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The "Eternal Fortress Plan" has been formulated, and Zhou Ming can find a way to get all the resources needed... He doesn't have to worry too much.

But during the specific operation, there was still a serious problem that faced Zhou Ming.

transportation.

How to carry out fast, efficient and high-volume transportation?

Let’s not talk about all kinds of food and materials here, but just talk about how the 900 million people who will be transferred to the “Godless Alliance” area will be quickly transferred to the territory of the Wushen Alliance is an extremely serious problem.

You must know that this is more than 900 million people, not 900,000, 9 million, or 90 million, but 900 million!

With such a huge population, in country Z in the real world, during the Spring Festival travel period when everyone goes home to celebrate the New Year, a total of 3.5 billion passengers were transported to their homes and back through transportation methods such as roads, waterways, railways, airplanes, etc. It takes a full seven days.

In the technologically backward Azeroa continent, the workload of transporting 900 million people may not be completed in seven days, not to mention seventy or seven hundred days.

However, for Zhou Ming, completing the transportation of more than 900 million passengers is not a big problem.

He solved this problem a few years ago through cooperation with the Continental Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

A specially developed vehicle that can transport a large number of passengers - a giant passenger aerostat.

This giant passenger aerostat is more than 1,000 meters long, 150 meters wide, and has an internal airbag volume of more than 17 million cubic meters... Its ultimate load is 2,000 tons.

As for the number of passengers carried, if the extreme passenger carrying mode is adopted, it can carry 5,000 passengers at a time.

It is not an exaggeration to call a giant passenger aerostat with such a terrifying carrying capacity a "Big Mac in the sky".

At present, the Continental Chamber of Commerce and Industry has a total of 350 such air giants, and they are in full production. It is expected that the total number of ships will reach 1,500 off the production line in three years.

Zhou Ming has made an agreement with the Continental Chamber of Commerce and Industry and signed an agreement, agreeing that in the next two years, 500 giant passenger aerostats will be mobilized to the Wushen Alliance to assist in the transportation of personnel.

If all 500 giant passenger aerostats are in place, assuming that one delivery is completed every two days (the flying speed of the giant aerostat is equivalent to that of a high-speed rail), each trip will transport 5,000 people and a population of 900 million, which is about 180,000 trips. Can be shipped.

Divide 180,000 by 500. On average, each giant passenger aerostat can make 360 ​​trips.

In just two years, the migration of 900 million people can be completed.

However, not all of the 50 or so Holy Kingdoms of Light that need to be conquered must be transported via giant airships. Those countries bordering the Godless Alliance can still enter the Godless Alliance area by land, because It's relatively close, so it won't take too long.

The actual number of people who need to take a giant aeroboat will not exceed 500 million.

Therefore, it is not difficult for Zhou Ming to transport a large number of people in a short period of time.

However, the quantity and weight of various materials needed by a population of 900 million, such as food, daily necessities, tools and agricultural tools, etc., are much greater than the population itself.

For food alone, a population of 900 million consumes at least 200 million tons a year.

How to transport 200 million tons of grain?

Could it be using a cargo-type giant aerostat? Assuming that one trip transports 2,000 tons of grain, 100,000 trips would be enough for 200 million tons of grain.

If another 500 giant aerostats are arranged for transportation, an average of 200 trips per ship will be enough... The task volume does not seem to be very large.

Having said that, two new questions arise here.

First, a large number of magicians are needed to control a giant aerostat. On average, each boat must be equipped with at least 100 intermediate (and above) magicians. If it is less than this number, it will be difficult to control the giant aerostat.

So the problem arises, a giant aerospace boat takes up 100 magicians, and 500 boats is 50,000.

In addition, 500 passenger-type giant aerostats also require the assistance of 50,000 magicians to control them.

Plus the 50,000 magicians serving on the floating battleships.

As well as the 50,000 magicians serving in the Kingdom's magic corps.

A total of 200,000 magicians are needed.

Does the current Godless Alliance have 200,000 magicians?

Of course not. Although Zhou Ming invested a lot of resources in training or recruiting, the magicians who worked for the Wushen Alliance only cost over 150,000 to survive.

Therefore, Zhou Ming could not spare any extra magicians to serve in the transportation of various materials.

Two, the Yadud Kingdom is 100,000 miles away from the Waitrose Empire. Among the kingdoms that have joined the "Godless Alliance", the kingdom closest to the Waitrose Empire is also 80,000 miles away. Calculated at 80,000 miles, the speed is equivalent to the giant high-speed rail. How long does it take for a round trip by airship?

10 days.

It takes about 10 days.

To complete 200 delivery tasks, it will take at least 2,000 days...that is, 5.48 years.

But the food in question must be eaten by everyone. If you don't eat it for three to five days, you will starve to death. Therefore, the 200 delivery tasks must be completed within a year. If it is delayed by a few days, many people will starve to death.

It takes 5.48 years to transport the food needed for a year. It would be strange if people don’t starve to death!

What's more, in addition to the necessity of food, the consumption of other materials will never be small.

Therefore, the use of cargo-type giant aerostats, even 3,000 or 5,000 ships, may not be enough.

what to do?

In order to feed a population of 900 million, what should Zhou Ming do?

Space teleportation array.

Is it possible to use a space teleportation array?

This is of course possible. Once the space teleportation array is activated, it only takes two or three seconds to complete the transmission between two places that are one hundred thousand miles apart in the space channel of the teleportation array. It is extremely convenient and fast.

Used to transport materials, it can naturally save a lot of time and greatly improve efficiency.

However, the transmission port of the space transmission array is too small and can only be transmitted one person at a time. The speed of transmitting materials is fast, but the channel capacity is too small and cannot meet the needs.

What if it is used with a space ring?

Space rings have different capacities, including one cubic, ten cubic, one hundred cubic, and one thousand cubic. Among them, one cubic is the most, ten cubic is more common, one hundred cubic is less, and the capacity reaches one thousand cubic. , can be called rare.

If you can find a way to get a large number of space rings with a capacity of 100 cubic meters, and then let people carry these space rings into the teleportation array, assuming that each person wears 10 space rings on their hands, transporting 1,000 cubic meters of materials at a time, 200 million tons of Food only needs to be transported back and forth 267,000 times.

Assume that each person can make 10 round-trip deliveries per day, and a total of 1,000 people are arranged to carry out the 267,000 food delivery tasks, which can be completed in about a month.

The space teleportation array between the Yadud Kingdom and the Waitrose Empire was built more than four years ago. It is a two-way space teleportation array... It is very convenient to use and can arrange teleportation at any time.

As for the transport personnel who run the space teleportation array, it is enough for them to be magicians, even trainee magicians...the level requirements are not high.

There is no pressure to draw a thousand people.

The only problem left is: Zhou Ming had to find a way to get 10,000 space rings...the kind with a capacity of 100 cubic meters.

This time it’s a bit difficult.