovered that we were working here, and then it went around us and took a thorough look at every aspect of us. It may have also taken a lot of photos of us." Ma Jianping replied.

"It seems that they have basically figured out what our Kunpeng is for. It is even possible that they have estimated our approximate work efficiency, because we did not stop working when they were hanging around."

"It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether they know it or not. We are carrying out construction on our own territorial waters and islands. No one can help us." Li Xianwei heard that the rogue eagle was just observing the surrounding area and didn't take it seriously.

They patrolled and inspected the surrounding area, and only felt relieved after making sure that there were no unidentified objects, such as mines, that were deliberately "dropped" by the Rogue Eagle destroyer.

It’s not that they are afraid of these things. The key is that there is only one Kunpeng now, and they can’t afford the loss. Don’t overestimate the bottom line of the Rogue Eagle. If they drop something in the sea, it will be difficult for us to blame them.

If things go wrong, you can only blame yourself for your bad luck.

If the Kunpeng were hit by a deep-water mine, it would probably be destroyed.

Fortunately, the Waller was not so shameless, or did not dare to be so shameless. After all, if he dared to do such a thing, the big black carp swimming in the ocean could teach them a lesson in minutes. After the Waller reconnaissance around Nanwei Island, it left on its own.

"Brother Ren, the Rogue Eagles have protested. They have protested through diplomatic channels against our island-building operations in the Nansha Islands, believing that we are changing the natural state there and strongly demanding that we stop such actions."

A few days later, Staff Officer Ye found Ren Zhong and reported a new diplomatic incident.

"It doesn't matter. We just ignore them." Ren Zhong's attitude towards this matter is very clear.

"We are carrying out construction on our own island. It is not the place for others to make irresponsible comments on this matter."

"Haha, our Old Chen said the same thing. It seems that you two really are in sync with each other." Staff Officer Ye said with a smile.

"But despite this, this matter is still a bit troublesome. After the rogue eagle's nonsense, it has caused some anxiety among the surrounding neighbors. They are also asking through notes about our plans and uses on Nanwei Island." Staff Officer Ye changed the subject and talked about the headache.

"We don't need to spoil them too much. Just tell them that we are building a large lighthouse with navigation functions to optimize the safety of international waterways. Of course, we don't have to keep it secret. We can give them a hint that we will also build our forward outpost on the island to improve the living environment of the soldiers guarding the border," Ren Zhong added.

In theory, these are what needs to be done and are based on facts, but they are not comprehensive.

According to this statement, the island promoted to the outside world is just a large outpost.

Anyway, the 11-dash lines have already included these places in the territory of the University of Tokyo, and now there doesn't seem to be much problem in doing some construction to stabilize them.

"We said almost the same thing, but they didn't seem to believe it." Staff Officer Ye smiled bitterly. "They are very worried about turning this place into a large front-line military base."

People around here don’t know how big we want to build Nanwei Island to be.

But even if the news we received now says it is one square kilometer, it is already terrifying enough.

If it is built into a base, it would probably be no problem to place several thousand troops here. For the surrounding neighbors, having several thousand people would be enough to have a revolutionary impact on them.

Everyone knows that the soldiers of the University of Tokyo can fight one against a thousand. It has only been a few years since hundreds of Indians were chased and beaten by three soldiers of the University of Tokyo.

"It's okay, they will eventually learn to accept it." Ren Zhong was silent for a while, and then said something that made Staff Officer Ye laugh and cry.

"I'm afraid even Old Chen can't say this." Staff Officer Ye said with a wry smile.

Ren Zhong thought about it for a while and felt that it was indeed a bit inconsistent with our usual kindness.

“If you are selfless, the world will be wide open to you. Our construction in the Nansha Islands is not aimed at anyone. It is just a normal operation to strengthen our own coastal defense. We have always believed that the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence are the most important principles that all countries on the Blue Planet should abide by. Let’s put it this way. No matter whether they believe it or not, as long as we believe it ourselves, it’s fine.” Ren Zhong said.

After listening to this, Staff Officer Ye thought about it carefully for a while and felt that there was indeed nothing serious wrong.

Although it is useless, they are still worried, but in fact, without the island construction, will they not be worried? That is impossible. When our fleet was built from the First Fleet to the Third Fleet, and now we are building the Fourth Fleet (the ocean-going fleet facing the Pacific and Indian Oceans), we actually know that we can't afford to offend them.

