Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 407 Yun Mengyang

In the conference room on the first floor of the Red Star Building in Meridian City, Zhong Cheng presided over the general meeting of the company's middle and high-level personnel on Mars.

He announced Red Star's development plan for Mars in the next ten years.

Continuing to transform the Martian environment and building the Martian ecosystem is the focus and will continue.

This project is led by Ye Wenhao and implemented by Hongxing Agricultural Reclamation Company, with wood grain planting being the top priority.

In addition to improving the soil conditions of Mars, Muhe can also absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen more efficiently than algae.

Moreover, the high profits of wood grain plantation can also support large-scale industrial construction on Mars.

The city construction and immigration issues on Mars will be handed over to the Mars administrative region established by the federation next year.

Red Star Company only needs to build Meridian City, and then it will establish industrial bases in the 33 selected rich mineral areas on Mars.

In Zhong Cheng's plan, all branches of Red Star Company will open branches on Mars, build factories and build production lines.

Eventually, a complete industrial chain of heavy industry, light industry, and agriculture will be formed to realize the self-sufficiency of the human colony on Mars.

Zheng Yilun was in charge of this huge project, and Chen Qiang assisted in building a second industrial base equivalent to the industrial manufacturing capacity of the Red Star Company on Earth within a ten-year period.

In the next few days, Li Mei, Gui Bin, and Zhong Xin were testing the ultra-distance communication technology in the Red Star Building.

Zhong Cheng, on the other hand, traveled to Mars with Zhou Hu and others to fulfill his wish that he could not fulfill when he landed on Mars the year before last.

After leaving Meridian City, everyone had to put on engineering mechs again. This was not only because of the low oxygen content, but also because the atmosphere in the Martian field was filled with a large amount of poisonous gas.

The collision of stars into Mars last year caused a large-scale volcanic eruption on the surface of Mars. The exact number of volcanic eruptions is too many to count.

Combined with violent earthquakes across the globe, another consequence is that the shape of the Martian surface is almost unrecognizable.

The original high mountains were destroyed, and the old lowlands formed new plateaus.

The largest canyon group in the original solar system, the Mariner Canyon, completely disappeared and was filled up by the lava from the surrounding volcanoes. The highest peaks in the original solar system, such as Mount Olympus, no longer exist.

Because the ocean was formed in the lowest place on Mars, the sea level rose several thousand meters, and some of the original plateaus could no longer be called plateaus.

Of course, a large number of rivers and lakes were also produced at the same time, and nearly half of the area in the northern hemisphere became a vast ocean.

Looking at it all the way, Zhong Cheng was deeply moved. One of his thoughts brought about such a huge change in a planet. It is several levels worse to describe it as earth-shaking.

He was amazed by the leveling of a few mountains more than [-] years ago, but now he has directly changed the appearance of mountains and rivers on a huge planet like the earth.

This is a qualitative leap in the ability of human beings to transform nature!

Aside from emotion, Zhong Cheng had a bolder idea in his mind.

The Federation handed over the development of Mars, Venus, and Mercury to Red Star Company, but the natural conditions of Venus and Mercury are too harsh.

So much so that he wanted to put the development of Venus and Mercury seven or eight years later, or even ten years later.

But with the practical experience of transforming Mars, maybe he can be more courageous and start the development of these two planets now.

Zhou Hu is now a frequent visitor on Mars. He is in charge of being a tour guide for Zhong Cheng, but he is very uncomfortable when he talks about the place names on Mars that do not match the real names.

Zhou Hu believes that it is no longer appropriate to use the original Western names for the geography of Mars, and suggests that the place names of Mars should be re-planned and named in Chinese.

Zhong Cheng was heartbroken. Mars would definitely become a human colony dominated by Chinese people. It would be very meaningful to name the place of Mars in Chinese.

There was no excuse before, but now is the best opportunity!
However, this matter is not Zhong Cheng's final decision, it must obtain the consent of the Federation and the recognition of the human society.

He handed over this work to Zhou Hu, and asked him to draw a new map of Mars and its geographical naming as soon as possible, and submit it to the federal government for approval.

However, forget about the Meridian Plateau, and keep this commemorative place name!
Zhong Cheng and others took five days to visit Mars, focusing on the rich ore area they selected.

In addition to the lack of oil, coal, and natural gas, which are fossil resources formed by the accumulation of ancient biological remains through geological age changes, Mars has even more abundant mineral resources than Earth.

Moreover, no human has ever mined it. They can freely choose the mining area with the best quality and the most convenient mining conditions. The conditions for developing heavy industry on Mars are far better than those on Earth.

Zheng Yilun will stay on Mars for a long time, while Zhou Hu will run back and forth between Earth and Mars, responsible for the mutual coordination of Earth and Mars resources in Red Star Company.

Zhong Cheng arranged for him to focus on building a larger shipbuilding base in Yinghuo City. The Tiangongcheng shipbuilding base on Earth can only build five spaceships at the same time, which is far from meeting the needs of future space transportation.

Among the current three Xuanwu spacecraft, Xuanwu [-] was handed over to the space agency for the route from the earth to Ceres, and the official development of the asteroid belt was launched.

But Wu Tie also submitted an order for twenty Xuanwu spacecraft.

After the development of Mars is started, two basalt spacecraft are simply not enough, let alone the future development of Venus and Mercury.

In addition, Lu Yao also put on the agenda the establishment of a space fleet by the Asian Federation. If it is passed by the Federation Conference, it will definitely be handed over to Red Star Company.

The task of the Red Star Ship Manufacturing Company will be very heavy, and the expansion must be carried out in advance.

Zhong Cheng finally visited the newborn ocean in the northern hemisphere of Mars. This sea area was called Yunmeng Ocean by the Martian colonists, and it got its name from the Yunmeng Daze in "Shan Hai Jing".

However, this ocean itself is named Yunmeng Ocean very appropriately because there is too much water vapor above it and the clouds are shrouded in mist.

The area of ​​Yunmeng Ocean is smaller than the Pacific Ocean on Earth but larger than the Atlantic Ocean, and has formed a circle of ocean currents.

Coupled with more than 100 large rivers injected from the southern mainland, a stable water cycle has been formed.

It's just that the seawater in Yunmeng Ocean still contains a lot of crimson sediment, and the seawater is red, more like a sea of ​​blood.

But this is only a temporary phenomenon. A few years later, after the sediment settles, it will still appear blue.

The construction of the marine ecosystem is very important. Marine algae plants can transform the atmosphere of Mars, but if they are not well controlled, they can turn the ocean into a pool of stagnant and smelly water, which is another ecological disaster.

Almost all ecologists from the Kunlun Research Institute have come to Mars, so Zhong Cheng's worries are unnecessary.

Professional things are still left to professional people!

(End of this chapter)