50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 899 Transformation Plan

According to the Greek Private Island Law, after Sun Zhiwei bought the island, he also needs to give up the beach as a public area.

So he decided to skip the beach altogether and instead build a breakwater 500 meters away from it.

He plans to build two rings of these breakwaters around the island, and then raise a group of adorable creatures such as sea snakes, box jellyfish, blue-ringed octopuses, and electric eels in the middle of the two rings of breakwaters.

Outside the breakwater, he would periodically release fresh blood to attract more sharks to the nearby waters.

If you're capable, climb the dam and swim across alive. If you're not, you can't blame anyone but yourself if you die in the sea.

Everyone outside is saying this place is Devil's Island, so he's going to build a Devil's Island that will terrify people and let them see it for themselves.

It's believed that if a few more tourists die on Ialos Island, it will further solidify Alcatraz's reputation, and probably no one will dare to come here to take advantage of it anymore.

It was precisely because he had already considered the countermeasures that he immediately submitted the "Application for Security and Protection Improvement of Iyaros Island".

The day after completing the formalities and receiving the certificate, Sun Zhiwei took a speedboat and arrived alone at Iyaros Island.

The island of Ialos is located about 100 kilometers southeast of Athens.

The island covers an area of ​​5 square kilometers and is located almost in the center of the Aegean Sea.

Unfortunately, the island's environment is not very good. Ialos Island is shaped like an inverted T, with a high center and low surrounding areas.

The highest ridge on the island has a "Y" shape, with an elevation of over 500 meters.

Sun Zhiwei drove the speedboat around the coast and found that there were very few narrow beaches along the coastline. The edges of the islands were mostly cliffs, which made them home to many seabirds.

He eventually arrived at the eastern side of the island, on a beach not far from the abandoned castle prison.

After wandering around the island, I finally got a direct impression of it.

The first impression this place gives is "desolate" because there is almost no flat ground on the island, but there are quite a lot of piles of rocks.

It's probably because the soil on the island isn't very good; there aren't many large trees here, only some low shrubs.

Because there is no large area of ​​vegetation, the barren land here cannot retain water, so there is no freshwater resource on the island.

In the past, the castle prison's water and electricity were brought in from the large island next door. Now, due to years of disrepair, the underwater pipes and lines are no longer usable.

There was the ruins of a small dock where he had just landed, but because it had not been used for many years, the wooden piles and piers of the dock had all rotted away, leaving only a few remnants.

Judging from the appearance, a breakwater will be built around the island, with a total length of about 30 kilometers and a surrounding seawater depth of only about 5 meters.

The breakwater he wanted to build consisted of a three-meter-deep trapezoidal foundation and a three-meter-high triangular "quadrilateral pyramidal breakwater block" accumulation.

That adds up to 40 cubic meters of earthwork and 13 "quadrangular pyramid wave-damping blocks".

The construction of two breakwaters involved 80 cubic meters of earthwork and 26 square concrete cones.

Earthwork is easy to handle; his space allows him to simply place the soil in the designated location, forming a trapezoidal foundation underwater.

However, the four corner cement cones needed to be custom-made by a building materials company, which would take a considerable amount of time and be quite expensive. After thinking for a moment, he called the contact person at the Greek National Land Administration and obtained the phone number of a Greek building materials supplier from him.

After he told the building materials merchant the shape and material of the "quadrangular pyramid wave-damping blocks" he needed, the merchant actually quoted him a price of $150 per block.

Although Sun Zhiwei is rich, he's not stupid; this price is even higher than America's in China.

His money didn't grow on trees; he's already been swindled once, so he can't let them swindle him again.

Considering the Greeks' lax work efficiency, Sun Zhiwei had no expectations for how quickly this thing would be manufactured in Greece.

Therefore, he decisively took out his satellite phone and contacted the branch manager of Cathay Bank's Shenhe branch, asking him to order four-corner concrete cones from the Shenhe City Government.

Currently, the entire Shenhe area is undergoing large-scale infrastructure construction. Precast concrete plants in Shenhe can certainly mass-produce these low-tech infrastructure materials.

The most expensive part of making "quadrangular pyramid wave-damping blocks" is undoubtedly the mold making. The cost of a casting mold is naturally much higher than that of a single finished product.

However, if the order quantity is large enough, it is still profitable, and the cost decreases in the opposite direction as the order quantity increases.

He plans to order 1 million "quadrangular pyramidal wave-damping blocks" at once, priced at $50 each, which would cost approximately $60 million including shipping.

Although the price was much lower than that in Greece, it was still a considerable order.

Although the individual amounts are not large, a massive foreign exchange order of one million units would be a huge windfall for a precast concrete plant, a company that doesn't usually receive overseas orders.

The additional $1000 million in shipping orders will certainly be welcomed by the City of Deep River.

For the Shenhe City Government, even if this order doesn't make them money, they'll still profit from exchanging domestic currency for foreign exchange.

Moreover, although Sun Zhiwei did not know the cost in China, he was certain it was not as high as $50 per unit, because labor costs in China were really too cheap.

The Shenhe City Government will definitely give Cathay Bank, which brought them $6000 million in orders, even more preferential treatment.

By awarding these orders to the Shenhe City Government, Sun Zhiwei essentially increased the city's foreign exchange reserves.

The news of this order will definitely reach higher authorities in the future, which will be very beneficial for him to solidify his patriotic image.

In the future, many of his company's orders will be directed towards the domestic market. Earning money abroad and spending it domestically is what a patriot should do.

He's already very wealthy abroad, so why does he keep taking on assignments in China? Because his roots are still in China, and he'll eventually return to his homeland.

After securing a supplier of "quadrangular pyramidal wave-damping blocks," he began to consider the soil issues on the island.

He had just inspected the site and found that the soil was indeed unsuitable. It was not only sandy but also severely saline, with the thickest part of the soil only 10-20 centimeters thick.

Beneath this barren soil, which is at most a palm's width deep, lies a layer of hard granite. No wonder no trees grow on the island; the roots of large trees simply cannot penetrate into the rock.

After careful consideration, he decided to carry out a major renovation of the place ahead of schedule.

First, a layer of loose rock and barren soil on the surface is removed, and then fertile soil is found and stored back using the space, increasing the thickness of the soil on the island to more than one meter.

(End of this chapter)