Interstellar Industrial Age

"50,000 Chinese dollars is the price for export. We will sell it to you for 3 trillion Chinese dollars. I, Qin Yi, are always the first to take care of our own people."

"Three trillion Chinese dollars is too expensive. I heard that Ji Rong and the others sold one for only 2.5 trillion Chinese dollars. Can you also sell one to me at this price?"

"Who said that, there is no such thing at all, you know, my cost is 2 trillion Chinese dollars, and selling 3 trillion Chinese dollars is already a conscientious price, we are all descendants of Yan and Huang, so this is the price, If it is an outsider, five trillion Chinese dollars, and a penny less, I will not sell it."

"Brother Qin, I know that you have always taken care of yourself, but this price is too expensive. Can you give it a little more discount? If it is 2.5 trillion, I will place an order with you now."

"It's really not good, brother, I have to eat too. You know the R\u0026D and investment in the early stage. Where is such a big space factory, the investment is more than 10 trillion Chinese dollars. There are a lot of customized parts here, and you should be making a lot of money here.”

"I will upgrade in the later stage, and I will continue to develop more powerful spaceships. Without 3 trillion Chinese coins, I really can't sustain it."

"3 trillion Chinese dollars is too expensive, brother Qin, we are all old friends, and the cooperation is not once or twice, it's cheaper."

"There's really no way, 3 trillion is the minimum price."

"..."

In Qin Yi's office, Qin Yi hung up the call and couldn't help shaking his head. Since the price of one piece of five trillion Chinese currency was spread, Qin Yi received a lot of calls every day, both domestic and foreign. They all came to ask about the price of the spaceship, which kept Qin Yi busy.

"Boss, the space smelter has been built and can be put into use. Would you like to go to space to have a look together?"

This side has just hung up a call, and the virtual watch he wears has received a new message here. The message was sent by Zhang Jian. He has been in charge of the space smelting factory during this time.

"Alright, let's go to space to relax."

Qin Yi thought about it for a while and decided to go to space.

In the outer space of the earth, a huge space factory stands quietly in the void. This space factory is completely different from the Dragon Nest space factory.

The overall shape of the Dragon Nest Space Factory looks like a huge sea urchin, and the shape of this space smelting factory looks like a giant satellite signal receiving pot.

A huge pot cover with an area of ​​more than 10 square kilometers looks like the most common solar power station in space, except that the solar power station is tiled directly, and this is a circular structure.

Under the huge pot lid is the commander-in-chief of the space smelting factory. At this time, Qin Yi just arrived at the space smelting factory in an anti-gravity spacecraft.

"Boss, you are here just in time, our smelting will start soon."

When Zhang Jian saw Qin Yi coming, a smile appeared on his face, and then he pointed to the void outside and said.

Qin Yi looked in the direction and saw that the Qinglong spacecraft was dragging the asteroid that was mined back to the space smelting factory slowly. At this time, it was very close, very close.

It didn't take long,

The asteroid was dragged by the Qinglong spacecraft into a void in the middle of the space smelting factory lid. The speed and direction between the two were the same, so it seemed to be stationary at that position.

The Qinglong spacecraft loosened the carbon fiber rope and flew away slowly. It is about to set sail again for the asteroid belt to mine asteroids.

"Boss, it's time to start."

The asteroid was in place, and Zhang Jian was very excited. In the entire space smelting factory, all the scientists and engineers were the same. At the same time, because this was the first time in human history to smelt steel in space, he still Some TV reporters and so on came over to shoot and report.

"Well, let's get started."

Qin Yi nodded and ordered.

With Qin Yi's order, the entire space smelting factory began to operate.

Space smelting factories are completely different from traditional smelting factories. Traditional smelting factories mainly rely on coal or electric furnaces to smelt steel, but in space, this is obviously unrealistic. Space smelting factories use sunlight.

The huge pot lid is not really a pot lid. It is similar to a space solar power station. It is actually composed of solar panels, but these solar panels have another function besides being used to generate electricity Used to reflect sunlight.

We all know that light is very special. It can aggregate infinitely. One light or two lights can't be seen together, but when 10,000 lights and one million lights are gathered together, huge energy will converge. Together, they create a terrifying temperature that is high enough to smelt steel.

