This is not surprising, as the previous space station was more like a resort center than a functioning city.
Now that industry restrictions such as education, research, and even permission to start a company have been made up, more people will apply for quotas.
In just three months, the total number of people staying on the space station has risen to 960 million.
This is already more than half of the population of Xuanyan Country.
In fact, as early as a few months ago, the news that the Xuanyan people immigrated to the space station had spread a lot in major public opinion circles around the world.
That is to say, too many weird incidents occurred, which greatly suppressed the popularity of this news.
But even so, many foreigners still know the news.
Many foreigners even called Xuanyan's embassy abroad to inquire about how to apply for a place to stay on the space station.
It's a pity that Fang Xiaoyue didn't think about this issue before.
After all, it is easier to manage people from the Xuanyan Kingdom living in the space station.
But people from other countries are different.
But as more and more weird incidents occur, the desire of foreigners to live in the space station is getting stronger and stronger.
People from some small countries even took to the streets to protest against the unfair quotas of small smart device companies in the space station.
It has to be said that even the diplomatic department of Xuanyan Kingdom is under great pressure now.
The reason is very simple. During this period, high-level officials from many countries began to put pressure on Xuan Yanguo to open up quotas for foreigners to stay on the space station. In particular, some wealthy foreigners played a big role in this.
After all, for these wealthy foreigners, there is no shortage of money, but as weird incidents continue to increase, their sense of security is losing bit by bit.
Compared with the surface where weird events are constantly occurring, a space station hanging high in outer space is undoubtedly much safer.
Although Xuan Yan is now the most powerful country in the world, if all countries express dissatisfaction with you, then the pressure will undoubtedly be great.
Under such circumstances, Fang Xiaoyue had to consider opening some accommodation quotas to foreign countries.
Zhou Bingbing quickly held a series of discussions with the relevant agencies of Xuan Yanguo regarding the opening of accommodation quotas.
Therefore, the final decision was to first open up some quotas to countries that have friendly relations with Xuan Yan.
And this decision is tantamount to excluding powerful countries such as Choudras and Tedras.
This is not surprising, the country that has friendly relations with Xuanyan country will definitely not be another powerful country.
Take Choudras for example. Xuanyan Kingdom kicked it off the throne of the world's hegemony. Choudras hated Xuanyan Kingdom deeply, at least he was very unhappy.
Therefore, over the years, the two countries have had a series of conflicts in terms of economic, military competition and even technology.
Today you ask me to impose tariffs, and tomorrow I will impose export restrictions on you.
There is a saying that if everyone didn't have mushroom clouds in their hands, the two sides might have started a war ten years earlier.
You know, before the invention of the mushroom cloud, world-class wars would break out on the home planet at every turn.
After the emergence of the mushroom cloud, as major powers equipped themselves with mushroom clouds in large numbers, a world-class war has not broken out for more than ninety years.
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Therefore, the first batch of countries that Xuan Yan Kingdom opened quotas for are basically small countries that have good relations with Xuan Yan Kingdom.
And this batch of quotas is not applied on the official website of the small smart device company, but 20 million quotas are directly given to these small countries, which will be allocated and distributed by these small countries themselves. Afterwards, the transport ship will pick up these foreigners at the agreed time. Transport them all to the space station.
After all, if you apply directly on the official website, it is difficult to say that you will not cause any trouble.
And letting these small countries distribute it themselves is undoubtedly equivalent to giving benefits to the top leaders of these small countries.
In addition, the quality of the 20 million people living in the space station will undoubtedly be relatively high.
The reason is very simple. If these small countries allocate themselves, they can guess who will be allocated the quota.
It must be the elite in these small countries.
For example, civil servants, entrepreneurs, scientific researchers, etc.
It is estimated that there will be some places for ordinary people, but definitely not many.
Because the combined population of these small countries exceeds 1.5 billion.
And if you select 20 million residents from a population of 1.5 billion, think about what it will be like.
After all, for the vast majority of people, staying in the space station means safety is guaranteed!
It’s like a ticket in a doomsday movie!
