The last human in the universe

Chapter 25 Working Hours
The ten members of the first generation can understand Zhao Changxing's somewhat urgent and compact arrangement.Although they don't think that some unknown signals are such a big threat.

Yes, in recent years, the frequency of receiving those signals has increased a lot compared to the past - in the past year, six unidentified signals have been received consecutively, and a total of hundreds of them have been received in the past few decades, but so what?
"Dad is worrying a little too much."

People all think so.Zhao Changxing looked at the children who looked slightly disapproving, and sighed silently in his heart.

"You are just flowers in the greenhouse, how do you know the cruelty of the wind and rain outside..."

The final result of the discussion was to build an entire industrial zone around Huangtie No. [-] mine.

The iron reserves of the Huangtie No. 200 mine are not large, only about 20 million tons.But based on the current mining level, even with the increase in mining capacity in the later stage, it is enough to last for [-] years.This made people finally make up their minds, and at the current stage, the Huangtie No. [-] mine is still the main one.

Most importantly, its location, ore quality, and mining difficulty are too in line with current needs.Even if it dries up in 20 years, it doesn't matter, because presumably at that time, with people's engineering capabilities, they are fully capable of transporting ore from other places.

In this industrial area, there is a mining plant - which requires crawler conveyor equipment, crushing equipment, excavators, drilling machines, ore dressing and washing equipment, etc.

There is a steel factory, which must have a large-scale electric furnace with a daily output of at least 100 tons of various types of steel—compared with the electric furnace in the industrial zone, the output has been increased by dozens of times. Around this electric furnace, there must be Related power distribution equipment, cooling pool, transportation, feeding and discharging, and many other equipment.

A chemical plant must have a sulfuric acid production line with a daily output of at least 100 kilograms of sulfuric acid, as well as production lines for more than a dozen kinds of chemical raw materials such as ethylene production lines and synthetic rubber production lines.

There is also a metal processing factory, which needs to be able to produce various parts and have certain fine processing capabilities.

In addition, facilities such as storage areas, personnel rest areas, and material transfer centers will also be built.

The total area of ​​the planned industrial zone is as high as 100 million square meters, and the number of various factories is as high as dozens.Cotton mills, quilt factories, shoe factories, plastic factories, food factories, etc. to be built in the future will also be here.But obviously, those are future plans.

The four factories to be built at this stage, together with some logistics facilities, only cover an area of ​​more than 1 square meters.The construction time left for people is four years.

Compared with the earth era, these factories are undoubtedly small or even micro factories.You must know that some giant factories in the earth age cover an area of ​​square kilometers, and the number of internal employees is as high as tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands. There is even a thing that a city has sprung up around a factory.At this moment, the micro-factories that Zhao Changxing built on Sedna are still strictly speaking "semi-manual and semi-industrialized" types. The industrial division of labor is not clear enough, and the production goals are quite vague. There are even washbasins and building trusses. Something that comes off a production line.

When people need washbasins, they adjust the parameters of the production line and use them to produce basins, and when they need building trusses, they adjust them again.This will undoubtedly seriously reduce efficiency.

But there is no doubt that if these four factories can be built, it will still be a leap in industrial power for human civilization at this moment.

After recharging for a few days, on a certain morning, except for the two people who stayed behind on the Tinder spacecraft, and the six people in the No. 33 base—they not only took on the task of maintaining the normal operation of the No. , and also undertake the production tasks of various materials in the industrial zone—besides, the remaining [-] people put on spacesuits and set off in a mighty way.

Zhao Changxing was driving the Hongqi space vehicle, pulling a box behind it, loaded with various tools and building materials, and Zhao Ye was driving the Hongxing space vehicle, also pulling a box.The remaining 31 people are like supermen, jumping on the ground is several meters high, one jump is tens of meters away, striding towards the target location.

On a low-gravity planet like Sedna, jumping forward is more efficient.

Finally, before they came to the pitted Huangtie No. [-] vein that had already been dug, the people immediately started working according to the planning drawings drawn up by Xiaoxi without saying a word.

People have already determined that the first thing to be built in the industrial area is a steel factory, but now, people need to build a "small house" first.

The internal area of ​​this small house is only about ten square meters. There is only a dining table, a few stools, and a toilet, and nothing else.

Although the industrial area is not far from the No. [-] base, there is still some distance.Breakfast and dinner can be settled at Base No. [-], but you can't go back for lunch.Besides, I was thirsty in the middle of work and had to go to the bathroom, so I needed a space where I could take off my spacesuit.

