Mobile City Farming Guide

Chapter 397 The “Industrial Zone” and “Agricultural Zone” of the Burnley System (4K)

For a moment, Tomorrow Alliance erupted in enthusiastic applause.

Li Ye, who was speaking, was also filled with emotion.

From this moment on, a new civilization is born.

Through his hands.

At the same time, he also felt the weight of the burden on his shoulders.

After all, building a wild star system from scratch is a long process.

Given Li Ye's personality, he needs to get most things in the Burnley system in order before he retires, so that it can operate smoothly.

"What a long journey!" he thought to himself.

According to Li Ye's blueprint, tomorrow's civilization will begin construction at the Burnley center and then gradually spread to the edge of the galaxy.

The first thing to do is to build an "industrial zone" in the Burnley system.

Li Ye quickly selected a cosmic region at the center of the galaxy.

This region of the universe contains many resource-rich celestial bodies, including some of the size of stars.

With Novi's help, Li Ye selected 124 planets.

These planets all share a common characteristic: they are structurally and gravitationally stable, making them suitable for industrial development.

They are all rocky planets with lakes or oceans on their surfaces—making it easy to collect water to cool their machines.

Using a gravitational wave controller, these 124 industrial planets will be precisely aligned to form a vast planetary cluster—this is the industrial zone, and it's only in its nascent stage. As Tomorrow's civilization gradually develops, the industrial zone will expand further.

Each industrial planet has its own specific function and division of labor.

Some are responsible for the mining and purification of semiconductor raw materials such as ultra-high purity silicon, germanium, and gallium arsenide.

Some are responsible for processing industrial fuels.

Some are responsible for producing standardized parts.

Some are responsible for producing electrical and optoelectronic products.

The cluster of 124 industrial planets has an unimaginable industrial capacity.

According to the plan, the industrial zone will be responsible for the production and processing of goods throughout the Burnley system in the future.

Novi offered a reminder.

“Master, to complete the construction of the entire industrial zone, whether it is planetary terraforming or the creation of production machines, a massive amount of metal resources will be required.”

“It’s alright, let’s get started,” Li Ye replied. “The entire Burnley system is currently under our control, and our metal resources are inexhaustible.”

For a nation, industrial zones are of paramount importance, and the same is true for galaxies.

The task of building the industrial zone naturally fell to Zhou Xing.

Since the Tomorrow Alliance was upgraded to Tomorrow Civilization and its internal political system was reformed, Zhou Xing became the Minister of Industry of Tomorrow Civilization. Fang Yong became the Minister of Defense, which was reorganized from the original War Committee of the Tomorrow. Yang Zheng became the Minister of Finance.

Zhou Xing took the lead in terraforming the first industrial planet.

The entire process of orbital reconnaissance domain mapping, environmental modeling and planning, site selection and construction had already been planned by Novie; he only needed to be responsible for construction.

With Zhou Xing's command, the level 0.5 mobile cities made a grand landing on the planet.

Develop transportation and logistics networks, industrialize planetary environments, and build factories.
They were busy working at a fever pitch.

Li Ye was not idle either, and directly commanded the Tomorrow to collect the other 123 selected rocky planets.

The collection process is extremely simple.

The Tomorrow travels at the speed of light to the location of the rocky planet, and then activates its cosmos to contain it.

After the containment operation was completed, Tomorrow arrived at the industrial zone and released all the rocky planets in sequence, then manipulated the gravitational wave controller to arrange them in a regular pattern.

Under the influence of gravity, rocky planets are like billiard balls on a table, precisely fixed in their positions.

This is not finished.

The industrial planetary group is a whole, and a planetary transportation network needs to be built between them to transport processed raw materials.

In fact, it is equivalent to a connected industrial chain.

Suppose we want to build an interstellar car. Industrial planet A would be responsible for producing car parts, industrial planet B for producing the car's sofas and seats, industrial planet C for producing the car's high-precision electronic components, and industrial planet D for assembly.
Transporting auto parts between different locations undoubtedly requires a transportation network.

The transportation network consists of physical space rails and interstellar trains—something that Li Ye had already witnessed when he encountered the K8 planetary cluster in the McCallum system.

It gleams with a cold metallic luster, has a composite structure, and features parallel tracks with embedded energy conduits.

Freight interstellar vehicles that can easily be tens of kilometers long.

