Chapter 338: Development (I)
December 23rd.
The northern hemisphere is cold and windy.
In Egypt, located in the northeast of the Sahara Desert and on the northwest coast of the Red Sea, the weather is still sunny at this time.
Egypt previously sold the port and railway operating rights to Sapiens, and now Sapiens headquarters has arranged for a joint construction company to be responsible for the planning and construction of this project.
The port is located in the southern part of Egypt's Red Sea Governorate, where there is a cape called Cape Hongkurab.
The United Construction Group planned the port in the bay on the south side of Cape Hongkulab and named it "Hongku Port".
At that time, Hongku Port was still a barren land. There was only one small fishing village in the area with a population of less than 500 people.
Although Egypt has a population of 93 million, its population is mainly concentrated in the Nile Delta and the narrow Nile Valley plain. The population in other areas is not large.
The Red Sea Province seems to be close to the Red Sea, but in fact, due to the control of the subtropical high-pressure belt and the lack of tall mountains or plateaus, no rainfall area can be formed on the windward slope, and it is dry and rainy all year round.
For a region with backward technology and no important mineral resources, there are naturally not many people here.
Egypt has set up a special office in Hongku Port to help Sapiens coordinate local development work.
Of course, when it comes to coordination, it also has the intention of surveillance.
Both parties are well aware of this, but the Zhiren Company pretended not to see it. After all, some things ultimately have to be decided by strength.
As long as the fist of Homo sapiens is strong enough, the other party will never dare to damage the local interests of Homo sapiens Company.
If you don't have the strength and deterrence, it's useless to talk big. When the other party needs to stab you in the back, they will still do it without hesitation.
Therefore, the External Affairs Department of the Intelligent Company never talks about any empty talk, but instead uses the power of the Field Affairs Department and the Defense Department to directly force the other party to surrender.
In this jungle, there has never been any tenderness or affection, only naked fighting and interests.
Adhere to the concept of the survival of the fittest.
Implement the idea of bullying the weak.
Use despicable means.
This is the real way to survive.
…
At the temporary dock of Hongku Port.
Semaru, the head of the Egyptian special office, was standing on the third-floor corridor of a container house, looking out at the harbor in the distance.
On the sparkling sea.
A gigantic ship is working hard on the sea.
“Is this the Sea Plough that dug a channel in the Strait of Malacca?”
Assistant Matrou quickly replied: "That's the ship. I heard it's nuclear-powered. It arrived at Hongku Port last night. Now two 100-meter-wide offshore channels have been dug."
"How powerful this is..." Semaru muttered softly, his words filled with envy and fear.
At this time, the Sea Plough was already digging repeatedly on the seabed near the temporary dock, and spewing seabed mud onto the coastal mudflats.
A temporary deep water area with a length of 2 kilometers, a width of 500 meters and a depth of about 40 meters has been dug out in this area.
Just as Semaru was lost in thought , on the distant sea, three Malacca-class transport ships, escorted by three Manila-class frigates, slowly followed the channel opened by the Hai Li and entered the temporary deep water area one after another.
"Huh? This is..." Semaru quickly picked up the telescope.
Matruh, who also picked up a telescope, quickly recognized the Manila-class frigate and the Malacca-class nuclear-powered transport ship that has recently caused great controversy in the global shipping industry.
He quickly explained: "That's a Malacca-class nuclear-powered transport ship."
"Another nuclear-powered ship. Does the Sapiens Company really want to popularize nuclear-powered ships?" Semaru looked a little worried.
After all, with so many nuclear-powered ships coming in and out of Hongku Port, if an and causes a nuclear leak, the trouble will be serious.
But Semaru sighed secretly again. The strength of the Homo Sapiens Company was too strong and he had no way to stop them.
He continued to observe with the telescope. The three Malacca-class transport ships were of different styles. One was a container ship, one was a self-unloading bulk carrier, and one had a number of Sea Hawk fighter jets and drones parked on its deck.
'Why are there fighter planes? Could one of them be an aircraft carrier?'
Seeing this scene, Semaru frowned.
According to the agreement between the two parties, Hongku Port is only a commercial port, not a military port.
However, there is a supplementary clause in the agreement, which allows the warships of the Homo Sapiens Company to be resupplied, repaired and docked in Hongku Port.
Obviously, Sapiens took advantage of the loophole in the agreement and converted a Malacca-class transport ship into an aircraft carrier, and then carried 60 Seahawk fighters and 120 drones and deployed them here in Hongku Port.
Soon, Semaru found Xu Yingcheng, the manager of Hongku Port Management Company.
"Xu, what's going on with those fighter planes?"
After pouring a cup of coffee for him, Xu Yingcheng said with a smile: "Don't worry, Mr. Semaru. Malacca 7 is only temporarily anchored here. After all, there are too many pirates in the Red Sea. For safety, we can only resort to this last resort."
"Haha, I don't believe you." Semaru immediately heard the perfunctory tone in the words. If the Homo sapiens was not so strong, he would have cursed at him long ago.
Xu Yingcheng continued, "I hope you can understand our good intentions. After all, our company has many nuclear-powered transport ships. If these ships are hijacked by pirates, the consequences will be very serious."
Hearing this explanation, the corners of Semaru's mouth twitched slightly, and he secretly complained:
"Which pirates dare to hijack your transport ships? Even America was forced out of Southeast Asia by you. Moreover, those transport ships are equipped with Phalanx machine guns and cluster cruise missile launchers. You are the only one in the world who installs heavy weapons on civilian transport ships."
However, Semaru thought again and realized that these nuclear-powered transport ships did need military protection.
He was in a dilemma for a while, and finally reminded: "Xu, I know you have to protect those nuclear-powered transport ships, but building a military port here is absolutely not allowed."
Xu Yingcheng smiled and waved his hand: "Don't worry, Mr. Semaru, our planes and soldiers will not go ashore. They will perform escort missions at sea."
"I hope you will keep your promise and not make things too difficult for me." Semaru said helplessly.
This is the helplessness of the weak. Even if they are bullied, they still have to put on a forced smile.
In the deep water area of the temporary dock, Malacca 7 has been moored on one side and then anchored.
The Malacca 7 is not only an escort aircraft carrier, but also a special power generation ship. In order to enhance the power supply capacity, it is equipped with a total of 6 thorium-based molten salt reactors with a total power generation capacity of 300 megawatts.
The 300-megawatt power generation capacity, if running at full capacity, will play a very important accelerating role in the initial construction of Hongku Port.
After all, Egypt will definitely not give in easily if they want to build a nuclear power plant here alone.
Moreover, the construction speed will definitely not keep up with the progress of the port project.
Directly dispatching a nuclear-powered transport ship as a temporary nuclear power plant is actually the most cost-effective approach.
As Malacca 7 completed its berthing, the other two Malacca-class transport ships also unloaded their engineering vehicles, construction materials and daily necessities at the dock.
Fortunately, it is dry and rainy here all year round, so there is no need to worry about cement, steel bars and the like being exposed to rain and can be stored directly in the open air .
Almost at the same time as the transport ship, a group of 500 construction workers and dozens of engineers in the construction industry arrived at Hongku Port.
