On the third day after Zhao Changxing returned to the Fire spacecraft, the first baby was finally born in front of the children.
A new life came into the universe. The population of human civilization has once again reached a new high, growing from 11 to 12 people.
"A new task is given to everyone." At this time, Zhao Changxing announced: "You will come up with the names of the babies. This is the first baby born, Zhao Ye, you are the oldest, you come up."
Looking at Zhao Ye, the children's eyes were full of envy.
"Don't worry, there are 30 babies, everyone has a share."
Zhao Changxing has decided to name the children according to the ranking of hundreds of surnames. Of course, the first-born baby will be named after Chen Feng's "Chen" surname.
After Chen came Chu, then Wei, then Jiang Chen, Han Yang, Zhu Qin, You Xu, He Lu, Shi Zhang...
Accompanied by the baby's cries, Zhao Ye thought for a moment, and finally announced excitedly: "His, his name is, Chu Pai Gu!"
"It sounds awful!" Qian Yue screamed.
Zhao Ye retorted excitedly: "The ribs are the best, I like eating ribs the most!"
"Okay, okay, children." Zhao Changxing said at a loss of whether to laugh or cry: "A name is a code name that accompanies a person throughout his life. It must be beautiful and elegant, you know? Don't worry, get up now, Zhao Ye, you can go back and think about it carefully. ."
The birth of the first baby was welcomed, followed by the second.
Because they were fertilized together and then placed into an artificial womb for pregnancy, the time interval between their births was not long. Within three days, all 30 babies reached the birth target, and were all delivered by Zhao Changxing and placed in incubators.
Because of this incident, the children's classes were suspended for several days.
At this moment, the devilish scene of 30 babies crying together finally appeared in front of Zhao Changxing. Facing the nursery that was playing a symphony, Zhao Changxing was not only not impatient at all, but also filled with joy.
New life, new hope.
It was not until the babies were all temporarily settled that the children resumed their lessons. Zhao Changxing finally divided the ten children into five groups. Including himself, there were six groups in total. One group was on duty for 4 hours out of 24 hours a day, so that the purpose of having someone on duty in the nursery at all times could be achieved.
This greatly encroached on the children's extracurricular play time, but fortunately, the children did not complain. Instead, they were all very interested. Sometimes it was not their turn, and they clamored to come and play with the babies.
During some free time, Chen Feng found Zhao Changxing again.
"Dad, I don't want to be in a group with Qian Yue, I want to be in a group with Zheng Yan."
Chen Feng's eyes were full of pleading, and he looked pitiful.
Zhao Changxing thought for a while and called Zheng Yan over: "Are you willing to team up with Chen Feng?"
Zheng Yan shook her head like a rattle: "He drools when he sleeps. I don't like being in a group with him."
Zhao Changxing called Qian Yue again: "Chen Feng doesn't like to be in a group with you. Do you want to be in a group with someone else?"
Qian Yue did not answer Zhao Changxing, but turned to Chen Feng and said: "You are so bad in baby care class, no one else likes to be in the same group with you! Don't you like reading books the most? In the future, you will help the robot aunt change the baby's diapers and give the baby Can I go and take care of the breastfeeding?"
Chen Feng's eyes immediately lit up, he nodded vigorously, and shouted: "Okay, okay!"
"Oh." Zhao Changxing sighed secretly, touched Chen Feng's head, and then touched Qian Yue's head.
A storm disappeared, and the baby-raising journey of one adult and 10 teenagers began in the Spark spacecraft.
For these 30 babies, Zhao Changxing still adopted the strategy of eating milk powder during the confinement period and eating other foods after the confinement period. Although the No. 1 base now has dairy cows and produces some milk, the most it can do at this stage is drink some fresh milk, and it is not yet possible to make milk powder. The milk powder stored in the spacecraft still needs to be saved for use, preparing for the next batch of babies.
During this period of time, in order to prevent accidents - after all, pre-month-old babies are too fragile, Zhao Changxing never went to Base No. 1.
With the children sharing the burden, Zhao Changxing finally had time to calm down and think carefully about future development strategies.
According to the original development route, after the completion of Base No. 1, the astronauts will immediately start building their own soilless cultivation workshops through customized equipment in the industrial zone, such as chemistry and chemical engineering laboratories, 3D printers, etc. All kinds of building materials are needed, and they are built as quickly as possible to produce various kinds of food for the expansion of the population.
But now, facing the reality that he is the only adult left, this strategy obviously needs to be adjusted.
