After getting in the car, Liang Wanwen introduced the car while reversing out of the parking space: "The main activities are tomorrow. I will arrange for you to stay in the guest house of the Production Management Committee tonight. Is it okay to stay in a double room?"
"Okay." Wang Ping'an and Angele replied in unison.
Liang Wanwen glanced at the two of them and said nothing more.
The car drove out of the station, and the advertisement "Commercial housing in Rift Valley New City is cheap and has good scenery" was scrolling on the large billboard outside the station, while the loudspeaker below the billboard played: "Housing allocation does not depend on work points, and there is no queue! Rift Valley
Xincheng, your new home!”
Liang Wanwen glanced at Wang Ping'an: "I'm used to turning on the radio when driving, is that okay?"
"No problem." Wang Pingan nodded.
Then the news broadcast sounded in the carriage: "The Space Force's Vesta Fleet took resolute action to destroy the pirate stronghold on asteroid No. 762, destroying five pirate ships, killing 370 pirates, and taking prisoners..."
Liang Wanwen suddenly said: "These pirates can't be completely eliminated without annihilating the big foreign companies if we just fight them!"
Angele asked curiously: "Is there any relationship between these?"
"Think about it, if the pirates are gone, then wouldn't the big foreign companies have no reason to keep their own security fleets? They must be raising pirates to respect themselves.
"And there aren't any valuable things in the asteroid belt. They're all mines, not rare ones. It's okay to say which asteroid has rare fissile materials, but what do asteroids produce? Iron
, copper, not even lanthanide elements!
"Asteroids are poor and the environment is poor. As a result, people continue to go to the asteroid belt. This must be a conspiracy of big companies!
"The resource-rich planets are all controlled by the Production Management Committee and the Aviation Control Commission. They can't get their hands on Europa or Titan, so they just use their brains on the asteroid belt."
Liang Wanwen talked non-stop for a long time like a taxi driver.
Even Wang Ping'an couldn't say anything and could only look at each other.
At this time, Liang Wanwen suddenly asked: "By the way, do you think this smuggling could be caused by those big companies?"
Wang Ping'an was stunned for a moment: "This time? No, I don't think so, it's just two naughty kids running onto the boat."
"How could two children run onto the ship without being discovered? No, this is wrong. The station you set out from is a fortress of the Space Force."
"What do you mean?"
"The big company deliberately infiltrated, and then used this incident to create a public opinion offensive and attack the Space Force! I heard that the mother of the child who died had some problems!"
Angele frowned: "I think that's just an ordinary parent who overly dotes on his children."
Liang Wanwen: "Humph, who knows. The husband is a model worker and has a very high status, so the wife gradually develops the mentality of a lady. I have seen this kind of thing many times. Of course, the reverse is also true. The woman is a March 8th red flag bearer.
, the husband thought he was superior to others.
"It's better to be like you. Both of you have Silver Stars. Both of you have high ideological consciousness. Only in this way can the family stay healthy! In my opinion, in the future, model workers should be matched with model workers, Silver Stars with Silver Stars, and Gold Stars.
…”
Wang Ping'an interrupted Liang Wanwen: "You are incorrect. Our basic principle is freedom of love."
"But now that psychology has developed, as well as supercomputers and big data, don't you see that the planned economy in the past could not handle market regulation? In the pre-aerospace era, people had to queue up to buy TV sets because the planned indicators could not keep up with demand.
“But then with the advent of big data, supercomputers, and artificial intelligence, we suddenly overtook us!
"Now love should also be managed, planned, and handed over to computers and big data, so that everyone's family will be happy..."
Wang Ping'an suddenly had an idea and said, "Director Liang, are you not on good terms with your lover?"
"Yes." Liang Wanwen, who had been speaking for a long time, suddenly fell silent. After a few seconds, he said, "She regards herself as a lady now, especially recently. I may have to mention the section chief. Her
It makes me angry just looking at it."
Angele: "Are you angry?"
"Yes, she is picky about the rationed dishes, and has someone leave fresh fish for her, and then she is thinking about the luxuries that are not included in the ration all day long! Let me just say that these luxuries are all foreign super
The company tried to corrupt us, but she refused to listen and even quarreled with me!"
Wang Ping'an curled his lips: "It would be understandable if it was coffee and tea."
"She wanted a bag! She wanted new lipstick! Her lipstick colors were so flashy! I said you don't need such flashy lip colors to do your career, just put on some lipstick, and then she had a fight with me again."
As he spoke, Liang Wanwen turned to look at Angeli: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, you shouldn't need lipstick, right?"
"I don't have to, military regulations prohibit it. But I can understand your wife's needs..."
Liang Wanwen: "Hey, don't leave, madam. Let her hear it. This tail will go to the sky."
