National Gardener: I can choose the evolution path of spiritual plants.

Chapter 241 Peasants
After smelting all the spider corpses, Li Ming obtained more than 3 tons of D9 alloy, more than 5 tons of D6 alloy, more than 0 tons of D300 alloy, more than 126 tons of element 1 crystal nuclei, and more than 5 tons of aluminum alloy.

By using all the elemental crystal nuclei to synthesize D3 alloy, Li Ming obtained 3 tons of D alloy.

As for other types of alloys, they are also D-grade metals, but the effects are different, just like iron is divided into cast iron and steel, and steel can be divided into 304 and 316.

With these alloys, Li Ming continued to produce Suzaku 07, and soon expanded to one hundred Suzaku 07s.

He then stopped production of the Suzaku 07.

There is no other reason. The energy generated by the nuclear fusion furnace every day cannot supply more Suzaku 07s for charging and fighting.

But, a hundred Suzakus are enough.

Every day, he could destroy a mine spider nest for Li Ming and obtain a large amount of metal materials.

In addition to the metal output from the spider corpses, there are rich metal veins near many nests, and Li Ming also dispatched mining machinery to mine.

In order to facilitate transportation, a smelting plant was built around the ore vein and connected to the base using a magnetic levitation track.

The base also entered regular development, basic production lines were built and put into production.

The scope of the base is also expanding step by step, with factories springing up one after another, from an industrial zone to an industrial city.

The desolate planet underwent earth-shaking changes at a speed visible to the naked eye, from having nothing to being rich in all kinds of creations.

In a blink of an eye, it was five years since Li Ming arrived on Planet D-2317.

On this day, on a tall observation tower, Li Ming looked at the scene in front of him through the huge D-glass floor-to-ceiling window.

On the barren land, there was a steel city lying like a giant beast, occupying nearly one percent of the planet's area.

Various transport vehicles and transport spacecraft travel back and forth in all directions of the planet, mining metal ores such as aluminum and iron, and digging out minerals such as sand and limestone.

These raw materials are sent to smelters for smelting and purification to produce metals, glass, etc.

Li Ming also luxuriously built a four-season cycle and ecological weather simulation system in the core area, opened up soilless farmland and pastures, and ate non-nutritional pill-like food.

In the year 1363 of the Star Calendar, Li Ming completed the construction of the last D-level technology tree terminal production line, and the land reclamation was officially declared over.

At this time, the base has covered tens of thousands of square kilometers, with hundreds of thousands of production lines and processing plants, capable of independently producing hundreds of millions of different precision parts.

These parts can be assembled through several processes in a processing plant to form any product of D-level technology.

Of course, in the Star Alliance, most D-level technological products are not valuable, and a single technological product is as useless as a building block in a building block toy.

Even some of the most advanced technological products are as ordinary and cheap as the lighters, soaps, paper towels, toothpicks, etc. that we had before the time travel.

In addition, Li Ming does not have his own "trademark or brand" and no sales channels, so the D-level products he produces cannot be sold at all.

Even if he could sell it, there are countless pioneers like him, the seller's market is larger than the buyer's market, and there is no market for the goods at all.

But these production lines are indispensable. They are interdependent and together constitute the planet's industrial cycle and self-sufficiency.

During the land reclamation process, the production lines were established not to produce products for sale, but to build an "industrial virtuous cycle system". The purpose of land reclamation was to produce "D-level metal materials".

Yes, the so-called "pioneers" are actually the "farmers" who are the most numerous and the most humble in the interstellar age!!!
Putting aside his thoughts, Li Ming clicked on the floor-to-ceiling window in front of him, and immediately the picture of the base appeared.

In a huge factory building, an unmanned robot was seen melting the mixed materials, adding 126 elements and stirring them, and a chemical reaction soon occurred.

The metal liquid changed from red to blue at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This is Li Ming understanding the current D3 alloy production through real-time data.

Since the element 126 in the cave spider's body is not enough to support the development of the base, he still needs to use a nuclear fusion furnace to produce element 126.

The synthesis of element 126 requires a large amount of energy. Due to power limitations, the daily production of element 126 can only produce 3 tons of D alloy.

It takes 3 tons of element 200 to synthesize 126 tons of D alloy.

If you want to produce 200 tons of element 126, the energy consumed is not valuable, but the nuclear fusion furnace has a service life. Therefore, you need to divide the total price of the nuclear fusion furnace by its service life to calculate the "depreciation cost" generated by the energy produced each day.

