In the galactic era, food was not scarce, and most food-related technologies were prioritized when manned vehicles were out of the atmosphere. Taking the current D21 as an example, the self-sufficiency rate of staple food is 100%, including rice, wheat, tomatoes, potatoes and other starch foods that have been improved in space, and synthetic fiber meat can also be produced by itself, but this thing foodies can't touch it, and it can only be made of mushroom food.

The existing staple food production is based on the Segeis model, located on the same platform in the residential area, that is, a dedicated soilless planting area is set aside in the rail port and the steel shell port.

In this way, when synchronous construction is carried out, it can provide a stable sufficient amount of staple food as the number of residents increases, but because it is not a real agricultural base, it will consume a lot of additional resources. For example, a slight reduction in the standard for the repurification of agricultural water can save a lot of recycling processes and energy, not to mention the fact that the light in non-specialized agricultural sites comes from reactors.

The reason why Segeis's energy has been using this cultivation method is that the Sea of Death itself does not provide an environment for building an agricultural base, and the existence of particle storms makes the unit volume construction and maintenance standards of a separate agricultural base close to that of a civilian transport ship, which is extremely uneconomical. However, the situation of D21 is different, if the population of D21 is the same as that of Segeis, the additional cost of agriculture alone will cost thousands of star coins every month, and the Hemmer galaxy is not only remote, but it is difficult to transform the planet into a resident, and there is no problem with the space environment, and the expenses saved are all earned.

"I went to MR241 before I came this time, which has basically been controlled by the mercenaries of the Empire and the Federation, and I am worried that the mercenaries will ignore the joint statement and affect the trading routes in the surrounding areas, so I hope that everyone will give priority to the construction of the grain production base." When a few more shareholders who came to the conference room to greet arrived, Pan Wen said what he meant.

The agricultural base is early in the development plan, but the establishment of a complete set of agricultural base will consume a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, so the priority is ranked behind the construction of the steel shell port and the development of the waterway.

"Lord Panwen, I don't believe that mercenaries would dare to directly cross Segeis to attack the cargo route." A minority shareholder challenged.

Pan Wen glanced at everyone's expressions, only Kareda and Mushroom Head frowned and didn't know what they were thinking, and everyone else looked disapproving.

"A year ago, no one believed that mercenaries would replace the Consortium as the largest non-state armed force in space."

Hearing this, Kareda's heart jumped violently: Yes! He had been concerned about the emerging forces since the first hearing when he first met him, and now it seems that he was right in his judgment of this emerging force, and the results so far show that they have indeed seized the interests of the existing forces.

"Brother, I support you." However, the mushroom head rushed ahead of Kareda to express his support for Pan Wen's proposal.

The mushroom head's statement made Kareda come back to his senses, and he nodded: "If it doesn't reduce the existing productivity, I'm willing to support Lord Pan." ”

Although the results are the same, the idea of Mushroomhead and Careda is the opposite, Mushroomhead did not participate in the hearing where Pan Wen spoke last year, but among this group of shareholders, Pan Wen undoubtedly dangled the most in Segeis, even if he made a mistake in judgment, it was more reliable than those shareholders who focused on the construction of D21.

"Thank you for your support." There are two major shareholders who support it, even if Zhou Sen and the red-haired female pirate who are not present are opposed, and a few of the small shareholders dare not follow the crowd, the proposal will still be passed in the end.

But Pan Wen still wanted everyone to see a better prospect and voluntarily agreed, so as not to be unpleasant in the future, so he further explained:

"In fact, the construction of agricultural bases in advance is not only to save a little energy and prevent the disruption of trade routes, but also an important basis for the development of mankind towards MR252, if our operation is recognized by the privatization of the Interstellar Joint Committee, our agricultural products will definitely be prioritized by subsequent developers."

There have been people doing business from MR251 to 255 all the time, but because the channel is too long, there is no way to enter the scale stage. For example, non-synthetic meat products that are not staple foods are somewhat profitable in the interstellar era, but if you have to jump four times from MR249 to 255, the price will climb to the level of high-end food in the atmosphere or even dehydrated wood, which alone can lead to a doubling of the cost of food for personnel. Add up more projects, and the development costs are so high that there is little profit to expand.

If MR251 can establish a comprehensive supply guarantee, and get the privatization approval, and reduce the production cost of others, it is not impossible to attract some small broken countries to develop new resident stars in the periphery.

Resident stars or something is just a fantasy now, but Pan Wen's description does make the small shareholders see predictable profits, at least some private groups will be added to the periphery to do development, so that no matter what the situation outside, the idle rate of the agricultural base will not be too sad.

In this way, even if the majority of shareholders agree, the procedure still has to go through. Except for Zhou Sen, who was temporarily on a shift and was not in the Haimer system, the other shareholders voted on a video conference with the conference room half an hour later, and passed the resolution to increase the priority of agricultural base construction. There will be a communication ship announcement on Zhou Sen's side, and Pan Wen also learned about the progress of D21 development through it before.

The common interstellar agricultural base can be divided into two types, one is to directly use stellar energy to build artificial celestial bodies at a suitable distance, and it is also divided into centrifugal gravitational type and simulated gravitational type; The other is to go to the asteroid belt to find an asteroid with a stable trajectory and a moderate alternating time between light and dark for surface modification.

