Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 417 The True Planetary Engine
Zhong Cheng packed his luggage at home and prepared to inspect Mars, Venus and Mercury.

In the past three years, he has focused on the Battle of Dawn, "obsessed" in the game world, and cared too little about the development of Red Star Company in the real world.

Now he has passed the position of Wudang master in the game to Song Yuanqiao, the eldest disciple of the system character Zhang Sanfeng, and then left the mountain, wandering the rivers and lakes again incognito.

However, there is very little time to surf the Internet every day.

Zhong Cheng packed his luggage and came to the hall, where he found Zhong Yi, Zhou Long, and Liu Jiang chatting and arguing about something.

The three are 22 years old this year, and they have changed from three naughty teenagers to mature and steady youths.

They graduated from the mecha training base four years ago and entered the federal special mecha division, and they are now lieutenants.

This year the Human Federation was established, and the army of the former Asian Federation will also face reorganization and reconstruction. The three of them are now considered unemployed at home.

After the three got up and greeted Zhong Cheng, Zhong Cheng ordered: "I'm going on a business trip, you are free now, spend more time with your elders at home!"

The three agreed in unison.

Just as Zhong Cheng was about to leave, Liu Jiang said, "Uncle Zhong, we want to discuss something with you, can we delay for a few minutes?"

Zhong Cheng glanced at Zhong Yi and Zhou Long, and found that they also had the same meaning in their eyes.

One of Zhong Yi and Zhou Long was his son and the other was his nephew. He had been very strict with them since childhood, but Liu Jiang was more courageous in front of him.

Zhong Cheng handed the luggage to Deng Jinhai and asked him to wait in the car outside.

Then sit on the sofa and let the three young people sit down and talk.

Seeing the three of them sitting upright on the sofa, Zhong Cheng nodded secretly, counting their time in the mecha training base, they also had ten years of military service experience, and the military temperament has penetrated into their bones.

"Speak!"

Both Zhou Long and Liu Jiang looked at Zhong Yi.

Zhong Yi coughed lightly, cleared his throat, suppressed the tension in his heart, and said:

"Dad, you are also aware of the current situation. Human society is completely peaceful now. We should have no wars to fight in this lifetime, so..., so..."

Zhong Cheng glared at him, "So you want to retire?"

The pupils of Zhong Yi and the others shrank, but they still said bravely, "Yes!"

But they didn't wait for Zhong Cheng's anger as they had imagined.

Zhong Cheng said in a deep voice: "I respect everyone's choice of their own future, and you are no exception!"

"However, don't expect me and your fathers to use the power in our hands to create a golden road for you!
"You can do whatever you want, but you have to work hard on your own!"

Zhong Cheng's words did not disappoint the three young people, but made them overjoyed, and they all expressed that they would never take advantage of their family relationship.

In their impression, Zhong Cheng is a very stubborn and principled person. If he insists on keeping them from beginning to end, then they really dare not and cannot retire from active service in the army.

As for using the relationship at home, it was something that these three young officers had never thought about.

"Then what are you going to do now?"

"This?"

The three were questioned. They were just thinking about how to persuade Zhong Cheng to allow them to retire from the army. They hadn't seriously thought about what they would do after they were discharged.

Thinking about it carefully, they know nothing except the military skills they learned in the army.

Zhong Cheng didn't hit them either, he just said: "I'll give you time to think about it, after I come back from a business trip, you have to make a decision!"

The three of them stood up with a "whoosh", stood at attention and saluted, and said loudly, "Yes!"

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After six years of great development on Mars, the technology for planetary ecology and climate environment transformation has been continuously introduced, and the Mars transformation project has achieved its goal ahead of schedule.

The desolate and dead Mars has turned into green water and green mountains, and has become a livable planet for human beings.

A large number of humans have moved to Mars, hundreds of new cities have appeared on the land of Mars, and the permanent population of Mars has exceeded 1 million.

In addition to ensuring the use of Martian immigrants, the industrial and agricultural products of Red Star Company on Mars have begun to be transported to other planets in the solar system in large quantities.

Last year, the total industrial output value of Mars surpassed Jupiter and the moon for the first time, becoming the second largest planet in the human world.

The recovery plan has been successfully completed, and the progress of the Venus and Mercury transformation projects that Zhong Cheng is most concerned about - the alchemy project and the water control project are also being implemented as planned.

Four years ago, after the plans for the two major projects were approved by the Asian Federation, the Kunlun Research Institute spent more than a year developing a dedicated planetary engine.

To drive a celestial body as large as Mercury, the Zhurong electric pusher used before is far from enough.

Zhong Cheng puts his hope on the nuclear fusion engine, using a super-large nuclear fusion generator as the core of the planetary engine.

Because of the high temperature of several million degrees or more, rocks can be directly ionized in the fusion reaction chamber and used as spray working fluid.

And the power can reach more than 1 million kilowatts, one can be equivalent to tens of thousands of large Zhurong electric pushers.

It's just that this kind of planetary engine is huge, with a diameter of 800 meters, a height of 3 kilometers, and a weight of tens of thousands of tons. It can only be used for planetary orbit adjustment projects, and the cost is as high as 200 billion.

This is the real planetary engine!
But 108 such planetary engines have been built on Mercury, along the equator of Mercury.

Because the rotation period of Mercury is 58.6 days and the revolution time is 88 days, only two-thirds of the planetary engines can be turned on at the same time, pushing Mercury away from the sun.

After more than three years, the orbit of Mercury has changed significantly, from 4600 million kilometers at perihelion to 7000 million kilometers at aphelion, to 6800 million kilometers and 7300 million kilometers at aphelion.

Mercury has the highest orbital eccentricity among all the planets, but under the deliberate adjustment of the water control project, the orbital eccentricity of Mercury has been reduced to that of Venus.

The orbits of the two around the sun have become two concentric circles, only more than 3000 million kilometers apart.

Now all the planned planetary engines on Mercury have been built, and the driving efficiency has increased significantly. It is estimated that Mercury will be able to push Mercury to the orbit of Venus in two years.

The orbital period of Venus around the sun is 224.7 days, Venus and Mercury will be attracted by each other, the speed of Venus' revolution and rotation will be accelerated, and the speed of Mercury's revolution and rotation will be slowed down.

When the revolution speeds of the two have converged to a certain extent, Mercury will be sent to the orbit of Venus, and Venus will capture it and become its own satellite.

This process will take about a year, when the eight planets in the solar system will become only seven planets.

Then, a large number of asteroids will be used to hit Venus and Mercury respectively to further accelerate their rotation speed and transform their harsh surface environment.

In just a dozen more years, mankind will obtain two habitable planets, which is the most magnificent project of mankind to transform the solar system.

(End of this chapter)