I saw the huge pot cover here, and the solar panels above began to slowly adjust the angle. Each solar panel here is usually used to generate electricity. When the steel needs to be smelted, the mode is changed, and it will become a mirror. It does not directly absorb light and heat, but reflects light and heat.

Each mirror is controlled by a computer, which automatically calculates the position of each mirror and then adjusts its angle to reflect sunlight onto the asteroid.

Qin Yi stared at the monitoring screen, a mirror was constantly adjusted slowly, and rays of light began to converge on the asteroid.

It didn't feel like much at first, but as more and more light came together, the asteroid's location began to brighten.

This area is getting brighter and brighter, and it begins to slowly become bright and dazzling at the back, turning into a vast white area. At the same time, as more and more rays of light converge, the temperature on the asteroid also begins to rise sharply.

"200 degrees~"

"500 degrees~"

"1000 degrees~"

Soon, the temperature on the asteroid rose to thousands of degrees, and the surface of the asteroid began to slowly show signs of melting.

However, the aggregated light is still increasing, becoming more dazzling, and the temperature is also rising rapidly, soon rising to a high temperature of more than 2000 degrees.

Under such a high temperature, the entire asteroid is melting rapidly, and a cloud of liquid appears on the surface, all of which are liquid after metal melting.

However, because there is no gravity in space, these liquids do not flow, but exist in the form of a sphere, and as more and more iron melts, the water sphere is slowly getting bigger and bigger.

"So fast~"

Everyone is watching this magical scene in space carefully. The asteroid with a mass of 150 million tons is constantly melting at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The asteroid was originally an irregular shape, but as it melted more and more, it gradually turned into a large fiery red ball. The outside was completely liquefied iron, and the inside was the part that had not yet completely melted.

In just a few hours, the entire asteroid melted and completely turned into a red sphere with a diameter of several hundred meters that was quietly suspended in the void.

"Add other metals~"

Zhang Jian has been looking at all kinds of data. When the asteroid has completely melted into a liquid ball, the first step of smelting the asteroid has been completed, and it is time to move on to the next step.

Soon, a mechanical arm came to the side of the red ball with small metal blocks. These metal blocks are all pure metals that have been refined, such as metal manganese, metal tungsten, etc., which are used to smelt alloys. other metal blocks.

Others are chemically reactive materials used to remove magazines in steel. Under the irradiation of polymeric light, these materials will soon slowly and completely melt into liquid balls.

Then these liquid balls are slowly blended into the huge red and white dazzling liquid balls, and then there is a mechanical arm with a stick-like thing to stir the fused liquid balls, so that these liquids can be more fully of fusion.

The aggregated light is also adjusted here, so that the light irradiated on the huge liquid sphere becomes unevenly distributed. In some places, the aggregated light is more, and the temperature becomes higher. In some places, the aggregated light is less and the temperature lower.

The temperature of different parts of the liquid ball is different. According to the characteristics of the liquid, the low temperature liquid will flow to the high temperature liquid to balance the overall temperature.

This flow is actually the same as the warm currents and ocean currents in the oceans on the earth. The polar regions of the earth receive less heat, the temperature is low, and the temperature of the seawater is also low. The temperature of the equatorial regions is high, and the temperature of the seawater is also high.

Therefore, the high-temperature seawater will flow to the equator in the form of cold currents, and the seawater in low-latitude regions will flow to the high-temperature areas in the form of warm currents.

At this time, the same is true for this huge white and dazzling metal liquid ball. With the change of temperature difference, the interior also begins to flow continuously. Under this flow, the added things are more fully integrated, and the The magazine is removed, and the smelted steel can also achieve the desired effect more perfectly.

The entire fusion process lasted for several hours, until all the materials were fully fused together and turned into a huge white dazzling liquid ball.

The speed is very fast. 150 million tons of steel can be smelted in just a few hours. If this speed is placed on the earth, it is unimaginable.

You must know that the annual steel output of ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel company, has only just reached about 100 million tons.

Now, in less than half a day, 1.5 billion tons of steel has been trained. This speed is really incredible.

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