spaceflight manual

Chapter 46 The Inheritance of Tinder

After getting into the car, Liang Wanwen reversed the car and got out of the parking space, while introducing: "The event is mainly tomorrow, and I will arrange you to stay in the guest house of the Production Management Committee tonight. Is it okay to live in a double room?"

"Yes." Wang Pingan and Angeli replied in unison.

Liang Wanwen glanced at the two of them, but said nothing more.

The car drove out of the station, and the big billboard outside the station was scrolling with the advertisement "Rift Valley New City's commercial housing is cheap and the scenery is good", and the big speaker below the billboard was playing: "House allocation does not rely on work points, no queues! Rift Valley Your new home in Xincheng!"

Liang Wanwen glanced at Wang Ping'an: "I'm used to driving with the radio on, is it okay?"

"No problem." Wang Pingan nodded.

Then the voice of the news broadcast sounded in the carriage: "The Vesta Fleet of the Space Force took resolute actions, destroyed the pirate stronghold on the asteroid 762, wiped out five pirate ships, killed 370 pirates, and captured..."

Liang Wanwen suddenly said: "These pirates, just deal with them, and don't wipe out those big foreign companies, it will be impossible to get rid of them!"

Angeli asked curiously, "Is there any relationship between this?"

"You think, since the pirates are gone, don't the big foreign companies have no reason to keep their own security fleets? They must be raising pirates.

"Besides, there are no valuable things in the asteroid belt. They are all mines, not rare mines. If you want to say which asteroid has rare fissile materials, it's fine, but what are the asteroids produced? Iron , copper, not even lanthanides!

"The asteroids are poor and the environment is poor, and as a result, people continue to go to the asteroid belt one after another. This must be a conspiracy of a big company!

"The resource-rich planets are all controlled by the Production Management Committee and the Aviation Management Committee. What Europa and Titan, they can't get their hands on it, so they just use their brains on the asteroid belt."

Like a taxi driver, Liang Wanwen chattered on and on for a long time.

Even Wang Pingan couldn't intervene, so he could only exchange a glance with Angeli.

At this time, Liang Wanwen asked suddenly: "By the way, do you think that the smuggling this time could be caused by those big companies?"

Wang Pingan was stunned for a moment: "This time? No, I don't think so, it's just that two brats ran onto the boat."

"How could the two children run onto the ship without being noticed? No, this is not right. The site you set off from is the fortress of the Space Force."

"What do you mean?"

"The big company intentionally infiltrated, and then used this incident to create a public opinion offensive and attack the Space Force! I heard that the dead child's mother has something wrong!"

Ange Li frowned: "I think that's just an ordinary parent who spoils his children."

Liang Wanwen: "Huh, who knows. The husband is a model worker and has a high status, so the wife gradually has the mentality of a lady. I have seen many such things. Of course, there are also the opposite. The woman is the March [-]th Red Banner Bearer , the husband thinks he is a master.

"It's better that you are like this. Both of you are silver stars, and both of you have high ideological awareness, so that the family can always be healthy! In my opinion, in the future, there should be model workers with model workers, silver stars with silver stars, and gold stars." ..."

Wang Pingan interrupted Liang Wanwen: "You are not correct. Our basic principle is freedom of love."

"But now that psychology has developed, and there are supercomputers and big data, don't you see that the planned economy in the past couldn't do market regulation? In the pre-astronautic era, people had to queue up to buy TVs because the planned indicators couldn't keep up with the demand.

"But then with big data, supercomputers, and artificial intelligence, we overtook it all at once!
"Now love should also be managed, planned, and handed over to computers and big data, so that everyone's family will be happy..."

Wang Pingan suddenly had an idea and said, "Officer Liang, do you have a bad relationship with your lover?"

"That's right." Liang Wanwen, who had been making a long speech, suddenly fell silent, and said after a few seconds, "Now, she regards herself as a noble lady, especially recently, I may have to mention the section chief, her I get angry just looking at it.”

Angeli: "Are you angry?"

"Yeah, she's picky about the rationed dishes, and she has to keep fresh fish for her, and then she's still thinking about luxury goods that aren't in the ration range all day long! I'm just saying that these luxury goods are all foreign superpowers. She didn't listen to what the company brought to corrupt us, and even quarreled with me!"

Wang Ping'an curled his lips: "If it's coffee and tea, it's understandable."

"She wants a bag! She wants a new lipstick! Those lipsticks of hers are fancy! I said that you don't need such fancy lip colors for your career, just some lipstick is enough, and then she quarreled with me again."

As he said that, Liang Wanwen turned his head to look at Angeli: "Comrade Second Lieutenant shouldn't use lipstick, right?"

"I don't need it, it can't be used according to military regulations. But I can understand your wife's needs..."

Liang Wanwen: "Oh, don't be madam, you let her hear, this tail will go to the sky."

Wang Ping'an: "On our side, those who are married are generally called lovers, and those who are not married are called partners. She is a foreigner. She has just arrived in China after being admitted to the Space Force. She has not lived in the country before going on a mission. I don't know much about it."

