Super Plane Mall

Chapter 301 Ore Crisis
But fortunately, although there are already tasks on the shipbuilding platform in the spacecraft development center, there is no way to free up more shipyards to manufacture space mining ships, but the new shipyard is about to be completed now. After waiting for about a month, Zhu Lei built a super-large spacecraft manufacturing base on the synchronous orbit of the moon around the earth. Although this manufacturing base is still mainly engaged in the manufacture of military spacecraft, this base has a special manufacturing base for civilian use. Spaceship place.

After all, it has been almost ten years since the construction of this shipbuilding base, so this shipbuilding base is very large, even worse than a space city, but this manufacturing base is just a shipbuilding base, not a space city.

This spacecraft manufacturing base has thousands of shipbuilding bays, the largest of which can build 600 million-ton spacecraft, and the smallest shipbuilding bay can also manufacture tens of thousands of tons of spaceships, of which 600 million tons can be built. There are more than 50 shipbuilding berths for ton-level spacecraft. These 50 shipbuilding berths are the largest shipbuilding berths in the entire spacecraft manufacturing base. Each shipbuilding berth is about ten kilometers long and five kilometers wide. Like a giant spaceship docked in the orbit of the moon, revolving around the earth.

The entire spacecraft manufacturing base looks like a honeycomb from a distance, and these densely packed shipbuilding bays are like hexagonal beehives, and these shipbuilding bays are very regular in size and size.

It can be said that as long as Zhu Lei's Yong'an Group completes the construction of this shipbuilding base, it will continue to provide various spaceships for the Ming Empire in the future, but the largest spaceship in this manufacturing base can only manufacture 600 million tons of spaceships. A spaceship, no matter how big it is, is incapable.

Moreover, with the current technology of the earth, a spaceship of 600 million tons is already the limit. If you want to build a larger spaceship, you must wait until the overall technological level of the Ming Empire breaks through to the middle-level civilization. It is possible to manufacture even larger spaceships. After all, spaceships of 600 million tons are the backbone of an ordinary mid-level technological civilization.

After all, not every civilization is the same as the earth civilization. In addition to technological means, there are means of practicing civilization in it. Therefore, from the advanced stage of primary civilization, the gap between earth civilization and ordinary civilization has widened.

And the gap will only get bigger and bigger. After all, when the cultivation reaches a certain height, even basically everyone can physically travel between the universes. This is very difficult for a technological civilization to achieve such a height. Scientific and technological civilization must reach the stage of god-level civilization, and it is possible to reach such a height by developing various civilization means to the limit.

The civilization of practice is different, especially the civilization of cultivation. As long as one enters the stage of intermediate and intermediate civilization, as long as one's personal cultivation reaches the stage of practicing qi and turning into a god, one can survive in the universe for a short time with one's own body. stage they can freely shuttle in the universe.

There is no need to worry about the exhaustion of body energy, because at this stage they can already use various energies in the universe to maintain their own lives, so technological civilization will never be able to compare with cultivation civilization in terms of personal ability.

With Yongan Group opening up the purchase policy of early models of plasma thrusters, only three short months have passed, and the entire Earth-Moon system has become lively.

Although it was said that the entire earth was very lively before, it is nothing compared to the present, and the styles of spaceships in the entire Ming Empire were almost the same. After all, most of the spaceships in the past were mainly practical. I never considered whether it looks good or not.

But it is different now. Since private shipyards have participated in the space shipbuilding industry, spacecraft of various styles around the earth have begun to appear in the space near the earth one after another. Although these spacecraft are generally small in size, they are all in About a thousand tons.

After all, the current open-door policy is only a short period of three months. It is already very fast to manufacture so many spacecraft in such a short period of time. If you want to manufacture larger spacecraft, it will take longer Come to manufacture, after all, the larger the spaceship, the longer it will take to manufacture.

And in these three months, Zhu Lei's spacecraft manufacturing base was finally completed a month ago, more than half a month later than expected. After all, such a large and complex spacecraft manufacturing base is difficult to manufacture. It is much larger than the space city, so the half-month delay in construction is understandable.

With this experience, if you want to continue to build such a shipbuilding base next time, it will be relatively easier, and it took ten years to create such a behemoth, and the manufacturing speed is also very fast. After all, this is not The space city is a manufacturing base for long-distance spacecraft, and its complexity is far beyond that of the space city.

It can be said that this spacecraft manufacturing base is the most complicated project ever created by human beings, bar none.

Moreover, on the third day after the completion of the spaceship manufacturing base, the spaceship manufacturing base began to manufacture spaceships. However, due to the lack of mineral resources, only a small number of shipbuilding bays in the entire spaceship manufacturing base were in operation. It can only be empty there, especially for medium and large spaceship manufacturing stations.

After all, the entire Ming Empire is in great need of all kinds of metals used in the manufacture of spaceships. Although there are several mines on the moon that have started work one after another in the past few months, the minerals on the moon alone are far away. It is far from meeting the needs of the entire Ming Empire, not to mention that the Mars Project has not yet been implemented. If the Mars Project is implemented, then the Ming Empire will experience various metal panics.

Moreover, the smelting of metal minerals in the Ming Empire is far from meeting the needs of the Ming Empire. Although the Ming Empire, Zhu Lei himself, and various mining companies have begun to build large-scale structures of various sizes in space. A unique universe mineral smelting base, especially Yongan Universe Mineral Smelting Company, a subsidiary company of Yongan Group.

Yong'an Cosmos Minerals and Smelting Company has actually started to build a super-large cosmic minerals smelting base five years ago, but in fact, the entire base has just started construction until now. The base is much smaller, but its complexity is more than that of the spacecraft manufacturing base.

So it was not until last year that the design of the Cosmos Minerals Smelting Base was completed, and it was not started until the second half of last year. It is estimated that it will take 5 to 10 years for the entire Cosmos Minerals Smelting Base to be completed.

Even the first phase of the project will take two years to complete. It can be said that the entire Ming Empire has begun to experience a metal shortage. The prices of various metals have increased many times compared to previous years, especially in the past three months this year.

(End of this chapter)