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Chapter 39 Meteorite Competition

The current government is an unlimited government, not an elected government, so the prices of basic survival resources must be stable, the currency cannot be issued in an infringement, and the fiscal deficit cannot be too large, which means that sufficient fiscal revenue is required.

The current real estate policy is that everyone has a room of 5 square meters. This is a free welfare room, and it doesn’t cost money.

The people call it "cage house", which means pigeon cage.

In fact, after living in a long time, pigeon cages are not unacceptable. After all, most civilians lived in this kind of cage house in the former refuge of the earth. After living in it for 10 years, they are almost used to it, and it is nothing to live for a lifetime.

But people always desire big rooms, especially those with the ability and work skills.

In order to cater to the needs of the general public, large rooms of several grades such as 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50 square meters have been launched. If the rooms are greater than or equal to 15 square meters, there will be independent bathrooms.

But living in such a large room requires property tax. The bigger the house, the more tax you need to pay.

Property tax is a long-term and stable income, and in the future, it can even account for 30% of fiscal revenue, which is actually quite considerable.

In addition, private purchase, sale or lease of houses is not allowed.

According to the total amount of taxes paid, you can get a free retirement house after retirement.

Those who have made outstanding contributions to civilization can also reward additional large rooms.

As soon as these policies were released, they were widely praised. Even the wise and powerful Crown Prince of Daxia only lived in a room of 50 square meters. What else could it not be accepted? In the past, which one of the chaebols was not hundreds of square meters? Even a park belonged to the chaebols.

Living in a 5 square meter cage house for your whole life is because you are not capable enough!

...

That's it. At twelve o'clock noon, Zhao Weichao from the Second Royal Corps came to "Yuyan No. 1".

"Report! Yuyan One is all normal, currently 2.5 million kilometers away from the earth!"

"Thank you for your hard work, let me take over the next step." Zhao Weichao saluted another astronaut.

Since he made contributions to suppressing thugs last time and won the second-class team merit, Zhao Weichao has returned to the army and transformed from a truck driver to a professional soldier.

And receive professional space training.

As humans entered the space age ahead of schedule, the demand for ordinary soldiers in Kunlun Mountain society will be greatly reduced, and the number of soldiers who will be demobilized will be controlled at about 150,000.

More importantly, the Space Engineer, a new type of army: it requires proficiency in using various space instruments, familiarity with movement in a gravity-free environment, and proficient in the maintenance of various machinery.

That is, the requirements for soldiers have reached the astronaut level.

Zhao Weichao is a smart man with high education and skillful mind. After three months of practice, he has obtained the qualifications of the first batch of space engineers.

He turned around and asked the squad leader next to him in a low voice: "Squad leader, has the location of Ark One not been thoroughly found?"

Ark One, also known as the defecting powerful spacecraft.

Both sides are currently... not a state of hostility, but they are definitely not friendly.

"Not yet." The old squad leader looked at the starry sky and shook his head. "Without the sun's light, we cannot find the other person's location."

"But what is certain is that they must be waiting for the arrival of that meteorite!"

“We will have direct competition.”

Yuyan One's only laser telescope has been aiming at the 12,000-ton asteroid.

Without the sun, the starry sky was too dim and could only barely capture the traces of meteorites through diffuse reflection of lasers.

Once the field of vision is lost, the meteorite will be difficult to find.

Another captain asked next to him: "What is the way to capture asteroids?"

Zhao Weichao said: "The mass of an asteroid is as high as 1.2 trillion tons. Our spacecraft is only less than 10,000 tons, and the difference is 100 million times. It is impossible to directly capture it with brute force."

"So, we have two solutions here. The first one is to synchronize the speed of the spacecraft and the meteorite, directly land on the meteorite, and then it is equivalent to stationing on the meteorite and slowly mining the resources therein."

"We follow wherever the meteorite flies. Even if it flies out of the solar system, it doesn't matter."

"The second solution is to let Your Highness open a super-large space door and send the meteorite directly into the sub-space, and then we will slowly find a way."

Everyone was stunned for a moment.

Then he was amazed: "The second solution is good, but the larger the space gate, the more you need the ability of Your Highness..."

"Isn't he... going to reach his limit?"

"Maybe it's a little bit short..."

Speaking of Zhang Ran's ability to create, everyone was excited and a little annoyed.

Actually, everyone doesn’t want to rely too much on His Highness’s abilities.

Because every time Zhang Ran creates a void, he will show a very painful expression, as if he has cancer, which makes the bystanders frightened, fearing that Zhang Ran will die suddenly.

Your Highness is the ballast stone that maintains the stability of Kunlun Mountain. If it dies suddenly, there will inevitably be great chaos among the people, and no one wants to go back to the past.

but……

Too bad!

"Oh, the last time, the last time. With that meteorite, we can do a lot."

Suddenly a soldier screamed, as if he had thought of something: "Wait, it's not right, everyone!"

"The powerful and powerful people of Ark One can only choose the first option. They have no subspace and must personally land on meteorites to mine."

"But we have to put it into the sub-space..."

Zhao Weichao was also nervous. This was the fundamental conflict between the two sides. There was only one meteorite, and everyone wanted it!

It is simply a dream to say that “setting aside dispute and jointly develop”!

Materials are limited, 1.2 trillion tons sounds like a lot, but maybe it will be the only material that can be captured in the next hundred or thousand years!

Who doesn't want to take it alone?

The attacking side has an absolute advantage, and a normal nuclear bomb can blow up the opponent's spacecraft.

No matter how the agreement is signed or the treaty is signed, this risk cannot be reduced.

There is no third-party witness here!

The Yuyan spacecraft is the only medium between the sub-space and the real universe. If Yuyan is broken, everyone will have to hold it in the sub-space and cannot come out.

Without the media of reality, Zhang Ran could not open the sub-space in vain.

Zhao Weichao quickly said: "It's okay. As long as we don't reveal ourselves on our own initiative, they will not be able to discover us."

"The most important thing now is observation."

"The earth should disappear soon, and a few seconds of vacuum decay will be produced, bringing strong light."

...

As time passed, Zhang Ran brought Zero and several cosmologists to the cabin of Yuyan No. 1.

"Your Highness!" Several soldiers quickly saluted.

"Hello you guys." Zhang Ran replied, "Have you not found the other party's spaceship?"

"Not yet, but theoretically not too far from our spacecraft, they can't miss the meteorite a month later. There is a chance that our two sides will have a conflict."

Zhang Ran was silent and looked at the starry sky in the distance.
Chapter completed!
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