interstellar farmer

Chapter 371 Plant Mining Industry

China possesses a large number of unique technologies, which are not only unique in planetary transformation and environmental improvement, but also the use of plants to purify minerals, which is also extremely popular. Because of this unprecedented operation method, it has created a new type of industry.

Du Guosheng was still having a headache before which industry this new type of industry should be planned into: it belongs to agriculture, but what this plant produces is minerals, or there are high-grade minerals that have undergone preliminary purification; it belongs to industry, these acquisitions The minerals still have to be further processed, which cannot be regarded as a complete chain; the mining industry is also very reliable, no matter how you say it, it is the same as the excavated minerals, but there is no specific machine, no specific mining area, and the entire planting method is used. The planet is treated as a super mining area, which has exceeded the original definition of the mining industry;  ….

Before leaving, Han Zhen solved this problem for Du Guosheng. Referring to the method of defining planetary transformation and environmental improvement as two independent military management units, he named this new type of industry plant mining industry, and then selected special manpower to set up a The military management department is in charge, and the name is the Special Forces for Planting Mines.

The investment is small, the income is large, and the minerals covered are very wide. By the time Han Zhen went to Yinyue, he had the ability to plant more than 2000 common minerals, 732 conventional minerals, 125 precious minerals and 47 rare minerals. The means of mining, all added up, means that more than 1 kinds of minerals can be obtained through the means of planting ore.These [-] types are still far behind the more than [-] types of minerals in the known universe today, but this is always an improvement. At least so far, only China has mastered this unique technology and used it.

The improved plants that are closely related to the mining industry are star trees, and there are already more than 6000 kinds of them—there are more than 6000 kinds, which is not many at all, because the different cosmic environments make different types of star trees appear when extracting minerals plants.In fact, every star tree currently has the function of extracting at least ten kinds of minerals, but because the cosmic environment is too complicated, and the number of new star trees is still growing slowly but extremely firmly, how many will there be in the end? Even Han Yu couldn't estimate it accurately.These star trees will also be selected from the more than 6000 kinds after the most detailed environmental investigation of the sub-star of the planet that will become the mining area, and the results will be harvested for a long time according to the maturity cycle of the star tree.

After a period of time, the results were very obvious, so obvious that people who knew the inside story and had been mentally prepared were surprised: after the connection of the wild waterway was completed and the trading materials were transported on time, the minerals obtained from the mining started from the very beginning. It occupies less than 1%, and with the increase of doubling every year, up to now, it has accounted for 27% of the same increase in the amount of trading materials!It is completely foreseeable that this ratio still has huge room for improvement. If it develops in more time, it is very possible to let Zhi Mining be fully responsible for all transaction volume supply!
The requirements for the working site and personnel allocation of the ore-planting troops carrying out the mining industry are not large. If compared with the total amount of minerals produced, it can only be said to be very small: the activities of the ore-planting troops The regions are all under the Taici domain. After all, this kind of business that absolutely needs to be kept secret must not go out!Judging from the place that can only be found in Taiciling, one can know that the ore-planting troops are definitely not comparable to the mining industry throughout the entire territory of China; The number is only about 500, of which there are only about [-] natural administrative stars, and the others are secondary stars or high-yield meteorite bodies. Compared with the ubiquitous mining areas, this is not even a fraction; personnel, As long as the star tree is selected beforehand and the manpower responsible for the specific planting of the plants is already a lot, several thousand people on a battleship are already a lot. After planting, there is no need for people to manage it all the time.The place where manpower is needed in the future is when harvesting. Some people are needed to collect the fruits or rhizomes planted everywhere. Considering that a location is equivalent to the size of the planet, the manpower cannot be too small, but it is only more than a million. Well, after using the specially equipped collector, I can easily finish this job...  Including the scientific researchers who first tested the astral environment and the breeders cultivated by the star tree, the manpower needed on a star will not exceed [-] million.

This is a very small number. As long as it is a small-scale mining area, there will be no less than 500 million people in the hands of people. And a star, which is the size of a planet, if a mining area is established, as long as it is rich in minerals, almost Tens or even hundreds are normal.Work with a very small amount of labor, but the output is extremely high. After all, the carrier star tree of the planting mining industry has spread throughout the entire star. All of them are absorbed in, even in terms of efficiency, it is faster and more productive than opening up hundreds of mining areas on the star!