Soon, immigrants from these small countries quickly filled three space stations.
There is no way, these people are all in child care, and the total number far exceeds 20 million, close to 60 million.
As mentioned before, these populations are the essence of those small countries, and the overall education level is relatively high.
Of course, Fang Xiaoyue is not doing it for these demographic dividends.
After all, no matter how advanced the demographic dividend is, it cannot compare with the benefits generated by engineering robots and AI intelligence.
It can be said that with the resources Fang Xiaoyue currently has in space, it is not a problem to supply all humans on the home planet.
After all, the consumption of ordinary humans is very small.
A space station can produce enough artificial protein and artificial flour every year to feed and drink 60 million people.
But having said that, as the number of people living in the space station increases, the consumption of natural food also increases dramatically.
After all, most people are reluctant to consume synthetic foods for long periods of time.
This is not surprising. Synthetic food is processed in synthetic food factories guided by AI intelligence, but don’t expect AI intelligence to know what taste humans like.
Therefore, the taste of processed artificial foods is simply beyond description.
It is impossible to say that it is absolutely unpalatable. When you first eat it, it will still feel delicious, but after you eat it a few times, it will become difficult to swallow.
It's like stir-fried vegetables with too much MSG.
Therefore, even the most frugal families will choose to use their credit points to buy natural beef, pork, mutton and even various vegetables in the supermarket after eating synthetic food for a period of time in the space station.
It is precisely because of this that Fang Xiaoyue had to set up a large number of space farmlands and pastures in the free space of major space stations.
Fortunately, the population of most space stations is less than 15 million, so these space farmlands and pastures can supply at least 30% of the space station's own natural food.
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But for more natural food supplies, special space farmlands and pastures can only be built in space.
In Fang Xiaoyue's design, the main frame structure of these space farmlands is made of extremely cheap silicon crystals.
Compared with steel, the element silicon is more abundant and distributed in space.
In the asteroid belt, more than 80% of asteroids and meteorites are rocky, and only 18% of asteroids and meteorites are metallic.
After the minerals are extracted from these rocky asteroids and meteorites, the remaining waste residue will be smelted into special silicon crystal products, which can be used to build cheap space buildings in space.
And space farmland and pasture is one of them.
Of course, compared to metal structures, the strength of this special silicon crystal structure is relatively low.
But since there is no influence of gravity in outer space, adding some metal structures inside is enough to prevent these space farmlands and pastures from disintegrating on their own.
Compared with farmland on the ground, farmland in space is completely different.
Due to the filtering of the atmosphere, the sunlight on the farmland on the ground is not so dazzling.
The amount of sunlight in space is 5-10 times more than that on the ground.
Therefore, the space farmland is designed as a structure with overlapping layers of farmland.
There are 11 floors above and below, and all farmland adopts soilless nutrient hydroculture technology.
The entire layer is planted according to plants with different habits from sun-loving to shade-loving.
For example, sunflowers, rapeseed, etc. are planted on the first layer to provide cooking oil.
On the second floor, various sun-loving fruit trees are planted to provide fruits.
The third layer is planted with various vegetables.
Dryland crops such as wheat are grown on the 4th and 5th floors.
The 6th and 7th floors are planted with water-loving crops such as rice.
The 8th to 10th floors are used to grow various high-yielding grasses, mushrooms, ginseng and other medicinal materials.
The 11th floor is a body of water.
The waters of some space farmlands are fresh water, and various freshwater fish are cultivated.
Some are seawater, where various marine fish are cultivated.
After all farmland is harvested, the remaining by-products such as straw will be thrown into the water one after another and used to feed fish or reproduce algae to achieve an ecological cycle.
The entire space farmland has an artificially controlled weather system.
Due to the slight artificial gravity in space farmland, water vapor will continue to accumulate on the top floor after evaporating, and then condense into rainwater under the heat dissipation effect of the huge metal radiating sheets.
Each space farm covers an area of only about one square kilometer, but the 11-story structure makes its construction area more than 11 square kilometers.
