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The history of human evolution is the history of tool use.

From wooden weapons at the beginning, to stone weapons later, and then from stone weapons, they slowly evolved to metal bronze tools.

Bronze is soft in texture and cannot be used to make large weapons, so iron with better performance came into being.

After thousands of years of development, iron became steel.

After entering the industrial age, steel production is the only indicator to measure the strength of a country.

During the two world wars, humans have thoroughly played with the research of steel, and various high-strength alloys and various composite materials have come into being.

Under the attack of drill bits made of tungsten carbide and fused with diamond abrasives, coral polyps spent tens of millions of years to accumulate coral reefs, just like an egg that hits a stone, and it turns into a pile of debris with a slight touch.

These limestone debris are sucked into the suction port on the drill bit at the moment of breaking, and then enter the dredger through a long pipe.

Without enjoying half a second of rest, they are forced into a 4.3-kilometer-long pipeline by the huge pressure of the air compressor, running all the way in the pipeline, and finally come to the stilt house.

The boat controlling the outlet of the pipeline kept moving on the sea, spreading the sand and gravel evenly under the stilt house.

In just about an hour, a gravel sand area of ​​about 1,000 square meters and about 80 centimeters above the water surface appeared in front of Qi Hai and others.

At this moment, the 34 people of the 4th Platoon of the 9th Border Defense Company had forgotten to stand guard. The 34 people stood neatly at the fence of the outpost, staring at all this in amazement.

In the crowd, a soldier who looked to be in his 20s raised his hands and gestured to the area that was filled with water, revealing a face full of disbelief.

The next second, almost without hesitation, the soldier raised his right hand and slapped himself directly.

Even at sea, even with the whistling sea breeze, the crisp slap still woke up the comrades around the soldier.

They woke up from their amazement one by one, turned their heads, and looked at the soldier who slapped them in amazement.

Qi Hai was also among them.

He blinked, gestured with his hands helplessly, and asked the soldier blankly: "Lu Daneng, are you stupid?"

When asked, Lu Daneng immediately raised his left hand and slapped his left face, with the same crisp sound and the same heavy force.

After the slap, the left half of his dark face began to turn red slowly.

Although his face was turning red, Lu Daneng's face did not show pain, but excitement.

He jumped in front of Qi Hai, grabbed Qi Hai's shoulders with both hands, and shook him madly. While shaking, he grinned and shouted at Qi Hai:

"Platoon leader, in just one hour, this ship has blown out at least 800 square meters."

"800 square meters!"

"This outpost under our feet is only more than 700 square meters in total."

"If it is handled well, we can grow vegetables on these 800 square meters. That's more than an acre of land, and the vegetables we grow are enough for us to eat."

"We don't have to eat those wilted cucumbers anymore."

"The climate here is good. We will contact the regiment later and ask the regiment to send us some seeds. Plant the seeds this month. At the latest, next month, these seeds will germinate and grow fresh seedlings."

"As long as the seedlings can grow, we can eat fresh vegetables at any time!"

Lu Daneng spoke very clearly and didn't look crazy at all.

After listening to Lu Daneng's wonderful ideas, his comrades beside him also turned their heads and cast their eyes on the sandy land that was filled.

While they were talking, the sandy land of more than 800 square meters expanded by dozens of square meters.

And the sand and stones were also filled under their feet. They could jump off the fence in front of them and step directly on the sandy land.

Looking at the land that suddenly appeared in front of them, a group of people had golden light flashing in their eyes, as if they saw gold.

Knowing that Lu Daneng was not crazy, Qi Hai breathed a sigh of relief, and then he raised his right hand and slapped Lu Daneng's hand.

Opening his hands, he straightened his messy clothes, squinted his eyes, and asked with disdain: "You have grown vegetables before, can this seawater be used to water vegetables?"

"Also, these broken gravel are still very soft and need to be processed before people can go up."

"As for growing vegetables, those finer mud and sand should be fine, but we have to remove the salt first."

"If you really want to grow them, I can help you find some books from Political Commissar Long so that you can study them specifically."

Hearing Qi Hai's words, the brilliance in Lu Daneng's eyes slowly disappeared, but after a moment, the brilliance turned into flames.

