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Of course, another reason is that mineral products have basically been in a state of surplus for a long time. Mining groups generally will not let go of orders at the level of mosquito legs. Coupled with the well-developed network trade and giant space logistics stations, dense global unmanned The distribution network can do this.

"However, at least the metal and mineral samples are coming." It was just a change of mining company. Xia Lin didn't make a purchase request this time, but only asked the other party to provide some metal and mineral samples. After the other party confirmed that he really had the intention to purchase , readily offered at cost price.

Go back and analyze what these different irons and the like are. One of the gains I found from the windrunner's warehouse before was an industrial-grade mineral comprehensive analysis cabin and mineral inspection and separation station.

After all, Windrunner was also preparing to supply a certain planetary cracking mine before. These things are necessary equipment. It is a pity that the smelting matrix was not found. It is as big as the mobile city module in Meiquan Town.

If there is, then Amster will really get an order beyond imagination, requiring them to provide ore in units of millions of tons per day. The gravitational forge and extreme ion furnace consume minerals at a very high rate. fast.

Because there is almost no need to consider the complicated heat treatment process, basically it is to melt or even ionize the impurities, enter the gravity forging furnace in the environment of the lowest gravity of 6000 times, and forcibly form it with supergravity, and the most common alloy material is high-density titanium-aluminum alloy , used in various construction industries, space station plates and primary armor shells for drones, etc.

Unless it is processing some particularly complex alloys and materials, it may be necessary to consider other complex processing processes, such as the shell of the jump engine and the material of the graviton reaction chamber.

However, even if there is, Xia Lin can't take it. The antimatter fuel and nuclear fuel eaten by this thing are not much slower than eating ore. In order to save fuel costs, this kind of smelting matrix is ​​generally set near the corona of the star in the galaxy where the mine is located. Yes, it directly draws star energy as its own energy supply.

Each smelting facility will be equipped with a huge star energy harvesting array to supply energy, so that except for some special processes, there is almost no need to transport tons of antimatter fuel.

Therefore, Xia Lin's greatest hope now is to find other windrunner cargo boxes, to see if there is any equipment used in small smelters for self-sustainment in remote colonies.

It doesn't need to be too big, the ordinary one with a daily output of about 2000 tons will do. It would be even better if there is an attached fully automatic metal processing production line - if there is one, within five years, he will be able to The surroundings of the snowy farm quickly brought into the interstellar era-at least in terms of infrastructure.

The most important point is that this kind of formal smelting equipment allows him to manufacture complex metal parts such as room temperature superconducting cables and magnetic acceleration tracks when there are raw materials, which means that he can manufacture light electromagnetic Cannon or "mass projector".

It can be used to deliver goods to orbit at ordinary times, it can be used to crush meteors and meteorites when necessary, and when necessary, it can use long-distance warheads to blow up the entire hatchery (farm) of the Zerg into the sky.

"Forget it, at least part of the purpose has been achieved. Let's talk about bulk purchases after the next round of harvest on the farm. Although these samples are not enough, you can buy a large part of those products that are considered to be made of metal. .....tsk, it's still troublesome"

Because of the transportation capacity, Xia Lin had to find a way to assemble a batch of new chassis and vehicles.Since Origin Stone technology is different from Star Alliance technology, the entire chassis has to be redesigned. If he is not the son of the owner of the ship repair shop, the difficulty will be doubled.

If it wasn't for the lack of alloy materials and processing equipment, he would have thought about not making any cars at all, and doing what he is most familiar with - a large shuttle, without a jump engine, and only thinking about orbital flight!

Chapter 50 This is not farming, this is killing

All the way back to the farm, there were not many people in the wild in the winter in Ursus, except for the hunters trained by the white rabbit who would occasionally go out to look for things like snow rats and rabbits, even the pickets and garrisons Hardly a step away from barracks and town.

When the bulls returned, they were much lighter than when they left, and the simple agricultural products basically couldn’t be sold at any price, even in winter.

Xia Lin has seen that the wheat purchase price of a local food factory that produces military ration bread for the Ursas military is less than 400 Ursas silver coins per ton, which is equivalent to about 2000 Longmen coins, the commonly used international settlement currency. Get ahead a little bit.

Unless he really reproduces the large-scale planting area of ​​the Star Alliance colony with a planting area of ​​square kilometers in the snowy field in the north of Usas, how can he make a lot of money by relying on primary agricultural products such as wheat to purchase a large number of machinery and even mobile platform plates? It's an idiot's dream.

It can only rely on cash crops and high value-added crops, and then a certain degree of industrial processing is required. Xia Lin's current research targets include three major categories and more than ten subcategories.

