The Ming Federation began to prepare for the war with the Ming.
The first thing to do was not to send a fleet, but to send the [Mechanical God].
The Mechanical God itself has a strong manufacturing power. It will ride a 200-metre-class spaceship to a position closer to the Ming, then take root and start manufacturing production lines.
Over there, it will start from scratch to build a laser transmission device.
As Yan Xia said, the technology of the laser transmission device is not too high, and the difficulty of production is also low.
Especially because it is divided into the transmitting end and the receiving end, the difficulty of construction is further reduced, making this action feasible.
To avoid accidents, the deployment of the Mechanical God is not just one, but it is not scattered along a path from the Orion Nebula to their star field, but is at least 20 light-years away, which avoids being discovered by the Ming forces.
This is just the initial layout.
The war is still a long way off.
The Ming Federation needs to continue to develop new technologies and accelerate its expansion.
...
L28309 Clean-up Site.
The vast Ming Federation produces a huge amount of garbage every day.
This garbage is not thrown away in bulk to be decomposed into basic elements, but is classified, and some of the recycled items are put back into use after cleaning.
The purpose of this is to save resources. After the accumulation of the Ming Federation over a long period of time, the total amount of resources saved is still considerable.
Therefore, the clean-up site was born, and it also became the survival of many of the Federation's grassroots citizens.
In theory, the Ming Federation should have resources evenly distributed to the grassroots citizens, so that the grassroots citizens also have a more comfortable life, even though the current total number of Ming Federation citizens exceeds 600 billion.
But Ella did not do this.
One is the problem of allocation. Why should we support the grassroots? This is a difficult question.
If it is from a moral point of view, of course there is no problem, but Ella's thinking mode is more inclined to interests. She will first think about what she can get by helping the grassroots.
Of course, there is no answer to this question.
Yan Xia also noticed the problem above, but his policy is only to keep these people at the lowest living standard, not to make them live more comfortably.
It is easy to understand.
If the welfare of the Ming Federation itself is more comfortable, then some ordinary people will think:
"My current monthly income is 3000, but I don't work and I get 2000 in subsidies every month. Why should I work?"
This is extremely disruptive to the balance, and the result will produce a cyberpunk society.
Ordinary people eat low-income, the upper class monopolises everything, and there will be an unbridgeable gulf between the two.
Yan Xia also asked Ella, does a society where everyone has extremely high treatment exist?
Of course it exists.
But that form of society is unsustainable, unstable, and will inevitably collapse.
If everyone lives a stable life, it can be seen as everyone is enjoying, then who is making the effort? Will those who enjoy it really be satisfied?
If everyone in society only has 10,000, you have 10 million, will you be satisfied?
But if everyone in society has 10 million, and others have 100 million, 1 billion, what will the person with 10 million think?
The balance of society is not only about productivity, but also about controlling human nature, and also about continuous progress.
Only if the Ming keeps progressing will society remain stable, and progress will suppress the last unstable factors in society. If a Ming is stagnant, even if it is a 4th-level Ming that controls the entire universe, the final result will still be collapse.
But these are not problems that civilians should think about.
So...
"Damn the Federation!" A human teenager who was constantly searching through the garbage in the garbage dump spat upwards.
He looked around. There were other citizens like him here.
The human body is not strong, which means that they are often at a disadvantage here.
The waste here is not just bottles and cans, but machines, countless machines.
But these machines are not worth anything here, only if they are repaired will they be worth anything, and the cost of the repair will be deducted from the value of the good.
Repair is not like in the 21st century, where you can just use a wrench to tighten it. The machines inside the Ming Federation are extremely precise, sometimes a component is only as thick as a piece of paper, but there are millions of components inside, what kind of wrench and screwdriver can repair this thing?
So these people who pick up garbage, or scavengers, do not take these machines.
What they scavenge is the resources from these waste items.
What are resources?
It's money!
The current currency is called the Resource Coin, and as long as you have resources, you can exchange it for money.
Zhang Cheng kept searching, and when he was searching to the point of exhaustion, he suddenly saw a ray of light in the gap between the iron blocks.
He moved the things around, found the thing in his mouth, and with his experience, he recognised at a glance that it was a scrapped patrol machine.
The patrol machine is a machine that flies in the air above the road, and it is responsible for maintaining law and order and monitoring. The patrol machine almost always works 24 hours a day, and is a machine that is easily scrapped.
He skillfully opened this spherical patrol machine, which was two circles larger than his head, found an area on its back, then took out a very thin electronic chip and stuck it on the surface of the patrol machine. He began to use the quark robot inside his body to control the electronic chip to crack the patrol machine.
The quark robot has evolved through many generations, and it is no longer just a general medical robot, but it also uses the host as a chassis, and forms a computing unit inside, for preliminary calculations.
The electricity provided by the human body is not enough, it can only maintain a very small computing power, less than 13 PFLOPS, or the overclocking limit of more than 100 4090s.
To break through this bottleneck, you need an external power supply.
This external power supply is not a wire, but a direct current transmission, which is actually a very simple technology, and it was already in use when the Earth still existed, but the power is incomparable to the present.
External power supply requires payment, and there are many levels. The lowest level is 0.001 Power Coin per month, which can provide 200 degrees of electricity per month, which is actually quite small, but compared to biological electricity, it is much larger.
With the lowest level of electricity supply, the calculation power of the quark machine will reach 280 EFLOPS, which is a direct increase of tens of thousands of times, which is also very low. Even if it is only compared to the supercomputer in the 21st century, it is only more than six times.
After all, it is an installed component in the body, and it is not suitable to input too large a current.
