There's a black hole inside me

The end of the 5th year of the Martian calendar.

The third Martian immigration city, Starwind City.

It is named after Zhang Xingfeng, the city’s biggest contributor and winner of multiple “Outstanding Pioneer” medals.

In fact, Zhang Xingfeng did not think that he had made much contribution. He only provided a few trivial suggestions, which happened to be adopted.

And so many years have passed.

His position has not changed much. The number of people he manages has increased from five to five hundred, and he has become a middle-level captain (this is already the highest position).

And having the qualification of "making suggestions" is called a "company representative", and you can receive an additional special allowance.

besides.

Due to work reasons, he has to go on business trips to space cities for about three out of every 23 months of the Martian calendar. As a "supervisor", he is responsible for delivering rough-processed ore to the space smelting plant and exchanging it into credits. points, or exchange them for various supplies and send them back to Starwind City.

It stands to reason that this is a "fat gap", and there seems to be a lot of oil and water to be fished out of it.

But those who dare to think this way will be proven by facts to think too much; those who dare to do this will be deprived of all benefits and all rushed back to Blue Star.

There is no room for corruption within the Black Hole Group.

In the management structure, he, the middle-level captain, is already on the ceiling for promotion. The management tasks of more than a thousand people at higher levels are all handed over to AI - this thing is selfless and will never show any favors to you.

The purpose of occasionally equipping a human "supervisor" is to prevent AI from making mistakes, as an insurance... although the probability of AI making mistakes is extremely low.

So this has become a relatively boring chore. You must know that the last three months of the year are when others take long vacations to celebrate the New Year. He has to go on a business trip and cannot be at home with his wife and children.

The scenery of the space city is good.

The space factory is very shocking and eye-opening.

But these are not enough to stay with the family, and it is better to travel to other cities together.

But there was no way, everyone trusted her and recommended him, so he could only go.

this day.

The business trip finally ended, and a batch of supplies was transported back to City No. 3.

I returned to my home - a five-story villa with a five-acre yard near the city.

This villa and the land are all freehold properties that he bought at a large price - the land on Mars allows individuals to privately own it, but the purchase price is quite high. Only a few people can afford it, and Zhang Xingfeng is one of the few. But it also used up most of my savings.

But no matter how much money he spent, he felt it was a good deal. He laid a foundation for future generations, because the future population will expand and the land on Mars will definitely appreciate. As long as the family does not spend money, their life will not be too bad.

"Honey, you are back."

Seeing him returning after a long journey, his wife Gu Lanlan's face was filled with joy and she stepped forward to greet him: "Are you hungry? I'll prepare lunch soon."

"Don't worry, I'm not hungry yet."

Zhang Xingfeng waved his hand.

"Dad is back!"

"Dad, have you brought us a gift?"

"Papa~"

His two older daughters and his son, who was less than two years old, all ran to him and asked for gifts.

"Yes, yes, you have all your gifts."

Zhang Xingfeng smiled kindly and took out a package. It contained all kinds of fashionable toys, snacks, etc. that children like. He bought them at the market in the space city. The price was very cheap. Of course, most of them came from On Blue Star.

"Thank you dad~"

"Dad is the best."

"Yes, yes!"

After taking the package, they swarmed up to the second floor. Soon there were sounds of frantic commotion, scrambling, and the cry of their youngest son.

Zhang Xingfeng shook his head.

"How is it? How much has City No. 3's efficiency increased this year compared to last year?"

Gu Lanlan handed a cup of honey grapefruit tea into his hand and asked: "Next to our city, there are two boron-molybdenum mines and lithium mines with huge reserves. They are both high-value minerals. Our profits must be very good this year, right?"

"Resource-based cities cannot go far, and the mines will eventually be exhausted."

Zhang Xingfeng said: "After deducting costs, this year's net income from selling mines is 49.782 billion credit points. The company takes 30% of the tax and the city management system takes 20%. The remaining 24.891 billion is the income of the 88,000 residents of City 3. It’s about 5 billion more than last year.”

"Your contribution value is 10.5, and my contribution value is 1.5. We can get 12 salaries in total, which is almost 2.5 million. This year is another good year!"

Gu Lanlan counted on her fingers for a while and said excitedly.

The purchasing power of credit points is similar to that of soft sister coins. Although the prices on Mars are generally higher, 2.5 million can not only make this family live a very comfortable life, but also save more than half of it.

And although Gu Lanlan has been a full-time housewife at home for several years, she also has a contribution weight of 1.5, and the more children she has, the greater the contribution weight. For example, if she gives birth to five children, she has a contribution weight of 2.5; if she gives birth to ten, she has a contribution weight of 5 With the weight of his contribution, he received nearly half of Zhang Xingfeng's salary. Not only did he significantly improve his economic situation, he also won the honorary title of "Heroic Mother".

Having more children can indeed improve the economic situation and even achieve a leap in class.

But three of them are annoying enough. If a few more come, Gu Lanlan feels that she will be crushed. Those little guys are like angels when they are quiet, but they are like little devils when they are crazy.

"I have said that a development model that relies on resources is not sustainable."

Zhang Xingfeng said: "Does City No. 1 know? The minerals near their city have basically been mined out. Now, 30,000 of their 100,000 residents have to go to the space city to work, or immigrate to the space city with their families and become a A city with an outflow of population will soon become a country-like place.”

"In Longyao City, No. 72 City, they do not exploit resources at all and only develop high technology. They have built City 72 into a scientific city. The per capita net income is 580,000 credits, which is twice as high as ours. No. 73 No. Bio City and No. 74 Blue Electric City, their incomes are higher than ours... The mining of primary raw materials is far inferior to the research and development of high-value-added high-tech products. "

"Everyone knows this."

Gu Lanlan was noncommittal: "But Xingfeng City is so small, with a population of less than 100,000, and not many outstanding talents. Apart from digging resources, what else can we do? How can we compare with those high-tech cities?"

"Most of the mining work is actually done by robots, or even 100% replaced by robots. We dig hundreds of millions of tons of minerals every year, and we can use up to 1,000 human workers."

Zhang Xingfeng said: "The human resources in City No. 3 are actually very abundant. It can completely allow a group of young and strong people to choose a more promising industry, instead of working as miners for a lifetime and becoming dependent on minerals that are destined to be mined out."

"What industry?" Gu Lanlan asked.

"I heard news that the company plans to expand the size of the black hole fleet..."

Zhang Xingfeng whispered a piece of gossip.