That was the fire that could change the world and refuse to admit defeat to the world.

He clenched his fists and shouted loudly: "Give me a book, I want to grow vegetables!"

"Okay!" Qi Hai nodded, slowly turned his head, and focused his attention on the flying land in front of him.

Well--

First make a dam to prevent the sea water from washing away these sand and stones.

Then mark out the left side and plant the white mulberry, plant tomatoes on the right, and plant potatoes a little bit in front.

No, I can't grow potatoes.

I have to raise chickens, chickens and ducks!

The most abundant thing on the sea is small fish and small shrimps. Chickens and ducks are omnivorous birds. If you keep some chickens and ducks here, you can feed them small fish and shrimps.

The manure produced by these chickens and ducks can be composted to improve the soil.

And chickens and duck eggs...

No, the damn ducks can't lay one egg a day, we still have to raise chickens.

These small fish and shrimps can ensure that the chickens lay one egg every day. As long as there are forty or fifty chickens, the people in the post can eat an egg every day.

Occasionally, you can also stew a chicken.

Perfect!

Thinking of the beautiful future, Qi Hai slowly turned his head and set his eyes on the stilt house next to him.

As a veteran who has been on duty here for many years, he knows the changes in this post best.

At the beginning, this was not a stilt house, but a bamboo raft house made of bamboo.

Relying on some cables, it was barely fixed on the reef. Later, when the conditions improved a little, these stilt houses were built.

In the 1990s, due to the need for border construction, the Navy transported cement and steel bars from Hai Province by ship, and it took more than half a year to build this outpost under your feet.

Construction is not the biggest problem, the biggest problem is raw materials.

Because there is no obvious land here, everything must be transported by ship.

Large ships cannot reach the reefs, and small boats cannot sail far, so they can only use large ships to transport to the edge of the reefs, and then use small boats to transport, and then build.

The climate at sea is treacherous and changeable. It is possible that a small boat has just transported a ship of cement, and the next second there will be a gust of wind, followed by heavy rain, which will wet all the cement that has been transported with great difficulty and completely scrap the cement.

Under this premise, the Navy spent a lot of effort to build several small outposts on several islands and reefs.

And every time a new recruit arrives, Qi Hai’s main job is to talk to the new recruits.

And the new recruits’ favorite things are the vegetables and fruits delivered every time.

Every time he ate fruits and vegetables, Qi Hai dreamed that there was a vegetable field next to his outpost, which was full of tomatoes, cucumbers, and some small fruits.

When he was tired from training or when he was changing shifts, he could go to the vegetable field and leisurely pick a cucumber or tomato and put it in his mouth.

Feel the freshness and juiciness of the cucumber and the sweet and sour taste of the tomato.

But he knew that was impossible.

There were 34 people here, and the vegetable field was too small, so the vegetables grown were definitely not enough for them to eat.

But if they wanted to expand the area of ​​the vegetable field, they would need to expand the outpost island where they were, but that would require a lot of money.

The country was in a difficult situation, and he couldn't add to the difficulties of the country because of the selfish desires of a few people.

But his persistence was broken by the sudden visit of the ship today and at this moment.

Great!

On the bridge of the dredger, Long Hai held a telescope and looked at the direction of the outpost with a smile.

After watching for a while, he turned around and asked Lin Yu with a puzzled look on his face: "By the way, why did you only fill two meters for the first time? I think it can be filled in one go."

"If the tide rises at night, I guess all of your two meters will be soaked in water."

Hearing his senior brother's words, Lin Yu, who was helping to record data in front of the driving platform, turned around and gave his senior brother a middle finger.

He asked with a squinting look: "Have you never built a road?"

"Why should my navy build a road? Have you built one?" Long Hai answered righteously, with doubt in his eyes.

In front of the driving platform, after receiving Long Hai's answer, Lin Yu scratched the stubble on his chin with his hand, and he fell into hesitation.

He was hesitating whether to write another letter to the General Staff to add some training subjects to this group of navy.

But after thinking about it carefully, he gave up this idea. After all, it is the Army's pontoon bridge unit, which is now a branch of the engineering corps, that needs to build roads for rapid mobility on land.

