Although there have been various metal panics in the Ming Empire, whether it is rare metals or ordinary steel, etc., there is no restriction on the civil metals of the Ming Empire, after all, the steel smelted by the minerals of the earth itself is enough for the people on the earth.

The main thing is that it has a great impact on various shipbuilding industries, but now there are many private individuals or companies building metal ore smelters of various sizes and models in the space near the earth.

However, although these smelters are of different sizes, the largest smelters are also suitable for those large iron and steel enterprises on the earth, which is much worse than the mineral smelting base that Zhu Lei is building.

However, so many smelting enterprises are under construction, and there is a little benefit, most of these mineral smelting enterprises are relatively small smelters, and according to the current technology of the Ming Empire, most of these smelting enterprises can be completed and started in a short time.

It can be said that as long as these iron and steel enterprises are all completed and started, then it will greatly alleviate the current situation of metal shortage in the Ming Empire, and after the completion of the first phase of Zhu Lei's smelting base, the Ming Empire will no longer be troubled by the shortage of steel and other metals in the short term.

According to Zhu Lei's estimates, most of these steel plants can be fully completed and started within two months, and some slightly larger smelting plants can be completed and started within half a year if they are fully constructed, and all he has to do is to send a military engineering team to help these space smelting enterprises and speed up the construction of factories.

And Zhu Lei's spaceship manufacturing base, after the completion of the project, has completed a considerable part of the manufacturing of mining ships in less than a month and a half, although these are small spaceships, but all add up to more than 200 small spacecraft that Zhu Lei has in his hands today.

However, although Zhu Lei has more than 200 space mining ships in his hands, he doesn't want to set up his own mining company now, after all, the entire universe is so big, he can't occupy everything alone, and he has to share it with other people to drink soup, especially those civilians in the Ming Empire.

You must know that although the Ming Empire has now begun to enter the interstellar age, the work of everyone in the entire Ming Empire is related to space, accounting for less than 3% of the total population of the Ming Empire.

And this data is very different from the intermediate primary civilization in the ordinary scientific and technological civilization in the universe, after the general scientific and technological civilization in the universe is promoted to the intermediate primary civilization, all the space-related work of the entire civilization will account for more than 10% of the total population of the entire civilization, and it is also one of the most important indicators to evaluate the civilization level in the universe, but now the entire Ming Empire is less than 3%, it is conceivable that in fact, the current Ming Empire and the intermediate primary civilization of the universe standard are still very different.

Therefore, Zhu Lei wants to open the space mining industry to all the people of the Ming Empire, and only in this way will the demand for resources in the Ming Empire no longer be in danger of shortage.

And in this way, the road of the future development of the Ming Empire will be much smoother, after all, when most of the people of the Ming Empire, their work is related to space, then the future career of the Ming Empire in space will be related to the vital interests of everyone in the Ming Empire, so the survival ability of the Ming Empire in the universe will be improved a lot.

So just three months after the completion of his Yongan Group spaceship manufacturing base, after nearly 500 small space mining ships were hoarded, Zhu Lei's Yongan Group announced that it would start selling space mining ships, and the price of these space mining ships is not very expensive, it can even be said to be the price of cabbage, even ordinary people can afford it.

These small cosmic mining ships, Yongan Group's selling price is 200,000 energy coins, this price is very expensive if it was placed more than ten years ago, but now it is different after more than ten years of development, the Ming Empire has now begun to have no shortage of energy coins, especially the ordinary people of the Ming Empire, due to the particularity of energy coins, the ordinary people of the Ming Empire can charge these energy coins themselves as long as they buy a large solar panel.

And now a latest type of solar panels, can produce nearly a thousand energy coins every year, and now ordinary civilians, basically every household has these dozens of more or even hundreds of solar panels, that is to say, the common people of the Ming Empire, even if they don't work, just rely on solar panels, there are tens of thousands of energy than income, or even hundreds of thousands of energy coins.

And 200,000 yuan a mining ship, although the price is still a bit high for many ordinary people, but as long as they grit their teeth, they can still afford it, after all, at least they have an income of tens of thousands of energy coins every year, plus their own work, generally speaking, even the most ordinary civilians in the Ming Empire have a year's income of nearly two or three hundred thousand energy coins.

It can be said that the entire Ming Empire is still very wealthy now, and since energy coins are consumables, although for civilians, the energy of ten energy coins is enough for their energy consumption for a year, but if it is placed in space, hundreds of thousands of energy coins may not be enough for a medium-sized spaceship to consume for an hour.

Therefore, the energy coins of the entire Ming Empire are still very valuable, and the price is not very high, one energy coin can buy a lot of things, but in advance it is in the earth, once it enters space, then the price of buying the same thing is at least three times more than that on the earth, after all, in space, even the current technology of the Ming Empire still has a lot of things that cannot be produced, so it must rely on the earth to supply.

So such a 200,000 energy coin mining ship is actually no pressure for the ordinary people of the Ming Empire, generally speaking, as long as two or three months of energy pens can be afforded, not to mention that even if you can't afford it, there is additional support for the government of the Ming Empire engaged in the space mining industry, that is, interest-free loans.

If ordinary people, especially those who have difficulties in life, want to buy mining deposits, then the Ming Empire can provide an interest-free loan of 70% of the total price of the spacecraft after signing a special agreement, and even a 100% interest-free loan under special circumstances.

And this special agreement is not an agreement to hurt the pit people, but after the mining of the deposit began just now, the mined ore must be sold to the smelter of the Ming Empire government at the same price, especially rare minerals.