Chapter 311: Mountain Moving Project—Start!
Just like that, with the finalization of multi-party transactions, the development of mankind's 18th civilization has entered an unprecedented fast lane!
Physical technology, idealistic technology, and especially the strength of craftsmen, have achieved rapid development in all aspects! A year later, the craftsmen's great creation project finally came to an end.
The reason is... there is no material left.
Yes, the low-level materials accumulated by the Shumiba civilization over the years have almost been consumed and all turned into equipment.
As for the intermediate and advanced materials, humans are not yet so extravagant as to use them to practice without inspiration...
But this one-year period has indeed accumulated valuable experience for human craftsmen.
However, the 31 craftsmen of the Shumiba civilization eventually stayed and lived in human civilization as aliens.
The collateral Lu Yuan provided was a fist-sized "sealing resin", which was estimated to be worth 3,000 spiritual charms.
This incident did not cause much public outcry. Humans were already used to seeing ugly Zerg warriors, so a few more large ratmen were really nothing...
What... these rat people are of noble status? Conch mother is a princess of the previous dynasty! Who hasn't found a backer yet?
What attracts people's attention the most is actually the great "Moving Mountains Project"! The publicity department has been warming up for this epoch-making project for a whole year.
Now that everything has been planned, a female host and several experts and scholars officially announced the establishment of the project in front of the TV station.
"In order to breed more rare animals and plants and enhance the comprehensive strength of mankind, we need to build a large ecosystem."
"We call this ecosystem Green Mountain. It can grow hundreds of extraordinary plants, cultivate more than 20 kinds of extraordinary animals, and 300 kinds of mutant plants."
"Our goal is to levitate the mountain not far away that weighs nearly 100 million tons."
"From now on, this mountain will follow the Sky City."
A three-dimensional image of the mountain where the "sinkhole" is located was played on the screen.
This mountain is really nice. It is 400 meters high, with fertile soil, dense forests, many caves, and a lake that is 10 meters deep.
Under fully natural cultivation conditions, extraordinary creatures such as king snakes and scorpions can provide more output.
And the students' "outdoor activities plan" can continue in this mountain.
Well, from a certain perspective, this mountain is more dangerous than Pangu Continent.
Once this program was broadcast, it immediately caused a sensation among the public.
Related programs are also broadcast on televisions in classrooms of various schools, with one class period specially set aside for students to watch.
The host with a good appearance sat on the left side of the table: "This is a huge project, equivalent to building half of the Sky City. It will take at least twenty years... In addition to the extraordinary output, Professor Guo, are there any special benefits for us?"
The expert sitting on the right said: "This is also a time to test our industrial capabilities and cohesion. Everyone should also know the classification of civilization levels. We are a very unique civilization... We look powerful, but in fact we are very weak."
"We have a city in the sky and a poppy tree, and these are wealth that can only be obtained by a second-level civilization or even a third-level civilization..."
"But in terms of comprehensive strength, we are really just a first-level civilization. We cannot really think that the things we picked up are obtained by our own strength."
"It's like a test paper. If you copy and get a perfect score, you can't think that you really got a perfect score."
After hearing these words, the common people could not help but feel somewhat dissatisfied.
The student group, in particular, is even more unconvinced.
How can it be a first-level civilization? However, this is the fact. Up to now, humans still cannot have a television in every household.
Most people still watch TV on the big screens in the square and the screens in the conference hall.
Mobile phones were not yet popular.
There is no way. We cannot make chips by ourselves. How many mobile phones can we make with the "universal factory"? The rise of industrial capacity is really difficult, even more difficult than the development of idealistic technology. It requires population and market, and requires constant iteration.
But industrial capacity and idealistic technology complement each other.
"So this mountain-moving project will guide our direction and allow us to improve our industrial capabilities in practice. If we can successfully levitate the mountain, it means that we are a genuine second-level civilization."
The first difficulty of the Mountain Moving Project is to build a large foundation for the entire mountain! This foundation is actually the largest engineering project, and it is estimated to consume 5 million cubic meters of cement and about one million tons of steel bars!
Compared with the former industrial Cthulhu Daxia, this data is indeed just a drizzle. Daxia produces 2 billion tons of cement and 1 billion tons of steel a year! But for human civilization, it is really difficult.
Humans don't even have a proper cement factory! Fortunately, there is a Rize civilization next door, and they still have a cement factory. Lu Yuan plans to dismantle their equipment, clone some with the Universal Factory, and then roll it out on a large scale.