The three major categories are alcoholic drinks, canned food, and consumables. Among them, there is only one sub-category of consumables, which is candy.

Xia Lin found out whether it was because Terra lacked sufficient water and fertilizer to grow crops or what was going on. The price of sugar was very expensive. Most people used industrially produced sweeteners, a kind of sweetener called "sugar substitute". substance.

After buying a little and trying it out, I found that xylitol is the main ingredient, plus sweeteners made of other chemicals, which basically do not have any energy supplement effect of sugar, and are pure sweeteners.

At the same time, sugar substitutes are also the main raw materials for the manufacture of some chemical products. Relatively speaking, the price of real granulated sugar is a bit expensive, about a kilogram costs hundreds of Longmen coins, not to mention the machine-made sugar that is re-dissolved and crystallized from low-quality granulated sugar The price is more expensive, and even Xia Lin didn't understand why it was so expensive.

Could it be that they mixed sugar and nitrate as some kind of fuel?Xia Lin, the high-purity and high-energy candy that led to refined processing, was found in industrial raw materials, and was not even sold as food, which was a bit weird.

In fact, the locals of Terra did not use sugar cubes as nitrous sugar rocket fuel, but as several important chemical materials and pharmaceutical raw materials.

Local animals lack mitochondria, but another organelle that uses origin stone as a catalyst to quickly convert chemical energy. The body's intake and consumption of sugar are quite large, and similar Microorganisms that metabolize origin stones also need a lot of sugar.

And Terra's agricultural technology is obviously not very developed. After all, it is like a nomad living by moving back and forth from the city all the year round. It is also difficult to develop at the level of farming and settlement. Things like land cannot grow. After years of waiting, even with the help of chemical fertilizers and seeds, it is difficult to have a high yield.

In terms of canned food, there are canned meat and canned fruit that can be processed in batches by farm workshops. I believe the Ursas military will be willing to purchase them. They are not willing to purchase such high-quality, sugar-added stuff that other countries will certainly be willing to purchase.

Regarding the origin of meat, Xia Lin is going to learn the Star Alliance emergency canned food recipe instead of the military canned food recipe, that is, chicken, pork, and vegetable oil account for about 2%, and the remaining [-]% is made up of starch and insect protein.

Moreover, the raised earthworms themselves can also accelerate the formation of humus in the soil. The only problem is that the local infected who may be responsible for digging and raising earthworms will lose SAN crazily.

It has a meaty taste, abundant animal protein and vegetable protein, super high fat content and calories, and the most important thing is that [-]% of it is starch and insect protein. While ensuring comprehensive nutrition and rich health, the price and cost can be kept at a minimum.

The only thing that needs to be adjusted is that more food additives and seasonings need to be added than emergency cans to ensure that the taste can still be delicious. In addition, Xia Lin also bought some local specialty cans and snacks in Meiquan Town, and found that the locals seem to be I don't have the habit of knocking on the ingredient list, only the content and type of various ingredients are marked.

This discovery made him think that the local food manufacturers might have the same thoughts as him. Natural materials are so expensive, and it is a manifestation of conscience to give you a third.

In terms of alcoholic beverages, there are mainly highly spirits distilled from potatoes, moderate alcohol made from grains, and energy drinks. Except for energy drinks, which must use the food industry equipment of the Star Alliance, others can be ordered or rubbed by hand. machinery to build a Terra native-style brewery.

In this way, all the primary and secondary products produced by the farm are turned into deeply processed industrial products. When the noble coffee beans and cocoa beans in the small greenhouse mature, Xia Lin can make wine chocolates, for example. Desserts like these are more profitable.

By the way, it can be regarded as finding something to do for more and more infected people around the farm. Farming, especially with a large number of machinery and good tools, can absorb a very limited population. On the contrary, industry, especially the food industry The speed and efficiency with which intensive industries absorb population is very high.

Especially when Xia Lin didn't plan to use it in non-essential places or rub the Star Alliance equipment by himself, it was even more labor-intensive among labor-intensive.

Among other things, if you want to industrially produce kimchi without purchasing expensive automatic equipment worth millions or even tens of millions, it will take a dozen big men to take turns just to turn over the vegetables in the pond.

Of course, Xia Lin plans to use mechanized automatic production for sugar production, because the efficiency gap between manual and mechanical automation is too great. If the sugar production rate is less than one percentage point, you can directly lose your pants, let alone sugar production. He still has use for the rest of the molasses and molasses.

After thinking it over, the first thing Xia Lin did when she returned to the farm was to find Ivan and the village head about the workshop, and to organize a special transport team to sell finished products and purchase machinery and raw materials.

