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Human society has once again exploded with a strong will to fight against disasters.

In the wordless silence, laughter and blessings echoed, either destroyed or reborn.

This time, even without the deliberate guidance of the government, this will to fight has already appeared!

We have seen the galaxy with overlapping peaks, and also experienced the more ancient and unchanged peaks.

We have experienced a lot of suffering, and we have also encountered an abyss that is difficult to cross.

But we are still alive.

When he returned to the factory the next day, Lin Lei was surprised to find that the workers in the production room had arrived ahead of schedule.

"Old Lin, you are not active now, you are the last one to arrive."

Factory director Guo Xinchang laughed and said, "Don't think that you have to lead by example every time... Today, we have received a new order, and we may have to work overtime!"

...

It's not just all the workers, soldiers, and scientists who are busy, Zhang Ran is really busy as hell.

The repair of the curvature engine is a big project, and it needs to consume a lot of creation energy.

Creation in the void can't be done just by talking about it. He has to face the drawings and consume some energy. At least he needs to know what to create... So Zhang Ran spends most of the day in Daxia No. 1 Manufacturing plants create all kinds of messy parts.

The person in charge of his creation is an engineer named Lu Qiming, who is the cousin of Major Lu Chenming.

In his last words, Lao Lu emphasized that Zhang Ran had to pay attention to find a wife for his cousin, and find out what was going on with this guy.

Lu Qiming is 29 years old this year. He is a super straight man. He doesn't understand what is called a superior-subordinate relationship. Ah! You got all the goods of 112-00224, with a number missing in the middle!"

"You got it wrong, you know?"

The voice was so loud that it made Zhang Ran dizzy. He couldn't help but miss the two gentle female secretaries... But these two female secretaries are going to tame aliens!

"There is also the 009-1154-3321 that is the same as the pipeline. It must be created within a day! Hurry up!"

"A total of 300 pieces, put them near the space gate and throw them directly on the truck, otherwise it will be very difficult for us to transport! Don't mistake the place!"

Under Sun Qiming's training, Zhang Ran felt that he was already a piece of steel that has been tempered and tempered!

In fact, this is also good. Only with such people can the highest efficiency be achieved.

Only by going deep into the grassroots can we know the difficulties of industrial development.

Occasionally, during breaks, he would joke: "Lao Lu, you have such a loud voice, can your wife bear it?"

The workers next to him were all laughing.

As a result, Lu Qiming blushed to the base of his neck in an instant, and said bluntly, "I don't have...a girlfriend yet!"

"If you have time to find a girlfriend, you might as well improve yourself!"

"Create some composite material for 822-00100-991, this one is in short supply! Make some more...then you can get off work and leave it all to us!"

If you have time to find a girlfriend, why not improve yourself?

What is this saying? The direct, natural, and inevitable relationship between people is the relationship between men and women.

The relationship between men and women is the most natural relationship between people.

This is what Marx said!

This scene made Zhang Ran wonder whether Lu Qiming's straight male genes could be passed on... He was 29 years old, not too old, but not too young.

What kind of thing is this? Maybe he really can't find a wife... Should he arrange some blind date girls for him?

"Wait... Will the blind date event specially held by the royal family attract many people?"

A plan was quietly formed in Zhang Ran's mind.

...

On the other hand, in the wave valley area, the asteroid meteorite search project has temporarily come to an end.

People's out-of-the-box exploration teams searched less than 1% of the area in total, and found 146 large and small asteroids with a total mass of about 22.3 billion tons!

Quite a lot!

Captain Zhao Weichao of the staff department reported the results of the investigation in recent days: "We basically know the trajectory of these asteroids. If the curvature engine is repaired, our Panshi can try to capture these asteroids."

"As for the large meteorites of hundreds of billions of tons and trillions of tons, we haven't found them for the time being."

"Oh, how to capture it?"

After Zhang Ran escaped from the clutches of engineer Sun Qiming, he heard the good news, and couldn't help being shocked: "Could it be using subspace? It's not impossible..."

Zhao Weichao quickly laughed and said, "The kinetic energy of these asteroids is generally not too large, so there is no need to use subspace."

"And the internal space of the Panshi has been prepared, that is, the big hole that was smashed out by the meteorite. It has been transformed into a super-large warehouse, and it is no longer a problem to stuff tens of billions to hundreds of billions of tons of materials."

"As for the capture method... Just use the flagellum of the spaceship to grab them in. The power of this thing is really incomparable. It is easy to capture meteorites with a mass of hundreds of millions of tons, no matter what."

