How much is the original blueprint of a small mining ship really worth?

From a certain point of view, it is priceless, because the person who absorbs this set of blueprints can copy the production blueprint in unlimited quantities and sell it, and then have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life, which is one of the benefits or benefits of the children of high-level businessmen in the big family.

But from another point of view, it is actually not worth much, because small mining ships are used by civilian miners in the novice period, and medium-sized mining ships are the main mining ships of miners, so the demand for small mining ships is always saturated, and the corresponding production blueprint cannot be sold at any price.

Therefore, the real value of the original blueprint of this small mining ship lies in the fact that it is Gabriel's natal blueprint, once this thing is in the hands of Li Yi, it is equivalent to getting Gabriel's name certificate, once Gabriel has any two hearts in the future, as long as Li Yi releases this thing, Gabriel will not be easy to mix in the Watson family, no matter how he explains, he will definitely jump into the Yellow River and can't wash it away.

With this letter of nomination, Li Yi was much more relieved to Gabler, and without saying a word, he gave the other party a copy of the original blueprint of Li Yi's brand fighter, which was not an exchange of interests, but just a sign of trust in Gable, as for whether he had violated the agreement with the scientific research institute by doing so...... With Orthea in front, the family doesn't talk to each other, he's afraid of a yarn!

Gabriel, who got the original blueprint of the Li Yi brand fighter, was overjoyed, one was that he knew that his name had received positive feedback, and then the value of this blueprint was much higher than his small mining ship blueprint, and he also took advantage of it, after all, the north and south Wharton fought every day on the Wharton star, and not everyone could fly the fighter with a super high knowledge quotient like Li Yi, and the damage rate of the fighter was much higher than that of the small mining ship, and the blueprint of the fighter was estimated to be in short supply for a long time in the future.

This is another key reason why Gabriel values Li Yi - this Duke is quite magnificent, at least for his own people, in the previous battle for the stronghold, if it wasn't for the fact that the Lord paid out of his own pocket to give a large amount of combat exploits to the Gary Company, how could such a cannon fodder company resist the frontal attack of a mecha regiment?

Now, he has also tasted a little sweetness, and he believes that this is just the beginning, and good days are beckoning to him in the future!

However, after getting the blueprint and absorbing it, Gabriel did not use the blueprint of the Li Yi brand fighter to make money, after all, he is a first-class earl, and he has the natal blueprint as the foundation, he does not lack that money at all, and he does not want to cause trouble to the adults, so the symbolic significance of this matter is greater than the actual benefits, and some words are all in plain sight.

With this tacit foundation, in the following days, Li Yi didn't have so many worries about acting, and if there was anything that needed to be figured out, he directly and blatantly pulled Gabriel to inquire, and Gabriel knew everything and said everything, if the two didn't understand, they would get together to discuss the research, so that the effect and efficiency of practical learning far exceeded previous expectations.

After on-site investigation and study, Li Yi quickly figured out the industrial system and manufacturing process of this era.

Generally speaking, taking the manufacture of a starship as an example, there are six major steps in the entire manufacturing process, namely: raw material collection, raw material decomposition, material synthesis, parts processing, component assembly, and ship assembly.

On the basis of these six steps, there is also a prerequisite step or condition - blueprint equipment!

Specifically, the first step is to buy a set of production blueprint chips for a certain starship, and then insert this blueprint chip into a terminal device called the "production control command center".

After the terminal extracts the data information in the blueprint chip, each production data and instruction is automatically assigned to each production, processing, manufacturing, and assembly workshop corresponding to it, and will be specific to each related equipment, and after these production equipment receives the instruction, it begins to automatically produce and process the corresponding materials in accordance with the relevant data and production requirements.

For example, to build the outer wall of a medium-sized stone grinding mining ship, the first to receive instructions is the raw material warehouse, and the automation equipment in the warehouse will transport the same amount of pure carbon raw materials according to the stone grinding requirements for building a medium-sized stone grinding mining ship, and send the raw materials to the material synthesis workshop through the transport ship or directly through the material conveyor platform.

If there is no carbon element raw material in the raw material warehouse, the raw material warehouse will issue instructions to the raw material decomposition workshop, requiring the element separation equipment of the raw material decomposition workshop to decompose the corresponding raw minerals and extract carbon element raw materials.

Of course, here in Watson Space City, all kinds of mineral raw materials are stored in large quantities, and the carbon element raw materials for at least 1,000 medium-sized graphite mining ships are directly put into production, as for other raw materials, because the amount is small, the problem is not big, so the current two steps of raw material collection and raw material decomposition can be ignored.

When the pure carbon raw material is delivered to the material synthesis workshop, the corresponding synthesis equipment will synthesize the carbon into allotropic graphite according to the corresponding atomic crystal structure, and will make various stone grinding material shapes that are easy to process later parts such as blocks, plates, and strips according to the manufacturing requirements of the blueprint.

After these stone grinding materials are made, they will be sent to the parts processing workshop by conveyor belts or conveyor tables, where they will be processed, cut, washed, sanded and other steps to make parts or plates for different purposes, and then sent to the component assembly workshop for assembly and welding.

At the same time, other components of medium-sized stone grinding mining vessels and their related parts are also made from raw materials into material components or components step by step through the previous processes, and are also assembled into the core devices or components of the ship in the assembly workshop according to the assembly requirements of the blueprint.