假如核聚变熔炉价值105信用点，报废后回收材料可以卖5信用点，熔炉可以使用100天，那么每天的折旧费就是（105-5）÷100=1信用点。

假如核聚变1天产生的能量可以生产1吨126号元素，那么1吨126号元素的成本就是1信用点。

In fact, a super-large nuclear fusion furnace can be used for a hundred years after some repairs, and only 0.5 credit points of depreciation are needed to generate energy every day to produce element 100 needed to synthesize 3 tons of D126 alloy.

Adding other consumption, the cost of producing 100 tons of D3 alloy is about 0.6 credit points, and the selling price is 1 credit point. A profit of 0.4 requires paying 30% tax to the Star Alliance, and the net profit is only 0.28 credit points.

Ten thousand tons of D3 can only earn 28 credit points.

In the previous life, it was equivalent to a daily salary of 28 yuan.

Don’t think that Li Ming spent 1 credit points to purchase 3 tons of D1 alloy online.

That is the purchase price, not the acquisition price.

The purchase price of D3 alloy by major group companies on the market is 1 credit points for 100 tons, which is a hundred times the price difference!!!
“So, although the land cultivated by farmers in the interstellar age seems to be much more advanced, they are still being exploited!”

Li Ming sighed that if a pioneer had no background or support from his parents, and only relied on the nuclear fusion furnace given by the Star Alliance at the beginning, even if he successfully completed the reclamation on the planet, he could only earn 3 credit points a day by producing D28 alloy.

By farming for 30 years, one can accumulate 28 credit points, just enough to buy another nuclear fusion furnace.

At this time, you can earn 56 credit points every day.

After another 14 years of farming, the salary increased to 84 credit points per day.

After another 9 years of farming, the salary will increase to 112 credit points.

Then after another 7 years, 6 years, 5 years, 4 years, 3.5 years, 3 years, 2.8 years, 2.5 years, 2.3 years, 2.1 years, 2 years, 1.8 years, 1.7 years, 1.6 years, 1.5 years..., 28 credit points will be added respectively.

In the interstellar age, people can generally live to the theoretical limit, which is around 260 years old.

Theoretically, when he is about 130 years old, if nothing unexpected happens, an ordinary farmer can escape from "poverty".

Because at this time, his productivity was enough to allow him to buy nuclear fusion furnaces every day to expand production.

However, what limits him now is not the production equipment and energy, but whether the planet he is on has enough resources for him to produce. Therefore, it is a theoretical goal for farmers to get rid of poverty. In fact, those farmers who have been farming for more than a hundred years have almost hollowed out the planet they are on.

Instead, they lost their source of production materials.

At this time, all they can do is rent a new planet and become a worker for the group company, or go to the front line of the Ninth Star Ring to open up wasteland and build, becoming a "migrant worker."

"Alas, it's a pity that there is no way to sell it directly, so the group company makes the lion's share of the profits for nothing."

Li Ming learned from his previous life's memories that the fundamental reason for the big difference between the selling price and the purchase price of goods lies in the sales channel.

Ordinary people have no sales channels. Even if they register an account and open a store on Gold Rush, they have to accept the fact that they are exploited by the Gold Rush Group.

The root cause is the transportation channel.

In the interstellar age, the transportation of goods mainly relies on two methods.

One is the official wormhole transmission, which can be transmitted anywhere within the Star Alliance as long as there is a star station.

Wormhole teleportation is inexpensive and of high quality, but is generally only used by official authorities. Civilian use requires application for a limited number of times.

Another mode of transportation is cargo ship transportation. The universe is huge, the territory of the Star Alliance is vast, and the fastest speed of cargo ships is only sub-light speed. Even with curvature navigation technology, it will take several months or even years.

Therefore, major group companies have established "large star gates" at some major transportation routes, and built transportation channels through centralized sorting and transshipment.

In this way, they have a firm grasp on cargo transportation.

If the D3 alloy produced by Li Ming is not sold through these group companies, he will have to build a cargo spacecraft himself, which will not only be time-consuming but also difficult to sell.

Unless the price is favorable, but ignoring the transportation costs and the risk of being robbed by space pirates, the profit is only 10 times more than selling directly to the group company, but the difficulty of selling has increased thousands of times.

Moreover, since private retail sales cannot be regulated, it will lead to tax problems. Therefore, private sales of goods are defined as smuggling by the Star Alliance and face the risk of imprisonment.

Li Ming didn't want to be a criminal, nor did he want to be a farmer. He even less wanted to be a migrant worker, but he had no choice.