Due to the extremely abundant sunshine, 24 hours of non-stop sunshine and drizzle, and the warm and humid internal environment, the yield of crops inside per unit time is more than 8 times that of the surface.
In other words, the planting area of each space farmland is about 15,000 acres, but its output can reach the level of 120,000 acres of the best grain fields on the surface.
You must know that the farmland of an agricultural county on the surface is only more than 700,000 acres.
Six space farmlands can equal the grain output of an agricultural county.
It can supply the daily food consumption of 1.5-2 million people.
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As for these space farmlands, 1,000 of them were built in the first phase, which is enough to supply the daily food consumption of 100 million people.
Of course, in reality, it is certainly impossible to support the consumption of such a large population.
After all, it is impossible for modern humans to eat only food. For example, some people like to drink wine, and winemaking requires a lot of extra food.
Some people like to eat snacks and pastries.
Even many chemical raw materials and even some plastic raw materials need to be extracted from grain.
Therefore, on average, these 1,000 space farmlands can probably support all the consumption of a population of 100 million.
There is no doubt that compared to the 1 billion people currently living in the space station, these space farmlands can only be said to be a drop in the bucket.
But the food that Fang Xiaoyue has stored in the space station may not be much. He needs to transport a large amount of food from the surface to the space station every day, but he has many engineering robots and various machinery factories.
Therefore, in just 15 days, the first phase of space farmland was built. Under the control of AI intelligence, after these 1,000 space farmlands began to operate, the second phase of construction quickly kicked off.
With the experience of the first phase, the total number of space farmlands constructed in the second phase has reached 10,000.
At the same time, 1,000 space ranches are also planned.
This is also something that can't be helped.
After all, it is impossible to plant pasture and raise cattle on the space ranch.
After all, cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock cannot adapt to the climate and temperature that grass is most suitable for.
Under such circumstances, space ranches can only be separated from growing pasture and implement centralized farming.
Therefore, we can only build space ranches after the first phase of space farmland is planted with pasture.
Otherwise, if we do not produce our own forage, it would be very troublesome to just transport it from the surface.
Whether it is space farmland or space ranch, they are all built in an orbit around the sun 3,000-30,000 kilometers away from the parent star, rather than in an orbit around the earth.
Man-made objects such as space stations and satellites naturally orbit the Earth.
But space farmland and pasture cannot.
Because it orbits the Earth, it can easily enter the dark night zone, affecting the rapid growth of crops.
But orbiting the star together with the parent star is different.
The first is to ensure that the sunlight is not affected, and the second is that it will not be far away from the mother star.
To put it simply, these space farmlands and pastures, seen from the depths of space, look like strings of small transparent pearls growing on the mother planet.
With the completion of the second phase of space farmland and pastures, the first phase of space farmland has begun to be harvested.
Of course, even if the growth period of crops such as rice and wheat is shortened, it will still take half a month to mature and be harvested.
But pasture, vegetables and other crops with short growth cycles can be harvested.
Then a large amount of fresh pasture was sent to the space ranch by transport ships, where tens of millions of sheep, cattle, pigs and other livestock and poultry were waiting to be fed.
Of course, the most common ones here are chickens, ducks and geese. After all, compared to sheep and cattle, which grow more slowly, broiler chickens only need 42 days to be ready for slaughter, while ducks can be ready for slaughter in as fast as 40 days.
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As for sheep, it takes at least 8 months, while for cattle, it takes longer, at least 12 months.
However, pigs are faster and can be ready for slaughter in 6-7 months.
In short, even if Fang Xiaoyue thinks of general methods to shorten the growth cycle of these cattle and sheep, people in the space station will not be able to eat space beef, sheep and pork in a short period of time.
At the same time, massive amounts of vegetables were also delivered to major space stations, attracting people to rush to supermarkets to buy them.
After all, people are curious.
They want to taste the difference between space vegetables and ordinary vegetables.
Of course, with the production of space vegetables, the transport ship under AI intelligent control is finally a little more relaxed.
After all, compared to food that can be stored for a long time, the storage period of vegetables is very short.
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