Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 505 Space Mining Tide (adding updates for autumn and winter)
Haitian Company, Moon Branch.

Don't get me wrong, this Haitian company has nothing to do with selling soy sauce, and of course it has nothing to do with selling butcher.

This company is Zhang Xinghang's family business. It used to be a small mine development and real estate business, and worked part-time in some convenience stores and shopping malls. His father was developing the alliance and invested a lot of mines and restaurants in Southeast Asia and Australia at the right time. Now it is A small group of more than 100 billion.

Moreover, Zhang Xinghang's father had a very good vision. During the East Island period, he applied to the Galaxy Consortium for space development business and became one of the first companies to enter outer space.

"Hang, the four worker bee-class mining spaceships we bought have arrived, and there is also an improved version of the Qinglong-class 2 spaceship." Anna has undergone genetic enhancement at this time, and her whole body looks radiant. Many Caucasian genes Bugs have been fixed.

Zhang Xinghang took the document and flipped through it: "The driver and mining operator who were recruited by the HR department before, have they recruited?"

"It's been recruited." Anna nodded.

"Okay, now we can do a big job." Zhang Xinghang took out a document and headed to the venue outside the company.

Their branch in the moon is located in the Dongfanghong City area. Since it is a mining company, when their company applied for area allocation, it chose the suburban Shayan Town.

Not far outside the company is their spaceship parking site. The spaceships purchased by Zhang Xinghang at the expo a few days ago are all inside, and the spaceships are directly parked in the field.

The 10 pilots and 8 mining operators have all put on their space suits. They are coordinating with the maintainers to check the spacecraft, especially the life support equipment. This thing has something to do with their lives. Others can be sloppy. This If things are sloppy, you are committing suicide.

"Dashan, how is the spacecraft?" Zhang Xinghang asked Chang Dashan, the captain of the mining team, over.

"Mr. Zhang, the situation is very good. They are all new spaceships from the original factory of Pengpai Power. There is no problem running [-] units." Chang Dashan patted the spaceship and replied.

"Then, let's try our luck in the asteroid belt today." Zhang Xinghang suggested.

"Mr. Zhang, have you got your mining license yet?" Chang Dashan asked hastily.

Zhang Xinghang opened the holographic bracelet and released a Type B mining license. The Type B mining license can mine asteroids with a diameter of less than 1 km. Private mining.

Of course, this is not without supervision. For asteroids with special markings that prohibit mining, regardless of size, they are not allowed to be mined. The artificial intelligence system that comes with the spacecraft will automatically identify these asteroids.

And there are also a lot of taxes, generally 40% to 60% of ore sales, of which 20% is a fixed public property tax, and 20% to 40% is a floating mining value-added tax. The mining value-added tax is assessed based on sales, and the value-added tax for mining is less than 1 million It is 20%, 1 to 10 billion is 25%, 10 billion to 100 is 30%, 100 billion to 1000 billion is 35%, and more than 1000 billion is 40%. The settlement is once a month.

There is no way for this thing to evade taxes, because not only the purchaser has to issue contracts and invoices, but the artificial intelligence of the spacecraft will also automatically record relevant information. If you want to get away with it, you must be prepared to sit in jail.

"Okay, Mr. Zhang has already applied for a mining license, let's go!" After Chang Dashan and Zhang Xinghang nodded, they greeted the driver and mining operators to board the ship.

Zhang Xinghang is also here on a Qinglong-class spaceship, which is a Qinglong-class Type 2, which contains maintenance equipment and living supplies.

For the sake of safety, the Qinglong-class spacecraft and 4 worker-bee-class mining spacecraft will form a formation to go to the asteroid belt for mining. As for the asteroids near the blue star, they have long been mined by the alliance officials and the previous mining companies, and there are only a few left. worth icy asteroids and the like.

In fact, the mineral shortage of the alliance this year is very large. This year, the shortage of iron alone is as high as about 5.8 million tons, which is 5.8 million tons of pure iron, not iron ore.

With the vigorous development of the alliance's spaceships, space stations, and cosmic fortresses, the alliance's demand for various raw materials is also increasing. The speed and quantity of resources consumed by countries in the blue star era and countries in the interstellar era , are hundreds of thousands of times the increase.

The spaceship formation reported the flight route to the tower of Dongfanghong City (under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Space and Communications), and then headed for the nearest new Manila space station. They needed to use the mass projector on the space station to add water to the asteroid belt. .

The spaceship formation stopped slowly at the berthing area of ​​the new Manila space station.

[Mr. Zhang, wait a moment, we are waiting in line for the ejection. ] Chang Dashan is obviously very clear about the process in this regard. He was also a retired spaceship pilot before.

[Dashan, you arrange it. ] Zhang Xinghang also knew that he did not understand some procedures of the spacecraft, so he left the matter to professionals.

On the three mass projectors of the new Manila space station, spaceships are quickly projected into the starry sky. Most of these spacecraft are private spacecraft, because the use of mass projectors can reduce the fuel cost of the spacecraft and increase the cruising range of the spacecraft. .

The distance from the new Manila space station to the inner edge of the asteroid belt is between 1.78 and 2.0 AU, and the average semi-major axis is 1.9 AU. There are Hungarian asteroids here.Mainly Hungarian asteroids, containing at least 52 well-known asteroids.

The Hungarian asteroids all have high-inclination orbits and are separated from the main belt by the Kirkwood Gap of 4:1.Some members belong to asteroids that cross the orbit of Mars, and it is possible that Martian perturbations have reduced the number of members of this family.

The high-inclination family at the outer edge of the main asteroid belt is the Fuhou star family, orbiting between 2.25 and 2.5 AU from the Sun.Consists mainly of S-type asteroids, with some E-type asteroids in the vicinity of the Hungarian family.

[Everyone is ready, we are about to enter the projection stage, and finally confirm the situation of their respective life-support and anti-g chambers. ] Chang Dashan saw that there were only two spaceships left in the team ahead, and immediately gave instructions to the spaceship formation.

[receive. ]
[Oh wave! ]

[OK. ]
Everyone confirmed the safety of the life-support and anti-g load cabin, and the Qinglong class was the first to enter the projection rail of the mass projector.

［这里是新马尼拉空间站二号投射器，QL—2—642飞船，3、2、1发射……］
Driven by the surging Lorentz force, Chang Dashan steered the spacecraft towards the inner edge of the asteroid belt, and then the remaining four worker bee-class mining spacecraft were also projected to the asteroid belt behind the Qinglong-class spacecraft .

Soon the speed of the spaceship formation increased to 3% of the speed of light, that is, the cruising speed of 9000 kilometers per second; and the distance of 1.9 astronomical units is 2.85 million kilometers, and the spaceship formation can reach the inner edge of the asteroid belt in about 9 hours .

Bored, Zhang Xinghang turned on the retina screen and browsed some news information of the alliance. 9 hours is not long, but not short.

[Everyone, we are already less than 500 million kilometers away from the inner edge of the asteroid belt, and now we are entering the deceleration phase. ] Chang Dashan reminded.

[receive. ]
After a while, the spaceship united with the team, and slowly braked to enter the asteroid belt.

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