The task of upgrading the industrial area is still ongoing. However, under Zhao Changxing's arrangement, except for the dead Wang Feng, the nine first-generation humans have been completely separated from the heavy manual labor on the front line. But they were not idle either. Zhao Changxing assigned some mental work to them, asking them to think and verify things like how to improve efficiency and quality as quickly as possible, and to do some simpler chores by the way.
No one, old or young, had any complaints about Zhao Changxing's arrangements. It seemed that obeying Zhao Changxing's arrangements had become instinctive. Even though Zhao Changxing still looks like a young man, even though he has gray hair.
The atmosphere here in the human base is always harmonious and the interpersonal relationships are simple. There is almost no such thing as cheating or intrigue.
This situation has actually been predicted by experts as early as the Earth era before the Spark spacecraft set off. The main reason is that the population of human civilization is too small, the social structure is too simple, and there are too few things people can do. It is this special environment that creates these special people.
When the human population recovers to the order of tens of thousands, and the environment it faces becomes complex enough, things like cheating, intrigue, and intrigue will probably be inevitable. By that time, the difficulty of social management will also skyrocket.
But that’s all a matter for the future, so let’s figure out a solution later.
It took more than ten years to upgrade the industrial area, and several more years to repair and modify the Spark spacecraft. During this period, the children of the sixth generation have grown up, the children of the seventh generation can already run around, the children of the eighth generation have just learned to crawl on the ground, and the children of the ninth generation have not yet learned how to crawl on the ground. Conceived in an artificial womb.
The number of human species is about to exceed one thousand, reaching 954 people.
Originally, this number would have been higher, but three more people in the first generation died, which finally reduced the number to this level.
Facing the children he raised with his own hands, growing from prime age to old age, and eventually dying, Zhao Changxing had mixed feelings in his heart.
Birth, aging, sickness and death are natural laws that no one can resist. Even if it is me, although due to some unknown reasons, I have maintained my youthful state until now, I can't say when I will die directly. Besides, this kind of thing is not replicable.
He had been mentally building up the idea that the children would grow old and die one by one, and he also realized that this would happen sooner or later, but when it really happened, he was still filled with sadness.
Every time someone died, he would stand in front of the tombstone in the cemetery, look at the photo on the tombstone, and reminisce for a long time.
Thinking back to when they just fell to the ground, thinking back to when they crawled towards me on the ground, thinking back to when they called me daddy...
"well……"
Eventually, all memories will turn into a sigh. After that, when it’s time to go to work, you still have to go to work.
The current situation does not allow anyone to waste energy and time on sadness for a long time. Zhao Changxing is even less capable. Because he is a role model for everyone and a leader for everyone.
At this moment, except for the first, second and third generations of humans who still habitually call Zhao Changxing "Dad", the rest of the humans have changed their names and call Zhao Changxing "Leader".
The title leader downplays emotions and strengthens the identity attributes of the leader and the led. Zhao Changxing was still a little uncomfortable with this change at the beginning, but his reason told him that he must get used to this change.
Because the human population expands and the population increases, it is extremely inefficient to rely on emotions to maintain the operation of society. Only by relying on the difference in identity attributes between the leader and the led can we better improve the efficiency of social operation. In the current human civilization, the only person qualified to hold the position of leader is Zhao Changxing.
So, after thinking about it, he acquiesced to the matter.
At this moment, the repair and transformation tasks of the Spark spacecraft have been completed. Its five circles have all been transformed into living areas, with a total capacity of up to 3,700 people. Of course, this is for minors, it's too crowded for adults.
Excluding some necessary personnel on duty in the Spark spacecraft and the floating population, the total number of minors that can be accommodated is 3,600.
Every six months, 100 children will come of age and leave the Spark spacecraft to arrive at the human base. Similarly, every six months, people will count the number of babies conceived naturally, and some babies will be conceived through artificial wombs to make up the number of 100. Of course, that was after the carrying capacity of the Spark spacecraft reached its limit.
At this stage, there are only 7th, 8th, and 9th generation children on the Spark spaceship, a total of only 300 people. The 100 artificial wombs are now at full capacity. For every 100 babies produced, 100 new embryos will be immediately transplanted to begin growth and development.
