Homo sapiens

October 15, 2019.

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

The Japanese battleship Musashi sank in this sea area.

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

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

Sibuyan Island, San Fernando Town.

This small town with a population of just over 20,000 people was still a small place engaged in traditional agriculture more than eight months ago.

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

After more than half a year of boring scientific research, Zhang Jueming's team has completed a significant transformation from being in a hurry at the beginning to being very proficient now.

Zhang Jueming, who is a migrant worker in scientific research, has been engaged in genetic engineering work before. Although he has made many achievements, they are not his own after all.

Seeing that I am almost thirty-five years old, and my parents are also old at home, it is a bit difficult to buy a house in my hometown of Jinyang, let alone a prosperous career with my little income.

After much deliberation, he decided to resign from his previous company, and was eventually deceived into Luzon by mistake.

At first he thought he had been cheated, but it wasn't until his job stabilized that he felt he was in the right place.

As a scientific researcher, his salary within Homo Sapiens Company would be higher than that of employees of the same level. In addition, the company assigned him a house in San Fernando Town. Zhang Jueming, who was not married, did not feel any trouble.

What this 606 laboratory studies is genetically modified bamboo.

At first, Zhang Jueming didn’t understand the purpose of the company’s genetically modified bamboo. After all, what’s so good about bamboo?

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

Of course, they were able to quickly develop Tiezhu No. 5 not only because of their hard work, but also because of the powerful supercomputing center of the Homo sapiens company and some genetic modification ideas provided by Li Qingye.

At present, Homo Sapien Company has built the world's most powerful supercomputing center - Fuxi Supercomputing No. 1 - on an uninhabited desert island, with a floating-point computing limit of 3 million teraflops.

We must know that Tianhe-1, currently the world's number one supercomputer, has a floating-point computing limit of only 2.57 gigaflops.

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

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

Zhang Jueming's team can use the company's supercomputer all day long, using this huge computing power to brute force solve many problems.

Coupled with Li Qingye's guidance from behind, this was their success on Tiezhu No. 5.

Currently, Tiezhu No. 5, which has been castrated to prevent seed reproduction, has been planted in 10 hectares of mountainous land.

Zhang Jueming and several assistants used a high-pressure water jet to cut off a large piece of iron bamboo, and then wore a work-type exoskeleton to bring the bamboo back to the laboratory.

Laboratory 606 is right next to the bamboo forest.

Today, in addition to Zhang Jueming’s team, there is also Harlin Lopez, general manager of Coral Building Materials Company, and his team.

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

It's just that the strength of this two-finger-wide bamboo strip was beyond his imagination. He twisted so hard that his face turned red, but he still didn't break the bamboo strip.

"Huh...the strength of this thing is almost as strong as steel bars, isn't it?"

In response, Zhang Jueming smiled and shook his head: "Ordinary steel bars only have a strength of 300, but Tiezhu No. 5 can reach about 650."

"So high? Couldn't it replace steel bars?" Harlin looked extremely excited in his eyes.

Zhang Jueming nodded: "It can indeed replace steel bars. After deep processing, it can replace part of the steel bars in the building."

Harlin was not interested in knowing how to further process iron bamboo. After all, he was not an expert in materials science, so there was no need to delve too deeply into it.

He turned to Ji Xingchen, the director of the building materials market research department who was following him, and said in a low voice: "Xingchen, what do you think of the performance of this iron bamboo? Can it replace the function of steel bars in construction?"

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

After writing and drawing in a 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 bars. Its strength is higher than the steel bars on the market. Its flame retardancy and corrosion resistance are no less than those of the steel bars. In terms of unit weight, it is only one-third of the steel bars. , its unit cost is only a quarter of steel bars, this kind of iron bamboo has great potential."

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

"This..." Ji Xingchen suspected for a moment: "It is indeed possible. After all, bamboo has always been inferior to steel bars. This concept has been deeply rooted in people's hearts."

Holding the iron bamboo strips in his hand, Harin suddenly laughed: "It's too early to think about this problem now. Our company's products are all supplied to brother companies, and the market does not accept them. It has little to do with us."

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

Harlem immediately announced that Iron Bamboo would be commercialized.

Coral Building Materials Company will invest in the construction of an iron bamboo plantation on Sibuyan Island. The planting area is expected to reach 150 square kilometers and will be divided into three phases over three years.

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

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

If such small steel plants are placed in China, they are backward production capacities that need to be shut down.

But in Luzon it is the leading heavy industry.

However, the crazy scale of infrastructure construction of the Homo sapiens company means that the annual production capacity of 2.4 million tons of crude steel cannot meet the construction needs.

There are so many projects on roads, docks, bridges, employee dormitories, factories, and sea fields that Coral Construction Company had to import 840,000 pieces of construction steel from China this year to fill the demand gap.

Although this situation can be solved with imports, long-term dependence on imports is not a wise move.

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

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

Because the iron ores in Luzon are all pyrites with relatively low iron abundance and are notoriously inferior iron ores, the tens of millions of tons of pyrites currently controlled by Homo Sapiens Company have been suspended from mining.

Therefore, the steel factory of Coral Building Materials can only import cheap and useful iron ore from Australia.

The problem is that Li Qingye cannot trust Australia. In order to avoid being stuck in the future, Coral Building Materials can only prepare with two hands.

On the one hand, it imports double the amount of iron ore, while at the same time suspending domestic iron ore mining and doing a good job in iron ore reserves.

On the other hand, there is the search for alternatives to steel.

It was against this background that the iron bamboo project was established and developed. Nowadays, construction steel accounts for the majority of the steel used. As long as part of it can be replaced with iron bamboo, the saved steel can be used in military industry and shipbuilding.

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