I Have a Mansion in the Post-apocalyptic World

Chapter 1131-1140

1131 Land Reclamation, Farming,and Steelmaking

After the arrival of the new colonists, the construction of the Mars Colony also entered the second stage.

Celestial Trade had a clear position of the Mars Colony as the solar system industrial base from the beginning, so the development direction of the second stage of the colony had been quite clear. The focus was mining, mining, and steelmaking!

Steel was the foundation of industry. To produce on Mars, steel production must keep up.

It wasn't difficult to achieve this on Mars. It was possible to smell rust when one bent down and grabbed a handful of sand. It was just a matter of the amount that was the concern. Also, the development of heavy industry had the added benefit of artificially causing a greenhouse effect that would indirectly change Mar's atmospheric thickness. Perhaps after a few centuries, the atmospheric thickness of Mars might return to the levels three billion years ago with human intervention and become the second paradise of mankind...

Of course, this was an afterthought.

In addition to increasing production capacity, the population must keep increasing.

The labor force was always one of the important factors that restricted industrial development, whether it was the general labor force or educated labor force. Even if automated production could drastically reduce the demand for uneducated labor in industrial facilities, it was unlikely to completely depend on an autonomous process.

Impossible for at least two centuries.

In the half-year plan for the Mars Colony, Jiang Chen clearly defined two goals. The first was that the monthly output of steel must exceed one million tons. The second was to expand the size of the colony to a thousand people.

For this reason, the new colonists who arrived on Mars didn't have time to enjoy the exoticness on Mars. The next day, they had to drag their alcohol-intoxicated bodies to work.

This Seagull-class transport ship not only brought the colonists, but also brought many production tools such as excavators, cranes, and mining equipment designed for the Mars environment. The original colonial cabin with the square could only provide two hundred living units, and the colonists who arrived later could only live in the rooms they built.

After all, a colonial cabin that could be deployed by airdrops was quite expensive, and it would be impossible for Celestial Trade to waste all of their budget on buying houses for the colonists.

All the engineers at the colony started to share the same schedule as they commanded the construction workers to operate construction vehicles. The entire colony turned into a giant construction site, submerged in flying dust.

The first to start the expansion was the soilless cultivation farm then the spherical water pump, followed by the steel mill...

Just as the construction machines were working on the sand dunes, an armored car that had been specially modified for the Mars environment left from the garage and went to the distant horizon...

...

Celestial City, Space Command Center, Mars Colonization Project Department.

After learning that the transport ship arrived on Mars, Jiang Chen arrived by space elevator at his earliest opportunity. He found Kelvin, who was performing an inspection in the command center, and asked him about the current situation of the Mars Colony.

"Our colonists landed safely?"

"They landed yesterday." Kelvin nodded. "The Seagull-class transport ship escaped Mar's gravity after a week in the synchronous orbit and is now returning to the Earth-Moon system."