The last human in the universe

Chapter 35 Clothes
On the day when 60 humans of the third generation came of age and moved into the No. 2000 comprehensive base, Zhao Changxing called everyone together on the [-]-square-meter playground of the No. [-] comprehensive base. It's a grand celebration at the level of development.After that, everyone plunged into the construction task again.

The first thing that needs to be done, of course, is to improve the production lines in the industrial zone that have not been completed before, to increase the industrial coverage of human civilization, and to build related supporting facilities.

The work took about another year.At this moment, the first phase of the industrial zone has finally been completed.And Zhao Changxing could finally say that proudly on behalf of everyone at the moment.

"We have a decent level of industrial capacity at this point."

Although the output is low, the division of labor is rough, the product quality is low, the level of automation is low, and the industrial categories covered are extremely limited, etc., but in any case, this is a good start and a relatively solid foundation.

The next thing to do is to improve the level of craftsmanship, increase production and a series of things.But these things need to be done slowly, and there is no rush for the time being.The task before Zhao Changxing and others at this moment is another matter, that is, the No. [-] planting base that Zhao Changxing promised people a long time ago.

The main function of Plantation Base No. [-] is not to provide food for people.In terms of food, there is No. [-] comprehensive base and No. [-] planting base, so there is no need to worry about it in a short time.The main task of planting base No. [-] is to grow cash crops.

Such as cotton, peanuts, rapeseed, sugar cane, sugar beets, potatoes, corn, fruits, spices and so on.With the output of planting base No. [-], people can obtain cotton, oilseeds, sugar crops, starch and other materials in a relatively stable manner.

These things are not only extremely important for people's daily life, but also play an extremely important role in industrial production.Before, there was no time to spare, but now everything is ready, of course, we must start building it immediately.

At this moment, facing an unprecedentedly large construction team with a total of 100 people under him, after Zhao Changxing divided all the personnel who needed to be on duty in various places, there were still 60 people who could be called at hand.

After the order was issued, the construction of the No. [-] planting base began immediately.

This time, Zhao Changxing plans to build on a larger scale.As a result, the No. 3000 planting base has reached an astonishing area of ​​6000 square meters unprecedentedly, in which hundreds of types of crops are planted.The cotton planting area alone has [-] square meters.After doubling the area by the double-layer planting method, it will be [-] square meters.

With optimized and improved cotton, the growth cycle is about 180 days, which means it can be planted twice a year.The output is about 3 tons per season, and about 6 tons can be harvested a year, which can fully meet the needs of life and industry at this stage.

The planting area of ​​corn is also divided into 3000 square meters, and the same is true for potatoes and soybeans. The other types are allocated 100 to 2000 square meters each, and finally the total area of ​​[-] square meters is divided up.

Of course, this allocation is only temporary and can be flexibly changed at any time.If necessary, the entire No. [-] planting base can be transformed into a grain production base in a short period of time, and all of them can be planted with wheat or rice to produce large quantities of grain at the fastest speed.

"When the No. [-] planting base is completed, at least for a few decades, we don't have to worry about the lack of things grown in these soils."

Because the No. [-] planting base is relatively large, even if there are sufficient manpower at the moment, its construction will take several years.However, in the process of building it, other aspects are not stagnant, but are also developing.

For example, during this period of time, the people in the industrial area have improved the technology several times, considerably increasing the production quality and quantity of steel, castings, chemical products, etc., and once again raising the level of industrialization.

The so-called technological progress comes step by step and bit by bit.

This is the advantage of sufficient manpower.In the decades since he came to Sedna, Zhao Changxing was finally able to achieve multi-point blossoming, progressing in parallel, and developing several tasks at the same time.

When the No. [-] planting base was finally put into production, and the first batch of cotton was produced, and it was transported into the cotton spinning factory that had already been built, people in ragged clothes, like refugees, cheered at the same time.

At this moment, every piece of clothing that people own has been worn by different people for at least a dozen years or as many as decades.Even Zhao Changxing had seven or eight patches on his clothes.

People's desire for new clothes is no less than the desire for food.

Now, people can finally produce their own clothes.

A lot of cotton was transported into the cotton spinning factory, processed into fabrics, and then transported into the quilt factory. According to the clothing drawings stored in Xiaoxi's database, they were cut and processed into pieces of clothing of different sizes by intelligent machines.

