Chapter 146 Transportation Issues
The "Eternal Fortress Project" has been formulated, and Zhou Ming can also find a way to get all kinds of resources needed...... He didn't have to worry too much.
But in the specific operation process, there is still a serious problem in front of Zhou Ming.
Transport.
How do you do fast, efficient and high-volume shipping?
Not to mention all kinds of food and materials here, just how to quickly transfer the 900 million people who will be transferred to the area of the "Godless Alliance" is an extremely serious problem.
You must know that this is more than 900 million people, not 900,000, 9 million, 90 million, but 900 million!
With such a huge population, in the real world of country Z, during the Spring Festival transportation period when they all have to go home for the New Year, a total of 3.5 billion passengers are transported to their homes and back by roads, waterways, railways, airplanes and other modes of transportation, which takes a full seven days.
In the technologically backward continent of Azeroa, the workload of completing the transportation of 900 million people, not to mention seven days, is seventy days or seven hundred days, which may not be able to be completed.
However, for Zhou Ming, completing the transportation of more than 900 million people is not too much of a problem.
As early as a few years ago, through the cooperation with the Continental Chamber of Commerce, he solved this problem.
A vehicle capable of transporting a large number of passengers has been specially developed - a giant passenger float.
With a length of more than 1,000 meters and a width of 150 meters, this giant passenger float has an internal airbag volume of more than 17 million cubic meters...... Its ultimate load is 2000 tons.
As for the number of passengers carried, it can carry up to 5,000 passengers at a time in the extreme passenger mode.
With such a terrifying carrying capacity, it is not an exaggeration to call it a "giant in the sky".
At present, there are a total of 350 such air giants in the continental general association, and they are in full production, and the total number of ships off the assembly line is expected to reach 1,500 in three years.
And Zhou Ming has already agreed with the Mainland Chamber of Commerce, and has also signed an agreement, agreeing that in the next two years, 500 giant passenger floating boats will be mobilized to the Godless Alliance to assist in the transportation of personnel.
If all 500 giant passenger floats are in place, based on the completion of the transportation work every two days (the flight speed of the giant float is equivalent to that of high-speed rail), each trip transports 5,000 people, 900 million people, about 180,000 trips can be completed.
180,000 divided by 500, an average of 360 trips per giant passenger float is enough.
In just two years, 900 million people can be transferred.
However, the 50 or so Bright Holy Kingdoms that need to be conquered, not the population of all countries, have to be transported by giant floating boats, and those countries bordering the Godless Alliance can still enter the Godless Alliance area by land, because the distance is closer, so it won't take too long.
The actual number of people who need to ride giant floats will not exceed 500 million.
Therefore, it is not difficult for Zhou Ming to complete the transportation of a large number of people in a short period of time.
However, the quantity and weight of all kinds of materials needed by the 900 million people, such as food, daily necessities, tools and farm tools, are far more than the population itself.
For grain alone, 900 million people consume at least 200 million tons a year.
How to transport 200 million tons of grain?
Is it enough to use a giant floating boat of the cargo type? If you transport 2,000 tons of grain in one trip, 200 million tons of grain and 100,000 trips are enough.
If another 500 giant floats are arranged, an average of 200 trips per boat will be enough...... The amount of work doesn't seem to be very large.
That being said, two new issues arise here.
One, to control a giant floatship, requires a large number of mages, with an average of at least 100 intermediate (and above) mages per ship, less than which the giant hovership will be difficult to control.
This is the problem, a giant float occupies 100 magicians, and 500 is fifty thousand.
In addition, 500 passenger giant floats are also needed, and 50,000 magicians are also needed to help control them.
Plus the fifty thousand magicians who served on the floating battleship.
and the 50,000 mages who served in the Kingdom Mage Order.
A total of 200,000 mages are required.
Is there 200,000 magicians in the current Godless Alliance?
Of course not, although Zhou Ming invested a lot of resources in cultivating or vigorously recruiting, the magicians who served in the Godless Alliance would die in the early 150,000s.
Therefore, Zhou Ming couldn't draw out the extra magicians and let them serve the transportation of all kinds of materials.
Second, the Kingdom of Adud is 100,000 miles away from the Viterus Empire, and among the kingdoms that have joined the "Godless Alliance", the closest kingdom to the Viterus Empire is also 80,000 li.
10 days.
It takes about 10 days.
It takes at least 2,000 days to complete 200 deliveries...... That is, it will take 5.48 years.
But the problem food is that everyone must eat, and if you don't eat it for three or five days, you will starve to death, so the 200 delivery tasks must be completed within a year, and many people will starve to death a few days later.
It takes 5.48 years to transport the food that needs to be consumed for a year, and it is no wonder if you don't starve to death!
What's more, in addition to the necessities of food, the consumption of other materials will never be less.
Therefore, the use of cargo giant floating boats, even if there are 3,000 or 5,000 ships, I am afraid it is not enough.
What to do?
In order to feed 900 million people, what should Zhou Ming do?
Spatial teleportation array.
Is it okay to use a spatial teleportation array?
Of course, once the spatial teleportation array is opened, the two places separated by 100,000 miles, in the spatial passage of the teleportation array, it only takes two or three seconds to complete the teleportation, which can be described as extremely convenient and fast.
It is used to transport materials, which naturally saves a lot of time and greatly improves efficiency.
However, the teleportation of the spatial teleportation array is too narrow, and it can only be teleported by one person, and the speed of transmitting materials is fast, but the channel capacity is too small, and it still cannot meet the needs.
What if you pair it with a space ring?
The size of the space ring capacity varies, there is one cubic, ten cubic, one hundred cubic, and one thousand cubic, of which one cube is the most, ten cubics is more common, one hundred cubics is less, and the capacity reaches one thousand cubic, which can be called rare.
If you can find a way to get a large number of space rings with a capacity of 100 cubic meters, and then let people carry these space rings and walk into the teleportation array, assuming that each person wears 10 space rings on their hands, they can transport 1,000 cubic meters of materials and 200 million tons of food at a time, and only need to transport 267,000 times back and forth.
Assuming that each person can transport 10 times back and forth every day, a total of 1,000 people will be arranged, and the 267,000 times of grain delivery tasks will be completed in about a month.
The spatial teleportation array between the Addud Kingdom and the Viterus Empire was built more than four years ago, and it was still two two-way spatial teleportation arrays...... It is very convenient to use in normal times, and you can arrange the transmission at any time.
As for the transport personnel who run the spatial teleportation array, as long as they are magicians, they are all trainee mages...... The requirements for the grade are not high.
There is no pressure to draw a thousand.
The only problem left was: Zhou Ming had to think of a way to get 10,000 space rings...... The kind with a capacity of 100 cubic meters.
Now it's a bit harder.