Wang Ping'an: "We usually call those who are married here a lover, and those who are not married are called partners. She is a foreigner. She just arrived in China after being admitted to the Space Force. She went on a mission before she had lived in the country. She doesn't know much about this."
"Oh, I thought she had been naturalized for a long time. But she is so beautiful as a foreigner, so genetic modification cost a lot of money, right? Foreign dudes seem to be particularly attracted to us. Look at the old cards from the pre-aerospace era,
He is the son of a big landowner..."
Angele: "No, according to the classification here, my family should be considered bourgeois."
"Then how come your genes are tuned so well? Did you get that thing called that? Is it just a thing that relies on randomness to fool people! Or are you actually the illegitimate son of a rich man?"
Angele: "I am a natural person, I only changed the color of my hair the day after tomorrow. You see, I am still short-sighted."
Liang Wanwen turned his head and glanced, his face full of shock: "I thought it was decoration."
At this time, we arrived at the intersection and the light turned red. Liang Wanwen stopped the car and waited for the countdown to end. Wang Pingan saw a large number of people gathering in front of him.
"What is that?" he asked Liang Wanwen.
"A new specialty store is about to open."
Wang Ping'an: "Aren't luxury goods from Earth generally sold in the luxury goods section of Friendship Store?"
"The situation has changed. How many years have you been to Mars?"
"Two years, maybe."
"It is now open to large foreign companies to set up factories on Mars, and they are also allowed to sell their products openly. Recently, many new specialty stores have been opened in Zhenghe City, selling clothing, cosmetics, and consumer electronics. Women and young people are flocking to them.
."
Wang Ping'an muttered: "Mars has also started to produce luxury goods. Although I know that this will definitely happen one day, but... I thought it would only start after the Mars environment transformation is almost completed."
Liang Wanwen looked at the crowd gathered at the entrance of the store with a melancholy expression, and whispered: "The task our Propaganda Department received is to publicize that this represents the transformation of Mars from a difficult pioneering land to mankind's second home.
It's a small step for Mars to become like Earth.
"I have no right to interfere with the decisions above. But I came to Mars as a pioneer, even though I was a propaganda person. I once carried a camera on my back and visited various pioneering points on Mars, watching the young pioneers fighting against the wind and sand.
, fight the severe cold!
"I have personally seen engineers who were frozen into popsicles while repairing heating equipment, and I have personally seen transport teams that broke into big storms to transport oxygen. Do you know? In big storms, the sand in the storm is full of hematite powder, and the cars
The heat dissipation mouth is covered with a layer of iron and is blocked tightly!
"Do you know what kind of mood we came to Mars with?"
Wang Ping'an: "I understand, believe me."
Angele: "But isn't everyone's struggle just for the day when people living on Mars can be crazy about luxury goods and no longer have to fight against the wind and sand?"
Liang Wanwen was silent.
When the green light came, he released the handbrake and stepped on the accelerator - it should be called the switch.
A few seconds after the car started, Liang Wanwen said: "I don't know, I always feel uncomfortable. Mars should be the forward base for human expansion, an industrial base for turning the asteroid belt and even the Jupiter circle into a livable place for humans."
We should fight for another three generations for the expansion of human beings in the solar system, right?
"Think about it, we are still using tritium-reflective spacecraft that are extremely slow. We cannot replace all spaceships with torch ships. The industrial production capacity is simply not enough! When all our spacecrafts are torch ships, it will only take one week to go to Jupiter.
More than half of the population can even immigrate to the universe!
"Shouldn't we be working towards that future? What is luxury?"
Angele: "You are right, but... not everyone is so noble. There are always people who need entertainment, luxury goods, and... some comparisons."
Liang Wanwen was silent again.
It seems that it is quite difficult for this first-generation Mars pioneer to accept the current situation.
At this time, the car drove through a park in the middle of the street. The Martian youths outing there were all wearing the same bell-bottom pants and sunglasses as the fashionable youths on Earth, playing guitars and singing frivolous songs.
Liang Wanwen looked at the young people silently.
Suddenly, he said: "Our generation will always die. After we die, who will fight? Who will go to the turbulent distance?"
Wang Ping'an: "Don't worry, there will always be people in the new generation who will yearn for these and then set out resolutely. This is how the fire is passed down from generation to generation."
Liang Wanwen seemed to suddenly think of something that made him happy. He said: "Yes. There may be hope for the new generation. My son wants to apply to go to Titan. His mother is going crazy. She keeps saying how dangerous that place is.
.The child’s mother wants to arrange for the child to be sent to Mercury to work as a solar array maintenance worker, which is safe and can increase his qualifications.”
"Then you have to support him." Angeli said enthusiastically, "How about we two enlighten him?"
Liang Wanwen: "...Okay, how about tonight, I should have arranged for you two to go to the guest house canteen, but as the person in charge of hosting, it is reasonable and reasonable for me to pay for you to have a meal of Martian specialties, isn't it?"