He didn't need to let the ducks on the water and the ducks on land go into the water for the sake of filming effects like a certain director did.

Shaking his head gently, he responded: "In architectural mechanics, there is a thing called settlement."

"When reclaiming land, we must try our best to avoid settlement in the later stage, so we can only fill two meters at a time, and then let these two meters settle evenly before filling up."

"However, I estimate that filling three to four meters here is enough, and it would be a waste if it is more."

"Instead of worrying about this, you might as well worry about dinner tonight. To be honest, the cooking team on your ship still needs to practice cooking skills."

When this sentence came out, Long Hai nodded thoughtfully, then looked back at the reclaimed land, as if he had learned something.

Then, he turned around, raised his middle finger to his junior brother, and taunted:

"If I tell the people in the kitchen team what you said, they will definitely fight you to death."

"But there is nothing good on the ship, so just make do with it."

"I'll send a message to the ship and ask the kitchen team to cook a small meal."

As he said that, he walked to the side, took the walkie-talkie from his guard, and started calling the 167 ship:

"Hello, this is Long Hai, this is Long Hai, let the kitchen team catch two fish, let the kitchen team catch two fish, and prepare two hard dishes."

On the other side, on the 167 ship, Captain Shen Guilin listened to the voice coming from the intercom, turned around and glanced around, only to find that the people around him were looking at the strange ship with surprised eyes.

Shaking his head, he smiled helplessly, walked to the side with the communicator, and began to call the kitchen team:

"You cast a net, catch a few good fish and shrimp, and make some steamed seafood in the evening for our friend who came from afar to taste."

"By the way, make it lighter."

After instructing the kitchen team, Shen Guilin returned to his seat. As soon as he sat down, Geng Haiqing, the deputy captain of the 167 ship, came over with a cup of tea and asked with a smile:

"If the Filipinos hear about our land reclamation, will they be anxious?"

"If they are anxious, what do you think they will do?"

Geng Haiqing's face was full of smiles, looking like a harmless person. If he was a little fatter, he might be a Maitreya Buddha.

However, as a partner for many years, Shen Guilin knew very well that Geng Haiqing was not as gentle as he looked.

He could ask this question in his heart, which showed that he had seriously thought about it in his mind.

As for the reaction of the Philippines, you can know it without guessing.

It is nothing more than getting anxious and angry, and then sending ships out to see if they can cause trouble.

It is precisely based on this consideration that their 167 ship will appear here with the dredger.

After thinking for a moment, Shen Guilin showed a sneer on his face:

"As long as they dare to make a move, we will play with them. It is up to them to pick a fight or not, but if they start a fight, it is not their responsibility to end it or not."

"Our mission here is to ensure that the dredger can complete the test task successfully."

"After this test is completed, the next ship that appears here may have to be two or three times larger."

"Now we can fill more than 800 square meters in an hour. The next time we appear here, there may be more than a dozen ships that can fill two or three thousand square meters in an hour."

"This is more important."

"Our ships are relatively poor, so let's turn the naval battle into a landing battle!"

After the last word came out, the sneer on Chen Guilin's face turned into a hearty laugh, and Geng Haiqing next to him also had the same smile on his face. The two of them held the teacups in front of them, smiled at each other, and touched the teacups together.

After touching the teacup and taking a sip of tea, Geng Haiqing looked at Chen Guilin with an inquiring look on his face and asked:

"It takes at least 10 to 20 years for a ship to go from project establishment to research and development, to manufacturing and delivery, to testing, and then to long-distance testing."

"Why is the person in charge this time a young man, and I think Political Commissar Long has a good relationship with him?"

"That's his junior brother." After casually explaining the relationship between the two, Shen Guilin stood up, walked to the porthole, looked into the distance with a telescope, and sighed:

"He's in his 20s and has become the top person in charge of a super-large project. I'm in my 20s and still blowing the wind on the sea."

"It's really annoying to compare people... um..."

He suddenly paused, then quickly turned the telescope to the side, stared at the distance for a while, turned around, and shouted to Geng Haiqing with a smile:

"Speak of the devil!"