Chapter 22 Sub-bases

Upon learning of the discovery of a huge mineral deposit, Yoshimune Tetsuki and Renault arrived quickly.

"Based on initial exploration results, the deposit is predominantly in the form of high-purity ash iron and plate-like titanite, including 300 million tonnes of iron and 8 million tonnes of titanium."

"It's unbelievable that on Earth, such a mineral deposit is enough to sustain a city's prosperity. ”

"You're right, Mr. Tetsuki Yoshimune, and it's up to your talent to mine the mine.

"In addition, considering the huge amount of work involved in the exploitation of this mineral deposit, it will inevitably be difficult to rely on the remote command of the lunar base all the time, so we are considering building a small unmanned sub-base here, and laying a road to facilitate transportation, which will require trouble with Mr. Renault."

"Planning a sub-base? It is a great honour for me to take on this task. After understanding their mission, the two agreed without thinking and accepted this challenging matter.

At this time, except for the remaining employees who were responsible for in-depth exploration and assisting Yoshimune Tetsuki and Renault, the large force of the exploration department had all returned to the base to rest. It is hard to stay on the empty moon for a few days, and although the group of people recruited by Cao Chuan are obsessed with their dreams and have certain abilities, there are times when they experience real difficulties, they are not as reliable as they imagined, and they can afford to endure hardships.

Many people were tired and had back pains, rested for a whole day and a night, and celebrated, waiting until the third day to discuss how to further explore the moon. The discussion lasted for half a day, and they came to a consensus that so many discoveries had been made without even 1% of the moon being explored, and when they were all scanned, it was impossible to imagine how many results would be accumulated.

But definitely much more than the trade sector! We will make every effort to promote the development of exploration work.

Probably because they felt underestimated before, the current exploration department is eager to prove their ability through more work performance. Cao Chuan doesn't care, as long as things don't deviate too far from the track they have set, employees have their own ideas, which can make the future more exciting.

"Nana, take a look at the plan submitted by Yoshizong Tetsuki and Renault." At this time, Cao Chuan ordered.

"Yes, master." Nana hurriedly opened the plan stored in the email and read it out: "The first is about Mr. Yoshimune Tetsuki's mining plan, considering the current demand, the tentative mining volume is 100,000 tons/month, and after processing and smelting, 50,000 tons of high-quality steel will be obtained, as well as 1,000 tons of titanium ore. ”

"In this context, we need 50 mining trucks and 10 transport trucks to support each other. However, after analyzing the actual situation of the local rock formations, the mining vehicle needs to be modified slightly, which requires the involvement of the research department. ”

"As for Mr. Renault's sub-base construction plan, it includes the following."

"The sub-base covers an area of 10,000 square meters, including a large warehouse with reserves of 1 million tons, a large iron ore processing production line, a large titanium ore processing production line, a radio base station, and living space for 100 people to live in for a short time."

"A 140-kilometer-long improvised road from the sub-base to the lunar base, while laying wires, pipelines and other facilities near the road."

"I've checked that there are no problems, and the only risk is that the construction of the sub-base will lead to a further increase in our power consumption."

"Electricity?" Cao Chuan nodded and said that he knew, since it had not caused a problem now, it was just a hidden danger, and he had to find a way to solve it at the right time.

At present, if the construction of the sub-base is completed as soon as possible, the production problem of many materials will be solved immediately, and in Cao Chuan's view, the sub-base must be built, and there is no need to take into account the hidden dangers.

"Immediately inform Yoshizong Tetsuki and Renault that their plan has been approved. If you can, find a way to start implementing it right away. ”

Although the two of them did not have any subordinates, because Cao Chuan allocated more than 100 unmanned units to them, even if it was a large project, the specific implementation would not take more than a month.

By the next day, many of the employees who had been in and out of the lunar base had seen the constant flow of mining trucks and transport vehicles, which were more than several times more frequent than before.

Looking at the southern part of the lunar base, there is a primitive road that stretches continuously and is plugged with many poles, and the huge rocks blocking along the way, and the uneven and undulating ground have been initially leveled, making it much easier to pass, and the biggest benefit is not to make people lose their way in the gray world.

At the end of the road is a sub-base under construction, with several major facilities adding up to more than 10,000 square meters, and now, a lot of soil layers have been excavated, revealing a regular subsidence structure divided into several layers.

In other places, there are mining trucks at work, and the ore mined from the ore deposit is directly refined through a nearby improvised blast furnace and turned into qualified materials, and then used as building materials for the sub-base, which will greatly save all aspects of expenses and speed up the construction. As for the mined high-purity titanium, it is sent to the research department for daily transformation, such as unmanned units, adding ordinary alloys to a small amount of titanium, or using titanium components in key parts, which will greatly improve the performance of unmanned units. As for the spaceship, because the existing three spacecraft all use high-strength composite shells, there will be no difference if they are replaced, but the two new spaceships planned to be manufactured, originally because of the lack of high-performance composite materials, can only wait for the slow manufacture of trade again and again, and now it seems that since there is titanium production, why not use local materials for manufacturing?

In this way, the construction of several places has started simultaneously, and the sub-base has not yet been completely completed, and production activities are already underway.