Chapter 11, Black Box Maker
Helping Feidong Society build up its production capacity was part of Gu Hang's plan.
Gu Hang looked down on the mineral output of Feidong Society. These people could barely support themselves, so where was the surplus value?
Only by developing them can Gu Hang achieve his goal.
Gu Hang's goal is not just to make these people pay taxes. He wants to make the entire planet more prosperous. He needs more troops, more weapons and equipment, and more material resources...
Feidongshe is a starting point, but also an important model room. If it succeeds, he plans to replicate similar models.
But first we have to build this model room.
His original plan was to rely on the 'Quinte' starship floating in the sky.
When Gu Hang set out from the capital of the star region to serve as the governor of Angry Owl Star, he certainly did not take up the post alone. He is one of the core members of the Gu family, which is an old political family in the Tianma star region.
A Watch-class strike cruiser belonging to the Imperial Navy of the Pegasus Sector, the Quintet, carried him from the sector capital.
After completing the mission of escorting the Governor, the Quintet did not leave. It will stay in the orbit of the Wrathful Owl for two years. It will obey the Governor's orders and provide the strongest support for the Governor to revive the entire planet.
Only Gu Hang had such treatment. The previous governors were all sent away with a frigate.
Theoretically, with the Quintet floating in orbit, Gu Hang could walk freely on the Angry Owl Star. There was nothing on the wasteland that could threaten the Quintet. On the contrary, the Quintet could carry out terrible orbital bombardment at any location on the planet's surface.
At the same time, the 'Quinet' can also bring great help to Gu Hang in other aspects.
This 11-kilometer-long star-sea giant ship is equipped with a crew of more than 100,000 people, including mechanical servants, slaves, combatants, technicians, elite marines, mechanics, psychics...
Different kinds of people have different responsibilities.
In a sense, such a giant ship is like a city floating in the sky.
The crew mainly relies on being drawn and supplemented from various planets, but because space travel is too long, there are few opportunities to leave. Many crew members are simply the offspring of the crew members on the starship. They are likely to be born and die on the starship and never leave in their lives.
This huge sky city can provide Gu Hang with many things. The 3,000 slaves, 300 mecha soldiers, and 30 marines he started with were all brought down from the starship.
In order to meet the needs of building the Feidong Society, he originally planned to bring it down from the sky.
The Quintet could provide manpower and weapons and equipment. Gu Hang was not talking nonsense when he said he would select 100 soldiers from the Feidong Society and arm them. He was going to get the bullets from the starship.
Some of the production equipment in his plan was not so easy to get. He originally planned to get it from Renaissance City. After all, he was the planetary governor and the head of the "Alliance" of the Wrathful Star. Even if he did not have enough actual control over the alliance, he could always find a way to get some wool.
But now it seems that's not necessary.
The things that the system's [Technology] function provides are much more powerful than getting free stuff.
Without saying a word, he called Patel over and told him about the launch of the production line, which excited the leader of the Feidong Society.
After sending Patel away, Gu Hang left Feidong Society and went to the outskirts.
His soldiers were also stationed outside, and the people of the Feidong Society had come out one after another, led by a man called Old Butch, and began to build their ground camp. Patel began to select the 100 Feidong Society soldiers who were about to be trained, and soon decided on the candidates.
To be honest, Gu Hang was not very satisfied with the people from Feidong Society as a source of soldiers. They were all born from hard labor, but they were malnourished and it was difficult for them to develop strong and excellent physical fitness. Not only did they look a little thin, but their bodies also had many hidden injuries due to long-term hard work.
Although they have the spirit of hard work and perseverance, they are still not considered to be very good soldiers.
But he has no choice now.
The three thousand slaves brought down from the starship in the temporary camp were not much better.
Next, Gu Hang left behind a hundred mecha soldiers and took the rest of the people, as well as the hundred newly recruited young and strong men from the Feidong Society, to the temporary camp.
He did not intend to wait for Yan Fangxu, who was going to clear out the remnants of the "Prisoners of the Dead", to come back. Nothing would happen to that guy. After he completed his mission, he would leave behind a small team of elite marines to command the mecha soldiers who stayed behind in the abandoned cave society.
Those brainless robot soldiers have no ability to fight independently.
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After a few hours, Gu Hang returned to the temporary camp.
The entire camp still looked like a large construction site in full swing. After initially leveling the land and using local materials to build simple walls and simple buildings, most of the slaves were busy with one thing: building a landing field.
The landing pad is used for starships - of course, it is not for the entire starship to land, but to facilitate the transport plane flying down from the starship to dock with the ground.
This is not a particularly efficient method of transportation. On some planets with better conditions, space elevators and orbital star ports are the main force for interstellar transportation.
However, it was still a question of conditions. How could Gu Hang afford to build a space elevator and a star port? He could only rely on the spacecraft on the starship to carry out the transportation between the ground and space.
This requires a landing field or even an airport to improve efficiency.
The amount of work to be completed is not small, but there is no need to complete it all at once. It is enough to just make something usable initially.
After briefly checking the progress of the project, Gu Hang found an empty space outside the camp and materialized two black box manufacturing machines.
The two manufacturing machines are really 'black boxes'.
These two large, square black boxes are made of pitch-black, unknown materials.
The two are one big and one small, like two houses, with two doors, one in front and one in the back, one for feeding materials and the other for outputting products.
Gu Hang scratched his head, a little dumbfounded.
The system didn’t say that the black box was this big.
How do I move this?
We can only use engineering machinery, it would be too much of a stretch to use only manpower.
But on second thought, Gu Hang felt that he didn't have to transport these two things to Feidongshe. To use the finished black box, he could import ore from Feidongshe - although this would go against his promise to Patel to build a production line for Feidongshe.
But in fact, there is no conflict. The finished black box is definitely used to produce the top-grade alloy plastic steel materials, and the output will not be large.
As for the production line of Feidong Society, it relies on the various parts produced by the mother machine black box to be transported to Feidong Society, and then assembled locally to build an alloy smelting plant.
It is conceivable that as the two camps continue to develop, transportation exchanges between them will be frequent. Road construction is of course necessary, but transportation equipment is also important.
He didn't want his men to push carts and it would take eight hours for each round trip.
Vehicles, engineering equipment, these things are very much needed.
His eyes turned toward the sky.
It seems that we still have to take advantage of the Quintet, including the 100 sets of weapons and equipment promised to the Feidong Society.
However, when he thought about dealing with that woman, Gu Hang felt a little annoyed.
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(End of this chapter)
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