This small house is a place for people to eat, drink, and go to the toilet.

With the existing industrial strength, it is not difficult at all to build this small house.It was built in just two days.After that, the construction of the steel plant officially started.

The first thing to do is the civil work.

The steel plant was not built underground like the No. [-] planting base, but directly on the ground.This is mainly due to the consideration of improving industrial efficiency.

On the busy construction site, someone is holding a punching machine and a crusher made by "semi-manual, half-industrial", breaking the rock formations on the surface of Sedna, and someone is driving the Red Flag and Red Star that have been converted into excavators. , Load the broken rock formations into the truck shovel by shovel by shovel, and when the truck is full, they are pulled and unloaded to other places. Some people are performing land leveling operations behind the excavator, while others are performing foundation reinforcement operations.

Everyone on the construction site is wearing a space suit that embodies the highest technology of the earth era, but they use this space suit to do things that manual labor workers are unwilling to do. If this kind of scene is seen by scientists on the earth Arrived, I don't know how it will feel.

During this process, Zhao Changxing once again realized the benefits of having more people.The construction of four factories was such a huge project that he could not have imagined it in the past.But now, the progress of the project can be clearly detected almost every day.

After a day's work, people dragged their tired bodies back to Base No. [-].Entering the No. [-] base through the isolation gate, taking off the space suits, in the entertainment area and restaurants, people collapsed on the seats, not even wanting to say a word.

Especially the second generation of human beings who have just grown up, they are even more tired and have no strength at this moment.Zhao Changxing had nothing to ask, because he was already used to this kind of work intensity.

Looking at the extremely tired people, he felt a little distressed.

After all, these are children raised by themselves.

"It's not a problem to continue like this. The construction of an industrial zone is a long-term job. If you can persist in a day or two, you can't persist in a month or two. No matter how impatient you are, you have to pay attention to a balance between work and rest. Or adjust Check out the project schedule."

After making up his mind, Zhao Changxing announced his plan when the kitchen robot cooked the meal and everyone started to eat.

"Let's reduce the daily workload in the future."

Everyone looked at each other, and finally the eldest brother Zhao Ye spoke.

"Dad, it's okay, don't worry about us. You did this every day for decades when we were kids, and we can do it too."

"It's okay, eat more, get some sleep, and wake up tomorrow as a good man."

"Don't worry, we can do it!"

Everyone expressed their determination to Zhao Changxing one after another, and even the weakest girls looked full of confidence.Zhao Changxing was a little moved, and verbally agreed to continue with the current workload, but he had already made up his mind that the workload should be reduced no matter what.

After a full meal, everyone washed up and fell asleep earlier than ever before.

There is a lot of water ice on Sedna, so the water supply is not a problem here at the base.

On the second day, a group of people gathered again and set off towards the construction site.

On this day, Zhao Changxing intentionally controlled the rhythm of the work, announced the end of the work an hour earlier than yesterday's home time, and led everyone back to the base.

After working for six consecutive days, on the seventh day, Zhao Changxing even announced that he would have a rest today, and that he could move freely throughout the day.After cheering, Zhao Changxing saw some people plunged into the leisure and entertainment area, playing ball, reading books, or playing games, some people were bored in the room to catch up on sleep, and some people put on spacesuits and went together in pairs He left the base, saying he was going to see the scenery.

Among the groups that left the base to see the scenery, most of them were a man and a woman.Zhao Changxing saw it, and thought to himself: "I'm afraid that in a short while, there will be another naturally conceived child in the base."

Regarding this kind of matter, Zhao Changxing never intervenes except for stipulating that "crossing the line" is not allowed before marriage.Even this rule is not due to Zhao Changxing's obsession with moral cleanliness, but out of consideration for the stability of the base.

He didn't want to have such a small number of people in the base, and then there would be such things as chaos and abandonment, crazy men and women.

In the busy days of more than 30 people, the civil work of the steel plant was completed quickly, and the next step was to build the frame of the plant.

Over the past period of time, the radiation resistance of the building materials produced in the No. [-] industrial zone has improved. Although they are still far inferior to those produced on Earth, they are still barely usable.Besides, surviving in this radiation environment for a short period of time will not cause any serious problems.Unlike plants, machines and equipment are not afraid of radiation.

After the framework is built, it is the installation and debugging of internal equipment.Finally, after a year and a half of construction, the first factory in the industrial zone ushered in the moment of completion.

(End of this chapter)