By the way, you can also purchase some special industrial raw materials that Xia Lin needs and order some mechanical parts and equipment justifiably, without attracting attention.

"It's really necessary. I think your car is pretty good." Ivan scratched his head. As far as the transport team is concerned, Xia Lin's car doesn't even know how many sledges it can hold, and the output of the farm is deducted for its own use. Didn't he finish it in one trip before?

"It's necessary, I can't do transportation every day, and now it's just the beginning"

Xia Lin looked at the vast open space outside the settlement that has been connected to the land outside the farm. The soybeans and peas planted, the millet and corn near the farm have not yet sprouted, and it is still an open space that looks like Chapter 50 is covered by plastic film. .

"Do you know how big the final output here is?"

Not counting the private plots of the infected, there are also hillsides where the prototypes of terraced fields have been dug. Now the land that has been planted with conventional crops adds up to almost one square kilometer. Due to the back and forth of bulls and humans, even A compacted dirt road has been formed, and there are large fields on both sides of the entire distance of almost 3 kilometers.

"With [-] acres of land, I don't even have enough chemical fertilizers. They mainly refer to the humus produced by catalysis and semi-natural fertilizers from recycled biomass. Therefore, this time I bought a whole ten Tons of phosphate and potash, do you know what it will be when they are all mature?"

"No, too much?" Ivan, who had never planted the land, scratched his head, feeling that the land was very large, but Xia Lin used the automatic sowing method and almost finished the farm work in two days.

The rest is that Yelena drives her small tractor around the field every day, directing the infected people to use fences along the perimeter of the planting area. If there are enough materials, they will be replaced with barbed wire later.

And if it is in a dangerous colony, the farmers will even replace it with lightweight titanium-aluminum alloy armor with monitors and laser blocking nets to prevent some dangerous local animals from running in and harming the crops.

Especially when these "dangerous animals" are "economic animals" at the same time, it's hard to talk about it, and you can't bear to beat it. If you hurt these fur animals, will you pull your skin to pay? ——I can only build a high wall to stop it.

The village head who had planted "very much" land and had harvested potatoes once before suddenly turned green, "That's impossible, we don't have enough people for this point, so we have to recruit more people!" It is true that more than 1000 acres of land are harvested manually You have to recruit people.

"Don't worry about harvesting, I have an automatic combined harvesting vehicle, but, what to do with so many crops? Even if they are all used to make wine, we have to have someone move them into the winery, and someone can transport the wine out, otherwise? Take it for a bath?"

"There are really so many?" Ivan still didn't understand. He hadn't seen the villages on the wasteland, and the villages whose land area was not much smaller than this were all suffering from hunger.

Although the farmer does not collect taxes here, there is no Ursus official harassment, and the technology is advanced, it is normal to have surplus food, but it is not so much, right?

"You haven't planted land before?" Xia Lin frowned slightly. Most of the members of the Star Alliance have "planted land" in a certain sense, and those on the spaceship are even more masters.

Anyone who doesn't want to eat nutritional cream with organic sauce, and who doesn't convince their superiors and bosses to be equipped with a three-inch tongue that exceeds the ration of Star Alliance labor laws must be a good farmer and fish farmer.

Unlike agricultural technicians like Xia Lin who specialize in dealing with large-scale planetary habitats, they are good at extreme intensive farming, and can make the most of the little cultivation space on the spacecraft.

"There is no land protection, no deep plowing, no initial fertilizer, top dressing, supplementary fertilizer, and even the most basic mature plowing and sifting of seeds. Every year, it is equal to permafrost and mud to open up wasteland, the seeds are weak, and the fertilizer is moving here and there. Birds and wild beasts gnaw at random, and finally run around every year, resulting in a complete lack of familiarity with the climate—is that called farming?”

The village chief nodded when he heard it. Xia Lin summed it up very well, but it's not that the Ursas don't know how to farm, but that they don't have such conditions, especially the infected.

"Little Ivan, you have to know that the supplies here, Mr. Farmer, are too sufficient. The land looks similar, but in fact the harvest is very poor." The village chief pointed to the private plot outside the village and said, "Just that piece of potato field, at least three or four thousand pounds of potatoes can be harvested"

"No, Shengdi, it can't reach that level." Xia Lin glanced, "At most two thousand pounds, no more, but if the fertilizer is well supplemented, it can be a little more, not more than three thousand pounds. Next year’s round of soybeans will almost have that number, and if it has been kept well and the breeding guarantee level is maintained, the second round of next year can reach 8000 pounds and less than [-] pounds.”

