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Chapter 345 Development of the Solar System
After all the spaceships in the fleet passed the parade channel, all the warships began to accelerate, but they did not reach the highest speed. After all, the spaceship is still in the solar system, and there are many private spaceships in the entire solar system, so in order to avoid accidents, when the spaceship When the speed reaches one percent of the speed of light, it will stop accelerating, because this speed is fast enough in the solar system, and if it is faster in the solar system, it will be too late to brake in case of an accident.

Although the fleet led by Zhu Lei has just set off for an expedition, humans on Earth have already begun to look forward to Zhu Lei's safe return this time. After all, since humans entered the interstellar era, the fleet led by Zhu Lei has already defeated and destroyed an alien civilization. , so in the subconscious of everyone, the fleet led by Zhu Lei will not fail. It can be said that the expectations of the entire human race for Zhu Lei are very high.

The 20 warships led by Zhu Lei and more than 2 million people are marching towards the vast space. The mainland of the single empire is not idle because of the expedition of Zhu Lei's fleet at this time, and the human Mars plan is still going on. Among them, according to computer simulations, Mars will be able to accept the first batch of immigrants in about ten years, because the first floating city built by humans on Mars and all its subsidiary cities will be completed in about ten years. , At that time, human beings can officially start living on Mars.

The second is that the armed forces of mankind must continue to be strengthened. After all, Zhu Lei took away more than 20 warships from the solar system this time, and all of these warships are the most powerful warships of mankind. They are all relatively old-fashioned warships. It can be said that the solar system of the Ming Empire is now at a time when its armed forces are weak. If an alien civilization attacks the solar system at this time, then apart from a limited number of cutting-edge warships, the others in the solar system will be backward old battleship.

So the solar system has started a new round of shipbuilding storms, and this time the shipbuilding plan is more than the 20 expeditionary fleet that Zhu Lei has already taken away, reaching a full 30 ships, and because it is now There is no rush to go out, so most of the 30 warships are some large warships, and among them, the Ming Empire is planning to build 61 battleships.

And because the technology of the Ming Empire is now more advanced than it was ten years ago, these planned new battleships are much stronger than the one Zhu Lei took away in terms of tonnage and firepower. The battleship Lei is currently on was built ten years ago, so many technologies have been updated.

However, the human shipbuilding plan this time is very large. After all, there are 30 space battleships, and most of the warships in the plan are large warships, so the demand for resources is also very large. In the current solar system Except for the eight major planets and their satellites in the central area, there are no metal minerals worth mining.

All the meteorites in the center of the solar system have disappeared, such as the asteroid belt that used to be between Mars and Jupiter, and now it has become nothing, even the dust-sized meteorites have been turned into and made of spaceships The raw materials may have become part of Mars, so now the solar system has become very empty.

Therefore, all the minerals needed for this shipbuilding can only be brought from Kuiper.

The Kuiper belt is located at the outermost edge of the solar system, at the edge of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune, and Pluto is also a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt. Humans once regarded Pluto as the ninth largest galaxy in the solar system, but later discovered that Pluto is actually in Kuiper It is just an ordinary dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt. There are many such dwarf planets in the Kuiper belt, so he is excluded from the list of planets in the solar system, which makes the solar system from having nine planets to only eight planets.

Compared with the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the number of asteroids in the Kuiper belt is undoubtedly many times larger in terms of number and total mass. After all, compared with the Kuiper belt, the number of asteroids in the asteroid belt is only slightly different. There are only a million asteroids, but the number of asteroids in the Kuiper belt cannot be estimated at all, and the size of the Kuiper belt is infinitely wider than the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

The Kuiper belt is the original matter in the formation of the solar system. Most of these materials are the remnants of the solar nebula in the early days of the sun. It is conceivable how rich the matter here is. After all, as the remnants of the formation of the sun, there will be absolutely no less Yes, how big is the sun?

All the planets in the entire solar system are far inferior to the sun, and as the remnants of the formation of the solar system, even if the Kuiper belt is a remnant, its total mass is quite large.

Therefore, the Kuiper belt has become the first choice for humans to build new fleets, and because of the large number of asteroids in the Kuiper belt, it is an inexhaustible source of minerals for the Ming Empire, and if the minerals in the Kuiper belt are mined in the future, there will be In the Oort Nebula, which is more abundant in the outer reaches of the solar system, it can be said that the Ming Empire will not experience a shortage of mineral resources in a short period of time, but the most important thing now is how to mine these minerals and turn them into spaceships that can manufacture spaceships. Material.

There are human figures everywhere in the solar system now, from the low-earth orbit near the earth to the distant Kuiper belt, and even on Mercury, which is relatively close to the sun. After all, compared to other planets, Mercury Although the temperature is very high, the mineral content of Mercury is not comparable to other planets, not to mention that Mercury is the only planet in the solar system that has not been legally prohibited from mining.

It is rich in resources, and there is no rule that it cannot be mined. This has become the planet that all the mining ships of the Ming Empire want to mine. However, due to the environment of Mercury, most people are still blocked, and because Mercury is too far away from the sun. Recently, as long as the sun erupts, the mining ships that mine on Mercury may disappear into the solar system even with their people and ships.

After all, although human technology has reached the level of intermediate civilization, they still do not have the ability to wrestle with the sun, so many people still go to Mercury to mine, but every year, many mining ships disappear on Mercury.

As for other planets and satellites in the solar system, the Ming Empire has clear regulations. Without official permission, no individual or collective is allowed to mine all the materials on these planets. Therefore, the small mining ships in the early days of the empire, except those on Venus and Mars In addition to transporting carbon dioxide gas and mining on Mercury, the only thing left is to go to the Kuiper belt to mine ore.

