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In April of the 64th year of the Imperial Calendar, the Empire announced that the alarm was officially lifted. People who had been trapped at home for almost 5 months took to the streets in surprise, embracing each other in celebration in a much desolate environment! In five months, social development has been greatly damaged.
Although the empire's advanced technology almost guarantees the near-100% safety of the two planets, before victory, everyone is extremely worried. This situation is not bad in the Empire. After all, the Empire's long-standing credibility and responsibility make people worthy of unconditional trust! While ordinary people are taking refuge at home, scientists and nobles need to brave the danger of radiation to maintain stability and be busy all over the world! Emperor Zhang Wenliang was exposed to the sun every day, giving speeches and encouraging everyone to overcome difficulties.
Under the leadership of such a leader, although the development of the empire was affected, there was no chaos. Everyone worked and lived in an orderly manner! The social foundation has been completely preserved. Although people live a tense life, they can still live and work in peace and contentment!
In comparison, the earth is in chaos! The traditional land of China is fine, and the surrounding Asian regions are also good; but other regions, especially the Middle East, are in chaos, and the Republic has to send out troops to maintain peace! Of course, this is for Venus now. Today's Earth is almost a virtual world existing in computers! At the beginning of this space age, when transportation was still inconvenient, everyone could only communicate through the Internet and wirelessly. This is the inevitable result of the separation!
As the empire announced that the threat was lifted, the empire began to regain its prosperity. People walked out of their homes and began their own prosperous lives. The order and prosperity of the empire were like mushrooms springing up after rain, and in just a few days, prosperity was restored! The reason for this is, of course, that the empire has good order and national credibility; of course, part of it is also because of advanced science and technology and reasonable urban planning; and also because this disaster from space did not cause harm. To be precise, it caused almost no harm. What harm will come! It just creates a little bit of tension in people. It’s just more than half a year’s vacation! It's like pressing the pause button on the empire!
Now, as the warning is lifted, people on this increasingly competitive Venus have to get back to work as soon as possible to support their families.
At this time. The empire is not busy celebrating, the senior officials are already in a tizzy!
Zhang Jingyuan was in charge personally, with Zhang Chengye and Zhang Wenliang on both sides, followed by their descendants, as well as the empire's nobles, officials, citizen representatives, etc. Since it was successful, it must be a commendation meeting! In this incident, everyone really worked together to get through the difficulties! Of course, Zhang Wenliang can make the decision just for rewards and the like. There is no need for Zhang Jingyuan to take action - Boss Zhang is very busy and is preparing for the second wave of human creation movement!
The reason for "coming out" this time is because the empire has another big plan! Only Zhang Jingyuan can control this plan!
Now, the due reward has been completed. Zhang Wenliang was already sitting aside, and Zhang Chengye stood up with uncontrollable excitement, "Everyone, after 60 years of development, the Empire's technology has made greater breakthroughs. After transforming Venus and launching spacecraft, the Empire has successively Next, we will carry out the third major plan, which is also related to the future development of the empire - that is, transforming Mars! ”
brush! ! ! Everyone immediately fixed their gaze on Zhang Chengye's face. But Zhang Chengye’s excited eyes and rosy face told everyone that this was true!
Transforming Mars? Everyone has their own doubts.
"Your Highness, please forgive me for being presumptuous," Chen Feng is now a Duke and is already a representative figure in the scientific community of the empire today. "As far as I know, Mars has too little weight, and the empire currently does not have artificial gravity technology. There is no artificial gravity technology on Mars. There is not enough liquid core to form a magnetic field. The most important thing is that the atmosphere on Mars is too thin, which is also one of the difficulties in transformation.
Just a few years ago. The one million people of the Republic who immigrated to the moon collectively developed problems such as osteoporosis and visceral edema, and had to stop the strategy of lunar immigration. Although the gravity of Mars is much greater, it is still less than half of the Earth's gravity, which is far from being able to meet the needs of normal human life.
And because the mass of Mars is too small and the gap between it and the standard mass of the Earth is too large, it has been difficult to find enough celestial bodies in the solar system to increase the mass of Mars! ”
"Yes!" Zhang Chengye did not deny it. "It is because it is so difficult that we have not proposed a plan to transform Mars until now. But before discussing those difficulties, I have to say that in the near future, we must meet the problems of human survival and expansion. , compared to interstellar immigration, transforming Mars is undoubtedly more feasible
Moreover, it's not like the solar system doesn't have enough objects to add to Mars' mass. In addition to the Moon, there is Titan, the remaining moon Europa, Neptune's moon Triton, Uranus's moon Titan, and Pluto itself. In addition, there are Sedna, Charon (Pluto's satellite), Makemake, Haumea, Eris, etc. in the outer solar system. Among the satellites of Saturn, there are five with a diameter of more than 500 kilometers!
All these asteroids and dwarf planets combined are enough to make Mars more massive than the Earth. Not to mention, there are estimated to be more than a million celestial bodies in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud in the outer solar system, and countless of them are thousands of kilometers in diameter.
I know you will say: These celestial bodies are too far away! It's too hard to drag them around! But that’s why I said that now the empire has the ability to transform Mars! Moreover, transformation cannot be accomplished in a short time; and there are still considerable risks during the transformation process.
However, within 20 light years, we have not found a second star system that can be immigrated. Therefore, in order to meet the subsequent population growth, transforming Mars is an inevitable path. It is a road without a choice!
We considered strategies to limit population growth, but in the long run this was tantamount to killing the goose that laid the egg! Human development must ensure unrestricted expansion. Only in this way can we stay sharp and move forward courageously!
