"Fifty thousand Chinese dollars is the price for foreign exports. Our own people will be sold to you for three trillion Chinese dollars. I, Qin Yi, always take care of our own people first."
"Three trillion Chinese dollars is too expensive. I heard that Ji Rong and the others sold one for only 2.5 trillion Chinese dollars. Can you sell me one at this price?"
"Who said that? There is no such thing at all. You also know that my cost is 2 trillion Chinese dollars. Selling for 3 trillion Chinese dollars is already a conscientious price. We are all descendants of the Yanhuang Dynasty, so this is the price.
If it were an outsider, I wouldn't sell it for five trillion Chinese dollars or a penny less."
"Brother Qin, I know you have always taken good care of your own people, but this price is too expensive. Can you give me a better discount? If it's 2.5 trillion, I will place an order with you now."
"It really doesn't work. Brother, I also have to eat. You also know the early research and development and investment. Where is such a large space factory? The investment exceeds 10 trillion Chinese dollars. It was also started from you.
A lot of parts are customized here, so you should be making a lot of money here."
"In the future, I will have to upgrade and continue to develop more powerful spaceships. Without 3 trillion Chinese dollars, I really can't sustain it."
"Three trillion Chinese dollars is too expensive. Brother Qin, we are all old friends. We don't cooperate once or twice. It's cheaper."
"There is really no other way. 3 trillion is the minimum price."
"..."
In Qin Yi's office, Qin Yi hung up the call and couldn't help but shake his head. Ever since the price of a ship worth five trillion Chinese dollars spread, Qin Yi received many calls every day, both domestic and foreign.
They all came to ask about the price of the spaceship, which kept Qin Yi busy.
"Boss, the space smelting plant has been built and can be put into use. Do you want to go to space to take a look."
I just finished a call here, and the virtual watch I was wearing received a new message. The message was sent by Zhang Jian, who has been in charge of the space smelting factory during this time.
"Okay, let's go to space to relax."
Qin Yi thought for a while and decided to take a trip into space.
In the outer space of the earth, a huge space factory stands quietly in the void. This space factory is completely different from the Dragon Nest Space Factory.
The overall shape of the Dragon Nest Space Factory looks like a giant sea urchin, and the shape of this space smelting factory looks like a giant satellite signal receiving pot.
A huge pot cover with an area of more than 10 square kilometers looks similar to the most common solar power station in space, except that the solar power station is flat, while this one is a circular structure.
Under the huge pot lid is the general command of the space smelting factory. At this time, Qin Yi had just arrived at the space smelting factory in an anti-gravity spacecraft.
"Boss, you arrived just in time, our smelting will start soon."
When Zhang Jian saw Qin Yi coming over, a smile appeared on his face, then he pointed to the void outside and said.
Qin Yi looked in the direction and saw the Qinglong spacecraft slowly dragging the mined asteroids to the space smelting factory. At this time, it was very close.
Not long after, the asteroid was dragged by the Qinglong spacecraft to a void in the middle of the pot cover of the space smelting factory. The speed and direction of the two were consistent, so it seemed to be stationary there.
The location is above average.
The Qinglong spacecraft loosened its carbon fiber rope and slowly flew away. It was about to set sail again to the asteroid belt to mine asteroids.
"Boss, you can start."
The asteroid was in place, and Zhang Jian was very excited, as were all the scientists and engineers in the entire space smelting factory. At the same time, because this was the first time in human history that steel was smelted in space, so it was still
News reporters from the TV station came over to film and report.
"Well, let's get started."
Qin Yi nodded and ordered.
As Qin Yi's order was issued, the entire space smelting factory began to operate.
Space smelting factories are completely different from traditional smelting factories. Traditional smelting factories mainly rely on coal or electric furnaces to smelt steel, but in space, this is obviously unrealistic. Space smelting factories use sunlight.
The huge pot lid is not really a pot lid. It is similar to a space solar power station. It is actually composed of solar panels. But in addition to generating electricity, these solar panels have another function, that is
Used to reflect sunlight.
We all know that light is very special. It can gather infinitely. There is no difference between one light and two lights. But when 10,000 lights or one million lights come together, huge energy will gather.