There is also a distinct advantage of the plant mining industry, that is, no matter how much ore there is on the star body, as long as the conditions for planting and producing star trees are met, they can be mined smoothly after they grow.We must know that the distribution of many kinds of minerals is very loose. The conventional mining method is not only extremely labor-intensive, but also takes a long time and causes great damage to the environment. The star tree planting mining industry is different. These It can perfectly solve the problem.

In terms of disadvantages, Star Tree also has it, that is, the depth of control cannot keep up with traditional mining methods.After all, the star tree is a plant, and the star tree plant with the deepest root is not more than [-] meters, and the minerals below [-] meters can only be watched.This problem has already started targeted research in the Xingshu Research and Development Institute, and it is believed that the date for solving it will not be too far away.

"Brother Luo, have you finished the broadcast?" A voice came from the communicator in a multi-functional ore planter produced by the Ninth Machinery General Manufacturing Factory of China.After the burly Luo Hu connected, his colleague, or comrade-in-arms, a holographic image of Li Xiao with a hippie smile and a lieutenant's epaulets jumped out.

"It's almost there, just the last piece left. How about you?" Luo Hu replied, without stopping, and after the ore planter reached the predetermined position, in order, put the corresponding seeds and the cultivated The last young plants were placed one by one in the soil holes dug at the same time.When the ore planter is moving forward, the covering device at the rear can also efficiently and accurately bury the soil holes where the seeds are placed, and cultivate the soil holes with plants.

"Brother Luo, you are slow this time! I finished it a long time ago, and I am returning now." Li Xiao laughed even more when he heard that Luo Hu hadn't finished, "I would like to admit defeat, right? Oh, Brother Luo, do you know?" Hearing this, one would understand that the two were betting on the speed of the job, and it was obvious that Li Xiao had won.

"Understood, brat, please! Go to the bar and wait for me first! Oh, don't forget, call those three guys too!" Luo Hu, who was laughing and cursing, closed the door after hearing Li Xiao's loud answer. Connector.With a pull of the control in his hand, the mining machine left the ground and floated into the sky. After turning around, the same operation was started again, and it was carried out ten times in a row.After the entire plane and a hill hundreds of meters high were covered with seeds and plants, the planter flew into the air, and after reaching a height of [-] meters, it accelerated flexibly and flew quickly to the camp.

The ore planter is a new type of tool. It is very big, with a length of 120 meters, a width of about 50 meters, and a height of 50 meters. On the whole, it looks like a regular long steamed bun.Regardless of its inconspicuous appearance, its function is very good. It can not only sow seeds, but also use various equipment on the smooth side of the bottom to complete all the sowing processes when driving close to the ground, and can also pick them. After inputting the sample data that needs to be picked, when flying off the plant or sticking to the ground, the fruit and the rhizome on the ground can be easily cut and put into the storage bin inside the planter.The storage bin is very large, and the powerful power ensures that the storage bin, which occupies at least 70% of the internal space, can place the heaviest goods, and the speed drops to half of the usual speed at most.The operation of the mining machine is also very simple, as long as one is proficient in the operation process, one person can start it!
After Luo Hu returned to the camp and relaxed for a night with his colleagues, the task he received the next day changed. It was to clean up the designated area 42.

The star where Luo Hu is located is the second star developed earlier by the ore planting troops. The first development work has been completed half a year ago. It was a global development of the entire star. After ingesting dozens of customized heavy minerals After that, it entered the current second development.Because the second development is different from the first time, the resource requirements are more targeted, so the star is artificially divided into more than 200 areas, and the relevant star trees are cultivated according to the resource content in the area.Because the two types of star trees are completely different, it also leads to differences in the types of minerals harvested.

After the first all-star seeding, some problems were left over, mainly the torso left by the star tree's own death after the time was up.These torsos, which are all made up of the basic minerals of the secondary star itself, will be transported by a team of ore planters, except for leaving some for the second star tree to multiply. Arrive at the adjacent sub-star warehouse for storage.

(End of this chapter)