Therefore, it is imperative to change to Mars! ”
"Then...the empire may not be able to afford this consumption now!" After all, Chen Feng controls the most advanced space science research base in the empire, and he has a very clear understanding of the general situation of the empire. Today's empire seems strong, but with the departure of spaceships and the recent need to guard against supernova debris, the foundation of the empire has been shaken, and more than half of the 60 years of accumulation have been lost. Of course, the technology is still there. If you want to develop it quickly, maybe five years is enough. But not now! Just two projects of energy and machinery are enough to put the empire's finances into trouble.
"Yes, but we have no retreat!" Zhang Chengye took a step forward. "The empire's population growth is approaching a critical point. A population crisis will erupt within ten years at most. And within ten years, we will not be able to build a second spaceship.
To think about ten years from now, we must start terraforming Mars now! We have no other choice! ”
"Gulu..." Chen Feng swallowed a mouthful of saliva and nodded silently. Yes, he only thinks about the empire's current finances and other issues; but Zhang Chengye thinks more about the future development of the empire! From the perspective of empire development, there is indeed no way out.
Today's Venus society is healthy and progressive. Mainly because there is enough land! But wait until there is not enough land. There will inevitably be a sick society - in such a society, the empire will be dragged down, develop slowly, or even regress! In order to ensure the healthy and rapid development of mankind, limiting the population can only be the most helpless choice! Such a decision will inevitably have a huge negative impact on society. The sixty-year development of the empire has made "more children, more grandchildren, more blessings" deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. And this is indeed the case!
Also, population explosion is the best way to suppress an aging society! And once population development is restricted, an aging society will inevitably come! Obviously, an aging society is not conducive to social development. What we must pay special attention to is that the empire now has a developed medical system and popularized spiritual practice. There have been almost no deaths in these years!
So no matter how you look at it. Maintaining rapid population growth is the only reasonable way! But now, if you want to take on more people, you can only transform Mars. Venus, Earth, and Mars are all in the habitable zone of the solar system. This is the most precious wealth that nature has given to mankind!
Transformed Venus back then. It took so many technologies and more than ten years - not counting the previous preparations. And now, if you want to transform Mars, you need to transport "materials" from billions of kilometers away, which greatly increases the difficulty and lengthens the transformation time!
"Okay. This matter has been settled." Zhang Jingyuan said calmly, but his tone was unquestionable determination and majesty, "Transforming Mars is the only feasible method at present. And it will be transformed sooner or later. In this case, it is still necessary to transform Mars." It's better to make the problem public now. Since the empire cannot afford it, we will borrow money from the whole society. I believe that the citizens will understand. >
In fact, the empire now has more than 5 billion citizens, and at least 1 billion families. Each family supports the empire with an average of one thousand empire coins, which is one trillion empire coins! Enough to transform Mars.
For citizens who are willing to give, we give them the most solemn guarantee that there will definitely be a paradise for them on Mars! And in the future, whether they are Mars immigrants or interstellar immigrants, they will have priority rights, and even within the empire, they will try to provide them with appropriate conveniences.
The empire needs to develop, so we must look forward. As long as the future develops well, how many loans cannot be repaid! ”
"Bah bang..." Zhang Jingyuan's words resonated with everyone. Yes, as long as the future develops well, any loan can be repaid! Although the empire is said to adopt a constant-value currency system, the empire itself is also building a large number of equipment, machines, etc., which are also money!
"Your Majesty, I have a question." Yang Wancheng strolled outstandingly at this time. "On Earth, we are also planning to transform Mars recently. Now that the Earth has a population of tens of billions, the pressure is huge. And with the failure of lunar immigration, we are also planning Establishing a settlement base on Mars has become a hot topic on Earth.
Therefore, if we do this, will it conflict with the earth? ”
"Hmm..." Zhang Jingyuan frowned and thought. After all, the earth is the mother planet of mankind, and if Venus is now in its prime, then the earth has already fallen into the trouble of old age and has many complications. Obviously, under such circumstances, the importance the Earth attaches to Mars must be beyond imagination. So, if the Empire interferes with Mars, it will simply be taking food from someone else's plate! Conflict is bound to be unstoppable!
"Bang!" Zhang Jingyuan suddenly clapped his hands, "Let's do it first! Do you think that the current earth has the ability to change the state of Mars? Their so-called immigration base is just like the earth mice. Such immigration is extremely expensive and the number of immigrants Very few - maybe only tens of thousands of people can reach the sky, which is really meaningless. Moreover, the immigration of the moon has brought the credibility of the earth's government to a freezing point; this is our opportunity!
In fact, if we look at it from another angle, they are competing with us for food! They know that they cannot change the status quo, but they are snatching the illusory right to land on Mars. This is a provocation to the empire. Ignore them, give them a firm message that we are going to start transforming Mars, and ask them to stay away, otherwise the empire will not be responsible for casualties! ”
At this moment, Zhang Jingyuan was so strong that he was in a mess. In the past, I always wanted to make the earth a better place as much as possible. After all, it is my home planet. But at this time, I thought about it from another angle and suddenly realized, let me go - how dare you compete with me for food? If you want it, I can give it to you! But you must not take the initiative to reach out!
Zhang Jingyuan is not an ordinary person no matter what. When he realized this, he immediately became strong!
ps:
First of all, I apologize, another mistake has occurred. There was a huge error in the data in the previous chapter. The gravity/gravity of a planet is directly proportional to the mass and inversely proportional to the square of the radius. When I calculated, I only considered mass.