The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 323 Geography of the Solar System

Jiang Yu chatted with Luo Ji for more than two hours, during which the two of them just had a drink, not much.

After all, Luo Ji's mission was too important to allow him to make any mistakes.

After leaving the Deterrence Center, Jiang Yu rested for a few days before leaving for the second stop: Guanghan City.

Guanghan City is now recognized as a "museum-level" colony. From the earliest human's first extraterrestrial colony system to the most advanced extraterrestrial colony system, you can find it here.

The area built before the Great Trough is called the "Old City", especially the original Moon City structure. At that time, due to limited technology, its service life was only 200 years.

Now this area has reached the end of its service life. Although it can be used for another 30 years after testing, some facilities are seriously aging and minor faults occur frequently. Guanghan City plans to tear down these places and rebuild them.

The location of the original structure is very critical, and it is still a traffic artery until now. If something goes wrong, the consequences will be disastrous.

At the same time, Guanghan City began to expand more than ten years ago. At the beginning, it had to be expanded because of the influx of a large number of residents.

Later, it was because Jiang Yu built this place into an important industrial base in the earth's civilization circle, and the expansion of the industrial population was necessary.

Mobei Farm is mainly engaged in agricultural and animal husbandry products, while half of the industrial products exported by the solar system countries to PDC come from Guanghan City.

Another part comes from the industrial cities that were bought with the price of cabbage before the low-earth orbit, and now those industrial cities are also managed by Guanghan City.

A large number of immigrants stayed in Guanghan City and became the industrial population, and there was even a phenomenon of emigration from the Jupiter civilization circle to Guanghan City.

You know, since Jupiter became the center of the solar system country, Guanghan City has been marginalized, and the previous ruling government thought it was a "frontier".

So for more than a century, Guanghan City emigrated to Jupiter.

Today's Guanghan City is extremely rich, so the money for reconstruction and new construction is nothing to the city government.

At the same time, Guanghan City and Yinghuo City also undertook a national key project of the solar system country: the development of Mercury.

Before the era of deterrence, in order to defend against the Trisolarans, the development of the solar system was mainly concentrated on the outer planets of the earth.

Rey Diaz proposed to develop Venus and Mercury as a final resistance plan, but after he hibernated, no one brought up this proposal again.

After humans built a huge fleet and their self-confidence began to swell, they also thought about the development of Venus and Mercury.

However, the exploration of Venus all ended in failure, and the research on Venus had no significant results, so people gave up the action of developing to the inner planet again.

Mercury now has only a small base built by the PDC, but it is a research base, where only a few hundred astronomers, physicists, and other staff who study the sun live.

Mercury seems to have been forgotten by humans, and it has not been developed by humans on a large scale so far.

For countries in the solar system, Mercury is rich in metal resources, and its distance from the moon is one-third to one-sixth of the distance between the main asteroid belt and the moon.

About one-quarter of the resources supporting the huge industrial system of Guanghan City come from the development of lunar resources, and three-quarters come from the main asteroid belt.

It's not that the resources on the moon are difficult to develop, or that metal resources are scarce, but that the solar system countries have limited territories on the moon.

The entire moon was basically divided up by several important countries of the PDC more than a century ago.

At that time, the countries in the solar system were still relatively weak, and they could only purchase some land through Baker, but the cost of purchasing was too high compared to carve-up.

Most of the resources used by Guanghan City were imported from PDC.

However, the power of capital has not changed, and it has always controlled the economy of the solar system country by controlling the price of raw materials.

Moreover, it has been used as a means of deterrence many times, through restrictions on the export of raw materials, to force the solar system countries to make compromises.

Back then, Burton developed the main asteroid belt and built Vesta City and Ceres City in order to break away from the resource control of the PDC.

This strategy has continued to this day. With the rapid development of Guanghan City's industrial development in recent years, the proportion of Guanghan City's own output and raw materials imported from PDC countries has increased.

In the past, more than 90% of the resources were transported from the main asteroid belt.

Now the entire solar system country is in the process of large-scale construction, and resources are tight everywhere, so the plan to develop Mercury was thought of.

The strategy of restricting the import of raw materials from PDC will continue. After Mercury is developed, the resources needed by Guanghan City can come from Mercury's mines.

Another reason for the development of Mercury is that it can study the sun at close range.

Today, human beings only use solar energy at a very superficial level. Jiang Yu's strategy department believes that stars are the largest energy bodies in the universe, and the scope of applications for stars should be wider in the future.

In order to create an extra path for the future, Jiang Yu plans to set up a "star research" group consisting of thousands of scholars.

When Mercury is developed to a certain extent, a research base will be built for the team.

As for Venus, Jiang Yu has made repeated orders, and now is not the time to develop Venus.

Jiang Yu intends to study "Black Square" thoroughly, and it will not be too late to develop Venus.

Otherwise, who knows what dangers will arise?
After all, Venus is on the side of the earth, and this kind of risk cannot be taken.

It is said that "others are not allowed to sleep peacefully on the side of the couch", but Jiang Yu is not sure to drive them away now. If it wants to sleep, let it continue to sleep. It is best not to wake up until you know its details!

After staying in Guanghan City for a few days, Jiang Yu set off again, and his third stop was Gushen City.

Mars is on the other side of the sun at this time, and it would be very difficult to go to Mars first, so Jiang Yu's itinerary is to go to Gushen City first.

Then go to Yinghuo City and Vesta City on the other side of the sun, because Jupiter is also on the other side of the sun, and you can return to Jupiter directly.

Gushen City is relatively unfamiliar to Jiang Yu. He has only seen the name in reports and materials, but he doesn't know much about this industrial city.

Until now, Gushen City and Vesta City have been responsible for more than half of the metal resource output of the solar system countries.

Around Jupiter, Saturn, etc., there is no shortage of metal resources, but there are too many space cities there, so we must be extra careful when developing them.

For example, in the development of asteroids in the Jupiter civilization circle, after the metal resources have been dug out, the waste cannot be discarded at will, and further proper disposal is required.

For example, send it into Jupiter's "not big" halo, or throw it into Jupiter.

Although these wastes do not pose much threat to the space city, but meteorites floating in the sky will make people feel very insecure.

This set of mine waste disposal procedures is the collective will of the people of the entire Jupiter civilization circle, and must be followed.

On the various satellites of Jupiter, due to the existence of some colonies, there are also various regulations on mining companies.

For example, exploration regulations prohibit mining in weak parts of the earth's crust, so as not to cause earthquakes that spread to the colony.

For example, it is necessary to suck away the dust caused by mining operations, so as not to affect the environment of the colony planet and cause a safety hazard for the shuttle to take off and land.

Although many colonial planets have low gravity, once the dust is lifted, it may not land for hundreds of years.

But mining dust is hardly an environmental problem for a planet.

However, everyone firmly believes that these issues should be tackled from the very beginning.

But in the main asteroid belt, it is much rougher, you can mine as you want!
　Thanks again for everyone's votes.

　　


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