Man's manipulation of the flagella of the Panshi is not very precise. As long as energy is provided and then the silicon-based network structure in the flagella is stimulated, it can be stretched.

The silicon-based network structure is a bit like a neuron, capable of stimulating a series of changes in its internal structure.

Zhang Ran looked at the data on the information, frowned and said, "There are only 22.3 billion tons of matter in total...Compared to the previous asteroids, they are not small."

"And most of them are a combination of rock and water, and there are not many metals... Okay, it's better than nothing."

In fact, there are already many.

A serious excavator can only dig two to three thousand tons of ore for one day.

For a mine of 20 billion tons, 10,000 excavators are needed to dig for 1,000 days!

But compared to the entire human civilization, it is not a lot when it is averaged to each person.

Moreover, most of the elements are ice and dust.

There is no shortage of such things as water for the time being. Dust, that is, silica, has a lot of inventory on the human side, and it is not very useful. At most, it can be used to produce some cement and repair the Dongfang Panshi.

Captain Zhao said with a smile: "Your Highness, there is also good news. We found that one of the asteroids actually contains radioactive elements, which is a very precious type. It is roughly estimated that the mass of this meteorite is about 10 million tons. According to Calculated with 3% uranium content, 300,000 tons of enriched uranium can be mined.”

"The quantity of uranium 235 is 2,160 tons."

"Oh? Radioactive elements... This is really good."

Thanks to the continuous establishment of nuclear fusion power plants, the energy problem has been truly solved.

Otherwise, even with these ores, there is no way to smelt them, and too much energy is needed.

For example, enriching uranium requires a large centrifuge, and the power consumed by this thing is not covered!

In addition, the emergence of controlled nuclear fusion does not mean that nuclear fission materials are useless.

The engines of many small spaceships still need to use nuclear fission energy.

The current nuclear fusion engine has not been developed yet, and there is no way to miniaturize it. Moreover, it is not cost-effective to use nuclear fusion for small spacecraft. After all, each tokamak device is very expensive.

It is impossible for Zhang Ran to use the energy of creation to build a fusion device for every spaceship. This is impossible.

In addition, the manufacture of atomic bombs also requires the use of fissile materials.

The critical mass of uranium-235 is 15kg, and a hydrogen bomb with a higher yield requires several atomic bombs to ignite simultaneously.

According to the data of Dongfang Laboratory, about 100 kilograms of nuclear fission materials are needed to manufacture a hydrogen bomb with a gigaton equivalent.

Calculated in this way, 2,160 tons of uranium 235, if all weapons are manufactured, about 20,000 high-yield hydrogen bombs will be manufactured!

"It's okay, it's okay, this supplement of radioactive elements is very powerful. The fear of insufficient firepower has been temporarily relieved... There is no need to use all of it to make nuclear bombs, and it is better to leave some for the spacecraft's engine."

Zhang Ran couldn't help laughing: "Major Guo Weiqiang should be very urgent about this asteroid."

Chief of Staff Zhao Weichao also smiled and said: "Yes, Major Guo is very hasty."

"Other asteroids may not be captured, but this one with radioactive elements is a must! Even if there is not enough time, it is also possible to use His Highness's space gate to put it into the subspace. Its volume is not large. It's too big, it doesn't cost anything, it just takes up some of your time..."

"If time is really short, I will go." Zhang Ran replied.

The mix of good news and bad news makes people worry and happy at the same time.

It would be great if it took longer to develop!

This is the consensus of almost every insightful person...

Time is really tight.

After Zhao Weichao left, Zhang Ran sighed, his whole body was sore after a hard day.

He turned on the computer again and found that the mailbox was densely packed with documents, so he could only bite the bullet and review these reports...

What made him feel painful was that there were no more girls in the office!

The combination of men and women, not tired from work, and no girls always gave him a very boring feeling.

Tired in the past, there is still a zero who can tease, relax, and play role-playing; the "intentionally shy" Sakurai girl can also tease, although she knows that her shyness is faked and has some bad intentions, But as a man, isn't he afraid of losing money?

Now... no more girls.

Qiuyue is busy improving the efficiency of nuclear fusion, which is very important and involves the cost of power generation.

If the cost does not come down, the gap between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission will be small.

Zero and Sakurai are being the "mother" of alien life, which is equally important...

It is said that with such a little achievement, when I am free, I want to go to see what is going on with alien life.

The office was empty, and all the contacts were men.

