Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 387 The Pride of the Chinese People
2035 11 Month 1 Day.

This day on Earth is the big day for Starnet's Super Apollo spacecraft to make its maiden voyage from the Tiangong City Space Pier.

Super Apollo will carry tens of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of tons of equipment and materials to Ganymede, kicking off the development of Jupiter and Saturn.

With the industrial foundation for building the first spacecraft, the second and third spacecraft of Solar System Dynamics and Starnet will launch one after another in the next year.

The progress of the development of Jupiter and Saturn will be very fast, and the population of the European and American Federation will be transferred to the outside of the earth at an extremely fast speed.

The population pressure on the earth will be greatly relieved.

But Zhong Cheng was not happy at all. He was not jealous of the success of Solar System Power Company and Xingwang Company, but worried.

The Mutual Aid Society's efforts to expand its influence in the outer reaches of the solar system are nothing more than to get rid of the shackles of the three major federations.

So far, they have succeeded.

But what they want to do after that is hard to predict.

If their goal is just to be independent, that's not terrible. Some politicians talk to them.

If they want to counterattack the earth with the power of Jupiter and Saturn, where do they have the confidence?
But no matter what, the Asian Federation should be ready for war. As long as there are these ambitious people, the shadow of war will not disappear from human society.

If the whole world was a big chess game before, now this big game has extended to the entire solar system.

Zhong Cheng faintly noticed that the layout of this big chess game began more than ten years ago, and the person who made the layout was...

He didn't think about it any more. What he and Red Star Company should do now is to speed up the construction of spaceships, speed up the development of Mars, and work hard for the early completion of the Asian Federation's asteroid belt defense line.

If human society cannot avoid exchanging a war for a longer-term peace, it is at least a war that the Asian Federation is prepared for.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the live broadcast of the first voyage of the Super Apollo spacecraft came from the direction of the earth.

But Zhong Cheng didn't care to watch the excitement, and the four detection teams he sent out returned to Meridian base one after another.

The exploration team has collected a large amount of first-hand information, coupled with the reconnaissance satellite information in orbit, the geological, geomorphological and astronomical information of Mars is already very comprehensive.

The next day, Zhong Cheng announced his return to Earth, leaving only 10 engineers and technicians headed by Ye Wenhao and [-] personnel from the temporary base on Phobos to stay at the Meridian base.

However, they don't have to wait long, Lanyue will arrive at Mars soon, and the other two Luanniao aerospace planes 305 will also arrive one after another.

Three of the five missions to Mars this time have been completed.

The research on planting wood grains on Mars will be continued by people led by Ye Wenhao. This is not a task that can be completed in a short time.

The plan to restore the Martian magnetic field will not be decided until a meeting is held after returning to Earth.

Because in the past few days, Zhong Cheng had a very bold idea about restoring the Martian magnetic field, and he had to use the Taixu experimental system on Fuxi-[-] to conduct simulation calculations after returning to Earth.

If it is feasible, it is expected to complete the transformation project on Mars in the short term. By then, humans may be able to move freely on Mars without wearing space suits or engineering mechs.

If there is no need to build an expensive sky ecosystem, then the progress of the construction of immigrant cities on Mars will be rapid.

August 11 at noon.

Zhong Cheng bid farewell to Ye Wenhao and other left-behind personnel, boarded the Star Reacher, and left Mars

Because the fuel is still sufficient, the Star Reacher accelerates to a speed of 100 kilometers per second and will return to Earth in 8 days.

Since the distance between Mars and the Earth has been extended to more than 7000 million kilometers at this time, although the speed of Star Reaching has doubled, the return time has not been shortened to half.

Since the major planets in the solar system are in relative motion, the future transportation system of the solar system will be a changing system.

It took you 2 days to take the ground fire flight this time, maybe you will take 7 days to take the same ground fire flight next time.

August 11 at 10am.

Exactly one month after leaving the earth, the Zhaixing returned to the space starship base of the Red Star Ship Manufacturing Company in Tiangong City.

It was Yang Xi, Liu Yang and others who welcomed Zhong Cheng and his party.

Yang Xi said that Lanyue had already set off for Mars three days ago, and the third Luanniao aerospace plane, Type 305 Huohun, had already docked at the starship base and would set off in a month.

The fourth Luanniao aerospace plane, Type 305 Alchemy, is still undergoing final outfitting and painting operations, and is expected to depart after the Spring Festival next year.

After being repaired, the Star Reacher will go to Mars together with the Fire catcher.

Zhong Cheng asked Liu Yang about the construction progress of the Xuanwu spacecraft, and Liu Yang said that the Xuanwu-10 spacecraft will definitely be offline in October next year.

It took one and a half years to build a spaceship with a maximum take-off weight of 80 tons, which is half the time of the Super Apollo. This is already a miracle of heavy industry.

Liu Yang said that the No. 5 and No. [-] docks of the Starship Base are also under construction and will be completed and put into use in May next year. By then, the construction of the second and third Xuanwu spacecraft will begin.

Zhong Cheng was very satisfied with this, praised Liu Yang a few words, and asked him to pay attention to rest. He is also in his 60s.

Yang Xi smiled wryly and said that Mr. Liu is so energetic that he can't even keep up with the young man. His two sons and daughter-in-law live and eat at the starship base, and only his wife takes care of the grandson at home.

Liu Yang said with a smile, his ancestors were all shipbuilders, and now his generation has started to build starships, which is really a glorious ancestor, he can wake up with a smile when he sleeps, such hard work is nothing.

It was only then that Zhong Cheng remembered that Liu Yang had told him many years ago that his ancestors had built Zheng He's treasure ships when he sailed to the West.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty (1405-1433 A.D.), Ming Chengzu Zhu Di ordered Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures, to sail from Liujiagang in Taicang (now Liuhe Town, Taicang City, Jiangsu Province) to sail to the West.

Zheng He led more than 240 seagoing ships and more than 2.7 people on seven voyages to the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean, visiting more than 7 countries and regions including the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and as far as East Africa and the Red Sea.

Zheng He's voyage to the Western Seas was the largest sea voyage in China and even the world in ancient times, with the largest ships, the most ships, the most sailors, and the longest sea voyage. It was decades earlier than the voyages of European countries.

Zheng He's voyage far surpassed the navigators of Portugal, Spain and other countries, such as Magellan, Columbus, da Gama and others. He can be called the pioneer of the "Great Age of Discovery" and the only oriental.

Today, Red Star Company has built the largest spaceship in the modern world, and will also build the largest space fleet in the world.

This is not only the pride of the Liu family, but also the pride of the Huaxia people!
(End of this chapter)