So does it matter whether there is such an island?
It's not important at all. They just use the excuse provided by Rogue Eagle to express their concerns and attract international attention.

Staff Officer Ye felt that it didn't matter what was said. As long as the situation was manageable, the matter would be over soon.

A small episode did not affect Kunpeng's day and night work.

The almost unlimited power supply of nuclear power allows Kunpeng to work in three shifts around the clock. The engineering team set up a temporary camp on the island and took turns at sea and on the ship. Except for mechanical maintenance and repairs, the entire work has been carried out uninterruptedly, so progress has been rapid.

Even though there were occasional noises coming from the outside world, there were many large and small ships, both visible and hidden, coming to check on the progress from time to time, but none of them dared to come up and stop the construction.

After learning from the lesson of the Waller, at least one ship of the garrison detachment was stationed around the island to ensure that it would not be subject to close reconnaissance and inspection as last time.

Now they can only watch this place from a few miles away.

The first thing built was a port for giant 10,000-ton ships to dock, and then the newly built sand island that was gradually taking shape was continuously compacted and compacted.

At this time, our strategy is actually very simple, which is to build these islands as soon as possible.

Once the construction is completed, it is not surprising that there will be disturbances from the outside world. Of course, in the world of Sword, the current Dongda has the ability to protect its own territorial waters, so no matter what others say, it will not affect our own actions.

Whether it is the Third Fleet or the Garrison Detachment, these are just our frontline forces in the South China Sea. We have more than just these.

The independent strategic nuclear submarine fleet now has its base built on a port facing the Pacific Ocean.

After the Black Fish Strategic Fleet was established as an independent force, it has achieved normal global submarine operations. It may be in the Pacific Ocean today and enter the Atlantic Ocean tomorrow, with a focus on being a nomadic entity.

What is worrying the great powers is that now, after testing the detection limits of the great powers' sonar, the big black fish of the University of Tokyo has figured out how to tease them. It always shows up a little bit in places they can't touch, and then dives deep and floats away, making the navies of the great powers hate and fear it. The feeling of being inferior to others is too uncomfortable for them.

Ever since the big black fish, a deadly weapon, began to float around in the sea, comrades in diplomacy have discovered that even the great powers now speak in a much nicer manner and no longer call for fighting and killing.

For Ren Zhong, this is inevitable, after all, the truth is within the range of the cannon. Now that the big black fish has extended the range of the cannon without limit, everyone will calmly consider many issues.

However, this matter is not good enough yet. The submarine-launched missile "Mad Wolf" is still under testing. When this thing comes out, using "Mad Wolf" will better demonstrate the attitude of the University of Tokyo.

Now it is just a threat to the aircraft carrier battle group, but its power is still a little bit short.

As of today, the three-in-one peace system architecture is still a little lacking in both the land-based and air-based parts. They can be touched, but they do not yet have complete coverage. This is inevitably a pity for Ren Zhong.

But these do not hinder our island-building plan to strengthen coastal defense.

Although the house has started construction, the surrounding neighbors are either jealous or uneasy, and always have some opinions.

Ren Zhong felt that they could be given the opportunity to express their feelings, but we still had to do what we planned.

There are still many things that have not been truly completed in Nansha.

This Nanwei Island is only the first of them. According to the original plan, we have to build more than ten solid islands here before we can stabilize this treasure place. Ren Zhong has stayed in the world of Bright Sword for more than ten years, and has been working hard on the development of various technology trees. In these more than ten years, the overall technological level of Dongda has been almost raised to the level of the 1960s, and some parts have even reached the level of the 1980s, leading the technological level of the world of Bright Sword by more than ten years. If under such circumstances, Ren Zhong can't even do such a small thing in Nansha, he might as well return to the main world and wait for death.

In fact, the matter of building an island was diluted by other things after a period of time.

It didn't even affect Ding Wei's hybrid rice promotion plan here.

It took Ding Wei more than two months to travel from Sawadee Ka to the Thousand Islands and around the Emerald Kingdom.

After seeing the implementation on site, Ding Wei now has a plan in mind and is relieved to leave the follow-up matters to his subordinates to implement according to plan. Overall, under the condition of ensuring that the grain output is lower than the original output and making up the difference, almost all farmers in the demonstration sites have chosen to cooperate.

