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Chapter 49 Extreme Efficiency
The first difficulty Li Qingsong faced was the transportation of materials and goods.

If there is sufficient technology, Li Qingsong would certainly hope to build a space elevator, which would save the trouble of spacecraft transportation and allow large amounts of materials to be transported directly into space.

It’s a pity that my technology has not yet developed to such a high level, and at this stage I can only rely on spacecraft.

Existing spacecraft can only transport two tons of materials at a time, which is too inefficient. However, developing new spacecraft is not something that can be done overnight.

In this case, the only option is to increase the quantity.

So the first decision Li Qingsong made was to immediately expand the productivity of the spacecraft industry chain and build more spacecraft in the shortest time possible.

At the same time, building more spacecraft and using them frequently is itself a process of finding hidden dangers, defects, and upgrade and optimization solutions.

At this moment, all of the dozens of precision machinery processing factories owned by Li Qingsong switched production and devoted themselves to the task of producing spacecraft parts.

On a certain open space, after simple leveling and reinforcement, a spacecraft assembly production line was completed in just one month using a frame structure, replacing the original small-scale production line.

Thus, amid the constant roar of heavy-loaded trains and the Feitian-1 spacecraft, a large number of spare parts rushed here like a tide.

The more than 10,000 clones working here, with the assistance of the most efficient automation technology possible, have become like robots and dare not relax for a moment.

There are even dozens of clones ready behind them at all times.

Normally, they would just sit there quietly, not consuming Li Qingsong's precious consciousness connection. However, if a clone needed to leave their workstation, even if it was just to pee, another clone would immediately step in and take over without hindrance, ensuring that the production line wasn't delayed even for a second.

Under such circumstances, this new spacecraft assembly production line, with a total of hundreds of precision machinery processing plants, several high-reliability chip factories, and numerous connector, plastic film, screen, rubber, detector, controller and other factories working at full capacity, saw its production capacity soar to four spacecraft per day in a short period of time.

Although four ships a day may seem few, you should know that this is a large-scale mechanical device that integrates Li Qingsong's most advanced technologies in all aspects at this stage. Its complexity and precision are simply not comparable to a train or a factory.

On the assembly line, huge spacecraft weighing more than 30 tons, and more than 50 tons when fully fueled, are produced continuously and quickly put into transportation operations without any delay.

At the launch site, spacecraft are taking off or landing almost every moment.

Because of the excessive frequency of takeoffs and landings, the ground at the take-off and landing field was even burned to the point of vitrification.

And this is just one of the dozen or so existing launch sites.

Under such circumstances, one after another, the space laboratory building materials packed into boxes were transported into space, orbiting Rosen at a speed of about 900 meters per second.

While trying his best to expand the number of spacecraft, Li Qingsong was also doing another thing at the same time.

With more spacecraft, more fuel is consumed.

The existing fuel reserves are insufficient, and the production capacity of methane and oxygen must be increased to more than a hundred times the current level!
A single spacecraft transport consumes about 15 tons of fuel. Three times a day, that's 45 tons. With about 220 spacecraft currently operating, that's about tons of fuel per day.

Moreover, as the number of spacecraft increases, this number will skyrocket.

It would not be surprising if tens of thousands of tons of fuel are consumed on average every day in the future.

In particular, with the construction of the space laboratory, the power and energy consumption of the remaining factories increased significantly. To generate enough electricity, there must be a sufficient supply of fuel.

According to Li Qingsong's statistics, in the previous stage, his base cluster consumed an average of about 100,000 tons of tolin and methane, and 30,000 tons of oxygen every day.

But now, including the fuel needed for the spacecraft, this number has suddenly doubled to 200,000 tons of tholins, methane and more than 60,000 tons of oxygen per day!
As a result, the clones working in the oxygen mine, tholin mine and methane mine also became busy.

Large numbers of machines and clones joined the mining team, and heavy-loaded trains roared along the line all day long, without stopping for a moment. To make up for the lack of transportation capacity, even the Feitian-type spacecraft joined the temporary emergency transportation of supplies.

As the number of spacecraft increases, the consumption of chips also increases significantly.

In addition to the main control computer, chips are also used in other parts of the spacecraft.

Every sensor and every controller requires a chip.

A spacecraft requires tens of thousands of chips!

The daily production of four spacecraft means more than 200,000 chips, which means more than 70 million chips a year!

What's more, the space laboratory he wants to build also requires a large number of chips.

According to Li Qingsong's estimate, at least hundreds of millions of them are needed.

So the chip factory also fell into a busy state.

Furthermore, in order to allocate more manpower to production, the number of workers in planting, breeding, and aquaculture bases has been reduced. However, at the same time, the production of food and biological resources cannot be reduced.

So things started to get busy there.

At the same time, building this space laboratory itself meant a large number of production and scientific research tasks. As a result, more factories and scientific research clones in the research center were also busy.

For a time, because of this space laboratory, all the bases owned by Li Qingsong, whether they were mining bases, industrial bases, scientific research bases or food bases, were all plunged into busyness.

Li Qingsong has almost fully utilized the 70 awareness link shares.

Every minute and every second, a large number of clones trotted to the bed. The moment they fell on the bed, the consciousness link was broken. At the same time, the clone on the other bed opened his eyes instantly, and his body almost jumped up. He finished his breakfast in a few seconds and rushed out of the dormitory.

There are open-top buses parked at the dormitory door at all times, and a large number of clones jump out of them. Every open-top bus that has just been emptied will be filled with clones that jump on within a minute.

Then the bus roared away, flying away, delivering busloads of clones to factories, bases, buildings, and research institutes...

In space, thousands of clones wearing spacesuits are carrying out spacewalk missions, assembling parts one by one.

Above the earth, spaceships took off and landed, transporting boxes of building materials into space.

Everything was in perfect order. Although they were extremely busy and efficient, there was no confusion at all, and no coordination errors occurred.

(End of this chapter)