At this moment, with the sudden addition of these 182 clones, Li Qingsong's spirit, which had made him wish to break one second into two and let all the clones work all day without rest or sleep due to the shortage of manpower, finally relaxed. The planting base, which had been less than half operational, immediately entered full-power operation. Because the multi-layer planting model has a total planting area of more than 20,000 square meters, about 33 acres, at this moment it is all planted with crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, soybeans, wheat, and rice. On the other side of the planting base, the chicken farm is fully operational, also using centralized breeding methods. More than 1,000 chickens are raised in an area of only 200 square meters. This is because Li Qingsong was afraid that the chickens would get sick, so he intentionally controlled the breeding density. In addition, the number of pigs, cattle and sheep also increased significantly. The entire planting base is filled with various crops and animals, and full production has truly begun. "Finally, I don't have to watch so much space being wasted." Looking at the lush scenery inside, Li Qingsong was filled with emotion. Outside the planting base, in the metallurgical industrial zone, several blast furnaces that had been idle for a long time finally welcomed operators.
The clones wore the new type of space suits produced by Li Qingsong himself - they also did not have much radiation resistance and communication functions, but their heat preservation and toughness were greatly improved. They came to the blast furnace in a heroic and vigorous manner and began to put pieces of ore into it. In the metal processing industrial zone, dozens of metal processing equipment are clanging all day long, and all kinds of parts are flowing out like water. In the energy industrial zone, due to the surge in electricity consumption, the original generators were no longer sufficient. But it didn't matter, the new generators had already been built and the fuel had been stored, and now they could be put into operation immediately with the help of manpower. Not only that, the scale of the power grid is also expanding. There is a team of five clones that form an electrician team, responsible for the maintenance and expansion of the power grid. They took the copper wires produced by the electrical wire factory and extended the dense lines from the original power grid like a spider weaving a web. Then, new electrical equipment was connected to the power grid one after another. The idle tractors finally found their drivers. The clones drove them back and forth between different mines and bases, bringing back truckloads of minerals that Li Qingsong urgently needed. The Luoshen base, which was originally busy but still seemed deserted overall, finally became a little lively with the addition of more clones. Even if Li Qingsong filled all the worker gaps in the other equipment, there would still be more than 30 clones left idle. "I've never fought such a rich war." Li Qingsong's heart was filled with emotion, and he began a new round of construction. There's nothing he can do about it; he just can't stand seeing people being idle. At this stage, the "skeleton" of the basic industry has been built, with preliminary classifications such as metallurgy, casting, energy, and chemical industry, but it is still very rough and simple. Just like in the energy industry, there are only a few steam generators at most. In the metallurgical industry, there are only about twenty simple blast furnaces, and the annual output of various metals combined is only about two thousand tons. Further specialization and refinement are necessary. For example, steelmaking can be divided into the smelting of various types of steel, such as low-temperature steel, high-temperature resistant steel, corrosion-resistant steel, carbon steel, etc. Only through segmentation can output and efficiency be increased. The same is true for metal processing, chemical industry, and even planting bases. The more than 30 idle clones were immediately controlled by Li Qingsong and put into the construction of more new factories.
To this end, he formulated an ambitious plan. "All factories and bases in the future must be specialized and subdivided. We need to build five more planting bases, three more steel mills, ten chemical plants, and one or two dedicated machinery production plants..." After some calculations, Li Qingsong discovered that to support his many upcoming construction plans, he would need at least one million tons of steel. This is just the initial stage of construction. After all, I will definitely have larger-scale construction plans in the future. At present, the annual output of all our metals is only about 2,000 tons, and the steel output is only about 1,500 tons! This gap is too big. "Steel is the foundation of all construction, and the steelmaking industry should be given priority. So... let's build a highly efficient, professional steel plant first! The annual output must be at least 100,000 tons!" Jumping directly from 1,500 tons to 100,000 tons seemed a bit too big a step. But Li Qingsong was not in a hurry. Because he knew that this was a long-term plan and could not be completed in a short period of time, and he still had time. According to this goal, Li Qingsong began to wait again. During this period, the cultivation of clones has not stopped, and the number of clones is still increasing at a rate of 205 every six months and 410 every year. The number of steel mills, foundries and chemical plants is increasing, and their production capacity is getting higher and higher. But the factories being built at this moment are no different from the initial ones. They are equally low-end and small, far from the specialized and large-scale factories planned by Li Qingsong. It is simply impossible to rely on this backward production capacity to supply the steel needed for its huge construction plan. But there is no other way. At this stage, I can only accumulate initial strength by increasing the number of such small factories. He waited like this for another two years, and slowly accumulated strength for two years. With the addition of a total of 800 clones - there were originally 820, but 20 of them failed to be cultivated - the number of clones under Li Qingsong finally broke through the 1,000 mark and reached 1,100! A total of 1,100 brains and bodies are available for Li Qingsong to drive without any hindrance! Moreover, during these two years, the clones did not just work like machines. During the work process, Li Qingsong also uses the clone's brain to think. For example, how should the electrical wires be laid out reasonably, how should a steel-making blast furnace be operated safely, how should the ore be processed in the early stages to save more electricity, how should parts be processed more efficiently, how should materials be processed to achieve better performance, and so on. Such detailed knowledge is not available in the knowledge base of the Deep Space spacecraft. But in this actual work, these ideas belonging to Li Qingsong gradually explored and researched, and then all became Li Qingsong's knowledge. “At this stage, I don’t have the energy to devote myself to scientific research. But it doesn’t matter. At this stage, practice is the best scientific research. Today, my industrial system has been further improved, steel production has been further increased, and the knowledge reserves are almost sufficient. Now, it is time to put the construction of a large-scale professional steel plant on the agenda."
