Homo sapiens.

If Luzon's steel production capacity of 730 million tons and Siam's steel production capacity of 210 million tons are added, the total steel production of Homo sapiens is already quite large.

The three major iron ore suppliers in Australia had their wishful thinking, but they underestimated Homo sapiens' preparations.

For these Australians, Sapiens Corporation has never regarded them as a stable factor, but as an unstable factor to be removed at any time.

In this iron ore confrontation, Homo sapiens backhandedly made another small profit in the futures market, and at the same time shorted the stocks of a number of iron ore suppliers.

The outside world had already overestimated Hongshawadi, but unexpectedly it was still underestimated.

It can rely on its own iron ore reserves and insist on not purchasing Australian iron ore. This is the strength of Hongshawadi.

At least it is difficult for other steel-producing countries to get rid of the extortion of Australian iron ore. In this regard, Hongshawadi steel companies have gained a great advantage.

After seeing the behavior of the Australians, the Homo sapiens company further increased its prospecting efforts in the controlled area, striving to make all minerals self-sufficient.

This is also the reason why Li Qingye directly denied the lithium battery route when Qingye Group was planning the automobile industry.

If you want to play lithium-ion battery electric vehicles, the premise is to have enough lithium reserves, otherwise others can make small moves on lithium mines, which can drive up the production cost of lithium batteries.

What's more, many patents for lithium battery vehicles are in the hands of Huaguo, Dongying, America, and Deutschland, which have the first-mover advantage.

Although Sapiens can be unreasonable in many cases, those things that are going to be sold in the international market must comply with international patent laws.

Homo sapiens, who didn't want to make wedding dresses for others, directly abandoned the lithium battery route and the hydrogen fuel cell route, and switched to the gas turbine hybrid route.

All of this is for independence, and Homo sapiens has enough technical background to be a bit willful.

Chapter 262 Terrible Expansion Speed

22, April 2.

The high latitudes of the northern hemisphere are still covered in ice and snow for thousands of miles.

Hongshawadi, which is located in the tropics, is a more suitable season of the year for travel.

Li Qingye, who is still in Hongshawadi, is currently in the Hugang Basin of Kachin State.

He is inspecting a base, which is Magao Town, the publicly known space base in Hongshawadi.

Next door to this space base in Magao Town is Mengguan Town Aviation Base, and not far to the northwest is the Nanyun Town Nature Reserve (secretly the secret base of Nanyun that stole oil and gas from Assam).

Of course, the so-called bright side is only a small part of the bright side, and the real base is actually set up in the northeast mountainous area 50 kilometers away from Magao Town.

On the surface of Magao Town, there are many huge steel structure factories and several launch sites, all of which are for the eyes of the sky.

The real aerospace base can only enter its real core area by taking the subway at the underground station in Magao Town.

The core area of ​​this aerospace base is just under Benpa Mountain, which is also the highest mountain around, with an altitude of 3413 meters.

In the 3000-meter altitude zone of this mountain, there are not a few magnetic field radar detectors, which can monitor the surrounding magnetic field changes.

Li Qingye did not stop in Magao Town, but went directly to Benpa Mountain base.

After all, as a space base on the bright side, he knew that it must be stared at by American satellites, and even intercontinental missiles had already been aimed at it.

Naturally, he would not stay in such a place with great risks.

Just arrived at the Benpa Mountain base.

Fei Li hurried to his side and reported in a low voice: "Boss! Lucia entered the Principality of Kyiv 11 minutes ago."

Li Qingye frowned: "Oh..." Then a smile of interest appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Continue to pay attention, it seems that Caesar is not willing to be lonely!"

"The Department of Field Service has activated Lucia and some chess pieces in Eastern Europe. Do we need to increase the fire?"

Hearing this, Li Qingye waved his hand: "No need, but America wants to strengthen intelligence collection, and they seem to have been eyeing Hongshawadi recently."

"Minister Chen has recently stepped up intelligence gathering efforts on America." Philip quickly replied.

Li Qingye listened to some other reports and gave some general direction instructions. Then, under the leadership of the base chief and the heads of several technical departments, he visited the various works of the Benpa Mountain base.

What he is most concerned about is naturally the several major projects that are being promoted at the Benpa Mountain Base.

Unlike the Aerospace Base in Mining Town in the Longerang Mountains and the Space Base in Medan Island in Luzon, the aerospace technology route at the Benpa Mountain Base is relatively traditional.

Lin Xiaolun, one of the heads of the base's technical department, pointed to the large launch vehicle not far away: "Chairman, this is the Xinghe-1 large launch vehicle we developed."

"Liquid oxygen methane?" Li Qingye glanced at the engine and storage tank.

"The chairman's eyes are like torches." Lin Xiaolun then introduced the characteristics of Galaxy 1.