The number of adults has reached more than 600. The rooms in Comprehensive Base No. 1 and No. 2 can only accommodate more than 300 people, and the remaining people are making do in various places at the moment.
But it doesn't matter, with so many people available, building a comprehensive base is just a simple matter.
that's the truth. In just a few months, the Comprehensive Base No. 3, which covers an area of 100,000 square meters and can accommodate more than 3,000 people if two people live in one room, has been built. As a result, Comprehensive Base No. 1 and Comprehensive Base No. 2 were abandoned directly, and everyone moved to Comprehensive Base No. 3.
After the completion of the No. 3 comprehensive base, Zhao Changxing led people to build the No. 4 planting base with an area of 100,000 square meters, and the No. 1 livestock and fishery base, completely solving the current food problem. In this process, the production areas of lithium mine No. 1, water mine No. 1, 2, 3 and 4, dry ice mine No. 1, copper, tin, titanium and other mineral deposits have also established mining factories respectively.
The population has entered a period of stable growth, food production is highly surplus, and living places can fully meet demand. Under this situation, Zhao Changxing has almost only one task left.
Develop industrialization. Promote industrialization regardless of cost. No matter the quality or scale, we cannot fall behind.
In the industrial zone planning area with an area of up to one million square meters, hundreds of humans are busy all day long, innovating the production technology and production level of each factory bit by bit, and after the new production line has higher technology and precision , and immediately used these capabilities to further build more advanced production equipment.
Even if all the technical and scientific information is available and carefully compiled into a volume by many experts from the Earth Age, making it as easy as possible for people to absorb and use it, the progress of industrialization can only be achieved step by step and cannot be achieved overnight.
Just like, no matter how much knowledge a person has, it is impossible to directly carve out the CPU with a carving knife.
More than ten years passed in this way, and the 100 children of the seventh generation finally came of age and were added to the construction team. The 100 babies of the new generation were born and came to this universe not long after the children of the seventh generation left. among.
The population of human civilization has now reached 3,654 people. It's just that most of them are minors and still live in the Spark spacecraft.
Among the old people, six more people died. So far, among the first generation of humans who followed Zhao Changxing to create the initial situation for human civilization, only Qian Yue is left alive.
Now she is very old, most of her teeth have been lost, and she can only eat liquid food. Because at this moment human civilization does not have the ability to install dentures.
Everyone can see that Qian Yue doesn't live much longer.
She finally closed her eyes one morning several months later while lying on the hospital bed. Zhao Changxing, some people from the second and third generations, as well as her and Chen Feng's two children, accompanied her on the last journey of her life.
Before dying, Qian Yue endured the pain in his body and held Zhao Changxing's hand, unwilling to let go for a long time. Her mouth moved as if she wanted to say something, but no words came out.
But Zhao Changxing knew exactly what she wanted to say. .
"It's a pity that I can't see the day when human beings become strong again. It's a pity that I will never have the opportunity to return to Earth and experience the feeling of the sea breeze like you, dad."
Her two children lay beside their mother's body and cried sadly. Zhao Changxing and others also looked heavy.
"Bury her body together with Chen Feng." Zhao Changxing said slowly: "Qian Yue, I promise you, one day, I will bring all the people who have devoted their lives to making human civilization prosperous and strong again. , including you, return to Earth, to the original home of our civilization."
This sentence is not only said to the first generation of humans such as Qian Yue, but also to everyone at this moment.
Everyone knows very clearly that at this moment, all the people who are still alive - except for Zhao Changxing, who has not aged until this moment due to unknown reasons, it is absolutely impossible for everyone, even the newborn baby. Live until the day you return to Earth.
The only things that can return to Earth are their remains. However, there is no need to worry about the body rotting when buried in the Sedna Cemetery.
Only if one generation after another continues to struggle and burn their lives, the descendants who don't know how many generations later, the people who have the same blood heritage as the people at this moment, can achieve this goal.
In grief, Qian Yue's body was also buried in the cemetery. Afterwards, Zhao Changxing did not waste too much time in sadness and immediately devoted himself to the next construction task.
At this moment, transportation problems between different strongholds have become the biggest obstacle to further improving the level of industrialization. It’s time to embark on a massive road building project.