In particular, the straight male engineer Lu Qiming called again, and the loud voice came over again: "Your Highness, the parts of batch 810-21-3 are not enough! Please work overtime!"

"It's urgent, come here quickly, don't rest!"

"Come here quickly!"

"What do you mean don't rest..." Zhang Ran was speechless.

This kind of 007 life is very uncomfortable.

"Laziness is an evil that comes from the depths of your genes!" Zhang Ran raised his head, cursed viciously, then stood up and walked out of the office...

...

So, in the midst of intense busyness, time passed by every minute.

Two months passed quickly.

The repair of one hundred "flagella" of Dongfang Panshi means that this big ship can complete the initial curvature movement.

The next 1,000 flagella will take ten times as long, so it is not so urgent.

The length of each flagella is a full 1,500 kilometers, and it can curl up into the tunnel inside the Eastern Rock, curling up like a hair.

This amazing structure looks very strange, like a composite product of machines, silicon-based substances and chitin. The connecting superconducting wire alone is as thick as a thigh, and requires a huge amount of energy to make it move twice.

Professor Fan, who is in charge of this work, received all the visitors: "We used its own structure. There is a phosphoric acid chemical structure called 'PPX' in the flagella, which is a bit like ATP in human muscle tissue, but These structures need to operate at temperatures as high as 500 degrees Celsius."

"And the flexibility and strength of the flagella themselves are comparable to carbon nanotubes."

"We provide a lot of energy, and then simulate its own electrical signal to make it move..."

"Your Highness, I have something to tell you." Zhou Chengfeng, the chairman of the council, suddenly walked up to Zhang Ran.

"Tell me..."

In fact, many of Zhang Ran's tasks are shared among government departments at all levels, such as workers' remuneration and allocation of various materials, all of which are the busyness of the government. His work has been reduced by more than 90%.

In order to build this mothership, Zhou Chengfeng, the chairman of the council, is also very busy, his expression looks a bit vicissitudes, and there are more and more white hairs on his temples.

"A fiscal deficit..."

In particular, the fiscal deficit and the lack of productivity are really exhausting.

A government with unlimited accountability is different from an elected government.

When the government is elected by the people and the president comes to power, it is difficult to bear any responsibility even if he operates blindly, and the people don't want him to bear too much responsibility. Therefore, those who are elected to power are often short-sighted. After I leave, I will deal with the flood.

However, a government with an unlimited responsibility system must have long-term planning. In the current situation, the construction of a mothership that greatly exceeds its own productivity will lead to an increasing fiscal deficit and the risk of an internal financial crisis.

"Productivity is still far from enough, the people can't get rich...the interest on special bonds shouldn't be high?" Zhang Ran asked.

"It's not that high. With an interest rate of 4% a year, the private sector buys heavily. Their money is used to buy bonds." Zhou Chengfeng said: "But for the long-term development of the mothership, special government bonds must be continuously issued, which is equivalent to borrowing Money pays for expenses, and the debt will only snowball. Or you can only print money and monetize the fiscal deficit. But printing money will inevitably lead to inflation.”

Zhang Ran pondered for a while, then shook his head: "I am opposed to the monetization of the fiscal deficit, but it is better not to open it. Isn't that how the gold round coupons and the Zimbabwean currency appear?"

"Let's use bonds to survive. After we have built the mothership, we will find a way to use nuclear fusion energy and engage in internal economics. If the economy improves, this deficit will not be difficult to solve."

Inside the spaceship, the workers are in full swing and extremely busy. Countless workers like Lin Lei and Sun Qiming make up this world.

Zhang Ran, Zhou Chengfeng and others visited the internal smelting plant.

Most metals are smelted by electrolysis.

In the past, the cost of electrolysis was very high, and it was only suitable for smelting some relatively expensive metals, otherwise it would be difficult to make ends meet.

But now, through the efforts of Dongfang Laboratory, the price of electricity is about half cheaper than before, and the cost of electrolysis is acceptable.

These smelted metals can just be used for the production of Kunlun Mountain and the construction of Dongfang Panshi.

"Panshi Metal Smelting Group" is expected to smelt 70 million tons of metal per year, which is the largest production line in the Panshi. Among them, the Daxia State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission owns 54.7% of the shares, and the remaining 45.3% of the shares are owned by the collective economy of 15 heavy industry shelters.

However, the famous "Panshi Metal Smelting Group" is in a state of loss.

The reason is that the metal it sells to the government is too cheap. If it is a truly market-oriented economy, the price will be doubled.

No way, in order to support the construction of the mothership...

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