The first point is that the output of Base No. 1 at this stage is fully sufficient to support food consumption for the past ten or even twenty years, or even longer, and there is still a surplus. As a result, the construction of a new soilless cultivation workshop is less urgent. But it's clear that this time shouldn't be wasted.
"Then...find a way to achieve some primary industrialization first? When the second generation of children grow up and consume more food, we can then produce building materials on a large scale and build new planting bases."
The industrial zone in Base No. 1 can produce all kinds of building materials, but it cannot be scaled up and can be customized. Just like a heat shield, its production mechanism is not an assembly line or large-scale mass production, because it is obviously impossible to directly transport a production line to the Spark spacecraft.
Its production mechanism is like this. It requires Zhao Changxing or others to manually collect some ore, and then use small multi-functional refining equipment to refine it bit by bit into steel that meets the needs, as well as the required rubber, pipes, and insulation. Materials and insulation materials need to be synthesized bit by bit by manually performing various chemical reactions in chemistry and chemical engineering laboratories. All kinds of materials are ready, and then they are put together manually to finally create a suitable heat insulation board.
But now, Zhao Changxing does not plan to use the existing machinery to produce various building materials needed for the planting base. Instead, he plans to use these machinery to produce a series of machines such as crushers, grinders, blast furnaces, casting machines, etc. , and then use these machines to produce the building materials needed for the planting base on a large scale.
"Food is always the most important material. According to the current population growth rate, in about 20 years, the consumption rate of food will catch up with the output rate of Base No. 1. That is, in 20 years at the latest, the new planting base will It has to be built or people are going to go hungry.”
"If I want to produce the building materials needed for the new planting base on a large scale, I need the following factory. Well, a multifunctional electric furnace that can not only smelt iron and steel, but also copper, gold, silver, zinc, and manganese Wait for all kinds of ores. We also need a foundry, a precision processing plant, and a chemical plant that can artificially synthesize various chemical materials such as three acids and two alkali, and can produce things like rubber..."
Modern industry has already completed a high degree of division of labor. For example, copper-smelting and iron-smelting factories can never be the same. But in Zhao Changxing's plan, he is merging these divisions of labor as much as possible and achieving the goal of producing as many things as possible with one factory.
This will obviously cause a huge reduction in efficiency, making it less like industrialization and more like a preliminary upgrade of artificialization. But there is nothing that can be done about it.
Rebuilding the entire industrial system is not easy. At this stage, we can only proceed slowly bit by bit. Besides, no matter how low the efficiency of these preliminary "industrialization" is, it is still more efficient than manual customization in the laboratory of Base 1.
"When the children of the first generation and the children of the second generation come of age, I will have 30 adult laborers at my disposal. Plus me, 31 people, as long as there are enough building materials, we can build the new building in four months at most. The planting base is built. Well, that is to say, from now on, in 19 and a half years, I must prepare the building materials for the new planting base. Counting the production cycle, the factories required, It must be completed within 16 years. However, in a few years, the first generation of children will have grown up, and they can also be my helpers..."
After repeated calculations and thinking, Zhao Changxing finally decided on this plan.
In the process of making plans, Zhao Changxing would always subconsciously feel a sense of urgency, as if someone had been urging him behind his back.
He couldn't wait to expand the population as quickly as possible and achieve full industrialization as quickly as possible. Because only in this way can the power of human civilization be rapidly improved.
During this period of time, although Xiao Xi never received that strange signal again, the sense of crisis deep in her heart never dissipated.
After the second-generation babies were out of confinement, Zhao Changxing returned to Base No. 1 and started his next work.
He has decided to build an electric furnace first and have the ability to produce various types of steel. After all, steel is the basis for all subsequent construction. Not only is it necessary to build a new planting base, but it is also needed to produce various other equipment.
However, steel is also needed to produce the electric furnace itself. No matter what, Zhao Changxing could only find a way to get some iron ore first, and then use the existing small electric furnace to slowly refine it into dozens of kilograms.
During this period of time, resource exploration satellites have been detecting the planet. Zhao Changxing already knows where the mineral veins are. There is a pyrite not far from Base No. 1, with a length of about 3,000 meters and a width of about 150 meters. The estimated reserves are about... 2.5 million tons.
The entire reserves of such a small iron ore may not be enough to be transported by several cargo ships in the Earth era. But for Zhao Changxing, it was already considered a behemoth.
In particular, it is an open-pit iron mine. As long as we find a way to cut the ore away and bring it to the industrial area of Base 1, we can make steel.
Zhao Changxing modified the Hongqi space vehicle and turned it into a punching and crushing machine, with a truck body attached to the back, and then set off majestically.