The same is true for steel mills and chemical plants.
The "universal factory" is truly a magical artifact. Although it is slow in manufacturing chips, it is quite fast in manufacturing bulky machines.
In this way, the industrial strength of mankind can be quickly supplemented.
The second difficulty is that energy consumption will also increase. This mountain weighs nearly 90 million tons!
The poppy tree cannot bear too much energy consumption anymore, so it must use physical energy to replace spiritual energy.
Of course, this problem can be solved by nuclear power plants.
Lu Yuan plans to replicate a few nuclear power plants and look for uranium mines. He might even be able to make nuclear bombs in the future! There is also a third difficulty. After the industry is expanded, more people are needed, otherwise the industry will be difficult to maintain in the long run.
However, in a supernatural society, the use of Green Paradise's automated production can greatly improve work efficiency. In addition, the output of a "Green Mountain" can indeed allow more people to be upgraded to the second level.
Lu Yuan's goal is to let ordinary people enjoy the dividends of the times. If there are too many people and no resources to support them, and the new generation is all level one, it will obviously cause a lot of contradictions.
But at this stage, we still don’t have the ability to bring everyone to level three.
Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, 400,000 may be a more appropriate number.
Taking into account the second-level strongmen, the average age is around 200 years old.
The number of births each year will increase to 2,000-2,200, which will basically maintain the long-term balance of the population.
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After the program was broadcast, Lu Yuan clearly felt that there was a "energy" brewing in people's hearts and spreading to every corner of society.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
He was actually a little worried.
Except for the first one or two generations who suffered quickly, the third generation did not suffer much.
The implementation of the "Mountain Moving Project" obviously requires the transfer of a large amount of productivity, and some unimportant industries must be transferred to heavy industry.
Clothes should just be wearable, there’s no point in going for anything fancy. The prices of daily necessities like bicycles and tricycles will also increase.
The overall quality of life may be reduced.
Even working hours will be extended a lot. It will be impossible to complete the 8-hour work system in 20 years.
He was indeed worried about this... Thinking back, he had been a corporate slave and a programmer in the past and had experienced the 996 life.
Put yourself in other people's shoes, how many people want to suffer? "Hey, why are you worried about this... I suggest you go to the cafeteria and listen to everyone's discussion." The old cat said speechlessly.
Lu Yuan actually followed its advice, sneaked into the Big Eater Canteen, and protected himself in an alien space.
When it was time for dinner, people started coming here in groups of three or four to eat.
"Why are you only moving one mountain?" The big man in the lead was named Lu Xi, a worker on the construction team. "Just look at my name, and you'll know that I'll have to move at least two mountains in my lifetime."
The workers all laughed. Another worker said, "Building a mountain is difficult enough. It takes twenty years. It's not comparable to building a house. You may even have to work overtime every day."
Lu Xu slapped his thigh and widened his eyes: "What... twenty years?! I was scared to death, I thought it was two hundred years."
"It's okay to work overtime. Commander Lu worked so hard for six months, 18 hours a day, to forge equipment. Those craftsmen worked so hard for 20 months!"
The cafeteria was filled with a happy atmosphere.
Then, a scientist sitting nearby said, "If you don't mind the workload, you can move two mountains, one to raise extraordinary animals, and the other to raise some ordinary animals, to lower the prices of some agricultural products."
Lu Xu immediately said happily: "Great! This is great, I like honey. Honey here is very expensive now, and a month's salary can't buy a few bottles."
"Be careful of diabetes when drinking too much!"
"Either we move three mountains? We can also build a nuclear test center. Nuclear bombs are awesome, right? Should we build one?"
"Either we move four mountains or build a large missile launch base... I'll go and make a suggestion to the upper parliament. We're in great need of this stuff."
"Let's build another one, a mine. There's a lot of coal here. If we move a mountain, it can be considered as solving the problem of industrial raw materials."
Lu Qi's eyes widened: "You really want to extend the construction period to 200 years?! Or should I change my name to Lu Qi?"
Everyone burst into laughter again.
Their enthusiasm is like molten steel; everyone wants to become a higher level of civilization.
Let the project be bigger!
Only Lu Yuan, who was hiding in the different space, felt somewhat complicated.
He found himself as if restricted by his inherent way of thinking.
Why do people behave differently even though they are both working overtime and doing the same job? ...
(End of this chapter)