Generally speaking, Xinghe-1 has no outstanding points, and borrows a lot of launch vehicle technology from Huaguo, Lucia, America, and the European Union. It is a typical suture monster.

This is also the characteristic of Homo sapiens in many non-civilian technologies, that is, it can learn from it. Anyway, it is impossible to sell things like launch vehicles, and there is no need to abide by international patent laws.

After using a large number of new materials and biochip technology, the Xinghe-1 launch vehicle has a low-earth orbit payload of 53 tons, a synchronous orbit payload of 28 tons, and a lunar orbit payload of 11 tons.

Of course, this launch vehicle has not been actually measured, and the data are only simulated by supercomputers.

Thanks to the material advantages of crystal sponge, the Xinghe-1 launch vehicle does not need to store methane at low temperature, nor does it need to deal with the storage problem of hydrogen, and can achieve long-term storage and rapid launch as a whole.

Lin Xiaolun continued: "Using rapid liquid oxygen perfusion, or by directly replacing the spare liquid oxygen tank, Xinghe-1 can complete launch preparations in about 27 minutes at the fastest."

Li Qingye shook his head at this: "That's fine, unless the liquid oxygen can be stored for a long time, or poisonous fuel is used, otherwise the launch speed of liquid rockets has almost reached its end."

All the people present were professionals in this field, so they naturally knew what Li Qingye meant.

A liquid-fueled launch vehicle similar to Xinghe-1 can be used in aerospace launch vehicles, but it is obviously not suitable for military use.

No matter how it is improved, the launch speed of the liquid launch vehicle is still difficult to improve.

Hearing Li Qingye's words, Dr. Nevsky, who is in charge of the military transformation project of aerospace technology, knew it was time to speak up:

"Chairman, at present, our project team has developed Xinghe-2 and Xinghe-3 launch vehicles according to the requirements of the Ministry of Defense."

He carefully introduced the technology and performance of the two launch vehicles to Li Qingye.

The Xinghe-2 carrier rocket is a copy of Lucia. Its technical feature is the use of toxic liquid fuel that can be stored for a long time. Its payload is 1500 kilograms and its range is within 1.2 kilometers.

After using a lot of new materials, this type of launch vehicle can be transported by a missile launch vehicle or placed in an underground silo.

The Xinghe-3 launch vehicle is a medium-range launch vehicle, using solid fuel, with a payload of 1500 kilograms and a range of less than 6000 kilometers.

Xinghe-3 is relatively small in size and weight, and its production cost is relatively low. It is suitable for submarines and warships, and it can also be used by missile vehicles.

"Are you ready for service?"

Dr. Nevsky nodded: "It's already possible, especially the Xinghe-3 launch vehicle. If the base's production line is fully loaded, it can produce 500 to 600 pieces per month."

Li Qingye turned his head and ordered to the base manager: "Then start mass production and make a plan for industrial replication at the same time."

"Yes, my subordinates will arrange it immediately." The base chief replied stiffly.

The so-called industrial replication is a technology promotion system within Homo sapiens company.

Usually, once a technology is industrialized, the company will not only arrange one production plant, but will prepare at least three factories located far away.

At the same time, the industry formed by this technology must have the conditions for rapid replication, and then the Ministry of Industry will make technical reserves. Once there is a need, the factory must be able to quickly replicate.

That's why Homo sapiens has the confidence.

Biomaterial synthesis technology, bio-element enrichment technology, and various supporting technologies for rapid construction sites can also quickly train technicians through biochips, allowing Homo sapiens companies to rapidly expand their industrial scale.

The advantages of biotechnology in this regard are indeed terrifying.

Just like the Xinghe-3 carrier rocket production line at the Benpa Mountain base, as long as the technology integration is completed and a set of industrial backup is formed, Homo Sapiens will be able to manufacture the Xinghe-3 carrier rocket in a matter of months. Factories are everywhere.

To expand the industrial scale of traditional industries, a large number of supporting facilities and production equipment are needed.

In extreme cases, the Homo sapiens company does not need supporting facilities and production equipment, and can completely piece together a complete production line with a part cultivation machine.

Of course, this is only done in extreme cases.

For example, in enemy territory, if you want to open a secret base, you can only use a small parts breeding machine. Before this thing is deployed, it is about the same size as an ordinary suitcase, which is very convenient for building a secret base.

And within its own control area, there is naturally no need to use a separate small parts cultivation machine.

Chapter 263 Thinking Differences

After listening to the introductions of Lin Xiaolun and Nevsky, Li Qingye turned to Dr. Martin Don Quixote, the technical director of the last project.

Martin explained with some embarrassment: "Chairman, I haven't finished it yet."

"Is it the problem that metallic hydrogen cannot be passivated?"

