On the day when the 60 third-generation humans came of age and moved into the No. 2 Comprehensive Base, Zhao Changxing summoned everyone and gathered on the 2,000-square-meter playground of the No. 2 Comprehensive Base to hold a meeting based on the current situation. It can be called a grand celebration ceremony for the level of development. After that, everyone plunged into the construction task again.
The first thing that needs to be done is, of course, to improve the production lines in the industrial zone that have not been completed before, to enhance 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 those words proudly on behalf of everyone at this moment.
“We already have a decent level of industrial capability at the moment.”
Although the output is low, the division of labor is rough, the product quality is low, the level of automation is low, the industrial categories covered are extremely limited, etc., in any case, this is a good start and a relatively solid foundation.
The next thing to do is to improve the level of technology and increase production and a series of other things. However, these things need to be done slowly and cannot be rushed for the time being. The task before Zhao Changxing and others at this moment is another matter, that is, the No. 3 planting base that Zhao Changxing promised people a long time ago.
The main function of Planting Base No. 3 is not to provide food for people. In terms of food, the No. 1 Comprehensive Base and No. 2 Planting Base are here, so there is no need to worry in a short time. The main task of the No. 3 planting base is to grow cash crops.
For example, cotton, peanuts, rapeseed, sugar cane, sugar beets, potatoes, corn, fruits, spices, etc. With the output of the No. 3 planting base, people can obtain cotton, oil crops, sugar, starch and other materials in a relatively stable manner.
These things are not only extremely important for people's daily lives, but also play an extremely important role in industrial production. Before, there was no time and no spare time. Now that 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, Zhao Changxing divided the personnel who needed to be on duty everywhere, and there were still 60 people left who could be called upon.
After the order was given, the construction of the No. 3 planting base began immediately.
This time, Zhao Changxing plans to build it on a larger scale. As a result, the No. 3 planting base has unprecedentedly reached an astonishing area of 30,000 square meters, with hundreds of types of crops grown in it. The cotton planting area alone is 3,000 square meters. After doubling the area using the double-layer planting method, it will be 6,000 square meters.
After optimization and improvement, the growth cycle of cotton 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 in a year, which can fully meet the current life and industrial needs.
The planting area of corn was also divided again into 3,000 square meters, and the same was true for potatoes and soybeans. The other varieties were allocated 100 to 2,000 square meters each, eventually dividing up the total area of 30,000 square meters.
Of course, this allocation is only temporary and can be flexibly changed at any time. If necessary, the entire No. 3 planting base can be transformed into a grain production base in a short time. It can be planted with wheat or rice to produce grain in large quantities as quickly as possible.
“When the No. 3 planting base is built, at least for a few decades, we won’t have to worry about the shortage of things growing in the soil.”
Because the No. 3 planting base is relatively large, even if there are enough manpower at the moment, its construction will take several years. However, in the process of building it, other aspects have not stagnated, but are also developing.
For example, people in the industrial zone improved their processes several times during this period, significantly improving 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, bit by bit.
This is the benefit of having enough manpower. After coming to Sedna for decades, Zhao Changxing was finally able to blossom more and advance hand in hand, developing several tasks at the same time.
When the No. 3 planting base was finally put into production and the first batch of cotton was produced and transported into the already built cotton spinning mill, 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 ten years or as many as decades. Even Zhao Changxing had seven or eight patches on the clothes he wore.
People's desire for new clothes is no less than their desire for food.
Now, people can finally produce their own clothing.
A large amount of cotton was transported into the cotton spinning factory, processed into fabric, and then transported into the clothing factory. According to the clothing drawings stored in Xiaoxi's database, it was cut and processed into pieces of clothing of different sizes by intelligent machines.
Tops, shorts, trousers, T-shirts, underwear, socks, towels, etc., everything is available.
In fact, these clothes have no design style. They are mainly for ease of labor, comfort, toughness and durability. On Earth in the past, no one would have wanted them even if they were put up for sale at street stalls, but here, people who got new clothes were as happy as if they were celebrating the New Year.
Looking at the happy people, Zhao Changxing also smiled happily.
After completing the construction of the No. 3 planting base, Zhao Changxing and his people immediately devoted themselves to another matter.
He feels that it is urgent to comprehensively upgrade the industrial zone.
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 left the initial stage of struggling for survival. It can be said that as long as there are no major accidents and disasters - like the previous asteroid impact incident, people today can already live very 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 star Sedna forever. No matter how big the planting workshop is, it cannot grow a sea of stars.
If you want to return to the universe, only industrialization can do it.
Especially the signals from unknown sources that he would receive from time to time made Zhao Changxing even more worried, and his heart was always filled with a sense of urgency.
But industrialization requires a large population. Not tens or hundreds, nor thousands, but tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of industrial population.
Of course, the Fire spacecraft has enough sperm and egg reserves, and Zhao Changxing has the basic conditions to rapidly expand the population. But the key problem is that the Spark spacecraft has a limited capacity.
Children need to reach adulthood before they can leave the Spark. At this moment, the maximum capacity of the Spark spacecraft is only about 400 people. Among them, there must be 100 babies who are lying in incubators and not running around.
This means that the Spark spacecraft can only give birth to 100 humans every 4.5 years at the fastest. No matter how fast it goes, there will be no room for it in the Spark spacecraft. And this speed is obviously too slow. If we expect to realize industrialization at this speed, we don’t know how long it will take.
It has become a consensus among all adults that 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 Spark spacecraft to provide more space for nurturing a new generation of humans.
At this moment, almost all the supplies shipped from the distant Earth were transported to Sedna, freeing up a lot of space. There is no doubt that these spaces can be adapted. At the same time, the severely damaged third circle also has the potential to be repaired. By then, the third circle can also accommodate some people.
In the past, it was simply wishful thinking to transform and repair the Spark spacecraft. However, now that we have primary industrialization capabilities, it is not impossible to try this thing.
This is the 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 improve intelligence and specialization. Needless to say, intelligence can be achieved through Xiaoxi. Specialization means getting rid of the past model of "one production line producing multiple products" and returning to the "specialized production line producing specialized products" model that has been proven thousands of times on 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 1,000 tons, sulfuric acid production lines with an annual output of 2,000 tons, large hydraulic presses, precision casting factories, etc.
It will probably take at least ten years to complete the entire project. This is assuming that in another 10 years or so, the 100 children of the fifth generation will also reach adulthood.
Time slips away quietly in the busyness day after day, year after year. Zhao Changxing still maintains the appearance of a young man, but the first generation of people have quietly turned gray. Wrinkles appear on their faces, their figures begin to lose shape, their eyes become blurry, and the stability of their palms is no longer as good as before.
They are now over sixty years old and have truly entered the stage of old age.
In the seventh year of upgrading the industrial zone, one morning, Wang Feng did not get up on time as before. People realized something was wrong, and after calling to no avail, they forced open the door of the room where he lived alone, and saw Wang Feng, who had gray hair, lying on the bed, lifeless.
A sudden heart attack claimed his life in his sleep.
After human civilization moved to Sedna, it experienced attrition for the first time.
People endured the torment of sadness in their hearts and buried him in silence in a specially designated area on Sedna - which was planned as a cemetery by Zhao Changxing. After that, people once again devoted themselves to the construction task.
