Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 419 Southern Metropolis ([-])

Western Australia, Walkerton Township.

This is the hinterland of Oceania, with a typical desert grassland climate, with the Gibson Desert on the north and the Great Victoria Desert on the south.

It is very desolate here. Oceania in May is between autumn and winter, and the desert grassland has begun to wither and decay.

But at this time, Walkerton has become a real big construction site.

A freshwater pipeline from a desalination plant on the coast of the Great Australian Bight has arrived near Walkerton.

Fang Ping stood on top of an instant building. The so-called instant building was the assembly line product of Planet Group. The steel frame was directly customized in the steel factory, and the formwork of the building was customized in the formwork factory.

Then it will be directly transported to the destination where the building needs to be built, and the steel skeleton and formwork will be assembled together with foam cement to build a 50-storey instant building in just three days.

Due to the standardized production, these buildings are all the same, and are often ridiculed as assembly line products without aesthetic feeling.

Of course Planet Group has very distinctive customized products. The question is whether the price is acceptable. The price difference between personalized customization and assembly line products is about three times.

一栋占地400平方，地面50层加上地下3层的速成大厦毛坯，星球集团的出售价格是1000万火星币（包含利润30%）。

Of course, this price does not include decoration, nor does it include the cost of land purchase, it is only the cost after construction.

"Is there such a fate between me and the desert? Why do I always arrange to work in desert areas?" Fang Ping complained about the strong ultraviolet rays outside, and hurried to the side under the umbrella.

The typical special feature of desert climate is that the temperature difference between day and night is very large. Now it is hot enough to eat watermelon with short sleeves at noon, and you have to wear a cotton jacket at night to turn on the heater.

"Fang branch, a [-]-billion-level nuclear fusion generator will be transported from East Island the day after tomorrow." Assistant Du Lin came over with a document.

Fang Ping has been transferred from the former president of Haifeng Wind Power to the branch director of Western Australia.

"Have we completed the construction of the power station and storage station?" Fang Ping asked after taking the documents.

Du Lin looked at the holographic display: "The supporting facilities of the power station are ready, but the storage station is not there yet, and 64% of the batteries are still not in place."

"Remind Raytheon Group, the construction work of Nandu is urgent!"

"I'll contact Raytheon Group immediately."

The Southern Capital is the future core of the Galaxy Consortium in Oceania. As for why it was built in the inland desert of Western Australia?
The first is to strengthen the connection between Western Australia and Eastern Australia. Previously, due to the barrier of the desert, there was obvious separatism in Western Australia. Obviously, this is not allowed by the Galaxy Consortium.

Walkerton, which built the Southern Capital in the inland desert of Western Australia, is just at the junction of Western Australia, South Australia and the northern region.

The second is to avoid conflicts between locals and immigrants. There are two core areas in Turkey and Australia, namely the Melbourne-Canberra-Sydney area in the southeast and the Perth area in the southwest.

The strategy of the Galaxy Consortium is to temporarily avoid its edge and completely annex Tuao through subtle means.

Nandu is carried out for this strategy, through powerful seawater desalination plants, nuclear fusion power generation and large-scale investment, to build the Nandu core economic zone.

These desert areas are typical uninhabited areas. The desert area in Tuao is 155 million square kilometers. If the semi-desert areas are included, the total area is as high as 340 million square kilometers, accounting for about 44% of the total land area.

Excluding populated areas and nature reserves, the area that can be transformed and utilized is as high as 200 million square kilometers.

These areas are located in subtropical and tropical regions, with abundant heat and flat land. With cheap fresh water and electricity, the Galaxy Consortium is confident in transforming this place into a paradise.

What is the concept of 200 million square kilometers of subtropical and tropical cultivated land? 200 million square kilometers equals 30 billion mu. Before that, the land in Dongtang was full of 18 billion cultivated land. After transforming the Northwest and Mobei deserts in the past few years, the cultivated land has skyrocketed. .

Moreover, the deserts in Tu'ao are easier to transform than Dongtang, because they are very close to the coastline, and the flat terrain is conducive to pipeline laying.

For example, the Great Victoria Desert is about 130 kilometers away from the coastline; the Great Sand Desert in the northwest is by the sea.

The Galaxy Consortium has planned to immigrate 2 million people to Oceania, using the population to completely assimilate Tuao.

As for those wild rabbits, kangaroos and the like, in front of my big heavenly foodie, I will turn them into protected animals in minutes.

……

Zhang Huaide was sitting on a passenger airship. This time he led a team to build a nuclear fusion power station in Nandu, Western Australia.

"Passengers, the airship will land at the Nandu airship station in 10 minutes, please fasten your seat belts," the pilot of the airship, Li Chengye, shouted through the public address system.

"..." Another trainee pilot from Tuao also repeated it in English.

Zhang Huaide looked at the desert in the distance. Huge squares completely divided the desert into separate areas. It was very shocking to go down from midair.

These squares are all divided by dikes made of foam cement, and the square is a square with a side length of 1 km.

There are already glass greenhouses in some squares, or lush plants exist.

Soon the passenger airship slowly landed at a huge airship station, which is an area covering an area of ​​2 square kilometers, that is, two standard modified squares.

Zhang Huaide and others got off the passenger airship and waited for the unloading of the other five cargo airships. These cargoes were one of the parts of the 5-billion-level nuclear fusion power plant they brought over this time.

Inside the cockpit of a passenger airship.

"Dazhi and Tom take a break, we will return to Darwin tomorrow." Li Chengye set the charging mode while talking.

It was almost sunset outside by this time.

"I'll take a look at the cabin." Wen Dazhi opened the door.

"Captain, are they your friends?" Tom looked at Li Chengye who was watching the live broadcast and asked, because the people in the live broadcast were very similar to the people in the photo frame beside him, even though Tang people were similar in Tom's eyes (race blindness) ).

"This guy is my college classmate. He chose the astronaut major, and I chose the airship pilot major." Li Chengye pointed to the live broadcast in the holographic display and smiled.

"Astronauts can travel to space for free. I heard that the ticket price for space travel is 10 Mars coins. I want to see it too." Tom said enviously.

"If you want to travel to the new Kaohsiung space station, you don't need 10 Mars coins. You can buy them with a 5% discount when you become a regular." Li Chengye reminded, so that Tom would not waste money.

"Eh? Our company still has this benefit?" Tom was a little surprised.

"We belong to the same company as the New Kaohsiung Space Station? You don't know?"

"A company? How many branches does our company have?" Tom was already feeling numb. It was the first time he saw such a huge industrial and commercial complex as the Galaxy Consortium.

Li Chengye thought for a while and said, "There are a lot of them, and I haven't counted them specifically, but if you see the silver star flag on a blue background, it usually belongs to our company."

And in the live room.

Ma Wu and others sent the second batch of astronauts from the International Space Station, Andrew Morgan, Jessica, and Oleg, into the Qinglong-class spacecraft.

Then the three of them were placed in the survival cabin, and Ma Wu was one of the pilots of the Qinglong-class spaceship this time.

(End of this chapter)