Building a transportation network covering 124 industrial planets would undoubtedly require an astronomical amount of metal resources.

For a future civilization that possesses an entire galaxy, this is not a problem at all.

"Once the industrial park is built, how will the worker problem be solved, Alliance Leader?" Zhou Xing asked.

An industrial planet would need at least several million workers to function properly.

124 industrial planets represent a shortage of hundreds of millions of workers.

Keep in mind that the Tomorrow Alliance currently only has a little over ten million members.

“Just use robots to fill in the blanks,” Li Ye said succinctly. “I’ve already instructed the blueprint development center to begin the robot development project.”

While nodding, Zhou Xing realized another problem.

"Hey, you can't expect me to build the industrial zone all by myself, can you?" he said, sweating profusely. "A whopping 124 industrial planets, plus an entire freight transportation network, how long would it take me to build this?"

Li Ye smiled slightly.

"Don't worry, you'll have plenty of help."

"Really?" Although Zhou Xing was full of doubts, he didn't ask any more questions when he saw Li Ye's confident appearance.

Looking at the industrial planet under construction, Li Ye's brows gradually relaxed.

In the future, an industrial zone with a complete industrial chain system will stand in the center of the Burnley system.

As a supplier of food, clothing, shelter, and transportation for the entire galaxy, the industrial zone undoubtedly produces a wide variety of goods.

High-purity metal ingots, superalloys, steel with uniform and solid structure, and nanomaterials.

From interstellar motorcycles that can only accommodate one person to spaceships capable of intergalactic travel.

Nutrient-rich cell-cultured meats and synthetic blocks have transcended aesthetics and warmth, extending to clothing for personal survival.

While supplying the Burnley Galaxy, the industrial zone will also export to other galaxies to earn foreign exchange.

It is undoubtedly the heart of the galaxy and the engine that drives the development of the entire galaxy.

Thinking of this, Li Ye suddenly realized a problem.

What is the universal currency in this universe?

Immediately afterwards, he began to work on building the agricultural area.

The agricultural region is also a planetary cluster, but it is much larger than the industrial region, with a total of 256 agricultural planets.

As the name suggests, it means completely transforming the entire surface of a planet for the cultivation of vegetables, fruits, livestock, and fisheries.

Agricultural zones have much stricter requirements for planets than industrial zones; they must be terrestrial planets with suitable environments.

Different types of planets are needed to meet different planting requirements.

The lush planet was used for animal husbandry.

Oceanic planets are used for raising marine fish, while planets rich in freshwater resources are used for raising freshwater fish. Planets with suitable atmospheric environments, abundant rainfall, fertile soil, and flat terrain are used for growing fruits and vegetables.

Moreover, in order to meet the water supply needs of agricultural areas for planting and animal husbandry, Tomorrow's civilization will also need to transport many satellites containing abundant water ice from the star system for water supply.

Light and temperature are also key factors.

According to the plan, the center of the planetary cluster needs to have a star of the same type as the Sun.

Whether it's the sun or the many agricultural planets, their positions need to be just right so that they can receive sufficient sunlight.

Liye has a completely new idea about the sun.

"Let's get straight to the point and have the blueprint development center start the artificial sun project."

In this way, the sun's weight, mass, and gravity will be just right, and its temperature and light intensity can be precisely controlled by tomorrow's civilization, making it less likely to encounter risks.

All the fruits and vegetables in the agricultural area naturally become the top-tier crops in the mobile city.

Moreover, the Wilderness will also introduce a range of high-value alien crops, livestock, and fish from other star systems to enrich the dining tables of the Burnley system's inhabitants.

In the future, agricultural products produced in the agricultural zone will be sold in other star systems, generating foreign exchange for this star system.

The only thing that makes it easier than an industrial zone is that it doesn't require building a transportation network.

The construction of the agricultural area was entrusted to the City Residents' Committee of Tomorrow. After the restructuring, the City Residents' Committee has now become the Internal Affairs Department, with Hayashi Satoru as its head.

Next comes the financial district.

The financial district is positioned in the Burnley system as equivalent to "Wall Street," that is, the financial center.

Unlike agricultural and industrial zones, it doesn't have high requirements for the planet, but it needs to be built in a grand and sophisticated manner.

