Chapter 1132 (1/2)

After the arrival of new colonists, the construction of Mars colony also entered the second stage.

The positioning of the Mars colony by the star ring trade from the very beginning was to build it into an industrial base of the solar system. Therefore, the development direction of the second stage of the colony has been quite clear, that is, mining, then steelmaking!

Steel is the foundation of industry. If you want to explode production capacity on Mars, steel production must keep up.

It's not hard to do this on Mars. If you bend down and grab a handful of sand, you can smell rust. It's just a matter of how much. In addition, the development of heavy industry has another advantage, that is, man-made greenhouse effect, indirectly changing the thickness of Mars atmosphere. It can't be said that in a few centuries, the thickness of Mars' atmosphere will return to the level of 3 billion years ago due to human intervention, and it will become the second paradise of mankind

Of course, these are afterwords.

In addition to increasing the explosive production capacity, the population can not fall.

Labor force is always one of the important factors restricting the development of industry, whether it is the general labor force or the labor force with higher education. Even if automated production can dramatically reduce the demand for low educated labor in industrial facilities, it's unlikely that humans will be completely kicked out.

Not for at least two centuries.

Jiang Chen clearly defined two goals in his half year plan for the Mars colony. The first is that the monthly output of steel must exceed one million tons, and the second is to expand the size of the colony to 1000 people.

It is precisely for this reason that the new colonists on Mars have not had time to savor the exotic customs of Mars, and the next day they set foot on their own jobs with their drunken brains and tools.

This time, the seagull class transport ship not only brought colonists, but also brought a lot of production tools, such as excavators, cranes, mining equipment specially designed for Mars environment by futureman heavy industries. The first colonial cabin with a square could only provide 200 living units. Later, the colonists could only live in the rooms built by themselves.

After all, the kind of colonial module that can be deployed by air drop is very expensive, and star ring trade can not waste all the colonial budget on buying houses for the colonists.

The engineers of the whole colony were busy all at once, directing the builders to drive the engineering vehicles to race around the colony. The whole colony became a huge construction site, submerged in the flying dust.

The first expansion was soilless farming farms, then spherical pumps, then steel mills

While the construction machinery was working on the sand dunes, an armored vehicle specially adapted for the Martian environment drove out of the garage of the colony and left for the distant horizon

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Around the city, space command center, Mars colonization project department.

After learning that the transport ship had arrived on Mars, Jiang Chen took the space elevator to come here for the first time. He found Kelvin, who was inspecting the work in the command center, and asked him about the recent situation of the Mars colony.

”Have our colonists landed safely?”

”It landed yesterday,” Kerwin nodded. ”The seagull class transport ship, after a week in synchronous orbit, has lost the gravity of Mars and is now returning to the Earth Moon system.”

It seems that the colony is developing well.

Jiang Chen nodded with satisfaction, and then asked about another thing he cared about.

”What about ore 071? Is there a situation? ”

”It's not so fast,” Kerwin said, shaking his head. ”Our Marines have just set out from the colony and haven't arrived at mine 071 yet. Even if they arrived, they couldn't immediately get information about five kilometers underground. According to the plan provided by Hong zewei, we will drill a five kilometer deep well at the 071 mine site, and then release the UAV to see the situation. ”

Jiang Chen asked, ”what do you think will be there?”