A total of 500 volunteers from various member states joined the still-forming Earth Fleet. Among them, Hua, Russia, and Germany accounted for 70%, and the remaining 30% were mostly from South Asia.
These volunteers would be sent to the Ange Island Astronaut Training Center – currently recognized as the largest and most professional astronaut training base in the world. They would receive three months of training to learn the basic knowledge that astronauts should possess in order to adapt to combat in the space environment.
These five hundred volunteers were just the first wave. In the coming year, the member countries would send a total of five thousand volunteers according to the quota allocated to them to provide blood and oxygen for the Earth Fleet that was still in the embryonic stage.
After settling down the 500 volunteers, Jiang Chen said goodbye to Wu Changfeng and left the astronaut training center. Instead of returning directly to Future Building on Coro Island, he drove to the high-tech zone and headed to the factory of Future Heavy Industries.
After negotiating the power export agreement with Hua, the Hua Minister of Transportation made a trip to Xin. After learning about the cost of the maglev road transformation, he immediately petitioned Jiang Chen to introduce maglev vehicle technology.
Although Jiang Chen agreed at the time, Future Heavy Industries had been dealing with the maglev road network transformation on several islands other than Coro Island and Ange Island, and the production capacity was not enough to develop the overseas market. Now that the last island had been transformed, Future Heavy Industries could finally free up its hands to digest the overseas orders that piled up like a mountain.
After arriving at the factory of Future Heavy Industries, CEO Yang Guanglei took Jiang Chen around the factory and showed him the newly built maglev production line.
"This new production line is our first attempt in the automation project. We use supercomputers to coordinate the production processes. From production, processing, assembly, to the final delivery, all are completed by machinery. Except for a few engineers responsible for production line maintenance and debugging, this production line has become completely unmanned! "
When Yang Guanglei said this, the expression on his face was quite proud.
This was not a steel ingot or bullet production line, but a high-tech product that included hundreds of processing links!
From the engraving of the graphene circuit board to the assembly of the maglev generating device, it was completely automated. If this automation technology could be promoted in other fields, it would undoubtedly be a leap forward for Future Heavy Industries to increase production capacity and save costs.
Although Future Heavy Industries' development focus was mainly on the aerospace field, it had never fallen behind in the civilian field. After all, for troublesome social animals like humans, economic benefits were often the driving force behind technological progress. History had also proven that technological breakthroughs often began in the civilian sector.
"How many maglev devices can you produce each month?" Jiang Chen nodded with satisfaction as he watched the pitch-black quadrangular pyramid iron rod pass through the assembly line. He then looked at Yang Guanglei.
"With sufficient raw materials, the monthly production can reach 100,000 pieces!"
One hundred thousand pieces was more powerful than the Sixth Street.
When he heard the number, Jiang Chen felt emotional.
Chu Nan began to implement the magnetic levitation road in the Sixth Street a long time ago. At the time, Jiang Chen also learned that the factory responsible for the production of this magnetic levitation device only achieved 50% automation.
He didn't know the production efficiency before the war, but it shouldn't be too far off.
Many times, Jiang Chen felt that Future Group in his hands was like a silkworm, nibbling away at the technology he brought back from the 22nd century and spitting out white and firm threads one by one.
One day, the threads would converge into a cocoon.
One day, he would break out of his cocoon and become a butterfly.
In the remains of the apocalyptic civilization, Future Group would give birth to a new brilliance and bring the world in a more prosperous and beautiful direction.
And now, Jiang Chen already vaguely "saw" the prototype of the cocoon. His hand even faintly touched the border of the 22nd century.
At least in the timeline of the apocalypse, until the year 2170 before the war, colonizing Mars was still a dream in its infancy. However, in the hands of Celestial Trade, the Mars colony had already begun the second round of expansion.
Just then, the phone suddenly rang and interrupted Jiang Chen's imagination of the future.
The phone call was from Ye Qinghua.
Jiang Chen opened the holographic screen and gestured to Yang Guanglei to wait. He walked to the side and pressed the answer button.
"Uncle Ye? What's up? "Jiang Chen laughed.
Since the last Outer Space Development Forum, Ye Qinghua had stayed in Xin. Although he had stepped down from his position, no one could ignore the influence of the Ye family behind him in the Hua political scene.
The reason why he stayed here, to a large extent, also explained the official attitude of the Hua government. They still valued Xin as a natural ally.
"Haha, Mr. Jiang, you're being too polite. Can't I call if there's nothing important?" Ye Qinghua said in a half-joking tone.
"That's not it." Jiang Chen laughed and said.
Although Elder Ye didn't communicate much with him, he knew very well that the old guy didn't stay idle all day long. If Ayesha didn't remind him, he wouldn't know that Elder Ye actually moved next door to his parents' house.
Not only did he move over, but the old guy was either playing chess with his dad and Elder Xia at the door every day, or occasionally fishing for seafood.
It just so happened that the Ye family started in the Jiangnan area. Strictly speaking, they were from the same hometown. Meeting people from the same hometown in a foreign country, these old people were naturally very enthusiastic. This Elder Ye also quickly integrated into Jiang Jianguo's circle.
Jiang Chen didn't know why Elder Ye was so close to his dad, but he didn't care too much. Usually, he only went back to his parents' house for dinner and rarely talked about work, so Elder Ye couldn't find out anything.
As long as Elder Ye didn't try to sell his hard-to-please granddaughter to his dad, everything would be fine.
"I heard that the maglev road you discussed with the Ministry of Transportation will start construction in a month or two?"
Coincidentally, he happened to be here to inspect the production. His call came at the right time.
Jiang Chen raised an eyebrow and said, "Is the Ye family still interested in infrastructure?"
"Hehe, it's just the younger generation messing around." Elder Ye's words didn't have the slightest intention of messing around.
"I won't hide the truth from you. The amount of work to transform the maglev road is not large, and the technical content is not high. We just need to get a pile driver and drive our magnetic piles into the foundation of the road." Jiang Chen laughed.
Elder Ye quickly said, "Then what do you think …"
Jiang Chen interrupted him with a smile and then said, "The key is not us, but you. We are just the supplier. The Ministry of Transportation and the local provincial transportation department are responsible for the bidding. If you have the ability to get the project in your hands, of course, we have no objections. "
"Haha, you can rest assured that the Ministry of Transportation and the provincial transportation department have all been arranged. Now we are just waiting for you to start shipping the goods, and then we can start construction." Elder Ye laughed.
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