"Oh, I thought she had been naturalized for a long time. But she is so beautiful as a foreigner, and genetic adjustments cost a lot of money, right? Foreign dandies seem to be particularly attracted to our side. Look at the old card from the space age, He is the son of the great landowner..."

Angeli: "No, according to the classification here, my family should be considered bourgeois."

"Then why are your genes so well tuned? Did you hit that thing called it? It's just a trick to fool people by randomness! Or, are you actually the illegitimate child of a rich man?"

Angeli: "I'm a natural person, I just adjusted the color of my hair the day after tomorrow. You see, I'm still short-sighted."

Liang Wanwen turned his head and glanced, his face was full of shock: "I thought it was a decoration."

At this time, it happened to be at the intersection, and the red light happened to be on. Liang Wanwen stopped the car and waited for the countdown to end.Wang Pingan saw a large crowd gathering in front of him.

"What is that?" He asked Liang Wanwen.

"A new specialty store is about to open."

Wang Pingan: "Aren't the luxury goods from the earth generally sold in the luxury goods section of the Friendship Store?"

"The situation has changed, how many years have you not been to Mars?"

"Two years."

"It is now open for large foreign companies to set up factories on Mars, and they are also allowed to sell their products publicly. Recently, many new specialty stores have opened in Zhenghe City, selling clothing, cosmetics, and consumer electronics. Women and young people are flocking to it. .”

Wang Pingan muttered: "Mars has also started to produce luxury goods. Although I know that there will be a day, but... I thought it would start after the transformation of the Martian environment is almost completed."

Liang Wanwen looked at the crowd gathered at the entrance of the specialty store with a melancholy expression, and said in a low voice: "The task our Propaganda Department received is to publicize that this represents the transformation of Mars from a difficult pioneering land to the second home of mankind, and to publicize this It's a small step for Mars to become like Earth.

"I have no right to interfere with the decision-making above. But I came to Mars as a pioneer, even though I was a propagandist. I once carried a camera and traveled all over the pioneering points of Mars, watching the young pioneers fighting the wind and sand , Fight the severe cold!

"I have seen with my own eyes the engineer who was frozen into a popsicle while rushing to repair the heating equipment. I have seen with my own eyes the transport convoy that broke into the big storm to deliver oxygen. Do you know? Big storms, the sand in the storm is hematite powder, the car The heat dissipation mouth is covered with a layer of iron, and it is tightly blocked!

"Do you understand what kind of mood we came to Mars with?"

Wang Pingan: "I understand, trust me."

Angeli: "But isn't everyone's struggle for the fact that one day people living on Mars can be crazy about luxury goods and don't have to fight the wind and sand anymore?"

Liang Wanwen was silent.

At this time the green light came, he released the handbrake and stepped on the gas pedal - it should be called the switch.

A few seconds after the car started, Liang Wanwen said: "I don't know, I always feel uncomfortable, Mars should be the advance base for human expansion, an industrial base for turning the asteroid belt and even the Jupiter circle into a livable place for human beings. We should fight for another three generations for the expansion of human beings in the solar system, shouldn't we?

"If you think about it, we are still using tritium reflector spacecraft that is so slow that we can't replace all the spacecraft with torch ships. The industrial production capacity is simply not enough! Wait until all of our spacecraft are torch ships, and it only takes a week to go to Jupiter. Even more than half of the population can migrate to the universe!
“Shouldn’t we be working towards that future? What is luxury?”

Angeli: "You're right, but... not everyone is so noble. There are always people who need entertainment, luxury, and... some comparisons."

Liang Wanwen was silent again.

It seems that it is quite difficult for this first generation of Mars pioneers to accept the current situation.

At this time, the car passed a park in the middle of the street, and the youths on Martian outings were all wearing the same flared trousers as the fashion youths on Earth, wearing sunglasses, strumming the guitar and singing frivolous songs.

Liang Wanwen looked at the young people silently.

Suddenly, he said: "Our generation is always going to die. After we die, who else will fight? Who will go to the turbulent distance?"

Wang Pingan: "Don't worry, there will always be someone in the new generation who yearns for this, and then sets out resolutely. This is how the kindling is passed down from generation to generation."

Liang Wanwen seemed to have suddenly thought of something that made him feel relieved. He said, "Yes. There may be hope for the new generation. My son wants to apply to go to Titan, but his mother is crazy and keeps saying how dangerous that place is. The child's mother wants to arrange the child to go to Mercury, as a solar array maintenance worker, which is safe and can increase qualifications."

"Then you have to support him." Angeli said enthusiastically, "Why don't you let the two of us enlighten him?"

Liang Wanwen: "...it's ok, or just tonight. I should have arranged for the two of you to go to the cafeteria of the guest house, but as the person in charge of the reception, it's reasonable for me to treat you to Martian specialties at my own expense, isn't it?"

Wang Pingan: "Yes! Deal!"

(End of this chapter)