Tops, shorts, trousers, T-shirts, underwear, socks, towels and more.

In fact, these clothes do not have any design style, everything is based on ease of labor, comfort, toughness and durability.On the earth in the past, I am afraid that no one would want to set up a street stall for a big sale, but here, people who got new clothes are happy as if they were celebrating the New Year.

Looking at the happy people, Zhao Changxing also smiled gratifiedly.

After completing the construction of the No. [-] planting base, Zhao Changxing led the people to immediately devote themselves to another matter.

He feels that it is urgent to upgrade the industrial zone in an all-round way.

Now that the children of the fifth generation are 6 years old and 100 babies of the sixth generation have been born, human civilization has completely broken away from the initial stage of struggling to survive.It can be said that as long as there are no major accidents and disasters - just like the previous asteroid impact incident, people now can live comfortably.

At this stage, the most important thing is to comprehensively improve the level of industrialization.After all, human civilization cannot be limited to such a small Sedna star forever, and no matter how big the planting workshop is, it cannot grow a sea of ​​stars.

To return to the universe, only industrialization can do it.

Especially at that time, he could receive a signal from an unknown source from time to time, which made Zhao Changxing worried, and his heart was always full of urgency.

But industrialization requires a large population.Not tens of hundreds, nor thousands, but tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of industrial population.

Of course, there are enough sperm and eggs in the Huozhi spacecraft, and Zhao Changxing has the basic conditions to rapidly expand the population.But the key problem is the limited capacity of the Tinder spacecraft.

Children need to grow up to be adults before they can leave the Tinder spaceship.At this moment, the limit capacity of the Tinder spacecraft is only about 400 people.Among them, there must be 100 babies who are lying in the incubator and will not run around.

This also means that the Pylon spacecraft can only breed 4.5 humans every 100 years at the fastest.No matter how fast it is, there will be no room in the Tinder spacecraft.And this speed is obviously too slow.If you want to count on this speed to achieve industrialization, you don't know when you will have to wait.

It has become the consensus of all adults that the level of population growth must be increased as soon as possible.To achieve this goal, the only feasible way at this stage is to repair and transform the Tinder spacecraft to provide more space for the birth of a new generation of humans.

At this moment, almost all the huge amount of materials transported from the distant earth have been transported to Sedna, freeing up a lot of space.There is no doubt that these spaces are open to transformation.At the same time, the severely damaged third circle layer also has the potential to be repaired. By then, the third circle layer can also accommodate some population.

In the past, it was wishful thinking to transform and repair the Tinder spacecraft.However, now that we have primary industrialization capabilities, it is not impossible to try this matter.

This is the most fundamental reason why Zhao Changxing led everyone to devote themselves to the task of upgrading and transforming the industrial zone.

The most effective way to improve product quality and output is to increase the level of intelligence and specialization.Needless to say, intelligence can be realized through Xiaoxi.Specialization refers to getting rid of the previous model of "one production line producing multiple products" and returning to the "specialized production line producing specialized products" model that has been verified thousands of times on the earth.

In order to achieve this goal, Zhao Changxing had a long construction list in front of him.

There are dozens of ethylene production lines with an annual output of 1000 tons, sulfuric acid production lines with an annual output of 2000 tons, large hydraulic presses, precision casting factories, etc.

It will probably take at least ten years to complete the project.This is on the premise that in another 10 years or so, 100 children of the fifth generation will also become adults.

Time slipped away quietly in the busyness of the year after year and day after day.Zhao Changxing still maintained that youthful appearance, but the first generation of people had quietly turned gray hair.There are wrinkles on their faces, their bodies are out of shape, their eyes are starting to dim, and their palms are not as stable as before.

They are now more than 60 years old, and they have really entered the old age.

In the seventh year of upgrading the industrial zone, one morning, Wang Feng didn't get up on time as usual.People sensed something was wrong, and after calling to no avail, they forcibly broke open the door of his solitary room, and saw Wang Feng, whose hair was already gray, lying on the bed, having lost his life.

A sudden heart attack took his life in his sleep.

After the human civilization migrated to the Sedna planet, there was attrition for the first time.

People endured the torment of sadness in their hearts, and silently buried him in an area specially marked out on Sedna—this place was planned as a cemetery by Zhao Changxing. After that, people put themselves into the construction task again.

(End of this chapter)