Industry: Cthulhu

Chapter 31 Bottleneck
According to the technical characteristics of the jump engine, each time after leaving the wormhole, the navigation must be recalibrated and the engine must be replenished with energy. This process takes about thirty to forty minutes.

If he is lucky and there happens to be a Star Network relay server nearby, Fang Yan can have simple communication with Li Muyun who is far away on Earth.

"boss!"

Seeing Fang Yan again, Li Muyun showed a look of great surprise. "There's news from the Merchant Alliance. They contacted you through Mr. Brown, but after learning that you had gone to the Inner Galaxy, their president, Gu Tongshu, seemed very disappointed."

"Really?" Fang Yan nodded gently. "It's not surprising that they'd be interested in quantum field controlled fusion, but I didn't expect them to come so soon. What did they say?"

"There are roughly three aspects," Li Muyun said. "First, cooperation. The Merchant Alliance has shown great interest in cooperating with us, and they are also very sincere."

"Although you are not on Earth right now, and our quantum field fusion reactor has not yet achieved mass production, the Merchant Alliance has decided to establish a branch on Earth ahead of schedule!"

"By then, all the nearby merchants will gather on Earth to resupply and trade, and the airport will become extremely prosperous!"

"I told my friends in the government about this, and they say the Earth government is also very excited about it and is planning to expand the airport."

Fang Yan nodded slightly. As the saying goes, one should give a favor and return a favor. The decision of the Merchant Alliance was straightforward. Once the Earth has a branch of the Merchant Alliance, it will naturally be of great help to the development of the Earth. From this point of view, the other party is still very sincere.

After a pause, Li Muyun continued, "Secondly, we have procurement matters. Although we won't take on everything, the Merchant Alliance has stated that once we become partners, they will do their utmost to ensure our supply chain."

"The third is about future plans. I don't know why, but President Gu has repeatedly asked about our future development plans, intentionally or unintentionally. It seems that he doesn't think this is just a simple business cooperation, and believes that you must have other goals in the future."

Fang Yan smiled and said, "President Gu is quite thoughtful. In fact, in terms of strength, the Merchant Alliance is not the strongest partner, but it is our most practical choice at the moment."

"After all, Earth is at the edge of the Milky Way. Even if the big businesses and forces in the inner ring are powerful, they are often unable to reach the edges and the gray areas."

"But the Merchant Alliance is different. They are a group of pioneers. The fringe star regions are their roots and their home. Once we deeply cooperate with them, both Earth's security and trade routes will be substantially improved."

"More importantly, I want to find a way forward for the seven billion people on Earth."

"A way out?" Li Muyun was suspicious. "What do you mean?"

Fang Yan said in a deep voice: "Go out and expand outward."

"The fringe and dark star regions contain countless unexplored galaxies. Although there are risks, they also contain huge opportunities."

"Just like the Age of Exploration, only if we open up new routes and find new resource-rich planets can Earth's humanity gain a foothold in the outer star regions and gain a broader space for development."

"From this perspective, Earthlings are also pioneers, sharing the same goals as the Merchant Alliance. Therefore, our cooperation is not just about business, but also about the future."

Li Muyun was stunned. He had never thought that Fang Yan actually had such a long-term plan to find development space and a future home for the human race on Earth.

Li Muyun swallowed his saliva and said excitedly, "Boss, you really think long-term. I fully support your plan, but the company is facing a huge problem right now." Fang Yan was slightly startled. "What problem?"

"manpower."

Li Muyun said with a sense of urgency, "Didn't you instruct me to prepare for large-scale industrial production? Factories and equipment are easy to come by, but after investigation, I found that even if I recruited every engineer in the world to work for the company, we still wouldn't have enough manpower to achieve large-scale industrialization."

"Based on the Galaxy's annual sales of three million fusion reactors, even if we only capture one percent of the market share, we'll need to reach an annual production of 30,000 units! And achieving this goal will require a team of millions of engineers!"

……

The Rose began to jump again, and the communication between Fang Yan and Li Muyun was interrupted.

Standing in front of the porthole, looking at the wormhole outside with flowing light, Fang Yan fell into deep thought.

Although quantum field fusion reactors have achieved breakthroughs in technology, achieving large-scale industrialization is far more complicated than design and research and development, and the existing number of engineers on Earth cannot meet the demand at all.

The manufacturing process of a fusion reactor is extremely complex, requiring the assembly of various high-tech components with extremely high precision. The manufacture of a reactor, from raw material preparation to final assembly, requires approximately 8 man-hours, and the engineering team involved must be at least 000 people.

These engineers must also possess considerable scientific literacy and precision construction capabilities, which ordinary technical workers are simply not capable of.

Based on the annual market demand for 300 million fusion reactors in the Milky Way, Fang Yan made a rough estimate that if the Earth wants to occupy 30% of the market share, it means that at least reactors need to be produced each year.

Based on 8 man-hours per reactor, 000 reactors would require a total of 30 billion man-hours!
After a detailed investigation, Li Muyun confirmed that there are no more than 10 high-level engineers on Earth who can work for Blue Light Technology. Assuming that each engineer works 2 hours a year, the maximum number of working hours is 000 billion.

Fang Yan frowned. There was a huge gap in productivity before him. Even if all the engineers on the planet worked hard for him, they still couldn't meet the target.

Moreover, according to Fang Yan's plan, Blue Light Technology will not only have the quantum field project in the future. In this way, the gap will be even bigger.

A series of numbers quickly emerged in Fang Yan's mind, including the engineer training cycle, the difficulty of recruiting technicians, the equipment procurement schedule, etc.

After calculations, Fang Yan realized that when the Earth faces the entire Milky Way, productivity is not only a bottleneck, but also a core factor that determines success or failure. If production capacity cannot be improved, all plans will fall into endless delays and imbalances.

Fang Yan frowned slightly. It was obvious that large-scale industrialization was far from enough relying solely on the power of the earth, and it was necessary to find more powerful productivity.

suddenly~

Fang Yan thought of a solution, but it was a solution that was strictly controlled by the Galactic Alliance.

AI!

(End of this chapter)