In less than half a year, more than 20 million outstanding young people were recruited into the army, exceeding the recruitment task.

Everyone knows that being a soldier is dangerous...... But the enthusiasm for joining the army was still beyond everyone's expectations.

"The reason is very simple, only six children of the royal family have entered the army, making the most direct example! What other reason do we, ordinary people, have to hold back? ”

"Aliens are not scary, what is really scary is the fear in our hearts, and the best way to overcome this fear is to join the army and defend our homeland!"

"Judging from this effect, there are still many people who are brave, and these years of comfortable life have not worn down their courage, and most of them represent the hope of the empire!"

"We are so proud of these citizens!"

On television, a soldier in military uniform had burning eyes, a proud face, and gave a dignified and solemn military salute.

The audience who saw this scene also had great pride on their faces, especially women who had sons or daughters joining the army, and while feeling proud, tears could not help but fall and they were worried.

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Great progress has been made in recruitment, as well as in the manufacture of starships.

In space, the number of starship building docks has increased from one to ten, and the number of berths that can be used to build C-class warships has increased from fifty to five hundred.

In addition, in order to increase the amount of mining, in addition to blue mercury and red giants, Tianming has built large space gates on three solid planets, and has dispatched a large number of equipment and artificial personnel to these three planets, and only needs to dig up the soil of these three planets...... He has placed an elemental refining furnace in space with a diameter of more than 3,000 kilometers, which is capable of refining compounds and extracting more than 100 billion tons of various elemental elements in a day.

It is not enough to collect resources from these three solid-state planets, and in order to speed up, Tianming also went to the Earth Yellow Star to go to the surface of this planet with a gravity of 10 G. According to the Element Detector, more than 10,000 metal ores have been found, and more than 50 trillion tons of minerals have been mined, enough to build 10,000 C-class warships.

In addition, Tianming has also relaxed the restrictions on the use of civilian spaceships, and any citizen (including citizens of its own Federation), as long as they have obtained a license issued by the Imperial Space Exploration Agency, can drive the spacecraft to other planets or meteorite belts to participate in mineral mining work, and the Empire will purchase them according to the value of the minerals they mine, as many as they want.

After this restriction is lifted. There are a large number of companies or individuals, after seeing the business opportunities, spend huge sums of money to transfer to the space mineral mining industry, civilian spacecraft, especially civilian mineral spacecraft, sales instantly increased, even country H, also set up a state-owned mineral mining company, set up a mineral mining fleet of more than 1,000 ships, specializing in the mining of asteroids and meteorite minerals in the ring belt of giant planets.

In the later period, there were some mineral mining ships that ran far away. They even reached the extreme edge of the Kuiper Belt, looking for dwarf planets or giant meteorites, and once they found a high-value mass planet in countless frozen meteorites, such as a dwarf planet with a large amount of metallic elements. Once you find one, you can bring more than 1000% profit! …… Countless people flock to it.

Because of the relaxation of the restrictions on private space mining, although you need to pay some more credits, the mining speed of mineral resources. It's really exploding...... The problem of lack of mineral resources was quickly resolved.

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Docks and minerals were available, and a large number of workers were recruited. The rate of construction of C-Tier starships has increased from 50 to more than 500 per year.

However, C-class starships are too advanced, and there are many technologies that cannot be mass-produced, which restricts the speed of manufacturing and service of these starships.

For example, the second-generation curvature engine requires a lot of mental power to drive, and ordinary people can't drive it at all.

In the end, Tianming came up with a way to solve this problem.

He created a large number of sand table worlds, placed a soul computer in it, produced souls every day, and then let these souls produce spiritual power and supply it to the spiritual power core of the ship...... Billions of souls, even low-level, generate enough spiritual power every day to drive the curvature engine into a state of faster-than-light flight.

Of course, because the spiritual power that needs to be consumed is really huge, what stores this spiritual power is a super crystal with a volume of more than ten cubic meters...... This crystal should be the most valuable power core on the starship.

In addition to the curvature engine, the conventional power plasma engine, super particle cannon, and laser cannon also require energy consumption...... This energy is provided by a hedron reactor.

The power of a spar reactor of the same size is ten times that of a controlled nuclear fusion reactor, which was successfully developed a few years ago, and the technology is quite mature, the only problem is that the spar block is very scarce, because this kind of spar can only be found in the core of a large planet, and the density, weight and gravity are also extremely high, and it is impossible to mine this energy source with ordinary equipment.

But Tianming has an ability, what he can't do with machines and tools, he just needs to close the ability space, and he can do it.