However, due to the relatively long distance, it is very difficult for human small space mining ships to mine here. Due to the limited size of those small mining ships, they only have a mass of five or six hundred tons after all. The energy of the belt is limited, and it is impossible to support mining at such a long distance in the Kuiper belt.

But this is not a problem for smart humans. Humans have many ideas, but the most amazing thing is that some people have gotten along with the same way as in the ocean age on earth, that is, so tugboats, yes, space tugboats, made by smart businessmen Out of the space tugboat, just like the small ships in the canals of the earth era, one by one and then dragged to the asteroid belt by tugboat, which saves a lot of energy required for flight.

Then after mining, it was towed back with a tugboat.

Of course, if there is a huge asteroid dragged behind the mining ship, there is no way to use a tugboat to tow it back. After all, the strength of the tugboat is also limited. After all, these tugboats are all produced by private shipyards. Buy a high-thrust engine, let alone a controllable nuclear-powered engine. After all, as a civilian spacecraft, most of them don’t need a high-thrust engine. After all, civilian spacecraft generally operate within the solar system.

Therefore, Yongan Group has very strict restrictions on the sale of high-thrust engines, so most of these tugboats use ordinary engines, but the number of engines used by these space tugboats is more than double that of ordinary spaceships. Some are even several times more than ordinary spaceships.

Moreover, the size of these space tugboats is generally around [-] tons. Although the speed of these space tugboats is not very fast, they can reach a speed of about [-] to [-] kilometers per second at the fastest time, but because these spaceships have many engines. The reason is that the strength of these tugboats is not small. Generally, a space tugboat of about [-] tons can drag a dozen small mining ships around.

And a tugboat of tens of thousands of tons can even tow hundreds or even more small space mining ships to move around in the solar system.

Of course, medium and large mining ships do not need to use tugboats, because medium and large mining ships are manufactured by Yongan Group and the official shipyard of the Ming Empire, so the engines used by medium and large space mining ships are not ordinary engines. In terms of energy saving and propulsion of the spacecraft, it far surpasses the space tugboat. Therefore, when a medium or large space mining ship goes out to mine, it also drags a large row of small mining ships behind. .

Although it is said that medium and large space mining ships can also serve as space tugboats, in terms of profit, they cannot be compared with mining. After all, the main function of space mining farms is mining, so these medium and large space mining ships are generally only used when going back and forth. It will act as a space tugboat. After all, acting as a space tugboat can also earn energy fees on the circuit.

Therefore, a large row of small space mining ships with different appearances can be seen everywhere in the entire solar system behind a tugboat, flying towards the outer periphery of the solar system, that is, the Kuiper belt.

Moreover, the appearance of these space tugboats is quite different. It can even be said that none of these space tugboats have the same appearance. Even the small mining ships towed behind him have various appearances.

This is very different from the four models of mining ships when the Ming Empire first started selling space mining rights. This is due to the space policy of the Ming Empire.

Although the Ming Empire has strict restrictions on various means of transportation such as planets, it is very troublesome to modify what it looks like when it leaves the factory. All modified or self-made atmospheric aircraft and land vehicles have strict restrictions. As long as one of the test procedures fails to meet the standard, it cannot be driven on the road.

However, regarding the modification of spacecraft, the policy of the Ming Empire is not so strict. The most important thing is the production structure of the spacecraft and the safety is relatively strict, but there are no other detailed regulations. There is no express regulation at all.

As a result, human spaceships in the solar system have various appearances, some are like airplanes from the time of the nations on earth, some are similar to sailing warships from the age of great voyages, and some are even more imaginative Kai designed the appearance of the aircraft to look like a tree and a grass.

In short, in terms of the appearance of the aircraft, there are as many styles of aircraft as there are brains. Although many designs do not conform to various mechanics, in general, these spaceships have passed the safety inspection of the Ming Empire, so don’t worry. The spacecraft suddenly disintegrated during flight, because the shape design with major safety hazards could not pass the spacecraft inspection.

In addition to the mining industry, the Ming Empire also encouraged other industries to develop into space, so all of a sudden the whole people established countless space-oriented companies, the most developed of which was the space shipbuilding industry. Although the rented Yongan The shipyards of the Group and the Ming Empire Government monopolize most of the shipbuilding industry. However, the Yongan Group and the Ming Empire Government monopolize some military spaceships and resource collection ships, that is, various mining ships. However, the manufacturing of general civilian spaceships is not There are very few, and it can even be said that the officials of the civil spaceship Daming Empire and Zhu Lei's Yong'an Group are not involved at all.

After all, the development of a civilization requires not only the development of one company and the official, but also the joint development of countless enterprises. Therefore, in terms of civil spaceships, whether it is the official of the Ming Empire or the leased Yongan Group, they all abide by the same rules. Never involved.

And other industries are also developing rapidly, such as space agriculture, space industry, space tourism, space entertainment, space exploration, and a series of space-related industries are developing at an unprecedented speed, so the entire solar system can be seen everywhere. There are figures of human beings, even human explorers in the skin of the solar system, the Oort Nebula.

Therefore, at this time, the entire human race is full of vigorous and upward atmosphere. After all, human beings have only entered the interstellar era for only five or sixty years, and it is the most active period. Compared with the old and decaying intermediate civilizations in the Milky Way, the development of human The speed can definitely be described as a thousand miles a day.

So Zhu Lei is very looking forward to the future of mankind, and he is also confident that the Ming Empire can advance to a high-level civilization within a thousand years, that is, the high-level civilization among all civilizations in the universe.

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