Of course, these were the activists selected locally. This work had already been done in advance, and when the time came to do it, Ding Wei felt that it was okay to ask for some benefits as long as it was reasonable. What's more, it was just a promise. For Dongda, which has been engaged in hybrid grain planting experience for more than ten years, increasing production by 50% is a failure, let alone breaking even. This is simply a disregard for Dongda's hybrid technology.

Fortunately, Ding Wei himself came from a farming family and had been dealing with farmers since he was a guerrilla. Even though the national conditions were different and he could not fully understand the thoughts of those grassroots farmers, he could understand most of them. So this matter was not difficult to resolve and it soon got on the right track.

In the first wave, nearly 10 million mu of demonstration fields have been mobilized and cultivation has been completed.

So Ding Wei set off for the second development site.

The first stop was Rhodesia.

Accompanied by the first secretary of the University of East Asia stationed at John Bull's home, Ding Wei met with John Justin Llewellyn, a local colonial official in Rhodesia.

"Director Ding, this is Sir Llewellyn, the governor of Rhodesia. Sir Llewellyn, this is Mr. Ding Wei, the director of our Dongda International Agricultural Cooperation and Development Committee. Mr. Ding Wei is also the chairman of our Dongda International Agricultural Cooperation and Development Co., Ltd."

"Welcome, Mr. Ding from the magical East. Please allow me and the local authorities of Rhodesia to warmly welcome Mr. Ding." Llewellyn welcomed him with flawless aristocratic diplomatic etiquette.

Ding Wei responded with a smile: "Sir Llewellyn, it is a great honor to meet you here. Rhodesia has fertile land and unique natural conditions, which are extremely advantageous for the development of agriculture. I hope that in the future cooperation, we can work together to further promote cooperation and development in the field of agriculture between the two sides."

Sir Llewellyn nodded in agreement and smiled in return, "Mr. Ding, I am deeply honored by your praise. Indeed, Rhodesia has unique natural conditions for the development of agriculture. Due to various reasons in the past, our agricultural development was not satisfactory, and so far we have not achieved self-sufficiency in food for the local people. The development of modern agriculture is inseparable from the power of scientific and technological development and international cooperation. Dongda has great achievements and rich experience in agricultural science and technology development, especially hybrid technology, which is what we are eager to learn and draw lessons from. I believe that through the joint efforts of both sides, we will be able to create a new situation of mutual benefit and win-win results."

Seeing that the other party was quite sensible and there seemed to be no obstacles to promoting agricultural cooperation, Ding Wei prepared to get straight to the point: "Sir Llewellyn, I agree with your point of view very much. Our Dongda Agricultural International Cooperation and Development Committee and its subsidiary International Agricultural Cooperation and Development Co., Ltd. have been committed to promoting global agricultural technology exchanges and cooperation since their establishment. At present, we have promoted the planting of nearly 10 million mu of hybrid rice fields in the Asian service area. Next, I hope we will have the opportunity to carry out similar promotion in Rhodesia.

We hope to use our hybridization technology and rich farming management experience developed over the years to help Rhodesia establish high-quality and high-yield demonstration farmland. We look forward to in-depth cooperation with Rhodesia in seed breeding, irrigation technology, agricultural product processing and other fields to jointly improve agricultural production efficiency and increase farmers' income."

Sir Llewellyn's eyes flashed with anticipation: "Mr. Ding, your proposal is very forward-looking and very good. On behalf of the Rhodesian local government, I strongly support such cooperation projects and am willing to provide necessary policy support and resource guarantees for it. I believe that with the joint efforts of both sides, we will be able to turn these beautiful visions into reality and bring tangible benefits to the local people."

Rhodesia has a single industry: mineral mining and agriculture. However, for Llewellyn, the development of agriculture is too uncontrollable. Both the local tribes' own farmland and the farms they have opened up are now operating at a loss.

For the locals, there was almost no farming technology to speak of. They simply planted crops and relied on the weather for their food. As a result, Rhodesia, which had a large amount of arable land, was still unable to be self-sufficient in food, which caused Llewellyn a lot of trouble.

Therefore, after the University of Tokyo extended the olive branch of farming, the John Bull family was completely unable to resist such a good thing.

Ding Wei nodded. Since both parties have the same goal, things will be much easier. "Then, Sir Llewellyn, please arrange for the right people to connect with us and select a suitable area for farming for our cooperation. From now on, we can still catch up with this year's planting season."

"No problem, Mr. Ding. We have a lot of undeveloped arable land in Rhodesia. I believe we will reach an agreement next."

(End of this chapter)