As the saying goes, it's better to act than to move, and to endure this excitement, Wu Liang couldn't wait to go to the field early the next day, that is, early on Saturday morning.

Happily dragged Reiko, who had not yet woken up, to catch the first subway to the pier, and took the morning ferry from the sea to check out the whole picture of this extra [Odaiba] place.

The so-called "Odaiba" is a very historical thing, its origin can be traced back to 1853, when the American Perry led a fleet to land in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, officially breaking Japan's policy of closing the country and making the Japanese government and the opposition panic, which is the so-called Black Ship Incident.

Deeply aware of the weakness of the maritime defenses, the Edo Shogunate at the time commissioned Eitaka Egawa (Taro Saemon), the acting official of Nirayama, Kata Kata Gun, Izu (present-day Nirayama Town, Izunokuni City, Shizuoka Prefecture), to reclaim the sea and build forts in Tokyo Bay in the same year.

At that time, the Egawa shogunate invested about 750,000 taels of money, using stones transported from Izu and other places, and soil and sand obtained from the excavation and dismantling of Mt. Shinagawa Goten, to successively build a number of Western-style forts surrounded by square or pentagonal stone walls, called Odaiba. At that time, only the first, second, third, fifth, and sixth buildings were completed, and the extra one in this world was the Odaiba, which was originally labeled as the seventh.

The construction of [Odaiba] was far from stopping, and in 1940 (Showa 15), the Port of Tokyo was opened. After the war, in order to cope with the large amount of construction waste generated by large-scale industrial development, the authorities began to find land in the bay to establish a landfill (burial site), among them, the northern edge of the No. 13 landfill is the Odaiba built in the Edo period, commonly known as "Odaiba" (おOdaiba, the word [お] is used in Japanese as an article to refer to a specific thing, so it is equivalent to "that Odaiba"), the No. 14 landfill is the famous Yumenoshima (Dream のIsland), and the No. 15 landfill is called Shinyumenoshima.

The few Odaiba buildings built in the Edo period were historically supposed to have been demolished or rebuilt in the 50s and 60s, but the course of the world's history is slightly different, and all six completed Odaiba have been preserved, most of which are under private jurisdiction.

In the 80s, when Japan's economy was booming, the rapid development of Tokyo soon fell into the embarrassing situation of depleting commercial land, and the cost of renovation became higher and higher.

After spending two hours on the ferry, Wu Liang and Sakura finally saw the scene of Odaiba No. 7 with their own eyes, and there was no connection to the dilapidated scene that had been originally envisioned, and the entire Odaiba had gone through several rounds of reclamation and land reclamation had become several times larger than it had been at the beginning, and had turned from a small fort into a small island large enough to house thousands of inhabitants. A lot of infrastructure has also been built to support life, facing the entrance of the harbor is very fashionable to build a small power station that can use tidal power generation, the largest can only supply more than 20,000 tons of bulk carriers to dock a small wharf is built on the other side of [Odaiba], with a total of four supporting port cranes, small cold storage, huge tanks for storing oil and natural gas are also built not far away, except for a slight stain without any traces of dilapidation.

As the ferry docked, Wu Liang and Sakura disembarked at No. 7 Odaiba, and a 10,000-ton container ship at the berth next door was slowly lifting containers to the ship, and more than a dozen workers who got off work hurriedly boarded the ferry.

It is completely different from the busy scene of the port in the city, the container yard on No. 7 Odaiba is not busy at all, everything seems slow and orderly, and no one comes up to interrogate Wu Liang and Sakura who appeared rashly.

The container accumulation point is only half full, the stevedores are listless and weak to work, only two of the four cranes are put into use, and the drivers of the remaining two are getting together with cigarettes and spitting smoke, so unhappy!

Is this still the neon that is famous all over the world for its labor efficiency? How did it make Wu Liang feel like he was accidentally wearing it back to modern times?

asked Sakura to wait for him in the distance, Wu Liang pinched the cigarette and went up in the name of borrowing fire to inquire about the news.

The smokers all over the world are one family, and the uncle of the crane driver who is middle-aged in the two people is not too guarded against Wu Liang, who came to borrow fire and chatted a few words, and the conversation is just two cigarettes to explain the current situation of the seventh platform.

It turned out that the owners of the 7th Odaiba were the Okubo clan, a well-known local Chinese family, and the old and inflexible former head of the family, ---- Kenichiro Okubo, who was the owner of the 7th Odaiba 10 years ago, began to build infrastructure with all his wealth in the hope of revitalizing the family.

Affected by the economic crisis that has affected the world and the current situation of Japan's weak economic development, the supporting measures have only completed most of the supporting measures, and the Okubo family has fallen into an economic crisis, and there is no money to complete the remaining infrastructure work.

The commercial buildings were only completed after the foundation leveling work was completed, and it was impossible to attract merchants willing to move in before even the buildings were built, and the Okubo family suddenly fell into the embarrassing situation of running out of cash flow and unable to redevelop.

From the mouths of the two uncles, Wu Liang learned that the empty plots were the location of the unfinished buildings, and they only laid the foundation and didn't even have the money to do the ground leveling work, so they couldn't even do the container yard, so they could only be idle in the open air, which would have become a big pond long ago.

As for the important reason why the workers are not willing to work, it is also related to the Okubo family, the former head of the family, ---- Kenichiro Okubo, who was bent on the verge of collapse because of overwork, and handed over the mess to his 14-year-old son, ---- Okubo, who was still a minor. Okubo, who was young and had never experienced such pressure, was helpless about how to save the seventh platform from the quagmire, and in recent times, because of the continuous collection of debts by creditors, it was rumored that the seventh platform would be sold at a low price to pay off debts, which caused a lot of confusion among all the employees in the platform, and no one was in the mood to work seriously.