The two have their own advantages and disadvantages, the distance of the artificial celestial body can be selected, which can make full use of stellar energy, and the disadvantage is that in order to prevent stellar activity, the construction of protective layer is more demanding, the manufacturing cost is high, and a certain number of cargo ships may need to be called as power groups in the high-incidence period of stellar activity, and the cost of replenishing water resources, which consumes the most in agriculture, is also slightly higher.

The advantages of asteroid modification are that the construction cost is low, and the basic materials are easy to use on site; If the asteroid has enough dead weight, the cost of gravity simulation is almost negligible; Water (ice cores) are easily found directly in the asteroid belt; The disadvantage is that the light intensity of the asteroid belt is low, and the production efficiency per unit area will be a little low.

A group of shareholders found a few technicians with relevant knowledge to discuss for several hours, and finally confirmed a mutation plan, go to the asteroid belt to drag a stone back, and build an agricultural base on the periphery of the Hemer Star Ring Belt.

The advantage of this construction plan is that the halo belt is more water, and it is also more convenient to transfer materials between the D21 headquarters; With a closer stellar distance than the MR251 asteroid belt, and the gravitational pull effect of Hemerstar, the "stone" will produce a little geothermal energy, and the free energy is not much less than that of an artificial celestial form. Most importantly, it is convenient for the D21 headquarters to provide them with force protection.

As for the disadvantages, in order to be able to move, it is necessary not to choose too large stones, and the stones are large enough to a certain extent that they cannot be hauled simply by adding cargo ships, although there is no time requirement for the E7 bug to fight, with the existing transportation capacity, at most you can get a diameter of 12 to 15 kilometers, which is converted into the production capacity after expansion and transformation, which is about one million people of all types of agricultural output.

This scale is not large in the modern agricultural product base, and it is likely that it will not be able to meet the needs of D21 after further development, but it needs to be rebuilt. Get a small one first, the construction pressure will be smaller, and when the D21 energy bar industry chain is moving, it will be completed soon, and it will be enough to do a little strategic reserve hoarding while opening up sales.

After setting a strategy for the construction of the agricultural base, Pan Wen was dragged by Kareda to his room in the steel-hulled harbor for a night.

Although it is a shareholder's exclusive house, it is still very simple, but it has two more floors than ordinary residential houses, and it is connected to two floors of residential planes at the same time (there are maintenance passages and transportation pipelines between the two residential floors). According to Kareda, the three-storey cottages and other steel-hulled ports will be transferred to various department managers when they are expanded to a certain size, and shareholders will be relocated to special dock-shaped passages. To put it bluntly, the dock passage is the running passage of high-speed ships and boats, and the custom of "leading the way first" has been passed down for many years, and almost all artificial harbors have similar settings.

In order to take care of Pan Wen's lack of security, Kareda came to live in this suite that no one had lived in, and deliberately revealed that he was the only man who had a "what" relationship with her, but he scared Pan Wen a lot.

In Pan Wen's eyes, Kareda is a very smart person and very good at fighting for interests, and whether he is true or not, saying such things now also reflects his increasing value. He doesn't regard "use value" as a derogatory term, "no use value" is, and if this relationship does not change, he does not always need to worry about Kareda stabbing the minority shareholders in the back.

The two chatted for several hours, and one after another he also said his position on D21 in the chaos after that, hoping that the construction direction could be closer to that side.

"Your heart is too big, forgive people for saying it, if you don't pay dividends this year, they may have to divide the family property."

Pan Wen nodded: "I understand your difficulties, just do what you want, I will fight for more time with the other brothers and sisters of Segeis in the previous matters, but there will not be too much time left for us." ”

"I hope things don't go the way you said." Saying this, Kareda had long believed in her heart that the situation of MR241 had deviated from the original intention of the Interstellar Convention, and it was only a matter of time before a greater contradiction broke out.

Pan Wen patted Kareda on the shoulder and didn't say anything more, he also felt that her burden was a little heavy, and he didn't know why the so-called Viscount didn't give her more help. However, the two are not lovers or lovers, what is the Viscount is still a member of the Segeis Grand League, and with the idea of "it is better to participate in the muddy waters", he never asks Kareda about the family.

The next day, Pan Wen did not leave immediately, and had another meeting with everyone.

The theme of this meeting is technology decentralization and support, simply put, after the completion of data collation, to provide technical support as much as possible for all the bigwigs who build shipyards in D21, so as to improve the quality of D21 shipbuilding.

On the contrary, the proposal for technical support for the shipyard was quickly passed, because the shipyard is different from other things, and the manufacturing equipment of large and medium-sized ships cannot be towed, and if investors are uneasy about local rules, the soup will be bad in the pot anyway. In order to get a more cost-effective ship early, a small risk of technology leakage had to be taken, and these technologies did not cost a penny to develop.

Technical support is what Segeis is also doing, and the reason why it is Pan Wen's turn to propose is mainly because the technical information comes from him, and it is not easy for everyone to make their own decisions before there is an urgent need.

After the meeting, Pan Wen also went to see the independent research and development achievements of D21 - the essence reactor.