Their main business is usually interstellar currency, stocks, futures, options, loans, deposits, etc.

"Speaking of which, what are interstellar-level financial transactions like?" Li Ye wondered. "The star system's official government should also issue bonds, and perhaps even have its own stocks."

Next comes the main event.

Military zone.

Galaxy defense.

Since the Tomorrow Civilization took control of the Burnley system and began construction, this important issue has been placed before Li Ye.

Defense on the planet is relatively easy to manage. As long as we develop land, sea, and air forces and acquire nuclear weapons, we won't have to worry about any wolves eyeing our territory.

However, the difficulty of galactic defense is several levels higher.

The universe is complex and ever-changing.

Numerous star systems, space pirate groups, predatory civilizations, and predatory alien beast civilizations...

To establish a foothold in the universe, one needs to possess formidable military power.

To protect their galaxy, they need to build a powerful galactic defense force.

The Burnley Galaxy has over ten thousand cosmic domains, and defending it is not as easy as one might imagine.

Li Ye summoned Fang Yong, who was the Minister of National Defense, and the two began to discuss matters together.

"So, what size should our forces be built up, Alliance Leader?" Fang Yong asked.

After a moment of contemplation, Li Ye provided his answer.

Three space fleets.

A squadron of 300 super mobile suits.

100 star-level space battle stars.

50 Level 1 mobile city combat clusters.

Furthermore, Tomorrow's civilization also plans to construct space defense lines in strategically located cosmic domains. The plan calls for at least 50 such lines.

Fang Yong couldn't help but gasp.

"I'm entrusting the galactic defense construction to you." Li Ye patted his shoulder solemnly. "No rush, take your time."

"So how are the personnel for the defense forces recruited? Is it like the industrial zone, where robots are used to fill all the positions?" Fang Yong asked.

Li Ye nodded.

Now that we've reached the interstellar age, it's highly unlikely that we'd send living people to the front lines to fight.

The vast majority of the defense force members are naturally robots, but officer positions are still held by human beings.

In fact, he had already figured out how to build up the national defense forces.

After discussing the matter and ending the communication, Li Ye couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead.

After dealing with so many things, I'm really tired.

Now, he has one last thing to do.

That's Starship Corporation.

Since the Burnley system is still in its early stages, the interstellar company is officially run by Tomorrow's Civilization, and the scene of a hundred privately run interstellar companies flourishing is far from being realized.

Interstellar Company was renamed "Tomorrow Company" by Li Ye and placed under the management of the Finance Department.

Yang Cheng, then Minister of Finance, met with Li Ye.

The finance department he led was actually reorganized from the city trade department on the Tomorrow.

Li Ye finalized the initial scale of Tomorrow Company.

3 employees.

Three space fleets.

Fifty cargo ships of varying sizes, including at least three planetary-class ships.

15 mineral-rich planets, 10 asteroid belt mining stations, 12 stellar energy harvesting stations, and 15 orbital smelters/refining centers.

Three core trade hub space stations, 15 interstellar factories distributed among galaxies, three high-tech component manufacturing planets, and two interstellar spacecraft shipyards.

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As Yang Zheng listened, he couldn't help but gasp.

"So many? Alliance Leader."

"This scale can't even compare to the insignificant Nova Corporation," Li Ye reminded him.

According to his vision, Tomorrow Corporation will become a super interstellar corporation spanning across the stars.

It is not only responsible for foreign trade in the Burnley system, but also for spreading trade influence and networks in many other star systems.

"Wait, don't we already have an industrial zone?" Yang Zheng reminded him. "The industrial zone can provide things like orbital smelting plants, refining centers, interstellar engineering facilities, and high-tech component manufacturing planets. Why is Tomorrow Company building one specifically?"

Li Ye shook his head.

“You are in charge of the Ministry of Finance, and Zhou Xing is in charge of the Ministry of Industry. The industries under your jurisdiction will be separated for better development.”

After thinking about it carefully, Yang Zheng realized that this was indeed the case.

If Tomorrow Company's production relies on the industrial zone, it's as if the superior Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Industry are mixed up, which could easily lead to chaos in the future.

"Alliance Leader, I must say you have a much longer-term perspective," he said with genuine admiration.

Li Ye waved his hand helplessly.

"We've known each other for so long, why are you still flattering me? Alright, get back to work."

(End of this chapter)