Martin nodded: "Yes, this is the problem. I have used various solutions, but I can't slow down the explosion of metal hydrogen."

Obviously Li Qingye had anticipated this problem.

After all, the semi-finished metal hydrogen produced by Homo Sapiens has very poor stability. Even if other auxiliary materials are added, as long as the temperature is higher than minus 175 degrees Celsius, it will become a big bomb.

But the specific impulse and thrust of metallic hydrogen are very attractive.

As long as the explosion speed of metal hydrogen can be made similar to that of ordinary solid fuel, the launch vehicle using metal hydrogen as fuel can easily send a payload of several hundred tons into outer space.

As for why the Longerand Cannon is not used, because the Longerand Cannon has no way to send astronauts to outer space, and at the same time has very large restrictions on various equipment.

After all, during the firing process of the Longerand cannon, a load of tens of thousands of G will be generated. Not to mention astronauts, even ordinary electronic components will be crushed to pieces under this pressure.

The biological chips and biological components used by Homo sapiens in the cannon shells are all manufactured through special processes.

Its core technology is a nutrient-rich liquid. Only under the wrapping of this liquid, biochips and cell-type components can resist the instantaneous load of tens of thousands of G.

This is also the reason why the cannon shell can still control its internal components after being fired.

After all, liquids are incompressible, and biochips and cell components are filled with liquid inside and out, which can withstand such super high loads.

As for the motor inside the cannon shell, the missile version only has a special solid-fuel rocket motor.

As a satellite version of the shell warhead, the first stage is a solid-fuel rocket engine, and the second stage is a liquid oxygen-methane liquid engine.

Li Qingye touched the stubble on his chin: "Since it can't be blunted for the time being, what are your thoughts?"

Dr. Martin thought for a while: "The metal hydrogen-fueled large-scale launch vehicle is one of the few ways for us to catch up with the big powers in a short period of time. If we can succeed, then we will soon be able to overtake on a curve."

Of course, it is also possible to overturn on a curve.

"Do you want to continue researching this project?" Li Qingye already understood.

Martin also became nervous. After all, if Li Qingye did not agree to continue this project, then the metal hydrogen launch vehicle project would definitely not go ahead.

He hurriedly said: "Chairman, I will work hard to make the metal hydrogen launch vehicle practical as soon as possible."

Li Qingye waved his hand: "Let's do this! Since passivation is not possible for the time being, then change the plan and directly use the explosive propulsion plan."

"Uh..." Dr. Martin looked confused.

Lin Xiaolun reminded in a low voice: "Chairman, isn't there a Longerang cannon project in the explosive propulsion plan?"

"Where are you thinking?" Li Qingye frowned slightly: "I mean using metal hydrogen on launch vehicles."

"But metallic hydrogen cannot be passivated, and the launch vehicle cannot withstand the shock wave generated by its explosion." Dr. Martin scratched his hair in embarrassment.

Li Qingye patted himself on the forehead: "How can you learn from America? Don't you want to learn from our northern neighbor?"

What?Everyone was at a loss.

Li Qingye reminded them angrily: "Since the material can't be improved, why not try to get a breakthrough from the design plan?"

The reason why he said that Martin and others fell into a dead end in America's thinking.

It is because the Navy of America ordered a batch of Independence-class and Freedom-class littoral combat ships, and these ships are "good things" made of aluminum alloy. In order to cope with the corrosion of seawater, each ship costs more than 7000 per year. The maintenance cost of Wanmei knife.

The solution of a large eastern country is to build aluminum alloy boats of several hundred tons. When the boats do not need to work, they can be hoisted directly to the shore, which solves the problem of the hull aluminum alloy being soaked in seawater and corroded.

If the materials are not enough, the project will come together.

This is actually a way of thinking.

After hearing Li Qingye's reminder, everyone finally came to their senses.

Lin Xiaolun was the first to react: "Indeed, if the design is improved, metal hydrogen may still be applied to launch vehicles."

And Nevsky also came back to his senses. He took out his tablet computer and projected a holographic image:

"It can be designed like this. Isn't Aoba Aviation developing explosive shock wave engines? Directly cooperate with them to use explosive shock wave engines.

Then the metal hydrogen is made into small fuel balls, and a launching device similar to a magazine clip is designed, and the surrounding is designed as a liquid oxygen storage tank, which can also cool the metal hydrogen.

When in use, liquid oxygen and metal hydrogen fuel balls are injected into the engine combustion chamber, so that continuous fuel supply can be achieved, allowing the launch vehicle to accelerate uniformly to outer space. "

Embarrassed, Dr. Martin looked at Nevsky with a little aggrieved expression: "You guys have said everything, what else should I say?"It's embarrassing...'

But Nevsky did not see his expression, but continued to describe his plan.