Li Du initially estimated that the area of ​​Sanou Island was fifty or sixty square kilometers, but in fact, he estimated that it was a bit conservative. The island area was 88 square kilometers in total, and it was a medium-sized island.

But this price is already very high compared to this area.

There is also a large island of 250 square kilometers on the Australian island sale website, which costs $150 million.

Li Du asked why he bought an island with a more marginalized status and smaller area more expensive?

The governor's reply to him was: 1. This island with an area of ​​250 square kilometers is called Basel. It is deserted, so it has been hanging out for ten years, and no one is willing to buy it.

Second, this price is the price ten years ago. Now if someone comes to buy it, they will re-negotiate, which will cost at least 300 million Australian dollars.

However, it is estimated that Basel will not be sold anymore. They have a price of 150 million yuan, and no one comes to inquire about it, let alone preparing to rise to 300 million yuan?

In addition, Sanou Island is of considerable value in its location.

It is located in the southeastern end of Australia, and although it is still far from the Antarctic, there are no more large islands when walking from its line toward the Antarctic.

So Sanou Island can be developed and a material replenishment station to enter Antarctica.

Nowadays, major countries in the world are developing Antarctica with great ambitions, and they continue to send scientific research ships to Antarctica every year.

Due to many reasons such as the climate, geography and other reasons, as long as the ship enters the Antarctic, it must go through several specific routes.

Among these routes, there are two routes from the west to enter Antarctica. South Africa's Cape Town to Bouve Island enter Antarctica, and from Port Elizabeth to enter Antarctica through Prince Edward Islands.

Starting from the eastern region to Antarctica, if you do not take the New Zealand line but the Australian line, you usually go from Hobart to Macquarie and then enter the Antarctic.

Sandou Island is located in the northeast of Hobart. The boat can only reach Hobart by passing here. So if Li Du develops the island, this line can be changed. Research ships do not have to take a detour to Hobart, which saves time.

But this is a long time ago. Li Du now needs to find a way to take root on the island and then develop the opal mine inside.

This must be a huge amount of funds. Sanou Island is still hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest city of Herrick. He needs to replenish the supplies to cooperate with aircraft and ships.

In terms of aircraft, his Mi-8 is temporarily enough, and now he still needs a cargo ship to transport some building materials to the island.

This is the focus of Li Du’s previous negotiations, and he asked Tasmania to support it.

Brusno agreed to allocate a thousand-ton cargo ship for his use. He will be free of renting this ship within the next year.

Both the Tasmanian government and the Australian government are willing to help him develop Sanou Island. They need a role model. The global real estate market is now booming, but the island trading market has been dominated by the cold wave.

At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, there was a wave of buying islands around the world. Many rich people were interested in island owners and wanted to be island owners.

Later, with the occurrence of events such as Mexico's financial crisis, Asian economic crisis, and the US subprime mortgage storm, the rich began to be careful and no longer spend money indiscriminately, and the island trading business gradually became cold.

Li Du’s Sandou Island is the largest island sold in the global island transactions in the past decade, and is also the most expensive island, with role model nature.

If the construction of Sangull Island is excellent, it may attract some wealthy people to regain interest in the island.

After all, it has been ten years since the subprime mortgage storm of the last economic crisis, and the rich have become more courageous.

The biggest problem with Sanou Island is the large number of sea snakes, of course this is also because of the abundant opal mineral deposits on the island.

Li Du doesn't like snakes. He doesn't want the island he bought with a lot of money to develop in the future, but the result is snakes and insects crawling everywhere.

Australia attaches great importance to environmental protection, and the requirements of economic development and the natural environment coexist harmoniously.

But Seagull Island is far away from the mainland and Tasmania, and is usually rarely visited by people, so no one will pay attention to it. Therefore, if he just expels the snake group, the government will have no objection.

The Tasmanian government is willing to provide help in this regard, and they are worried that Li Du will take an extreme approach to purify the island's environment by killing the snake group.

There are snakes everywhere in Australia. People have been fighting with snakes for hundreds of years, and have accumulated a lot of experience and have a lot of methods.

The Tasmanian state government arranged for the Animal Bureau and the Reptile Conservation Association to help Li Du, and used biological and sonic methods to expel the sea snake group.

The biological method is to plant a large number of castor vegetation on the island. Sea snakes hate the breath emitted by these plants and will leave on their own initiative.

The rule of sound wave is to select some locations on the island to install sound wave makers. Snakes have a much sharper ability to induce sound waves than humans, and can continuously emit sound waves that cannot be felt by humans and drive them into the sea.

Another type is to soak bird eggs on a large scale. Because sea snakes eat and swallow them in one bite, an Australian scientific research institution invented this method to deal with poisonous snakes.

Bird eggs are soaked in medicinal solution. The medicinal solution is not a poison, but a drug rich in progesterone and androgens. After snakes eat it, they will lose their productivity.

This is a method of combating venomous snakes that the Australian government is promoting, but it has been criticized by reptile conservation associations and conservation organizations in its native territory.

Because the working principle of this drug is mainly to deal with female snakes, by inhibiting ovulation, changing the mucus of snake gonads, causing female snakes to lose their desire to mating.

Even if mating, the blastocyst cannot survive because a large amount of progesterone remains in the body. It can change the movement of the female snake's fallopian tubes and hinder the transport of fertilized eggs.

This method is very powerful. It can exterminate snakes in an area and make them have no descendants.

Some organizations believe that this is inhumane, so they criticize the government for its use. No one here cares about Li Du and he can use it at will.

In this way, he took his men on a yacht and rushed to Sanou Island, and a transport ship at the back of his feet sent a large number of construction tools and snake-driven supplies to the island.

After buying Sandou Island, Li Du called Steve, after all, Steve helped him a lot in this matter.

After dialing the phone, a gentle female voice answered and said, "Mr. Tucsonberg has left the United States. If you have anything, please leave me a message and I will convey it to you accurately."

Li Du wondered, and didn't know where this guy had gone. He had nothing important to do, so he casually introduced his situation and hung up the phone.

When they first arrived at Sanou Island, the satellite phone on the boat rang. Steve called back and shocked Li Du as soon as he opened his mouth: "Hey, Li, I'm in Antarctica..."
Chapter completed!