In the interstellar age, the top leaders of the alliance all came from group chaebols and thousand-year-old families. They controlled the upward channels in all walks of life and controlled 99% of the resources in society.

There was no way for him to break away from the peasant class.

Even studying could not change his fate.

Due to the development of technology, gene editing and evolutionary drugs, those people at the top of the pyramid have a nearly perfect gene chain while they are still in the womb. Growing up drinking evolutionary drugs, they are all top elites of mankind. Their contributions may not be as great as those of Einstein, but their IQ is definitely comparable.

As a mass-produced test-tube baby, Li Ming's predecessor's genes were just the most ordinary ones, because ordinary means stable, adaptable, and able to survive tenaciously in various environments in the universe.

They were born to be "farmers" or "migrant workers".

Therefore, after completing twelve years of compulsory education, I took part in the fairest college entrance examination in the world.

However, due to "lack of talent" and "family conditions" as well as the lack of "tutoring from famous teachers", he only scored 1 out of 900 and was ruthlessly failed the exam.

But the predecessor was also very desperate. Unless there was a genetic mutation, 900 points was already the limit for ordinary people.

Only the elites from the conglomerates and aristocratic families can score above 950 points.

The passing score for major prestigious universities is exactly 950 points.

This is not a score line, this is a natural barrier that separates people from the world.

The most desperate thing in the world is not that others are better than you, but that even if you work countless times harder than them, you still cannot be better than them who don’t work hard.

So the predecessor suffered a mental breakdown and left in despair this future world which seemed prosperous and peaceful on the surface, but was actually full of cruelty.

When Li Ming first came to this world, he was actually desperate.

Because he doesn't have a golden finger!

In his previous life, he was an ordinary person and a social animal, and he was powerless to change himself. How could he change himself after traveling through time without a golden finger?

If nothing unexpected happens, he will become a hard-working farmer according to the "planned life" of the Star Alliance, working hard to cultivate planets and produce raw materials until the end of his life.

Some people may ask, with nuclear fusion and an entire planet, shouldn’t you have no worries about food and clothing? Plus, there will be credit point subsidies for maintaining the star station, so why not just give it up and live a comfortable life?
Li Ming had indeed thought about this, living a life of drunkenness and dreaming, and many settlers had done the same. However, the lifespan of an ordinary person is only 260 years, and there is only one person on the settler planet.

He didn't want to die alone and live only 260 years.

You know, once you take the D-level gene medicine, you can become a D-level life and live for thousands of years.

Thousands of years!
The recorded history of previous lives is only five thousand years.

The above C, B, A, and S level life forms theoretically have lifespans of 3000, 5000, , and years respectively.

It has been a thousand years since the Alliance entered the interstellar age. The people in the pyramids are still there, but billions of screws of their time have long since burned out their light and heat, completing the great mission of mankind's entry into the interstellar space, and then turned into handfuls of ashes.

This is why countless pioneers are still willing to do it even though they know they are the exploited class. They just want to save enough funds to exchange for a tube of D-level genetic medicine.

Generally speaking, the fate of a settler is to become a farmer and complete the reclamation of the planets allocated by the alliance.

If one fails to find a partner to give birth to the next generation and thereby obtain the Seventh Ring Star Reward, one can only choose to "sell oneself" to the top 500 Star Alliance groups and become a "migrant worker."

Then he worked day and night, and finally "barely exchanged" for a D-class genetic potion. After that, he worked for a few hundred more years, and when his life was almost over, he "barely saved up" enough credit points to exchange for a C-class genetic potion.

As for what happens next? Firstly, the B-level gene medicine is too expensive, and secondly, the migrant workers have already exhausted their potential and cannot take it.

Therefore, the end point of migrant workers is to work for a thousand years, become Class C, and have a remaining lifespan of two thousand years.

However, would the ruling class be so kind as to allow you to work for a thousand years in exchange for two thousand years of freedom?

No, this time, they gave migrant workers a new "goal".

That is to save money to buy "tamed fire", which is the "natal fire" of a peculiar silicon-based life form. After being transformed by the Star Alliance, the "quantum soul transmission technology" can be used to engrave the human soul and thinking consciousness intactly in the natal fire, and then obtain a silicon-based body, becoming a "robot" with terrifying combat power and able to "cross the starry sky in the flesh".

Silicon-based life forms will not die as long as the fire is extinguished, and the fire can be replenished by hunting other silicon-based life forms.

So, the migrant workers continued to work for the remaining two thousand years of their lives. Finally, after hard work, they accumulated enough credit points at the end of their lives and became silicon-based life forms.

(End of this chapter)