"Yes yes yes" Although the old village head is also from an old farmer's family, the person in front of him seems not to be a layman, but an expert. The old village head nodded in agreement.

"Look, there are nearly two or three pounds of potatoes in one acre, and the pile may be higher than the roof of your house. We now have [-] acres, although not all of them are potatoes, and not all of them have this output. Do you think we can eat it all by ourselves? At least Meiquan Town can consume it."

"Wait, so we have to hire more people?"

"Then open up more land? Then you want me to build a dedicated railway line here? Or do you want me to raise a large group of people who eat nothing?"

"Don't you need security?"

Xia Lin looked at the infected young people who were being trained like dogs by the white rabbit outside the farm, and the people from the snow monster hunting team, and looked at Ivan with a strange look: "Finally, you don't intend to endure, prepare to rebel Do you want to use any system for the country and governance? It is easy to destroy, but difficult to build."

"Wait, why is it involved in rebellion?" Ivan and the patriots are the same, and even the local Ursas are the same. Except for some infected people who suffer and hate, it is generally believed that the Emperor Ursas is fine. The problem is those nobles and bureaucrats. On the contrary, the emperor will occasionally help them out and give them some benefits.

"Otherwise? I have tens of thousands of armed security guards on a farm. If I say that I don't rebel, I will have the trust of the Ursas Empire government!"

The old village head thought for a while, and felt that the atmosphere and topic were not suitable for expressing what was in his heart.

That is: if they are all equipped with the equipment of the snow monster team, you really support tens of thousands of people, and if you weld your self-proclaimed tractor with armor and make a few...

Doesn't that mean that those people believe whatever you say, do they dare to question it?

"In short, we need manpower now, we need transportation capacity, and we may need more labor to digest these products in the future."

Xia Lin has already achieved the goal of simply living on a different planet. Now she basically has no worries about food and clothing, but she just survived, and she is far from the "life" of a Star Alliance citizen.

Xia Lin is not a masochist who likes to live in seclusion in deep mountains and old forests. He went to remote colonies for money and future, not for dreams. Naturally, it is impossible to be a self-sufficient hermit all the way.

There was no way to do it before, but now that we are gradually on the right track, it is too unreasonable to be busy like a dog every day-it’s okay to be busy like a dog in the initial stage, but it must be a problem with the planning.

"What about the problem with the vehicle?"

"As for the vehicle, next time I go to Meiquan Town to see if I can buy some motivation, I will change it and make it a good truck for a site."

"By the way, what about the garage I asked you to fix last time?"

"Also, it hasn't been repaired yet, and the building materials you gave have never been seen before," the village chief said a little embarrassed.

"Okay, get it done quickly. I will install the equipment later, and then I can start small-scale mass production of ordinary delivery trucks."

Lux's mechanical arm is really easy to use, the only problem is that it is just an auxiliary gadget in the ship, no matter how big the equipment is, it will not work.

The required cables, motors, gearboxes, pulleys and various sensors, positioners and stoppers Xia Lin are all ready, and even the equipment for cutting, welding and drilling of plates is almost ready, and then go to Meiquan Town After buying a batch of machinery, a workshop-level repair shop or repair workshop can be built.

"Ivan, the biggest problem right now is that we can't find so many drivers. This is up to you to solve."

"I'll try my best." Ivan nodded. If Xia Lin didn't plan to use his own power source on it, it meant that he would need a Terran driver, and he would have a little Originium skill and repair technology.

Ivan has never trained an auto soldier, nor has he ever been one. He just learned the basics of driving when he was in the reconnaissance team. If he wants to train a group of professional transport drivers, he will have to take a detour and spend a lot of time.

Chapter 51 Migrant workers

When there is no need to rush for planting, winter is usually the slack time in most places, and the rice in the breeding greenhouse is sown for the third time. After this time, there will be enough rice for comprehensive rice planting.

The main reason is that Colony No. 14 is a desert colony. The number of rice seeds is significantly less than that of other drought-tolerant crops, and repeated breeding is required to have enough rice for planting.

The corn and millet in the field have already sprouted green shoots, and the soybeans further away are also growing well. Xia Lin will walk around the field from time to time, using a portable agricultural scanner to observe their root system and rhizobia.

Occasionally, some soil samples will be taken back to analyze the humus, nutrient structure and composition to ensure that there will be no large-scale local abnormal bacterial infection or a serious lack of certain nutrient elements that will lead to soil degradation.

Now it seems that apart from the unavoidable source stone pollution, the other problems are not big, at least within the scope of Xia Lin's technology to deal with, it is a small problem of common alien agricultural colonies.