My Black Tech Shelter

On the moon, Longguo Steel Base, through one of the screens in the ground command center, we can see that a steel production line that has been running is continuously producing iron ingots.

As the number of iron ingots increases, the intelligent program also begins to increase the number of unmanned forklifts according to the actual situation.

After completing the activation of this production line, the on-site engineer began to move to the next production line. The entire base has 10 production lines that can produce 5 million tons of steel annually.

According to the plan, after all activations are completed, this steel base can reach an annual output of 50 million tons, but this is only pure iron ingots. Specific other steel products still need to be produced with other equipment.

In these steel bases on the moon, each base will have two engineers on site, and the remaining 80 on-site check-in personnel.

Among these 80 people, each production line has eight people, divided into four shifts.

Now the engineer has only initially activated the production line and let it start running under the guidance of artificial intelligence.

These on-duty personnel are currently undergoing training on Blue Star.

As can be seen from the picture, the next operation is still the same. The engineer quickly activated the production line.

After all ten production lines were running, a day had almost passed.

The mines around the steel base also began to transport the ore piled in the open air to the warehouse of the steel base.

At this point, the live broadcast was almost over.

The subsequent processing of iron ingots was to be opened to private enterprises to develop together.

Other countries such as the United States and the Stripes also paid attention to the live broadcast of the Dragon Kingdom.

Although there was an international space agreement before, no country could claim sovereignty over the planets in outer space, but this agreement was only an agreement and was already in name only.

Therefore, there was no objection to the Dragon Kingdom's declaration of its sphere of influence on the moon, because they and other countries were also prepared to do so.

Although they could not catch up with the progress of the Dragon Kingdom, they could still see hope. The moon was just taken over by the Dragon Kingdom this time, and the Stars and Stripes had already set their sights on Mars.

Through the early Mars probes and Mars landers, the Stars and Stripes had mastered a large amount of Mars data, such as atmospheric composition, temperature, gravity, resource distribution, etc.

This was also the reason why the Stars and Stripes were full of confidence.

Because according to the understanding of the Dragon Kingdom, the early stage must have been unmanned spacecraft carrying probes and orbiters. The satellite will fly to Mars, and only after obtaining sufficient data will it send people to land on Mars.

The United States intends to send people to land on Mars directly to occupy the territory first.

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On September 1, Lu Chen's five latest comet-class spacecraft finally rolled off the production line, and 10 continental-class cargo spacecraft also rolled off the production line.

At this time, Lu Chen has 7 comet-class spacecraft and 20 continental-class spacecraft, not counting the manta rays. As for the manta rays, they have been discontinued.

As for the remaining manta rays, Lu Chen is not selling them anymore, and they are used as cargo spacecraft within the planet.

The continental-class spacecraft is used as The comet-class spacecraft is used for transportation between two adjacent planets.

The continental-class spacecraft has been modified and equipped with a laboratory-improved miniaturized hydrogen fusion fuel cell, which increases the thrust of the ion engine.

The load capacity reaches 500 tons, the deadweight reaches 1,500 tons, and the maximum take-off weight reaches 2,000 tons. It only takes one day to travel to and from Blue Moon, which greatly improves the transportation efficiency.

Now, the 10 latest continental-class spacecraft have joined the fleet. The 20 spacecraft can transport 10,000 tons of goods every day.

After Longguo learned about this, it also found Lu Chen, hoping to rent the transport capacity on the way back to help transport the iron ingots produced by the lunar steel base.

Each spaceship paid 10,000 credit points, which was a friendly price.

In this way, 10,000 tons of pig iron ingots were transported to Blue Star every day. At the current price of 1,000 credit points per ton of pig iron ingots, it is equivalent to earning 10 million credit points every day.

The remaining pig iron ingots will be used as raw materials to make other types of iron products in the steel mill of the lunar base.

After Lu Chen saw that he already had 20 transport capacities, Let Zero start to form a fleet of six comet-class spacecraft, carrying supplies and robots to Mars.

According to Zero's previous plan, the production line transformation of the comet-class spacecraft can be completed in early December. At that time, starting from the beginning of January next year, 20 comet-class spacecraft can be rolled off the production line every month.

The improved continental-class spacecraft can also meet the transportation requirements between Blue Moon, and the manufacturing process is simple, which can be mass-produced and the production line manufacturing is also simple.

"Zero, what is our current manufacturing capacity? How much manufacturing power can be allocated without affecting the existing plan?"

"Sir, what specific things do you need to manufacture? "

"The improved continental-class spacecraft can meet the current transportation requirements between Blue Moon in terms of quantity and capacity, so I plan to increase the production line of continental-class spacecraft.