After each set of components is assembled, it will be sent to the assembly center, for example, the stone grinding plate is assembled into a large outer wall assembly, and then further assembled and spliced into a complete starship in the assembly center, and the core components and devices inside it are also hoisted into the starship and installed and connected one by one during this period.

However, the last step of ship assembly is generally completed in the dock in space, and it is not completely automatic under the guidance of the blueprint, but requires humans to drive a special space industrial mecha to assist in installation, because the equipment interface needs to be manually installed and debugged, especially the data interface needs to be recognized and activated by the human brain.

As a result, a medium-sized stone mill mining vessel was built and delivered after a series of simulated flight tests to confirm that the various systems were functioning properly.

The whole process seems to be relatively simple, almost completely automated production, the production blueprint plays a decisive role in the whole process, all the equipment in the processing and manufacturing, are completely in accordance with the manufacturing data and requirements of the production blueprint, if there is no blueprint, the entire industrial system can not operate, if the blueprint is wrong, there will be various problems with the starship.

So this is why the industrial manufacturing system can be automated, not afraid of the use of artificial intelligence, because the core of automation is the production blueprint, even if artificial intelligence invades the industrial system and seizes the entire set of industrial production equipment, without the blueprint burned by the human brain itself, it is still equivalent to snatching back a bunch of garbage, and there is no way to make a starship.

Of course, a set of automated industrial production equipment is still a strategic secret material, after all, although artificial intelligence cannot be used, it is completely defenseless against humans, whoever gets a set of equipment, who has the basis for mass production and manufacturing of starships, and the only thing that can limit human beings in this regard is the production blueprint.

However, the limitations of the blueprint are actually relatively limited for human beings, and manufacturing predators like the Watson family have every opportunity and ability to reverse the entire set of production blueprints on the production line, so on this basis, some key core components or equipment will not be directly produced here in the manufacturing base.

For example, in the case of North Wharton, the keel structure, outer walls, small electronic components and various basic equipment of various battleships are all produced here in Watson Space City, but the core devices such as ion engines, energy cores, server arrays, main guns, and jump engines are all manufactured in Manning Space City and then transported to Watson Space City for assembly.

In this way, the Watson family is purely miscellaneous, all the core technologies are controlled in the hands of the Manning family, Watson Space City is equivalent to a large processing plant and assembly center, but the real technology center is in Manning Space City, which is one of the reasons why the Watson family can only rank last among the four major families.

Of course, this is also one of the important reasons why Gabriel wants to take refuge in Li Yi, after all, in Gabriel's view, the Duke is from the three major powers in the world, the Republic of Yanu, and the technology mastered by the family and the country behind it is not to mention the Watson family, even the Manning family can't compare, if the adult is connected with his family in the future, I am afraid that any technology released can make the entire North Wharton confused, so this thigh must be tightened.

Of course, Li Yi will not reveal that he is actually just a strong outsider, and everything in the future will have to be self-reliant, and his only thought now is to see if he can get a set of automated industrial production equipment.

But this kind of thing...... It's a little sensitive, and it will definitely arouse the suspicion of the Watson family!

People will ask, if you develop resource planets honestly, why do you have to build your own starships?

You are allowed to come to the field to study and study, it is to facilitate your development in the direction of scientific research, our Watson family has no objection, anyway, that is something that the Manning family needs to worry about, but if you want to get a set of equipment and go back to build a starship by yourself, then you have to do it?

If you continue to develop, it will be to grab business with our hard-working Watson family, and at worst, you will have bad intentions, not to mention you, an outsider, even if the other three major families want to interfere, it will never be allowed, this will shake the foundation of our Watson family in North Wharton!

So if you want to get a set of equipment, first of all, the Watson family will not agree!

Even if the Watson family doesn't interfere, there is still a problem that cannot be ignored to be solved!

According to Gabriel, at present, the entire Watson Space City has a complete set of industrial manufacturing equipment array of up to one million groups, if calculated according to the number of individual equipment, the total number of all production and processing equipment exceeds 20 billion, then it can be roughly calculated that a variety of different functions and properties of processing and production equipment types, more than 20,000 kinds!

That is to say, a group of automated industrial manufacturing equipment arrays are composed of at least 20,000 pieces of equipment, and they are all without duplicates, even if so many equipment are bought, Li Yi has no place to put them now, and this is just a small problem.

The real big problem is that the cheapest of these devices is also 15 million star coins, and the most expensive, such as the kind of large elemental separator, the price of any kind of separator is more than 1 billion, so on average, the average value of these 20,000 devices has reached 80 million!

In other words, it will cost at least 1.6 trillion stars to buy an array of automated industrial manufacturing equipment!

Even if the problem of money is solved, will the core devices controlled by the Manning family be sold to themselves?

Definitely not!

Even if Althea mediates, I'm afraid this matter will be difficult to do!

And if you can't get the core equipment, what's the use of making this set of automated industrial manufacturing equipment array?

Going back to the question, the easiest problem to solve, the money, was now the problem.

Althea just sent a message not long ago, saying that the Brown family has successfully imitated the adult cake with the flavor of Rourong and named it adult cake, which is being dumped on the market at a price less than twice the price of adult cake, which has greatly impacted the market share of adult cake.

Well, there may be no way to get a set of automated industrial manufacturing equipment arrays for the time being, but play copycat with Lao Tzu......

Li Yi couldn't help but sneer, as an earthling who crossed over from Huaguo, who was the best at playing copycats, he was not stunned at all in this regard!