Moreover, the so-called computing unit is very rough because the quark machine is assembled like building blocks.
Zhang Cheng uses the lowest level of electricity supply. It took him more than ten minutes to crack the patrol machine through calculation.
The originally smooth back of the patrol machine began to protrude, and it turned out that its shell was also spliced, but the gap was very small, at the micron level, and invisible to the naked eye.
After the back protruded, Zhang Cheng directly took out its battery.
This battery is only as big as a No. 1 battery, and can be held in one hand.
Zhang Cheng checked the remaining internal electricity again, and a look of joy appeared on his face.
"There are still 37,000 degrees of electricity, and I don't know which company made it. The inspection is so rough."
37,000 degrees of electricity is about 0.133 Power Coin, which is indeed a profit for Zhang Cheng. He looked around and put away the battery, and then hurried to his residence.
His residence is not far from the L28309 Cleaning Field. It is an old street.
The buildings on both sides of the street are basically metal, and the space inside is not large, only fifty or sixty square meters.
He returned home, took out the battery, opened his small safe, and there were all kinds of batteries of different shapes and sizes.
"I can sell a wave."
Zhang Cheng took all the batteries with him, and then went to a machine along a small path, and put all the batteries into it. A number appeared on the screen of the machine, jumping continuously, and finally stopped at 144,200 degrees.
Then he stood in front of the machine and scanned his face. The electricity was converted into Power Coin and directly deposited into his account.
It was 0.519 Power Coin in total.
He was very happy, as the income was very considerable. Although this was basically his harvest for nearly a year, he also had other expenses, such as rent.
In this era, there will be no one knocking on the door to collect rent. As long as you sign an electricity contract, the rent will be automatically deducted from your account on a regular basis, unless you cancel the contract, so it is almost impossible to default on payment.
If you want to default on payment, the metal house will automatically lock after the rent.
After these metal houses are automatically locked, a vacuum environment will be formed inside, and you want to live for free? Impossible!
The power of the individual is almost useless in front of the machine.
"There's not much left after deducting the rent, but fortunately, I can finally get out of here."
Zhang Cheng's face showed relief.
In this era, there is only one way to get rid of your fate, and that is to learn skills. Only by having skills can you have the ability to leave here.
Moreover, learning skills is not difficult, and it can even be said to be extremely simple.
You can easily find it on the Internet. Can you be lazy? No, you can be directly pulled into the virtual world by the quark machine, and then you can lock yourself in the virtual world for a period of time. You can't get out of the virtual world until the time is up. You can't be lazy at all.
In the virtual world, there is only you and the teacher. At a specific time, only the textbook will appear. You can't even scratch your nails because the teacher will always be locked in your field of vision, and in the virtual world, you don't need to sleep, you don't need to close your eyes, and you don't need to go to the toilet...
If you still can't learn in this situation, then you can only say that you are not suitable for this, and you should give up.
This learning model is very common in the Qiuming Federation and has been promoted for tens of thousands of years.
Nowadays, most children do not go to school. Children who go to school are generally rich. Ordinary children are arranged for similar courses like this. After completing the course, they can apply for the entrance examination at any time.
You can take the exam after ten years of study, or you can take the exam after one year of study.
After completing the exam, you can receive the Qiuming certificate, and you don't need to register at any agency or take a vacation. You can directly enter the middle school course, or you can take a vacation for yourself.
In the Qiuming Federation, there is no hard and fast rule about how many years old you should complete what level of education. In fact, as long as you can, you can study primary school courses at the age of 90, and the Qiuming certificate will still be issued.
The concept of school has actually become blurred in this era.
It exists more as a higher-level place, for example, teachers in schools can provide more biological management and teaching, rather than the rigid and mechanical ones in the virtual world.
Zhang Cheng is learning mechanical maintenance.
This is his specialty, after all, he has been dealing with machines since birth, and his parents are also scavengers.
However, they did not want to do this, so they started the career of explorers, but they were too weak, and they only went out once and never came back. Only a necklace was brought back.
After Zhang Cheng exchanged the Power Coin, he walked to the top of a tall tower. This tower is not a building, but a park. There are many such things here.
Zhang Cheng lay on the lawn, looking at the stars.
The L28309 Cleaning Field exists in the stars, and it is not attached to any planet, nor is it attached to any galaxy. It is still very far from the inside of the galaxy, so far that he can't imagine it.
After all, for him, the L28309 Cleaning Field with a diameter of 6,000 kilometers is already very large, so large that he can't get out of it in his lifetime.
The L28309 Cleaning Field not only has a cleaning field, but also a city, and that city is the place where Zhang Cheng yearns for. It is said that all the citizens in that city are working for a company.
Zhang Cheng has actually been there once. Although there is no difference in wealth in this era, there is a difference in identity. As long as you have money, you can go anywhere.
The last time he went, he went with his parents. At that time, he saw a luxurious hovercraft for the first time, a huge spaceship, a 100,000-meter-high building complex, and a beautiful urban citizen wearing armour.
Everything was so novel.
It is said that the citizens there have a stable income every month, and their annual income exceeds 1 Power Coin, which is not much more than his own, but it is said that there are other benefits. The company will give the employees a house to live in, and they will eat and study for free every day, and medical care is also free...
He doesn't know that these things are not worth much in this era.
Power is everything.
After staying in the park for an hour, Zhang Cheng got up and ended his fantasy time, and re-entered the garbage field to work.
At this time, a loud explosion suddenly came from the sky, and a huge battleship flew over his head.
"So handsome!"
He exclaimed.
He couldn't imagine who was sitting on that battleship.