I have prepared a two-step plan to expand the production to 20 ships per month first, and then expand it to 50 ships per month after the plan is completed.

Zero, calculate how long it will take,"

Zero paused for a few seconds and began to answer Lu Chen's question.

"Sir, under the premise of maintaining the existing plan, the first step will take two months, including the time to manufacture the corresponding construction robots,

and the second step will take three months,"

"Why is the second step planning time shorter than expected? It takes two months to increase from ten ships to 20 ships per month, but it only takes three months to increase from 20 ships to 50 ships?"

"Sir, one month after the second step of the plan is implemented, the comet-class spacecraft production line will also be completed simultaneously. At this time, a lot of construction power can be released, and other plans will also be completed one after another.

So these are conservative estimates, without adding other construction forces, and retaining a large part of the construction force as a reserve."

"Well, you've thought about it very carefully, so let's implement it like this!"

After deciding on the plan, Zero started to implement it.

"By the way, how is our steel base doing?"

"Sir, in one month, the steel base will be completed and it will be able to produce more than one million tons of pig iron ingots annually."

"No, it's still not enough. Now the other three countries in the world have begun to land on the moon. We have to speed up the pace and quickly complete the actual occupation of the area we belong to.

At the same time, some locations that are relatively far away can cooperate with the state or private companies and let them be responsible for development, and we will take a commission from the middle.

By the way, let Zhang Yuanxing register a mining company to sell steel produced on the moon. Remember to ask him to fight for the tax exemption policy.

The lunar steel base must also be expanded to achieve an annual output of 100 million tons, otherwise there may be insufficient manufacturing materials for subsequent spacecrafts.”

"Okay sir, according to calculations, if we want to meet your requirements, it is estimated that the scale of the steel plant can reach an annual output of 100 million tons by May next year,"

"Well, this time is still acceptable. By the way, how is our steel production on Blue Star? Can it meet the needs of spacecraft manufacturing?"

"Sir, now on Blue Star, the land mining area plus the seabed mining base have reached a monthly output of 500,000 tons.

Continental-class and Comet-class spacecraft need to consume 70,000 tons of steel every month. Coupled with the production of some facilities and construction robots, the monthly steel consumption is 100,000 tons, and there is still 400,000 tons left.

According to statistics, we now have 5 million tons of steel in stock, which is enough for a period of time.

Nowadays, there is no more steel smelting equipment in Blue Star, but the number of mining bases on the seabed has been increasing,"

"Well, it just so happens that these newly added seabed ores should be sold to Longguo through the mining company registered by Zhang Yuanxing!

The focus later is on the universe! "

"Okay sir, President Zhang Yuanxing has been notified,"

"By the way, how are you preparing the materials for this trip to Mars?"

"Sir, in three days, the supplies will be ready.

In addition to the building modules used to build the base, the materials prepared this time also include 100 mining robots and two transport vehicles with a load capacity of 500 tons,"

"By the way, the previous quantum satellite is already in place, right?"

"The quantum satellite has been in place a month ago, and now there is no delay in our communication with Mars on the Blue Star,"

"Well, when the six spacecrafts return this time, they will carry soil samples from many areas of Mars. I will hand over these samples to the Dragon Kingdom for them to study, and then the results will be shared.

This saves us a lot of things.”

"Okay sir, I have added the request to the plan. This round trip will take two months and will bring back more than 500 tons of soil samples. Sir, you can discuss the specific soil distribution with Long Guo first,"

"Good suggestion. By the way, I remember that Mars seems to have two satellites, right?"

"Yes sir, Phobos has already crashed into the surface of Mars, while Deimos has the opposite situation and is moving away from Mars,"

"If I want to install third-generation ion engines on two satellites to speed them up and leave the orbit of Mars and go to the Blue Star, is it feasible?"

"Sir, according to calculations, it is still feasible. However, the mass of Phobos is as high as 10 trillion tons, and the mass of Deimos is as high as 200 trillion tons. Although the thrust required is not large, it will take a long time to escape from Mars. Gravity, fly to the blue star!”

"How long will it take exactly?"

"The conditions are insufficient to calculate, but zero guess is that it should be in years,"

"Forget it, in one year we will probably be able to mine almost all the useful materials on the two satellites on site. It's not cost-effective.

But it should be possible to use it on other asteroids,"

"Sir, it is very good to use this solution for small asteroids. If a space smelting factory is established, these asteroids can be smelted directly into various metal ingots in space,"

"Record this plan, it should be useful later!"

After seeing that the understanding was almost complete, Lu Chen asked Zero to start the implementation of the entire plan, while he entered the experimental base and began to study nuclear fusion.