Without much effort, Tianming picked the "cores" of three solid planets in a row, and obtained a spar energy block that was enough for 10,000 starships to use for fifty years.

But this was not enough, as the Empire was ready to produce a hundred thousand C-class starships.

What to do?

Tianming went to the Earth Yellow Star, extended the ability space, and then sensed it with his divine sense, wipe! I was immediately taken aback.

In the core of this giant planet, which is more than 30 times the size of Blue Mercury and more than 100 times more massive than Blue Mercury, he saw a super spar core with a diameter of more than ten kilometers!

The amount of spar energy contained in this spar core is more than 1,000 times that of the largest spar core of the three solid planets, with a diameter of less than ten meters.

With so many spars, enough for 1 million C-class starships to use for more than 10,000 years, it can be said that they are inexhaustible!

This solves another important problem.

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"The problem of the energy system has been completely solved, but it is still not possible to achieve rapid mass production of C-class starships." The head of the army armament department.

"Why?" Tianming asked.

"The technology is too high-end, Your Majesty, in fact, we don't think that the alien fleet coming towards us is really as strong as we imagined......"

"The power system used by their starship is also a plasma engine system, and it is not equipped with a curvature engine, even if some rune technology is used, it can reach 0.2 times the speed of light at the earliest."

"As for the energy used by aliens, I estimate that it is similar to controllable nuclear fusion, and the spar energy is estimated to have not reached that technical level, and the rune technology may be slightly stronger......"

"There are also particle cannons, laser weapons, and nuclear weapons, and we don't know if the aliens have mastered it, because from the intelligence we have gathered, some civilizations in this universe, even if they have reached the third level, still have not mastered the hydrogen bomb manufacturing technology, and some civilizations even include the hydrogen bomb manufacturing technology in the technology that the fourth-level civilization should master, which is strange...... We even have reason to suspect that the alien civilization called Wuga can't even make a hydrogen bomb. ”

"But the super hydrogen bomb we built can have a maximum power of more than 1 billion tons of T.NT, and just one can destroy a C-class starship without a shield."

“…… Therefore, it is possible that we overestimated those aliens and produced a batch of super starships that may only be made by a sixth-level civilization, and even affected the production rate of our starships. ”

"Also, in an interstellar war with aliens, the main force entering the battlefield is mainly artificial intelligence and unmanned warships controlled by robots, and humans and blue stars are located behind the battle line as much as possible to avoid casualties."

"But since it's an unmanned warship, why is there any need to install advanced curvature engines, hedron energy, and rune shields for it, they are just battlefield consumables, as long as they use conventional controllable nuclear fusion generators, laser cannons, particle cannons, missile weapons, and more advanced electromagnetic shields...... I feel like it's enough to deal with those menacing aliens. ”

"As for the C-class warships equipped with curvature engines, spar energy and rune shields, there is no need to produce 100,000 units, as long as the production of 5,000 to 10,000 units is enough, and the rest of the production capacity is all used to produce C-class unmanned warships with a lower level of technology and only use plasma engines, controllable nuclear fusion and electromagnetic shields, or smaller but more flexible D-class, E-class or even F-class unmanned warships, which can be used as low-level fire launch platforms."

"In this way, two production lines, two interstellar warships of two technical levels, can not only ensure quality, but also take into account quantity, isn't this a very good way to match the army?"

"I think the empire should develop according to this kind of equipment development idea!"

After listening to the words of the person in charge of the equipment department, Tianming's eyes lit up, and he nodded very approvingly: "Okay, the construction you mentioned is very good, you can do it according to this line of thinking!" I hope that in ten years, the total military strength of the empire will be able to ensure that there are about 10,000 C-class manned warships, about 30,000 C-class unmanned warships, and more than 30,000 D-class or less unmanned warships! ”

The person in charge of the equipment department immediately showed a look of embarrassment on his face, and said with a bitter face: "Your Majesty, it will take fourteen years for the aliens to arrive...... In ten years, I am afraid that it will be difficult for us to complete the task of building 10,000 C-class manned warships, let alone 30,000 C-class unmanned warships, which ...... It's too tight. ”

"The Empire will invest all its resources to speed up your construction, if you can complete it on time, and after a little familiarization and training, we can take the initiative to go to the far frontier of the Empire to annihilate the invading alien fleet, so that they will not return!"

The person in charge of the equipment department immediately saluted, and said with excitement on his face: "Your Majesty, I promise to complete the task!" ”

…… (To be continued......)