Together, they produce temperatures that are high enough to smelt steel.
I saw here the huge pot lid, and the solar panels on it began to slowly adjust their angles. Each solar panel here is usually used to generate electricity. When it needs to smelt steel, it will change the mode and it will become a mirror.
It does not absorb light and heat directly, but reflects it.
Each mirror is controlled by a computer. The computer automatically calculates the position of each mirror, and then adjusts its angle to reflect sunlight onto the asteroid.
Qin Yi watched the surveillance screen intently. The mirrors continued to slowly adjust, and rays of light began to converge on the asteroid.
I didn't feel anything at first, but as more and more light gathered together, the location of the asteroid began to become brighter.
This area is getting brighter and brighter, and then it slowly becomes blindingly bright, turning into a vast expanse of white. At the same time, as more and more light gathers in, the temperature on the asteroid also begins to rise sharply.
"200 degrees~"
"500 degrees~"
"1000 degrees~"
Soon, the temperature on the asteroid rose to thousands of degrees, and the surface of the asteroid began to slowly show signs of melting.
But the accumulated light continued to increase and became more dazzling, and at the same time the temperature also rose rapidly, quickly rising to a high temperature of over 2000 degrees.
Under such high temperatures, the entire asteroid is melting rapidly, and clumps of liquid appear on the surface. All of these liquids are liquids after melted metal.
However, because there is no gravity in space, the liquid does not flow, but exists in the form of a sphere. As more and more iron is melted, the water sphere slowly grows larger and larger.
“It’s so fast~”
Everyone was carefully watching this magical scene happening in space. An asteroid with a mass of 150 million tons was continuously melting at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The asteroid was originally irregular in shape, but as it melted more and more, it gradually turned into a large fiery red ball. The outside was completely liquefied iron, and the inside was the part that had not yet completely melted.
In just a few hours, the entire asteroid melted and completely turned into a red ball with a diameter of several hundred meters, quietly suspended in the void.
"Add other metals~"
Zhang Jian kept looking at various data. When the asteroid completely melted into a liquid ball, the first step of smelting the asteroid was completed, and it was time to proceed to the next step.
Soon, a robotic arm came to the side of the red ball carrying small metal blocks. These metal blocks were all refined pure metals, such as manganese metal, tungsten metal, etc., used to smelt alloys.
of other metal blocks.
Others are chemically reactive materials used to remove impurities in steel. Under the irradiation of polymerizing light, these materials quickly and slowly melt completely into liquid balls.
Then these liquid balls are slowly integrated into the huge red and white dazzling liquid balls. Then there is a mechanical arm with a stick-like thing to stir the fused liquid balls so that the liquid can be more fully absorbed.
of fusion.
The aggregation light is also beginning to be adjusted, so that the light shining on the huge liquid ball becomes unevenly distributed. In some places, there is more light aggregation, and the temperature becomes higher. In some places, there is less light aggregation, and the temperature becomes higher.
Just lower.
The temperature of different parts of the liquid ball is different. According to the characteristics of the liquid, the low-temperature liquid will flow to the high-temperature liquid, thereby balancing the overall temperature.
This kind of flow is actually the same as the warm currents and ocean currents in the oceans on the earth. The polar regions of the earth receive less heat, the temperature is low, and the temperature of the sea water is also low. The temperature of the equatorial region is high, and the temperature of the sea water is also high.
Therefore, high-temperature seawater will flow to the equatorial areas in the form of cold currents, and seawater in low-latitude areas will flow to high-temperature areas in the form of warm currents.
At this time, the same is true for this huge dazzling white metal liquid ball. As the temperature difference changes, the interior begins to flow continuously. Under this flow, the things added are more fully integrated, and the contents inside are more fully integrated.
The magazines are removed, and the steel smelted at the same time can achieve the desired effect more perfectly.
The entire fusion process lasted for several hours, until all the materials were fully fused together and turned into a huge dazzling white liquid ball.
The speed is very fast. 150 million tons of steel can be smelted in just a few hours. This speed would be unimaginable on Earth.
We must know that the annual steel output of ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel company, has only just reached about 100 million tons.
Now in less than half a day, 150 million tons of steel have been prepared. This speed is really incredible.
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